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Keeping Kids Safe: Staff Training

Child Sexual Abuse Prevention
Date November 18, 2025
Time 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Location Virtual
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Training description

Our Keeping Kids Safe training is designed to make the topic of Child Sexual Abuse Prevention (CSAP) accessible, clear, and focused on simple steps staff can take to keep children safe. This two-hour training will teach staff knowledge, practical skills, language, and tools to create safer environments for children and prevent child sexual abuse. Utilizing video, discussion, small group work, and attendee polling, facilitators will address assessing safe environments, working with parents, prevention strategies, protective factors, signs and symptoms of abuse, and responding to disclosures.

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Keeping Kids Safe Training Attendees

Learning Objectives

  1. Learn about the problem of child abuse and neglect, specifically child sexual abuse.
  2. Understand the signs and symptoms of child sexual abuse and how to respond if a child discloses.
  3. Learn how to create a safe environment for children.

Our Voices

My message is simple: This work is urgent, and it’s possible. With support from donors, agencies, professionals and people like you, the Children’s Trust can continue to work toward a future where every child can thrive. 

This has been such an incredible example of how to lead a training with such intentional inclusion and presence – such an amazing job of keeping everyone so engaged!

Keeping Kids Safe, Train the Trainer, Attendee

3. My message is simple: This work is urgent, and it’s possible. With support from donors, agencies, professionals and people like you, the Children’s Trust can continue to work toward a future where every child can thrive. 

Dan

Presented By

  • Tammy Bernardi

    Tammy Bernardi

    Director of Prevention

    Tammy Bernardi

    As Director of Prevention, Tammy leads our statewide child sexual abuse prevention (CSAP) work. She currently oversees all CSAP programming, technical assistance and support to funded programs, data collection, statewide relationships to support CSAP programs, and content development for the Safe Kids Thrive website.

    Prior to joining the CSAP team, Tammy worked with the Healthy Families Massachusetts (HFM) program as a Program Specialist and Resource Specialist for over 15 years, providing training, technical assistance, and quality assurance to HFM staff. With over 20 years in the field, she has experience teaching and managing early childhood programs, early childhood home visiting, and home visiting program development. Additionally, she has extensive experience training professionals in early childhood developmental screening, curriculum use, reflective supervisory skills development, communication approaches when working with families, Strengthening Families Protective Factors, and child sexual abuse prevention programming.

    Tammy received a bachelor’s degree in early childhood education & child development from the University of Maine at Farmington and a master’s degree in child & family studies with a focus on public policy and advocacy from Tufts University.

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