Ending Violence Against Children: Developing a Roadmap to a Healthy Childhood and Adolescence

Thursday, March 22, 2018, 8:00 AM - Friday, March 23, 2018, 6:00 PM, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai


The hidden public health epidemic of violence against children, including sexual abuse and exploitation, is one of the root causes of mental health and substance abuse problems later in life. This conference will highlight the issue of violence and exploitation against minors and focus on practical strategies to raise awareness and understanding, prevention, identification and education to end violence against young people. The conference will provide opportunities for collaboration with the hopes of spurring practitioners, policy makers, governments, academia, civil society and the private sector to join forces and scale up investments in solutions that target the well-being of children. 

1. Explain estimated scope, risk factors for and drivers of the problem of violence against children and the psychological, health , and social consequences.
2. Utilize interviewing strategies and knowledge of how victims of child sexual abuse may present to assess and identify victims and promote their ethical treatment.
3. Describe various educational, prevention, mental health, legal, and social services interventions and responses targeted to victims of child abuse, especially of sexual abuse and exploitation, and refer/report accordingly.
4. Practitioners will be familiar with state-of-the-art information on child abuse and neglect and acquainted with resources for recognizing, reporting and treating child abuse according to evidence-based guidelines.
5. Obtain an appropriate history in suspected child abuse cases and accurately document abuse in medical records.
6. Recognize short-term and long-term consequences of abuse on cognitive development, and recommended treatment modalities. Develop and reach consensus for a call to action.

Registration for this live CME activity is complimentary for all but online registration is required.

All cancellation requests must be emailed to the CME office at [email protected] by March 15th, 2018.

The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Department of Social Work Services is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0079 and designates this live in-person educational activity for 6.5 continuing education contact hours for each conference day.

Participants must attend an entire conference day and submit all required documents in order to earn the full amount of CEs for the conference day(i.e., complete sign-ins and survey). No partial CE can be given. Participants who attend both conference days and submit all required documents will receive 13.0 continuing education contact hours.

AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (14.00 hours), Non-Physician Attendance (14.00 hours)

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