What’s New

2023-2024 Educational Webcast Series

2023

• October 11
• November 8
• December 6

• January 10
• February 14
• March 13

Resources for Professionals

CHAMP Mentors Vincent J. Palusci, MD, and Ann S. Botash, MD, have written an article that is a resource to help pediatric care professionals address personal and systemic racial bias: Palusci V J, Botash A S. Race and Bias in Child Maltreatment Diagnosis and Reporting. Pediatrics. 2021;148(1):e2020049625

Read more about this article on the Resources for Professionals page

Practice Recommendations

Promoting Unbiased and Inclusive Care provides recommendations and links to resources and journal articles to help medical professionals improve their evaluation and treatment of children suspected of being maltreated or abused.

Promoting Unbiased and Inclusive Care (PDF)

Here is a list of all the CHAMP Practice Recommendations that you can download from our Practice Recommendations page:

Evaluation Guidelines for Suspected Child Physical Abuse (June 2022)
Evaluation Guidelines for Suspected Child Sexual Abuse (June 2022)
How to Write an Effective Impact Statement (December 2015)
Photographic Documentation (Revised January 2009)
Photographic Documentation Pocket Guide (December 2008)
Promoting Unbiased and Inclusive Care (December 2022)
Skeletal Survey (March 2021)
Triage (September 2005)
Trauma-Informed Care Pocket Guide (May 2019)
Universal Trauma Precautions and Trauma-Specific Guidelines (May 2019)

Caring with Compassion Course

Taking care of ourselves is essential for the unique role we play as a Child Abuse Medical Professional. Mandy A. O’Hara, MD, MPH, TCTSY-F, a board certified child abuse pediatrician, a CHAMP Mentor and an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Columbia University Medical Center, has developed the course Caring with Compassion. It provides the opportunity to pause, reflect, and expand your self-knowledge and perspective. It is an opportunity to deepen your self-compassion. Accompanying this course is a 12-minute Trauma Sensitive Yoga Chair Practice video as a step to begin addressing secondary traumatic stress that is often held in the body.

Explore these opportunities by clicking on this Caring with Compassion link.