Training Services

Team training can include agency staff or multidisciplinary team partners.  Topics can include foundations to the multi-disciplinary team (MDT), teamwork and collaboration, dynamics of child abuse, including disclosures and barriers to disclosures, recantation, corroboration of the forensic interview, grooming, and advanced investigations training.

Some available team trainings:

When They Want to Take It Back:  Reluctance and Recantations in DV/IPV

Description:  The complexity of domestic and intimate partner violence may involve significant factors that influence victims to be uncooperative, even in a short amount of time from when the incident took place. It is critical to understand dynamics that increase the likelihood of recantation or reluctance from a victim so as to better identify those factors and understand how to thoughtfully respond to them while offering services and seeking justice.

Hidden In Plain Sight:  Grooming

Description:  Perpetrators of child sexual abuse utilize grooming to gain access and opportunity to their victims.  Victims and families are at risk and may have risk factors that may increase the possibility of this abuse.  Learn more about how this manipulation allows perpetrators to not only initiate the abuse, but facilitate silence.

Moving Mountains:  MDT Teambuilding

Description:  Multidisciplinary Teams (MDTs) have complex dynamics from dedicated professionals serving in different walks in cases with victims of violent crimes.  Understanding how critical communication and cooperation is between these systems is paramount when it comes to the outcomes of cases, teamwork, and morale.  This training is engaging for the entire MDT, and can be designed for frontline teams or supervisory teams.

Hiring a new forensic interviewer is an exciting time!  NFIN offers foundational forensic interviewer training that can help bridge the gap between hiring and sending staff to initial protocol training.

Additionally, continuing education for forensic interviewers is critical, including specific training regarding forensic interviewing. Focused FI training topics include use of anatomical dolls, detail-gathering, introducing evidence, and dynamics of and question development regarding child physical and sexual abuse, medical child abuse, sexual assault, domestic violence/intimate partner violence, child sex trafficking,  witness to violent crime, and homicides.  Additional topics can include compliant victims, recantations, and use of tools in the interview.

Testimony may be an auxiliary responsibility for an investigator, forensic interviewer, or clinician.   Training includes understanding how to respond when legal summons are issued; tips regarding court appearances; and information for attendees regarding how to provide clear information during testimony. 

Training can include:  

Module 1  I Do:  Foundations in Testimony 

Module 1 reviews core information regarding receiving and responding to subpoenas, court appearances, and foundational testimony information.  3.0 hours

Module 2  I Do:  Direct Examination

Module 2 reviews foundational information and utilizes role play to exercise testimonial skills. (training time spans from 3 to 4.5 hours, dependent on number of participants)

Module 3  I Do:  Cross Examination

Module 3 allows attendees to practice testimonial skills with a curated case example through mock testimony. (training time spans from 3 to 4.5 hours, dependent on number of participants)