The Center on Child Abuse and Neglect (CCAN) was established in 1992 in the Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. The mission of the center is to organize the OU Health Sciences Center's efforts in the treatment and prevention of child abuse and neglect and the long-term goal was to establish the Center as a leading national, medical school based center on child maltreatment in the United States.

CCAN has recruited and retained outstanding faculty and staff. Members of the faculty are invited to present at national and international conferences on the treatment and prevention of child maltreatment. They serve on the boards of state, national, and international professional organizations in both psychology and child maltreatment. Federal, state, and local grants have funded a variety of studies including treatment outcome studies, program evaluations, and other clinical research.

Throughout its history, the Center on Child Abuse and Neglect has provided direct clinical training and supervision for practicum students from a variety of disciplines, psychology interns, and Post-Doctoral Fellows.

CCAN provides clinical services to a variety of children and families effected by trauma or maltreatment, including parents of drug exposed infants, children experiencing a range of traumatic events, children and adolescents with sexual behavior problems, physically abusive parents and their children, and abused and neglected children.

In 2003, CCAN had 23 grants and contracts, including 16 state and federal research grants, 3 contracts to provide clinical services for maltreated children, and 4 state and national professional education programs. In addition, CCAN administers 3 state and national Boards, organizations, and a major journal in the field of child abuse and neglect. The Center currently has an interdisciplinary faculty of 19, a staff of 30, and a budget of over $2 million per year. The total funding from 1987 to 2003 is $14,240,840.

 

To see a list of Speakers currently scheduled to appear at this years conference, please click on the "Speakers" button to the left.

Additionally those speakers who have been contacted and asked to register on-line need to click on the "Speakers" button to the left.

Mission:

The mission of this conference is to prevent the abuse and neglect of Oklahoma's children, and to ensure that everyone affected by child maltreatment receives the best possible professional experience.

Goals:

The educational goal of this state conference is to foster professional excellence in the field of child maltreatment and develop and promote effective prevention strategies and programs by providing advanced interdisciplinary professional education. This annual conference is a three day event that utilizes local and national faculty on major topics in the prevention, intervention, and treatment of child abuse and neglect.

Audience:

The conference has been designed specifically for professionals in child protective services, juvenile services, nursing, community-based family resource and support services, child guidance, mental health, law, medicine, substance abuse services, law enforcement, prevention services, education and allied fields. All aspects of child maltreatment will be addressed including the prevention, intervention, recognition, assessment, and treatment with victims, perpetrators, and families affected by physical, sexual, and psychological abuse and neglect.

CD from the Conference:

A copy of the CD handed out at the conference is now available here.

 

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Welcome to the 14th Annual Oklahoma Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect and Healthy Families Oklahoma 2006 website.

This year's conference will be held September 27 - 29, 2006. The designated site for the conference is the National Center for Employee Development, also known as the U.S.P.S. Postal Training Center in Norman, Oklahoma. The facility is located at 2701 East Imhoff Road.

Please click on any of the buttons on the left to find out more about this year's conference.  Information on the Sonja Award and a nomination form can be found here.

A copy of the CD with all of the handouts from the conference will be available after the conference.

For more information, you can contact Jessica Shatley at (405) 271-8858 or by fax at (405) 271-2752.

Co-Sponsors: Oklahoma State Department of Health, Child Abuse Prevention Services; Oklahoma State Department of Health, Child Abuse Training and Coordination Council, Oklahoma Professional Society on the Abuse of Children; US Attorney's Office - District of Kansas, US Attorney's Office - Western, Eastern & Northern Districts of Oklahoma, Oklahoma Advisory Task Force on Child Abuse and Neglect and the Oklahoma District Attorney's Council