Jerri Sites, MA

 

With over 30 years working in the field of child abuse investigations, Jerri Sites has developed and honed her expertise which includes two decades working in the Children's Advocacy Center (CAC) movement. Throughout her career, she has conducted over 2100 child forensic interviews, testified on countless occasions as an expert witness, and has provided training at the national, regional, state, and local level.

Jerri has vast experience in providing trauma-informed, research-based training and technical assistance to MDTs, CACs, and child-serving professionals throughout the United States. She has led efforts to provide team and organizational strategic planning, create train-the-trainer programs, and facilitate curriculum development for a variety of trainings in the child abuse investigation arena.

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Jerri holds a Master of Arts Degree in Communications with an emphasis in professional development from Lindenwood University.

By incorporating a trauma-informed approach to child abuse investigations, child abuse professionals will be able to better engage families.

For MDTs that are affiliated with a Children’s Advocacy Center, the 2023 National Children’s Alliance (NCA) Standards for Accreditation fully endorses and supports CACs serving this population.

For MDTs that are affiliated with a Children’s Advocacy Center, the 2023 National Children’s Alliance (NCA) Standards for Accreditation fully endorses and supports CACs serving this population.

The purpose of the Process of Disclosure module is to assist professionals in understanding how children disclose abuse. The Dynamics of Abuse, as explained in literature, are an integral part of children's Process of Disclosure. The two concepts go hand in hand and are best described together, in one module.

Recantation is prevalent in child sexual abuse cases, especially when the abuser is someone close to the family or from within the home. This module will provide research-based information focusing on identifying risk factors and ways to potentially prevent recantation.

This module follows the stages of grooming of the Sexual Grooming Model through a case scenario involving online and in-person grooming. By applying this process to your investigations of child sexual abuse, you will be able to analyze the presence of sexual grooming, when it exists, which can potentially result in corroborative evidence.

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