Welcome to the Children’s Law Center training registration system. From this page, you can find current training sessions and additional information about each session. To register for a course, you must create an online account. This account will retain records of your registered and completed courses. It will also make registering for future training sessions easier. Once you have created an account, you can log in to access your training records, register for an upcoming training, or manage your account. Please Note: Some training sessions are offered on more than one date, so be sure to check the date(s) of the training before you register.
Current Available Training Sessions
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Advanced Refresher Mandated Reporter Training – 10.22.26
Date: 2026-10-22
Time: 9:00 am
Description: The Advanced Refresher Mandated Reporter Training includes a review on the role and responsibilities of the mandated reporter, long term consequences of child abuse and neglect, and recent legislative changes to the statutes that govern mandated reporting. This training will also introduce a new Children’s Law Center publication regarding frequently asked questions, and participants will work through an advanced reporting scenario exercise. This two-hour course is designed for individuals who have already attended a Children’s Law Center Mandated Reporter training or Train the Trainer session. The purpose of this training is to enhance your existing knowledge on the topic of mandated reporting.
Advanced Refresher Mandated Reporter Training – 11.19.26
Date: 2026-11-19
Time: 9:00 am
Description: The Advanced Refresher Mandated Reporter Training includes a review on the role and responsibilities of the mandated reporter, long term consequences of child abuse and neglect, and recent legislative changes to the statutes that govern mandated reporting. This training will also introduce a new Children’s Law Center publication regarding frequently asked questions, and participants will work through an advanced reporting scenario exercise. This two-hour course is designed for individuals who have already attended a Children’s Law Center Mandated Reporter training or Train the Trainer session. The purpose of this training is to enhance your existing knowledge on the topic of mandated reporting.
Advanced Refresher Mandated Reporter Training – 2.11.27
Date: 2027-02-11
Time: 9:00 am
Description: The Advanced Refresher Mandated Reporter Training includes a review on the role and responsibilities of the mandated reporter, long term consequences of child abuse and neglect, and recent legislative changes to the statutes that govern mandated reporting. This training will also introduce a new Children’s Law Center publication regarding frequently asked questions, and participants will work through an advanced reporting scenario exercise. This two-hour course is designed for individuals who have already attended a Children’s Law Center Mandated Reporter training or Train the Trainer session. The purpose of this training is to enhance your existing knowledge on the topic of mandated reporting.
Advanced Refresher Mandated Reporter Training – 3.3.27
Date: 2027-03-03
Time: 9:00 am
Description: The Advanced Refresher Mandated Reporter Training includes a review on the role and responsibilities of the mandated reporter, long term consequences of child abuse and neglect, and recent legislative changes to the statutes that govern mandated reporting. This training will also introduce a new Children’s Law Center publication regarding frequently asked questions, and participants will work through an advanced reporting scenario exercise. This two-hour course is designed for individuals who have already attended a Children’s Law Center Mandated Reporter training or Train the Trainer session. The purpose of this training is to enhance your existing knowledge on the topic of mandated reporting.
Advanced Refresher Mandated Reporter Training – 6.14.27
Date: 2027-06-14
Time: 9:00 am
Description: The Advanced Refresher Mandated Reporter Training includes a review on the role and responsibilities of the mandated reporter, long term consequences of child abuse and neglect, and recent legislative changes to the statutes that govern mandated reporting. This training will also introduce a new Children’s Law Center publication regarding frequently asked questions, and participants will work through an advanced reporting scenario exercise. This two-hour course is designed for individuals who have already attended a Children’s Law Center Mandated Reporter training or Train the Trainer session. The purpose of this training is to enhance your existing knowledge on the topic of mandated reporting.
Child Sexual Abuse Investigations: The Basics (In-Person)
Date: 2026-12-15
Time: 9:00 AM
Description: This training focuses on the basics of child sexual abuse investigations with an emphasis on multidisciplinary coordination. The training will begin with an explanation of the roles and function of the multidisciplinary team (MDT), the dynamics of child sexual abuse, legal issues in child sexual abuse cases including applicable definitions from the S.C. Children’s Code and related criminal statutes, common evidentiary hearsay exceptions used in child abuse cases, and unique child hearsay statutory exceptions. The training will then cover interviewing techniques, and methods and strategies to corroborate a child’s disclosure of abuse.
Conducting Reenactments in Child Death Investigations
Date: 2026-12-08
Time: 8:45 AM
Description: This 1-day, in-person training focuses on conducting reenactments with caregivers in child death investigations and incorporates hands-on practice in a mock crime scene apartment. This training begins with a review of the fundamentals of reenactments. Additional topics will include identifying the placer and finder; adapting reenactment techniques to a variety of scenarios; and identifying documentation techniques and challenges. Participants will be assigned a scenario involving an unexpected child death. Using a demonstration doll, participants will walk through the reenactment process with an actor, or actors, portraying the child’s caregiver(s). Simulation training aims to mimic the conditions and content of the tasks that an investigator will confront in real life situations and allows individuals to practice their skills and receive feedback without real-world consequences. Participants will receive a demonstration doll to take back with them to their office to use in future investigations.
Emergency Protective Custody: Working as a Multidisciplinary Team
Date: 2026-10-30
Time: 9:00 AM
Description: This training will focus on emergency protective custody (EPC) as a multidisciplinary team collaborative process. While South Carolina law authorizes law enforcement to be the ultimate decision-maker when taking a child into EPC, working together to identify the existence, or lack thereof, of substantial and imminent danger increases the confidence and quality of the decision-making process. This training will provide an overview of statutory requirements for taking a child into EPC, response time requirements, and other procedural and substantive information. County memorandums of understanding will be shared for adaptation at the county level across the state. Individual county practices that have proved to be particularly effective at producing a collaborative working relationship will be shared.
Emergency Protective Custody: Working as a Multidisciplinary Team
Date: 2026-12-01
Time: 9:00 AM
Description: This training will focus on emergency protective custody (EPC) as a multidisciplinary team collaborative process. While South Carolina law authorizes law enforcement to be the ultimate decision-maker when taking a child into EPC, working together to identify the existence, or lack thereof, of substantial and imminent danger increases the confidence and quality of the decision-making process. This training will provide an overview of statutory requirements for taking a child into EPC, response time requirements, and other procedural and substantive information. County memorandums of understanding will be shared for adaptation at the county level across the state. Individual county practices that have proved to be particularly effective at producing a collaborative working relationship will be shared.
Fundamentals of Investigative Interviewing
Date: 2026-12-14
Time: 2:00 PM
Description: This training will cover the general principles and techniques of good investigative interviews. The presenter will cover the aim and purpose of the investigative interview and the importance of recognizing one’s own biases and its potential effect on the decision-making process. Other techniques that will be covered include rapport building, open-ended questioning, active listening, identification of subjective vs. objective language, and red flag responses.
GAL & CASA Training: Drug Testing CPS Clients and Working with Incarcerated Parents
Date: 2026-10-16
Time: 10:00 am
Description: This training, offered exclusively for current guardians and attorneys with the Cass Elias McCarter Guardian ad Litem Program and Richland County CASA, will provide updates on the DSS drug testing policy with their new provider, Premier Biotech. Secondly, Brie Rust, a Family Court Indigent Defense Contract Attorney, will provide tips on how to work with incarcerated parents, from suggestions on setting up visits to monitoring progress on treatment plans. We recommend you log in by 9:50 am to ensure attendance is recorded and deal with any technical difficulties you might experience.
Indigent Defense Contract Attorney Family Court Training
Date: 2026-12-11
Time: 9:00 am
Description: This training, offered exclusively for indigent defense contract attorneys for family court, will cover a range of topics addressing the representation of parents and caregivers in family court child protection proceedings. Attendees will learn practice tips and discuss the latest issues and challenges faced by indigent defense contract attorneys.
Investigating Medical Neglect Cases
Date: 2026-11-06
Time: 2:00 PM
Description: This training will focus on investigating medical neglect cases using the definition in the Children’s Code as the guide, where there are concerns that there is a failure “to supply the child with adequate…health care though financially able to do so or offered financial or other reasonable means to do so and the failure to do so has caused or presents a substantial risk of causing physical or mental injury.” South Carolina law provides that "adequate health care" includes any medical or non-medical remedial health care permitted or authorized under state law. The training will cover techniques and guidance on how to evaluate the three main elements of a medical neglect case: “adequate,” “remedial health care,” and “has caused or presents a substantial risk of causing physical or mental injury.
Investigating Medical Neglect Cases
Date: 2026-10-29
Time: 2:00 PM
Description: This training will focus on investigating medical neglect cases using the definition in the Children’s Code as the guide, where there are concerns that there is a failure “to supply the child with adequate…health care though financially able to do so or offered financial or other reasonable means to do so and the failure to do so has caused or presents a substantial risk of causing physical or mental injury.” South Carolina law provides that "adequate health care" includes any medical or non-medical remedial health care permitted or authorized under state law. The training will cover techniques and guidance on how to evaluate the three main elements of a medical neglect case: “adequate,” “remedial health care,” and “has caused or presents a substantial risk of causing physical or mental injury.
Medical Aspects of Sexual Abuse
Date: 2026-10-15
Time: 2:00 PM
Description: A child abuse pediatrics medical expert will cover an array of medical aspects of child sexual abuse beginning with common misunderstandings about anogenital findings and the frequency of their presence in a child sexual abuse evaluation. A general discussion of the anogenital anatomy will be provided as well as possible physical findings. The presenter will explain when a child should be seen in a hospital emergency setting for an acute exam and describe the forensic medical examination process and importance. Various sexually transmitted conditions will be covered along with their implications for diagnosis and reporting of sexual abuse among infants and prepubertal children. Finally, the presentation will provide a better understanding of how the forensic pediatrics medical expert can assist in a child sexual abuse investigation.
Medicolegal Infant Death Investigations
Date: 2026-10-21
Time: 8:45 AM
Description: This three-day course, offered to coroners, law enforcement officers, prosecutors, forensic medical professionals, and DSS investigators in South Carolina, will focus on the responsibilities of investigating infant deaths. The training will address causes and risk factors of unexpected infant deaths; the multi-disciplinary response and protocol; DSS’s role in responding to child fatalities; child maltreatment red flags and indicators; burns; abusive head trauma; blunt trauma fatalities; SUID, overlay, and homicidal asphyxiation; infant death scene documentation and processing; forensic toxicology; conducting parent interviews; anatomical dolls and scene reenactment; courtroom testimony; and case studies. These topics will be presented by experts from coroners’ offices, SLED, DSS, and SCCANN medical providers.
Recognizing and Reporting Child Abuse and Neglect Webinar – Open Session
Date: 2026-10-20
Time: 11:00 am
Description: This webinar is designed for mandated reporters of child abuse and neglect, and professionals who have frequent contact with children, who play a key role in protecting children by identifying possible maltreatment and reporting it to the agencies responsible for investigation and intervention. Participants will learn to identify mandated reporters according to South Carolina law; describe statutory requirements and protections; identify the role and responsibilities of mandated reporters; recognize signs of possible abuse and neglect; and describe when to make a report of child abuse and neglect.
Recognizing and Reporting Child Abuse and Neglect Webinar – Open Session
Date: 2026-11-04
Time: 11:00 am
Description: This webinar is designed for mandated reporters of child abuse and neglect, and professionals who have frequent contact with children, who play a key role in protecting children by identifying possible maltreatment and reporting it to the agencies responsible for investigation and intervention. Participants will learn to identify mandated reporters according to South Carolina law; describe statutory requirements and protections; identify the role and responsibilities of mandated reporters; recognize signs of possible abuse and neglect; and describe when to make a report of child abuse and neglect.
Recognizing and Reporting Child Abuse and Neglect Webinar – Open Session
Date: 2026-12-03
Time: 11:00 am
Description: This webinar is designed for mandated reporters of child abuse and neglect, and professionals who have frequent contact with children, who play a key role in protecting children by identifying possible maltreatment and reporting it to the agencies responsible for investigation and intervention. Participants will learn to identify mandated reporters according to South Carolina law; describe statutory requirements and protections; identify the role and responsibilities of mandated reporters; recognize signs of possible abuse and neglect; and describe when to make a report of child abuse and neglect.
Recognizing and Reporting Child Abuse and Neglect Webinar – Open Session
Date: 2026-11-16
Time: 11:00 am
Description: This webinar is designed for mandated reporters of child abuse and neglect, and professionals who have frequent contact with children, who play a key role in protecting children by identifying possible maltreatment and reporting it to the agencies responsible for investigation and intervention. Participants will learn to identify mandated reporters according to South Carolina law; describe statutory requirements and protections; identify the role and responsibilities of mandated reporters; recognize signs of possible abuse and neglect; and describe when to make a report of child abuse and neglect.
Recognizing Medical Child Abuse
Date: 2026-10-28
Time: 9:00 AM
Description: This presentation will begin with an identification of the features of medical child abuse and how they may present in different forms of maltreatment. Case scenarios will be presented to allow participants to apply these features to various fact patterns. The training will introduce the various nomenclature that is used regarding child maltreatment in a medical setting. Finally, the presentation will provide guidance on how to respond to a suspected case of maltreatment to ensure identification and proper diagnosis by a pediatric forensic medical expert.
Training for Attorneys Representing Guardians Ad Litem & Court-Appointed Special Advocates
Date: 2026-12-04
Time: 8:30 am
Description: This training, offered exclusively for attorneys who represent guardians ad litem or court-appointed special advocates in family court, will cover a range of topics addressing the representation of volunteers appointed to represent the best interest of children in child protection cases. Attendees will learn practice tips and discuss the latest issues and challenges faced representing GALs and CASAs.
Training of Trainers: Recognizing and Reporting Child Abuse and Neglect – January 21 & 28, 2027
Date: 2027-01-21
Time: 9:00 am
Description: In this free training, participants will learn how to deliver the Children’s Law Center’s Recognizing and Reporting Child Abuse and Neglect (Mandated Reporter) Training and answer frequently asked questions about mandated reporting. Participants will be required to attend the full training, pass a quiz, and present a 30 minute presentation on January 28, 2027. Upon successful completion of the course, participants will receive a certificate of completion and may then conduct the Center’s Recognizing and Reporting Child Abuse and Neglect Training to employees within their organizations. PLEASE NOTE: Participants should be professionals who are interested in conducting mandated reporter training within their organization.
Training of Trainers: Recognizing and Reporting Child Abuse and Neglect – May 12 & 19, 2027
Date: 2027-05-12
Time: 9:00 am
Description: In this free training, participants will learn how to deliver the Children’s Law Center’s Recognizing and Reporting Child Abuse and Neglect (Mandated Reporter) Training and answer frequently asked questions about mandated reporting. Participants will be required to attend the full training, pass a quiz, and present a 30 minute presentation on May 19, 2027. Upon successful completion of the course, participants will receive a certificate of completion and may then conduct the Center’s Recognizing and Reporting Child Abuse and Neglect Training to employees within their organizations. PLEASE NOTE: Participants should be professionals who are interested in conducting mandated reporter training within their organization.