Updated Child Abuse and Trafficking Recognition and Reporting Training for Mandated Reporters in Pennsylvania

Updated Child Abuse and Trafficking Recognition and Reporting Training for Mandated Reporters in Pennsylvania

Wednesday, November 6, 2019

Registration 5:30pm Program: 6pm to 9pm

Presented By: Ron Fischman, Ed.D.

Location: Delaware Valley University 

700 E Butler Avenue, Student Center 2nd Floor Doylestown, PA 18901

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3.0 CE credits

Act 31 credits
Act 48 credits

YOU MUST REGISTER WITH EXACTLY HOW YOUR NAME APPEARS ON YOUR PA PROFESSIONAL LICENSE

Important note: Even if you have taken this course during your last licensing period, this course is updated, allows for new CE credits, and satisfies your new requirement with the state of Pennsylvania in this new licensing period.

In accordance with a Pennsylvania mandate for all health care professionals and funeral directors, PSCP: The Psychology Network presents this three hour workshop to discuss the obligation of mandated reporters and moral obligation of permissive reporters to report reasonable suspicions of child abuse and child labor and sexual trafficking.

Objectives:

1. Discussing the differences between Child Protective Services and General Protective Services
2. Describing components of Child abuse and Exclusions to Child Abuse.
3. Listing common signs of Child Abuse and Sexual abuse
4. Describing Mandatory and Permissive Child Abuse Reporters and penalties for not reporting.
5. Describing Sex and Labor Trafficking and Methods of Reporting.

Ron Fischman, Ed.D. has been a practicing school psychologist since 1971. Prior to starting psychological practice, he taught English in a Philadelphia junior high school for 4 years. Dr. Fischman graduated from the Temple University’s School Psychology Program with a Doctor of Education degree in January, 1974. He is a Nationally Certified School Psychologist.

For 34 years, Dr. Fischman was the Coordinator of Psychological Services at the Montgomery County Intermediate Unit. Certified as an English teacher, school psychologist, supervisor of psychological services, special education supervisor, director of pupil personnel services and holding a letter of eligibility as an IU executive director in Pennsylvania, Dr. Fischman also supervised related educational services of adapted physical education, OT/PT services and programs for gifted students. From 1986 until 2009, Dr. Fischman serviced as a Pennsylvania Special Education Due Process Hearing Officer. From 1986 until 2012, Dr. Fischman served as a member of the Montgomery County Office of Children and Youth Multidisciplinary Team. For 33 years, he served as the liaison between the Intermediate Unit and the Pennsylvania Governor’s School for the Arts.

Between 1975 and 1982, Dr. Fischman supervised a school psychology training clinic at Temple University. He has taught graduate courses in special education and psychology at Temple University, Pennsylvania State University, Thomas Jefferson University and Cabrini College. From 1975 until 2012, he had a private practice in Norristown, PA and in Richboro PA. From 1986 until 2009, He is a Fellow of both PSCP and PPA.

At the present time, Dr. Fischman, a former PSCP president and Chair of the continuing Education Committee, is serving as the membership chair of the Philadelphia Society of Clinical Psychologists. He has served on the School Psychology Committee of PPA and is a member of APA and NASP.

PSCP: The Psychology Network is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. PSCP: The Psychology Network maintains responsibility for this program and its content.