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Provides online training to educate individuals in the prevention of child sexual abuse. Topics include signs and symptoms of abuse, grooming practices, communicating with children at different developmental stages about healthy behaviors and recognizing and responding to concerning situations.

Provides training about how to nurture healthy sexual development in children, how to respond to children's sexual behaviors, and how to protect children from sexual abuse.

Provides investigation of all sexually based crimes and assures that victims are supported through the process. Facilitates the Sexual Assault Response Team (SART), a team of professionals from diverse fields who respond to sex crimes. SART members include investigators from Vermont Department for Children and Families, law enforcement officers, victim advocates, prosecutors and medical and mental health professionals.

Provides a safe, accommodating, and child-friendly space for victims, as well as a neutral, non-threatening space for investigators, victim advocates, and prosecutors to interview and meet with victims. Victim advocacy services provide support to assure that victims are supported throughout the entire process. Neutral, non-threatening space is provided for provision of therapy to children and non-offending family members if DCF has substantiated that sexual abuse has occurred.

Provides an interactive training designed to help overcome fears and other barriers to taking action about child sexual abuse. The training helps adults recognize and respond to boundary violations and pre-offending behaviors before they result in child sexual abuse.

Provides training designed to prevent child sexual abuse. Training's can be delivered as webinars, community workshops, and comprehensive multi-day organizational trainings including trainer certifications.

Provides online training to educate individuals in the prevention of child sexual abuse in LGBTQIA+ children. Topics include basic sexuality, inclusion, formation of gender identity. Also promotes understanding of the high incidence of child sexual abuse within this population, and ways to address these issues.

Provides trainings to promote understanding of the range of sexual behaviors in children and adolescents, including behaviors that are developmentally expected, concerning, and abusive. Explores issues of consent, equality, and coercion, and assists participants in evaluating whether or not behaviors are a problem and why.

Provides three developmentally appropriate school-based child sexual abuse prevention programs. Helps children develop self-esteem, communication skills, positive attitudes toward sexuality and gender, and an understanding of body boundaries.

Provides online training to educate individuals in the prevention of child sexual abuse in children with disabilities. Topics include understanding high incidence of child abuse within this population, their specific challenges and ways organziations and families can address these issues.

Offers curriculum-based programs that work with the entire family throughout childhood and into teen years. Teaches parents how to understand their children's developmental needs and behaviors, positively communicate with their children, preventing child sexual abuse, and managing their stress.

Strengthening Families Programs (SFP) provides parenting and life skills training programs for parents with substance use disorders and to prevent substance use in their children.