Prevention, Training and Education Services
The Mayerson Center at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center devotes a large number of its resources to educate professionals and policy makers in the community about identifying, treating and preventing child abuse. Educational services include:
- Training of residents, fellows, nurses, social workers and nurse examiners. The Center offers the following training programs:
- Insuring the Children Child Abuse Fellowship: The one- to two-year Insuring the Children Child Abuse Fellowship prepares physicians for an academic and clinical career in the field of child abuse. Through a broad range of experiences, fellows develop proficiency in clinical care, research, teaching and administration.
- Student and Resident Elective: Pediatric residents and fourth-year medical students can take a Child Abuse Elective on child abuse issues through the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and Cincinnati Children's.
Pediatric Sexual Abuse Nurse Examiner (Pediatric SANE) training: The Mayerson Center trains nurses in the evaluation of children who are suspected or alleged victims of child sexual abuse or assault. This five-day in-class training is coupled with clinical experience and telemedicine technologies. The course is offered three to four times each year. Please contact the Mayerson Center for more information, 513-636-0037.Serving as a resource to government agencies, legislature and the Department of Health and Human Services regarding child abuse issues. The Child Abuse Team provides training programs or consulting to help institutions identify community needs, improve diagnosis and treatment of abuse or become better advocates for children and families.Speaking locally and nationally to community groups about child abuse. The presentations from these lectures are available for download in the health care professionals' toolkit. Caution, many of these presentations contain graphic material.Training of health care, social service and law enforcement professionals to interview children suspected of abuse through the Childhood Trust, an affiliate of Cincinnati Children's. A five-day course in forensic interview skills is available four times a year. For more information, please call 513-558-9007.Prevention and Education
In partnership with Every Child Succeeds, a program to promote healthy parenting, the Mayerson Center helps raise healthy children and prevent abuse. Every Child Succeeds provides home visitation to mothers of first-born children in the tri-state to provide a range of parenting advice, including information on infant development and parenting skills that can help prevent child abuse. For more information, please call 513-636-2830.
The program's team also provides information on preventing physical child abuse and preventing sexual child abuse, including the ability to download such information for distribution.
Contact Us
To contact the Mayerson Center for Safe and Healthy Children, please call 513-636-SAFE. If you suspect a child within the Greater Cincinnati area is being abused, please contact the child's physician or call 513-241-KIDS.
Physicians are required by state laws to report suspected physical abuse or neglect to the legally mandated agency in their community.
