A Conversation About How Helping Professionals are Coping with the COVID-19 Pandemic
This webinar is for professionals working to prevent abuse and neglect, particularly those at the front lines of efforts aimed at building healthier lives and safer communities for all.
Professionals working to prevent abuse and neglect have long fought uphill battles. Now we are also facing the multi-faced effects of COVID-19. This is the inaugural episode of an ongoing series of webinars and conversations provided for those at the front lines of efforts aimed at building healthier lives and safer communities for all. David Prescott provides an overview of common themes that have emerged in professional practice in recent years and facilitates a conversation about what challenges participants have faced in recent weeks. This webinar conversation places a special emphasis on the solutions that professionals have already put into place, even as we strive to solve new problems.
Who's Presenting
David Prescott, LICSW, ATSA-F
A mental health practitioner of 40 years, David Prescott is the Director of the Safer Society Continuing Education Center. He is the author and editor of 25 books in the areas of understanding and improving services to at-risk clients. He is best known for his work in the areas of understanding, assessing, and treating sexual violence and trauma. Mr. Prescott is the recipient of the 2014 Distinguished Contribution award from the Association for the Treatment and Prevention of Sexual Abuse (ATSA), the 2018 recipient of the National Adolescent Perpetration Network’s C. Henry Kempe Lifetime Achievement award, and the 2022 recipient of the Fay Honey Knopp Award from the New York State Alliance for the Prevention of Sexual Abuse and New York State ATSA. He also served as ATSA President in 2008-09. Mr. Prescott currently trains and lectures around the world. His published work has been translated into Japanese, Korean, German, French, Polish, and Southern Tutchone. He has served on the editorial boards of four scholarly journals.