ChildFirst Forensic Interviewing of Children Training

Children's Advocacy Centers of Virginia (CACVA) sponsors ChildFirst Virginia, a five day intensive course in which students learn the necessary skills to conduct a forensic interview of a suspected child abuse victim. This interactive course combines lectures and demonstrations supplemented with homework assignments and a written examination at the end of the course. Participants also must conduct a 30-minute interview of a professional actor playing the role of an abused child after which the interviewer is critiqued by a professional forensic interviewer and a group of fellow students.