The National Child Protection Training Center (NCPTC) provides training to child protection professionals across the United States.  Each year, NCPTC trainers travel to every region of the country and train approximately 10,000 prosecutors, law enforcement officers, social workers, and other child protection professionals and organizations.  NCPTC trainers are available to present the keynote address, and breakout sessions to your team or conference and they are also available to create a full one or two-day conference customized to your needs.  Our trainers offer a wide variety of topics and a wealth of experience.

The National Child Protection Training Center also conducts a number of national conferences. Many of these conferences are conducted in NCPTC's state of the art facility on the campus of Winona State University. This facility includes courtrooms, forensic interview rooms, and a "mock house" in which to conduct simulated investigations.
 
The National Child Protection Training Center also assisted Winona State University in developing a model undergraduate child protection minor entitled Child Advocacy Studies (CAST). In partnership with WSU, NCPTC is helping other universities in implementing this curriculum. NCPTC is also assisting law schools, seminaries and medical schools in developing graduate courses on child maltreatment.
 
In partnership with CornerHouse, NCPTC assists in developing and sustaining state forensic interview training programs that teach the CornerHouse forensic interview protocol, RATAC^®. This protocol is widely used in the United States and has been specifically recognized by a number of appellate courts.
 
These and other initiatives are part of a much larger plan to significantly reduce, if not eliminate child abuse in the United States within three generations. This peer reviewed plan, entitled Unto the Third Generation, is generating significant reform throughout the country. The plan is published in the Hamline Journal of Public Law & Policy.