BEFORE YOU REGISTER,

PLEASE NOTE:  

The VOCA funding which pays for 2 nights (evenings of June 24th & June 25th) hotel stay has reached it's maximum limit.   

Therefore, registration for this training does NOT include a hotel stay.

Narrative Practice:

Creating Space for the Details 

MEET THE TRAINERS 

Ali Alstott, AM, LCSW

Ali holds a bachelor’s degree in Early Child Education from Southern Illinois University Carbondale and a master’s degree in Clinical Social Work from University of Chicago. With over ten years working within the child welfare system alongside multi-disciplinary teams at Chicago Children’s Advocacy Center, Ali worked in various roles including MPEEC (Multi-disciplinary Pediatric Education and Evaluation Consortium) coordinator, forensic interviewer and forensic interviewer supervisor. She has coordinated over 1,500 cases of serious harms cases in Chicago children under three and has conducted over 2,000 forensic interviews of children who have alleged maltreatment, sexual abuse, exploitation or who have witnessed violent crimes. Ali has trained social workers, medical personnel, law enforcement, state’s attorneys, forensic interviewers, educators and other relevant professionals at local, regional and national levels on forensic interviewing, multi-disciplinary collaboration, child development, delayed disclosure and employing best practice in the care of maltreated youth. Ali left Chicago CAC in April of 2018 to open a private practice and consultation business (Ali Alstott, AM, LCSW, LLC). She currently contracts with Children’s Advocacy Centers of Illinois to create curriculum for statewide forensic interviewing trainings and to mentor new forensic interviewers. Ali has also joined the National Criminal Justice Training Center, a program of Fox Valley Technical College as an Associate in December of 2018 where she will continue to develop and provide training on topics related to best practices in the fields of investigating child abuse and protecting youth.

Lynn Aladeen

Lynn has a Master’s degree in Counseling and Guidance and has worked for a number of Children’s Advocacy Centers in the states of Illinois and New York for more than 20 years.  Lynn became a forensic interviewer in 2006.  She has conducted over 3700 interviews of alleged victims of child physical and/or sexual abuse and trained numerous forensic interviewers.  She currently conducts interviews for the Lake County Children’s Advocacy Center, provides supervision for the forensic interviewing program at the Child Advocacy Center of Niagara and contracts with Children’s Advocacy Centers of Illinois to develop and provide forensic interview training and to mentor new interviewers.