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Every year, CALICO offers a multi-disciplinary child-abuse training for all its partners. This day-long training aims to help to keep Alameda County’s child-abuse professionals up to date with the latest research. This year marked CALICO’s 19th Collaborative Training and featured Dr. Daniel Rothman, a clinical and forensic psychologist who specializes in the assessment and treatment of children, adolescents and adults with sexual aggressive behavior problems. The training a

POLICIES THAT HELP KIDS “A guy called Officer Friendly comes to school and teaches us not to answer the door when your parents are not home and don’t talk to strangers. They don’t teach us about people like my cousin Brian. I thought people like Brian jumped out of bushes and attacked you at night.” Those are the words out of my diary when I was 12 years old. For six years of my life I was sexually abused and raped by two different men. I didn’t break my silence until I was 1