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2023 CAPSAC Awards: Call for Submissions

Paul Crissey Graduate Student Research Award

To be awarded Spring 2023.


The California Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (CAPSAC) annually awards a grant of $750 for outstanding research by a graduate student (or early career professional up to one-year post MA/PhD) in the field of child maltreatment, child welfare, foster care, or a related topic. The recipient will also receive a one-year membership to APSAC (American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children) and CAPSAC. 


The American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (apsac.org), founded in 1987, is a nonprofit membership society focused on meeting the needs of professionals engaged in all aspects of services for maltreated children and their families. Especially important to APSAC is the dissemination of state-of-the-art practice in all professional disciplines related to child abuse and neglect. To learn more about APSAC’s publications, see https://www.apsac.org/apsacpublications


CAPSAC aims to provide additional support to California professionals working in the field of child abuse through training, consultation, advocacy, and networking.  We also publish The Consultant, a professional newsletter highlighting relevant issues for our members. 


Applicants must: 


  1. Be a graduate student within one year of completion (before or after) of a Master’s or Doctoral degree from an accredited California educational program. 
  2. Submit a one thousand-word summary of the research in progress or completed study in the field of child maltreatment.
  3. Submit one or two letters of recommendation from faculty members or academic readers who are familiar with your research. 
  4. Be available to receive the award and present an overview of the study at a CAPSAC meeting or CAPSAC online event in April, 2023. 
  5. Agree to the publication of the submitted summary in the CAPSAC newsletter, The Consultant, and/or posting on the CAPSAC website,  capsac.org. 


For more information and to submit your application and letter(s) of recommendation, please see CAPSAC's webpage at capsac.org. 


Deadline: For consideration for the 2023 award, all materials must be received by March 3, 2023.


If you have any questions, contact Susan Hardie, PhD, at suefhardie@gmail.com or 310-560-1888. 

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Neal Snyder Outstanding Service Award

To be awarded Spring 2023.


CAPSAC established the Neal Snyder Outstanding Service Award in 2019 to recognize professionals who demonstrate extraordinary dedication and efforts on behalf of children.


Neal Snyder graduated Phi Beta Kappa from UC Berkeley with a BA and MA in sociology, and obtained his JD from Hastings College. As an attorney, he specialized in protecting children from abuse - an area he helped make a legal specialty - and became a role model for many others in the field. Neal worked for the California State Department of Social Services in day care licensing litigation. He was a co-founder of CAPSAC, drafted its initial bylaws and assisted with its incorporation. He continued to serve as a board member, supporter, and consultant to CAPSAC for the rest of his life. Neal was an intelligent, even- tempered, positive, athletic, and kind man who loved jazz, his wife, Yvonne Garcia, their annual visits to Thailand, his children and grandchildren. 


Any professional in California may submit nominations. Nominees cannot be CAPSAC Board Members or CAPSAC Executive Committee Members.


Nominees should demonstrate the mission and goals of CAPSAC: 

  • The mission of CAPSAC is to improve the effort and response of professionals working with children who have experienced abuse and neglect.
  • The goals of CAPSAC are to promote collaboration among all disciplines working in the area of child protection, to promote education on child maltreatment of professionals and community members who work with children, to promote research on child abuse and neglect in the areas of prevention, identification, intervention, and treatment, and to promote appropriate and effective services to the children and families who have experienced child maltreatment.


Nominees should exhibit outstanding service in the area of child maltreatment and also model outstanding professionalism and have made contributions in the area of child maltreatment.  


The Neal Snyder Outstanding Service Award recipient will be selected from among the nominees by the CAPSAC Board of Directors and presented with the Neal Snyder Outstanding Service Award certificate as well as a one-year membership to APSAC/CAPSAC at a CAPSAC meeting or online training event in April 2023. Also, an article about the recipient will be published in the CAPSAC newsletter The Consultant and posted on the CAPSAC website capsac.org. 


Nomination Deadline: Nominations for the 2023 award, will be accepted until March 3, 2023.


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Past recipients

Paul Crissey Graduate Student Research Award

Paul Crissey Graduate Student Research Award

Paul Crissey Graduate Student Research Award

1998 Kaplan, Debra Young 

Maltreated Children’s Perception of Their Placement   Experience. UCLA.


2000 Quas, Jodi 

Children’s Memories of Experienced and Non-Experienced  Events Across Repeated Interviews. UC Davis, Developmental Psychology.


2003 Bryson, Polina 

The Relationship Among Intimate Partner Satisfaction,   Quality of Parent-Child Interactions, and Child Physical Abuse   Potential. Alliant International University, San Diego,  Psychology.


2005 Ellens, Jeffrey K. 

The Effects of Domestic Violence, Child Abuse, and   Parenting Stress on Psychological Distress in Children. UC Santa Barbara, Clinical Psychology.


2009 Salazar, Maria. 

Defining Verbal Aggression in Child Abuse Cases by   Professional Social Workers. CSULA Social Work.

LaLande, Denise Maria. Half Measures Availed Us Nothing: Policy and   Practice Analysis of Los Angeles County Department   of Children and Family Services and Substance-   Abusing Parents. CSULA Social Work.


2015 Hobbs, Sue D. & Larson, Rakel P. 

Systematic Review of Interviewer Support   and Rapport Effects on Children’s Reports.   UC Davis & UCLA, Psychology.


2016 Wray, Wendella 

A Wellness Tele-Coaching Intervention to Support Low SES   Families in the “Nurturing Parenting Program”: A   Randomized Controlled Trial. Loma Linda University.


2017 Knell, Catalaine  

Munchausen By Proxy. CSULA.


2018 Hernandez, Julia 

A Family Approach to Child Maltreatment: Engaging Fathers in the Child Welfare System. 

UC Berkeley School of Social Welfare


2019 Chambers, Jaclyn 

RED Teams: Evaluating an innovative team approach to   child maltreatment decision-making. UC Berkeley School of Social Welfare.


2020 Cazares, Mayra  

Why Self-Love & Connectedness Matters: Enhancing   Positive Outcomes among Transition-Age Youth. UC Berkeley School of Social Welfare.


2021 Palmer, Lindsay

A Population-Based Examination of Adolescent Suicide and Child Protective Service Involvement. University of Southern California.


2022 Al-Suwaidi, Maha and Mukhopadhyay, Shreya

1) Socioeconomic Correlates of Childhood Neglect, University of California Los Angeles (Al-Suwaidi)

2) Foster Children’s Placement Preferences: The Roles of Kin, Siblings and Age, University of California Irvine (Mukhopadhyay)

Neal Snyder Outstanding Service Award

Paul Crissey Graduate Student Research Award

Paul Crissey Graduate Student Research Award

2020

Patty Shimek and Kathy Baxter, Partners in Prevention


Partners in Prevention is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Since 2010 they have worked to increase awareness of the effects of child abuse and neglect and to promote solutions by supporting prevention services within a wide range of communities. https://partnersinprevention.org/


2021

Dr. Sean Dugan, Shasta County

Dr. Dugan is a board certified pediatrician who focuses on child abuse and adolescent medicine. He works at both Shasta Community Health Center and Mercy Medical Center and is a founding committee member of the Children's Legacy Center in Shasta County.


2022

David Love, LMFT, Valley Community Counseling

Mr. Love is the Executive Director and Founder of Valley Community Counseling Services, Inc. in Stockton, CA. Among his many accomplishments, he developed a program that places therapists on 80 school campuses per week providing mental health and child abuse therapy.


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