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| Updated: November 13, 2009 |
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Julie A. Welch is the Child Abuse Training Director for the Prosecuting Attorneys Association of Michigan. She has been in this unit since 1998. Ms. Welch has been developing, implementing and training child abuse topics during this entire time. Ms. Welch has trained thousands of CPS workers, prosecutors, law enforcement workers, judges, doctors and teachers over the course of her employment with PAAM. She has attended numerous local and national trainings over the years through the American Prosecutors Research Institute, APSAC and the Florida National Child Advocacy Center building her experience in teaching and knowledge in the child abuse field and also completed training in the field on ‘Human Brain Development’ and ‘Trauma Impact on Survivors’ through the Child Trauma Academy. She was part of a training team that was chosen to teach interviewing skills to the Turkish Interpol police team. She also was selected to be part of a team that traveled to the state of Nevada and helped implement forensic interviewing throughout their state. She studied at Olympic College of Washington in the field of business and brings a wealth of experience in contracting, marketing and training to the program. Ms. Welch also attended Solano College in California where she studied Early Childhood Education.
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Jennifer Doerr joined the CATS program in 2002 as the program's conference coordinator. She received her degree in Audiology and Speech Pathology from Michigan State University. Ms. Doerr has extensive experience in conference coordination and works with a diverse group of Michigan facilities to assure that only exceptional trainings are offered through this program. Ms. Doerr also has an expansive knowledge of Domestic Violence and brings a wealth of information pertaining to the effects of children in domestic violence situations.
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The CATS Program began in 1995 when the Prosecuting Attorneys Association of Michigan was selected to provide cross-professional training in the area of child abuse investigation, focusing on effective interviewing of children. The Governor's Task Force on Children's Justice originally allocated funding under the Children's Justice Act to provide this training. CATS, through the auspices of PAAM, currently provides training to prosecutors, law enforcement, DHS employees and others on topics of child abuse investigation and prosecution. CATS performs this mission through the generous funding through the Department of Human Services and the Governor’s Task Force on Children’s Justice.
PAAM is a voluntary association of Michigan's 83 elected prosecutors and their staffs, comprising over 700 prosecutors in Michigan. PAAM's mission is to provide services to the state's prosecuting attorneys in order to make local enforcement of state law more uniform and efficient statewide. |
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