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Events

Northeast Child Abuse 
Conference

The Northeast Child Abuse Conference is nationally recognized as the premier child abuse conference in the Northeast region. This cutting-edge, multi-disciplinary training is a must for anyone who works with children.

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The Northeast Child Abuse Conference is nationally recognized as the premier child abuse conference in the Northeast region. This cutting-edge, multi-disciplinary training is a must for anyone who works with children.

Northeast Child Abuse Conference

Events

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$150/ Table
Buy a Table

$495
After Jan. 1

$445
Oct. 1 - Dec. 31, 2024

Cheers for Children provides guests with a variety of tastings of wine, beer, spirits and food from our region.  Enjoy games, dancing, psychic readings, henna tattoos, or bidding on some incredible silent auction items; just to name a few of the entertainment options available to you this year. Think Vegas meets Rochester!  Your support of this event positively impacts the children and families we serve.

Rochester Riverside Convention Center

2025 Keynote Speaker: Julie K. Brown

Northeast Child Abuse Conference

April 22-23, 2025

8am-5pm

both days

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Keynote Speaker:
Julie E. Brown

Julie K. Brown is an investigative reporter with the Miami Herald. During her 30-year career, she has worked for a number of newspapers, focusing on crime, justice and human rights issues. As a member of the Herald’s Investigative Team, she has won dozens of awards, including two George Polk Awards, a Robert F. Kennedy Award for Human Rights Reporting, the Columbia Journalism Award, the Hillman Prize, and PEN America’s Voice of Courage Award. In 2020, she was named one of Time magazine’s most influential people. In 2018 she wrote “Perversion of Justice,” a series that examined how a rich and powerful New York financier, Jeffrey Epstein, managed to arrange a secret plea deal and escape life in prison -- even though he sexually abused more than 100 underage girls and young women. The series, and her subsequent dogged coverage of the case in 2019, led to the resignation of President Trump’s labor secretary, Alex Acosta, Epstein’s arrest, the conviction of his accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, and millions of dollars in damages awarded to hundreds of victims. 

 

Brown previously won acclaim for stories about racial profiling, police corruption and a series of stories about abuses and corruption in Florida prisons. Her prisons series led to the resignations of top agency officials, firings and arrests of corrupt corrections officers and an overhaul in the treatment of inmates with mental and physical disabilities.

 

In 2023 she was part of the team at the Miami Herald that was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in Journalism for Breaking News Reporting.

 

She is the author of the book “Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story.”

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Host an Event

Hosting a fundraising event can be a powerful tool for raising funds, raising awareness, engage with the community, and advance the mission and goals of the CACGROC.

Purchase a Sponsorship

With 10 different sponsorship levels, there are a variety of ways to directly support our mission during our Cheers for Children event. 

Our Sponsors

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