MASOC - For a World Free of Sexual Harm by Youth

09/11/2026

Grab a coffee and your favorite pen, because our Campus Issues webinar series is back for its sophomore year!

Your professors for this year are: Reggie Noto, MA, MSW of the Traverse Bay Children's Advocacy Center and Professor of Practice Ross Chowles of Michigan State University College of Communication Arts & Sciences; Dr. Vicky Lister of the University of Lincoln; Dr. RaeAnn Anderson and Jasmine Skorheim, MS of the Anderson Sexual Violence Prevention Lab; It's On Us' Dr. Colleen McDaniel; and SafeBAE's Drew Davis, MPH, MPA

Registration is open now at https://masoc.net/training/campus-webinar-series/

09/08/2026

It's time for the first Lunch and Learn of the 2026-2027 year! Join the clinical and program leadership of Stevens Treatment Programs to talk about the critical role of the non-clinical staff as treatment partners and the model they've developed for fully integrating non-clinical staff in treatment, relationship development, and skill-building. Whether you work in a residential setting, or in a setting where your non-clinical colleagues are partners in your work, this session has something for everyone.

Thank you as always to The Children's Trust for your sponsorship of these programs, which make them free to everyone and provide free CEs for clinicians in MA! (This program has been approved for 1.0 CE for LMFTs and approval is pending for MSW, LMHC, and Psyc.)

https://masoc.net/training/lunch-learn-series/

09/03/2026

We had 12 incredible mentees last year, and all of them said in evaluations they would recommend this program to a colleague! Applications are open til 9/18!

https://masoc.net/about/clinical-mentorship/

08/24/2026

It’s back to school time at MASOC, too! Throw on your backpack, snap a pic for the socials, and join us for another year of learning and development at our virtual Lunch and Learn series! Whether you’re a treating clinician, a professional in a youth-serving organization, or working with kids across systems, there’s research and practice knowledge for you this “semester.”

As always, registration is free thanks to the generous support of The Children's Trust. 1.0 CE is available for LMHC, LMFT, MSW, and Psyc. CEs are free for MA-based providers and $10/session for out-of-state providers.

https://masoc.net/training/lunch-learn-series/

08/20/2026

It's that time of year again...registration for our fall conference is now open!

On Monday, 10/19 we have a great lineup of speakers and advanced practice topics for our virtual conference day.

On Tuesday, 10/20 we'll see you in Marlborough for our in-person conference and to celebrate our 40th anniversary!

We've got book signings! We've got celebration! We've got an incredible lineup of speakers and workshops. But most of all, we're excited to have YOU!

https://masoc.net/training/assessment-and-treatment-of-children-and-adolescents-engaging-in-problematic-sexual-behaviors/

Special thanks to our Cornerstone Sponsor, NEARI School; our Access Sponsor, The ALKU Foundation; our Champion and Gold sponsors, New Hope Counseling Center, Seven Hills Foundation, Jeff Butts LICSW and Associates, and the Center for Integrated Psychological Services; our Advocate/Silver sponsors, Justice Resource Institute; and our Ally/Teal sponsors, Safer Society and UNHUSHED.

08/06/2026

We are very excited to announce our new partnership with the Focus for Health Foundation. Focus for Health has a nearly two decade history of supporting grassroots organizations driving systemic change.

Their support will advance our work developing tools and technical assistance for K-12 schools addressing harmful sexual behavior by students in school settings. This is key to preventing youth-youth sexual harm, advancing educational equity, and redirecting youth away from punitive criminal justice interventions into successful treatment and support resources for their schools and families that not only prevent the recurrence of harmful sexual behaviors but get kids back on a pathway to positive development.

We're thrilled to join Focus for Health's team of partners alongside our partners and collaborators like Stop It Now! and Mirror Memoirs, and to learn from the equity-advancing work of all the amazing partner organizations.

07/30/2026

The July issue of our Research to Practice Newsletter is out today! Joan Tabachnick and David Prescott talk through a Spring, 2026 paper by the Center for Violence Prevention Research's Melissa Bright and Maggie Ingram, Csenge Bödi, and Dr. David Finkelhor at the Crimes against Children Research Center at UNH. They are looking more deeply at the age differences between children and teens who are harmed by other children and adolescents.

We're particularly excited that this team will be talking about the findings and implications for this paper at our December 15th Lunch and Learn!

If I was going to make a new line of MASOC-branded swag, it would probably say “Context matters!”* A young person’s ecosystem and our ability to understand who they are and how they act within it matters for the quality of assessments, treatment planning, and especially for prevention. This mo...

06/12/2026

Applications for the '26-'27 MASOC Pathways Fellowship are open! Apply at https://masoc.net/about/fellowship/

MASOC seeks to create an advancement opportunity that especially welcomes new professionals with underrepresented identities to the field and creates learning and growth in this specialized area of practice that goes beyond practicum placement or classroom learning to provide mentorship and open professional networks.

06/09/2026

We need YOU to share your work at the October 20th in-person conference, and the proposal deadline is Tuesday, 6/30! https://masoc.net/training/assessment-and-treatment-of-children-and-adolescents-engaging-in-problematic-sexual-behaviors/

Your research, your clinical practice tools, your work with smaller subpopulations of young people with PSB, your work with families and caregivers, your work collaborating across systems, and your work on primary prevention of harmful sexual behaviors!

05/21/2026

You know that Dr. Elizabeth Letourneau has been doing great research for decades, but she and Luke Malone are also doing remarkable work on how our field *talks about* the work that we do. If you've been trying to convey to your community, your organizational stakeholders, or even loved ones in your life the power and importance of effective response and prevention work, this is a great recommendation for a listen.

(And a shout out to an early moment of the pod, where Dr. Letourneau says a great, true thing: "But staying...it's a small group of clinicians and researchers who focus on perpetration. But the field is populated with really wonderful people and they just kind of wrapped their arms around me and kept me in.")