25th San Diego International
Virtual Summit
August 30 – September 2, 2020
NPEIV Virtual Think Tank August 29, 2020 www.npeiv.org
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Summit Tracks: Highlights:
1. Adolescent Trauma & Youth Violence 2. Adult Survivors & Vulnerable Populations • Earn up to 23.5 Continuing Education 3. Campus Assault Credits 4. Child Maltreatment/Adverse Childhood • World class keynote speakers Experiences (ACEs) • Earn IVAT Specialty Certifications 5. Human & Labor Trafficking • Professional networking across disciplines 6. Intimate Partner Violence: Offenders • Self-Care Opportunities 7. Intimate Partner Violence: Victims/Survivors • Virtual Poster Sessions, Exhibit Hall, and 8. Legal & Criminal Justice Issues Bookstore 9. Primary Prevention/Early Intervention 10. Sexual Victimization 11. Trauma Among First Responders, Military Personnel & their Families
12. Trauma in General 13. Self-Care and Wellness
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Table of Contents
Welcome Letter…..……………………………………………………………………….3
What’s New at the Virtual Summit?...... 4
National Partnership to End Interpersonal
Violence Across the Lifespan (NPEIV)……………………………………………...…5
Schedule at a Glance…………………………………………………………….…..….5
About the 25th International Virtual San Diego Summit……….………..………...….7
IVAT Staff…………………………………………………………………………………9
Collaborators and Planning Committee……………………………………………….10
Exhibitors and Sponsors………………………………………………………………..12
Continuing Education and IVAT Specialty Certifications…….……………….……..13
Speaker Bios……………………………………………………………………...……..16
Program …………………………….………………..….…...... 62
Opening Plenary……………………………………………………………………..….72
Poster Session 1……………………………………………………………...………..119
Poster Session 2……………………………………………………………...…….….138
Speaker Index……...... 167
Save the Date…………………………………………………………………………..171
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Dear Colleagues,
Welcome to the celebration and 25th Anniversary of the San Diego Summit, the 35th Anniversary of the Institute, and our first time hosting the international event virtually! We are thrilled to have over 1000 people from 17 countries and 49 states/territories joining us this week as we all continue to navigate the world during the COVID-19 pandemic, times of great social unrest, and calls for racial and social justice. This year’s theme of “Transforming Trauma into Triumph” highlights the individual and collective crises converging simultaneously worldwide, and our goal to help share critical research, practical applications, wisdom and stories from survivors, to increase the prevention of and ultimate end to interpersonal violence across the lifespan. We extend our thanks to all the sponsors, collaborating organizations and agencies who have partnered with us to present the 25th International Summit on Violence, Abuse and Trauma Across the Lifespan. The Summit is hosted by IVAT and the National Partnership to End Interpersonal Violence Across the Lifespan (NPEIV). This year we also celebrate the 35th anniversary of the Institute and we are honored to continue our local, national and international efforts to eliminate oppression and the abuse of power in the family, community, society, and globally. It is sad after these 35 years with so much more knowledge, technological advances, enhanced communication, and research, that we are still so far behind in ending interpersonal violence and abuse. “Linking Research, Practice, Advocacy and Policy” has been a key goal for the past 25 years. We continue to disseminate the best ways to move the world forward by providing better training, networking and collaboration opportunities around interpersonal violence prevention and intervention, emphasizing the importance of moving from dialogue to action. The world continues to be in need of more opportunities to work together to reduce, prevent and intervene in reducing far too many forms of violence, prejudice and polarization. As always, our work is based in hope, healing and the belief that together we are stronger in creating lasting and meaningful change worldwide. Networking and a unified message are keys to change! We must persevere! IVAT strives to make the prevention of interpersonal violence a national and global priority. We value your feedback and contributions, and our staff work year-round to incorporate your suggestions to improve our events. This year we are featuring our first ever virtual poster sessions on Monday August 31st and Tuesday September 1st. Please join us in the celebration of these efforts and as three poster awards are presented! While we have incorporated self-care and wellness opportunities for many years now, we are excited at the new self-care and wellness track offered this year, as well as the two mindfulness sessions at the end of the day on August 31st and at the close of the Summit on September 2. We encourage you to also explore our brand new IVAT Summit Zen Den where you can access mediation, music, comedy and interactive exercises to practice self-care today and every day - https://bit.ly/3l15BoH! We hope the Attendee Hub mobile event app helps make your virtual Summit experience an easier one with your schedule, speaker handouts, announcements, and evaluations all at your fingertips. IVAT is grateful for our dedicated team who help us grow and improve the Summit. We appreciate the enthusiastic support and energy that each of our presenters, attendees, volunteers, planning committee members, exhibitors and collaborators provide. Together we continue to emphasize safe and healthy homes, communities and societies focused on healing and recovery from trauma, and the promotion of peace. This mission is even more important in the current atmosphere of divisiveness and hate. We hope your involvement provides you with new knowledge, ideas, and applications for a safer tomorrow. “Working Together to End Violence and Abuse” is more than our motto. It is more important than ever to come together to speak out and take action. If you are interested in joining our efforts to accomplish this, and to help us plan and celebrate our 26th anniversary of the Summit in 2021, please email your contact information to our staff. We look forward to working with you and hope to see you safely and in person next year! Thank you for all that you do to help end violence and abuse! Sincerely,
Sandi Capuano Morrison, MA CEO, IVAT and Summit Co-Chair, San Diego, CA Board of Directors and Executive Committee Member, National Partnership to End Interpersonal Violence Across the Lifespan (NPEIV)
Robert Geffner, PhD, ABN, ABPP Founding President, FVSAI dba IVAT, San Diego, CA Summit Co-Chair, and Founding Co-Chair NPEIV Distinguished Research Professor of Psychology, Alliant International University, San Diego
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What’s New at the Virtual Summit?
Virtual Exhibit Hall: Explore the work of our exhibitors through the Crowdcompass AttendeeHub mobile event app. The app will showcase partners of IVAT who are supporting organizations, their work, mission, and services to over 1,000 attendees from around the world.
Virtual Bookstore: For many years, we have held our bookstore onsite to offer our attendees the latest research and information on violence, abuse and trauma, including books written and published by our various speakers. This year, you can purchase speaker books through our virtual bookstore - Attendees and speakers will have access to our virtual bookstore, with limited inventory, on our website. Books will be shipped following the summit. www.ivatcenters.org/bookstore Benefits of Attending
• Evidence-based practices Zen Den Our brand-new Zen Den offers creative self-care • Cutting-edge research, intervention activities and videos to support and nurture your techniques, and prevention programs physical, spiritual, and psychological health. Check • Collaboration with experts across fields it out at https://bit.ly/31kdQ7d • Learn to be an agent of change • Access material of all sessions from your home via Attendee Hub
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The National Partnership to End Interpersonal
Violence Across the Lifespan (NPEIV)
The National Partnership to End Interpersonal Violence Across the Lifespan (NPEIV) was founded by Jacquelyn White and Robert Geffner. It grew out of their collaboration with APA president Alan Kazdin’s presidential initiative on violence that resulted in the February 2008 APA Summit on Violence and Abuse in Relationships: Connecting Agendas and Forging New Directions. In September 2008, the first Think Tank was held to determine the future of the fledgling partnership. It was decided that NPEIV would integrate across all aspects of interpersonal violence in order to link research, practice, policy, and advocacy. Over the years NPEIV has continued to grow and establish itself as an organization. The name "National Partnership to End Interpersonal Violence Across the Lifespan" and the NPEIV logo were chosen in January 2009 during the APA National Multicultural Summit. In February 2010, the first 11 Action Teams were developed. From there, NPEIV increased its efforts toward interpersonal violence prevention across the fields of research, practice, policy, and advocacy. In addition to an annual Think Tank focused on training and education, NPEIV has spear-headed the publication of several special issues in leading violence and trauma journals, been involved with the publishing of several interpersonal violence journals, participated in federal roundtables and congressional briefings, and helped establish a national curriculum geared toward interpersonal violence prevention. Today, NPEIV continues its dedication to interpersonal violence prevention primarily through five Action Teams - Public Policy & Engagement, Training & Mentoring, Practice, Research & Dissemination, and Global Peace – which meet regularly to discuss their projects and goals, and Action Team chairs meet with the Board of Directors monthly to provide updates. This year a new website and logo were created! It is through the collective efforts of our members that we continue to strive toward the goal of a violence-free future for all. We invite you to join NPEIV! For more information visit npeiv.org.
Sche dule at a Glance
NPEIV Virtual Think Tank SATURDAY, August 29, 2020 Welcome Message from Founders 9:00 am – 9:15 am PT Opening & Keynote Speaker Dr. Carolyn West 9:15 am – 10:00 am PT Overview from Action Teams 10:00 am – 10:30 am PT Break 10:30 am – 10:45 am PT Strategic Plan Presentation 10:45 am – 11:30 am PT Break for Lunch 11:30 am – 12:30 am PT Action Team Breakout Sessions 12:30 pm – 3:15 pm PT
Break 3:15 pm – 3:30 pm PT
General Assembly/Closing Reflection 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm PT
Virtual Networking/Social Hour 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm PT
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25th Summit Schedule at a Glance SUNDAY, August 30, 2020 Summit Morning Workshops (A 1-13) 8:30 am - 10:00 am PT Break 10:00 am - 10:30 am PT Opening Plenary 10:30 am - 12:15 pm PT Lunch 12:15 pm - 1:00 pm PT Keynote Panels (B 1-12) 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm PT Break 3:00 pm – 3:30 pm PT Summit Afternoon Workshops (C 1-13) 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm PT
MONDAY, August 31, 2020 Summit Morning Workshops (D 1-13) 8:30 am - 10:00 am PT Break 10:00 am -10:30 am PT Summit Morning Workshops (E 1-13) 10:30 am – 12:00 pm PT Lunch 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm PT Summit Afternoon Workshops (F 1-13) 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm PT Break 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm PT Poster Session 1 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm PT End of the Day Mindfulness Session 4:15 pm – 5:15 pm PT
TUESDAY, September 1, 2020 Summit Morning Workshops (G 1-13) 8:30 am - 10:00 am PT Break 10:00 am - 10:30 am PT Summit Parallel Plenaries (H 1-8) 10:30 am - 12:00 pm PT Lunch 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm PT Poster Session 2 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm PT Break 2:00 pm – 2:30 pm PT Summit Afternoon Workshops (I 1-13) 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm PT
WEDNESDAY, September 2, 2020 Affiliated Training: MEGA♪ 8:30 am – 5:00 pm PT Summit Morning Workshops (J 1 - 13) 8:30 am - 11:30 am PT (Break 9:55 – 10:05am PT) Lunch 11:30 am - 12:30 pm PT Summit Afternoon Workshops (K 1-13) 12:30 pm – 3:30 pm PT (Break 1:55pm – 2:05pm PT) End of Day Mindfulness Session 3:45pm - 4:45 pm PT Summit Adjourns 4:45pm PT
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GUIDING PRINCIPLES FOR THE INTERNATIONAL SUMMIT ON VIOLENCE, ABUSE AND TRAUMA
These Guiding Principles define how the Institute on Violence, Abuse and Trauma (IVAT) and the International Summit on Violence, Abuse and Trauma approaches and responds to topics and presenters. To inform these Guiding Principles, we first look to the IVAT Mission and Vision Statements.
IVAT'S MISSION To improve the quality of life for individuals on local, national and international levels by sharing and disseminating vital information, improving collaborations and networking, conducting research and trainings, assisting with direct professional services, program evaluation, and consulting to promote violence-free living.
IVAT'S VISION A world free from violence, abuse, and trauma.
GOALS OF THE SUMMIT A primary means whereby IVAT seeks to accomplish their mission and realize their vision is through the annual International Summit. The Summit seeks to achieve the following: • To inspire a worldwide movement to end violence and abuse. • To assemble qualified presentations and speakers generating a rich exchange of information about research, assessment, treatment and prevention of violence, abuse, and trauma across multiple disciplines for professional development and growth of our audience. • To present a broad spectrum of information examining the causes and complicating factors underlying and maintaining violence, abuse, and trauma in our lives and in our society. • To facilitate an extensive and comprehensive study of the history, issues, knowledge, and experience of responding to violence, abuse, and trauma. • To provide a platform for rich dialogue and interaction on the challenging topics and controversial issues in the field of abuse and trauma with a focus on researching, treating, reducing, and preventing interpersonal violence. • To provide a forum to hear the voices of survivors to inform the work done in the field.
THE PLANNING COMMITTEE IVAT annually assembles the Planning Committee comprised of persons from multiple disciplines, agencies and ideologies working together to develop the theme of the summit, then selecting the speakers and presentations to fulfill that goal. The Planning Committee does so by: • Ensuring divergent perspectives, theoretical models, and sociological and philosophical ideologies are heard and examined while encouraging tolerance and respect of the potential differences. • Evaluating all presentations for academic rigor, clinical relevance, and ethical integrity through careful peer review. Presentations will be evaluated without prejudice to academic degree or position. • Ensuring diversity is infused in all topic areas presented. • Ensuring all participants have the opportunity to be exposed to and access training for the broadest range of research findings, assessment tools, treatment skills, program models and prevention protocols available.
This Summit, in addressing the broad field of interpersonal violence, will encounter numerous controversial topics and provocative presenters. In doing so, there will be those who ask us to censor, reject, or otherwise restrict such controversial presenters and/or presentations. We hold that to do so is antithetical to the mission and vision of IVAT and to the nature of this summit. We hold that censorship is inherently abusive and discriminatory.
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PRAGMATIC PROCEDURES To translate our philosophical ideals into practical conventions that can be understood and employed as we endeavor to create a healthy learning environment, we suggest the following code of behavior: • Be open to hearing and exploring ideas regardless of the ideological perspective, academic degree or absence of one, or professional discipline of the presenter. • Maintain a positive atmosphere of mutual respect and consideration while at the summit. • Strive to share helpful ideas, suggestions, or improvements. • Avoid negative, unhealthy, or unproductive criticism. • Be intolerant of gossip and rumor spreading about any participants, author/exhibitors, event organizers or anything associated with the summit. • Be intolerant of inappropriate sexualized talk, contact and predatory behavior.
We further suggest that IVAT reaffirm the following disclaimer several times throughout the summit. In the realm of interpersonal violence and abuse, there are many differing approaches. The material, techniques and beliefs presented in the papers, workshops, slides, audiotapes, videos or other demonstrations at this summit are those of the authors and presenters and do not necessarily reflect or represent the opinions or suggestions of the Institute on Violence Abuse, and Trauma. The material presented here is for the purpose of information exchange only.
Sharing our knowledge, working together, we can end interpersonal violence.
Respectfully submitted,
Sandi Capuano Morrison Sandra Robinson Tom Bellows Pamela Sternaman Kevin J. Connors Glenna Tinney Hank Estrada Debra Warner Loren M. Hill Ricka White-Soso
Description & Goals This Summit is a unique forum for professionals across all disciplines and philosophies to gather for in-depth exchange of current information on all facets of violence, abuse and trauma prevention, intervention, and research. We are one of the very few events that include researchers, practitioners, advocates, survivors, and front-line workers from all disciplines to share information, discuss controversial issues, and engage in difficult dialogues. We strive to infuse our theme of transforming trauma into triumph into the presentations as well as into the thoughtfulness and professionalism reflected throughout the Summit. We continue to focus on linking research, practice, policy and advocacy. The vision of the Summit organizers, sponsors, collaborating organizations, exhibitors, and participants is to make a significant, positive impact on eliminating all forms of violence, abuse, and trauma everywhere. We are expecting over 1,000 attendees from around the globe to come together drawing from multi-ethnic and multicultural perspectives.
About The Institute on Violence, Abuse and Trauma (IVAT) IVAT condemns violence and oppression in all its forms. We stand with all who work for equality and peace. IVAT is a nonprofit international resource and training center, founded in 1984 as FVSAI, and headquartered in San Diego, CA with a branch in Honolulu, HI. We host 2 international summits annually, house 4 academic journals, offer direct services, and provide a wide array of trainings addressing violence, abuse, and trauma.
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IVAT Staff
President: Bob Geffner, PhD, ABN, ABPP Chief Executive Officer: Sandi Capuano Morrison, MA Director of Professional Services: Morgan Shaw, PsyD Office Manager: Lori Matthews
Meeting & Event Manager Professional Clinical and Forensic Mark Yunker Services Alison Wexler, MA Summit & Continuing Education Manager Alyssa Frederique, MA Carlen Haag, MFS Ashley Chambers, MSW Caitlin Fuller, MA Outreach and Administrative Coordinator Chris Garnica, MS Imani ltemus-Williams, MA Elena Andreopoulos Gimel Rogers, PsyD, ABPP Summits Assistant Laura Bermudez, MS Denise White Marla Martinez-Parker, MA Iveth Ruiz-Sotelo Meghan Fagundes, PhD Nicole Portue Community Relations and Marketing Coordinator Journals & Publications Nivedita Chatterjee, PhD Alexandra Schlager Claudia Delgadillo Publications Coordinator/Summits & NPEIV Assistant Gabrielle Pero Sara Assad Nanette Burton, MS Scarlett Yang
Shannon Egan
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A Thousand Joys Christie’s Place Midwest Regional Children's Academy on Violence and Abuse Advocacy Center American Academy of Cosmetic County of San Diego: Aging & Mindful Warrior Project (MWP) Dentistry (AACD) Charitable Independence Services (AIS) MI Training Today Foundation Community Against Violence, Inc. Motivating the Teen Spirit Addictions Institute at Alliant Community Resource Center My Safety Tech International University Critical Therapy Center National Association of Social Advocate for Victims CrossCurrents- The Center for Workers (NASW) – California American Health Services of San Addiction and Mental Health National Center for Prosecution of Diego Cubic Corporation Child Abuse American Humane Association Department of Defense Sexual National Center for Victims of Crime American Psychological Association- Assault Prevention & Response National Institute for Child Health and Public Interest Directories Program Human Development American Professional Society on the Department of Veterans Affairs SD National Institute on Drug Abuse Abuse of Children (APSAC) Defense Centers of Excellence National Organization of Forensic Anchor Counseling and Educational (DCoE) Social Work (NOFSW) Solutions Educate to Eliminate National Partnership to End An Infinite Mind End Violence Against Women Interpersonal Violence Across the Art Inspiring Change (EVAW) Lifespan (NPEIV) Association of Family and Family Drug Court (FDC) National Prevention Science Coalition Conciliation Courts (AFCC) Fear 2 Freedom to Improve Lives (NPSC) Association of Traumatic Stress FLW Living Well Services National Safe Child Coalition (NSCC) Specialists (ATSS) Free to Thrive National Sexual Violence Resource Battered Women's Justice Project Generate Hope Center Beautiful Dying The Glendon Association New Impression, Inc. Bellows Consulting Global Exposition Specialists (GES) New Mexico Coalition Against Big Voice Pictures Alliance of Relative Caregivers Domestic Violence Bilateral Safety Corridor Coalition Hamai Consulting Nix, Patterson & Roach (BSCC) Harmonium Pacific Southwest Mental Health Break the Cycle HEAL Trafficking, Inc. Technology Transfer Center Break the Silence Against Domestic Idealist.Org Pōpolo Project Violence (BTSADV) Institute for Counseling (RESPECT Progressive Transition(s) Inc. California American Professional Parenting Class) Promoting Awareness Victim Society on the Abuse of Children Institute for Counseling of Escondido Empowerment (PAVE) (CAPSAC) The Institute on Domestic Violence in Project No Spank California Black Women's Health the African American Community Project Concern International (PCI) Project (IDVAAC) Rachel Grant Coaching California Protective Parents International Association of Forensic Rancho Coastal Humane Society Association (CPPA) Nurses (IAFN) Rural Assistance Center UND Center California School of Professional International Society for the Study of for Rural Health WCIG-Safe Psychology, Alliant International Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD) Passage University International Society for Traumatic San Diego City Prosecutors Office California Southern University, The Stress Studies (ISTSS) San Diego Youth Services (SDYS) Hect Trauma Institute Jewish Family Service/ Project Sarah: San Diego, East County Domestic Center for Contextual Change Project SARAH / (Stop Abusive Violence Council (SDDVC) Center for Grief and Loss for Children Relationships At Home) San Diego Promotores Coalition (Hathaway-Sycamores Child and JDoe Seeking Hope Family Services) Jewish Women International Shared Hope International CIRinc - Center for Innovation and Koi Global Consulting - No Longer Sonshine Community Services Resources, Inc. Victims Street Positive Chaminade University Leadership Council on Child Abuse & Stop the Silence: Stop Child Sexual Chicago School of Professional Interpersonal Violence Abuse Inc. Psychology Legacy Productions Strong Beautiful Capable Child Domestic Violence Association Legal Victim Assistance Advocates, Southern Indian Health Council, Inc. (CDV) LLC (SIHC) Life and Survival of the World NGO STM Learning Children's Institute, Inc. MALESURVIVOR Stop It Now!,Inc. Child Trauma Institute #25IVAT | #TraumaIntoTriumph | ivatcenters.org 10
Strand2 Squared - A Paradigm Shift TI & CTI - Trauma Institute & Child Urban Surf 4 Kids Solution Trauma Institute US Department of Health & Human Strategies United Nations Association: Women's Services, Office on Women's TAALK Equity Council Health Tariq Khamisa Foundation University of Illinois at Chicago- Whistleblowers of America Taylor and Francis Advanced Practice Forensic Wildflower Consulting, LLC T.E.A.M. Nurse Certificate Program (UIC YMCA Youth and Family Services The Voices and Faces Project CON) Zalkin Law Firm, P.C. Time to Heal The UP Institute Zero Abuse Project (ZAP)
Thank You to Our 25th SD Planning Committee: Andrew Pari Glenna Tinney Mary Burgess Ricka White-Soso Andrew Phelps Jackie White Melinda Oakley Sally Lokey Andy Johnson Joy Johnson-Green Michael Levittan Shay Kreuziger Arvis Jones Karen Rich Mike Hertica Susan Omilian Bea Cruz Kathleen Gorman Monica Ulibarri Tamara Hamai Bettye Mitchell Kevin Connors Morgan Shaw Teri Pokrajac Cindy Pancer Kevin Hamberger Nikoo Sadatrafiei Tom Bellows Deborah Sendek L.C. Miccio-Fonseca Olivia Rosillo Viola Vaughan-Eden Diana Barnes-Fox Linda Brown Pamela Pine Wendy Murphy Erin Taylor LisaMarie Mariglia Pearl Berman Gail Soffer Lucinda Rasmussen Raquel Buchanan Gimel Rogers Marge Michaelson Rick Kenworthy
Submission Poster Reviewers: Poster Judges: Reviewers: Hertica, Michael Barnes-Fox, Diana Bares-Fox, Diana Aud, Katherine Howell, Hannah Bellows, Tom Bellows, Tom Bahuman, Gabriela Johnson, Andy Connors, Kevin Berman, Pearl Barnes, Danielle Johnson-Green, Joy Davis, Sharon Ellis Champion, Kelly Barnes-Fox, Diana Kenworthy, Richard Douglas, Emily Hamai, Tamara Bellows, Tom Mariglia, LisaMarie Haag, Carlen Jones, Arvis Brown, Linda Miccio Fonseca, L.C. Johnson, Andy Kenworthy, Rick Brusseau, Christian Michaelson, Marge Kenworthy, Richard Lokey, Sally Burton, Nanette Morrison, Sandi Kreuziger, Shay Omillian, Susan Caro, Juliana Pancer, Cynthia Levittan, Michael Pari, Andrew Connors, Kevin Pari, Andrew Lokey, Sally Prancer, Cindy Crabtree-Nelson, Rasmussen, Lucinda Pancer, Cynthia Rasmussen, Lucinda Sonya Rosillo, Olivia Pari, Andrew Rich, Karen Douglas, Emily Shaw, Morgan Tinney, Glenna Tinney, Glenna Fagundes, Meghan Taylor, Erin Ulibarri, Monica Gorman, Kathleen Tinney, Glenna Haag, Carlen Wiedeman, Katherine Hamai, Tamara Yorke, Nada
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Sponsor
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Continuing Education
Earn up to 23.50 Credits
Continuing Education Protocols for the 25th San Diego International Virtual Summit Many of the Summit sessions have been approved for continuing education (CE) credits for Psychologists, Social Workers, Marriage & Family Therapists, Counselors, Nurses, Attorneys, Physicians, Substance Abuse, Counselors, Child Custody Evaluators, and Domestic Violence Offender Treatment Providers.
Please refer to the Summit program for the approved Summit workshops for each license. Up to 23.5 hours of continuing education credits are available during the Summit for most professions. If you are seeking pre- licensure documentation, you must also register for continuing education credits. If you are seeking session documentation for any purpose (i.e. CASOMB, NACP, IVAT Specialty Certifications, other certifications, etc.), you must register for documentation services and follow the continuing education process listed below.
The number of CE credits available depends on the professional license, what you attend, and what has been approved according to the guidelines of the corresponding accrediting agency. Please note that some sessions may not be approved for CE credits for your professional license.
Continuing Education Credits Disclosure Statement
The Summit is approved to offer up to 23.5 hours of continuing education for Psychologists, Counselors, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Attorneys and Substance Abuse Counselors. Additional CE accreditation may be available – due to accreditation procedures, we are prohibited from advertising prior to approval. CE credits approved by California agencies are accepted in most states. Different sessions meet many licensure requirements for continuing education credits for child abuse, domestic violence, ethics, aging, substance abuse, child custody, domestic violence offender treatment, and child sexual abuse.
IVAT is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. IVAT maintains responsibility for this continuing education program and its content. The California Board of Behavioral Sciences (BBS) now accepts APA continuing education credit for license renewal for LCSWs, LMFTs, LPCCs, and LEPs. IVAT is approved by the State Bar of California to offer Minimum Continuing Legal Education for attorneys (#11600). IVAT is approved by the California Association of Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Counselors (CAADAC) to sponsor continuing education for certified alcohol and drug abuse counselors (Provider #IS-03-499-0221).
The Summit presentations that meet the licensure requirements for different states:
• Ethics: A8, A9, I2, J12, K12 • Child Abuse: A4, A6, A8, B1, B4, C1, C3, C4, C5, C8, C12, D1, D3, D4 ,D5, E4, E8, E10, F3, F6, F8, F11, F12, G1, G4, G10, G12, H1, I4, I9, J1, J2, J3, J4, J7, J8, K1 K3, K4, K6, K8, K10 • Domestic Violence: A2, A6, A7, A8, A9, B2, B4, B6, B7, B8, C2, C6, C7, C8, C9, C10, D2, D6, D7, D8, E6, E8, F4, F6, F7, G2, G6, G7, G11, H6, I1, I4, I6, I7, I9, I10, J2, J6, J7, J10, K2, K4, K5, K6, K7, K10 • Substance Abuse: K6 • Aging and Long-Term Care: B2, I2 • Suicide Prevention: A1, D11, E11 • Cultural: A12, B2, C10, C12, D5, F9, H6, H7, I9, K5 • Child Custody Evaluators: A4, A8, B6, B7, B8, C2, C7, C8, C12, D4, E4, E8, F4, F6, F7, F8, G1, G4, J7, J8, K1, K4, K6 • Trauma Care: A2, A5, A9, A10, A11, A12, C1, C3, C4, C5, C6, C9, C10, C11, D1, D2, D5, D7, D8, D9, D10, D11, E2, E3, E5, F5, F9, F10, F11, F12, G2, G5, G6, G9, G10, G11, G12, H1, H2, H3, H4, H5, H6, H7, H8, I1, I2, I3, I4, I5, I6, I7, I8, I9, I10, I11, I12 • Domestic Violence Offender Treatment: A2, A6, A7, A8, A9, B2, B4, B6, B7, B8, C2, C6, C7, C8, C9, C10, D2, D6, D7, D8, E6, E8, F4, F6, F7, F8, G2, G6, G7, G11, I1, I4, I6, I7, I9, I10, J2, J6, J7, J10, K2, K4, K5, K6, K7, K10 #25IVAT | #TraumaIntoTriumph | ivatcenters.org 13
• Child & Adult Maltreatment: A2, A5, A6, A7, A8, A10, A11, B1, B2, B4, B5, B6, B7, B8, B10, C1, C2, C3, C4, C5, C7, C8, C10, C12, D4, D5, D6, D12, E4, E5, E6, E7, E8, E10, F3, F4, F5, F6, F11, F12, G1, G2, G4, G5, G6, G7, G10, G12, H1, H4, I2, I4, I5, I6, I7, I9, I10, J1, J2, J3, J4, J5, J6, J8, J9, K1, K2, K3, K4, K5, K6, K7, K8, K9, K10, K12
Psychologists IVAT is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. IVAT maintains responsibility for the program. IVAT is approved to offer up to 23.5 hours of continuing education for psychologists.
Counselors This Summit meets the qualifications for up to 23.5 hours of continuing education credit for MFTs, LPCCs, LE Ps and/or LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. The CA BBS continues to recognize the APA as an approved provider of CEs for LCSWs, LMFTs, LPCCs, and LEPs.
Social Workers (LCSW) and Marriage & Family Therapists (MFTs) This Summit meets the qualifications for 23.5 hours of continuing education credit for MFTs, LPCCs, LEPs and/ or LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. The CA BBS continues to recognize the APAas an approved provider of CEs for LCSWs, LMFTs, LPCCs, and LEPs. This Summit meets the qualific ations for 23.5 hours of continuing education credit for MFTs, LPCCs, LEPs and/or LCSWs as required by the CaliforniaBoard of Behavioral Sciences. The BBS continues to recognize the American Psychological Associat ion (APA) as an approved provider of CEUs for LCSWs, LMFTs, LPCCs, and LEPs .
Attorneys IVAT is approved by the State Bar of California to sponsor Minimum Continuing Legal Education. Up to 23.5 hours have been approved for attorneys (#11600). This is accepted in most states.
Child Custody Evaluators The course outline in the agenda for individually identified and referenced conference sessions has been approved as corresponding to subject areas specified variously in California Rule of Court, Rule 5.225, 5.215, & 5.230. The views expressed in this training are those of the trainers and do not necessarily represent the official positions or policies of the Judicial Council of California. Up to 23.5 hours toward initial training for child custody evaluators, up to 8 hours for annual child custody update, and/or up to 4 hours of annual domestic violence update training. These satisfy the requirements of the rules for identified sessions listed in this program.
Domestic Violence Offender Treatment Providers (DVOTP) IVAT has been approved by the San Diego Domestic Violence Council Treatment and Intervention Committee and San Diego County Probation to sponsor continuing education for Domestic Violence Offender Treatment Providers for up to 16 hours annual update for the Summit.
Nurses IVAT is approved by the California Board of Registered Nurses to sponsor continuing education for nurses. This Summit meets the requirements for up to 23.5 hours of continuing education for nurses (CEP#13737).
Certified Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselors IVAT is approved by the California Association of Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Counselors (CAADAC) to sponsor continuing education for certified alcohol and drug abuse counselors (Provider #IS-03-499-0219). This Summit meets the requirements for up to 23.5 hours of continuing education credits for certified alcohol and drug abuse counselors.
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IVAT Specialty Certifications Summit sessions meet many of the training requirements for IVAT Specialty Certification Programs. Specialty certification assures the consumer that specialists have successfully completed the educational, training, and experience requirements of the specialty area, and that their expertise has been objectively reviewed and documented.
Specialty Certification in Domestic Violence Offender Treatment Includes training and experience in working with both male and female intimate partner violence offenders to understand the dynamics and safety issues involved in intimate partner violence and typologies of domestic violence offenders. Specialty Certification in Child Custody Evaluations Includes an understanding of the issues of child development, parenting abilities and issues, best interests of children, and assessment techniques in general and specifically regarding child custody cases. The dynamics of legal, forensic, and mental health issues are included. Specialty Certification in Trauma Care Includes an understanding of the various forms of trauma, short and long-term effects of trauma, and assessing and treating adults and/or children who have experienced both simple and complex trauma. The dynamics of post-traumatic stress disorder are included. Child and Adult Maltreatment (CAM) (Formerly known as CAST/CAAST) Focuses on experiential, interdisciplinary, ethical, and culturally sensitive content that provides professionals with common knowledge base for responding to child and adult maltreatment. This certification focuses on development and understanding of the numerous factors that lead to child and adult maltreatment and the existing responses to child and adult maltreatment.
Virtual Poster Sessions Poster sessions offer attendees an opportunity to discuss new research, programs, and other current issues with presenters who have created visual poster displays. This year, poster presenters will participate virtually in one of two interactive sessions where they can share their knowledge and ideas with a diverse group of professionals in the fields of violence, abuse, and trauma. Posters will also be displayed on the IVATCenters.org website prior to the Summit. Three poster awards will be presented: • The National Partnership to End Interpersonal Violence Across the Lifespan (NPEIV) Founders Award: This award recognizes the poster that best exemplifies the goals of NPEIV to reduce, eliminate, or prevent violence through research, practice, policy, or advocacy. • The NPEIV Murray Straus Interpersonal Violence Original Research Award: This award acknowledges a significant contribution of original research conducted on the integration of multiple forms of interpersonal violence or original research on interpersonal violence prevention or intervention efforts. • The Robbie Rossman Memorial Child Maltreatment Research Award: This award recognizes outstanding student research that will be the future cornerstone in helping children exposed to family violence.
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Self-Care Sessions Participate in a variety of offerings intended to help you balance the intensity of the Summit with the chance to join others virtually in yoga, sound healing, somatics, awareness movement, mindfulness, energy medicine and improv! Note: Self-care sessions are included with registration and not eligible for CE credit.
Speaker Biographies
Alan Abrams, MD, JD, has spent much of his career working with the incarcerated mentally ill, and with the mentally ill in the criminal justice system. He was a commissioner for the San Diego Juvenile Justice Commission in the past. Presently Dr. Abrams serves on the board for Village of Promises, an organization in San Diego to provide assistance to the children of incarcerated parents. Village of Promises was founded by Arlene Smith and other professionals to address the unique needs of this at-risk population. Ms. Smith, Dr. Abrams, and Dr. Fred Johnson, pediatrician, believe that the cycle of damage to future generations from mass incarceration must be addressed with effective interventions. Alexis Adams-Clark, MS, a Clinical Psychology doctoral student at the University of Oregon. She received her M.S. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Oregon and her B.A. in Psychology and Gender and Women's Studies from Connecticut College. Broadly, her research focuses on the psychological and physical effects of trauma and sexual violence, as well as institutional responses to individuals' traumatic experiences. Nina Argrawal, MD, is a Board-Certified Child Abuse Pediatrician who partners with prosecutors, law enforcement, and child protective services in the evaluation of child abuse cases. She testifies in family and criminal court as an expert witness in the New York Metro area. She trains health providers in evidence-based trauma informed approach to child victims of violence and the importance of early identification to prevent lifelong adverse health consequences. Dr. Agrawal has been a steadfast advocate for children from disadvantaged, immigrant, and minority backgrounds. Most recently, she is a former Assistant professor of Pediatrics at Columbia Medical Center where she medically evaluated children for maltreatment within a special victim’s unit in East Harlem. As founder of the Gun Safety committee for the American #25IVAT | #TraumaIntoTriumph | ivatcenters.org 16
Academy of Pediatrics in New York, she was instrumental in building community coalitions and advancing gun safety legislation in New York State. As part of these advocacy efforts, she created a 3-tiered model for pediatric gun safety advocacy in the areas of clinical, community, and legislative advocacy for pediatric providers. She has done work in amplifying the urban youth voice through photovoice, violence interrupter programs, and other community outreach efforts. She is particularly interested in creating policies and practices to address exposure to gun violence in early childhood as an adverse childhood experience. She is a vocal advocate for children and most recently authored an OpEd, published in the New York Times, on how the coronavirus could result in a child abuse epidemic. Drawing on over 20 years as a front-line child abuse professional, she is spearheading innovative prevention strategies to keep children safe from abuse and violence during COVID19, including the 3 L’s social media campaign: @LookListenLoveKids. Randell Alexander, MD, PhD, is Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Florida, Chief of the Division of Child Protection and Forensic Pediatrics. He is on the International Advisory Board for the National Center on Shaken Baby Syndrome. He is the Board Chair of the Academy on Violence and Abuse. He served as Vice-chair of the US Advisory Board on Child Abuse and Neglect, was on the Committee on Child Abuse and Neglect for the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the boards of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC) and Prevent Child Abuse America (formerly the National Committee to Prevent Child Abuse). Randy has served on state and local child death review committees in Iowa, Georgia and Florida. He was chair of the Committee on Child Abuse for the Georgia and Iowa chapters of the American Academy of Pediatrics and currently chairs the Committee in Florida. He has extensive interests in all forms of child abuse, particularly shaken baby syndrome, Munchausen syndrome by proxy, prevention, and child death review. Randy has authored numerous articles, chapters, and books and lectures frequently in the US and other countries. Katherine Anderson, MPH, is a Clinical Research Coordinator at the University of California San Diego, in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Health. Ms. Anderson is a member of the iStrive Research Lab at UC San Diego, which researches syndemics, or overlapping epidemics faced by populations. These epidemics include gender-based violence, substance use, adverse mental health, and HIV among disadvantage and underrepresented populations. Ms. Anderson's research focuses on sexual violence and access to services in the San Diego area. RaeAnn Anderson, PhD, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, is currently an Assistant Professor in Clinical Psychology at the University of North Dakota. She completed her postdoctoral training at Kent State University and her bachelor’s at the University of Kansas. Her research interests are understanding basic behavioral processes in sexual victimization and sexual perpetration in order to inform sexual assault risk reduction and prevention programs, respectively. Joyell Arscott, PhD, RN, is a trauma and violence research post-doctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. She has 20 years of experience working in public health, in combination with clinical nursing and research training. Her research incorporates a health equity lens that examines the effect of cumulative trauma and the impact of social, structural, and institutional factors on the health outcomes of marginalized populations at risk for or living with health challenges such as exposure to violence or HIV. She has coordinated and implemented individual- and community-level, evidenced-based interventions for health promotion that targeted and engaged under-represented minority groups in research — especially LGBTQI and Black Americans. She has specialized skills in qualitative interviewing, group facilitation, intervention development, mixed-methods, randomized control trials, and survey design. She is working on a national study examining the effects of a harm-reduction intervention on reported intimate partner violence in immigrant, refugee, and native women. Through this project, we have established a strong network of collaborators that includes health departments, universities and colleges, community organizations, and NGO's across the nation. The research residency is providing the necessary training in violence and trauma that will allow her to develop future interventions to address the disparities in health care and interventions for marginalized abused populations. Diana Avalle, PsyD, is a licensed clinical forensic psychologist. She received her Doctor of Psychology in Clinical Forensic Psychology from The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, Los Angeles. She completed her Pre-Doctoral Internship at the Institute on Violence, Abuse, and Trauma (IVAT) and now works as the Director of Forensic Training for IVAT. Her work includes providing trauma-focused therapy to the community and conducting forensic evaluations for family, civil, and criminal courts nationally. Her clients include survivors of intimate partner violence and child abuse in shelter and community settings. Additionally, she currently serves as an adjunct professor at Pepperdine University and National University. Dr. Avalle has expertise working in a confidential emergency domestic violence shelter where she gained experience working with survivors of domestic violence who were also struggling with substance abuse. She also has case
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management experience working with formerly homeless women on Skid Row in Los Angeles in a permanent supporting housing facility. Her areas of interest include forensic assessment, intimate partner violence, and women’s/gender issues. Antonella Bariani, MA, is currently a clinical psychology PhD student at Alliant International University in San Diego. She has previously earned a master’s in forensic psychology from John Jay College of Criminal Justice, where she completed her thesis which examined community reactions to sex offender reintegration and notification laws. Broadly, her research interests pertain to trauma, multiculturalism, and forensic psychology. More specifically, she is interested in disclosures of sexual assault, sexual violence and trauma, assessments and treatment of traumatized populations, and the influence of acculturative stress on posttraumatic outcomes. She has previously presented work on the influence of insecure attachment on posttraumatic symptomology for Veterans with a history of sexual revictimization and the creation of a brief malingering screener for Veterans presenting with posttraumatic stress disorder with dissociative symptoms. Melanie Barker, MSW, MPH, is a licensed clinical social worker, certified Alcohol and Drug Clinical Supervisor, and a California Association of DUI Treatment Programs Certification Board Member. She is the Executive/Clinical Director of the SDSU Center for Alcohol & Drug Studies & Services’ Driving Under the Influence (DUI) Program, where she oversees the clinical and administrative operations. Her experience includes working for large hospital institutions, including Kaiser Permanente, UCSD, Rady Children’s Hospital, and Sharp Mary Birch Hospital for Women and Newborns, as well as small San Diego-based hospices. She has coordinated multidisciplinary statewide trainings in the areas of Family Violence, Substance Abuse, and Forensic Evidentiary Clinical Services. She has experience in bioethics consultation, curriculum development, grants writing, and fundraising. She provides clinical supervision to licensure candidates and has provided BBS pre-licensure training in Substance Use Disorders for NASW and the Los Angeles Consortium for Children & Families. Her teaching experience also includes teaching macro practice for SDSU undergraduate and graduate students. Melissa Barnes, MS, is a doctoral candidate in Clinical Psychology at the University of Oregon, where she works primarily with Dr. Jennifer J. Freyd. Melissa’s research interests include campus sexual violence, perpetrator responses to confrontations, Black women’s traumatic experiences, and discriminatory police violence. She is also concerned with the direct and indirect effects of systemic discrimination on experiences of sexual violence. Melissa is a co-editor of two special issues for Journal of Trauma & Dissociation, titled “Institutional Responses to Sexual Trauma” (2019) and “Discrimination, Violence, & Healing in Marginalized Communities” (expected publication 2021). Melissa is a Research Associate with the Center for Institutional Courage, which focuses on institutional actions that can protect the well-being of those who trust or depend on the institution. Melissa’s work on college student perspectives regarding sexual and gender-based violence reporting received the NPEIV Murray Straus Research Award at the 22nd International Summit on Violence, Abuse, & Trauma. Diana Barnes-Fox, MA, AMFT, ALPCC, has dedicated her professional career to serving persons who have suffered trauma. She has over 15 years of experience in the mental health and sexual abuse fields, working as a child abuse social worker and an advocate for victims of sexual assault, child abuse, and domestic violence and human trafficking. She is currently in private practice and working as a school therapist at Banning Unified School District in California. Diana is the former Director of Counseling & Human Trafficking Services at Center Against Sexual Assault (C.A.S.A.) and she is currently developing Beyond Parenting Classes, a sexual abuse prevention program for non-offending parents. Diana is a Board Member of the Southwest Riverside - California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (CAMFT), a recipient of the Hope Collaborative Advocate of the Year Award in 2017 and a Leader with A Window Between Worlds (AWBW) Art Transforming Trauma. She is a graduate of Brandman University with a master’s degree in Clinical Psychology with an emphasis in areas of Marriage and Family Therapy and Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor. Mary Jo Barrett, MSW, is the Executive Director and co-founder of The Center for Contextual Change, Ltd. She holds a Masters in Social Work from the University of Illinois Jane Addams School of Social Work and is currently on the faculties of University of Chicago, School of Social Service Administration, The Chicago Center For Family Health, and the Family Institute of Northwestern University. Previously, Ms. Barrett was the Director of Midwest Family Resource and has been working in the field of family violence since 1974. Ms. Barrett has authored the book, Treating Complex Trauma: A Relational Blueprint for Collaboration and Change (Psychosocial Stress Series) and has coauthored two books with Dr. Terry Trepper: Incest: A Multiple Systems Perspective and The Systemic Treatment of Incest: A Therapeutic Handbook. She co-created the Collaborative Stage Model (CSM), a highly successful contextual model of therapy used to transform the lives of those impacted by abuse and/or traumatic events. Her trainings and published works focus on the teaching of the
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Collaborative Stage Model, systemic and feminist treatment of women, adult survivors of sexual abuse and trauma, eating disorders, couple therapy, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and Compassion Fatigue. Stacy Barrows, DPT, has a Doctorate in Physical Therapy, certification in Feldenkrais and Pilates, and a thriving private integrative healing/movement practice in West Los Angeles. She specializes in trauma informed care and works well with clients with complex issues. Dipthi Battapadi, a Senior Researcher at San Diego State University’s Social Science Research Lab. She has over seven years of experience in program evaluation and survey research. Her areas of interest include sexual violence prevention, criminal justice, and STEM education. Anne Bautista, JD, is the Legal Program Director of the Access, Inc. VAWA Legal Program and SAVE Legal Network of San Diego County. She is an immigration attorney specializing in representing immigrant victims of domestic violence and sexual assault under the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). She began the VAWA Legal Program at Access, Inc. in 1997 (focused on domestic violence) and the SAVE (Sexual Assault Victim Empowerment) Legal Network of San Diego County in 2014 and has successfully represented thousands of mostly women and children under VAWA. Ms. Bautista is also an Adjunct Professor of Law at California Western School of Law (CWSL) teaching two courses: Women and Immigration Law, a course which takes a critical look at the effect of immigration laws and policies on women immigrating to the United States, and the Immigration Seminar and Clinical Field Placement: Helping Victims of Domestic Violence. In addition, she serves as President of Silayan Filipina, a women’s leadership organization dedicated to celebrating the Philippine heritage and helping women find their voice to lead and positively impact the world. She has received many awards including the 2016 San Diego Domestic Violence Council Lifetime Achievement Award, 2017 Kalusugan and Kalakasan Community Heroes Award, and the 2018 Moxie Award for women who have displayed grit and determination. Jamie Beck, JD, is the President and Managing Attorney of Free to Thrive which she founded after providing pro bono legal services to human trafficking survivors and discovering that there was not a dedicated legal services provider for trafficking survivors in San Diego. She was so moved by this experience and the need for more attorneys to help trafficking survivors that she left private practice to launch Free to Thrive. Prior to starting Free to Thrive, Jamie practiced civil litigation at Procopio, Cory, Hargeaves & Savitch LLP. Before joining Procopio, Jamie served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Michael M. Anello, Federal District Court Judge for the Southern District of California. Jamie is a past president of Lawyers Club of San Diego and founded the Lawyers Club Human Trafficking Collaborative. Under Jamie’s leadership, Lawyers Club successfully advocated for a law to help human trafficking survivors clear criminal convictions related to their exploitation, now codified under California Penal Code 236.14. Jamie is also a member of the Dean’s Advisory Board of the University of San Diego Kroc School of Peace Studies. Jamie graduated from the University of San Diego School of Law where she was a member of the San Diego Law Review. Jamie attended law school because she wanted to help others and she knew that the legal system is a powerful tool to do so. Jamie is a certified yoga instructor, avid traveler and beginner surfer. Wendy Belding, LMFT, LPCC, holds a master’s degree in Counseling Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. She is credentialed as both a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and as a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor. She has been a member of California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (CAMFT) for 18 years and in 2016 won their “Mary Riemersma Distinguished Clinical Member Award” for her work in getting Marriage and Family Therapists to be recognized as viable providers for mental health services for our nation’s Veterans. Jessi Beyer is a speaker, mental health advocate, and the author of How To Heal: A Practical Guide To Nine Natural Therapies You Can Use To Release Your Trauma. She is on a mission to help those around her feel valid, heard, and appreciated in their mental health struggles and design lives they love waking up to. Jessi has been featured in dozens of media outlets, including Best Company, Thrive Global, and Elite Daily, and has spoken to thousands of people across the country at places like Missouri State University and the Mid-America American Studies Association Conference. She holds a BA in psychology from the University of Minnesota and, outside of her professional life, is a K9 search and rescue handler and a proud pet mom. Gillian Binnie, MA, is a PsyD student at the CSPP LA campus. Her pre-doctoral clinical experience has been working with children and families at community mental health clinics around Los Angeles. She has worked with diverse family structures that have interpersonal trauma resulting in DCFS involvement. She was trained at DMH Specialized Foster Care and
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Harbor UCLA's SAFE clinic in both intervention and assessment of trauma-exposed youth. Gillian has training in EBT's like PCIT and TF-CBT that are commonly used at DMH community mental health centers. Molly Boeder Harris, MA, is the Founder and Executive Director of The Breathe Network, a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP), and an experienced, registered, trauma-informed yoga teacher and trainer (E-RYT). Her own experiences of surviving sexual trauma catalyzed her to enter the trauma healing field in 2003, beginning with her work as a medical and legal advocate with children and adult survivors, a violence prevention educator and later as a yoga instructor specializing in working with survivors of sexual trauma. She holds a master’s degree in International Studies and a Master’s Certificate in Women’s & Gender Studies, which inform the way she holds individual and collective forms of trauma and oppression close together in her work. Over the last 17 years of her career and her ongoing healing trajectory, she has found that the practices which both recognize the whole person – body, mind and soul – while also attending to the ways in which trauma and resilience manifest at a physiological level, offer the greatest possibility for embodied justice, transformation and social change. Senator Lauren Book, MEd, (D-Broward County) has been integral in the State of Florida's response to the February 14, 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. She worked with 11th grade Class President Jaclyn Corin, founding March for Our Lives advocate, to bring 100 Parkland students to the Florida Capitol in the immediate days following the Valentine’s Day massacre - resulting in unprecedented legislative and executive change including raising the minimum required are for firearms purchases to 21. As the lone legislative member of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas Public Safety Commission, Book is part of a team charged with studying every facet of the shooting and offering recommendations to the legislature for policy change. A mother of two young children, former classroom educator, and a survivor of childhood trauma, Book hopes to bring safety and healing to her South Florida community and help make the State of Florida a national model for school safety. Father Gregory Boyle, MA, is the founder of Homeboy Industries in Los Angeles, the largest gang-intervention, rehabilitation, and re-entry program in the world. A native Angeleno and Jesuit priest, from 1986 to 1992 Father Boyle served as pastor of Dolores Mission Church in Boyle Heights, then the poorest Catholic parish in Los Angeles that also had the highest concentration of gang activity in the city. Father Boyle witnessed the devastating impact of gang violence on his community during the so-called “decade of death” that began in the late 1980s and peaked at 1,000 gang-related killings in 1992. In the face of law enforcement tactics and criminal justice policies of suppression and mass incarceration as the means to end gang violence, he and parish and community members adopted what was a radical approach at the time: treat gang members as human beings. In 1988 they started what would eventually become Homeboy Industries, which employs and trains former gang members in a range of social enterprises, as well as provides critical services to thousands of men and women who walk through its doors every year seeking a better life. Father Boyle is the author of the New York Times-bestseller Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion, and Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship. He has received the California Peace Prize and been inducted into the California Hall of Fame. In 2014, President Obama named Father Boyle a Champion of Change. He received the University of Notre Dame’s 2017 Laetare Medal, the oldest honor given to American Catholics. Sara Brammer, PhD, MA, began working in the domestic violence field as a victim’s advocate in 1994. She continued working as a therapist for victims and offenders as she completed her Master and Doctoral Degrees in Counseling Psychology at the University of Missouri. While in her doctoral program her research and dissertation focused on batterer intervention treatment. She is currently the Director of Family Violence Services at Synergy Services. In this capacity she supervises the Domestic Violence Center, the Domestic Violence Housing Program, the Children’s Center, and outpatient domestic violence services. She provides frequent training on Domestic Violence and has served on a variety of local, state and national committees related to domestic violence service provisions. She also continues teaching and training students at both Park University and the University of Missouri – Kansas City and her research interests continue to focus on batterer intervention and victim services. Charles Branas, PhD, has conducted research that extends from urban and rural areas in the US to communities across the globe, incorporating place-based interventions and human geography. He has led win-win science that generates new knowledge while simultaneously creating positive, real-world changes and providing health-enhancing resources for local communities. His pioneering work on geographic access to medical care has changed the healthcare landscape, leading to the designation of new hospitals and a series of national scientific replications in the US and other countries for many
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conditions: trauma, cancer, stroke, etc. His research on the geography and factors underpinning gun violence has been cited by landmark Supreme Court decisions, Congress, and the NIH Director. With community partners, Dr. Branas led the first citywide randomized controlled trials to transform vacant lots and abandoned buildings as sustainable solutions to improving health and safety, including reductions in gun violence. He has worked internationally on four continents and led multi-national efforts, producing extensive cohorts of developing nation scientists, national health metrics, and worldwide press coverage. Chelsea Brass, MA, is a third-year doctoral student in health and interpersonal communication at the University of Texas at Austin. She is interested in the psychological dynamics of controlling relationships and understanding how these relationships differ from others (e.g. high conflict, distressed, and non-distressed). Entering the program from a previously established public health career, she hopes to eventually bring these findings back to the field to educate the public. Chelsea also holds a Master's in Public Affairs from UT's LBJ School and a Bachelor's in Global and International Studies (with emphasis on South and Central America) from UC Santa Barbara. Lauren Brennan started working with F2F in October 2019. She earned her B.S. in Community Development from Central Michigan University. Lauren has a background in education and four years of experience in the nonprofit sector working on programs, grants, volunteer coordination, sexual assault advocacy, crisis response, outreach, and marketing. Sarah Brennan is an accomplished musician and healer who combines her decades of experience, skill, and artistry to bring a unique form of care to her clients. She has recorded and performed professionally as well as treated challenging clients and excels in both aspects of the power of music with remarkable sensitivity to what is most needed in the moment. Timothy Brewerton, MD, is Affiliate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, SC, where he is in private practice. He is: Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association; Distinguished Fellow of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry; Founding Fellow of the Academy of Eating Disorders; the Eating Disorders Research Society (EDRS), and former president of EDRS and the South Carolina Psychiatric Association. He holds board certifications in general, child-adolescent, and forensic psychiatry, as well as addiction medicine. He has authored over 160 articles and book chapters and has edited/co-edited two books. Dr. Brewerton currently serves as the Director of Clinical Outcomes and Research for Monte Nido and Affiliates. He has been instrumental in exploring the overlaps between trauma, PTSD and eating disorders, as well as promoting integrated treatment approaches for eating and related comorbid disorders. Ernestine Briggs-King, PhD, is a licensed psychologist with over 25 years of experience in the fields of child maltreatment and child traumatic stress. Dr. Briggs-King is the Director of Research at CCFH; Director of the Data and Evaluation Program at the UCLA-Duke University National Center for Child Traumatic Stress; and an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University School of Medicine. Dr. Briggs-King is also a co-investigator on several multisite, longitudinal studies examining the developmental and psychosocial impact of trauma and violence. She has expertise in the area of cultural, gender, community, and systemic issues. Prior to coming to Duke, she was a research fellow at the National Crime Victims Research and Treatment Center and the Medical University of South Carolina, where she studied the impact of family violence, child maltreatment, and other traumatic events on youth. Dr. Briggs-King has extensive experience in providing, developing, disseminating, and evaluating several trauma-focused mental health treatments delivered to children, adolescents, and their families. Dr. Briggs-King is a master trainer in several evidence-based treatments. Her clinical and research interests include minority mental health; implementation, dissemination, and evaluation of interventions; assessment and screening; resiliency; reducing disparities; chronic adversity; PTSD; and traumatic stress. Dr. Briggs-King is also a Program Director with the National Child Traumatic Stress Network.
David Brown, PhD, is a U.S. Veteran with twenty-eight years of combined active duty and civilian federal service. Dr. Brown serves as the DoD Program Administrator for all Behavioral Health within the Indo-China Pacific region. He previously served as the U.S. Army's Director of Psychological Health for the Indo-Asia Pacific region and as the Behavioral Health Consultant to the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command for eight years. Dr. Brown came to the Pacific from the Office of the Secretary of Defense where he was the lead Clinical Psychologist and subject matter expert for suicide prevention. As a previous DoD lead for redeployment and reintegration, he consulted with all sixteen elements of the Intelligence Community and supplemented the speeches of the President, the First Lady, Secretaries, Senators, Congressmen, Flag, and General Officers when speaking on psychological health. He has appeared on C-SPAN, ABC News, and Armed Forces Network for his work in Bosnia, China, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Korea, Nepal, Thailand, Turkey, Vietnam, and throughout the former Yugoslavia. Dr. Brown is a recipient of the Office of Secretary of Defense Medal for Exceptional Civilian Service and is a member of the Order of Military Medical Merit. #25IVAT | #TraumaIntoTriumph | ivatcenters.org 21
Raquel Buchanan, LMFT, is a licensed marriage and family therapist in Palm Springs, CA. Raquel received a certificate in conflict management training and peer counseling in 2006 where she later went on to obtain a degree in Marriage and Family Therapy focusing on the treatment of child sexual abuse. Raquel has worked in the non-profit sector helping victims of abuse through art-based therapies realizing that prevention of abuse wasn't going to happen by focusing on the victim alone. In 2016 Raquel began working with people who use domestic violence and has presented on the topic of Trauma Informed Care in Court Ordered Treatment at two previous international summits. Raquel enjoys working with people "who don't want to be in therapy" and has developed tools to actively engage resistant clients through the use of social games. Martina Buck, PhD, has had an extensive career in the Biomedical Sciences through the University of California, San Diego. She has had decades of awards and grants that have advanced biologic research primarily focused on hepatic disorders. She holds multiple patents for her discoveries. She has had dozens of publications in peer reviewed journals and book chapters and is a known presenter in the biomedical community. She has been a mentor and a teacher to many other scientists and has served on international committees for the advancement disease related research. Kelly Buckholdt, PhD, is the National Program Coordinator for Operations and Administration for the VHA Intimate Partner Violence Assistance Program (IPVAP). She is Chair of the IPVAP National Leadership Council (NLC) Research and Evidence Based Practice Committee and a member of the Data Management and Program Evaluation Committee. She previously served as the IPVAP Coordinator at the G.V. (Sonny) Montgomery VA Medical Center where she is a women Veterans’ primary care and military sexual trauma psychologist.
Steven Bucky, PhD, is a Founder, Distinguished Professor, and Director of Professional Training at the California School of Professional Psychology at Alliant International University-San Diego. He is also the Chair of the Ethics Committee, has served as Chair of the AIU Faculty Senate, Executive Director of the Addictions Institute, and the Interim Systemwide Dean as well. Dr. Bucky was on California Psychological Association's ("CPA") Board of Directors from 1996 to 2000, on CPA's Ethics Committee from 1990 to 1997 and 2012 to Present, and President of CPA in 1997. Dr. Bucky has published more than 60 papers, presented at major conventions and has edited three books. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the California Psychological Association, and of the San Diego Psychological Association. Dr. Bucky also maintains a private practice that focuses on children, adolescents, families, substance abuse, forensics, and the assessment and treatment of professional and college athletes.
Heather Burner, as the Executive Director for the National Safe Haven Alliance, leads an extraordinary team of leaders from across the country. After working with Arizona Safe Baby Haven for 7 years and as the Executive Director for over 4 years she was sought after to provide leadership and direction for NSHA. She is a wife, mother of 3 children, and grandmother. She has experienced the tragedy through the unnecessary death of a newborn firsthand, and this life changing event propelled her motivation to save the lives of precious newborns and help parents in desperation. Heather’s commitment to the Safe Baby Haven mission and raising awareness to provide an alternative to infant abandonment has led to many babies finding forever homes, and a safe place for a parent to find care and support in a heartbreaking and at times dangerous situation. She has shown love for her community, parents and babies and is a gracious leader in the Safe Baby Haven realm. Heather is also the administrator of a comprehensive training program for healthcare systems to provide best practice and subject matter expert direction in mother and infant safety and prevention. She is now a national speaker and a voice for the voiceless, changing the tide of fear by presenting the knowledge, answers and resources to make an impact. Jacquelyn Campbell, PhD, RN, is Anna D. Wolf Chair and Professor in the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing. Dr. Campbell has published more than 250 articles, seven books and been PI of more than 12 major NIH, CDC, NIJ, DOD and DOJ grants in her decades of advocacy policy work collaborating with domestic violence survivors, advocates, health care professionals and marginalized communities. She developed and has tested the Danger Assessment, an instrument meant for abused women to more accurately assess their risk of murder by their partner or ex. An elected member of the National Academy of Medicine, the American Academy of Nursing, on the Board of Futures Without Violence, she has consulted with NIH, WHO and NGO’s on physical and mental health outcomes of GBV. Rebecca Campbell, PhD, is a Professor of Psychology at Michigan State University. She holds a Ph.D. in community psychology with a concentration in statistics, also from Michigan State University. For the past 25 years, she has been conducting community-based research on violence against women and children, with an emphasis on sexual assault. Dr. Campbell’s research examines how contact with the legal and medical systems affects adult, adolescent, and pediatric #25IVAT | #TraumaIntoTriumph | ivatcenters.org 22
victims’ psychological and physical health. Most recently, she was the lead researcher for the National Institute of Justice- funded Detroit Sexual Assault Kit Action Research Project, which was a four-year multidisciplinary study of Detroit’s untested rape kits. Dr. Campbell also conducts training for law enforcement and multidisciplinary practitioners in civilian, military, and campus community settings on the neurobiology of trauma. In 2015, Dr. Campbell received the Department of Justice, Office for Victims of Crime, Vision 21 Crime Victims Research Award. Kiesa Carbin is a CAMTC certified massage therapist. Kiesa is passionate about working with people who are seeking to restore balance in their body. Kiesa believes in the body’s ability to heal itself, with that she carefully listens to your needs while holding space for you during your treatment. She is trained in modalities including, Urban Zen Integrative Therapy (assistant with pain management), Reiki, Raindrop technique, Crainosacral therapy, Oncology massage and Manual Lymphatic Drainage. S. Giovanna Carr, MA, LMFT, is a Clinical Interventionist in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health, Department of Medicine, at the University of California San Diego. Giovanna is the Clinical Interventionist who works with the research team providing clinical training to all study staff and interventionists, facilitates intervention phase of study, provides crisis intervention and/or clinical assessment and counseling when needed, and helps to develop curriculum for the intervention group. Giovanna began her career in healthcare working in skilled nursing facilities as a Social Worker and Social Service Director. With over 10 years of experience, she went back to school to focus on becoming a licensed therapist. While in graduate school working on her degree in Psychology, she worked at Alvarado Parkway Hospital with individuals experiencing acute symptomology. After graduating, she moved on to work at a small nonprofit organization as a mental health counselor providing individual, couples, family and group therapy. Giovanna is trained in CBT, DBT, Narrative therapy, Motivational Interviewing and Solution Focused therapy. Giovanna works as a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in her private practice where she continues to use a trauma informed, strengths-based approach that is holistic, eclectic and guided by the needs of the individuals, couples and families she works with. Giovanna specializes working with individuals who are survivors of trauma. Additionally, Giovanna is an adjunct professor who has been teaching Sociology, Criminal Justice, Psychology, and Research for over 18 years. Ricardo Carrillo, PhD, is a licensed forensic psychologist in private practice. He is currently the director of a prevention and early intervention project for La Clinica de la Raza. He continues to conduct policy research for the California Endowment on disparities in Latino Mental Health and is a published author; Family Violence and Men of Color, 2008; Springer Publishing. Ronald Chambers, MD, FAAFP, attended medical school at George Washington, residency at Dignity Health Methodist Hospital, completed fellowships in Faculty Development, Program Director Development, and earned the title of Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians. He is the DIO and Program Director for the Dignity Health Methodist Family Medicine Residency Program, Chair of the Family Medicine Department, Physician Advisor for the Dignity Health Human Trafficking Response, and Clinical Faculty for UC Davis School of Medicine. Dr. Chambers has presented at over 30 national conferences, symposia, and summits on the topic of trauma and human trafficking victim/ survivor care. He is passionate about the acute and longitudinal care for patients who have experienced exploitation through human trafficking and the creation of trauma-informed, victim-centered “Medical Safe Havens” for survivors coinciding with resident physician education and training. This model of widespread care concurrently trains the physicians of tomorrow to appropriately identify, respond to, and longitudinally treat this vulnerable patient population. Dr. Chambers has worked with vulnerable populations for over 15 years. Kelly Champion, PhD, ABPP, is the sole owner-operator of Cadeus Behavioral Health where she provides treatment for children and adults and conducts court-related evaluations. She also provides expert witness testimony and consultation to attorneys across the country on child maltreatment, domestic violence, and custody issues. She is American Board Certified in Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology and presents at conferences on treating trauma, child psychopathology, and preventing violence. Kelly is an advocate for reducing exposure to violence, evidence-based treatment, and professional psychology. She currently serves on the editorial board for the Evidence Based Practice in Child and Adolescent Mental Health, as senior co-chair on the Research Action Team of the National Partnership to End Interpersonal Violence, member of the practice committee of Society for Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology and is active with Iowa Psychological Association. Prior to moving to Iowa, Kelly provided primary care psychological services in outpatient settings, with additional roles in clinical training and administration. She began her professional career at Gustavus Adolphus College (St.
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Peter, Minnesota) where she taught psychology and studied bullying in schools as well as practicing in the community. She moved onto Arizona State University at the west campus (Glendale, Arizona) where she continued her academic career. She has presented internationally and published papers on bullying in schools, child maltreatment, and parenting with chronic illness. Kimberly S.G. Chang, MD, MPH, is a Family Physician at Asian Health Services (AHS) in Oakland, California. In 2015, Dr. Chang completed the Commonwealth Fund Minority Health Policy Fellowship at Harvard, examining the role of federally qualified health centers in addressing human trafficking. Previously, Dr. Chang was the inaugural Clinic Director at AHS’ Frank Kiang Medical Center, and provided care for many commercially sexually exploited children. She trained thousands of front-line multidisciplinary professionals on the human trafficking healthcare intersection, provided invited expert testimony to the US Helsinki Commission on "Best Practices in Rescuing Trafficking Victims", serves on the National Advisory Committee on the Sex Trafficking of Children and Youth in the United States, and co-founded HEAL Trafficking. She was elected as the Vice Speaker of the House on the Executive Board of Directors for the National Association of Community Health Centers in 2018 and appointed to the American Public Health Association Committee on Women’s Rights. She was nationally recognized with a Physician Advocacy Merit Award from the Institute on Medicine as a Profession, and featured in the New York Times, U.S. News and World Report, PBS Newshour, the Sacramento Bee, and several podcasts. Dr. Chang received her BA from Columbia University, her MD from the University of Hawaii, specialized in family medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, and earned her MPH from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where she was awarded the Dr. Fang-Ching Sun Memorial Award for demonstrated commitment to promoting the health of vulnerable people. Dr. Makini Chisolm-Straker, MPH is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Queens. Dedicated to improving the wellbeing of "invisible populations," since 2005 Dr. Chisolm-Straker's research and public health work has included the topics of labor and sex trafficking, transgender and genderqueer patient care in the emergency department, unaccompanied and separated minors in emergency settings, and homeless young adults. Dr. Chisolm-Straker is interested in how primary prevention rooted in history and evidence, and understandings of systems and intersectionality of experiences leads to effective anti-trafficking action. Nancy Chontos specializes in Yoga for Seniors and those with limited mobility, providing options for each pose, accommodating people trying yoga for the first time as well as advanced "yogis" so each participant gains the most benefit. Nancy has certifications in many specialties, is trauma-informed, and makes sure that everyone has fun while ending up new and improved. Michael Chovanec, PhD, LCSW, is a professor at the St. Catherine University / Department of Social Work in St. Paul Minnesota and has taught for the past twenty-four years. Dr. Chovanec received his doctorate from the University of Minnesota in 1995. His dissertation focused on the dropout problem in domestic abuse treatment. His scholarship over the last 20 years has focused on how to best engage abusive men in the change process. Dr. Chovanec has been a clinician for the past 42 years and works part-time as coordinator and group facilitator for a county domestic abuse program which he helped develop in 1988. He is a licensed as a Clinical Social Worker, and Marriage and Family Therapist in Minnesota. Col Don Christensen, USAF (ret.) is President of Protect Our Defenders. In his role, Col Christensen has appeared regularly in broadcast and print media to advocate for rights of crime victims, including appearances on CNN, CBS, NBC, ABC, MSNBC, Fox News, and the BBC, in addition to the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Time, and Newsweek. He also serves as a pro bono attorney for victims of military sexual assault in EEO complaints, lawsuits under the Federal Tort Claims Act, and as a special victims counsel. He served as chief prosecutor for the United States Air Force between 2010 and 2014. Before that he served alternatively as trial counsel, defense counsel, and as a military judge for every year of his 23-year career in the United States Air Force. Christensen has served as an Assistant Staff Judge Advocate, Area Defense Counsel, Circuit Defense Counsel, Deputy Chief Circuit Defense Counsel, and Deputy Staff Judge Advocate, as a deployed Staff Judge Advocate, Chief Circuit Trial Counsel, and Staff Judge Advocate and as a Military Judge. He has tried over 150 courts-martial as a trial and defense counsel and has presided over 100 trials as a military judge. He was born in Sturgis, South Dakota and received his law degree from Marquette University Law School. A third generation Air Force officer, he received his commission as a second lieutenant through
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ROTC and entered active service on 15 July 1991. Christensen is licensed to practice law before the Supreme Court of Wisconsin. Janie Christensen, MSW, RSW is a clinical social worker who has worked in the field of domestic violence for 23 years. Janie supervised and later managed the domestic violence counselling programs at the YWCA Sheriff King Home in Calgary until 2011, before entering private practice full time. Janie was nominated in 2009 for the Jerry Sellinger award in Calgary for ‘outstanding work with domestic violence.’ She co-published a chapter in the book ‘What’s Law Got to do With It,’ specifically focusing on the dedicated domestic violence court system in Calgary. Janie is also a contributor to the provincial manual, ‘Violence Knows No Boundaries.’ Janie participated in numerous research projects with Resolve, Alberta. She has conducted numerous workshops for shelters and mental health professionals on ‘how’ to work with perpetrators and victims of domestic violence. Janie has also taught ‘communication’ studies within the counselling program at Mount Royal University. Janie was a co-founder with Exploring Solutions domestic abuse group counselling program for those involved with Children’s Services. Janie has been an expert witness in the court system on domestic violence numerous times as well as sees a variety of individual and family issues in her private practice. Cathy Cirina-Chiu, MA, MPH, is a dedicated and curious San Diego based researcher with over 15 years of experience providing program evaluation to government agencies, local non-profits, and university administrators in the areas of sexual violence, STEM education in underrepresented populations, youth camp programming, youth violence prevention, in-prison rehabilitative programming, and parolee re-entry. She currently directs the Social Science Research Lab at San Diego State University, and is a member of the American Evaluation Association. Kevin J. Connors, MS, MFT, is a licensed Marriage & Family Therapist in private practice in Long Beach, California and a frequent national and international presenter on complex trauma and dissociative disorders. He is co-author of Treating Complex Trauma and Dissociation: A practical guide to navigating therapeutic challenges. Kevin is a Vice President at California Southern University in Costa Mesa, California developing a global academic trauma institute dedicated to advancing the education of clinicians, first responders, and others treating interpersonal trauma. He is a Fellow and Past President of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD) and served as Chair of their Annual Conference Committee for 8 years. Kevin also serves as Co-Chair of the Institute on Violence, Abuse, & Trauma’s International Summit Planning Committee’s Adult Survivors of Childhood Maltreatment Track and as an Advisory Board Member to the National Partnership to End Interpersonal Violence. Kevin is currently exploring the how trauma impacts the developing sense of self, the role of shame and powerlessness in clients with complex trauma and dissociative disorders, as well as investigating the prevalence of dissociation among the general psychiatric population. Vanessa Contopulos, MA, MT-BC, is a singer-songwriter and music therapist. She currently lives in the backcountry of San Diego and spends her days either chasing her young daughter around her mountain community or using music to help individuals with growth and healing. On the road to helping others through music, Vanessa discovered how much music was saving her as well. She processes change, grief, love, and the everyday beauties of life through her music. Vanessa is owner of Amplify Music Therapy and has been involved with Coast Music Therapy for over 10 years, helping get after- school programs off the ground. Vanessa exudes passion, kindness and joy in everything she does. She is looking forward to meeting current clinic families to tell about the transition and welcoming in new families interested in private music therapy and adapted music lessons! After-school programs are located within the Crimson Center Building. In addition to music therapy, a full range of private therapy services are offered including speech therapy, occupational therapy, physical therapy, ABA, and vision therapy. David Corwin, MD, is board certified in Psychiatry, Child Psychiatry and Forensic Psychiatry. He is a Professor in the Pediatrics Department at the University of Utah where he directs Forensic Services. He has worked as a lecturer, consultant, evaluator and/or expert addressing child abuse throughout North America, Europe and Asia. Dr. Corwin founded the California Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (CAPSAC) and chaired the group that founded the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC) in 1986. He helped found the Ray Helfer Society in 1999 and the Academy on Violence and Abuse (AVA) in 2004. From 2009 to 2010, he co-chaired the transition of the American Medical Association’s National Advisory Council on Violence and Abuse into the National Health Collaborative on Violence and Abuse (NHCVA) on which he now represents the AVA and serves on the Steering Committee. Dr. Corwin currently serves as Board Chair of the AVA. Dr. Corwin is the Executive Producer of AVA’s Adverse Childhood Experiences Study DVD released in January of 2012 and the principal editor of the AVA/NHCVA “ACEs: Informing Best Practice,” online white paper
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that scheduled for completion in 2014. In 2012, he was re-elected to the Board of Directors of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children and currently serves as the Society’s Secretary and Co-Chair of APSAC’s Prevention, Partnerships and State Chapters Committees. He has recently begun to address the the harms associated with being a victim of child pornography and helped draft the recent APSAC policy statement on that topic. Tyler Counsil, EdD, MS, has worked over six years in both the public and private laboratory sector. His most recent venture involved working as a Forensic Scientist with the Indiana State Police, Laboratory Division. In addition to his laboratory service, Tyler has extensive experience working in post-secondary education. For over seven years, he has served as an Associate Professor for traditional and online learning platforms, with a combined five years of program development and directorial leadership experience for Child Advocacy Studies (CAST), Criminal Justice and Forensic Science programs. As the Director of CAST for the Zero Abuse Project, he assists faculty with training, development, and implementation as it pertains to CAST programming at their institutions. To date, over 80 institutions have embraced CAST as their curricular model of choice for empowering graduates with educational content that serves to develop skills and competencies pertinent to recognizing and responding to child maltreatment. Christine A. Courtois, PhD, ABPP, is a board-certified counseling psychologist who retired from 35 years in clinical practice in Washington, DC, and is now a consultant/trainer on trauma psychology and treatment. She continues to edit and write books on trauma responses and treatment. She has written numerous articles and chapters with Dr. Julian Ford, she has co-authored a book on the treatment of complex trauma and co-edited two books on complex trauma in adults and children/adolescents. She is also a co-editor of Spiritually Oriented Psychotherapy for Trauma, and author of the consumer book It’s Not You, It’s What Happened to You. Dr. Courtois was chair of the recently released Clinical Practice Guideline for the Treatment of PTSD in Adults for the American Psychological Association (APA, 2017). She is past president of APA Division 56 (Trauma Psychology) and has served two terms on the Board of Directors of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS). Dr. Courtois founded and inpatient treatment program, The CENTER: Posttraumatic Disorders Program, in DC for which she served as Clinical and Training Director for 16 years. She has received the APA Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology as a Professional Practice, the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies Sarah Haley Award for Clinical Excellence, and most recently the American Board of Professional Psychology, 2016 Distinguished Service Award to the Profession of Psychology and the American Psychological Association Division 56 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award. Jennifer Cox, MD, FAAFP, serves as Program Director, for the Human Trafficking Medical Safe Haven (MSH), a clinic model that provides trauma-informed longitudinal care and creates unique access to identified victims and survivors of human trafficking. She directs a Department of Justice (DOJ) grant that supports replication of the MSH clinic model and is director over three Statewide Medical Safe Haven clinics. She has been strategically involved in Dignity Health's human trafficking initiative since 2014, serving as a program steering committee member and formerly as a Community Health Specialist, leading efforts to support victim response and intervention, for six Dignity Health Hospitals. Jennifer has served in healthcare for over 19 years, including 5 years as an Executive Director for a non-profit community resource center and clinic. Her educational background is in Communications and Organizational Leadership, and she has a passion for supporting projects that address care for vulnerable populations including global work in Kosovo, Brazil, and Greece. She has presented on the topic of trauma-informed care, and intersections of interventional care for victims and survivors of human trafficking, in more than 15 national conferences, symposiums, and summits. She has provided over 40 CME's sessions and Grand Rounds, for a number of healthcare organizations. Sonya Crabtree-Nelson, PhD, LCSW, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Work at DePaul University in Chicago. She received her Doctorate of Philosophy in Social Work from Loyola University Chicago and her MSW from the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) Jane Addams College of Social Work. Dr. Crabtree-Nelson has over eighteen years of direct practice experience working in the areas of child welfare and domestic violence. Her research focus relates to domestic violence, trauma, and resiliency. Dr. Crabtree-Nelson has presented at national and international conferences and published articles in peer-reviewed journals on these topics. Karol Dean, PhD, is the Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at Aurora University, and Professor of Psychology. In this position, she ensures the quality of the academic programs, and of teaching and learning within the School. She has served in higher education administration for more than twelve years, and as a faculty member for ten years. She received her PhD in Personality Psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1995. Dr. Dean has published and
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presented in the areas of prediction of male sexual aggression, sexual assault reduction, campus sexual assault, assessment of student learning, women’s academic leadership, and effective teaching of psychology. Dr. Dean’s involvement with the discipline of psychology has led to positions on the Executive Committees of the Society for Psychology of Women, and the Association for Women in Psychology. In the community, she has served as Board member for organizations dedicated to women and to violence reduction. Michele DeBerry, MS, has practiced in the field of special education for the past 26 years. She is a Certified Speech Language Pathologist, School Psychometrist, and University of Oklahoma Doctoral Candidate in Education Administration, Supervision and Curriculum. Michele has a passion for educating students with disabilities, equipping parents to advocate for and support their children, as well as training teachers to be successful interventionists. As schools are experiencing significant behavioral challenges and aggressive behavior in students, it is Michele's goal to equip teachers as front-line resources while addressing the social, emotional and practical needs of teachers in this area. Walker DeKeseredy, PhD, is Anna Deane Carlson Endowed Chair of Social Sciences, Director of the Research Center on Violence, and Professor of Sociology at West Virginia University. He has published 25 books, 100 scientific journal articles and 83 scholarly book chapters on violence against women and other social problems. In 2008, the Institute on Violence, Abuse and Trauma gave him the Linda Saltzman Memorial Intimate Partner Violence Researcher Award. He also jointly received the 2004 Distinguished Scholar Award from the American Society of Criminology's (ASC) Division on Women and Crime and the 2007 inaugural UOIT Research Excellence Award. In 1995, he received the Critical Criminologist of the Year Award from the ASC’s Division on Critical Criminology (DCC) and in 2008 the DCC gave him the Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2014, he received the Critical Criminal Justice Scholar Award from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences' (ACJS) Section on Critical Criminal Justice and in 2015, he received the Career Achievement Award from the ASC's Division on Victimology. In 2017, he received the Impact Award from the ACJS’s section on Victimology and the Robert Jerrin Book Award from the ASC’s Division on Victimology. Peter DeYoung is currently a Nurse Educator with the Defense Readiness Institute in San Antonio, TX. Prior to his current job, he worked as a manager of an Emergency Department at a busy local hospital. Mr. DeYoung is a retired US Navy Nurse Corps Officer. He is a veteran of three deployments to Europe and the middle east, including time as an enroute care nurse with a surgical shock trauma platoon in Iraq and with a shock trauma platoon deployed throughout the middle-east with a Marine Expeditionary Unit. Mr. DeYoung has extensive experience in the emergency trauma field with the Navy and is focused on building resilience in active duty members and civilian healthcare workers to cope with potential traumatic events. Anthony Dishman, D-Min, is the Batterer's Intervention Program Manager for Synergy Services. He has provided counseling services for families since 2011. His work history includes 20 years of service to youth and family systems in the congregational setting prior to full-time work in the clinical setting. Tony currently serves a full caseload of domestic violence victims and offenders in conjunction with the team of professionals at Synergy. Tony is an approved trainer in the EMERGE model. Carmella Donahue serves as a Victim Assistance Specialist in Overseas Citizens Services, where she oversees policy, training, and outreach efforts to support U.S. citizen victims of crime. Carmella has been employed with the Department of State since 2004; prior to joining the Department, she worked as the Director of a Big Brothers/Big Sisters program, before serving in leadership roles with two hospital-based, forensic child protection programs. (Santa Barbara Sexual Assault Response Team; and the Chadwick Center for Child Protection in San Diego.) Carmella holds a M.P.H. from The George Washington University, and B.A. degrees in History and Spanish from Humboldt State University. She is a native of California and currently lives in Arlington, Virginia with her husband, their two sons, and one very energetic puppy. Sapana Donde, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist with 10+ years of experience working in diverse clinical and community settings with children, adolescents, adults, and families. Her specialty areas include depression, anxiety, stress, ADHD/ADD, interpersonal violence, childhood and adult trauma, acculturation and immigration, identity development, child welfare and adoption, career counseling, parenting issues, and spirituality/spiritual ambivalence. Sapana utilizes a warm, strengths-based, collaborative, creative, and flexible style. She enjoys integrating Somatic Experiencing® and an understanding of neurobiology with traditional therapeutic approaches to help clients discover and harness their innate resilient capacity to survive, heal, and even thrive after going through adverse life experiences.
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Emily M. Douglas, PhD, is a full professor and head of the Department of Social Science & Policy Studies at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts. In 2016-2017 she was a Congressional fellow with the Society for Research in Child Development, where she worked for the Senate Finance Committee and in Sen. Ron Wyden’s office. Her areas of expertise include fatal child maltreatment, the child welfare system, partner violence and help-seeking, corporal punishment, and divorced families. Her latest book is, Child Maltreatment Fatalities in the United States: Four Decades of Policy, Programs, and Professional Responses. Dr. Douglas has given invited testimony for the U.S. Commission on the Elimination of Child Abuse and Neglect Fatalities, has spoken at the Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Maine State Houses, and has served on a governor-appointed committee. Dr. Douglas is the author/co-author of four books on family policy issues and 50+ peer- reviewed publications. Antonia Drew Vann is a nationally Certified Domestic Violence Counselor and CEO and founder of Asha Family Services, Inc. (Asha), a 3-decade-old culturally specific African American domestic abuse agency in Milwaukee, WI. Asha is one of the first of its kind in the country and is an evidence-based, comprehensive domestic and sexual violence intervention and prevention agency. Asha (a Swahili and Indian word meaning “Life” and “Hope”) is a private, non-profit spiritually based agency that also works with incarcerated men and women since 1990. Asha operates Sistahs’ Café and Deli and Sistahs’ Nail and Hair Salon, micro-enterprises that are job training and job development sites. Asha’s approach is holistic also holding State license as an outpatient substance abuse treatment clinic that includes STD and HIV/AIDS education, testing and counseling. Ms. Vann, an expert on cultural competency with African American populations is a survivor who began to research and develop Asha’s programming through her life experiences, studies, and most importantly, listening to the authentic experiences of “like” women. Working directly with 1000’s of battered and abused women of all racial and socio- economic status, Asha has helped to save and change lives. Ms. Vann developed a comprehensive training manual specifically to train Asha personnel in the provision of culturally competent services. She was contracted to redesign it and is used to assist in training Healthy Start project personnel across the country to assess pregnant and post program participants for victimization. Since 1990, Ms. Vann continues to work with female survivors of domestic and sexual violence and trafficking in multiple prison systems as well as continue to provide education to groups of incarcerated men. Rene’ Drumm is the associate dean for the college of health and a professor of social work at the University of Southern Mississippi. Dr. Drumm has served in higher education for more than 20 years. Dr. Drumm holds a doctorate degree in Sociology with an emphasis in Family Studies from Texas Women’s University and a Master’s degree in Social Work from Michigan State University. Dr. Drumm has a great interest in the intersection of intimate partner violence faith, has conducted three major studies on Intimate Partner Violence in the Seventh-day Adventist Church and has published extensively in professional journals. Richard Ducote – JD, is considered a national expert on child abuse, domestic violence and child custody. Mr. Ducote has helped draft state legislation and shape Federal case law. In addition to serving as a Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Louisiana State University Medical Center, Mr. Ducote authored many articles for publications. Jorge Duran, MA, is the Chief Investigator of the San Diego County District Attorney’s Bureau of Investigation, the law enforcement arm of the DA’s office, made up of 130 investigators who are sworn peace officers. Joining the San Diego Police Department in 1987, he achieved the rank of Captain where he led the Southeastern Division and the Operational Support Divisions, attending the POST Supervisory Leadership Institute. He consults for the US Department of Justice to guide innovative and progressive police policies. Joan Durrant, PhD, is a Child-Clinical Psychologist and Associate Professor of Family Social Science in the Faculty of Human Ecology at the University of Manitoba. Dr. Durrant’s research focuses on the psychological, cultural, legal and human rights dimensions of corporal punishment of children in Canada and worldwide. She was the principal researcher and co-author of the Canadian Joint Statement on Physical Punishment of Children and Youth and co-editor of Eliminating Corporal Punishment: The Way Forward to Constructive Discipline (UNESCO). Dr. Durrant’s activities include membership in the Research Advisory Group to the United Nations Secretary-General’s Study on Violence against Children, the Research Advisory Group to the Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect, and the Research Committee of the Centre of Excellence on Early Childhood Development. Active in public education, Dr. Durrant wrote the What’s Wrong with Spanking? Brochure published by the Public Health Agency of Canada. She co-wrote the Feelings booklet for the Nobody’s Perfect program, a national parenting program for parents at-risk of violence, and the public
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education brochure, Spanking: Should I or Shouldn’t I? She also has written a book on positive discipline published by Save the Children Sweden. Donnel Ecoffey is an incredibly energetic Lakota woman who makes the students feel that they all have something special to offer. Donnel has a Bachelor of Social Work degree from Oglala Lakota College in Pine Ridge, South Dakota. She was the student advocate for Wolf Creek School when the Buffalo Room was implemented. Ms. Ecoffey is a certified Arricular Acupuncturist and is able to use seeds (rather than needles) to address student behaviors such as hyperactivity, depression, and to an extent some types of autism. Ms. Ecoffey is also learning the art of using essential oils to address some of the same concerns. Both the acupuncture and the oils made a huge difference in the classroom behavior for students utilizing the Buffalo Room. Ms. Ecoffey is currently the Federal Victims Advocate for the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Pine Ridge, South Dakota. She is in the process of transferring back to Wolf Creek School to serve the students and their parents. Ellen E. Elliott, LCAS, LPC, CCS, CSAT, is a psychotherapist and director of Four Directions Counseling & Recovery Center who has worked in the mental health field for nearly 30 years. Ellen is licensed in North Carolina as an addictions specialist, a professional counselor and clinical supervisor, and is nationally certified as a sex addiction therapist. She has specific training in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR), Emotionally Focused Therapy for couples (EFT), and trauma therapy. Ellen provides counseling in various areas including addictions, sexual issues, trauma, childhood abuse, intimacy and attachment, and relationships with a goal to assist people in addressing past trauma and creating the lives and connections they long for. In addition to counseling, Ellen is a lifelong lover of learning and culture, currently pursuing her PhD in Counseling and Human Development and completing research related to trauma experiences among indigenous populations in underdeveloped countries. Her interest in South Asia led to her study of specific idioms of distress presented among the indigenous Newar population in Nepal for the purpose of better understanding trauma responses experienced in non-Western underdeveloped nations. Ellen has used this ongoing research in her practice, her volunteer work with World Relief, and to educate practitioners from many genres who work with immigrant and refugee populations.
Mara Elliott, JD, City Attorney of San Diego, serves as chief legal advisor to the Mayor, City Council, and all City departments, and as the City’s prosecutor. She defends City taxpayers in lawsuits, and protects residents and the quality of life in our neighborhoods. She is an experienced public service lawyer who oversees a staff of legal professionals who handle over 20,000 misdemeanor cases and 200 new civil cases each year. She is the first woman and Latina to hold the Office. James Anthony Ellis, owner of Legacy Productions, is an award-winning playwright, author and videographer embracing a higher purpose to support organizations and businesses in broadcasting a message that makes a difference in our world. He filmed, edited and produced the acclaimed documentary ""Indoctrinated; The Grooming of our Children into Prostitution"" about the issues facing prostituted youth in our society. In 2019, he produced “Keeping The Peace: Emotional and Mental Wellness for all Law Enforcement.” This latter work has led to a partnership with IVAT to develop a wellness training that will be presented throughout California in 2020 and 2021.Since 1997, he's been a leader within an international men's organization dedicated to successful families, careers and communities. As a mentor, he supports at-risk youth with positive male role models through a non-profit organization “Boys to Men.” Ellis has published eight books, each focused on a different aspect of personal growth. Dorothy Espelage, PhD, is a William C. Friday Endowed Professor in the School of Education, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She is a Fellow of APS, APA, and AERA. Over the last 20 years, she has authored over 140 peer reviewed articles, five edited books, and 30 chapters on bullying, homophobic teasing, sexual harassment, dating violence, and gang violence. Her research focuses on translating empirical findings into prevention and intervention programming and she has secured six and half million dollars of external funding. She advises members of Congress and Senate on bully prevention legislation. She conducts regular webinars for CDC, NIH, and NIJ to disseminate research. She just completed a CDC-funded study that included a randomized clinical trial of a social emotional learning prevention program in 36 middle schools to reduce aggression. She received a 5-year large grant to prevent bullying and promote school safety in high schools from NIJ. She authored a 2011 White House Brief on bullying among LGBTQ youth and attended the White House Conference in 2011 and has been a consultant on the stopbullying.gov website and consultant to the National Anti-bullying
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Campaign, Health Resources and Services Administration in the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services. She is a consultant to the National Institutes of Health Pathways to Prevention Initiative to address bullying and youth suicide. Drew Factor, MD, MPH, is an internal medicine physician who worked in an outpatient clinic with Sutter Medical Group in Sacramento, CA from 1999 until May 2020. He was introduced to the science of Adverse Childhood Experiences in early 2019 which changed his thinking and approach to the field of Medicine. He soon adapted a Trauma-Informed approach with his patients, teamed up with colleagues to give talks about ACEs and TIC to leadership, staff and many of the departments within his medical group, and developed his own 8-week curriculum entitled Well Being: Being Well for his patients. He is currently a member of two TIC subcommittees, one with the California Dept of Public Health, the other with the AVA, the Academy on Violence & Abuse. His goals are to further understand how taking a humanistic, trauma-informed approach can help shape policy, transform organizational structure, and ultimately, help heal the citizens of our communities. Nikki Faddick is a Carlsbad resident and homeschooling (even before covid!) mother of three sons who inspire her activism. With a friend, she started the North County San Diego local group of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America as a volunteer lead after the mass shooting in Las Vegas in 2017. She is now serving as a volunteer co-lead for the state in community engagement. She is proud to work with an army of mothers and others working to end gun violence. Meghan Fagundes, PhD, graduated from Alliant International University in San Diego, CA, with a doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology. Prior to that, Dr. Fagundes earned her Master of Arts degree in Clinical Psychology from Alliant and her Master of Science degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from San Diego State University. Dr. Fagundes has been a California Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) since 2013 and an LMFT Clinical Supervisor since 2015. Dr. Fagundes is part of the clinical and forensic team at the Institute on Violence, Abuse and Trauma where she is the Director of Clinical Services. She specializes in providing treatment to sexually abusive youth, but her professional and graduate experience also includes individual, family, couples, and group psychotherapy with active duty military with extensive trauma, and severely mentally ill, co-occurring, conserved, forensic, and marginalized/indigent populations. For almost 15 years, Dr. Fagundes has provided clinical services across a variety of settings, including in-home, outpatient, day treatment, group home, residential, partial hospitalization, inpatient psychiatric hospital, IMD, and state prison. Her graduate and post- graduate experience includes conducting comprehensive clinical and forensic psychological and neuropsychological evaluations. Additionally, cultural sensitivity and humility are of the utmost importance to Dr. Fagundes. She has traveled extensively and has studied Clinical Psychology in India, Italy, and Mexico. Dr. Fagundes’ research publications include studies of sexually abusive youth and her TEDx presentation, “Dangerous Myths About Juvenile Sex Offenders” has been used at conferences, in classrooms, and in the media to address problematic stereotypes about sexually abusive youth. Kathleen Coulborn Faller, PhD, ACSW, DCSW, is Marion Elizabeth Blue Professor Emerita at the University of Michigan. She is also Co-Director of the Family Assessment Clinic. She has also published approximately 100 research and clinical articles and 10 books related to child welfare and child sexual abuse. Beginning in 1988, she began to gain clinical insights and to write about allegations of sexual abuse in divorce cases. She has continued to conduct comprehensive assessments, to provide interventions, to conduct research, and to write about cases involving allegations of child maltreatment and interpersonal violence in cases in the domestic relations courts. She is Principal Investigator on the University of Michigan site of National Child Welfare Workforce Institute. Beginning in 1988, she began to gain clinical insights and to write about allegations of sexual abuse in divorce cases. She has continued to conduct comprehensive assessments, to provide interventions, to conduct research, and to write about cases involving allegations of child maltreatment and interpersonal violence in cases in the domestic relations courts. David Fawcett PhD, LCSW, is VP for Clinical Programming at Seeking Integrity which develops and operates treatment programs for sex, porn and chemsex addiction. He specializes in stimulant use disorder and sexual behavior and is the author of the award-winning book Lust, Men, and Meth: A Gay Man’s Guide to Sex and Recovery. He is the host of a weekly webinar called “Addiction Q&A” and a podcast series called “Sex, Love and Addiction: Healing Conversations for Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Men” at www.sexandrelationshiphealing.com. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the 2018 NALGAP President’s Award. Most recently he co-produced Crystal City, a 90-minute documentary that follows the struggles and successes of eight gay men in recovery from crystal meth in New York.
Vincent Felitti, MD, a renowned physician and researcher, is one of the world’s foremost experts on childhood trauma. Leading the charge in research into how adverse childhood experiences affect adults, he is co-principal investigator of the internationally recognized Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study, a long-term, in-depth, analysis of over 17,000 adults. The ACE study shows #25IVAT | #TraumaIntoTriumph | ivatcenters.org 30
that humans convert childhood traumatic emotional experiences into organic disease later in life. Founder of the Department of Preventive Medicine for Kaiser Permanente, Felitti served as the chief of preventive medicine for over 25 years. Under Dr. Felitti's leadership, his department provided comprehensive medical evaluations to 1.1 million individuals, becoming the largest single-site medical evaluation facility in the western world. During this time, Felitti’s revolutionary health risk abatement programs incorporated weight loss, smoking cessation, stress management, and a wide range of cutting-edge efforts to reduce patient risk factors. Dr. Felitti also has served on advisory committees at the Institute of Medicine and the American Psychiatric Association. A noted expert on the genetic disease hemochromatosis, as well as obesity, he educates audiences around the country on these two very common, deadly maladies. A well-versed medical expert, Felitti also uses his knowledge to speak out against domestic violence and other forms of childhood trauma. Drawing on his years of experience, he has become an important voice advocating for the wellbeing of children everywhere.
Catherine Flynn, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Human and Social Sciences at the University of Quebec in Chicoutimi She is the director of the violence committee at the Réseau québécois en études féministes, and a member of the Feminist Anti-Violence Research Collective. Her researches take place within an intersectional feminist paradigm. Her studies, conducted with a participatory action research (PAR) methodology, are focused on violence against women and homelessness in terms of structural violence. Margeret Formica, MSPH, PhD, is an associate professor of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at SUNY Upstate Medical University. She holds a joint appointment in the Department of Urology and is also director of the Data and Analytics Concentration in the Master of Public Health Program, where she teaches several epidemiologic methods courses. Dr. Formica received her MSPH in Epidemiology from the Arnold School of Public Health at the University of South Carolina and her PhD in Epidemiology from Boston University School of Public Health. Dr. Formica’s research areas have included the etiology of rheumatoid arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus, as well as the epidemiology of prostrate cancer and renal cell carcinoma. Her research has encompassed the impact of mental health and quality of life on treatment choice in cancer care, as well as health outcomes among cancer patients. Much of Dr. Formica’s recent work is in the area of gun violence education and research. She has co-authored an action agenda for academic public health around the issue of firearm violence and is currently leading a national task force in collaboration with the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health to develop and evaluation curricular resources on gun violence. Dr. Formica is also working on several research projects related to the descriptive epidemiology of gun violence at the local level and the identification of individual and neighborhood factors associated with gun violence. Joy Forrest, MA, has been an advocate for victims of domestic violence since 1997 and is author of Called to Peace: A Survivor’s Guide to Finding Peace and Healing After Domestic Abuse and the Called to Peace Companion Workbook. She holds an M.A. in Biblical Counseling from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and held the position of Community Educator in a local domestic violence shelter in the early 2000’s. She has served as a biblical counselor since 2005. Her own experiences as a former victim of domestic abuse, along with her involvement with the shelter and church counseling, caused her to see a major need for churches to become better equipped to help families affected by DV. In January 2015, she helped establish Called to Peace Ministries to promote domestic violence awareness, particularly within the faith community. Joy is a Certified Advocate with the NC Coalition Against Domestic Violence. Ruben Lane Forsman is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Work at Southern Illinois University – Edwardsville. His scholarship focuses on issues related to sexual violence for trans persons and adult men as well as queer concerns in the helping professions. His goal is to expand the provision of sexual violence services and amplify the voice of underrepresented groups. Payton Francis from Parkland, FL, is 17 and attends American Heritage High School. Payton has been a competitive dancer for 9 years and has danced since she was 3 years of age. She is involved in musical theatre and was part of her school’s production of Hairspray in 2017. Payton's biggest passion is singing. She is a member of the Show Choir and Music Honors Society. In addition, she is involved in Thespians and as a freshman received a Superior rating on her vocal duet. Payton was chosen by the administration as an ambassador to represent her school and serve as a peer mentor. In addition, she is a member of the National Honor Society and Student Government. She enjoys babysitting and volunteering as a counselor at a performing arts summer camp. Payton is a member of March for Our Lives and participated in her school’s walk out for gun violence awareness. She was part of Operation Respect’s song writing collaboration in Parkland, designed to help the students heal through music. Through the performance of their own music, the group of young people aided their own recovery and also focused the attention of young people and adults around the country on the importance of ending gun violence. Payton’s goal is to continue to use her musical ability to end gun violence and promote healing. #25IVAT | #TraumaIntoTriumph | ivatcenters.org 31
Rachael Frost, a nationally recognized trainer and speaker, is a 20-year law enforcement veteran (ret.) specializing in multidisciplinary team program development, implementation, and operation through information and enterprise system management. She has investigated and testified as an expert witness in numerous cases regarding domestic violence, sexual assault, strangulation, and stalking. She has received, developed, and provided thousands of hours of training in these areas, as well as in child abuse, and threat assessment and management. She obtained grant funding for, developed, and implemented countywide threat assessment teams which encourage and incorporate the threat assessment and management of those at risk of committing targeted violence. As a training specialist, program developer, and expert witness, Rachael works across the nation with clients such as the United States Air Force, schools, corporations, law enforcement organizations, and more, focusing on creating safer environments across our communities through education and processes. She is a member of and serves on the Law Enforcement Committee for the Association of Threat Assessment Professionals and also serves as the Association’s Communications Chair. She is also a member of the California Homicide Investigators Association and the California Sexual Assault Investigators Association. She is the Chief Financial Officer for Kids Court, which aims to reduce the trauma of child witnesses and victims exposed to the court system. Rachael is part of the original Cadre of Experts for End Violence Against Women International as a sexual assault expert.
Rick Froyd, PhD, MA, has been a mental health provider for 27 years. He began as a substance abuse counselor, obtaining an MA in Counseling Psychology; emphasis in Marriage and Family Therapy. He later took his doctorate in experimental psychology. Dr. Froyd specialized in working with people struggling with addictions at several inpatient and outpatient treatment milieus. Dr. Froyd is currently appointed as an associate professor of counseling for New Mexico Highlands University. In his private practice, he is a trauma consultant for the University of New Mexico’s Office of the Medical Investigator. A recent position, clinical director of a dual program jail-based substance abuse treatment facility, served as the catalyst for the present research project – identifying a need to provide culturally appropriate treatment interventions for Native Americans attending compulsory treatment for substance abuse. Dr. Froyd’s current project is approved by the Navajo Nation Human Research Review Board. Leah Gage, MA, is an americaine française Trauma Informed Creative Movement Facilitator and Community Facilitator and Activist passionate about supporting as humans reconnect to their natural selves through practices rooted in ecotherapy and principles of regenerative living. Leah is dedicated to facilitating spaces for Healing and Connection to Self and Others through Movement, Awareness, and Shared Creative Practices. Understanding that we are all, part of nature, and seeking to be true caretakers for All of Nature. She currently provides trauma informed embodied practices with Prison Yoga Project and organizations serving individuals experiencing housing insecurity and provides trainings and facilitated experiences on Trauma informed resiliency and creativity. She has worked with the Green String Network and is currently working with San Diego Restorative Justice Mediation in Victim Offender Dialogue facilitation. During her Graduate Degree in Peace and Justice, Leah worked to bring awareness to the voices of indigenous people, for the need to decolonize spaces and for peacebuilding work to be trauma informed and supporting resiliency. Eya Garcia, JD, joined the Orange County District Attorney’s Human Trafficking Unit in December 2018. She has been a Deputy District Attorney since 1998. She is a veteran trial attorney, having years of experience in filing and prosecuting an array of felony cases. As part of the team of 5 attorneys, Eya is responsible for prosecuting cases involving sex traffickers and the purchase of children for sex. Before joining the unit, Eya was assigned to the Professional Responsibility & Training Unit. Currently, she continues to conduct numerous training and briefings on sex trafficking for law enforcement, service providers, policy makers, and the general public. She provides an effective interface with all involved agencies to prosecute human trafficking and has identified and enrolled talented staff to broaden the reach of prosecution. Eya also recognizes and advocates for the increasing need for technological solutions in the fight against crime. Eya has a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Southern California and a J.D. from the University of San Diego. Christi Garner, MA, LMFT, as a trauma expert, 20 years working with survivors and those that serve them in our communities, is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in the state of Hawaii and teaches ways to use trauma informed practices- everyday in our personal lives and in the work environment- to boost morale, focus and response time. Her expertise in areas of post-traumatic stress, military life issues, first responders, police, sex abuse/assault, and interagency collaboration helps to bring together the situational trauma with response as well as the internal understanding and foundation of working in a trauma informed way. Presentations and trainings focus on building relationships between diverse agencies, resources, programs and groups, as well as how to support each other day to day and respond well in crisis situations. #25IVAT | #TraumaIntoTriumph | ivatcenters.org 32
Jacqueline Garrick, MSW, a social worker by background, entered the policy and program management realm upon her discharge from the US Army where she had specialized in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) recovery and transition services. She has used her clinical experiences to improve quality of life programs and benefits for veterans, their families and employees. She has served in executive positions at the American Legion and the Departments of Veterans Affairs (VA) and Defense (DoD) and with Congress. She is a recognized public servant advocate with awards from several distinguished organizations. She is known for her work on organizational and professional development, coupled with resilience and prevention approaches in the workplace. When she left government, she founded Whistleblowers of America (www.whistleblowersofamerica.org) to provide peer support to those suffering the impacts of Workplace Traumatic Stress. She developed the Whistleblower Retaliation Checklist© to identify retaliation and its psychosocial impacts on employees in relation to the traumatic stressor of identity disruption. She is a published authored and international public speaker. She is a social work master’s graduate from Temple University with additional training at Johns Hopkins and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Megan Garza, MA, LMFT, is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Certified Specialty Trauma Care Supervisor with experience working in the mental health/violence against women field since 1999. She is a graduate of Pepperdine University with a Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology and Marriage and Family Therapy and University of Missouri St. Louis with a 2nd Master’s degree in Psychology as well as additional doctoral level training. She works as an individual and group therapist treating sexual trauma survivors at the YWCA Women’s Resource Center/St. Louis Regional Sexual Assault Center. Megan also works for Behavioral Health Response as a Mobile Outreach Crisis Counselor performing suicide and homicide crisis assessments, providing stabilization support in the community, and facilitating inpatient psychiatric hospitalization admission, when necessary. She is a Board Approved Clinical Supervisor for the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (AAMFT) and she provides trauma related consultations to other professionals. She is an active member of the St. Louis chapter of the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists. Megan has spoken at National conferences on sexual trauma and PTSD and has published research in the area of sexual trauma, weight, and sexual behaviors. Her specialty areas include: sexual trauma, PTSD, women’s issues, crisis intervention, and children and adolescents. Megan is a long-time mentor with Big Brothers Big Sisters and volunteer with the Humane Society of Missouri. She plays an active role in grassroots social justice movements. Robert Geffner, PhD, ABN, ABPP, is President and Founder of IVAT, a nonprofit international resource, training and direct services center, formerly known as the Family Violence & Sexual Assault Institute (FVSAI). He was a Professor of Psychology at University of Texas-Tyler, now a Distinguished Research Professor of Psychology at Alliant International University in San Diego, and editor of four professional peer reviewed journals. He has a Diplomate in Clinical Neuropsychology from the American Board of Professional Neuropsychology, and is Board Certified in Couple & Family Psychology from the American Board of Professional Psychology. He is a licensed clinician (Psychologist in CA and in TX, and Marriage & Family Therapist in CA) and directed a full-service private practice mental health clinic in East Texas for over 15 years prior to relocating to California 20 years ago. He has lectured and trained extensively nationally and internationally for over 35 years on the subjects of child abuse, domestic violence, trauma, forensic psychology, child custody, expert witness, human aggression, sexual assault and abuse, long term effects of adverse childhood experiences, the effects of abuse and victimization on the brain, neurobiology of trauma and aggression, interpersonal violence and abuse in criminal, civil, and family court cases, issues of victimization and offending for civil and criminal cases, and diagnostic assessment. He has presented over 500 keynote addresses, plenaries, workshops, and seminars at international, national, regional, and state conferences. He has written, edited, co- authored, or co-edited over 100 published professional books, chapters, journal articles and technical reports on a variety of topic areas noted above. Elizabeth Gilchrist, PhD, MPhil, MA, is Professor of Psychological Therapies at University of Edinburgh. She is a fully Chartered Psychologist, HCPC Registered Forensic Psychologist, Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society and a Fellow of the Higher Educational Academy. She has worked in academia and practice in forensic psychology, primarily focusing on forensic psychology, risk of violence, particularly intimate partner abuse, for over 30 years. She has undertaken work exploring correlates of IPA and developing innovative interventions for IPA, including integrated IPA and SUD intervention (ADVANCE); a parenting intervention (ALBA) and training to increase multi-disciplinary interventions for IPA across Europe. She is a fully qualified practitioner with 15 years experience as a member of two Parole Boards with significant practice experience in risk assessment and justice based interventions, particularly for IPV, in Probation, Criminal
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Justice Social Work and in Substance Use settings. She is a She is trained in a range of risk assessment tools HCR-20, RSVP, SRP, DA, MEGA and is a trainer on the SARA v3., She is currently Chair of the Scottish Advisory Panel for Offender Rehabilitation, Chair of the Division of Forensic Psychology for Scotland, and an International Research Fellow for IVAT. She is currently working with the Council of Europe on projects for vulnerable prisoners in Greece and Moldova. Kia Glosson is an advocate and community educator at Tedi Bear, a child advocacy and treatment center for children that have been abused or maltreated. Since 2018, she has been the heartbeat of BRACE and has built relationships with community members that have made BRACE what it is. She is a trainer for Resources for Resilience as well as a "Darkness to Light" trainer which trains childcare and other facilities in the community how to recognize the signs of child abuse. She is currently working on her master’s degree at ECU in Social Work. Jeoffry Gordon, MD, after retiring from 40 years private practice in family medicine has four years experience with violence while working in a clinic for the homeless. Dr. Gordon founded and was medical director of two community clinics. He founded and was medical director of two hospital transitional care units. He spent eight years on California's Medical Licensing Board providing regulation and disciplining physicians and eight other medical professional categories. He held a position as staff bioethics consultant at a large community hospital. Dr. Gordon is currently on California's Citizen Review Panel for Critical Incidents (fatalities due to child abuse). Kathleen Gorman, BSc, LLM, MSW, RSW, CTTS, SEP is a consultant, trainer, trauma therapist and university sessional instructor. She has worked in the fields of trauma, mental health/addictions, and domestic/sexual violence for 38+ years. She is an MSW in clinical practice, a Certified Trauma Treatment Specialist, and a Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner and SE Assistant (for all 3 levels). She practices within a holistic framework incorporating healing arts and somatic therapy approaches with contemporary modalities and Indigenous ways of healing. She provides training in self-care practices, trauma-informed care, and impacts of colonization on Indigenous Peoples. Betsy Goulet, EdD, MS, is a Clinical Assistant Professor and Director of the UIS Child Advocacy Studies Program (CAST) in the College of Public Affairs and Administration. For over thirty years, Dr. Goulet has worked in child protection, serving as the founding director of the Sangamon County Child Advocacy Center and working as the Children’s Policy Advisor to the Illinois Attorney General. She also started the State Chapter of Children’s Advocacy Centers in Illinois and served as the organization’s first president. Through a contract with Illinois Department of Child and Family Services, Dr. Goulet developed a new model for child protection training that emphasizes experiential learning and the use of a Residential Simulation Lab and mock courtroom on the UIS campus. She has presented nationally and internationally on the Child Protection Training Academy and has consulted with several states who are interested in replicating the model. Paul Greenwood, JD, a retired Deputy District Attorney, was a lawyer in England for 13 years. After relocating to San Diego in 1991 he passed the California Bar and joined the DA's office in 1993. For twenty-two years Paul headed up the Elder Abuse Prosecution Unit at the San Diego DA’s Office. In 1999 California Lawyer magazine named Paul as one of their top 20 lawyers of the year in recognition of his pioneering efforts to pursue justice on behalf of senior citizens. He has prosecuted over 750 felony cases of both physical, sexual, emotional and financial elder abuse. He has also prosecuted ten murder cases, including one death penalty case. In March 2018 Paul retired from the San Diego DA’s office to concentrate on sharing lessons learned from his elder abuse prosecutions with a wider audience. In October 2018 he was given a lifetime achievement award by his former office. Paul now spends much of his post retirement time consulting on elder abuse cases and providing trainings to law enforcement and Adult Protective Services agencies across the country and internationally. He is also involved as the criminal justice board member of National Adult Protective Services Association. Tamara Hamai, PhD, is President of Hamai Consulting and has been working in evaluation and research since 2001. She has dedicated her career to rebuilding our global systems to encourage the optimal development of children, from prenatal through the completion of higher education - especially those who are most vulnerable and facing the greatest challenges. She founded Hamai Consulting in 2010 as a platform to empower organizations to make a bigger difference in families’ lives and attract more funding. Her work spans many topics, such as education, child welfare, and parenting. Recently, she collaborated with Dr. Felitti to co-author the chapter on Adverse Childhood Experiences for the upcoming Handbook on Interpersonal Violence. In addition to NPEIV, she volunteers with the Institute for Violence, Abuse, and Trauma (IVAT), serves as voluntary leadership for groups within the American Evaluation Association, and reviews articles for multiple academic journals.
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L. Kevin Hamberger, PhD, has worked in the field of intimate partner violence for over 35 years. He has published research on batterer characteristics, treatment program evaluation for male batterers, prevalence of IPV victimization among primary care patients, systems change to facilitate physician screening for IPV, studied gender-based motivations for perpetrating IPV. He has also led local CCR efforts and both led and was a member of the Wisconsin Governor's Council on Domestic Abuse for 25 years, evaluating policy, legislation, and budgetary programming or domestic violence advocacy and intervention. He has published over 120 journal articles and chapters, and six books. Kathryn Hamel, PhD, is the Vice President of Leadership Development at California Southern University. She has twenty- four years of law enforcement experience and over seven years of specialized experience investigating intimate partner violence, child abuse and sexual assault. Dr. Hamel has served as an adjunct professor at Golden West College in Huntington Beach. She has also developed curriculum on behalf of California State University, Long Beach and has provided training to police officers, student affairs officials and athletics staff related to sexual assault response for first responders. She currently acts as an advisor to Peace Officers Standards and Training (POST) related to the revision of sexual assault and child abuse training curriculum for the POST Basic Police Academy. Dorian Harris is a third-year doctoral student in the Communication Sciences and Disorders department at Howard University. Dorian's clinical and research work focuses on addressing the social impairments of men who perpetrate intimate partner violence as well as the impact of exposure to domestic violence on language development in African- American children. April Harris-Britt, PhD, is a licensed psychologist who maintains an active practice while also engaging in research and teaching at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Fielding Graduate University. In addition to providing child, adolescent, adult, and family therapy for the past 17 years, Dr. Harris-Britt conducts comprehensive psychological evaluations and forensic evaluations. Specific areas of expertise include trauma and violence, adoption and attachment, medically fragile children, divorce transitions, ADHD and learning disabilities, autism spectrum disorders, and multicultural issues. Dr. Harris-Britt utilizes a systems approach to wellness that incorporates developmental, psychological, and social strengths in assessment and treatment. She is currently a member of the Board for the Center for Cooperative Parenting, APA Advocacy Coordinating Committee, APA Working Group to Review Scientific Literature for High Conflict Family Relationships and AFCC Task Force on Model Standards of Practice for Child Custody Evaluations. Abigail D. Hazlett, MA, is a victim advocate and researcher. She received her bachelor's degree in Sociology from St. Edward's University in 2012 and will complete her master’s degree in Communication Studies in August 2020 at the University of Texas at Austin. In Fall 2020, Abigail will begin her doctoral work, focusing on social support in the context of complex trauma, complex trauma’s impact on victims and their relationships, and understanding violence as a phenomenon embedded in communities. Abigail comes from a community organizing background, previously working to create Sexual Violence-Free Austin, a community organization focused on education, prevention, and advocacy for victims of sexual violence. She has presented her work in a variety of settings, including academic and practitioner conferences and lectures, radio interviews, and community education events. She also served as a research assistant for Human Trafficking and Human Rights, a textbook published in 2013. Michelle Heater, MA, is a Program Director with Wayfinders (formerly CSP) Victim Assistance Programs, Orange County’s designated victim service provider. Ms. Heater oversees the 24-hour victim services response units, including Sexual Assault, Gangs, Human Trafficking and Crisis Response. Ms. Heater is also part of the Crisis Response Team, providing direct assistance and support to victims of crime. Previously, Ms. Heater was a Foster Family Agency (FFA) social worker and provided direct services to child victims of abuse that had been removed from their families of origin. It is as a social worker that Ms. Heater found a true passion for working with and advocating for youth. Throughout her career, Ms. Heater has provided presentations and trainings. In her current role, Ms. Heater provides trainings throughout California in the areas of domestic violence/interpersonal violence, victim services, and Human Trafficking. Christy Heiskala is a victim advocate whose personal experience propelled her to fill a void she personally experienced during civil litigation and criminal prosecution for the molestation of her daughter. Christy received her victim advocacy training through the Department of Justice Office for Victims of Crime Training and Technical Assistance Center. Christy has worked directly with victims and civil litigators to bring trauma-informed, victim-centered, and culturally humble best practices for survivors. Christy has been paving the way for civil litigators to use victim advocates for a decade. Christy is currently a Certified Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence counselor through California Office of Emergency Services, a
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Sexual Assault Response Team (SART) advocate, and member of the San Diego Trauma-Informed Guide Team. Christy has served as the co-chair of the Lawyers Club Human Trafficking Collaborative Survivors Services Committee and as a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) for foster kids. Christy works for The Pride Law Firm as a Survivor Advocate, helping survivors of sexual assault and child sexual abuse get the resources they need to heal and move forward. Satya Hinduja, MA, is a multidisciplinary sound artist working with a range of musical instruments, voice, and experimental electronic composition for spatial sound environments. Helping bridge ancient practices of sound and energy medicine with emerging technologies, her work seeks to redefine the transformative power of sound. The capacity of certain tones, physical spaces and symbolic interventions intend to sensitize the receptive listener. Her process demands a specific state, one that contains a ritualistic power, suffused with energies that sit beyond the rational mind. Merging her mother culture’s origin of meditative sound and her passion for experimental electronica, Satya creates Alchemic Sonic Environments (ASE): site specific, multi-sensory deep listening experiences designed to invoke states of reflection, receptivity, and exchange. Satya's study of the Yoga Sutras, Vedic philosophy and ancient wisdom inspire the symbolism present within the work. Influenced by the metaphysical Hindu concept of Nada Brahma (the primal sound of being), Satya researches the essence of resonance to develop ways of listening that lead to the neuronal regeneration of the intelligent body. Since 2011, she has been researching and developing the ASE Method, collaborating with artists, neuroscientists and healing arts practitioners while exhibiting at various platforms such as Sages & Scientists Symposium, TEDx, Berklee India Exchange and the International Yoga Festival. She is a formally trained musician with a Bachelor of Music in Film Scoring from Berklee College of Music (Boston) and a Masters in Electronic Music Production from Dubspot (NY).
Neva Ingalls is known as a teacher's teacher and is C-IAYT and Director of Inner Domain Healing Arts Trainings. Her experience in healing arts, movement, yoga and meditation spans 40 years. Tasha A. Jackson, LCSW, is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 10 years of experience in treating children and families with a history of trauma, currently serving as a program supervisor and trauma therapist for the Gulf Coast Children's Advocacy Center Trauma Therapy Treatment Team in Panama City, Florida. While she specializes in treating children with trauma (sexual abuse, physical abuse, maltreatment and neglect) and attachment disturbances, she also oversees the treatment for adult survivors of child sexual abuse and recent sexual assaults. Tasha is certified in Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), Tramaplay, and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). Tasha has dedicated herself to empowering and healing survivors of child abuse and sexual violence. She has testified in court as an expert witness multiple times on the topic of delayed disclosures of child sexual abuse and the impact of trauma on children. Tasha graduated from Florida State University’s College of Social Work, earning both her Bachelor and Masters degrees. She understands the importance of the Social Work profession and has supervised multiple college interns from various national universities.
Brooklyn James is an author, singer-songwriter, speaker, and survivor. Her first book, The Boots My Mother Gave Me, was inspired by overcoming an abusive childhood. For the past ten years, it has been her honor to advocate for awareness, education, and change in presenting to children, adults, and professionals in schools, psychiatric centers, and organizations such as Dress for Success, Yellow Ribbon, American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, Community Action, Domestic Violence Task Forces, and the 17th Annual IVAT Conference. Her latest book, Born in the Bed You Were Made: One Family's Journey from Cesarean to Home Birth, addresses choice, rights, and accessibility in birth, and is a testament to how past trauma can trigger future trauma responses. From this experience emerged a Writing Workshop that offers processing, healing, and closure that Brooklyn has presented to groups and organizations such as the natural parenting convention MommyCon and International Cesarean Awareness Network (ICAN). Major Kamy Jenkins, LCSW, is a Mental Health Flight Commander for the United States Air Force. She has been in the military for 17 years, working in military mental health for 10 years. The first part of her military career was spent working in military research programs. Maj Jenkins has experience with trauma training and interventions, suicide prevention and outreach programs. Prior to the military she worked within her community Mental Health Mental Retardation (MHMR) Center as a Case Manager and a Crisis Intervention Specialist. Andy Johnson, PhD, teaches at Bethel University in the undergraduate program in psychology. In addition, he teaches a course on genocide in the general education curriculum. His research interests are in the areas of gender violence prevention and the intersection of religion, culture, race, national origin, immigration status, sexual orientation, and gender #25IVAT | #TraumaIntoTriumph | ivatcenters.org 36
identity with interpersonal violence. He earned an MA and Ph.D. in counseling psychology from the University of Notre Dame. A volume he edited, Religion and Men's Violence Against Women, and a volume he co-edited with Ruth Nelson and Emily Lund, Religion, Disability, and Interpersonal Violence, are available through Springer. Violence Against LGBTQ+ Persons was co-edited by Emily Lund, Claire Burgess, and Andy. It is expected to be released later this year. Andy is on the Board for the National Partnership to End Interpersonal Violence (NPEIV), where he currently serves as Junior Co-Chair of the Training and Mentoring Action Team. He is a past Member-at-Large for Division 36: Society for the Psychology of Religion and Spirituality of the American Psychological Association. Recently, Andy served as a member of the Olmstead Specialty Committee for the State of Minnesota. Arvis Jones, MA, was the first African American Music Therapist employed by Arts & Services for the Disabled and the first Music Therapist at the Los Angeles Child Guidance Clinic, where she developed a program to address the emotional and environmental needs of children and youth ages 2½ to 22 years. Arvis has worked with children and youth with dual diagnosis and has practiced Music Therapy with seniors, stroke clients, Alzheimer patients and other diagnoses, not limited to but including, Cerebral Palsy, depression, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Sickle Cell. After her son, Damon Jones Sir’s death in 2008 by mistaken identity, she developed a grief and loss program that was used in nine middle schools of LAUSD, and is currently working on a Grief and Loss program for adults. She collaborates with the Los Angeles Police department at crime scenes. She is a national board member of The National Association of Negro Musicians (NANM), a member of Musicians-In- Action, a member of American Music Therapy Association, a former member of ADEC, a member of the Watts Gang Task Force, Cease Fire, and a member of the Top Ladies of Distinction (TLOD), Top Teens Advisor. Arvis has been honored by Senate District 25 as a “Distinguished Women” for her effective work in the Los Angeles Community. She was honored as Council District 15 “Pioneer Woman” by the Commission on The Status of Women in Los Angeles, she was a 2018 Sheroe for Council District 9, in 2019, received a commendation from LA District Attorney’s Bureau of Victim Services, an award from the NAACP Youth Council for her work with children and a Commendation from The Los Angeles Board of Supervisors for her community work. She currently teaches general music to 7 kindergartners classes in two Compton elementary schools. Renee Joseph, MA, is currently a PhD student in clinical psychology at Alliant International University, San Diego Campus. She earned her Master of Arts in Forensic Psychology from John Jay College of Criminal Justice in 2018. Renee’s research interests currently focus on sexual violence prevention in academic institutions and the improvement of intervention strategies to better protect students. As Secretary for the Association for Black Psychologists Student Circle, she works alongside her peers to raise the concerns of ethnic minority students on campus, as well as promote multicultural professional training and research development for students. In particular, her efforts are centered on developing opportunities for students of color to become more involved in research and present at research conferences. Shyamala Karuvannur, MD, is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at UCSD, and has worked as Staff Physician and Womens' Health Liaison Department of Veterans Affairs since 2000. She has been researching Military Sexual Trauma since 2000. Besides taking care of Veterans in clinic settings she teaches UCSD medical students and Residents. Dr. Karuvannur has presented on the topic of Military Sexual Trauma multiple times at IVAT conferences in San Diego and also at other conferences like ISTSS. Before she came to San Diego, she was the Medical Director of Women’s Health, VA Hospital Northport, New York. She has presented at National and International Forums on the subject of Military Sexual Trauma. Prior to coming to the US in 1995 she was a Consultant OBGYN in Saudi Arabia and India for seven years. Her dual Board Certification in Internal Medicine and Obstetrics and Gynecology gives her an unique advantage in patient care and teaching future doctors. Dr. Karuvannur is an ACP and ASIM member and she has been a member of SGIM in the past. She is a passionate advocate for the cause of underprivileged children and plans to devote most of her time to improve their lot once she retires. She also cares about social justice for all and hopefully will have the opportunity to fight injustice on a bigger platform one day. Other than Military Sexual Trauma she is also involved in Cardiovascular and Endocrine Research. Patricia K. Kerig, PhD, received her doctorate from the University of California at Berkeley in and currently is a Professor in the clinical psychology program at the University of Utah. She is the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Traumatic Stress and is the author of over 120 peer reviewed papers, books, chapters, and journal special issues devoted to understanding the factors that predict risk, recovery, and resilience among children, adolescents, and families coping with adversity and traumatic stress. Her current research is focused on investigating the mechanisms accounting for the link between trauma and delinquency. Dr. Kerig also is a co-Director of the Center for Trauma Recovery and Juvenile Justice, a National Child
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Traumatic Stress Network center whose mission is to develop and disseminate trauma-informed assessment and intervention strategies to the systems that serve at-risk youth, while protecting staff from the potential adverse effects of secondary traumatic stress. Azim Khamisa is an international speaker, bestselling author, and peace advocate. Hailed by dignitaries such as the Dalai Lama, Former President Bill Clinton, and Former Vice President Al Gore, Azim carries his inspirational message of forgiveness, peace, and hope. Following the loss of his only son Tariq, Azim chose the path of forgiveness and compassion rather than revenge and bitterness, and this choice led to the establishment of the Tariq Khamisa Foundation and the subsequent forgiveness moment. Tasreen Khamisa, MS, is the Executive Director for the Tariq Khamisa Foundation (TKF), a San Diego nonprofit with a mission to create safer schools and community through educating and inspiring children in the restorative principles of accountability, compassion, forgiveness, and peacemaking. For over twenty years, TKF has partners with dozens of local school districts and numerous public and private community organizations to successfully reach over 500,000 children to guide them in making healthy, nonviolent choices. TKF’s innovative services promote learning through forgiveness and are proven effective in positively impacting youth’s behaviors, increasing their educational opportunities, and improving school climate. She has twenty years of administrative experience in program management, daily operational oversight, staffing and supervision, fiscal control, and board development. As an educator, Tasreen is a dynamic public speaker and facilitator. She has been instrumental in the development of TKF’s educational programming designed to teach and support healthy social-emotional development especially with vulnerable, at-risk youth populations. Currently Tasreen has a very involved role within the Restorative Schools Coalition that is driven to introduce and expand effective restorative practice programs in schools across the country. Through her commitment, perseverance, and leadership qualities, Ms. Khamisa has led TKF in becoming a nationally acclaimed and recognized organization. Shena Kitt has worked as a domestic violence advocate at certified domestic violence centers across Florida for over a decade, where she chaired local level coordinated community response teams to address intimate partner homicide and economic justice for survivors of domestic violence. She is currently the Community Response Coordinator at the Florida Coalition Against Domestic Violence, overseeing multiple projects designed to reduce intimate partner homicide, support rural communities, and strengthen community collaborations through enhanced perpetrator accountability techniques to increase survivor safety across systems. She has conducted training on intimate partner violence homicide, safety planning, risk assessments, child welfare, marginalization, coordinated community response, advocacy, and primary prevention to multi-disciplinary audiences throughout the state and at national conferences. Sonia Konrad, JD, is an activist, attorney, and educator on domestic violence issues and legal remedies for immigrant survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking. She is a national and international speaker on women’s rights working in Peru, Guatemala, Mexico, Costa Rica and all over the USA. Through her work Sonia strives to promote the organization and leadership of immigrant survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault. Sonia is the author of Rompiendo el Silencio, Defensa y Promoción de la Mujer Latina and the co-author of many legal advisories that have been published by the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA). Sonia has also founded many non- profit organizations such as ASISTA Immigrant Assistance for immigrant survivors, a nationwide program that provides immigration technical assistance to front line advocates and attorneys, MUNA, the first Immigration Legal Clinic under the Iowa Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Latinas Unidas por un Nuevo Amanecer, the first domestic violence program assisting Latinas and directed by Latinas, Latina Leadership Initiative of Greater Des Moines, a non-profit organization that works with young professional Latina women on leadership support and development. Sonia has successfully represented thousands of immigrant survivors during her more than 24 years of legal defense. She is the advisory member of Casa Esperanza, and has been a board member of multiple national organizations including Battered Women Justice Program, NNTEVAW etc. Lesley Lambo, PhD, is an Australian researcher working at Concordia University, Montreal in Canada. She is also a part- time faculty member who teaches courses in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. Dr. Lambo has worked in the field of intimate partner violence from the perspective of both male and female perpetrators in Nigeria, the United States and Canada. Her most recent research project was a qualitative study of female perpetrators of intimate partner violence, including in-depth interviews with women who identified as primary aggressors within their intimate relationships. She is
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currently working on a project related to notions of motherhood and intimate partner violence and is also involved in a number of research projects related to gender, gambling and violence. Jennifer Langhinrichsen-Rohling, PhD, is a Full Professor of Psychology, a licensed Clinical Psychologist, and a core member of the Clinical Health and Community Concentrations of the Health Psychology Doctoral Program at UNC- Charlotte. Across the past 30 years, her research and clinical expertise has focused broadly on violence, (perpetrated against self and other). She has published over 175 peer reviewed articles and book chapters on these topics. Dr. L-R has a specific focus on understanding intimate partner abuse, particularly as it occurs in adolescent relationships. She has worked closely with a number of community partners to study the effectiveness of batterer intervention programs, develop a typology of abusers, and determine the shared risk and protective factors associated with the perpetration of intimate partner violence, stalking, and cyber-abuse in adolescents and adults. She also developed an intervention program for at- risk pregnant females that was shown to reduce the occurrence of IPV. This program was then reworked, using a community-based participatory research framework, to be suitable for males involved in the juvenile justice system. Dr. L- R’s recent work has centered on IPV prevention and the dissemination of the principles of trauma-informed care into police practices, nursing training, and work with vulnerable populations. Kathryn Laughon, PhD, MSN, earned her bachelors and masters in Nursing from the University of Virginia and her PhD from Johns Hopkins University (the latter in 2004). She has focused her practice and research on issues of violence against women. Laughon has served as PI on research projects funded by the National Institute for Justice, the National Institutes of Health, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the American Nurses Foundation. Laughon is a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing and for chair of the Academy’s Expert Panel on Violence as well as past president of the Nursing Network on Violence against Women, International. Laughon works clinically as a forensic nurse examiner (since 1998) and provides expert testimony in state and federal court. Stacie LeBlanc, JD, MEd, is the co-founder of The Up Institute and the President of American Professional Society of Abuse on Children (APSAC). She is a passionate advocate for children and an attorney with a Master’s Degree in Education. After 29 years of responding to child abuse first as a supervising prosecutor of a child abuse unit that maintained a 94% conviction rate and secondly as an executive director of two child abuse non-profits, the New Orleans Children’s Advocacy Center and the Audrey Hepburn CARE Center, Stacie moved upstream to solve child abuse providing consultation and trainings. She has created sought after programs including Beyond Mandatory Reporting; Dear Parents; Teens, Sex, and the Law; and Painless Parenting. Stacie has provided over 750 interactive trainings for more than 53,500 individuals focused on translating research into successful practice. Stacie has published books for families and articles on the benefits, evaluation, and implementation of No Hit Zones. Stacie chairs the National No Hit Zone Committee for the National Initiative to End Corporal Punishment and serves on the National Review Board for the US Catholic Bishops. She has received numerous awards including Outstanding Prosecutor, FBI Director’s Community Leadership and Champion for Children for successfully passing 11 legislative bills. Beyond family and pets, Stacie’s greatest joy is inspiring undergraduates with a highly-rated ACEs CAST course at Tulane University. Gregory Leskin, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist and serves as Director for Military and Veteran Families Program at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)/Duke University’s National Center for Child Traumatic Stress. In this capacity, Dr. Leskin directs the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) Military and Veteran Families Program to provide education, training, and resources on military culture, screening, assessment, and evidence-based interventions to the military, the VA, and community-based behavioral health providers throughout the United States. Dr. Leskin is the principle program developer and Director for the NCTSN/DoD Academy on Child Trauma, an online training and social media platform developed to train DoD Family Advocacy Program staff clinical skills related to child trauma and behavioral health prevention for military families and children. Previously, Dr. Leskin has worked as a Clinical Researcher and Director of Clinical Training at the National Center for PTSD, Stanford University and the VA Palo Alto Health Care System. He completed a National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) post-doctoral fellowship at the National Center for PTSD at the Boston VA Medical Center. He has contributed to multiple national, state, and local initiatives to support service members, veterans, and their families, including the U.S. Marines, U.S. Navy, U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force and the Department of Veteran Affairs. Dr. Leskin has written, consulted, and lectured extensively on a number of clinical topics, including assessment and treatment for combat-related PTSD, impact of deployment on families and children, and promoting psychological resilience.
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Michael Levittan, PhD, is an accomplished and recognized expert on domestic violence, anger management, child abuse, trauma and PTSD. He is a licensed psychotherapist, director of T.E.A.M. - a state-certified batterers’ treatment program, serves as an Expert Witness in court, teaches seminars and courses at UCLA Extension, National Alliance on Mental Illness, International Summit on Violence, Abuse, and Trauma, L.A. Superior Court, Inter-Agency Council on Child Abuse and Neglect, California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, U.S. Marines, Women’s Shelters, etc. His media work as an expert includes the Tyra Banks Show, ABC-TV News, Starting Over, Bad Girls Club, Montel Williams, Robert Irvine Show, Politico.com, Hollywood 411, and radio, on-line, and print publications. Dr. Michael wrote ""The History of Infanticide"" – a chapter in Violence in Our Society and a chapter on Domestic Violence in “Her Story, His Story” – published earlier this year. He appears in the newly-released documentary on parenting, ""The Golden Opportunity of Child Development."" He recently completed the soon-to-be-published “Essentials of Anger Management.” Dr. Michael is currently appearing as a Relationship Expert on the “Frangela” TV show. As a Board member of the National Partnership to End Interpersonal Violence (NPEIV), he launched the GLOBAL PEACE COMMITTEE in order to promote peaceful, humane solutions to societal problems. Recently, he has completed podcasts on “Fathers Raising Daughters,” the “Me Too” movement, and “Gender Expectations in the 21st Century.” Dr. Michael appears in the soon-to-be released documentary “Chains.” His passion comes across in his writings, presentations, and media appearances. Glenn Lipson, PhD, ABPP, is a Diplomate in Forensic Psychology and an expert in interpersonal relationships, resiliency, and misconduct. He consults with risk management entities across the United States pertaining to misconduct cases, fitness for duty evaluations, grooming prevention, workplace violence assessments, and harassment interventions. Frequently he is retained as an expert evaluating claimants providing expert opinion. Dr. Lipson testified in front of the Rules and Regulation Committee of the California Assembly regarding the interface between sexual harassment and technology. He works with the regulatory community presenting at organizations like the Council on Licensure Enforcement and Regulation (CLEAR). He is the volunteer manager of the National Association of State Directors of Teacher Education and Certification Academy. Dr. Lipson also collaborates with prosecutors in the prevention of crime, and he is currently researching and creating online assessment tools to assist in reporting, supporting and restorative justice. Dr. Lipson has presented on the links between social media and increases in sexual assault for the Department of Defense, and he is a recommended speaker by the US State Department in areas such as gender based and interpersonal violence. Emily Loerzel, MSW, is from the White Earth Ojibwe community and is focused on scholarship that addresses the human trafficking, murder and kidnapping of indigenous women and adolescents, abuse of indigenous women by partners and the risk and resiliency factors that can contribute to this issue. She is a clinical social worker who is now in a PhD program at the University of Washington. The research she wants to do is of critical importance to the field of violence prevention and to creating resources to address the epidemic of missing and murdered indigenous women and girls. Professionally, Emily worked with the American Indian Center of Chicago and American Indian Health Services of Chicago where she both provided therapy to the Native community and helped develop a funded grant proposal to develop comprehensive services for Native survivors of sex trafficking through the Department of Justice. Emily has continued her research development with Johns Hopkins University to collect and analyze both quantitative and qualitative data from a study of intimate partner violence among indigenous women. In conjunction with that experience as a Research Assistant on this NIH funded grant, she has contributed substantively to three different manuscripts that will be submitted to for publication in the next few months. She has a deep commitment to the health and safety of indigenous women that is the orienting passion of her doctoral education. Teresa Lopez, MSW, is currently the Manager of the Transitional Housing Technical Assistance Team at the National Network to End Domestic Violence. She provides support and training to OVW Transitional Housing grantees across the United States and US territories. She has been an advocate for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault since 2009, in a variety of settings. After earning a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Bowling Green State University, Teresa joined the staff of the YWCA of Toledo in Ohio as an outreach case manager, advocating for both shelter residents and non- residential clients of the domestic violence program. While working on her Master’s in Social Work at the University of Toledo, she also completed a year-long internship at the Ohio Domestic Violence Network and upon completion of her MSW, Teresa was hired by ODVN as the Outreach Coordinator to Underserved Populations. Sergeant Jason Lundquist, MA, began his law enforcement career with the Waco Police Department in 1999. After graduation from the Waco Police Academy he spent almost eight years as a patrol officer. Lundquist promoted to the rank
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of sergeant in 2007 and served as a patrol supervisor for another seven years. In 2014 Sergeant Lundquist transferred to the Criminal Investigation Division and has since supervised the Crimes Against Children Unit. As supervisor of the Unit Sergeant Lundquist has overseen over 5200 cases of physical and sexual abuse of children or child abuse related crimes for the Waco Police Department. He frequently consults other agencies on their investigations and maintains his own caseload as a supervisor, personally investigating hundreds of cases of abuse. Sergeant Lundquist serves as an active member of the Waco Advocacy Center for Crime Victims and Children’s Multidisciplinary Team. He is also a founding member of the Heart of Texas Human Trafficking Coalition and has served on its Steering and Prosecution/Protection Committees since its inception in 2015. Sergeant Lundquist has written or consulted on Waco Police Department policies regarding his agency’s response to missing/runaway children, child abuse, and sexual assault investigation. Jason has a bachelor’s degree from Baylor University and a master’s degree in criminal justice from Tarleton State University. Lieutenant Katherine Lynch joined the La Mesa Police Department in 2005. She worked as a patrol officer, special enforcement officer, and detective. As a sergeant, Katy worked as a patrol supervisor and as the agency’s training sergeant before promoting to lieutenant in 2019. Katy has been an active member in the La Mesa Police Department’s Peer Support Team for more than 10 years and currently serves as the Peer Support Team Leader. She earned a master’s degree in administration of justice and security, and is a graduate of the Sherman Block Supervisory Leadership Institute. Katy is an instructor for the San Diego District Attorney’s Regional Leadership Institute, where she teaches on topics related to wellness and trauma for law enforcement. Anthony Maez, MA, is a certified/commissioned Special Agent in Charge with the New Mexico Attorney General’s Office, and the Commander of the Internet Crimes Against Children, and Human Trafficking Task Forces. Anthony is a National trainer on Sex Crimes, Domestic Violence, Technology Stalking, and Human Trafficking investigations. He is Lead Faculty Area Chair for the College of Criminal Justice and Security, and faculty in the School of Business at the University of Phoenix, Albuquerque campus. Anthony has a Bachelor of Science degree in Criminal Justice from Wayland Baptist University, and a Master of Arts in Business and Organizational Security Management from Webster University. David Mandel, MA, with over almost 30 years’ experience in the domestic violence field, David’s international training and consulting focuses on improving systems' responses to domestic violence when children are involved. Through years of work with child welfare systems, David has developed the Safe & Together™ Model to improve case practice and cross system collaboration in domestic violence cases involving children. He has also identified how a perpetrator pattern-based approach can improve our ability to help families and promote the development of domestic violence-informed child welfare systems. David and the Safe & Together Institute’s staff and faculty have consulted to United States’ child welfare systems in a number of states. In the last five years, their work has expanded outside the United States with research, training and consultation in the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada and other countries. The Safe & Together Institute works closely with domestic violence advocates, in the US and abroad, to help them more effectively work with child protection systems and better advocate for child welfare-involved adult and child domestic violence survivors. David has written and published online courses on and has launched a new Safe & Together Model Certified Trainer initiative. David has written or co- written journal articles on batterer’s perceptions of their children’s exposure to domestic violence, domestic violence case reading tools, and the intersection of domestic violence and child welfare practice. LisaMarie Mariglia, MS, CFLE, is a Violence Prevention Integrator/Suicide Prevention Program Manager for the United States Air Force. She has been a Federal employee working with military members and their families for over 22 years, working with children, military families, and Wounded Warriors. Ms. Mariglia is an Outreach Instructor for the University of Wyoming in the Department of Family & Consumer Sciences. She is the daughter of an Italian immigrant and was raised in a military family, spending much of her life overseas. Ms. Mariglia has published research with Dr. Karen Cachevki Williams, Military Brats: Issues and Associations in Adulthood. Debra Máres, JD, is a Latina writer, teacher and speaker. Growing up with addiction and violence trauma, she followed her dreams and encourages young girls to do the same. An attorney and founder of a successful nonprofit, her TEDx talk has inspired countless lives and her female empowerment program instills confidence in young women through journaling, cultural arts and restorative justice. Learn more at DebraMares.com and WomenWonderWriters.com. Sylvia A. Marotta-Walters, PhD, MA, is a Professor of Counseling, Department of Counseling and Human Development, Graduate School of Education and Human Development (GSEHD), at the George Washington University in Washington, DC. Marotta-Walters’ research focus is on the spectrum of trauma and stress disorders, with a particular emphasis on the
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developmental consequences of trauma exposure and on diversity issues. A charter member of Division 56, Dr. Marotta- Walters publishes and presents on both trauma and resilience among adult survivors of interpersonal trauma of various types as well as combat trauma and more recently on survivors of international terrorism. Her most recent publication is on the use of mental health applications to facilitate EMDR treatment. Marotta-Walters is an associate editor for Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, Policy, and was on the editorial board and associate editor for the Journal of Counseling & Development prior to that. Marisol Martinez is an 18-year-old senior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, FL. She is a writer, musician/ lyricist, teaching artist, and award-winning spoken word poet. She teaches and runs the Spoken Word Club at MSD, currently the number one competitive team in Florida, and is individually ranked second in the state. Playing the bass guitar and rapping, Marisol worked as a core lyricist on Operation Respect's Parkland Project, ""Wake Up America!"" She has presented at several conferences across the country combining performance with gun-violence prevention advocacy, including NEXUS at the US Institute of Peace, Northwell Health Gun Violence Prevention Summit, PeaceCon and WORLDZ, where she received on behalf of the entire Parkland community the Nelson Mandela Changemakers Award. Her musical inspirations include Queen, Mitski, Andre 3000, and David Bowie, as well as the poets Shane Koyczan, and Sappho. Marisol lost two dear friends in the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and feels strongly that she is bound by a ""sense of responsibility to make the world better in a way they would have, had they not been taken so soon.” She believes a cultural shift is imperative when it comes to conflict resolution and violence prevention in the country, and that legislative action alone is not enough to effectively combat the issue. In her words, "If we want to fix these issues, people need to understand them. Music and art are common languages for all of us, and can be used to bridge divides between all peoples." Marisol believes there is no room for complacency or hesitancy; the time is now for us all to take an active stand. In addition to speaking out against gun-violence, Marisol cares deeply for issues of LGBT+ rights, race, and mental health awareness. David Mathews, PsyD, has more than 35 years of experience in working with families, adolescents and children related to issues of trauma, intimate partner and domestic violence. He is currently a therapist at People Incorporated, Family Life Mental Health Center. He has been in part-time private practice as a therapist for 27 years with youth, families and groups. He provides training and consultation nationally and internationally on topics of trauma, parenting, violence, secondary trauma and violence prevention and professional multi-cultural proficiency. Dr. Mathews created and developed Restorative Parenting and has authored and co-authored multiple articles and produced multiple media for training others on the topics and issues mentioned above. He has created and developed multiple programs, services and curriculum all related to trauma-informed care, parenting, working with men who have been abusive toward an intimate partner, community violence, family violence and violence prevention. Dr. Mathews has been a Community Faculty at the Metropolitan State University of Minnesota for more than 13 years and teaches in the Psychology and Human Services Departments classes on Adolescent Psychology, Family Violence and Program Development and Community Violence Intervention classes. Dr. Mathews has led and participated in multiple agency systems and community initiatives for addressing issues of trauma, violence and violence prevention. Jennifer Matthews, PhD, is currently a professor in the Department of Health Education and Promotion at East Carolina University. She is a substance use researcher primarily focusing on underage drinking and the effects of trauma and ACEs on substance use. Dr. Matthews currently has several grants looking at underage drinking, including the Drug- Free Communities grant from SAMHSA providing support for the Pitt County Coalition on Substance Use (PCCSU). She also has active contracts to address health disparities related to substance use and the Preventing Underage Drinking Initiative for PCCSU. Dr. Matthews is currently serving as the Interim Executive Director for PCCSU and serves on the leadership team for the local collaborative (BRACE) that seeks to address trauma and resilience in Pitt County. Dr. Matthews has co- authored papers in such journals as Journal of American College Health, Journal of Addiction Medicine, and American Journal of Preventive Medicine. John McKenna is a public affairs specialist in the mass media and nonprofit space. He is founder of KENNASCOPE, a consulting company operating at the intersection of content creation and social impact, launching musICUnits which introduces, develops and promotes music therapy within healthcare and wellness centers. Appointed Executive Director of Operation Respect, he leads innovative efforts to promote peace building and conflict-resolution through creative and positive forms of expression, including music. In such capacity he led the mission in the presentation and performance of
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student-songwriters from Parkland, Florida, amplifying their voices in the wake of the mass shooting in their community. He has served as Executive Director of Playing For Change Foundation where he secured a multi-year agreement with UNICEF announced at the United Nations on International Day of Peace, directed media relations for the annual Justice on Trial Film Festival led by CNN Top Ten Hero Susan Burton, and steered social-impact campaigns for several film and television projects including “Cesar’s Last Fast,” the compelling account of Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers in competition at the Sundance Film Festival. For a decade he built the base and raised the profile of global mass media trade associations, the National Association of Television Program Executives and the Independent Film & Television Alliance, participating at the major film and television markets, festivals and conferences around the world. He served as adviser for the Institute on Violence, Abuse and Trauma and Sanctuary of Hope, a groundbreaking project providing essential programs for youth emancipated from foster care. Maralee McLean is a child advocate, domestic violence expert, national professional speaker, and author of PROSECUTED BUT NOT SILENCED: Courtroom Reform for Sexually Abused Children. Maralee has written several articles for the ABA Child Law Journal, Women’s E-News, Ms. Magazine and many other publications on the problems of family courts not protecting abused children. Maralee is with Women’s Media Center (WMC), SheSourceExpert, National Partnership to End Interpersonal Violence (NPEIV) and is with APB Speakers and RAINN speaker bureau. She speaks at conferences, law schools and is a spokesperson for protective mothers. Her passion for advocacy developed through living a mother’s worst nightmare. Fighting the system with body and soul, she gained the insight that this was not her nightmare alone. She organized a National Rally of Mothers at the Colorado State Capitol and has been involved in legislative work that spans over two decades. She testified before Congress to promote judicial accountability to better protect sexually abused children’s rights in our courts. Maralee’s story has been covered by many media outlets and internationally on CNN. Katie McMahon, MA, is a Speech Language Pathologist working with pediatrics. She graduated from San Diego State University with a masters in Speech Language Pathology. Katie is a Survivor of Sexual Assault and volunteers speaking and working with SDSU students at trainings on sexual violence. Katie is a volunteer with Warriors, a national nonprofit organization advocating and lobbying for survivors of sexual violence and domestic violence. In her role in Warriors she has organized a library of resources for survivors and develops curriculum for consent education. Katie has provided consent education lessons in public elementary schools and preschools (completion date by July 2020). Her dream is to continue work in helping increase prevention education across public education, help survivors find their voice, change legislation and methods, and advocate for justice. Beth Medina, MA, serves as the CEO/Program Director at The Innocent Justice Foundation (TIJF) where she works in collaboration with the SHIFT team and provides oversight for the program. Her role entails needs assessment, program design and delivery, developing presentations and resource material, trainer and consultant supervision, and managing day- to-day operations of the SHIFT program. Ms. Medina has more than 20 years of experience in non-profit, education and mental health fields, including extensive experience developing and launching new programs and designing curriculum for community based organizations. She holds a Master's Degree in Marriage and Family Therapy and a B.A. in Political Science/History. L.C. Miccio-Fonseca, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and researcher and author of numerous articles on sexually abusive individuals and who provides expert witness testimony in cases of sexual abuse and sex offenders. She offers training, workshops, and consultations internationally. She also created the Personal Sentence Completion Inventory (PSCI), which is used for exploring erotic development in youth and adults. She has served as the chair of the Board of Directors of the California Coalition on Sexual Offending from 2007 to 2009. Dr. Miccio-Fonseca was awarded the Faye Honey Knopp Award in 2010 in recognition of her exceptional dedication, commitment, and leadership in the field of sexual offender treatment. Madelyn Milchman, PhD, has practiced clinical and forensic psychology in New Jersey since 1986. Her expertise is in trauma, including child sexual and emotional abuse, incest survivors, domestic violence, rape, recovered memory, sexual harassment, PTSD, divorce/custody, parental alienation, and other types of trauma. She won the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children 2019 Outstanding Frontline Professional Award for her work on the relationship between child abuse allegations and parental alienation allegations. She has served as an expert witness in child custody cases, relocation cases, reunification cases, criminal child sexual abuse cases, and psychological injury cases involving trauma- related issues. She has presented and published articles nationally and internationally in these and related areas including
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principles and methods for forensic evaluations and working with psychological experts. She serves as an evaluating expert, a scientific expert, a consulting expert, and a rebuttal expert. Nora Montalvo-Liendo, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at College of Nursing-Texas A&M Health Science. As a bilingual, bicultural nurse in the Rio Grande Valley she has established a long history of collaborations with several non-profit community agencies, private medical practice clinics and community health clinics to solve a critical social problem. She has more than 25 years of professional experience working on improving the safety and well-being of victims of domestic violence. Dr. Montalvo-Liendo has successfully carried out qualitative and quantitative research associated with domestic violence. Dr. Montalvo-Liendo connects research to practice and maintains an active clinical practice in a shelter on the Texas–Mexico border. Her research focuses on developing, testing, and evaluating the efficacy of interventions to empower Hispanic survivors of abuse and to address the future well-being of Hispanic children with a history of adverse childhood experiences. Kelly Moreno is a Transitional Housing Specialist at the National Network to End Domestic Violence (NNEDV). Before coming to NNEDV, Kelly worked with survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking at WEAVE in Sacramento, California. Kelly provided legal advocacy, case management, court accompaniment, and economic empowerment to survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault. Kelly later moved into leadership and became a Residential Services Manager where she provided direct oversight to safe house staff. She also helped to implement the voluntary services model in both the emergency housing and transitional housing program. Kelly has a Bachelor’s Degree from California State University, Northridge, in English: Creative Writing. She is also pursuing a Master’s Degree from California State University, Northridge, in Public Administration. Kelly is bilingual in Spanish. Mary Beth Morrissey, PhD, MPH, JD, is a gerontological health and social work researcher and health care attorney affiliated with Fordham University. Her areas of concentration include the study of older adults, health and aging policy, palliative care, and ethics. She is immediate past president of the Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology of the APA, and the past president of the National Committee for the Prevention of Elder Abuse. Sandi Capuano Morrison, MA, is the Chief Executive Officer for the Insitute on Violence, Abuse and Trauma (IVAT). Prior to IVAT, she was the manager of the city of San Diego, CA's Rape Crisis Center, and a member of the San Diego Sexual Assault Response Team and the San Diego Sex Offender Management Council. She is a certified domestic violence and sexual assault advocate. She was formerly the Director of the Tri-City Mental Health Agency's IMPACT Batterer Intervention Program in Boston, MA. Sandi served as a Domestic Violence Advocate and a Children’s Counselor in two domestic violence shelters in CO. She has worked with victims/survivors and offenders of domestic violence, sexual assault and child abuse for the past 25 years in CO, CA and MA and has provided training nationally and internationally on these issues. Sandi serves as Co-Chair of both the Hawai`i and San Diego International Summits and serves on the Advisory Council for IVAT's Hawai`i branch, Ho'omaluhia, and on the Board of the National Partnership to End Interpersonal Violence Across the Lifespan (NPEIV). Sandi also serves on the Board of Stop the Silence, Stop Child Sexual Abuse Inc. Mildred D. Muhammad is an Award-Winning Global Keynote Speaker, International Expert Speaker for the US Dept of State, Certified Consultant with the US Dept of Justice/Office for Victims of Crime, CNN Contributor, Domestic Abuse Survivor, Certified Domestic Violence Advocate, 6X-Author, Trainer and Educator traveling and speaking on a national and international platform to discuss her life of terror, abuse and heartache, all while promoting Domestic Violence Awareness and Prevention for 20 yrs. As the ex-wife of the D.C. sniper, John A. Muhammad, Mildred shares the very personal details of her experiences involving fear, abuse and many times, victim-blaming. She shares her expertise on what it's like to be a victim, a survivor and warrior of domestic violence “without physical scars” to various conferences, seminars, workshop audiences which include victims and survivors of domestic violence, advocates, law enforcement professionals, therapists, counselors, mental and medical health providers, university and college students as well as conduct military personnel training regarding domestic violence. She explains the perils of PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) soldiers suffer when returning from a war zone as well as victims who are diagnosed with PTSD. She has been recognized throughout military communities for championship of the Family Advocacy Program and their mission to educate, promote and end Domestic Violence in Military Communities. Mildred has been interviewed on Oprah: Where Are They Now, Anderson, Ricki Lake, Katic Couric, Issues with Jane Velez Mitchell, The Mike Huckabee Show, TruTV's In Session, Larry King Live, The Tyra Banks Show, and Good Morning America, and other local and national TV interviews. She has also been recognized as “One of the Nation's most powerful advocates.”
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Christopher M. Murphy, PhD, is Professor of Psychology at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. For the past 25 years he has been conducting research on the efficacy of interventions for individuals who engage in intimate partner violence; the identification of personal, contextual, and intervention factors that facilitate and inhibit treatment response in this population; and the prevention of abuse and violence. Wendy Murphy, JD, is adjunct professor of sexual violence law at New England Law|Boston where she has taught for fifteen years. An impact litigator whose work in state and federal courts around the country has changed the law to improve protections for women's and children's constitutional rights, she developed and directs several projects in conjunction with the school's Center for Law and Social Responsibility. The Judicial Language Project began in 2005 and involves law students using socio-linguistic research to critique harmful language used in law and society to describe violence against women and children. The Sexual Violence Legal News Project distributes appellate decisions of note to increase understanding among lay audiences to explain the likely impact and real world consequences of a court's ruling. Students involved in the project also provide editorial comments and helpful ideas so that people can take steps to enhance or prevent the decision's effects. The JD/PhD project is a multidisciplinary program where a JD student is teamed up with a PhD student to work across disciplines and produce a written critique that expresses the scientific and legal value of new research related to interpersonal violence. The team analyzes methodological reliability for the purpose of expediting or preventing its delivery into law, legal policy and human behavior. John Myers, JD, as a family law attorney who has represented hundreds of abused, neglected children and victims of domestic violence, John E.B. Myers is one of the country’s foremost authorities on child abuse litigation and family law. A Professor of Law at McGeorge School of Law beginning in 1984, until he recently retired. However, Professor Myers is continuing to practice the law, defending children and victims of domestic violence who have been injured physically and emotionally. Professor Myers has given more than 400 presentations on child abuse in the United States and abroad. Judges, attorneys, police, doctors, and mental health professionals have sought his expert advice, and his writings have been cited by more than 150 courts, including the United States Supreme Court and the California Supreme Court. Professor Myers is the author or editor of 16 books and 40 chapters, with three case books currently being used at McGeorge, and has written over 100 articles on child abuse. An unfaltering advocate of abused and neglected children, Professor Myers continues to win difficult child custody and protection cases. Family law encompasses a wide area of specialties but representing abused children and domestic violence victims in criminal proceedings is one of the most complex and emotionally volatile areas of law in which he has been involved. Rebecca Navarro, MS, has been a registered nurse for twenty-one years, and is the current program manager for the Center of Hope at Eskenazi Health. She coordinates the forensic nursing program which provides medical, forensic, and crisis intervention services for primary and secondary victims of violence at Eskenazi Health’s Level One Trauma Center. Mrs. Navarro received her bachelor’s degree in nursing from Purdue University and her master’s degree in nursing as a clinical nurse specialist from Indiana University. Rebecca has been certified by the Forensic Nursing Certification Board as a sexual assault nurse examiner for adolescents and adults (SANE-A) since 2003, and by the Board of Certification of Emergency Nurses as a Certified Emergency Nurse (CEN) since 2007. She is the recipient of the 2004 Outstanding Medical Professional of the Year Award from the Indiana Coalition Against Sexual Assault, and the Health Care Hero Award from the Indianapolis Business Journal in 2008. Susan Omilian, JD, a nationally recognized expert, has worked extensively as an advocate to end violence against women. An attorney, author and motivational speaker, she has spent the past forty years helping women who have been abused reclaim their lives. In the 1970s, she founded a rape crisis center and represented battered women in divorce proceedings in the early 1980s. She also litigated sex discrimination cases including helping to articulate the legal concept that made sexual harassment illegal in the 1990s. With the death of her nineteen-year-old niece Maggie who was shot and killed in October, 1999 by her ex-boyfriend, Susan’s work on behalf of women became more personal and immediate. She is the originator and facilitator of My Avenging Angel Workshops TM based on the idea that “living well is the best revenge.” Her workshops have helped hundreds of women since 2001 take the journey beyond abuse from victim to survivor to thriver. The motivational guidance Susan has successfully used in her unique and innovative work is contained in her non-fiction books in The Thriver Zone SeriesTM. With easy-to-use worksheets, interactive exercises and thriver success stories, Entering the Thriver Zone was published in 2016, Staying in the Thriver Zone in 2018 and Living in the Thriver Zone, will be released in fall, 2020. The story in her The Best Revenge SeriesTM of fiction books was inspired by a true event, the
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murder of her niece. Those books include Awaken published in 2017, Emerge in 2018 and Thrive coming in 2021. Susan is the author of several books on sex discrimination law and her articles have appeared in newspapers and journals such as The Voice: The Journal of the Battered Women’s Movement of the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCADV). She speaks frequently to survivors of abuse, inmates (male and female) and Indian tribes as well as training those who work with them including victim advocates with National Organization of Victims Assistance (NOVA). Leslye E. Orloff, JD, is the Director of the National Immigrant Women’s Advocacy Project (NIWAP) at American University Washington College of Law which advocates for laws, policies and practices that enhance legal options for immigrant women and immigrant victims of domestic violence, sexual assault and human trafficking. She founded and directed the Immigrant Women Program at Legal Momentum and the National Network to End Violence Against Immigrant Women. From 1999 through 2011 Ms. Orloff directed Legal Momentum’s (formerly NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund’s) Immigrant Women Program (IWP) provided technical assistance, training and advocacy designed to improve access to immigration benefits, the justice system, public benefits, social services and health care. Leslye was a co-founder and co- chair of the National Network to End Violence Against Immigrant Women and is the Washington, D.C. spokesperson for that organization from 1992 through 2011. In that capacity she was involved in drafting the Protection for Immigrant Victims of Violence Against Women in 1994 and again in 2000 and 2005 and in the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 and 2008, legal services access for battered immigrants in 1997 and welfare access for battered immigrants in 1996. She is a nationally respected trainer of attorneys, victim advocates, police, judges, women’s programs, women executives and health professionals on leadership, public policy advocacy, domestic violence, cultural competency, family law, protection orders, the Violence Against Women's Act's immigration provisions, welfare rights of women immigrant crime victims, the nexus between violence against women and immigration law and the how each of us can become involved locally and/or nationally in making a real difference in the world. During her 17-year litigation career prior to joining Legal Momentum, Leslye founded and directed the domestic violence program at Ayuda, a legal services agency that served the interrelated legal and social service needs of battered immigrant women and children.
Carolyne Ouya, MFT, currently serves as Outreach and Strategic Partnership Coordinator, Executive Coaching Program Coordinator, and Legal Advocate for Access Youth & Immigration Services. Carolyne is also Director of Education for Silayan Filipina. Through collaborative, trauma-informed and evidence-based practices, she provides avenues for holistic healing, system change, and economic empowerment of the most marginalized. Carolyne received a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Public Health from Santa Clara University. She is also a Marriage, Family Therapy (MFT) graduate student at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology. Carolyne is enhancing community and resilience through innovative self-care and mental health strategies. Benita Page, MS, has thirty-five years of professional experience developing and implementing youth development programs. As an administrator, she has managed juvenile justice programs, youth mentoring interventions, mental health programming, and school-based educational services. She has lead circles as a tool for justice, caring and restoration for over 25 years. Since 2008, Ms. Page has served as the Program Director at the Tariq Khamisa Foundation. She has been instrumental in the development of TKF’s Safe School Model which is a continuum of proven effective interventions built on restorative principles. TKF’s model and its programming supports schools as they reform disciplinary practices to more humanly address student behaviors and misconduct. All TKF interventions provide the vision, skills, and support needed to help youth develop healthy social-emotional behaviors and relationships. Ms. Page is a knowledgeable and enthusiastic public speaker experienced in teaching restorative practice concepts. She is skilled in presenting complicated restorative concepts and breaking them down into basic lessons that teach and build a restorative mindset for both children and adults. Her presentations are participant involved and often engage everyone through narrative and hands-on activities. She utilizes her skills and knowledge to serve as trainer of trainers on this topic. Cynthia Pancer, EdD, MA, is an Associate Professor at the California School of Education at Alliant International University where she teaches in the Teacher Education program. Dr. Pancer has been designing technologies for children and their teachers since 1985. She received her MA in Educational Psychology from the University of California and EdD in Computer Education from Alliant International University. She has produced online curriculum for K-12 students, founded a virtual charter school, and taught over 400 online courses for teacher candidates. Dr. Pancer is an activist for suicide prevention in the American Federation for Suicide Prevention and San Diego Survivors of Suicide Loss where she has been
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counseling survivors for the past ten years. She is also a survivor of suicide loss and keenly interested in the mental health of California children. Andrew Pari, LCSW, Founder of Sexual Assault Awareness, LLC, is dedicated to ending sexualized violence and shame through a sex-positive lens. His 25-year career has focused on the controversial and taboo that most in the field won’t address, including specialization in sex work and victims of trafficking. He’s been honored with national leadership designation as an expert in trauma, sexualized violence, and disaster response. He’s conducted the largest ever international discussions on rape, and developed national policy on sex trade. In 2018, Andrew led the Start By Believing Campaign, a program dedicated to believing sexual assault survivors, to its largest regional designation in CA. He trains forensics and mental health professionals nationally and internationally, and is writing the first book on the arousal experience in sexual assault to help rape victims and therapists understand this response. Amanda Parker is the Chief Financial Officer and Senior Director of the AHA Foundation. Ms. Parker oversees AHA’s women’s rights programs. She develops federal and state policy proposals to protect women and girls from harmful cultural practices, recently working with Utah and Arkansas to put in place the most comprehensive anti-female genital mutilation (FGM) legislation in the country. She has facilitated trainings on honor violence, FGM, forced marriage, and child marriage for more than 800 professionals likely to encounter cases, and has supported survivors of these abuses to help them find protection and the services they need. Brendt Parrish, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist practicing within Primary Care of the VA SD Healthcare system. He is also an assistant professor at UCSD and involved in teaching clinical postdoctoral fellows. Robert Peters, JD, is the Senior Attorney of the Zero Abuse Project, where he develops and delivers state-of-the-art training and comprehensive technical assistance to prosecutors and child abuse multidisciplinary team members on crimes against children. Previously, Robert worked as the Senior Cyber and Economic Crime Attorney & General Counsel with the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C), where his efforts included providing subject matter expertise on topics and training related to technology-facilitated child exploitation, and acting as lead instructor for NW3C’s Judges & Prosecutors courses. He is the founder and Chair of the SHIELD Task Force, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that partners with Child Advocacy Centers and local stakeholders to encourage reporting of sexual abuse and online safety. Mr. Peters served as Assistant Prosecuting Attorney and Special Prosecutor in multiple West Virginia jurisdictions, where he specialized in the prosecution of sexual offenses, civil child abuse and neglect cases, and juvenile crime. In addition to his prosecutorial experience, Robert authored several child protection-related articles in peer-reviewed publications, including the Florida Journal of International Law and Handbook on Interpersonal Violence Across the Lifespan. Heather Pierce, MSEd, is the Founder and Managing Director of Steadfast Center, east central Illinois’s premier trauma- informed practice for healing emotional, physical, and sexual abuse. Heather is an engaging speaker and published author, with more than 30 years in helping roles. She completed a two-year fellowship in the relational treatment of trauma and countless hours of immersive training and practice, restoring hope and creating lasting change in trauma survivors. Heather is best known for her authenticity, insightfulness, and a unique ability to discover the truth inside of us. Marc Pilisuk, PhD, was born and raised in New York. He graduated from Queens College in 1955, where he met his wife, Phyllis. Prof. Pilisuk earned his PhD in 1961 from the University of Michigan in Clinical and Social Psychology. A Professor Emeritus at the University of California, he currently serves on the faculty at the San Francisco-based Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center where he has taught extensively on conflict resolution, globalization, ecological psychology and sustainability. Prof. Pilisuk's distinguished academic career spans five decades, delving unabashedly into humanitarian topics of peace and violence, social justice, environmental politics, social networks and family caregiving. Pamela J Pine, PhD, MPH, is an international public health/development professional, professor, and the Founding CEO of Stop the Silence®: Stop Child Sexual Abuse, Inc. (Stop the Silence®, https://stopthesilence.org). Pamela began working on child sexual abuse (CSA), other adverse childhood events (ACEs), and related issues of interpersonal violence in trauma in the year 2000 and incorporated Stop the Silence® as a non-profit organization in 2004. The Mission of Stop the Silence® is to prevent, expose, and stop child sexual abuse and related forms of interpersonal violence and help survivors heal. Pamela has been designing, developing, managing, implementing, and providing technical assistance to a wide range of health programming (e.g., training, community outreach and education, community mobilization, media outreach, advocacy, social marketing, policy development, evaluation) and other programs (e.g., microenterprise development) focused on enhancing the lives of the poor and otherwise underserved groups throughout the world for over 30 years. Pamela is considered an
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expert in CSA and trauma prevention and mitigation including the at-risk nature of orphans and vulnerable children (OVC), sex trafficking, and related issues like suicidality, and is called upon by TV, radio and magazines to provide interviews and expert input on a regular basis. Pamela is a part of the Executive Committee of the Board of the National Partnership to End Interpersonal Violence (NPEIV) and on the Board Advisory Committee of the Institute on Violence, Abuse and Trauma (IVAT) in San Diego, CA. She was honored in 2017 with a Lifetime Achievement Award in Advocacy from IVAT in San Diego. She is a member of Zonta International. She speaks Arabic and French. In her off-time, Pamela spends time with family and friends; paints, sings, reads, and gardens for pleasure; and is involved in various types of physical exercise. Teri Pokrajac, PsyD, is a licensed Psychologist in California with a doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Pepperdine University. Her training included: internship at Tufts Medical School/Boston V.A./National Center for PTSD; advanced fellowship in Behavioral Medicine at Harvard Medical School's Cambridge Hospital, emphasis on trauma, mindfulness & hypnosis. Her dissertation research on "Dissociation and Childhood Abuse in Multiple Personality and Borderline Personality" sparked her interest in affect regulation. She directed Trauma & Dissociative Disorders Programs at Del Amo Hospital and Two Rivers Hospital. In private practice for 20 years, her psychotherapy treatment focuses on integrative approach to complex trauma and dissociative disorders. She is an expert forensic evaluator for civil/criminal cases involving Trauma, PTSD, and Complex PTSD. She is on the IVAT planning committee and co-chair of Adult Survivors of Child Maltreatment track. She is an adjunct professor at Pepperdine University teaching graduate courses in Trauma and Counseling Theories & Techniques. Shurene Premo, Hakenna Mum, (how are you all)! Ne nani-haant (my name is) Shurene Premo. Ne Tosawihi So-soni (I am from the Tosawihi band of Western Shoshone). I also represent the Newe Numa (Shoshone Paiute) Nation, and I am originally from Tokka Pati (Duck Valley) Nevada of the Great Basin Territory. I chose a significant topic to myself personally as well as to our Native American communities in Indian Country on the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) epidemic. I believe that my work with MMIWG has nothing to do with me. It has everything to do with bringing awareness to the injustices we as Native people face! I am humbled as well as honored to bring awareness to the MMIWG. In the future, after I have acquired my degrees, I plan on returning home to the Duck Valley Indian Reservation, where I will work with our Tribal Social services program as well as help create an Indigenous Healing Center for Native people. I feel as if one of the barriers on our reservation is this alcohol and drug epidemic. I have lost too many family members to count from this sickness. As a Shoshone Paiute woman and in my childhood, I have witnessed over and over the impact of substance abuse on families and children. Within most Native communities, we have an unmanageable epidemic with drugs and alcohol, which is correlated with historical trauma and after sweeps through families and transforms into intergenerational trauma. Many of our people are dying of these man-made substances. We see first, second, and third generations being wiped out from the destruction that alcohol and drugs bring to our people. My ultimate dream is to have my own practice where I can help our Indigenous people throughout Indian Country with addictions through counseling methods; however, most importantly, I will be braiding it together with healing through our language, sacred ceremonies, and our Newe-Numa culture. I want to use our ancient tools and traditions for healing. Ose. Laura Price graduated this spring with a psychology major from Bethel University in St. Paul, MN. She currently works directly with LGBTQIA+ (SGM) adults in substance abuse/ mental health residential treatment facility, performing Q30’s, admission and discharge processes, and milieu management at The Pride Institute in Minneapolis. Her book chapter “Religion and violence against sexual and gender minorities: a cyclical minority stress model” she co-authored with Jeremy Gibbs of the University of Georgia will appear in the edited volume “Violence Against LGBTQ+ Persons: Research, Practice, and Advocacy” that will be released this year. Jessica Pride, JD, helps survivors transform their trauma into triumph by bringing a multi-disciplinary team approach that includes her on-staff victim advocate, investigative agencies, counseling services, and media when appropriate. As a sexual assault attorney, Jessica helps survivors of sexual assault and child sexual abuse hold their perpetrators accountable in civil court and makes sure they have all the resources they need to heal. Jessica is the managing attorney at The Pride Law Firm, the first in San Diego to hire a full-time survivor/victim advocate and offer free resources such as trauma-informed yoga, sound healing, and custom blended essential oils for the survivor community. Jessica has been fighting for survivors for a decade and serves the survivor community as the President of the Board of Directors for the Center for Community Solutions, a local domestic violence and rape crisis center, since 2017. Brenda Punsky, LCSW, LLM, is a psychotherapist at Bronx Health Collective, a primary care clinic in the South Bronx in New York City, that provides medical and mental health care to some of the country's most high-risk and underserved populations. 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Punsky is also part of the Terra Firma program, which provides coordinated medical, mental health and legal services to unaccompanied immigrant children and undocumented families, including those who were forcefully separated under Zero Tolerance policy. Ms. Punsky provides trauma-informed individual, family and group psychotherapy services and also is the Mental Health Advocacy Coordinator for Terra Firma. She specializes in traumatic stress, complex trauma, attachment, family-systems therapy and acculturation, and her expertise includes conducting psychological evaluations and writing affidavits in support of patients' asylum and other immigration cases. Ms. Punsky is the co-author of “Working with parents and children separated at the border: Examining the impact of the Zero Tolerance policy and beyond,” Journal of Child & Adolescent Trauma (2019). In addition to a Master’s degree in Social Work from NYU Silver School of Social Work, Ms. Punsky holds law degrees from both NYU School of Law and Universidad Iberoamericana (Mexico), and is a certified mediator from the New York Peace Institute. As an attorney and before becoming a psychotherapist, Ms. Punsky spent nine years defending human rights and advocating for social justice at agencies such as the Human Rights Commission for Mexico City, and in the U.S. at the Organization of American States, the Center for Reproductive Rights, and the International Center for Transitional Justice, among others. Ms. Punsky was honored with NYU’s Global Social Work Award for her outstanding international social justice work and studies.
Lisa Rapp-McCall, PhD, MSW, received her MSW degree in 1991 from the University of Buffalo and worked as a Psychiatric Social Worker in the areas of Domestic Violence, Children and Adolescent psychiatric inpatient units and outpatient clinics and in the Juvenile Justice system. She earned her Ph.D in Social Welfare in 1999 at the University of Buffalo and has taught at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, the University of South Florida and currently at Saint Leo University. She is a Research Associate in the Maribeth Durst Applied Research Institute at Saint Leo University. She has conducted numerous program evaluations, focus groups, and written grants and reports for profit and not-for-profit agencies. Her research expertise includes: juvenile crime and violence, child abuse, school violence, human trafficking, and prevention, as well as program evaluation. Her focus is violence prevention. Lucinda Rasmussen, PhD, LCSW, is an Associate Professor at the School of Social Work at San Diego State University, where she has taught social work practice classes for the past 18 years. She has over 30 years of clinical and research experience in the field of child sexual abuse, with specific expertise in intervening with young people who problematic and/or sexually abusive behaviors. Dr. Rasmussen's research focuses on risk assessment of sexually abusive youth and effects of trauma, including sexual abuse and domestic violence. She developed the Trauma Outcome Process Assessment (TOPA) model, a practice model for assessing and treating traumatized children, youth and adults and has published several peer reviewed articles on the model in the Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, Journal of Child and Adolescent Trauma, and Israeli Journal of Psychiatry. She has co-authored with L.C. Miccio-Fonseca, Ph.D., author of the MEGA♪, a risk assessment tool for sexually abusive youth, peer reviewed articles on applying the MEGA♪ to specific populations of sexually abusive youth: youth with low intellectual functioning and very high risk, dangerous youth (i.e., sexually violent and sexually violent predatory youth. Dr Rasmussen is Senior Research Consultant on the MEGA♪ International Project and has assisted in MEGA♪ specialized training in London, Liverpool, and Manchester, England, Glasgow, Scotland, and Dublin, Ireland. She completed the first longitudinal predictive validity and treatment outcome study (6 years) the two most contemporary risk assessment tools for sexually abusive youth MEGA♪ and the JSORRAT-II. Sergeant Juan Reveles has been a police officer for the City of Anaheim for 24 years. As an officer, he has worked patrol, community policing detail, safe schools detail, background investigations and the gang unit. He promoted to sergeant in 2006 and worked in patrol before being assigned, in 2009, to supervise the safe schools detail/gang unit. Sergeant Reveles has worked in and supervised several different multi-agency task forces, including the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF), Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). In 2014, Sergeant Reveles was assigned to supervise the Orange County Human Trafficking Task Force. The mission of the task force is to locate and rescue victims of pimping/human trafficking by using the “victim centered approach” model and aggressively going after the human traffickers who victimize women and young girls in Orange County. Edwina Reyes, LMFT, is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who provides services for individuals, couples and families. Her areas of focus include Trauma (Domestic Violence, Sexual Abuse, PTSD), Marital, couple, and family issues, and children and adolescents (ages 2-18). She is also a state and national trainer and can provide specialized trainings for organizations. JoYi Rhyss, is the founder and director of the Mindful Forgiveness Center, the training and facilitation arm of Moxie Fitness LLC. As the Lead Trainer, she works directly with State and non profit agencies to facilitate the Mindful Forgiveness Workshops. JoYi also trains and mentor new facilitators. She teaches both the Forgive for Good process by Dr. Luskin and #25IVAT | #TraumaIntoTriumph | ivatcenters.org 49
the Mindfulness in Daily Living training by Dr. Thao Le. Filtered through her powerful personal journey and informed by over 30 years of working with youth at risk and professionals who work with high risk populations, she has designed a program that seeks to make the biggest impact in overcoming suffering so that we can respond more skillfully to our personal and professional lives. Her presence is naturally uplifting, and her presentations inspire new thinking, fresh perspective and a sense of connection. All of JoYi’s topics can be presented as a keynote talk, a breakout seminar, a full day workshop or weekend retreat. Karen Rich, PhD, LCSW, is an Associate Professor of Social Work at Marywood University. Dr. Rich studies the effects of psychological trauma and institutional responses, on survivors of interpersonal violence. She also works with various organizations to develop protocols for trauma informed care. An Associate Professor with Marywood since 2007, she teaches courses on social work practice, human development, gender issues and trauma. Most of her research has focused on police responses to rape reports, collaboration between police officers and victim advocates, victimization of persons with disabilities, and college students as secondary survivors. Her research includes “Interviewing Rape Victims: Policy and Practice in an International Context” and “Best Practices for Addressing Rape: Police Collaboration with Victim Advocates” a Chapter in “Collaborative Policing: Police Academics, Professionals and Communities Working Together for Education, Training, Research and Program implementation.” She is a member of several national and international organizations addressing violence and is a Board Member of the National Partnership to End Interpersonal Violence Across the Life Span (NPEIV) and is currently the Junior Co-Chair of the NPEIV Action Team on Practice. Brent Dean Robbins, PhD is Chair and Professor of Psychology at Point Park University, and Core Faculty of the APA- accredited Psy.D. in Clinical-Community Psychology. He is former President and Council Representative of the Society for Humanistic Psychology (Division 32 of APA). He has his doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Duquesne University. He is the author of The Medicalized Body and Anesthetic Culture: The Cadaver, the Memorial Body, and the Recovery of Lived Experience (2018, Palgrave Macmillan), co-editor of Drugging Our Children: How Profiteers are Pushing Anti-Psychotics on Our Youngest, and What We Can Do To Stop It (2012, Praeger) and Editor-in-Chief of Janus Head: Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies. He is a recipient of the Carmi Harari Early Career Award (APA's Division 32). Amie Roberts, MA, was born and raised in California. She moved to Utah in 1993 and received her BA in Spanish Literature from Utah State University in 2001 and her MA in Counseling from the University of Phoenix in 2004. She began her career as a victim advocate and case manager in the domestic violence and rape crisis field. Amie's counseling experience includes individual, couples, substance use, and domestic violence intervention. She specializes in trauma and forensic counseling. Amie built a domestic violence intervention treatment program from the ground up at a private agency in Salt Lake City, Utah between 2006-2011, where she discovered her passion and commitment to the work. She began working for the State of Washington in 2011 as a Mental Health Program Administrator. In December 2015 Amie became the first full-time Domestic Violence Perpetrator Treatment Program Manager for the State of Washington. Since then, Amie has chaired an advisory committee and spearheaded sweeping changes to Washington state standards for domestic violence intervention treatment. Her purpose in this work is to promote healing and prevent violence. Erin Roberts, PhD, MS, is the Clinic Director of the ECU Family Therapy clinic and a clinical teaching faculty member. Her research includes family violence, Adverse Childhood Experiences, and work in community collaboration. She is also a founding member of BRACE and has spoken at numerous conferences on the subjects of violence, abuse or trauma. She has presented at the IVAT summit San Diego and Hawaii summit and counts this as her favorite conference to attend. Gimel Rogers, PsyD, ABPP, is a licensed psychologist and is Board Certified in Clinical Psychology from the American Board of Professional Psychology. She is a Custody Evaluator with the Institute on Violence, Abuse and Trauma. With over ten years of clinical professional speaking and training experience, she is the owner of F.I.R.E. Igniting Lives and Founder of One Temple Fitness. She earned her doctorate from Pepperdine University and has provided trauma-focused care with clients from the Children of the Night Program, the Ventura Youth Correctional Facility, FCI Terminal Island, and community programs serving survivors of intimate partner violence. Dr. Rogers presently works with survivors who are recovering from emotional, physical and sexual abuse. She utilizes an array of therapeutic interventions with an emphasis on cognitive- behavioral therapy. Additionally, she assists clients who are involved in criminal, family, and civil cases involving a broad range of forensic issues. Angela Rose, for nearly 20 years, has been on the front lines of the movement to shatter the silence of sexual violence. As a survivor, author, activist, and speaker, Angela founded the national nonprofit PAVE: Promoting Awareness, Victim
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Empowerment. Angela Rose is an expert on sexual assault prevention and survivor empowerment. She started community organizing for policy change at the age of 17 after she was abducted from a shopping mall and sexually assaulted by a repeat sex offender who was on parole for murder. Since that life changing moment, she has traveled extensively educating students, professionals, and military audiences on sexual assault prevention, survivor support, and legislative policy. Under her leadership, PAVE convened the first National Campus Sexual Assault Summit held at Georgetown Law that broadcasted live to over 300 colleges, and created groundbreaking programming for high school students. Angela’s work in schools led to an invitation to the White House for the launch of the “It’s On Us” campaign and she was asked to speak at the United State of Women Summit. In 2017, PAVE supported the launch of the Congressional Bipartisan Task Force to End Sexual Violence with Congresswoman Kuster at the US Capitol and recently was a keynote speaker at Oxford University in England. She authored the book Hope, Healing and Happiness: Going Inward to Transform Your Life to help other survivors overcome adversity. Kristen Rose-White is a dedicated human rights activist with a passion for victims of human trafficking and sexual exploitation. She is a State-Certified Advocate as well as a coach and Mentor devoted to those she helps. She began her career in 2009 helping to build San Bernardino's Coalition Against Sexual Exploitation (C.A.S.E.) in an essential role providing a survivor’s perspective to the collective. During this time, she was a first responder and an educator providing group and individual support services to victims in Juvenile Halls. Now, with over 10 years in the movement, she has worked with countless non-profits in a variety of roles from consulting and advocating outreach coordinating and public speaking. Being a leader in the movement she has personally built a nationwide network of nonprofit organizations and survivor leaders to make resources more easily available and has also developed a curriculum for long-term healing. Being a survivor herself, Kristin had dedicated herself to empowering other survivors and educating them to increase awareness of the commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC). Alan Rosenbaum, PhD, is a professor of Clinical Psychology at Northern Illinois University as well as at the Center for the Study of Family Violence and Sexual Assault at NIU. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the National Partnership to End Interpersonal Violence (NPEIV) and Co-Chair of the Translation and Dissemination Action Team. His research interests include the etiology and treatment of aggressive behavior, with a focus on intimate partner violence. He was founding director of the Men’s Educational Workshop, at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, which was the largest university-based batterer intervention program in the US. He has authored more than 90 journal articles, books, and book chapters and has presented his work both nationally and internationally. He is on the editorial boards of three journals and is associate editor of the Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment, and Trauma. Lynn Rosenthal is the president of the Center for Family Safety and Healing in Columbus, Ohio. Lynn served from 2009- 2015 as the White House Advisor on Violence Against Women. In this role, Lynn led interagency efforts to address domestic violence and sexual assault. She served as a co-convener for the White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault and the White House Interagency Workgroup on Violence Against Women, HIV/Aids and Gender- based Health Disparities. Lynn was the executive director of the National Network to End Domestic Violence for six years and led state domestic violence coalitions in Florida and New Mexico. Her early work was in women's health care as an educator and clinic administrator. Olivia Rosillo, MA, LMFT, is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist based in San Diego, California, where she has her own private practice. Her specialties pertain to trauma, anxiety, and multiculturalism. Originally from Mexico City, Olivia received her BA in Communications at Anahuac University, afterwards pursuing another Bachelors in Clinical Psychology and a Masters in Family Psychology at the University of Americas. She has over 15 years of teaching experience at both Anahuac University in Mexico City and Iberoamericana University in Tijuana, B.C., Mexico. Olivia has covered topics such as psychology and communications. Beyond her clinical and teaching experience, Olivia has hosted her own TV show on Televisa Mexico where she discussed family violence, trauma and social violence on the border. She was a member of the Research Center of Social Communication at Anahuac University, conducting research on the effects of media on children’s violence and overall human behavior. Olivia was also a Mexican Red Cross volunteer where she developed social service programming around family violence, substance abuse and social violence. She continued this programming in San Diego, where she has worked with Latino families. Sofia Rothenberg ,15, is the youngest founding member of 3 Heart Strings, a 501c3 corporation which makes and sells custom designed bracelets and donates 100% of their profits to a different chosen charity each month. In operation since
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2015, they have donated close to $250,000 to charity. She is currently sophomore class president at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where she was also freshman class president. She engages in other leadership roles as she was recently voted Vice President of Public Relations for the MSD DECA program. Sofia enjoys spreading kindness is many ways, including participating in the Best Buddies and Dance Marathon “For the Kids” programs at school. Sofia is very proud of her participation in the 2018 Pulitzer Prize runner up winning series “Voices of Change”, a video series that invited those affected by the February 14 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland to express themselves. Participants included students, faculty, families and others who have been changed in some way by this tragic event. Another way that Sofia is helping to make change is aiding in the writing and singing of the album “Wakeup America” in the Parkland Songwriter’s Project with Operation Respect. Sofia has been a competitive figure skater since the age of 7. Whether on or off the ice, her goal is to spread kindness one smile at a time. Amy Russell, JD, MSEd, serves as the executive director of the Arthur D. Curtis Children’s Justice Center in Clark County, Washington. Ms. Russell is a licensed attorney, a nationally certified counselor and experienced forensic interviewer. Ms. Russell serves as an expert witness on child abuse issues in multiple state and federal courts, and provides training on state, federal and international levels on the investigation, interviews and litigation of child abuse cases. She has previously served as a pro bono attorney for children in dependency court, a forensic interview specialist with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security / Immigration and Customs Enforcement and as an adjunct faculty member in the Child Advocacy Studies Program at Winona State University. She obtained her B.A. from Hope College in sociology, her M.S.Ed. in counseling from Western Illinois University and graduated magna cum laude from SUNY Buffalo Law School with her J.D. Ms. Russell has worked with victims of violence and trauma in several capacities, including extensive counseling and support work with child victims of sexual abuse and exploitation; director of victim services and counselor for survivors of homicide victims; and executive director of and consultant for multiple children’s advocacy centers and multidisciplinary teams regarding child abuse investigations and prosecution. In addition, she has authored multiple articles on forensic interviewing, child maltreatment and vicarious trauma. Clea Sarnquist, DrPH, MPH, is a Clinical Associate Professor the Stanford University School of Medicine. She has over 15 years of experience doing applied research and teaching on the development, implementation and evaluation of interventions to decrease gender-based violence and prevent HIV infection, especially among adolescents and children. She is particularly interested in rights-based approaches that tackle the complex interplay of factors that lead to poor health for many children and families. All of her work has with direct links health practice and policy, and usually performed in conjunction with non-governmental organization and government partners. She works both globally and in the U.S., with a focus on sub-Saharan Africa. Joseph Scaramucci began his career in law enforcement in 2004 and was promoted to Detective in 2008 with the McLennan County Sheriff’s Office, investigating Crimes Against Persons. Since initiating investigations in Human Trafficking in 2014, Detective Scaramucci has participated in John Suppression events, arresting over 460 sex buyers. Since 2015 he has conducted sting operations resulting in the arrest of approximately 144 individuals for Human Trafficking and related offenses, which lead to the identification of approximately 255 trafficking victims. Detective Scaramucci has worked both State and Federal investigations as a Task Force Officer with H.S.I., leading to investigations and arrests throughout the U.S. He has also led and trained numerous agencies throughout the U.S. on how to conduct these operations, along with operations targeting Illicit Massage Parlors. Detective Scaramucci is certified in Courts of Law as a Subject Matter Expert in Human Trafficking. He has further advised and testified in the State House, assisting with the creation and passage of laws leading to harsher penalties for human trafficking, as well as working against laws that would have added further burdens on victims. He is further employed as a consultant for the Polaris Project, Collective Liberty, and the International Association of Chiefs of Police, training more than 310 agencies throughout 31 states, 12 federal agencies, branches of the U.S. Military, the Mongolian Federal Police and Prosecutors Offices, and the Peruvian Prosecutor’s Office, along with providing technical support for their Human Trafficking Operations and Investigations. Murray David Schane, MD, is a psychiatrist in New York City. A native of Detroit, Michigan he attended Stanford Medical School and completed psychiatric training at the Einstein College of Medicine in New York, He has always been both a clinician and a teacher. He was the director of a psychiatric residency training program and an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University. He has had extensive experience as a forensic consultant. Dr. Schane has written articles and a book on schizophrenia and madness including a close study of a violent pedophilic criminal. He has
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presented lectures and workshops at conferences in the U.S., Europe and South Africa. Dr. Schane is a Past President of MaleSurvivor and was the Conference Chair for several MaleSurvivor International Conferences. He is, himself, a survivor. He practices in his Manhattan office and currently serves on the faculty of the International Masterson Institute, an educational organization offering certified training in the psychotherapy of disorders of the self and the treatment of psychological trauma. Deborah Sendek, MA, has over thirty-five years of experience working in the field of child abuse and neglect assessment, treatment and prevention. Deb is a founding member of the United States Alliance to End the Hitting of Children and currently serves on the board of the National Partnership to End Interpersonal violence. She holds a Master’s degree in Child Development, Family Relations and Developmental Psychology and has completed Post-graduate work in Clinical- Child Psychology. Deb has served as the Program Director for the Center for Effective Discipline, a program of the Gundersen National Child Protection Training Center; Executive Director of Prevent Child Abuse Ohio; and Director of the Family Support Program, a treatment program for child and adolescent victims of sexual abuse and adolescent sexual offenders. Morgan Shaw, PsyD, is a licensed clinical and forensic psychologist. She currently serves as the Clinical Director at the Institute on Violence, Abuse, and Trauma where she oversees the Professional Clinical and Forensic Services department. Dr. Shaw provides trauma-informed therapeutic services to a variety of adolescent and adult clients, and specializes in working with individuals who have a history of child abuse. She also conducts comprehensive forensic evaluations and provides expert witness testimony in criminal, family, and civil cases involving a broad range of forensic issues. Dr. Shaw provides trainings nationally and internationally on a wide variety of topics including the effects of trauma, trauma-informed practices, child maltreatment, and sexual assault. She has further experience in forensic interviewing, biofeedback training, applied behavior analysis, and crisis intervention. Dr. Shaw also serves as the Co-Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment, and Trauma and the Journal of Child Custody, as well as the Publications Coordinator for the Journal of Child Sexual Abuse and Journal of Child and Adolescent Trauma. Leigha Shoup, MA, is a Registered Advocate in the State of Ohio. She has more than 17 years of experience working with children and adolescents living with disabilities and is a state, national, and international presenter on the topics of diversity, inclusion, and accessibility when working with multi-disciplinary teams to serve survivors of crime. In July 2018, she co- published Serving Survivors with Disabilities – An Advocate’s Guide. Leigha is also an active mentor for other women of color within the advocacy movement and is a member of the state and national Women of Color Caucus. In 2017 she received the Children Safety Award in Allen County. Leigha holds a Master’s of Science in Applied Behavior Analysis and Behavior Therapy from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, as well as a Bachelor’s of Science in Hearing, Speech, and Language Sciences from Ohio University. Joyanna Silberg, PhD, is a clinical child psychologist in private practice. She is the President of the Leadership Council on Child Abuse & Interpersonal Violence. She specializes in children and adolescents with dissociative symptoms and disorders. She is past president of the International Society for the Study of Trauma & Dissociation (ISSTD) She presents nationally and internationally on dissociative disorders in children, and protecting abused children in family court. The second edition of her book The Child Survivor: Healing Developmental Trauma and Dissociation, will be released by Routledge Press in 2020. Dr. Silberg is the 2011 recipient of the William Friedrich Award for work on Child Sexual Abuse, 2013 recipient of the Champion for Children Award from the Domestic Violence and Legal Empowerment Appeals Project (DVLEAP), the 2013 ISSTD’s recipient of the Written Media Award for her book, The Child Survivor. Pete Singer, LCSW, is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker with 29 years experience in multiple settings, including residential, home-based, outpatient psychotherapy, schools, and management. He received his MSW from the University of Minnesota. His counseling practice focuses on children who have experienced trauma. He uses Trauma- Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and is a certified parent educator/supervisor with Circle of Security-Parenting. He completed a Certificate Program on Trauma-Effective Leadership from the University of Minnesota. Pete started and is Director of a small non-profit that works to equip the community to better recognize, respond to, and prevent child maltreatment. He is the President and Lead Consultant with Advanced Trauma Consulting. In that role, he trains, consults, and writes regarding trauma, trauma-informed practice, and staff support in the legal, education, health, faith, and child welfare systems. Much of this occurs in partnership with the Zero Abuse Project. Recent presentations include the Academy on Violence and Abuse Global Summit, National Crime Victim Bar Association, and more.
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Ashley Slye is the Manager of Positively Safe, NNEDV's project on the intersection of HIV/AIDS and DV. Ms. Slye has worked extensively with NNEDV’s HIV/AIDS and Domestic Violence Advisory Board to develop a curriculum on the intersection of HIV/AIDS and domestic violence. She has supported the Positively Safe team since it was founded in 2010 and has been instrumental in the development of NNEDV’s DV & HIV Toolkit, topical trainings, and webinars for domestic violence and HIV advocates. Ashley has presented on the intersection at numerous international, national, and state conferences, including the World Conference of Women’s Shelters and the US Conference on AIDS. Prior to joining NNEDV, Ashley supported the transitional housing program at the Women’s Resource Center of the New River Valley. She has a bachelor’s degree in English with a concentration in Cultural Studies and a minor in Sociology from Virginia Tech. Gail Soffer is the Founder and Executive Director of the Mindful Warrior Project, a non-profit organization (as a project of Community Partners) that guides veterans in an orientation to and actual simple, secular practices of mindfulness, to cultivate their inner strengths, support their own wellbeing, and participate in their own healing process, to Be Free, Be Well, and Be Whole in their daily lives. MWP also serves Active Duty, Guard, and Reserve members, their family members, and caregivers/service providers. Since 1968, Gail has been a counselor for children from disadvantaged areas following riots, a movement/dance teacher to blind students, an arts & crafts therapy provider, the manager of a center for blind and autistic youth, and the director of endless projects helping others creatively overcome challenges and find “the gift in the wound.” She has trained clinicians at Didi Hirsch Mental Health Services, case managers at VOA, first responders at 211 LA County, M.D.s and social workers in private venues, soldiers in Army resiliency programs, US Navy victim advocates; and presented at ABIP, USC School of Social Work, IVAT, NAMI, and many other diverse conferences. Ms. Soffer’s work has won honors and awards from Federal, State, County, City, and local elected officials and organizations such as Points of Light; the Los Angeles Police Department; LA County Board of Supervisors, Department of Mental Health, Sheriffs Department; the VA; and more. Gail delights in helping bring education, hope, and transformation, working with large groups in prestigious venues, “undercover” with kids at events, or one-on-one on Skid Row. Brian H. Spitzberg, PhD, is Senate Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the School of Communication at San Diego State University. He received his BA at University of Texas—Arlington (1978), his MA (1980) and PhD (1981) at University of Southern California, and his Certified Threat Management (CTMTM) qualification in 2017. He is a core Researcher, Center for Communication, Health, & the Public Good, and a Co-founder & Advisory Board member, Center for Human Dynamics in the Mobile Age, SDSU. He received the 2009 Western States Communication Association Scholar Award, the 2011 National Communication Association Larry Kibler Memorial Award, and the 2017 Mark Knapp NCA Award for career contribution to the study of Interpersonal Communication. His coauthored book The Dark Side of Relationship Pursuit won both the biennial International Association for Relationship Research Book Award (1st ed.: 2008) and the NCA Gerald Miller book award (2nd ed., 2015). He is author or coauthor of over 150 scholarly articles and book chapters, cited over 16,000 times (h = 64). He has coauthored and co-edited several scholarly books on communication competence and the dark side of communication. His primary areas of research involve meme diffusion, assessment, interpersonal communication skills, jealousy, conflict, threats, coercion, violence, and stalking. Ashley Stewart-Tufescu, PhD, RSW, is a post-doctoral fellow in the Departments of Community Health Sciences and Psychiatry working under the supervision of Dr. Afifi. Prior to joining the Childhood Adversity and Resilience (CARe) Research Team, her research focused on the prevention of punitive violence against children in local and international contexts including the development, contextualization, implementation and evaluation violence prevention programs. Her dissertation research examined the prevention of punitive violence in the chronic conflict setting of Gaza and the West Bank, in an urban and post-natural disaster context in Japan, and a remote and underserved region of Indonesia.Her work utilizes a trauma-informed, rights-based approach to addressing child maltreatment. Current research interests focus on: (1) linking parent and child adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) with administrative health, justice and education outcomes over the life course, and (2) identifying protective factors and developing intervention strategies to promote parent-child resiliency and well-being in the context of maltreatment. In addition to my role with Dr. Afifi’s Childhood Adversity and Resilience (CARe) Research Team, I am also involved with the Manitoba Population Health Research Group, the Children’s Worlds: International Survey of Children’s Well-being Research Team, the Children’s Understanding of Well-being- Global and Local Contexts Project, Red River College’s Early Child Development Research Team, and Positive Discipline in Everyday Life.
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Kristin Stout has over 20 years of experience in case management, case oversight, and advocacy. The past 10 years have been spent in program development, research, data evaluation, and program implementation. She has facilitated multiple trainings on trauma informed programs and services. As an improvement advisor, she has worked with schools, community mental health agencies, and juvenile justice systems to successfully implement trauma informed practices and treatment models. Nicole Strattman, LCSW, has been employed with the Orange County Social Services Agency since 1999. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who holds a Master’s degree in Social Work from the University of Southern California. In 2014 Nicole began supervising the social workers in the CSEC specialized investigation unit who are the first responders to all calls of suspected exploitation and human trafficking in Orange County. Nicole is also the CSEC Coordinator for Orange County Children and Family Services where she has been part of the Orange County Human Trafficking Task Force to create an enhanced collaborative response model, treating trafficked children as victims and ensuring the child welfare system has the services to meet the victim’s needs. She is a California Department of Social Services "Above and Beyond" award recipient and has received recognition from California State Senator Ling Ling Chang and California Congresswoman Katie Porter for her commitment to end Human Trafficking and the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children. Nicole was a key advocate in bringing in a therapy dog into youth’s court hearings, which was profiled on local news station, KTLA in Los Angeles as well as the nationally syndicated show CW’s Dogs of the Year. As an expert in this field, she has traveled across the State as a presenter and trainer on CSEC and Human Trafficking as it relates to Child Welfare. Kevin Swartout, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Psychology and Public Health at Georgia State University in Atlanta, GA, and he has a courtesy appointment at the University of Texas at Austin. His research addresses trajectories and social correlates of violence and harassment across time, with the goal promoting safer organizations and communities. Dr. Swartout has received early-career awards from the International Society for Research on Aggression, the Southeastern Psychological Association, and Georgia State University. Casey Taft, PhD, is a staff psychologist at the National Center for PTSD in the VA Boston Healthcare System, and Professor of Psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine. Dr. Taft was the 2009 Linda Saltzman Memorial Intimate Partner Violence Researcher Award winner from the Institute on Violence, Abuse, and Trauma. He has served as Principal Investigator on funded grants focusing on understanding and preventing partner violence through the National Institute of Mental Health, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Centers for Disease Control, the Department of Defense, the Blue Shield Foundation of California, the Bob Woodruff Foundation, and the Mother Cabrini Health Foundation. He was the primary developer of the Strength at Home program to prevent intimate partner violence, with current grants to implement the program within the VA and in military settings as well as a pilot grant to adapt and evaluate the program for civilians. Dr. Taft is on the Editorial Boards of five journals and has published over 100 peer-reviewed academic articles and a book on trauma-informed partner violence intervention, published by the American Psychological Association. Laura Taylor, LCSW, was appointed as the National Director, Social Work in May 2014. In this role, she serves as the principal advisor on Social Work Professional Practice, including providing guidance to the Deputy Chief Officer, Patient Care Services, Care Management and Social Work, as well as Network and Medical Center Directors, and other VA and VHA offices. Ms. Taylor is responsible for the professional practice of 15,000 masters prepared VHA Social Workers, the largest single employer of Social Workers in the United States of America. Ms. Taylor provides orientation to the role of Social Work Executive and oversees the graduate Social Work training program, with over 900 stipends; the largest Social Work training program nationwide. Ms. Taylor develops national policy for Professional Social Work for VA Central Office, VISN and medical center leaders. In addition, she provides guidance and consultation on Social Work practice within VHA. Joyce Thomas, RN, MPH, PNP, FAAN, is a pioneer in child maltreatment, child welfare, community-based practice, and domestic violence. She is an expert in cultural diversity in the fields of child welfare and domestic violence prevention, and is active in policy, research, and education. She is Co-founder and President of the Center for Child Protection and Family Support, Inc. in Washington, DC. She is Facilitator of the DC Citizen Review Panel. She has a BS from Holy Names University in Oakland California, a master’s degree in Public Health from the University of California, Berkeley and her Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Certification from Temple University School of Medicine in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is the former President of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children. She is also the former director of the Division of Child Protection (currently known as the Freddie Mac Child and Adolescent Protection Center) at Children’s Hospital in Washington, DC.
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Machelle Madsen Thompson, PhD, LCSW, is the director of the Resilience & Protective Factor Initiative at the Florida State University and teaches intervention with children and policy practice courses. As a licensed counselor for over 20 years, she has specialized in resilience-based measurement and interventions with underserved children, adolescents, and families experiencing trauma, poverty, and abuse. Machelle is on the board of directors of the Academy on Violence and Abuse and presents nationally and internationally on the implementation of protective factors in school, counseling, foster care, medical, and high-risk community settings. She is the first author of the Trauma Resilience Scale, the Trauma Resilience Scale for Children, and the Chinese 儿童青少年抗逆力调查——保护性因素的测量, which practitioners and researchers use across the world. She conducted measurement research as a Fulbright U.S. Scholar, 2018 with the National Children's Medical Center in Shanghai and with children living in poverty in Hong Kong. She is creating the My Little Buddy Resilience app, initially with the Florida Interactive Entertainment Academy at UCF and currently with Team Firestorm. Machelle is finishing the validation of la Escala de Resiliencia de Trauma para Niños. During COVID19, she has been writing Resilience Briefs for children to help them with safety and protective factor building skills.
Jenae Tindell, MS, serves as a Behavior Specialist for the Oklahoma State Department of Education, Special Education Services. Prior her work at the state department, Jenae worked as a special education teacher and a substance abuse counselor. Jenae has worked with both children and adults who have been severely impacted by trauma, mental illness, substance abuse and cognitive and developmental disabilities for the last 12 years. Glenna Tinney, MSW, ACSW, DCSW, Captain, U.S. Navy (Ret.) is a consultant on violence against women, social justice, environmental justice, and animal rights. She was most recently the Senior Advisor for the Military and Veteran Advocacy Program of the Battered Women’s Justice Project. She served in the Navy for 24 years working with military families and managing worldwide family violence and sexual assault programs in the Department of Defense but has worked to end interpersonal violence for over 45 years. In recognition of her work, Ms. Tinney was selected by the White House as a Woman Veteran Champion of Change in March, 2013. Ms. Tinney has numerous publications, including a chapter on intimate partner violence, women in the military, and women veterans in Women at War, published in 2015 and one on military sexual assault and one on intimate partner violence in Intimacy After Injury, published in 2016. Ms. Tinney received the Lifetime Achievement in Family Violence Advocacy Award from IVAT in 2019. Patti Toth, JD, manages and is part of the core faculty for APSAC’s Child Forensic Interview Clinics. She recently retired from the WA State CJTC where, for over 20 years, she was responsible for development & delivery of WA State’s child forensic interview training. Patti started her career in 1980 as a WA State prosecutor, where she tried numerous child abuse cases. She then served as the 1st Director of NDAA’s National Center for Prosecution of Child Abuse, & later as a trial attorney in the US DOJ’s Child Exploitation Section. Patti has provided training nationally & internationally, is a past president of APSAC, & previously served on ISPCAN’s Executive Council. Patti is co-author of the WA State Child Interview Guide & was committee co-chair responsible for APSAC’s 2012 Forensic Interviewing Practice Guidelines. Patti received APSAC’s 2007 Outstanding Service Award & the 2008 J. Pat Finley Child Protection Lifetime Achievement Award. Linh Tran, MSW, is the Administrator for the Orange County Human Trafficking Task Force (OCHTTF). Since 2010, working alongside the co-chair leadership of Waymakers and the Anaheim Police Department, she helps facilitate the goals and objectives of the Task Force in anti-human trafficking efforts for Orange County as it relates to protection, prosecution and prevention. Linh graduated from the University of California, Irvine with a B.A. in International Studies. She attended graduate school in Spain under the United National Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s (UNESCO) Chair of Philosophy for Peace – International Program in Peace, Conflict and Development. Her Master’s thesis research was on human trafficking and she has been involved with anti-human trafficking work since 2005. Rosemary Trible, founder of Fear 2 Freedom, has dedicated her life to public service and instilling the values of excellence and leadership in the next generation. At 25 years old, she was raped at gunpoint, after hosting a television talk show on sexual assault. Rosemary knows the impact that displays of compassion have on the healing process. In addition to founding Fear 2 Freedom (F2F) in 2011, Rosemary has spoken about sexual violence and her experience with compassion in numerous venues, including NASA Langley Research Center, Christopher Newport University, and the Association of Title IX Administrators annual conference. In 2019, Rosemary was honored with a commendation from the Virginia General Assembly for her work in supporting survivors of sexual violence.
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Monica Ulibarri, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the California School of Professional Psychology Clinical Psychology Ph.D. Program at Alliant International University and holds an appointment as a Voluntary Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at UCSD. Dr. Ulibarri received her B.A. in Psychology from Claremont McKenna College, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Arizona State University. Dr. Ulibarri’s research focuses on HIV prevention with marginalized populations such as female sex workers, people who inject drugs, drug-involved couples, and commercially sexually exploited youth along the Mexico-U.S. border, with an emphasis on how gender-based violence, mental health, substance use, intersect with HIV risk behaviors. Two of her more recent studies examined the commercial sexual exploitation of adolescent girls in San Diego County. She is a licensed Clinical Psychologist in the state of California. Emilio Ulloa, PhD, is a Professor of Psychology, and Director of Advising for the College of Sciences at San Diego State University. He earned a PhD degree in Social Psychology from Arizona State University in 2003. His research focuses on understanding the etiology and effects of physical, sexual, and emotional violence among adolescents, young adults, and college students. Dr. Ulloa has served the university in a variety of capacities, including serving as the lead researcher for the SDSU Sexual Violence Campus Climate Survey since 2013.Dr. Ulloa is committed to issues of diversity in higher education. Dr. Ulloa has served as a member of the University Diversity Equity and Outreach Committee, and as a member of the committee for the Recruitment and Retention of Underrepresented Faculty and Staff. He currently holds the title of Chair of Campus Climate in the Division of Diversity and Innovation. Eva Usadi, MA, BCD is the Founder and Executive Director of Trauma and Resiliency Resources, and the creator and Clinical Director of its Warrior Camp® program. She is a Certified EMDR therapist and EMDRIA Approved Consultant, a Certified Sensorimotor Psychotherapist® and a Certified Equine Assisted Psychotherapist. She has completed 500-hours of Yoga Teacher Training. In practice for 34 years, and in private practice in NYC for 24 years, Ms. Usadi is a contract therapist for the FDNY since 2001, a Military Family Life Consultant for the Department of Defense, and a preferred provider for Doctors Without Borders. She has presented at numerous conferences in the US, the UK and Europe for the past 11 years, and is the daughter of a WWII Veteran. Viola Vaughan-Eden PhD, MJ, LCSW is Associate Professor and PhD Program Director with The Ethelyn R. Strong School of Social Work at Norfolk State University. She is also the Chief Experience Officer (CXO) at The UP Institute, a think tank for upstream child abuse solutions. As a clinical and forensic social worker, Dr. Vaughan-Eden serves as a consultant and expert witness in child maltreatment cases – principally sexual abuse. She lectures nationally and internationally on child and family welfare to multidisciplinary groups of professionals. Dr. Vaughan-Eden is President Emerita of the National Partnership to End Interpersonal Violence (NPEIV), President Emerita of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC), and Immediate Past-President of the National Organization of Forensic Social Work (NOFSW). She is the recipient of several honors including as a 2019 CSWE Leadership Scholar and the 2012 NASW Virginia Chapter Lifetime Achievement Award. See www.violavaughaneden.com Victor Vieth, JD, MA, is the Director of Education & Research for the Zero Abuse and previously served as President of the Academy on Violence and Abuse and Director of the National Center for Prosecution of Child Abuse. He has trained thousands of professionals from all 50 states and numerous countries, is a prolific author and recipient of numerous awards for his work in child protection. He has been instrumental in implementing 22 state and international forensic interview training programs and dozens of undergraduate and graduate programs on child abuse. He has developed multiple programs to address child abuse in faith communities and to build effective collaborations between faith and child protection communities. Prior to his work at a national level, he served as a prosecutor for a decade in rural Minnesota where he gained national attention for his work to address child abuse in small communities. Shaughanassee Vines, DNP, CNM is a Certified Nurse Midwife. She is an alumnus of Old Dominion University where she earned her Bachelors and Masters of Science in Nursing. She was trained in midwifery at Shenandoah University and later earned her Doctor of Nursing Practice degree from Frontier Nursing University. Her clinical passions lie in public health, racial inequity and social determinants of health. She works as part of The Thrive Study at University of California San Diego. She is also graduate course faculty at Frontier Nursing University for masters and doctoral students. Aside from her career, she has a loving husband and family and serves within a number of community organizations including the Urban League Young Professionals and the Black Nurses Association. She enjoys traveling, spending time with loved ones, laughing, and making others smile.
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Janet Wagar, MSW, RSW, has provided counselling in the field of clinical social work for more than 30 years. She has designed, delivered and evaluated programming for men, women and children who have a history of domestic violence. The last twenty years she has been in private practice, Exploring Solutions Counselling Services. She provides in-home or office counselling with family members of all ages and at all stages of life. Janet’s specialties include Cognitive Behavioural therapy addressing issues such as healthy relationships; conflict resolution; domestic abuse; depression/anxiety; couple communication; anger and stress management; separation/divorce issues; parent/child struggles; and parenting. Janet provides workshops locally, nationally and internationally to clinical professionals and community groups. Topics presented include couple counseling, family trauma, communication, healthy relationships, group facilitation, as well as, treatment issues and service provision in family violence. Janet has also conducted evaluations and research into groups for men, women and children who have been abusive and abused. She has also provided specialized counselling to individuals, couples, families and groups who have been connected to Children and Family Services. Janet has co-facilitated hundreds of groups for men, women and couples where domestic abuse was present and provides ‘domestic violence’ and ‘family’ risk assessments for those connected to the legal system. She has published several articles and developed exercise packages for children, individuals and couples to utilize as part of the counselling process. Shelly Wagers, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Criminology at the University of South Florida a Highly Ranked Preeminent Institution. She has worked in the field and researched domestic violence for over 20 years. Her research focus is the intersection of theory and practice of domestic violence in the criminal justice systems and programs such as BIP. Dr. Wagers has published numerous research articles in several top ranked journals, authored several book chapters and prepared multiple technical reports for various local and state organizations nationally. Dr. Wagers regularly presents her research, and she is often requested to provide continuing education training to criminal justice professionals. Dr. Wagers serves as the Volunteer Executive Director for NPEIV and as an Associated Editor for the journal Partner Abuse Jennifer Wagman, PhD, MHS, leads UC Speaks Up, a public health research project to address and prevent sexual assault and dating violence on three University of California campuses in California. Since 2016, she has been the Director of Violence Prevention Research with the 10-campus UC Global Health Institute Women’s Health, Gender and Empowerment Center of Expertise. Her postdoctoral training was in alcohol and substance use and HIV and related infections. Since 2000, Wagman has collaborated with the Rakai Health Sciences Program to examine the relationship between intimate partner violence (IPV), reproductive health and HIV infection; create protocols for safe and ethical research on interpersonal violence; and lead intervention research to find effective, combination IPV and HIV prevention approaches in rural Uganda. She has expanded her research in Uganda to focus on the epidemiology of alcohol use and its association with IPV and HIV transmission; and throughout sub-Saharan Africa to examine the science of implementing proven successful violence and HIV prevention approaches. Wendy Walsh, PhD, is a Psychology Professor at California State University Channel Islands, an award winning television Journalist, (The Doctors) and a Radio Host at iHeartMedia's KFI AM640 Los Angeles. In 2017, she was named one of Time Magazine’s Persons of the Year after the New York Times made her the face of the story of systemic sexual harassment at Fox News. Her voice helped pave the way for the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements. Prior to obtaining a mid-life Ph.D. in psychology, Walsh had a twenty year career in media as a local new anchor, network correspondent, and television host. She can be seen regularly on CNN and CNN's sister station, HLN, as a human behavior expert. She also works privately as a media coach to executives. Sujata Warrier, PhD, is the Director of Training and TA for the Battered Women’s Justice Project. She trains and provides technical assistance to professionals in various criminal justice systems. She has also trained extensively at the local, state, national and international levels on the issue of cultural competency for various professionals and has delivered numerous keynotes on the issue of culture, competency, relativism, and violence against women. She received her Ph.D. from the Maxwell School of Syracuse University. She has written and published numerous articles on violence against women in the international context. She worked in Manavi, a pioneering South Asian women's organization in New Jersey. She also serves on other Boards and groups: The Asian Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence, and Assista. She is also a faculty on the National Judicial Institute of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges. She recently served as the Country Director – Bangladesh for an American Bar Association – Rule of Law Initiative for six months. Earlier she helped train lawyers to advocate for women’s rights and violence against women in Bangladesh for the same program. She also worked with Chemonics International and the Egyptian government to help develop a national Egyptian strategy to
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address Violence against Women in Egypt. She also served as a facilitator for some of the sessions at the Asia Summit in New Delhi, India as well as for the Latin America Human Rights Institute, in Buenos Aires, hosted by Vital Voices in 2010. She served as a consultant for a domestic violence institute hosted by UNDP in Amman, Jordan. She has also worked with CEHAT and Masum in India on numerous projects on women’s health and violence against women. She has worked with the Alberta Council of Women’s Shelters on developing standards for cultural diversity for all domestic and sexual violence programs and has delivered numerous keynotes. Carole Warshaw, MD, is the Director of the National Center on Domestic Violence, Trauma & Mental Health. She has been at the forefront of building system capacity to address the mental health, substance use, and advocacy concerns of survivors of DV and other trauma and to create accessible, culturally responsive, DV- and trauma-informed services and organizations. She has written and spoken extensively on these topics and has served as an advisor to numerous organizations and federal agencies. Dr. Warshaw maintains a private practice in psychiatry and is a faculty member in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Illinois. Frances Waters, DCSW, LMSW, LMFT, is an internationally recognized trainer, consultant, and clinician in the area of childhood trauma, abuse, and dissociation, and has presented extensively in five continents. Ms. Waters is author of Healing the Fracture Child: Diagnosing and Treating Dissociative Youth (2016). Ms. Waters is the past President of The International Society for the Study of Trauma & Dissociation (ISSTD). Ms. Waters received the 2019 ISSTD’S Cornelia B. Wilbur Award for research, training, and clinical work, the 2019 William Friedrich Memorial Child Sexual Abuse Research, Assessment and/or Treatment Award from IVAT, the 2008 Media Award from American Professional Society on Abuse of Children for her production of Trauma and Dissociation in Children, and ISSTD’s Presidential Award for her faculty directorship of ISSTD’s Psychotherapy Training Course on Child & Adolescent Trauma and Dissociation. She is a fellow of ISSTD. She maintains a private practice in Marquette, MI. Chrissy Weathersby Ball is a Member of the National College Players Association advisory board. I currently help advocate for the health and safety of student-athletes, bringing awareness to the abuse they are subjected to as a means to earn an education. John Weil, MA, currently serves as the Senior Program Specialist and Director of the North Carolina Network for Safe Communities (NCNSC) at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG). John has worked with the High Point (NC) and Lexington (NC) Police Departments in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of the Offender Focused Domestic Violence Initiative, in which for the first time anywhere, the focused deterrence strategy was successfully applied to combat domestic violence by holding offenders accountable. John has worked with jurisdictions in all three federal judicial districts across North Carolina to assist in all phases of Project Safe Neighborhoods / focused deterrence violent crime reduction initiatives including all phases of planning, implementation operational support, data analysis, evaluation, and sustainability planning. Carolyn West, PhD, is Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Washington. She has authored more than 70 publications and is editor/contributor of the award-winning book “Violence in the Lives of Black Women: Battered, Black, and Blue." She has written extensively on racism in sexualized media and is producer of the documentary ""Let Me Tell Ya'll 'Bout Black Chicks: Images of Black Women in Pornography."" She writes, trains, consults, and speaks to national and international audiences. She has worked as an expert witness in domestic violence/sexual assault cases, delivered keynote addresses, conducted workshops, and created innovative training materials to educate and equip professionals with the skills to provide culturally-sensitive services to survivors of color. Jacquelyn White, PhD, is an Emerita Professor of Psychology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her research focuses on gender issues, aggression, and intimate partner violence. Recent publications reflect an ecological developmental perspective to aggression and violence. She has conducted one of the few longitudinal studies of sexual and physical dating violence among adolescents and college students and has been a consultant on a project with the U.S. Navy. She is a founding Co-Chair of the NPEIV and an active board member to date. Jessica T. White, MS, is a Sexual Exploitation and Abuse Expert, award-winning philanthropist, acclaimed Keynote, and TEDx speaker. She enjoys spreading love and bringing change globally through her transformational training series. Jessica's commitment to bring awareness to issues of sexual abuse and commercial sexual exploitation of children reign true both nationally and internationally. As a former Child Protective Investigator and Clinical Mental Health Therapist, Jessica's experiences have equipped her with a plethora of skills and techniques that enable her to educate world leaders
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and professionals about Sexual Trauma. Obtaining certifications in Human Sex Trafficking, Child Sexual Trauma, Suicide prevention, and more Jessica has made it her moral imperative to serve and protect children and families. In 2018 Jessica was one of several world-changers selected to help develop policies to accelerate Alliance 8.7: Ending Forced Labor, Modern Slavery, Human Trafficking & Child Labor at the United Nations. Most recently, Jessica had the humble privilege to speak and train world leaders at the 16th Hawai'i International Summit on Preventing, Assessing, & Treating Trauma Across the Lifespan. Oliver Williams, PhD, MSW, MPH, is a Professor in the of School of Social Work at the University of Minnesota, in St. Paul. From June 1994 to September 2016 he was the Executive Director of the Institute on Domestic Violence in the African American Community. He has also served as the Director of the Safe Return Initiative that addresses the issues of prisoner reentry and domestic violence from 2003-2016 and Director of the African American Domestic Peace Project that works with community leaders in 10 cities across the US to address domestic violence (DV). He has worked in the field of DV for more than 35 years. Dr. Williams is a clinical practitioner, working in mental health, family therapy, substance abuse, child welfare, delinquency and sexual assault programs. He has worked in battered women's shelters, developed curricula for batterers' intervention programs and facilitated counseling groups in these programs. He has provided training across the US and abroad on research and service-delivery surrounding partner abuse. Saunie Wilson, MPA, is proud to be Oglala Lakota from Pine Ridge South Dakota. Ms. Wilson is a former Youth and Family Court Judge for the Oglala Sioux tribe, having implemented a culturally relevant Juvenile code adopted by the tribe in 2007. Ms. Wilson is currently the Dean of Students for the largest elementary school in the state of South Dakota., with over 800 K-8 students. Ms. Wilson has served as a board member for NPEIV, and has trained on child maltreatment issues, domestic violence, sexual assault, and suicide/prevention in Indian Country for IVAT. Ms. Wilson earned a Master's Degree in Public Administration from the University of South Dakota and was the Executive Secretary for the Oglala Gaming Commission for 13 years. Ms. Wilson also served as a Board member for South Dakota Voices for Children on a Tribal Advisory Group and has taught at Oglala Lakota College. Ms. Wilson advocates for the re-establishment of Lakota culture and the values associated through the use of the Lakota language. Within the framework of the matriarchal culture is the power of the indigenous women and the role they have as life-givers and preservers. As change agents, the women leaders need to assist the youth to experience employment so that the reservation economic status can move away from being a welfare state in order for our children to have normal developmental stages. Ms. Wilson emphasizes the importance of cultural strategies for at-risk youth and families. Debra Wingfield, PhD, is an Author, Speaker, and Trainer for family violence prevention and intervention/treatment and child abuse programs. She practiced as a counselor for 25 years with domestic violence victims, offenders, and child witness/victims, delinquent youth, families with child abuse and neglect issues, and adults and children from all types of dysfunctional family systems. She designed and implemented programs addressing these issues. She was a faculty member at Regis university teaching psychology and counseling courses. She developed and taught a domestic violence counselor training curriculum at the University of Southern Colorado from 1994 - 2001. She converted these courses into virtual trainings in 2008 for treatment providers, mental health and legal professionals, and advocates. She has provided family court advocacy since 1993. Her training and advocacy work is dedicated to the memory of her granddaughter, Nicole (1989-2020), who was made invisible in her son’s life through family court. Elizabeth Wrape, PhD, received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at the University of North Texas in 2015 following completion of her predoctoral internship at VA North Texas Healthcare System. She completed her fellowship at VA Puget Sound- Seattle Division in the Family Therapy Program, providing couple and family therapy services with a range of presenting problems. Dr. Wrape is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry in the UCSD School of Medicine, as well as the Clinic Coordinator of the Family Mental Health Program (FMHP) at VA San Diego Healthcare System. She also serves as a study therapist, supervisor, and consultant on the FMHP-adjunctive RCT working with couples experiencing PTSD. Her clinical duties include systemic interventions for relationship distress in-person and via telemental health; primary modalities used are Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy (IBCT), Cognitive Behavioral Couple Therapy for PTSD (CBCT), and Structural Family Therapy. Dr. Wrape’s research interests include supervision and training particularly in family-service delivery, as well as examining innovative ways to provide couple and family services. " Katherine Yoder, MA, saw a need for victim services for adults with disabilities and founded the Adult Advocacy Centers to serve that need in March 2019. She is a certified forensic interviewer and has been an advocate for people with disabilities
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for 20 years. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in social psychology from Park University and a Master’s degree in criminal justice from the University of Cincinnati. Nada Yorke, LCSW, is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and owner of Yorke Consulting and Correctional Counseling for Change. She has over thirty years working in the criminal justice system as a probation officer, victim advocate, domestic violence expert witness and trainer for law enforcement, advocates and other court personnel. Ms. Yorke implemented the first probation-department certified batterer intervention program in a California maximum security prison, and her research results were published in the October 2010 edition of The Journal of Offender Rehabilitation. She created “Another Way…Choosing to Change; A Step-by-Step Facilitator Guide for 52-week Batterer Intervention Programs” and has spoken to national and international audiences of therapists, forensic counselors and law enforcement personnel about the issues concerning domestic violence and the value of working with perpetrators to stop the intergenerational cycle of domestic violence. Ms. Yorke currently trains California probation officers to effectively assess and monitor batterer intervention programs who provide court-ordered services, and advanced training for facilitators of batterer intervention programs around the country. Morgan Younger, MSW, LSW, CCM, joined the Gender Health Program at Eskenazi Health in August 2017, assisting patients with navigating their health insurance benefits and conducting hospital-wide and community education about transgender-competent care. Morgan brings nine years’ experience with an Indiana Medicaid managed care insurance plan, providing complex case management and managing the case management department’s Right Choices Program and Medically Frail Program teams. Morgan completed her Bachelor of Social Work at Bradley University and was active with the campus GSA. She completed her Master of Social Work at the University of Michigan and worked on a student-led initiative to add gender identity and expression to both the School of Social Work’s and the University’s nondiscrimination policies. Morgan has been a Licensed Social Worker since 2006 and a Certified Case Manager since 2014. Gabriela Zapata – Alma, LCSW, CADC, is the Director of Policy and Practice on Domestic Violence and Substance Use at the National Center on Domestic Violence, Trauma & Mental Health, as well as faculty at The University of Chicago, where they coordinate the Advanced Alcohol and Other Drug Counselor certification program at the School of Social Service Administration. Gabriela brings over 15 years of experience supporting people impacted by structural and interpersonal violence through leading evidence-based clinical services, housing, and resource advocacy programs. Currently, Gabriela authors best practices, provides trauma-informed policy consultation with a focus on advancing social justice, as well as capacity building related to serving marginalized communities impacted by trauma and other social determinants of health, nationally and internationally.
Chris Zopatti, JD, is a partner with the law firm Callahan, Thompson, Sherman & Caudill, LLP where he specializes in the area of the defense of mental health professionals, both in civil and administrative matters. Mr. Zopatti is a graduate of the University of California (B.A. 1980) and the University of San Diego School of Law (J.D. 1986). He is a member of the California Bar Association and the California Academy of Attorneys for Health Care Professionals. He is available for consultation or representation and may be reached at [email protected] or (949) 261-2872.
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Program at a Glance
25th Summit Breakout and Poster Sessions
Sunday, August 30th 2020
A. Morning Breakout Sessions 8:30 am – 10:00 am PT B. Mid-Afternoon Breakout Sessions 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm PT C. Late-Afternoon Breakout Sessions 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm PT Monday, August 31 D. Morning Breakout Sessions 8:30 am – 10:00 am PT E. Mid-Afternoon Breakout Sessions 10:30 am – 12:00 pm PT F. Late-Afternoon Breakout Sessions 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm PT Poster Session 1 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm PT Mindfulness 4:15 pm – 5:15 pm PT Tuesday, September 1 G. Morning Breakout Sessions 8:30 am – 10:00 am PT H. Parallel Plenaries 10:30 am – 12:00 pm PT Poster Session 2 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm PT I. Afternoon Breakout Sessions 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm PT Wednesday, September 2 J. Morning Breakout Sessions 8:30 am – 11:30 am PT K. Afternoon Breakout Sessions 12:30 pm – 3:30 pm PT Mindfulness Wrap Up for the Summit 3:45 pm – 4:45 pm PT
Program Tracks
Acronyms: 1. Adolescent Trauma & Youth Violence 2. Adult Survivors & Vulnerable Populations DV: Domestic Violence 3. Campus Assault IPV: Intimate Partner Violence 4. Child Maltreatment/Adverse Childhood SA: Sexual Assault LGBTQ+: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Experiences Transgender, Queer/Questioning 5. Human & Labor Trafficking CSA: Child Sexual Abuse 6. Intimate Partner Violence: Offenders HT: Human Trafficking 7. Intimate Partner Violence: Victims/Survivors PTSD: Post-Traumatic Stress 8. Legal and Criminal Justice Issues Disorder 9. Primary Prevention/Early Intervention 10. Sexual Victimization 11. Trauma Among First Responders, Military Personnel & their Families 12. Trauma in General 13. Self-Care and Wellness
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Sunday, August 30th, 2020
Summit Morning Sessions (A 1-13) 8:30 am - 10:00 am PT
A1 – Indicators of Trauma and Suicide Prevention Programs Part 1) CIT-DY: A New Comprehensive Checklist of Indicators of Trauma and Dissociation in Youth Frances Waters, DCSW, MSW, Private Practice Audience Level: Beginning: Appropriate for all attendees as an introduction to a topic This workshop will describe the use of ©CIT-DY, a comprehensive Checklist of Indicators of Trauma and Dissociation in Youth geared for parents/caregivers, clinicians, and educators for children as young as three years old through 18 years old. It is a thorough guide that collects extensive history that is used in assessing and diagnosing children with complex trauma. This workshop will review CIT-DY’s developmentally sensitive, systematic rating of multiple factors that are frequently associated with children and adolescents who experienced early and chronic trauma and can develop dissociation. A history of types of familial & treatment placements, treatment episodes, medications & diagnoses and child’s associated ages provide such analyses. Because prenatal and early traumas are often unrecognized or unrated, CIT-DY provides a rating of such exposure and experience of traumatic events during this sensitive period and up to 18 years old. A description of CIT-DY’s rating of frequency of dissociative symptoms analyzes the degree of dissociation the child may experience. If available, scores on other valid dissociative checklists, Child Dissociative Checklist and Adolescent Checklist, are also requested, so that a comparison can be made with CIT-DY dissociative ratings case examples of the use of CIT-DY’s comprehensive gathering of such complicated and extensive history at particular ages will be presented to demonstrate how significant this new checklist is in analyzing noteworthy factors related to dissociation that can often be unrecognized. This systematic collection of information is a one stop measurement tool that provides a thorough composite picture of children with complex trauma that can provide an accurate evaluation, including detecting dissociation. Consequently, it can then lead to an effective course of treatment of trauma and dissociation. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1.Describe CIT-DY checklist 2.Describe use of this with case examples 3.Describe relevant factors that guides assessment & treatment of youth with complex trauma.
Part 2) Suicide Prevention Programs in California High Schools - Cindy Pancer, EdD, MA, Alliant International University Audience Level: Beginning: Appropriate for all attendees as an introduction to a topic. California Assembly Bill 2246 required California schools to adopt a suicide prevention policy before the beginning of the 2017–18 school year. As a result, several emotional wellness and suicide prevention programs have been developed targeting whole school districts, school faculties, and individual students. The presentation covers the school as a protective factor, programs that address suicide prevention, and the reactions of preservice teachers to the responsibility for suicide prevention in their future careers.
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Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1.Describe three suicide prevention programs used in California middle and high schools, 2.Categorize the programs by their purpose and scope, and 3.Evaluate the suitability of the programs to specific schools.
Continuing Education: Approved up to 1.5 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, Nurses, ATSS, Victim Advocates and Suicide Prevention IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 3 credit hours for Trauma Care Providers
A2 - Embracing Hope, Healing and Empowerment: Helping Victims of Multiple Traumas Reclaim Their Lives from Survivor to Thriver - Susan Omilian, JD, National Partnership to End Interpersonal Violence Across the Lifespan (NPEIV); Diana Barnes-Fox, MA, National Partnership to End Interpersonal Violence Across the Lifespan (NPEIV) Audience Level: Advanced: Appropriate for practitioners in the field 10+ years From hopelessness and despair, victims can take action to reconnect with a part of themselves untouched by all they have experienced — domestic violence, sexual assault, child abuse, trauma, hurt and pain. Hear inspiring stories about women who have embraced hope, healing and been empowered to reclaim their lives beyond surviving their experiences. Learn innovative, life-changing techniques Susan Omilian, a survivor of domestic violence homicide herself, has successfully used to help survivors become thrivers – healthy, happy people with brilliant, productive futures. Hear about the model she’s building to bring together fragmented systems to simplify this healing journey. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1.Learn innovative motivational model successfully used with victims of multiple traumas and poly victimization. 2.Identify ways to empower abuse survivors by quieting Inner Critic and setting a vision for future. 3.Explore model coordinating a resources system that promotes a healing journey.
Continuing Education: Approved up to 1.5 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, Nurses, DVOTP, ATSS, Victim Advocates, and Domestic Violence. IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 1.5 credit hours for Trauma Care, Domestic Violence Offender Treatment and Child and Adult Maltreatment
A3 – Translating Trauma: Applying Neurobiology & Social Science Research in Helping Sexual Assault – Sapana Donde, PhD, University of Arizona Audience Level: Beginning: Appropriate for all attendees as an introduction to a topic. This session will facilitate participants’ understanding, appreciation, and compassion for the diverse reactions and responses exhibited by survivors of sexual assault during and after experiences of trauma and to apply this information to their practice on college campuses. Participants will gain a more nuanced understanding of neuroscience, including the limitations of cognitive neuroscience (“brain scan”) research; learn a new definition of trauma from a behavioral neuroscience perspective; identify biological defensive strategies that humans use when faced with threat; and understand how traumatic stress can impact memory processes. Participants will also learn about sociocultural factors #25IVAT | #TraumaIntoTriumph | ivatcenters.org 64
that affect sexual assault survivors' healing and recovery process. Concrete and practical strategies to engage in trauma-informed practice on college campuses will be discussed.
Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1.Learn a more nuanced understanding of neuroscience and the limitations of cognitive neuroscience (“brain scan”) research 2.Gain deeper understanding, appreciation, and compassion for the diverse reactions and responses exhibited by survivors of sexual assault from both neurobiological and sociocultural perspectives 3. Learn how to apply an understanding of trauma responses within college campus settings
Continuing Education: Approved up to 1.5 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, Nurses, Substance Abuse Counselors, DVOTP, ATSS and Victim Advocates.
A4 - Corporal Punishment – Randy Alexander, MD, PhD, University of Florida; Deborah Sendek, MS, United States Alliance to End the Hitting of Children, National Partnership to End Interpersonal Violence Across the Lifespan (NPEIV); Viola Vaughan-Eden, PhD, MJ, MSW, Norfolk State University, National Partnership to End Interpersonal Violence Across the Lifespan (NPEIV); Stacie LeBlanc, JD, MEd, The Up Institute, American Professional Society of Abuse on Children (APSAC) Audience Level: Beginning: Appropriate for all attendees as an introduction to a topic Corporal punishment has been shown to have limited to no effectiveness but is increasingly recognized to cause harm. This harm is to the emotional state, brain development, and to health consequences. Corporal punishment is banned in 58 countries and is increasingly becoming less desirable in many venues. This session will explore the evidence about corporal punishment, the resistance to change, and various prevention initiatives to end corporal punishment. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1. Describe the impetus about countries banning corporal punishment & the pattern of who does so. 2. Identify which states allow corporal punishment in schools and how that might change. 3. List some of the research about corporal punishment.
Continuing Education: Approved up to 1.5 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, Nurses, Attorneys, ATSS, Victim Advocates, and Child Abuse. IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 1.5 credit hours for Child Custody Evaluators and Trauma Care.
A5 - Sex Trafficking: The Painful Reality of a Homeless 13-Year Old Girl Michael Levittan, PhD; Private Practice; Tyesa Harvey, Advocate for Sex-Trafficking Victims
Audience Level: Beginning: Appropriate for all attendees as an introduction to a topic Both human trafficking and sex trafficking are on the rise in the U.S. In 2018, there were approximately 11,000 human trafficking cases reported, of which almost 8,000 involved sex trafficking. Exact statistics on children being trafficked are difficult to assess, but it is known that the victims come from all races, ethnicities, sexual orientations, gender identities, citizens, non-citizens, and income levels. The targets of traffickers are the most vulnerable, which includes the poor, runaways, homeless, prostitutes, and victims of child neglect. The various methods used to force #25IVAT | #TraumaIntoTriumph | ivatcenters.org 65
minors into this lifestyle range from promises of a better life to use of drugs to physical violence and rape. Perpetrators are examined in terms of types, means, and the stages of grooming young victims. In this workshop, Tyesa Harvey will tell her painful story of being sex trafficked for 16 years. At 13, she began living on the streets and a year later encountered her trafficker. Her story is one of great pain and trauma, but also one of recovery and hope. Currently, Tyesa is a survivor, an advocate, a writer, and a speaker who inspires others in ways of prevention, healing, and activism. Tyesa’s story and message is filled with emotion, struggle, perseverance, courage, faith, and dedication to motherhood and a better life. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1.Describe the means of recruitment and the types of sex trafficking. 2.Explain the causes – both familial and societal – of sex trafficking. 3.Describe the dynamics of Tyesa’s recruitment into the sex trade and her path of recovery.
Continuing Education: Approved up to 1.5 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, Nurses, Substance Abuse Counselors, DVOTP, ATSS, and Victim Advocates. IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 1.5 credit hours for Trauma Care, and Child and Adult Maltreatment.
A6 - One Size Does NOT Fit All - Incorporating Principles of Effective Intervention in Batterer Intervention Programs to Reduce Attrition and Recidivism - Nada Yorke, MSW, Yorke Consulting Audience Level: Intermediate: Appropriate for attendees who have been in the field 5-10 years and have basic information on a topic
For the past few decades criminal justice rehabilitation programming has developed a best practice of “principles of effective intervention” (PEI) which is showing measurable success in reducing recidivism and increasing participant engagement. The components of PEI which are most transferrable to the work of batterer intervention providers are addressing criminogenic needs and improving both general and specific responsivity. When these PEI components are combined with traditional pro-feminist interventions, the potential for greater engagement among participants can be realized with an anticipated drop in recidivism for new domestic violence arrests. This workshop will provide an overview of the PEI components, with specific identification of the criminogenic needs most salient for the domestic violence offender population and the components which best exemplify general and specific responsivity. Research informed best practices and evidence-based interventions will be reviewed using examples from current research-based BIP curriculums. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1. Identify three principles of effective intervention (PEI). 2. Identify four criminogenic needs relevant to their BIP clients. 3. Evaluate two areas of specific responsivity which they can implement in their work with IPV offenders.
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A7 - What Advocates Need to Know about the Intersection of HIV/Aids & Domestic Violence - Teresa Lopez, MSW, National Network to End Domestic Violence; Ashley Slye, National Network to End Domestic Violence; Kelly Moreno, MPA, National Network to End Domestic Violence Audience Level: Beginning: Appropriate for all attendees as an introduction to a topic There is currently a gap in knowledge related to victims of domestic violence having increased risk for acquiring HIV, and women living with HIV experience domestic violence at rates higher than the general population. Advocates can play a key role in helping survivors living with HIV access medical support and other services. For those not currently living with HIV but have increased risk due to domestic violence, advocates can assist in linking survivors to HIV testing, PrEP (Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis), and provide resources on remaining HIV-negative. In addition, using the best practice Voluntary Service Model as a standard for working with survivors impacted by HIV can positively impact the advocate-survivor relationship in order to ensure that survivors living with or at risk for HIV are provided with the appropriate support and referrals. This session will increase advocate knowledge on the important issues related to HIV/AIDS and Domestic Violence, briefly introduce the Voluntary Service Model, and increase advocates confidence in discussing HIV testing, PrEP (Pre- Exposure Prophylaxis), and resources on remaining HIV-negative. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1.Increase advocate knowledge on issues related to the intersection of HIV/AIDS and DV 2.Introduce the Voluntary Services Model 3.Increase advocate confidence in discussing HIV testing, PrEP (Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis), and resources on remaining HIV-negative
Continuing Education: Approved up to 1.5 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, Nurses, Substance Abuse Counselors, DVOTP, ATSS, Victim Advocates, and Domestic Violence. IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 1.5 credit hours for Domestic Violence Offender Treatment and Child & Adult Maltreatment.
A8 - Fill in The Gap: Faith Based Family Court Advocacy - Debra Wingfield, MA, EdD, House of Peace Publications; Joy Forrest, MA, Called to Peace Ministries Audience Level: Intermediate: Appropriate for attendees who have been in the field 5-10 years and have basic information on a topic
Family Court Advocacy developed with mothers trying to understand the family courts. Mothers helping mothers get through family court brought them together. A common bond filled a gap in services that still exists. Called to Peace Ministries (CTPM) 2019 statistics show “Received 1264 NEW requests for help—737 requests from abuse survivors, 460 from people helpers and 67 from pastors and church leaders.” To provide professionalism to family court advocacy, CTPM and House of Peace Publications (HOPP) developed a joint training program to meet needs within the faith- based communities. Our goal is to provide research-based training integrating faith community teachings. The program filled a gap to develop trained advocates no longer “winging it” with survivors. Training provides knowledge and understanding of the dynamics of domestic abuse and coercive control. Trainees gain basic knowledge in interviewing skills that support listening to survivors 90% and talking 10%. They learn the importance of meeting the survivor where she is and walking #25IVAT | #TraumaIntoTriumph | ivatcenters.org 67
alongside her through the various decisions needed to keep herself and her children safe. Trainees learn an empowerment approach providing options about decisions for gaining safety, autonomy, and return to selfhood. Three-fold purpose of 12 training courses are (1) avoid re-victimization of survivors by untrained advocates; (2) focus on dynamics of coercive control and abuse across all family members; (3) provide on-going support and consultation after trainees' course completion. Family court advocacy advantages include (1) help survivors manage emotions in court; (2) prepare survivors on court systems; (3) assist survivors to organize and prepare reasonable parenting options for mediation and court; (4) help survivors learn to effectively communicate with their former partner; (5) empower survivors to have their voice after being silenced by the abuser; (6) train advocates to speak with clergy to prevent re-victimization. Thirty advocates trained, over 70 in training. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1.Identify three main purposes of the Faith-based Family Court Advocacy Training Program 2.Describe the two most important reasons why Faith-based advocates are needed in Family Courts for IPV survivors 3.Identify six advantages for Faith-based advocates to help IPV survivors
Continuing Education: Approved up to 1.5 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, Attorneys, DVOTP, ATSS, Victim Advocates, Domestic Violence, Child Abuse and Ethics. IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 1.5 credit hours for Child Custody Evaluators and Child & Adult Maltreatment.
A9 - More Than Surviving: From Traumatic Stress to Wellness – James Ellis, Legacy Productions; Morgan Shaw, PsyD, Institute on Violence, Abuse and Trauma (IVAT), Jorge Duran, San Diego County District Attorney’s Bureau of Investigation, Katherine Lynch, La Mesa Police Department Audience Level: Beginning: Appropriate for all attendees as an introduction to a topic
Officer Involved Shootings (OIS) have been prevalent in the news over the past decade, so much so that the Sacramento legislature helped create the Innovations Grant Program, sponsored by Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST), in order to help mitigate trauma, suicide and stress in officers so that the California legislature's vision of reduced officer involved shootings is realized. As part of this vision, IVAT has developed – along with Legacy Productions’ film clips and a team of law enforcement and mental health professionals – an empowering wellness training. The training focuses on an officer’s overall wellness, notably after dealing with incident responses, organizational stress, and community confrontations. The curriculum covers the impact of both direct and secondary trauma on law enforcement from the mind, body, spirit and social perspective, and goes on to cover a range of interventions and programs that target and manage the impact on individual, peer, organizational, and systemic levels. The curriculum is supplemented, through Legacy Productions’ “Keeping The Peace” film, with direct messages from key law enforcement commanding officers and chiefs throughout the state, as well as real-life video clips of peer officers providing insightful experiences and impressions. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1.Help officers take a proactive approach to recognizing & reducing stigma around dealing with stress 2.Increase officer safety and wellness, while reducing officer and agency exposure to liability 3.Promote trauma-informed wellness programs within the agencies
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Continuing Education: Approved up to 1.5 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, Attorneys, Substance Abuse Counselors, DVOTP, ATSS, Victim Advocates, Domestic Violence, and Ethics. IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 1.5 credit hours for Trauma Care.
A10 – Compassionate Advocacy, Safety and Wellness Approaches to Mitigate Trauma Part 1) Qualitative Investigation of Safety and Wellness Needs of Women and Children Asylum Seekers in Matamoros Mexico - Kathryn Laughon, MSN, PhD, University of Virginia; Nora Montalvo- Liendo, PhD, Texas A&M College of Nursing Audience Level: Beginning: Appropriate for all attendees as an introduction to a topic
Recent changes to US immigration policy have resulted in tens of thousands of asylum seekers being forced to wait at the US-Mexico border for their opportunity to make an initial asylum claim. Additionally, nearly 50,000 migrants who have made an initial claim have been forced to return to Mexico to await their hearings with an immigration judge. In Matamoros, Mexico, in fall 2019 and winter 2020, as many as 2000 asylum seekers are living in a makeshift tent city immediately next to the border crossing. Children and adult women are at risk for sexual and other violence due to the crowded conditions, lack of secure sleeping and living areas, and need to use the woods to relieve themselves. Using a qualitative descriptive design, we sought to understand two distinct but relate questions: What are the migrants' concerns related to sexual and other forms of violence against children and women? How is the current living situation affecting the children? How is it affecting the adults' ability to parent? Skilled research team members recruited 46 individuals (range 19-55 years old, 44 women and 2 men) who were living near the border crossing. They had inhabited the camp anywhere from 3 days to 5 months. Countries of origin of those interviewed included Mexico, Honduras, Ecuador, Nicaragua, and Guatemala. Researchers conducted private, anonymous, individual interview in Spanish. Interviews were audio recorded and transcribed verbatim. Researchers coded data independently and identified emergent themes. Transparency and rigor were addressed through maintaining documentation of research decisions throughout analysis (Mitchell & Steeves, 2012; Sandelowski, 1993). Themes identified included seeking safety within the encampment; sorting truth from rumors; concerns about ensuring children’s well-being; difficult family decision-making. Findings from this analysis are being used to create a report and develop strategies that can be quickly implemented to mitigate trauma and improve well-being of camp residents.
Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1. Identify conditions at the southern border of the United States that are contributing to trauma and increasing risk of gender violence. 2. Describe themes of the experiences of women living in an encampment of asylum seekers 3. Describe themes of the concerns of parents
Part 2) Compassionate Advocacy and AfterCare Kits - Rosemary Trible, Fear 2 Freedom, Inc Audience Level: Beginning: Appropriate for all attendees as an introduction to a topic
The P.E.R.K. (Physical Evidence Recovery Kit) exam is medically important and often judicially necessary, but it can be traumatizing to the survivor. Additionally, current standard procedures leave patients with no clothing or comfort materials. To address this, numerous organizations, including
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F2F, provide backpacks with clothing, toiletries, and other materials. Learn how simple expressions of compassion can provide survivors of sexual violence with practical and empowering items, leading to better outcomes. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1.Identify the benefits of demonstrating compassion to survivors of sexual violence early in their healing process. 2.Describe how displays of compassion can be introduced into the SAFE process. 3.Identify how to implement compassionate care into their preexisting programs.
Continuing Education: Approved up to 1.5 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, Attorneys, ATSS, and Victim Advocates. IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 1.5 credit hours for Trauma Care and Child & Adult Maltreatment.
A11- Policy Over Programming: Effectively Preventing and Responding to Sexual Assault in the Military by Don Christensen, USAF (ret.), President, Protect Our Defenders Audience Level: Beginning: Appropriate for all attendees as an introduction to a topic.
In 2018, the Department of Defense (DOD) estimated that 20,500 members of the U.S. military were sexually assaulted. This is the highest number since 2005 and constitutes a nearly 50% increase in the number of assaults against women (DOD SAPRO, 2019). Despite the creation of the DOD Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office (SAPRO) in 2005, prevention efforts have failed to adequately counter the culture of misogyny and harassment in the U.S. military that contribute to the epidemic of sexual violence (SV). Despite SAPRO’s assertion that SV can be “measurably and systematically reduced” through prevention efforts, the increased prevalence of sexual assault despite robust prevention efforts calls into question the efficacy of sexual assault prevention programming within the DOD (DOD, 2019, p. 3). Policy changes enacted over the past ten years including the introduction of the Special Victims Counsel/Victims Legal Counsel program and the creation of the restricted reporting option. Though these policies have enabled victims of SV to achieve greater autonomy and comprehension of the sexual assault reporting process, it has done little to deter future sexual assaults (Holland et al, 2014). SV continues to permeate the U.S. military despite prevention efforts because perpetrators continue to act with impunity. Prevention efforts alone, including trainings, workshops, and online courses, are an inadequate and ineffective method of abating SV if there is no accountability. The U.S. military must deter SV by adequately responding to unrestricted reports; the abysmal conviction rate and command-based referral system both make it clear to potential perpetrators that they can commit acts of violence without facing serious consequences. Major policy reforms are necessary within the military justice system to constitute an efficacious “prevention” effort by the DOD. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1. Understand the scope of sexual violence (SV) in the U.S. military and the unique forms of retaliation that servicemembers who experience SV may face from their chain of command, unit and/or the military community. 2. Analyze the claims DOD SAPRO asserts of the efficacy of its prevention programming in reducing the prevalence of SV in the U.S. military.
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3.Understand the policy changes enacted since 2005 that aimed to improve the U.S. military’s response to sexual assault and further policy recommendations that are necessary to ensure justice for survivors, and a safe and equitable work environment for all who serve.
Continuing Education: Approved up to 1.5 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, Nurses, DVOTP, ATSS, and Victim Advocates. IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 1.5 credit hours for Trauma Care and Child & Adult Maltreatment.
A12 - Historical Trauma in Developing Countries: A View from South Asia - Ellen Elliot, MA, PhD, Four Directions Counseling Center Audience Level: Intermediate: Appropriate for attendees who have been in the field 5-10 years and have basic information on a topic
This workshop will present information related to historical trauma in underdeveloped countries. Historical trauma has been studied in relation to Native and African Americans and families of Holocaust survivors, but little research has focused on historical trauma outside the United States or among immigrant populations. Current research related has primarily conceptualized trauma from a Western viewpoint without adequate consideration of the cultural beliefs and constructs that define the lived experience of collective trauma among specific cultural groups. The most widely used concept used to describe trauma is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) that views trauma from a dominant viewpoint at the expense of traditionally socially excluded groups such as indigenous and third world populations. Focusing on an ongoing study by the presenter in Nepal, historical trauma in developing countries will be presented and defined as a distinguishable phenomenon, including elements of complex PTSD as well as specific idioms of distress unique to Nepali and South Asian people. Case examples will be presented, and multimedia will be used to illustrate coping mechanisms unique to the South Asian cultures. Finally, the relevance of historical trauma in developing countries will be discussed in terms of generalizability to other populations and practical application. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1.Describe historical trauma and the relation to Western and non-Western populations. 2.Distinguish between PTSD and historical or intergenerational trauma. 3.Identify idioms of distress unique to the experience of trauma in specific cultures.
Continuing Education: Approved up to 1.5 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, ATSS, Victim Advocates and Culture. IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 1.5 credit hours for Trauma Care.
A13 - Self-Care Session: Vinyasa Yoga – Glenna Tinney, MSW, ACSW, DCSW, Captain, U.S. Navy (Ret.), National Partnership to End Interpersonal Violence Across the Lifespan (NPEIV)
Break: 10:00am - 10:30am PT
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Opening Plenary 10:30am – 12:15pm PT
Welcoming by Sandi Native American Blessing - Sonya Frazier is a Capuano Morrison, MA, Chickasaw/Choctaw mother and registered nurse. CEO, Institute on She is the founder of the Regalia Making Mothers, Violence, Abuse and on the Board of Directors for the Chickasaw Trauma; Board Member, M.M.I.P. of Oklahoma and serves on several National Partnership to committees such as Complete the Circle, End Interpersonal Oklahoma Indigenous Mascot Removal Coalition Violence Across the and Byng Public School JOM. She was recently Lifespan (NPEIV) elected president of the Southeastern Oklahoma Commissioned Officers Association and is currently working on creating an Indigenous Nurses Association of Oklahoma to encourage our Native youth into the health profession. Sonya's family was adopted by the Inhanktonwan Dakota Oyate Nation in Marty, South Dakota. Since returning to her homeland of Oklahoma, she is connecting to her tribal roots along with her language while helping others learn and heal from historical trauma.
History in Perspective: Lessons Learned about Power, Control, Oppression, Racism, Sexism, Institutional Betrayal and Trauma
Welcoming Comments by Welcoming Comments by Robert Geffner, PhD, ABPP, Jacquelyn White, PhD, ABN, Founding President Emerita Professor of Family Violence and Sexual Psychology at the Assault Institute (FVSAI) dba University of North Institute on Violence, Abuse Carolina at Greensboro. and Trauma (IVAT), Co- Co-Founder of the National Founder of the National Partnership to End Partnership to End Interpersonal Violence Interpersonal Violence Across Across the Lifespan the Lifespan (NPEIV) (NPEIV)
Historical Video footage prepared by Jim Ellis, Legacy Productions
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Keynote Speakers:
From Rage to Reconciliation
Oliver Williams, PhD, MPH, MSW, is a Professor in the of School of Social Work at the University of Minnesota, in St. Paul. From June 1994 to September 2016 he was the Executive Director of the Institute on Domestic Violence in the African American Community. He has also served as the Director of the Safe Return Initiative that addresses the issues of prisoner reentry and domestic violence from 2003-2016 and Director of the African American Domestic Peace Project that works with community leaders in 10 cities across the US to address domestic violence (DV). He has worked in the field of DV for more than 35 years. Dr. Williams is a clinical practitioner, working in mental health, family therapy, substance abuse, child welfare, delinquency, and sexual assault programs. He has worked in battered women's shelters, developed curricula for batterers' intervention programs and facilitated counseling groups in these programs. He has provided training across the US and abroad on research and service-delivery surrounding partner abuse.
Let Us Do No Harm: Preventing Trauma through Public Policy
Lynn Rosenthal is currently the President for The Center for Family Safety and Healing. Prior to joining The Center for Family Safety and Healing, Women Initiatives. Before joining the Biden Foundation, Lynn served as a consultant to end gender-based violence as a consultant and as the Vice President for Strategic Partnerships at the National Domestic Violence Hotline. From 2009- 2014, Lynn served as the first-ever White House Advisor on Violence Against Women. As a senior advisor to Vice President Biden, Lynn developed new initiatives to address sexual violence, reduce domestic violence homicides, and improve the workplace response to violence against women. She co-chaired the White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault and was a key contributor towards its recommendations. Lynn served on the White House Council on Women and Girls and co-chaired the Federal Interagency Working Group on HIV/AIDS and Violence Against Women. Lynn is a social worker by training and a long-time women’s advocate.
Special Musical Performances
by Students from Marjory Stoneham Douglas High School, Parkland, FL:
Payton Francis Marisol Martinez Sofia Rothenberg
Continuing Education: Approved up to 1.5 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, Nurses, Attorneys, Substance Abuse Counselors, DVOTP, ATSS, and Victim Advocates.
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Lunch: 12:15pm - 1:00pm PT
Keynote Panels (B 1-12) 1:00pm – 3:00pm PT
B1 - Working with Adolescents and Youth Violence During the Time of COVID-19 Panelists: Senator Lauren Book, MEd, Florida State Senate, Lauren's Kids Foundation; Father Greg Boyle, MA, Homeboy Industries; LC Miccio-Fonseca, PhD, National Partnership to End Interpersonal Violence Across the Lifespan (NPEIV), Clinic for the Sexualities; Moderator: Lucinda Rasmussen, PhD, MSW, San Diego State University, National Partnership to End Interpersonal Violence Across the Lifespan (NPEIV) Audience Level: Intermediate: Appropriate for attendees who have in the field 5-10 years and have basic information to a topic Senator Lauren Book will discuss her work with the Marjory Stoneman Douglas students to elevate their voices and bring about change following the Valentine's Day massacre at their school. Book, a survivor of child sexual abuse and internationally acclaimed child advocate, understands that advocacy can be an important part of healing - and that it is important to shine a light on an issue to understand and fix it. Book was determined to make sure that Florida’s legislative leaders visited the Parkland high school, to get a first-hand glimpse of the blood-stained walls, the bullet-riddled hallways and the carnage left by the former student who killed 17 students and teachers. Book worked with students who would become March for Our Lives leaders to organize a trip to bring 100 students to the Florida Capitol to meet with Democratic and Republican legislators, Cabinet Members, and the Florida Governor to ensure their voices were heard. Gregory Boyle will share how compassion, kindness, and kinship are the tools to fight despair and decrease marginalization. Through his stories and parables, all will be reminded that no life is less valuable than another. L.C. Miccio-Fonseca will discuss Risk Assessment of Sexually Abusive Youth During Era of COVID 19: This presentation will apply contemporary descriptive research findings on sexually abusive youth from the validation studies of the risk assessment tool MEGA♪ that can inform professionals about the assessment and treatment needs of sexually abusive youth in relation to changes brought about by COVID-19. Findings from these studies are instructive about the characteristics, risk factors, and protective factors of today’s sexually abusive youth. They provide a compass, anchored in scientific research, to guide risk assessment and interventions for the era of COVID-19.
Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1. Understand the impact of campus-based gun violence on students. 2. Understand the importance of advocacy in healing from trauma. 3. Understand ways to promote advocacy and resilience following trauma.
Continuing Education: Approved up to 2 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, Nurses, Attorneys, Substance Abuse Counselors, DVOTP, ATSS, Victim Advocates and Child Abuse Content IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 2 credit hours for Trauma Care Providers and Child and Adult Maltreatment Providers
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B2 - Working with Adult Survivors and other Vulnerable Adults in the Time of COVID-19 Panelists: Mary Beth Morrissey, PhD, MPH, JD, Fordham University; Sujata Warrier, PhD, Battered Women’s Justice Project, Steven Bucky, PhD, Alliant International University; Moderator Teri M. Pokrajac, PsyD, Teri M. Pokrajac, Psy.D. & Associates
Audience Level: Intermediate: Appropriate for all attendees as an introduction to a topic The first presenter will discuss how there is a growing body of evidence that the COVID-19 pandemic has had a disproportionate impact upon Black/African Americans and Hispanic/Latinx in New York, New York City, and nationally, as well as other vulnerable groups including older adults, nursing home residents and health care workers. While there is variability in data reporting, numerous data sources (i.e., CDC, NYS DOH, and NYC DOH) show that racial and ethnic minority group members have been hit the hardest by the pandemic. The public health law perspective focuses on the health of the public and population health, and sheds light upon the multiple factors contributing to vulnerability to COVID-19 and historical inequities in the society that have heightened the precarity and suffering of racial and ethnic minority groups. The second presenter will focus on working with Immigrant Survivors and their needs in the time of COVID-19. It will explore the use of immigration status to coercively control victims renders them more vulnerable during the public health crisis. Various strategies will be provided on how to work with immigrant survivors to reduce harm. Steven Bucky will discuss “The Relationship Between Trauma, COVID, Alcohol and Drug Use and the Family” is the relationship between substance use, substance use disorders, trauma, the family, the pandemic and treatment.The United States, and indeed, the entire world have experienced a pandemic that has dramatically changed the way in which we live and work with more than twenty four million infected, and eight hundred thousand deaths worldwide and 5.8 million infected and approximately one hundred and eighty thousand deaths in the U.S.The pandemic has affected our sense of community and security and our ability to be productive and enjoy life. Some of the emotional responses include isolation, fear, anxiety depression, eating and sleeping disruptions, and a sense of isolation, all kinds of abuse, and loneliness.
Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1.Understand relevance of public health law and policy and social and economic determinants of health to pandemic 2. Describe the specific ways in which COVID – 19 impacts immigrant survivors of IPV 3. Discuss a viable framework for analysis and case work with immigrant survivors,
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B3 - Working with Campus Assault during the Time of COVID-19 – Panelists: Dorothy Espelage, PhD, University of North Carolina; Chrissy Weathersby Ball, National College Players Association; Meredith Smith, JD, MEd, Tulane University; Moderator: Jacquelyn White, PhD, University of NC at Greensboro, National Partnership to End Interpersonal Violence Across the Lifespan (NPEIV)
Audience Level: Intermediate: Appropriate for all attendees as an introduction to a topic Dorothy Espelage will cover, Listening to Survivor Voices: A court case in 2018 called national attention to the need to prevent abuse on college campuses, within athletics, and around the world. Through education, advocacy, and speaking up, we learned that institutional reform and protection for survivors is necessary to create meaningful change.Chrissy Weathersby Ball will discuss how for many youth, schools are their safe havens. Schools are where they can take respite from violence and trauma in the home and develop resiliency to overcome the long term impact of these experiences. But the school doors are closed and these youth have no access to healthy role models that show them effective problem-solving skills and adaptive coping skills. Adults no longer have the ability to report concerns of abuse and trauma. How do we reach these youth during COVID? It is important assume that COVID will be with us for some time and we have to create interventions to reach youth during COVID. Meredith Smith will cover How do you Address Sexual Violence in the Middle of a Pandemic? This presentation examines the challenges created by COVID-19 and the Department of Education to our critically needed campus sexual violence prevention efforts, specifically campus climate surveys. This presentation will conclude with some potential paths forward in terms of the measurements, like alternate assessment models, but how Title IX itself still requires a prevention-focused approach to addressing sexual misconduct in the college environment.
Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1. Describe 2 ways institutional reform and protection for survivors is necessary to create change. 2. Identify 2 challenges created by COVID-19 regarding campus sexual assaults and prevention efforts. 3. Describe 2 ways to reach youth who are cut off from school during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Continuing Education: Approved up to 2 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, Nurses, Attorneys, and ATSS IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 2 credit hours for Trauma Care Providers
B4 - Working with Child Maltreatment – Panelists: Viola Vaughan-Eden, PhD, MJ, LCSW, Norfolk State University, National Partnership to End Interpersonal Violence Across the Lifespan (NPEIV); Kathleen Faller, PhD, MSW, University of Michigan; Gail Goodman, PhD, University of California, Davis; Moderator: Morgan Shaw, PsyD, Institute on Violence, Abuse and Trauma (IVAT) Audience Level: Intermediate: Appropriate for all attendees as an introduction to a topic Dr. Vaughan-Eden will speak about how for countless children, the societal crisis created by the COVID-19 pandemic has intensified all forms of the abuse and neglect. The pandemic has placed one of the most vulnerable populations at even greater risk. Not only is school a place for education, but for many it is a safe haven and the only opportunity for a meal. Incorporating the current research literature, this workshop will address ways mental health providers can help parents’ manage their stress, child welfare workers develop safety plans, as well as create trauma-informed strategies for children.
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Dr. Faller will discuss how children are more vulnerable to child maltreatment during the pandemic. Data indicate that the number of reports of child maltreatment is down. This is likely because children are not in daycare and in school, two of the major sources of reports of child maltreatment. Nor do they have the oversight of neighbors, friends, and relatives. The decrease in reports is not an indication that children are safer during the pandemic. Research on the internet sex crimes indicates that this form of child abuse has increased during the pandemic. Dr. Goodman will discuss studies on child maltreatment and memory, foster care, and children in investigations and court. Some of the research takes place in the laboratory; other research is in the field. I will integrate our findings as relevant to such topics as parental influences on children’s reports, suggestibility and forensic interviewing, and COVID-19.
Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1.Define key concepts including cumulative stress, grief, and trauma and identify how these concepts may be experienced differently in the context of a pandemic. 2.Identify three ways that the experience during the pandemic is affecting one's brain and body. 3. Identify strategies for improving parenting skills.
Continuing Education: Approved up to 2 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, Nurses, Attorneys, Substance Abuse Counselors, DVOTP, ATSS, Victim Advocates, Domestic Violence Content, Child Abuse Content, Cultural Content, and Aging/Long Term Care Content IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 2 credit hours for Trauma Care Providers
B5 - Working in Human Trafficking in the Time of COVID-19 – Panelists: Jamie Beck, JD, Free to Thrive; Kimberly Chang, MD, MPH, Asian Health Services, Makini Chisolm-Straker, MD, MPH, The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; Moderator: Glenn Lipson, PhD, California School of Forensic Studies
Audience Level: Intermediate: Appropriate for all attendees as an introduction to a topic Jamie Beck will talk about Working in Human Trafficking in the Time of Covid-19: The COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath are impacting victims and survivors of human trafficking. This session will discuss the risk factors and vulnerabilities that will likely lead to an increase in the number of victims, the increased risk of regressive crisis and re-exploitation of survivors, and the work of one organization, Free to Thrive, to support its clients through this crisis. Kimberly Chang will then discuss Human trafficking and the Healthcare Response: Policy and Practice Changes during Covid-19 in Community Health Centers: The Covid-19 pandemic increased the risks of vulnerable populations to exploitation and trafficking. With unprecedented levels of unemployment and a poor social and economic safety net, coupled with sheltering-in-place mandates and social distancing recommendations, people at risk of exploitation have fewer ways of meeting basic needs and financial obligations, and fewer outlets for engagement with systems of care and protection, leading to higher risk for labor or sexual exploitation. Makini Chisolm-Straker, will discuss Anti-Trafficking Work in the Time of COVID-19: By now it should be abundantly clear that natural, human-made, and human-facilitated disasters worsen baseline disparities and increase the vulnerability of many to exploitation. The most sustainable anti-trafficking work then does not start after exploitation and does not even need to use the term "human trafficking." Primary prevention of labor and sex trafficking is manifested in anti-racism work, anti-poverty work, accessible housing work, environmental justice work, critical and comprehensive education work, transformative #25IVAT | #TraumaIntoTriumph | ivatcenters.org 77
justice work, and so on. Such work is particularly important during this pandemic, and in preparation for the next big, bad thing.
Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1.Understand the increased risks of recruitment into human trafficking during and after COVID-19 2.Learn about the increased risk of regressive crisis to victims and survivors of human trafficking 3.Identify 2 practice and policy changes in a healthcare setting in response to Covid-19 to ensure engagement with patients are risk of or being trafficked. 4. Provide at least one mechanism of how structural racism may contribute to the labor and sex trafficking of people of color. 5. Discuss how environmental justice work may improve the wellbeing of communities of color 6. Relate how institutional and interpersonal transphobia makes transgender and nonbinary folks more vulnerable to labor and sex trafficking than cis folks.
Continuing Education: Approved up to 2 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, Nurses, Attorneys, Substance Abuse Counselors, DVOTP, ATSS, and Victim Advocates IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 2 credit hours for Trauma Care Providers and Child and Adult Maltreatment Providers
B6 - Working with Intimate Partner Violence Offenders Panelists: Robert Geffner, PhD, ABN, ABPP, Institute on Violence, Abuse and Trauma, National Partnership to End Interpersonal Violence Across the Lifespan (NPEIV); Ricardo Carrillo, PhD, Private Practitioner; Oliver Williams, PhD, MPH, MSW, African American Domestic Peace Project Moderator: Joy Johnson-Green, PhD, Sonshine Community Services Audience Level: Intermediate: Appropriate for all attendees as an introduction to a topic Dr. Geffner will talk about women arrested for intimate partner violence and abuse. It is important to assess whether the woman is the primary aggressor, a victim fighting back, or one who is in a mutually abusive relationship. Topics included in this presentation are definition of abuse vs aggression, readiness to change, typologies, treatment approaches and best practices, trauma informed and empowerment-based intervention, key techniques in treatment, and evaluation of effectiveness. Finally, the criteria for successful treatment is discussed. Dr. Carrillo will discuss the Assessment and Treatment of Latino Offenders: We will present an historical account of the development of models for assessing and treating Latino offenders. This includes the assessment of lethality, successful engagement of participants; co-occurring conditions; AOD; TBI; and trauma. Migration dynamics, migrating from war torn environments, domestic violence, child abuse, and abandonment complex traumatic situations. Dr. Williams will talk about Working with Diverse Black Men that Batter: In working with Black men that batter, it is important to enrich what has been traditionally done. In this presentation Dr. Williams will highlight considerations in working with 1) Historical, African American men, 2) men returning from prison and 3) African and African immigrant men. Issues such as trauma, displacement, understanding context, developing specific skill sets, understanding the diversity and culture of these men that abuse is not a justification for abuse rather it is a pathway to engage and transform them.
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1. Explain two differences in women who act aggressively in relationships vs those who are abusive 2 .List two key issues in treating women who are abusive in relationships; 3. Identify successful engagement strategies Impact of trauma on offender’s engagement and treatment.
Continuing Education: Approved up to 2 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, Nurses, Attorneys, Substance Abuse Counselors, DVOTP, ATSS, Victim Advocates, and Domestic Violence Content IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 2 credit hours for Child Custody Evaluators, Trauma Care Providers, Domestic Violence Offender Treatment, Child and Adult Maltreatment Providers
B7 - Working in the Field of IPV: Applying 40 Years of Knowledge and Lessons Learned Panelists: L. Kevin Hamberger, PhD, Medical College of Wisconsin, All Saints Family Care Center, National Partnership to End Interpersonal Violence Across the Lifespan (NPEIV); Alan Rosenbaum, PhD, Northern Illinois University, NPEIV; Jennifer Langhinrichsen-Rohling, PhD, University of South Alabama; Glenna Tinney, MSW, ACSW, DCSW, Captain, U.S. Navy (Ret.), NPEIV; Shelly Wagers, PhD, University South Florida St. Petersburg, NPEIV; Moderator: Gabriela Zapata-Alma, LCSW, National Center on Domestic Violence, Trauma & Mental Health Audience Level: Intermediate: Appropriate for all attendees as an introduction to a topic This panel consists of the Section Editors and Senior Editors of the Handbook of Interpersonal Violence Across the Lifespan who were responsible for curating and editing the content of the Intimate Partner Violence section. As such, we had a chance to work with over 40 author groups and 118 authors and learn from their knowledge, wisdom, experience and research. The authors we learned from represent a diverse group ranging from noted advocates and activists, social science professionals, attorneys, graduate students and luminaries in the field. The section provides a wealth of information and diverse views of the history and state of the art thinking on a wide range of IPV issues. It also teaches us what is not known, where progress has not been made and recommendations for future progress to sustain the movement toward prevention and elimination in intimate relationships. This panel will highlight lessons learned from all of the authors including progress made in the IPV field, gaps that remain, and future directions. Each panelist will provide a brief discussion based on the following areas of IPV. Alan Rosenbaum will discuss a brief overview of the key lessons learned. Glenna Tinney will discuss Intersectionality, Jennifer Langhinrichsen-Rohling will discuss Prevention and special topics, Shelly Wagers will discuss community responses to IPV and theories of IPV, Kevin Hamberger will discuss treatment interventions with perpetrators.
Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1. Understand the evolution in the field of IPV research over the past several decades 2. Identify ways in which intersectionality has played a role in IPV research 3. Identify three ways that preventive efforts have been strengthened
Continuing Education: Approved up to 2 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, Nurses, Attorneys, Substance Abuse Counselors, DVOTP, ATSS, Victim Advocates, and Domestic Violence Content IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 2 credit hours for Child Custody Evaluators, Trauma Care Providers, Domestic Violence Offender Treatment, Child and Adult Maltreatment Providers
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B8 - Prosecuting Interpersonal Violence Cases in the Time of COVID-19 Panelists: Victor Vieth, JD, MA, Zero Abuse Project; Jessica Lees, JD, San Diego County District Attorney; Amy Russell, MSEd, JD, Arthur D. Curtis Children's Justice Center; Moderator: Richard Ducote, LL.M, Richard Ducote, Attorney & Counselor at Law Audience Level: Intermediate: Appropriate for all attendees as an introduction to a topic Victor Vieth will discusses modifications to the forensic interview process during a pandemic including health screening of employees and children, modifications to a CAC waiting room, and conducting both an in-person and a tele-forensic interview. A review of potential defense challenges to these modifications will be presented as well as trial strategies for overcoming these challenges. There will also be a discussion of MDT strategies to detect and respond to the likely increase of abuse during the pandemic. Jessica Lees will discuss Prosecuting Crimes of Interpersonal Violence in 2020: This presentation will cover prosecution of crimes of interpersonal violence in 2020, including suggestions for investigation and case evaluation, victim care and prosecution strategies. Obstacles commonly associated with domestic violence prosecutions will also be discussed, including specific issues identified during the time of COVID-19. Amy Russell will discuss, Prosecuting Interpersonal Violence Cases in the Time of Covid-19: The damaging impact COVID-19 pandemic has had to date on family violence has been great, with the full scope of the problem yet to be fully understood. A decrease in child abuse reports leads to reduced investigations and referrals for criminal charges to prosecutors. We must continue to hold offenders accountable in this emotionally unstable time. If there was a need for a multidisciplinary response before the pandemic, the need is even greater now.
Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1.Identify the increased risk for child maltreatment during COVID-19 2. Describe an overview of modifications to the forensic interview process during a pandemic. 3. Understand the need for trauma informed care, especially during time of crisis.
Continuing Education: Approved up to 2 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, Nurses, Attorneys, Substance Abuse Counselors, DVOTP, ATSS, Victim Advocates, and Domestic Violence Content IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 2 credit hours for Child Custody Evaluators, Trauma Care Providers, and Child and Adult Maltreatment Providers
B9 - Working with Primary Prevention/Early Intervention in the Time of COVID-19 Panelists: Brooklyn James, MA; Christopher Murphy, PhD, University of Maryland; Tamara Hamai, PhD, Hamai Consulting; Kelly Champion, PhD, Cadeus Behavioral Health; Moderator: Andrew Pari, LCSW, Sexual Assault Awareness LLC Audience Level: Intermediate: Appropriate for all attendees as an introduction to a topic Brooklyn James will discuss the Reemerging Childhood Maltreatment Triggers in the Childbearing Years: A Survivor's Perspective: Studies suggest that the perinatal period is critical for parents with a history of childhood maltreatment, as parents may experience “triggering” of trauma responses during perinatal care or in caring for their distressed infants, leaving them susceptible to intergenerational cycles of trauma. This survivor's perspective reinforces the aforementioned and points out exactly how and when in the perinatal period her trauma responses were triggered and personally mediated.
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Christopher Murphy will cover Interpersonal Violence Prevention: Challenges and Opportunities: This presentation will highlight several key challenges and opportunities in interpersonal violence prevention along with relevant comments about conducting this work during a global health pandemic. Ongoing challenges include the need for strategies that can prevent multiple overlapping forms of interpersonal violence, the importance of mitigating violence risk at multiple levels of the social ecology, and the value of selective and indicated prevention approaches. Long-term social transformations, in concert with the immediate demand for social distancing, highlight opportunities to create scalable and targeted prevention strategies using social media, content sharing, and mobile computing technologies. Tamara Hamai and Kelly Champion will discuss Research & Practitioner Collaboration: an NPEIV Panel: This multi-person panel will be made up of NPEIV members in the Research and Practitioner Action Teams. The purpose will be to engage in an active dialogue around collaborative efforts and methods to cross-inform the worlds of research and design methodology with its application by clinicians in the field.
Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1. Identify techniques for addressing sexual victimization at a time of increased risk and restricted resources. 2. Describe the distinctions between universal, selective, and indicated prevention 3. Explain why prevention needs to target key risk factors for multiple forms of interpersonal violence
Continuing Education: Approved up to 2 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, Nurses, Substance Abuse Counselors, and ATSS IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 2 credit hours for Trauma Care Providers
B10 - Working with Sexual Victimization in the Time of COVID-19 Panelists: Angela Rose, Promoting Awareness, Victim Empowerment (PAVE); Murray Schane, MD, MaleSurvivor; Wendy Murphy, JD, New England Law; Moderator: Sandi Capuano Morrison, MA, Institute on Violence, Abuse and Trauma (IVAT), National Partnership to End Interpersonal Violence Across the Lifespan (NPEIV) Audience Level: Intermediate: Appropriate for all attendees as an introduction to a topic Angela Rose will discuss how due to physical distancing, many survivors are experiencing current dangers. This moment of isolation to mitigate the spread of the virus has significant consequences including many domestic abuse and childhood sexual abuse survivors being trapped with the abusers. Moreover, many survivors are suffering from severe anxiety, depression and other emotional aftermaths from past trauma during this global pandemic. Attendees will learn innovative approaches for both prevention and intervention in these unprecedented times. Dr. Schane will discuss treating victims of sexual abuse that is occurring during the time of COVID-19. Much concern has arisen about the impact of self-quarantine when a victim or potential victim is in force seclusion with a predator. Partner abuse or incestual attacks may become accelerated, possibly even initiated, due to the stresses of social isolation Digital access may afford survivors the means to reach out for support and even receive intervention through the local police department and social service agencies. Additionally, he will discuss how conditions for treating victims of sexual abuse has changed because of COVID-19: Telemedicine provides a potential resource for survivors to continue or initiate therapy with professionals who are now mostly permitted to bill insurance companies, Medicare and Medicaid for such services during the pandemic. Also, many professionals offer free telemedicine services. Online discussion forums and chat rooms also afford contact with and support
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from other survivors, further allaying the effect of isolation from appropriate care. Wendy Murphy will cover how victims of sexual abuse are psychologically impacted by the threat of COVID-19: Literature on from studies on the effects of prior major disasters provide models for anticipating the effects on the pandemic on a general population, including those with mental health issues. Sexual abuse survivors, though they may suffer from forms of mental illness, have a wide range and often specific issues relating to their history of sexual abuse. COVID-19 is a menacing threat that shares some social properties of a predator: uncertainty of when the attack will occur or recur, the severity of the anticipated suffering, the general fear of attack, anxiety about securing and seeking safety. The facile contagion of the virus can greatly magnify a fear of others and a distrust of familiar persons—all aspects that survivors may be subject to.
Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1.Identify methods and therapeutic tasks for treating survivors of sexual abuse by remote contact and understand the ways conditions of such contact may affect the therapeutic process and the outcome. 2.Be aware of the risks that self-isolation 3.Assess the needs of those they serve and provide increased support during COVID-19
Continuing Education: Approved up to 2 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, Nurses, Attorneys, Substance Abuse Counselors, DVOTP, ATSS, and Victim Advocates IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 2 credit hours for Child and Adult Maltreatment Providers
B11 - Working with Military Trauma in the Time of COVID-19 Panelists: David Brown, PhD, US Department of Defense; Don Christensen, USAF (ret.), Protect Our Defenders; Wendy Belding, LMFT, LPCC, TriCare; Moderator: LisaMarie Mariglia, MS, Altus AFB, Major Kamy Jenkins, LCSW, US Air Force Audience Level: Intermediate: Appropriate for all attendees as an introduction to a topic Dr. Brown will discuss improvement over the span of the past three decades to Military Behavioral Health healthcare delivery to include access to care, evidence based practices, credentialing standardization, outcomes measures, community partnering, and electronic medical records and their impact during the time of COVID-19. Col Christensen will address analyzing the impact of DOD’s COVID-19 policies on sexual violence/domestic violence victims. COVID-19 has undoubtably interrupted the lives of servicemembers across the country. However, for victims of sexual assault and domestic violence in the U.S. military, the pandemic has altered access to off-base resources, halted judicial proceedings for several months, and compounded the trauma experienced by victims. The Department of Defense has taken steps to mitigate the impact of the pandemic on victims of sexual assault in the military. However, non-sexual trauma/DV related policies enacted by the DOD in response to COVID-19 have had an indirect adverse effect on victims. The “stop movement” order enacted by the DOD in March effectively halted all travel by servicemembers. For victims of sexual violence and domestic violence, this policy leaves them trapped at a duty station with perpetrators or a hostile unit for an indefinite period of time. In order to advocate for these victims, advocates must seek alternate solutions outside of the norm and understand the impact prolonged isolation, health anxiety, and uncertainty about the future has on existing trauma.
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Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1. Identify 2 steps the Department of Defense as taken to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 on sexual assault victims 2. Describe 2 ways the "stop movement" affected victims of domestic violence. 3. Describe 2 ways isolation can increase the effects of existing trauma.
Continuing Education: Approved up to 2 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, ATSS, and Victim Advocates IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 2 credit hours for Trauma Care Providers
B12 - Working with Trauma in General During the Time of COVID-19 Panelists: Lynn Rosenthal, The Center for Family Safety and Healing; Carolyn West, PhD, University of Washington; Mary Jo Barrett, MSW, Center for Contextual Change; Moderator: Kevin Connors, MS, MFT, California Southern University Audience Level: Intermediate: Appropriate for all attendees as an introduction to a topic Lynn Rosenthal will cover Let us do no harm: Preventing Trauma through Public Policy: This session will address the principles of analyzing & developing public policy from a trauma-informed & trauma- responsive perspective. Current trends in trauma-informed care focus largely on individual trauma histories, personal resilience, & prevention from an individual lens. This is critical work towards helping individuals understand their trauma & begin healing. We will explore how to identify the harm created by social polices & create a blueprint for developing accountable, responsible, trauma prevention-infused public policy. Dr. West will then discuss about A Double Pandemic: Black Women Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence During Covid-19: In cities, counties & states that have reported racial data, the impact of coronavirus on the Black community has been extraordinary & disproportionate. In the midst of this global pandemic, Black women are overrepresented among victims of IPV. The purpose of this presentation is to: 1)Identify the structural factors that account for the racial disparities in rates of COVID-19 2)Discuss how COVID-19 has exacerbated intimate partner violence in the lives of Black women 3)Offer a historical ecological model to address IPV in the midst of a global pandemic. Mary Jo Barrett will then cover how fundamental complex developmental trauma experiences have created the therapeutic themes of powerlessness, helplessness, hopelessness, disconnection, and invalidation. Trauma happens in the context of relationships & in the environmental context of community. How can therapy be helpful when each day is a ground hog's day of these experiences. Both responders and clients/patients are experience these feelings, in addition to all that we have brought into the world of COVID. How do we navigate all of these levels of traumatic complexity?
Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1. Identify the structural factors that account for the racial disparities in rates of COVID-19. 2 .Discuss how COVID-19 has exacerbated intimate partner violence in the lives of Black women. 3 .Offer a historical ecological model to address intimate partner violence.
Continuing Education: Approved up to 2 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, Nurses, Attorneys, and ATSS IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 2 credit hours for Trauma Care Providers
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Summit Afternoon Workshops (C 1-13) 3:30pm – 5:00pm PT C1 – Preparing Child Advocacy Workers through Experiential Learning and Applied Research
Child Advocacy Studies: Preparing the Child Protection Workforce Through Experiential Learning - Tyler Counsil, EdD, MS, Zero Abuse Project; Betsy Goulet, DPA, MA, University of Illinois Springfield Audience Level: Beginning: Appropriate for all attendees as an introduction to a topic
The lack of adequate, educational preparation for child protection professionals has been persistent for almost a half century, and the omission or underdevelopment of this content in undergraduate and graduate academia has resulted in frontline, child-serving professionals learning through on-the-job experiences at the risk of a child’s safety and well-being. The purpose of this presentation is to thus examine the historic inadequacy of child maltreatment content in higher education and discuss current concerns with frontline child protection workforce preparation. In response to these issues, the Child Advocacy Studies (CAST) curriculum will be discussed as a countermeasure designed to remedy persistent issues with inadequate education and training of child-serving professionals. CAST is a curricular model designed to better prepare graduates for long-term, successful employment in child-serving sectors including but not limited to criminal justice, law, social work, psychology, health care, public administration, and education. Attendees can expect to learn more about the curriculum and how it is implemented in academic programming, review CAST efficacy data from several peer- reviewed publications and discover best practices in experiential learning related to the CAST curriculum and frontline workforce preparedness. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1. Examine the need for CAST programming 2. Explore the CAST model, pathways to implementation, and review current research on CAST effectiveness 3. Discover simulation-based learning constructs for CAST coursework.
Continuing Education: Approved up to 1.5 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, ATSS, Victim Advocates and Child Abuse. IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 1.5 credit hours for Trauma Care and Child & Adult Maltreatment.
C2 - Harm Caused to Adult Patients by Ignoring their Past History of Childhood Trauma in Physical and Mental Health Care Part 1) Outdated Psychiatric Thinking Impairs Treatment for Childhood Trauma - Jeoffry Gordon, MD, MPH, California Child Abuse Citizens Review Panel; Drew Factor, MD, MPH, Essentials for Childhood Initiative Program, California Department of Public Health Audience Level: Beginning: Appropriate for attendees who been in the field 5-10 years and have basic information on a topic
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Psychiatric diagnoses are codified in the DSM-5 and largely characterized by phenotypic or phenomenological expression (symptoms) rather than etiology. While PTSD has been recognized as a specific diagnosis ascribed to a known etiology, with unique symptoms and treatments (see EMDT), trauma due to child abuse and neglect is specifically characterized as "an environmental condition, not a diagnosis." Victims of child abuse may intensely display one type of symptom, or manifest a whole complex of 'comorbidities; they may be very resistant to cooperation with the usual medical model; and are known to be especially hard to treat, especially with pharmaceuticals. Furthermore, as they are lumped in with other patients who express the same symptomatology, they create a heterogeneous population which degrades treatment experimental trials. Also, in the clinic, one patient may be labeled with many disparate diagnoses (MDD, bipolar, conduct disorder, substance abuse, borderline, schizo-affective, ADHD) for the same underlying problem, thus frustrating adequate treatment and understanding. This confusion also impairs understanding of resilience. Thus, it is imperative that the DSM be revised as soon as possible to include a new diagnostic category: "Trauma Due to Child Abuse" and the ACEs criteria would supply appropriate parameters. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1.Understand the complexity of psycho-pathological responses to child abuse. 2. Understand the origin and function of psychiatry's DSM. 3. Understand how most previously published studies of anti-depressant medications are distorted by not controlling for prior child abuse.
Part 2) When the Impact of Childhood Trauma is Neglected in Adult Medicine - Jeoffry Gordon, MD, MPH, California Child Abuse Citizens Review Panel; Drew Factor, MD, MPH, Essentials for Childhood Initiative Program, California Department of Public Health Audience Level: Intermediate: Appropriate for attendees who have been in the field 5-10 years and have basic information on a topic. In the adult population at least one of every ten patients has experienced maltreatment as a child. Two case studies will be presented. Good data shows that exposure to childhood neglect and/or abuse makes substantial contributions to adult illnesses both physical and mental, including COPD, myocardial infarction, hepatitis, endometriosis, depression, and suicide. This pathophysiologic factor is rarely screened for and recognized in the adult medical setting, so treatment is inadequate, and appropriate policies, teaching and research are lacking. Recommendations for remediation will be made. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1. Recognize the prevalence of child abuse and neglect. 2. Recognize the impact of child maltreatment trauma on adult physical and mental health. 3. Learn strategies to recognize and treat this condition in the clinic.
Continuing Education: Approved up to 1.5 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, Nurses, Substance Abuse Counselors, DVOTP, ATSS, Victim Advocates and Domestic Violence. IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 1.5 credit hours for Child Custody Evaluators, Trauma Care and Child & Adult Maltreatment.
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C3 - Igniting Change: Shattering the Silence of Sexual Violence in High Schools Angela Rose, Promoting Awareness, Victim Empowerment (PAVE) Audience Level: Intermediate: Appropriate for attendees who have been in the field 5-10 years and have basic information on a topic
Students in high school are increasingly at risk for sexual violence. This workshop will provide tangible ways you can engage high school students in your community to join the movement to prevent these crimes and cultivate a supportive school culture for survivors. Practical applications for teaching consent, bystander intervention, healthy relationships and supporting survivors in high school will be illustrated. Appropriate strategies to promote inclusivity of under-represented teen survivors including male survivors, students of color and students in the LGBTQQA communities will also be discussed. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1.Identify the practical applications for teaching consent, bystander intervention, healthy relationships and supporting survivors in high school. 2.Apply appropriate strategies to promote inclusivity of under-represented teen survivors 3.Describe learned best practices for educating HS students
Continuing Education: Approved up to 1.5 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, Nurses, ATSS, Victim Advocates and Child Abuse. IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 1.5 credit hours for Trauma Care and Child & Adult Maltreatment.
C4 – Lessons Learned: Addressing Intergenerational Trauma and Safe Haven Laws Part 1) Who Calls the National Safe Haven Alliance? The First Evaluation of Helpline Call Data - Emily Douglas, PhD, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Heather Burner, National Safe Haven Alliance Audience Level: Intermediate: Appropriate for attendees who have been in the field 5-10 years and have basic information on a topic
This session will explain state-level safe haven laws which permit safe and legal infant relinquishment across the county, the National Safe Haven Alliance, and will describe the callers to the NSHA helpline and the reasons for their calls. This is the first presentation of data to the helpline. FINDINGS: Preliminary analyses indicate that 13.9% of callers asked about adoption; 27.8% sought information about SHLs—how they worked; where they could relinquish infants, another 13.9% called about SHLs in combination with something else—such as adoption, voluntary placement, etc.; 9.7% called for general information; 5.9% called with questions about voluntary placement; and, the remaining individuals called for a variety of reasons. The callers came from a variety of resources/individuals including 41.7% were mothers; 5.6% were fathers; 8.3% were staff calling from hospitals; and the remaining calls came from family members, miscellaneous sources, and unidentified individuals. CONCLUSIONS: Finally, this session will close with a discussion about nonprofit/provider-research collaborations, lessons learned, and future directions for both NSHA, research, and new technology on the horizon to assist with data collection.
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Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1.Learn about infant abandonment. 2.Learn about safe haven laws that allow parents to relinquish an infant. 3.Learn about who calls the safe haven helpline and what are their questions.
Part 2) Best Practices to Prevent Intergenerational Involvement in the Child Welfare System Gillian Binnie, MA, 1994 Audience Level: Beginning: Appropriate for all attendees as an introduction to a topic. The presentation will synthesize existing research on the impact of trauma and DCFS involvement on children to postulate why families become involved with DCFS across generations. I will examine how these factors combine to create a unique clinical presentation individually and within families. I will review EBT's that are commonly used with DCFS involved populations and outline ways the EBT's may not be addressing these special presentations. I will use the clinical expertise of field consultants to demonstrate what factors create the best prognosis for patients with intergenerational DCFS involvement. The presentation will advocate for the tailoring of EBT’s to address the unique needs of this population to integrate better healing from trauma symptoms and better parenting practices. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1.Address the impact on intergenerational DCFS involvement has on mental health and parenting. 2.Discuss the ways that clinical practice is failing to address this unique experience. 3.Better create client prognosis.
Continuing Education: Approved up to 1.5 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, Attorneys, ATSS, Victim Advocates and Child Abuse. IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 1.5 credit hours for Trauma Care and Child & Adult Maltreatment.
C5 - Collaboration in Identifying and Investigating Child Sex Trafficking - Jason Lundquist, MA, Waco Police Department; Joseph Scaramucci, McLennan County Sherriff’s Office Audience Level: Intermediate: Appropriate for attendees who have been in the field 5-10 years and have basic information on a topic
In this presentation we will discuss the needs for a multidisciplinary team approach to minor sex trafficking, as well as how to combine proactive and long-term investigations to meet the needs of identifying and recovering juvenile trafficking victims. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1. Understand the MDT model in trafficking cases 2. Understand the need for law enforcement partnerships 3. Identify best practices in DMST investigations. Continuing Education: Approved up to 1.5 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, Attorneys, ATSS, Victim Advocates and Child Abuse. IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 1.5 credit hours for Trauma Care and Child & Adult Maltreatment.
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C6 – Domestic Violence (DV) Intervention Treatment - One Size Does Not Fit All - Amie Roberts, MA, State of Washington Audience Level: Advanced: Appropriate for practitioners in the field 10+ years Domestic violence intervention treatment (DVIT) has been evolving since its beginnings in the 1980s. Treatment programs have based their approaches on the premises of misogyny, typologies, traits of personality disorders and cognitive distortions. Programs have been educational, clinical, or a combination of the two. There has been compelling research on both sides: research that supports as well as questions the efficacy of this treatment. If there is one thing all the research and experience has taught us, it is this: One Size Does Not Fit All. Just as the participants of domestic violence intervention treatment are unique and multifaceted, so must our approach to facilitating their treatment be as well. This means doing trauma work, cognitive restructuring, building pro-social supports, and addressing criminogenic needs when they are present. It means using a combination of psycho-education, cognitive behavioral therapy, trauma counseling (such as IFS) and addressing co- occurring needs such as mental health and substance use. Treatment providers must have the flexibility of delivering services in group or individual sessions, tailoring the treatment to the participant's needs as much as possible. The State of Washington recently changed its standards for domestic violence intervention treatment in an attempt to do just that. This presentation will focus on those changes in the standards, the data gathered from participants who have finished DVIT thus far under those changes, and the further changes planned, based on that data. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1. Identify areas of treatment focus and evidence-based treatment modalities 2. Facilitate participant's cognitive and behavioral changes and how treatment programs can document those changes 3.Discuss how data is informing ongoing changes to treatment
Continuing Education: Approved up to 1.5 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, Attorneys, DVOTP, ATSS, Victim Advocates and Domestic Violence. IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 1.5 credit hours for Trauma Care and Domestic Violence Offender Treatment.
C7- Victim Safety, Coercive Control and Practical Solutions Part 1) Coercive Control: Applying Research to the Field - Chelsea Brass, MA, University of Texas; Abigail Hazlett, MA, Academia, University of Texas Audience Level: Beginning: Appropriate for all attendees as an introduction on a topic
Coercive control is a concept that is picking up steam in the United States, given the public attention of a UK law that outlaws behavior considered to be coercive, controlling behavior. However, US legal systems, culture, and ideology are not the same as the UK and so there may need to be an understanding that approaching this type of behavior in the US may need US-based solutions. This section will provide a brief overview of the concept, and how this can be approached in practices with agencies, officials, policymakers, and anyone else who may be impacted or curious about the topic.
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Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1) Describe a basic understanding of the concept of coercive control. 2) Identify how different countries and cultures may necessitate different approaches to this behavior. 3) Describe how this concept can be approached in various fields and sectors.
Part 2) How COVID-19 is Impacting the Work with Survivors of Domestic Violence - Mildred Muhammad, My F.O.C.U.S. LLC Audience Level: Advanced: Appropriate for practitioners in the field 10+ years COVID19 has caused the field of domestic violence to expand and create new measures of services to provide to victims and survivors of domestic violence. The creation of these measures is to ensure the safety of victims as they maneuver through a terrible situation during this pandemic. Safety tips will be provided for the victim, the employer, and the bystander. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1. Identify tips that will assist victims in ensuring safety 2. Assist the employer in understanding their responsibility & how to ensure the safety of the victims 3. Bring awareness and tips for bystanders to use to assist victims without putting themselves in harms' way
Continuing Education: Approved up to 1.5 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, Attorneys, DVOTP, ATSS, Victim Advocates and Domestic Violence. IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 1.5 credit hours for Child Custody Evaluators, Trauma Care, Domestic Violence Offender Treatment and Child & Adult Maltreatment.
C8 - Domestic Violence, Child Abuse, and Family Court Part 1) Evaluating Filing Decisions in Domestic Violence Cases and Best Practices for the Courts Shelly Wagers, PhD, University South Florida St. Petersburg, National Partnership to End Interpersonal Violence Across the Lifespan (NPEIV) Audience Level: Advanced: Appropriate for practitioners in the field 10+ years The criminal justice response to domestic violence (DV) has become increasingly punitive. Many courts have implemented no-drop prosecution policies, with the intention that victims would be protected, and offenders would be deterred. It was hoped that these policy changes along with other responses would eventually lead to a reduction of DV, but current statistics show there has been little to no reduction. With the exception of a small body of studies conducted in the late 1990’s, little to no research has been done to examine the relationship between prosecutors filing charges and the goals of victim safety and offender accountability. This presentation will review this research, as well as present findings from a recent study that examined which factors effect filing decisions in DV cases and the effect of filing on victim safety and offender accountability. Additionally, this session will discuss the implications of this research on current practices in the field and make recommendations for best practices in the courts related to domestic violence. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1.Identify two problems with no-drop prosecution policies & their relationship to victim safety. 2.Identify two best practices that could be incorporated into their court system related to prosecuting DV.
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3.Explain the difference between a filing rate, conviction rate & their connection to victim safety
Part 2) The Domestic Violence & Child Abuse Cases Failing in Family Courts and What All Professionals Can Do Better - Maralee McLean, Moms Fight Back Audience Level: Advanced: Appropriate for practitioners in the field 10+ years This presentation will address the risks of Family Courts not ensuring the safe placement of children. An estimated 58,000 children are placed with an abusive parent through Family Courts annually. This presentation will show the troubling response to domestic violence in the family courts, highlighting the failure to protect children when mothers allege the father is abusive and the punitive response to child abuse/sexual abuse. We will discuss the history of Parental Alienation Syndrome "PAS", Parental Alienation "PA" and its misuse in our courts. The presenter will review common myths and biases that are widely used in both Family Court and child maltreatment work. This workshop will also demonstrate the lack of sufficient training by judges, lawyers, social workers, therapists, and police departments to make sure safety is the primary priority. Ms. McLean will also highlight Dr. Dan Saunders Research Study conducted by the Justice Office and will address the alarming prevalence of gender bias and the problematic outcome of the cases. The ACE study is important, and more training is necessary to make significant changes in the outcomes of the cases where abuse is alleged. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1. Discuss how these myths commonly lead to children being placed in unsafe environments. 2. Identify social, economic, emotional, health and neurobiological risks of child maltreatment. 3. Identify the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) core research findings.
Continuing Education: Approved up to 1.5 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, Attorneys, DVOTP, ATSS, Victim Advocates, Domestic Violence and Child Abuse. IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 1.5 credit hours for Child Custody Evaluators, Trauma Care and Child & Adult Maltreatment.
C9 – Promising Programs: Consent Education and Treatment Engagement Part 1) Dismantling Barriers & Building Bridges: One Survivor's Journey from the Criminal Justice System to Public Education - Katie McMahon, MA, Warriors Audience Level: Beginning: Appropriate for all attendees as an introduction on a topic
Only 8 states in the United States include consent education as part of sex education. Consent education can be implemented as young as early childhood education and may be a large preventative measure in decreasing sexual violence. This presentation guides the experience of implementing consent education across public education classrooms for ages 3-8 years old. The presentation will cover the benefits of providing consent education and highlight areas for future growth. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1.Gain increased knowledge of rape kit back logs and current systemic problems in criminal justice process for survivors. 2.Gain knowledge about consent education. 3.Gain knowledge on future progress needed in the field of consent education #25IVAT | #TraumaIntoTriumph | ivatcenters.org 90
Part 2) The BRIDGES PROJECT: Bridging Peer Navigation and Trauma-Informed Approaches to Engage Women in Integrated HIV Care and Support Services - Sara Giovanna Carr, MA, University of California, San Diego; Melanie Barker, MSW, MPH, University of California, San Diego Audience Level: Beginning: Appropriate for all attendees as an introduction to a topic. The BRIDGES Project seeks to test a program intended to help women living with HIV who face syndemic or co-occurring barriers due to violence, trauma, adverse mental health, and/or substance use to be able to better access HIV care. Using Peer Navigators – other women living with HIV who have overcome similar barriers – paired with Licensed Clinicians, The BRIDGES Project utilizes an adapted evidence-based, trauma-informed, psycho-educational group intervention to assist women living with HIV develop skills to enhance coping strategies, assertive communication and self- regulation that will in turn, enhance self-efficacy in addressing barriers and navigating access to, and retention within HIV care and ancillary support services. This presentation will provide a brief overview of the intervention with an emphasis on the structure and content (emotional awareness, regulation, engagement, understanding negative relationship patterns, assertive communication and flexibility), while highlighting the syndemic barriers (i.e., violence, trauma, adverse mental health, and/or substance use) challenging this marginalized population. We will also discuss the adverse impact of stigma on treatment engagement. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1. Define and identify 3 syndemic factors facing women living with HIV. 2. Recognize and describe the adverse impact of stigma on women living with HIV. 3. Describe the six evidence-based intervention components to facilitate improvements in linkage to and retention in HIV care and ancillary
Continuing Education: Approved up to 1.5 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, DVOTP, ATSS, Victim Advocates, and Domestic Violence. IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 1.5 credit hours for Trauma Care.
C10 - Meeting the Needs of Diverse Survivors of Sexual Violence Part 1) Treated Like Guinea Pigs: Medical Mistrust Among Women of Color and Implications for Practice - Shaughanassee Vines, DNP, CNM, University of California, San Diego Audience Level: Beginning: Appropriate for all attendees as an introduction on a topic
Medical mistrust among people of color is a complex barrier for health care providers. This mistrust surpasses an absence of trust to encompass the suspicion of medical ill-will. In particular, Black and African American women have repeatedly been found to experience high levels of medical mistrust, to the point of avoiding care. Yet, despite the extensive literature on medical mistrust, there is little examination of the implication of the statements of medical mistrust endorsed by women of color. Without this clear knowledge of what medical mistrust means to women of color, health providers are unable to effectively develop strategies to address this mistrust. This analysis examines items with the Group-Based Medical Mistrust Scale for practice implications. Findings demonstrate higher overall medical mistrust among Black/African American participants than non-Black/African American participants. Asian participants had higher agreement with statements regarding unequal treatment due to race/ethnicity and hiding of information by health workers. Black/African American participants had higher agreement with fearing treatment as guinea pigs than choosing not to confide in health #25IVAT | #TraumaIntoTriumph | ivatcenters.org 91
professionals. These findings have significant practice implications among sexual assault advocates and trauma-focused practitioners. It is critical that trust be established between communities of color and the medical environment. These findings suggest the need for a change in approach that goes beyond earning women of color’s confidence, but also works to reassure them of their equality in treatment. Furthermore, providers must seek to provide culturally competent care that will improve the patient-provider interaction and increase patient satisfaction and perception of care. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1.Outline the history of medical mistrust in minority communities 2.Describe findings relating to medical mistrust among racially diverse women and survivors of sexual violence 3.Discuss implications of medical mistrust for health professionals
Part 2) Law Enforcement Mistrust Among Ethnically Diverse Survivors of Sexual Violence: Considerations for Practitioners and Service Providers - Katherine Anderson, MPH, University of California, San Diego Audience Level: Intermediate: Appropriate for attendees who have been in the field 5-10 years and have basic information on a topic. Medical mistrust is known to play a significant role in health service seeking, particularly among communities of color. Less researched is law enforcement mistrust, which may play an additional role in health and social service seeking following trauma from sexual violence. The present analysis examines the impact of sexual violence history and racial and ethnic group membership on law enforcement mistrust. Findings demonstrate high levels of mistrust of law enforcement among Black/African American-identifying participants regardless of sexual violence survivorship status. Additionally, findings illustrate the impact of acute and ever sexual violence survivorship on law enforcement mistrust among other racial/ethnic groups. These findings have significant implications for practitioners and service providers who may be mandated reporters and work in coordination with law enforcement. It is imperative for law enforcement to develop and implement programs at the local community level that acknowledges law enforcement mistrust while working to build trust with community, particularly communities of color. Additionally, for an adequate public health and law enforcement response to sexual violence, efforts to increase survivor trust in law enforcement is vital. This includes but is not limited to meeting the needs of survivors, targeted training for law enforcement on interacting with survivors of trauma, and education on law enforcement reporting and prosecution of perpetrators of sexual violence in survivor-centered settings. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1.Review the history of public health mistrust in communities of color 2.Describe findings relating to law enforcement mistrust among racially/ethnically diverse survivors of sexual violence 3.Discuss implications of law enforcement mistrust for allied health professionals and law enforcement
Continuing Education: Approved up to 1.5 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, Attorneys, DVOTP, ATSS, Victim Advocates, Domestic Violence and Culture. IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 1.5 credit hours for Trauma Care and Child & Adult Maltreatment.
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C11 - Transforming Trauma into Triumph with Veterans via Mindful Exploration of the Arts - Gail Soffer, Mindful Warrior Project Audience Level: Beginning: Appropriate for all attendees as an introduction on a topic
The purpose of this workshop is to share with both military-connected and non-military-connected attendees the wonderful successes the Mindful Warrior Project has had in transforming trauma with the unlikely combination of mindfulness, the arts, and veterans. Where veterans would perhaps shy away from clinical work and from new-age versions of mindfulness, our work has proven to be a stigma-free way to explore new possibilities and find profound healing. Clarifying important distinctions and pointing out some unexpected pitfalls should help attendees discover in which area(s) they need more understanding, personal comfort, &/or expertise and then be able to facilitate similar transformations in those they serve. Experiences from MWP’s years of working with veterans and California Humanities/NEH and the Los Angeles Opera will illustrate key elements essential for this work and elements that may be well-intentioned yet sabotage the process. This workshop is suitable for those with or without a clinical background or arts background and relates to the arts in terms of attending/observing them, participating in/creating them, and in presenting artistic expressions. This workshop should prove very inspiring. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1.Identify differences between mindfulness and meditation 2.Describe how mindfulness supports exploration of healing via the arts without further/re- traumatization 3.Describe the importance of familiarity with military culture/experience/triggers in guiding veterans in a safe/successful exploration of the arts
Continuing Education: Approved up to 1.5 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, ATSS and Victim Advocates. IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 1.5 credit hours for Trauma Care.
C12 - The Importance of Cultural Competence in Child Welfare - Viola Vaughan-Eden, PhD, MJ, MSW, Norfolk State University, National Partnership to End Interpersonal Violence Across the Lifespan (NPEIV) Audience Level: Beginning: Appropriate for all attendees as an introduction on a topic
The United States is an ever-evolving cultural society. Cultural competence provides a framework for understanding clients’ cultural values, beliefs, and behaviors. This workshop will address the importance of supporting culturally diverse families toward preventing child abuse and neglect and improving child welfare by strengthening services to minimize the likelihood of abuse. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1. Identify best practice cultural standards 2. Assess their environments for culturally competent practices. 3. Utilize cultural humility
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Continuing Education: Approved up to 1.5 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, ATSS, Victim Advocates, Child Abuse and Culture. IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 1.5 credit hours for Child Custody Evaluators, Trauma Care and Child & Adult Maltreatment.
C13 – Self-Care Session: Release Relax Renew – Neva Ingalls, Inner Domain Healing Arts
Monday, August 31st, 2020
Summit Morning Workshops (D 1-13) 8:30 am - 10:00 am PT
D1 – Resources for Resilience: Community Models to Address Youth Trauma Part 1) BRACE for the Journey: Forming a Community Group to Coordinate Resources and Increase Resilience - Erin Roberts, PhD, MS, East Carolina University; Jennifer Matthews, PhD, MS, East Carolina University; Kia Glosson, East Carolina University, Tedi Bear Advocacy Center Audience Level: Beginning: Appropriate for all attendees as an introduction to a topic. The purpose of this presentation is to present findings about the formation of a community group aimed at coordinating resources in a rural community in order to reduce Adverse Childhood Experiences, raise awareness of this public health crisis, and increase access to resources that build resilience. Through building relationships, supporting community professionals, and coordinating talents and resources, this group in a short period of time has accomplished more than the group had thought possible. Through BRACE and its members, 280 school system members were trained in Resources for Resilience, multiple grants were gained and implemented that focused on trauma, a trauma program was implemented that has provided over 100 free therapy sessions, and the group was selected by Duke University for a Trauma-Informed Community Initiative. The full findings of all that was accomplished this year through the coordination of multiple interdisciplinary initiatives are continuing to unfold. What makes this community group unique and successful however, is that it has been built through nurturing relationships on the professional level that have then trickled through to the workplace and direct client care. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1. Learn how to create a multi-disciplinary community group focused on reduction of community trauma 2. Learn steps to empowering community members to become involved 3. Learn a model for community organization
Part 2) Buffalo Room Healing: Addressing Youth Trauma on the Pine Ridge Reservation - Saunie Wilson, MPA, Oglala Lakota County Schools, Donnel Ecoffey, Wolf Creek School Audience Level: Beginning: Appropriate for all attendees as an introduction to a topic. This presentation will share the tragedy of overwhelming suicide on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota and how the staff at Wolf Creek School created a Buffalo Room to
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address the traumas, both in and out of school that might lead young people to suicide, depression, and hopelessness. The Buffalo Room incorporates the Lakota culture in a setting that permits the student to relax and take time away from daily home and school life and reflect on how s/he can manage conflict, sadness, hunger, abuse, death, etc. The Buffalo Room also offers essential oil therapy and Arricular acupuncture to help students deal with their concerns. If a student was not able to sleep at home, the student can rest as needed. If the student is hungry, the student can eat a snack. If the student needs to cry, a counselor is in the room. If a student fidgets, (and frustrates the teacher), there are fidget toys available. If a student needs to stand up and complete the class work or walk around and work, the student can do that in the Buffalo Room. The teachers and staff did see a positive attitude for students and staff utilizing the Buffalo Room. The School Board did see the benefits from the percentage improvement during the school year and voted to support the concept and development of Buffalo Rooms throughout the four schools in the school district. Room. We will discuss how the students and teachers benefited from the Buffalo Room. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1. Learn about the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and Wolf Creek School 2. Identify the need for and creation of the Buffalo Room 3. Describe the student successes and differences the Buffalo Room made for the students and teachers
Continuing Education: Approved up to 1.5 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, Substance Abuse Counselors, ATSS, Victim Advocates and Child Abuse. IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 1.5 credit hours for Trauma Care.
D2 - THE EMERGENT SELF: Conceptual and Clinical Considerations - Kevin Connors, MS, MFT, California Southern University Audience Level: Intermediate: Appropriate for attendees who have been in the field 5-10 years and have basic information on a topic. Complex trauma survivors demonstrate a distorted and diminished sense of self; frequently manifesting as chaotic and conflicted relationships. Survivors repeatedly re-invent themselves, attempting to conform to demands of intended partners. Narcissistic demands and attachment wounds created within dysfunctional families disrupt normal developmental processes (Sar, Öztürk, 2007). Attempts at adapting to perpetrators’ shifting ultimatums and abuses leads to the creation of inauthentic self-states (Atwood, Stolorow, 2016, Danylchuk, Connors, 2016, Schimmenti, 2017). Structural dissociation suggests the self as a process of integrating experience, affect, and behaviors (Van der Hart, Nijenhuis, Steele, 2006). McCann & Pearlman (1990) posit the self evolves through interactions with others. Trauma, betrayal, and disorganized attachment are critical factors impacting the developing self (Freyd, et.al. 2005, Liotti, 1992). This presentation posits the self as a gestalt; noting how complex trauma disrupts developing that greater whole. The survivor is both unable to trust and unable to authentically represent themselves in relationship to others. This breakdown undermines all interpersonal interactions including therapeutic relationships. (Benau, 2017, Burkitt, 2013, Chefetz, 2017, Clapp et al, 2014, Clayton, 2004, Stolorow, 2016) Failing to recognize this breakdown undermines therapeutic success. This presentation offers insights into conceptualizing our client’s struggles and suggests strategies for developing an authentic self. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1.Discuss two conceptual models for a sense of self #25IVAT | #TraumaIntoTriumph | ivatcenters.org 95
2.Detail the impact of complex trauma on the development of self, 3.Describe three specific interventions to facilitate the development of an authentic sense of self
Continuing Education: Approved up to 1.5 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, DVOTP, ATSS, Victim Advocates and Domestic Violence. IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 1.5 credit hours for Trauma Care.
D3 - Campus Sexual Violence Prevention: Programming and Willingness to Engage Part 1) Compassionate Campuses: Implementing Service-Oriented Programming - Lauren Brennan, Fear 2 Freedom Audience Level: Beginning: Appropriate for all attendees as an introduction to a topic. Inspiring social responsibility in students is a core commitment of institutions of higher education. The presentation will explain the research on how implementing service-oriented programs on campus is an effective way of fostering social responsibility in students as well as other positive outcomes for students, faculty, and institutions. Participants will learn how they can implement these practices. This will be accomplished through an activity and exploring an example of how the non-profit organization Fear 2 Freedom (F2F) is using service-oriented learning programs to aid schools in combating the epidemic of sexual violence on campus while providing students the opportunity to directly support survivors. This will provide attendees a deeper understanding of the benefits of service learning opportunities, what that can look like in practice, and inspire them to implement programs in their communities.
Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1. Understand what SOL is and how utilizing it can benefit campuses. 2. Deepen their understanding of SOL through exploring the real world example program from F2F. 3. Utilize SOL as a tool to complement their violence prevention efforts.
Part 2) Disclosure and the Importance of Cultural, Ethnic, and Sexual Diversity on the Willingness to Engage in Campus Sexual Violence Prevention - Monica Ulibarri, PhD, Alliant International University; Renee Joseph, MA, Alliant International University; Antonella Bariani, MA, Alliant International University Audience Level: Intermediate: Appropriate for attendees who have been in the field 5-10 years and have basic information on a topic. Students at higher education institutions are at increased risk of experiencing sexual assault (SA) in comparison to the general population (Joseph et. al., 2013). The current study utilized data from a campus sexual violence survey from a Southern California university to explore the extent to which students were aware, felt responsibility to learn more, and were already involved in campus activities to prevent SV. In addition, we looked at themes of sexual assault disclosure and university support services. Results indicated sexual orientation, ethnicity, and the interaction of sexual orientation and ethnicity influenced attitudes and confidence in engaging in campus SV prevention. The majority of sexual assault survivors reported disclosing to family and friends (87.6%). For those who did not disclose their sexual assault, reasons for non-disclosure were: minimization of the experience, shame, and cumbersome university reporting process. The results highlight the importance of inclusivity and cultural diversity in the development of campus SV prevention programs and demonstrate the importance of raising awareness about how universities may best help survivors. #25IVAT | #TraumaIntoTriumph | ivatcenters.org 96
Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1. Identify the prevalence of sexual violence 2. List components of readiness to help, and 3. Identify disclosure and reasons for non-disclosure of sexual violence from data from a campus- wide sexual violence climate survey at university in Southern California.
Continuing Education: Approved up to 1.5 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, Attorneys, ATSS and Child Abuse.
D4 - Comprehensive Models to Prevent, Assess and Treat Early Childhood Trauma Part 1) Update: A Global Approach to Comprehensive CSA/ACEs Prevention, Mitigation, and Care Programming - Pamela Pine, PhD, MPH, Stop the Silence: Stop Child Sexual Abuse, Inc., JoAnn Stevelos, MS, MPH, Stop the Silence Stop Child Sexual Abuse
Audience Level: Advanced: Appropriate for practitioners in the field 10+ years (advanced workshops should present practical applications for attendees to utilize) Building on 20 years of work by Stop the Silence® and implementation of programming on child sexual abuse (CSA) and other adverse childhood events (ACEs) in the U.S., Africa, Europe, and elsewhere, from 2018-2020, the partnership between Stop the Silence® and Trust MYRIVR in New Zealand has focused on implementing a comprehensive model focused on enabling community members and service providers in New Zealand to prevent CSA and ACEs and provide quality care for children, adolescents, and adults who have/may have been sexually abused and/or exposed to other ACEs. The framework focuses on the planned expansion of targeted “spheres of influence” that directly impact children’s and society’s well-being, including the address of the prevention of long- term disability and improved functioning. We further aimed/aim to prevent/mitigate the negative health consequences of CSA/ACEs and improve children’s/adolescents’ well-being. The vision and framework for the Model, reflect and promote a social movement by reaching a widening audience of community members and trained professionals with the achieved goal of reaching key policymakers, stakeholders, service providers (educators, police, social service workers) and societal members with information through outreach, education, and training led by Stop the Silence®. Trust MYRIVR identified the relevant key domestic stakeholders in New Zealand and provided/provides access to the operational/delivery arm of this joint initiative by: 1) Identifying the relevant provider to deliver the Child Sexual Abuse Comprehensive Child Sexual Abuse Training, Prevention, Mitigation, and Care in New Zealand, and 2) Providing the MYRIVR app tool as a platform for connecting individuals to services and further technological connection to communities by capturing the community voice(s) of and feedback from local societal members via an app. The feedback gathered provides information to service providers about the changes needed in health and social service-delivery thinking and delivery. The data from communities enables real-time visibility of services to assist existing programs with which clients and staff are engaged and captures the interactive progress and outcomes from start to finish. We will address the development, awareness-raising, education, training foci and other aspects of implementation, as well as evaluation elements and current outcomes of the program, and ongoing and planned programming. The program has been shown successful in raising awareness, knowledge, attitudes, and positive intent and action. The outcomes of the training, outreach, etc. and the data available, analyzed by MYRIVR partners at Massey University, which also provides predictive modelling, will be presented. The implementers are focused on expanding the work in other areas of the world.
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Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1. Identify the rationale behind/aspects of a comprehensive prevention/treatment model focused on CSA/ACEs) 2. Identify various types of officials/providers that need to be reached and how 3. Delineate outcomes obtained/needed to move a national/global effort forward.
Part 2) Trauma Informed Screening and Assessment - Ernestine Briggs-King, PhD, National Child Traumatic Stress Network Audience Level: Beginning: Appropriate for all attendees as an introduction to a topic. Screening and assessing children and adolescents with complex trauma histories can be challenging as their needs can be quite complicated and severe. This interactive workshop will focus on trauma-informed screening and assessment strategies that can be implemented across multiple child serving systems to improve clinical care and outcomes for children and families. Tips for telehealth will also be included for providers continuing to use this platform for service delivery. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1. Identify two challenges to screening and assessing children and adolescents with complex trauma history 2. Describe strategies focused on trauma informed screening and assessments that can be implemented across multiple systems 3. Describe two telehealth tips for providers
Continuing Education: Approved up to 1.5 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, ATSS and Child Abuse. IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 1.5 credit hours for Child Custody Evaluators, Trauma Care and Child & Adult Maltreatment.
D5 - Black Girlhood Interrupted: Understanding Pornography’s Impact on Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children in the Lives of Black Girls - Carolyn West, PhD, University of Washington Audience Level: Beginning: Appropriate for all attendees as an introduction to a topic. The docuseries, Surviving R. Kelly left viewers asking: How could a popular singer allegedly produce child pornography that featured degrading acts involving Black girls and women? The reality is that these images are pervasive in the media and culture. First, this session will feature excerpts of “Let me tell ya’ll ‘bout Black chicks: Images of Black women in pornography,” a searing documentary that unpacks the historical origins of the images found in contemporary pornography and identifies how these representations promote commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC) against Black girls. Second, interactive exercises and case studies, which incorporate an understanding of pornography, will be used to teach attendees concrete and practical strategies to provide culturally responsive services to Black survivors in the criminal justice and mental health settings. Specifically, attendees will identify prevalence rates and risk factors for CSEC in the lives of Black girls and will learn prevention and intervention strategies that are evidenced-based and culturally responsive. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1. Describe the prevalence rates and three risk factors of CSEC among Black girls. 2. Describe how sexual stereotypes in three domains (history, hip hop music and culture, and pornography) contribute to CSEC among Black girls. #25IVAT | #TraumaIntoTriumph | ivatcenters.org 98
3. Identity three prevention and intervention strategies that are evidenced based.
Continuing Education: Approved up to 1.5 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, Attorneys, ATSS, Victim Advocates, Child Abuse and Culture. IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 1.5 credit hours for Trauma Care and Child & Adult Maltreatment.
D6 - Improving Outcomes: Tools for Offender Treatment Part 1) A Comparative Study Examining the Use of Client Feedback Tools in Domestic Abuse Treatment: Making a Difference - Michael Chovanec, PhD, MSW, St. Catherine University - Department of Social Work Audience Level: Intermediate: Appropriate for attendees who have been in the field 5-10 years and have basic information on a topic. Attrition continues to be a significant problem in domestic abuse treatment with dropouts more likely to offend. Most men referred to domestic abuse treatment tend to be court-ordered or pressured by others to attend making them difficult to engage in treatment. Partners for Change Outcome Management System (PCOMS) has been found to retain and improve outcomes with a range of clients in mental health with limited application in domestic abuse treatment. This presentation reports on findings from a study (N=50) comparing two domestic abuse groups from the same program. One group applied primarily the Outcome Rating Scale (ORS) from the Partners for Change Outcome Management System (PCOMS) and the other group provided treatment as usual. Data on completion rates, number of sessions, and a pre and post measure of empathy through the use of the Social Empathy Index were collected and compared between the two groups. Findings will be shared and implications for treatment and future research will be articulated. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1. Identify two findings that support to use of the Partner for Change Outcome Management System (PCOMS) in domestic abuse treatment. 2.Identify two challenges associated with applying PCOMS to domestic abuse treatment. 3.Identify the first steps needed to implement PCOMS in treatment
Part 2) The Intersectionality Between Social Communication Language Impairments & Men Who Engage in IPV - Dorian Harris, MHS, Howard University Audience Level: Beginning: Appropriate for all attendees as an introduction to a topic. Traditionally the Speech Language Pathologist's clinical focus and theoretical knowledge of social communication impairments are primarily utilized and focused on how it impacts pragmatic and social skills in individuals with autism spectrum disorder. As a result, there is a scarcity of knowledge and relevant literature investigating how social communication skills impairments in individuals without ASD may impact their daily living, societal interactions, and peer/partner engagement. The mastery of social communication skills is crucial for early adulthood, because during these years, the exploration of peer relationships and friendship, loyalty, and individual differences are developing and most critical to the individual’s social life in the future. (Seltzer, 2009). If social communication are underdeveloped or impaired, it may result in difficulty establishing close intimate relationships later in adulthood (Whitehouse, Watt, Line, & Bishop, 2009). Therefore, the purpose of this presentation is to
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describe and discuss the presence, impact, and intersectionality of social communication impairments in men who commit intimate partner violence. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1. Identify three social communication deficits in AA men who perpetuate IPV. 2. Discuss social communication strengths and weakness in AA who may perpetuate IPV. 3. Discuss language deficits in AA men who perpetuate IPV
Continuing Education: Approved up to 1.5 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, DVOTP, ATSS, Victim Advocates and Domestic Violence. IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 1.5 credit hours for Domestic Violence Offender Treatment and Child & Adult Maltreatment.
D7 – Breaking the Cycle: Innovative Interventions and Restorative Approaches Part 1) Adapting and Testing an Internet Based Intervention for Abused Immigrant and Indigenous Women - Jacquelyn Campbell, PhD, Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing; Joyell Arscott, MSN, PhD, Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing; Emily Loerzel, MSW, University of Washington School of Social Work Audience Level: Intermediate: Appropriate for attendees who have been in the field 5-10 years and have basic information on a topic. In the USA immigrant and indigenous women have an increased risk of intimate partner violence (IPV) and of homicide by an IP or ex-partner. The myPlan online and app based IPV intervention and its adaptations has been shown to be a useful intervention for abused women. The weWomen and ourCircle study adapted the myPlan intervention for US immigrant and indigenous women using formative data from focus groups of 102 IPV service providers and 83 in depth interviews of immigrant and indigenous survivors (Asian = 30, Latina = 30, African = 23, Indigenous = 21) to contextualize the intervention. The data was first thematically analyzed for risk and protective factors and for suggested safety strategies to be included in the intervention. For instance, an important theme was extended family (primarily hers) for both groups as a protective factor while his extended family for some survivors in both groups was identified as an important risk factor. Therefore, her extended family was added as a priority in the priority selection part of myPlan and if highly valued, strategies about getting assistance from extended family in the plan section. We also incorporated many of the suggested strategies for staying safe while staying in the relationship into the intervention plans; neither survivors nor service providers found leaving an abusive partner a viable option in many cases of abuse. The planning section also emphasizes the importance of spiritual and traditional practices for both groups. The Danger Assessment for immigrant women (DA-I) and the DA-Circle were also incorporated into the intervention. Thus, this adaptation of a tested existing intervention based on data from immigrant and indigenous women and key informants will hopefully provide individualized assistance once the results of the RCT are in to abused immigrant and indigenous women and strategies for adapting interventions for marginalized groups. The challenges and successes of recruitment of both groups will also be presented. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1. Address how to adapt interventions for abuse for marginalized groups 2. Address how to recruit marginalized participants for studies 3. Analyze particular risks and protective factors for immigrant and indigenous abused women
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Continuing Education: Approved up to 1.5 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, Substance Abuse Counselors, DVOTP, ATSS, Victim Advocates and Domestic Violence. IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 1.5 credit hours for Trauma Care and Domestic Violence Offender Treatment.
D8 - Protection for Survivors: Whistleblowers and Adult Victims of Crime with Disabilities Part 1) An Inclusive and Individualized Response for Victims of Crime with Disabilities: The Adult Advocacy Centers’ Model - Leigha Shoup, MA, Adult Advocacy Centers; Katherine Yoder, MA, Adult Advocacy Centers Audience Level: Beginning: Appropriate for all attendees as an introduction to a topic. This presentation introduces audience members to the Adult Advocacy Centers (AACs), a new model of services created to support adults with disabilities who have been abused. Ohio is the first state in the nation to develop centers that will be equipped to provide holistic, accessible, and trauma- informed services for adult crime victims with disabilities in a universal and multisensory environment. Ohio is also unique due to its robust system that was established over sixty years ago to provide services for individuals with developmental disabilities. Ohio’s 88 counties each have their own county board of developmental disabilities and those 88 county boards are mandated through the state of Ohio’s Department of Developmental Disabilities. The AACs conducted a needs assessment in 2019 through the county boards to determine what services were available to crime victims with disabilities. The assessment results validated what had long been suspected—Ohio currently lacks adequate support services, prosecutions, and appropriately-trained forensic interviewers for adult victims of crime with disabilities. With local and statewide support, Ohio is committed to working toward equality in the field of victim services. The AACs will be the embodiment of this commitment. This presentation will highlight some of the essential services provided through the MDTs and how to coordinate the services in order to ensure that crime victims with disabilities are supported in a comprehensive and trauma-informed manner. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1. Gain an understanding of the Adult Advocacy Center model 2. Understand how communities can work together to form a multi-disciplinary team to have a holistic response with this model. 3. Understand how a universal and multi-sensory building design allows for truly
Part 2) Ethical Dissonance and Whistleblower Retaliation: A Psychosocial Perspective - Jacqueline Garrick, MSW, Whistleblowers of America; Martina Buck, PhD, University of California, San Diego Audience Level: Beginning: Appropriate for all attendees as an introduction to a topic. Focus will be on the definition of a whistleblower and the psychosocial impacts of suffering retaliation in the workplace. Discussion will include how whistleblowers find themselves in an ethical dilemma between their organizations and protecting individuals or the public that ultimately results in their own identity disruption. It will share evaluation criteria for toxic tactics and the associated psychosocial impacts that alter a survivors’ world views, which can lead to PTSD, depression, and suicide. Survey results from the Whistleblower Retaliation Checklist will be shared and explained. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1.Establish a perspective on what it means to be a whistleblower and legal protections 2.Learn more about identity disruption as a serious injury for PTSD diagnosis #25IVAT | #TraumaIntoTriumph | ivatcenters.org 101
3.Gain skills in being able to identify and treat the toxic tactics of retaliation that cause emotional distress
Continuing Education: Approved up to 1.5 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, Attorneys, DVOTP, ATSS, Victim Advocates and Domestic Violence. IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 1.5 credit hours for Trauma Care.
D9 - When Crime Occurs Abroad: How the U.S. Department of State Uses a Trauma Informed Approach to Support Victims of Crime - Kentina Saxon, MPH, Department of State, Carmella Donahue, Overseas Citizens Services Audience Level: Beginning: Appropriate for all attendees as an introduction to a topic. Every day, U.S. citizens cross international borders, for work, play, adventure, and learning. While most of these trips tend to be positive, some may encounter problems, including crime victimization. In this session, staff from the U.S. Department of State’s Directorate of Overseas Citizens Services will share more about how we assist those in need. We will provide an overview of services that can be provided at embassies and consulates around the world and describe how U.S. citizens can best access support. We will discuss how Victim Assistance Specialists use a Trauma Informed approach to prepare more than 10,000 consular staff worldwide to assist. And to help attendees travel safety, we will also provide an overview of the Departments information products, including the Travel Advisory system, the Smart Traveler Enrollment Program (STEP) and how to use our website and social media to prepare for your trip. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1. Be able to identify three challenges for victims when the crime occurs abroad, 2. Be able identify at least two key areas of how consular staff assists crime victims using a trauma- informed approach and 3. Learn about Travel Advisories and navigating online safety resources.
Continuing Education: Approved up to 1.5 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, Attorneys, ATSS and Victim Advocates. IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 1.5 credit hours for Trauma Care.
D10 - Why Consent, Non-Consent, Affirmative Consent, etc., in Rape Law are NEVER Going to be Good Enough to Protect Women’s Autonomy, and What Standard We Should be Using Instead - Wendy Murphy, JD, New England Law Audience Level: Beginning: Appropriate for all attendees as an introduction to a topic. The concept of consent in rape law has been around for a very long time. Many advocates believe that “affirmative consent” is an improvement, but is it? Or do we need a redesign at the baseline to effectively stop rape, and if so, what would it look like?
Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1. Name a reason why some advocates believe that "affirmative consent" is an improvement 2. Describe the concept of consent as it applies to rape law 3. Identify two standards that should be used instead of current practices
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Continuing Education: Approved up to 1.5 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, Nurses and ATSS. IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 1.5 credit hours for Trauma Care.
D11 - The Will to Live: Group Work, Combat Veterans and Moral Injury - An Effective Suicide Prevention Model (Part 1) - Eva J. Usadi, MA, BCD, Trauma and Resiliency Resources, Inc. Audience Level: Intermediate: Appropriate for attendees who have been in the field 5-10 years and have basic information on a topic. Veterans and active military are continuing to die by their own hand. This is the case even if they have been treated for PTSD. It is critical that we learn how to repair the damage done to people’s psyches after serving in a war zone during forward operations. For this reason, we now understand the significance of combat Veterans’ moral injuries. Moral Injury is not a disorder. It is not a part of PTSD. It is the wounding to the heart and soul of warfighters who hold themselves to the highest ethical standards and question their right to remain on the planet when they feel they have violated their deeply held moral code. Combat veterans’ trauma does not happen to them as individuals. Their trauma occurs in the context of a closely knit, cohesive unit, under extreme levels of stress and violence. It is for this reason that we believe the very best way to address their trauma is by working with them in group format, rather than in individual treatment, even as that may also be necessary. The presentation will describe a suicide prevention model that has been successful since 2013, demonstrating a group approach to ending Military veteran suicide through repair of Moral Injury. Learning to effectively repair Moral Injury is critical to reducing the suicide rate among warfighters as we believe it is the dissonance between one's ethics and one's actions that drives many Veterans to suicide. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1. Distinguish Moral Injury from PTSD and Complex PTSD 2. Identify the principles of group psychotherapy; 3. Communicate what is necessary to heal from Moral Injury and choose to live.
Continuing Education: Approved up to 1.5 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, Nurses, Attorneys, Substance Abuse Counselors, DVOTP, ATSS, Victim Advocates and Suicide Prevention. IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 1.5 credit hours for Trauma Care.
D12 - Cancelled
D13 - Self-Care Session: Awareness Movement (Feldenkrais) – Stacy Barrows, DPT
Break 10:00am – 10:30am PT
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Summit Morning Workshop (E 1-13) 10:30am – 12:00pm PT
E1- Teens, Sex and the Law – Stacie LeBlanc, JD, MEd, The Up Institute, American Professional Society of Abuse on Children (APSAC) Audience Level: Intermediate: Appropriate for attendees who have been in the field 5-10 years and have basic information on a topic.
Session highlights lessons learned and the latest research in the delivery of interactive teen programming surrounding current norms around sexting, consent and statutory rape. Participants will be better able to distinguish and communicate essential content to teens, parents and community, while avoiding harmful messaging that has boomerang impacts on teen behavior. Moving beyond risk and fear to connected and savvy! Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1. Effectively communicate with teens & their guardians about laws pertaining consent, internet pornography, and sexting. 2. Provide advocates with methods to understand how to communicate the latest findings and research effectively with parents, and teens. 3. Understand prevalence data.
Continuing Education: Approved up to 1.5 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, Attorneys, Substance Abuse Counselors, ATSS and Victim Advocates. E2 - Mindful Forgiveness: Learning to Breathe and Let Go to Live Life on Purpose - JoYi Rhyss, Mindful Forgiveness Center, Moxie Fitness LLC; Noelani Del Rosario, MSW, Hale Kipa Audience Level: Beginning: Appropriate for all attendees as an introduction to a topic. The Mindful Forgiveness workshops is a professional development training program funded in part by The Office of Youth Services in Hawaii is designed to teach & promote mindfulness and forgiveness as foundational daily living skills using the two research based tools: “Forgive for Good” by Dr. Fred Luskin and “Mindfulness in Daily Living” by Dr. Thao Le. Participants will be introduced to concepts, tools and practices that will allow them to implement a daily mindfulness practice and learn the steps of the Forgive for Good process. Participants will leave with a better understanding of how to let go of unhelpful thinking and be freer to have a more productive relationship with coworkers, family members and clients. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1.Describe three ways to cultivate mindfulness 2. Identify the seven steps to forgiveness. 3. Experience how to apply these skills to let go of anger, frustrations and other negative emotions to obtain more joy and peace
Continuing Education: Approved up to 1.5 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, Substance Abuse Counselors, DVOTP, ATSS and Victim Advocates. IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 1.5 credit hours for Trauma Care.
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E3 - Implementing Evidence-based Prevention Programming in Campus Settings: Proven Programs and New Options - Clea Sarnquist, Dr PH, MPH, Stanford University Audience Level: Intermediate: Appropriate for attendees who have been in the field 5-10 years and have basic information on a topic.
There are a variety of programs proven to prevent sexual assault and/or improve gender norms on campus. For example, the “Enhanced Assess, Acknowledge, Act (EAAA, or Flip the Script)” program is an evidence-based, feminist, empowerment-centered sexual assault prevention program for self- identified women. There are increasing options for men, as well as new development of programs for non-binary students. Main Points: Discussion of a broad variety of existing programs, for women, men and general campus populations, and their evidence base, as well as newer programs in development. A case study will be the “Enhanced Assess, Acknowledge, Act” (EAAA) program at Stanford University. Findings: There are increasing options for campus sexual assault prevention programming, including roadmaps for comprehensive campus programming. We will review pros and cons of a variety of evidence-based options, with small group work time for participants to identify which program(s) might fit well on their own campus. We will then discuss general pitfalls and challenges to implementing sexual assault prevention programming on campuses, as well as how those challenges might be overcome. Conclusions: While it is essential that we, as practitioners and researchers, advocate for and support evidence-based sexual assault prevention programming, the national and local politics, policies, and history regarding sexual assault can create barriers to program implementation. Deep community engagement with a wide variety of stakeholders within university administration, faculty, staff and students is essential for understanding and beginning to overcome these barriers. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1. Describe 3-5 evidence-based sexual assault prevention programs. 2. Discuss which programs might work well on your campus, as well as barriers and facilitators 3. Articulate why evidence-based programming is essential, as well as what a comprehensive prevention plan might look like.
Continuing Education: Approved up to 1.5 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, Substance Abuse Counselors, DVOTP, ATSS and Victim Advocates. IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 1.5 credit hours for Trauma Care.
E4 - Child Welfare Investigation Issues and Best Practices - Amy Russell, MSEd, JD, Arthur D. Curtis Children's Justice Center Audience Level: Beginning: Appropriate for all attendees as an introduction to a topic.
Youth today are exposed to, and often experience, multiple forms of family violence throughout their childhood. In addition to maltreatment youth may themselves experience, they are also exposed to violence against their siblings, sexual assaults and intimate partner violence (IPV) against a parent. Child welfare systems have been developed to respond to the needs of children and families, with the goal of maintaining family relationships when possible. This session will discuss the numerous modifications seen in child welfare investigations throughout the decades, and the current recognition of the need for multidisciplinary responses that are evidenced-based, culturally appropriate and
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trauma-informed. This session will also examine risk assessment techniques and resiliency factors for children. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1.Participants will discuss general considerations for CPS practice in child welfare investigations 2.Participants will analyze cultural issues & challenges in child welfare investigations 3.Participants will explain protection & resiliency factors in the child welfare system & community
Continuing Education: Approved up to 1.5 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, Attorneys, ATSS, Victim Advocates and Child Abuse. IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 1.5 credit hours for Child Custody Evaluators, Trauma Care and Child & Adult Maltreatment.
E5 - The State vs Trey Allen Cartwright: Lesson Learned in a Complex Trafficking Investigation – Jason Lundquist, MA, Waco Police Department Audience Level: Beginning: Appropriate for all attendees as an introduction to a topic. Domestic minor sex trafficking investigations are almost always complex. Like other forms of child abuse, disclosure of sex trafficking is often delayed if it is reported at all. Adult and child sex trafficking victims also rarely fully disclose the full extent of their abuse. For a variety of reasons, there has been a paradigm shift regarding prostitution in the United States over the last decade. Many realize that few participants in the commercial sex industry are willing participants. They are frequently engaging in illicit activities at the direction of a trafficker who benefits from their victimization. Most of these victims are children when they are first victimized. However, there is limited clinical and little empirical research regarding effective methods to respond to and combat domestic minor sex trafficking. Many disciplines such as advocates, counselors, and medical professionals have progressed to successfully recognize the status of victims. Great strides have been made regarding the recognition of victims by law enforcement, but there is still much to be done. The paradigm shift is recent and to be proactive criminal investigators often must utilize techniques that are new, uncomfortable, or unfamiliar. Many investigators engage in victim- centered, trauma informed techniques, but because the concepts are so new it is difficult to gauge success because the outcomes often take years to materialize. In this presentation, Sgt. Lundquist will discuss a complex investigation completed in Waco, Texas in 2016-2017. Fairly new to the field at the time, Lundquist had attended numerous trainings related to human trafficking investigation, victim centered trauma informed responses to sexual assault, best practices in child abuse, and professional ethics but had limited experience utilizing everything he had learned until the Cartwright investigation. Lundquist considers the investigation a success in that Cartwright ultimately chose to plead guilty. Objectives: As a result of this session, participants will be able to: 1. Understand how a victim centered response can aid in a trafficking investigation. 2. Investigative techniques related to complex human trafficking investigations. 3. Understand the importance of a victim centered investigation.
Continuing Education: Approved up to 1.5 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, Attorneys, Substance Abuse Counselors, ATSS and Victim Advocates.
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E6 - Making Changes: An Individual Counseling Program for DV & Anger Management - Janie Christensen, MSW, private practice; Janet Wagar, MSW, Exploring Solutions Counselling Services Audience Level: Intermediate: Appropriate for attendees who have been in the field 5-10 years and have basic information on a topic. Historically group counselling programs have been one of the choice treatment modalities for domestic violence and anger management counselling. It should be noted, however, many clients are not appropriate for group programming because a) they work out of town or b) they would ‘fly under the radar’ in a group, learning very little or c) they may live in an area where groups are not available. In addition, the model of group counselling while valuable, may prohibit personal sharing or any kind of in-depth assessment of risk or mitigate the potential for change. This presentation will address the ‘why’ and the ‘how’ to provide individual counselling in domestic abuse work when group programs are not the best fit. Through using specific key domestic violence prevention concepts and the provision of tools for change this program can effect change in a multitude of clients. This presentation also includes the guidelines for when to involve partners in the counselling not only as a safety check but in those cases where couples wish to determine the parameters of their future relationship. “Making Changes” is a structured program that works to provide individuals with a solid foundation in breaking the cycle of abuse and can give a more meaningful direction for the courts around conditions of contact. Homework handouts and a program outline will be provided. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1. Describe the context in which clients benefit from attending individual counselling for IPV. 2. Take away an outline of the program with an overview of effectiveness. 3. Learn when to involve partner and collaterals.
Continuing Education: Approved up to 1.5 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, DVOTP, ATSS, Victim Advocates and Domestic Violence. IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 1.5 credit hours for Domestic Violence Offender Treatment and Child & Adult Maltreatment.
E7 - With No Place to Call My Home - Sonia Konrad, JD, Law Office of Sonia Parras PLLC, Maria Jose Fletcher, Vida Legal Assistance Audience Level: Beginning: Appropriate for all attendees as an introduction to a topic
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Continuing Education: Approved up to 1.5 CE credits for: Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, Attorneys, ATSS and Victim Advocates. IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 1.5 credit hours Trauma Care and Child & Adult Maltreatment.
E8 - Expert Practice in Making Determinations About Causes of Parental Rejection in Custody Disputes - Kathleen Faller, MSW, PhD, University of Michigan; Madelyn Milchman, PhD, Private Practitioner Audience Level: Intermediate: Appropriate for attendees who have been in the field 5-10 years and have basic information on a topic. Allegations of child sexual and other abuse and intimate partner violence in child custody disputes are very contentious, not only between the parties in the custody dispute, but also among experts in intimate partner violence and child custody evaluation. Potential sources of bias among professionals include: 1) the professional’s gender, 2) class and ethnic positionality, 3) the professional’s professional experience with divorce/custody disputes, 4) the professional’s personal experience with divorce/custody disputes, 5) the professional’s beliefs about allegations of interpersonal violence in divorce/custody disputes, 6) the professional’s interpretation of the research in the domains of interpersonal violence in divorce/custody disputes, 7) the professionals knowledge and interpretation of research in the domains of child abuse and child sexual abuse; 8) whom the professional identifies with in a custody dispute; 9) whom the professional interviews first in a custody dispute, 8) who is paying for the evaluation, and 9) who between the parents is the most personable. These potential sources of bias will be elaborated in this presentation. There are a variety of causes of a child’s resistance to contact with one parent and affinity to the other parent. These causes include that the child has been sexually abused, physically abused, emotionally abused, or neglected by the parent the child does not want contact with. The causes also include other bad acts on the part of the unfavored parent, including domestic violence, substance abuse, failure to support the family financially, and the unfavored parent irrationally disrupting the child’s relationship with the favored parent. The unfavored parent may be uninvolved in the child’s life and emotionally unavailable. The unfavored parent may be an incompetent parent. The unfavored parent may lack knowledge of children’s development and cultural awareness. Moreover, gender, race, ethnicity, and preferred activities may impact upon the child’s preferences. When a parent has engaged in statements and behavior to alienate the child against the other parent, these can take a variety of forms. These may be overt actions, such as denigrated and vilifying the parent, or more subtle communications, such as stating that the child cannot have desired items because the other parent hasn’t paid child support. All of these possible hypotheses about the child’s responses to the preferred and non-preferred parent need to be considered in an unbiased evaluation in child custody dispute. Milchman presents the behavioral criteria to assess four possible causes of disruption in parent-child relationships: sexual abuse, psychological maltreatment, bad parenting, and parental alienation. Further, she provides principles for weighing the evidence in a child custody evaluation when there is evidence that more than one cause is contributing to the problem. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1.Identify potential sources of professional bias in child custody disputes 2.Describe the full range of reasons for a children rejection of one parent and affinity to the other. 3.Provide a framework and specify behavioral criteria for causes of parent-child relations
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Continuing Education: Approved up to 1.5 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, Attorneys, DVOTP, ATSS, Victim Advocates, Domestic Violence and Child Abuse. IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 1.5 credit hours Child Custody Evaluators, Trauma Care and Child & Adult Maltreatment.
E9 - Supporting Resiliency through the Arts and Nature - The Practice of Body Mapping Leah Gage, MA, Prison Yoga Project Audience Level: Beginning: Appropriate for all attendees as an introduction to a topic. The practice of Body Mapping has been utilized in different community settings to support a sense of connection within that community and a sense of connection for the individuals in that community The purpose of this workshop is for participants to experience the benefit of art practices in supporting resiliency for individuals and communities. This specific practice will use ecopsychology principles, beginning the conversation and experience centering on our connection to nature After participating in this workshop, individuals will have an understanding through lived experience of the value and impact of creative practices in supporting resiliency and enhancing community and cross-cultural bonds. This specific modality of Body Mapping that incorporates an ecopsychology approach seeks to bring humans into connection and relationship through bringing relationship to the natural world to the forefront. Allowing that framework to hold the space for exploration, sharing and potential holding of challenging experiences. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1. Understand the scope and purpose of Body Mapping 2. Participate in Body Mapping workshop, sharing their identity and witnessing others 3. Provide Body Mapping workshops of their own
Continuing Education: Approved up to 1.5 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, ATSS and Victim Advocates. IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 1.5 credit hours Trauma Care.
E10 - It Takes a Village the Gate Keeper's Code First Response: Healing Victim's Hearts Jessica T. White, MS, Sexual Exploitation and Abuse Child Protection Agency LLC Audience Level: Intermediate: Appropriate for attendees who have been in the field 5-10 years and have basic information on a topic. A village is a form of community, a group of individuals with designated responsibilities working together for the greater good of its people. The village leaders within the community ensure that each family is readily equipped with the skills needed to help their children flourish so they, too, can grow to become successful members of the village. As working members protecting the rights of the children within the village of the child welfare and social justice systems, we all share the role of THE GATEKEEPER. After learning of a sexual criminal offense against a child victim and their families to help promote a safe environment for the disclosure as well as learning how to initiate the healing process during the case commencement and first response. A Gatekeeper's first impression when interacting with a victim is vital. Every word spoken, and each gesture made while gathering information from the victim can build or dismantle a case disclosure. During this interactive workshop, #25IVAT | #TraumaIntoTriumph | ivatcenters.org 109
participants will leverage new ideas and techniques that will help them learn how to empathize with the client and their families to improve the outcomes of victim response to help their hearts heal by using the First Response Formula. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1. Identify particular strategies for rapport building using Trauma Focused-Cognitive skills for disclosure. 2. Apply effective motivational interviewing skills to create substantial victim disclosure. 3. Explain empathic heal using uniquely developed "First Response Formula."
Continuing Education: Approved up to 1.5 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, Nurses, ATSS, Victim Advocates and Child Abuse. IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 1.5 credit hours Trauma Care and Child & Adult Maltreatment.
E11 - The Will to Live: Group Work, Combat Veterans and Moral Injury - An Effective Suicide Prevention Model (Part 2) - Eva J. Usadi, MA, BCD, Trauma and Resiliency Resources, Inc. Audience Level: Intermediate: Appropriate for attendees who have been in the field 5-10 years and have basic information on a topic. Veterans and active military are continuing to die by their own hand. This is the case even if they have been treated for PTSD. It is critical that we learn how to repair the damage done to people’s psyches after serving in a war zone during forward operations. For this reason, we now understand the significance of combat Veterans’ moral injuries. Moral Injury is not a disorder. It is not a part of PTSD. It is the wounding to the heart and soul of warfighters who hold themselves to the highest ethical standards and question their right to remain on the planet when they feel they have violated their deeply held moral code. Combat veterans’ trauma does not happen to them as individuals. Their trauma occurs in the context of a closely knit, cohesive unit, under extreme levels of stress and violence. It is for this reason that we believe the very best way to address their trauma is by working with them in group format, rather than in individual treatment, even as that may also be necessary. The presentation will describe a suicide prevention model that has been successful since 2013, demonstrating a group approach to ending Military veteran suicide through repair of Moral Injury. Learning to effectively repair Moral Injury is critical to reducing the suicide rate among warfighters as we believe it is the dissonance between one's ethics and one's actions that drives many Veterans to suicide. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1. Distinguish Moral Injury from PTSD and Complex PTSD 2. Identify the principles of group psychotherapy; 3. Communicate what is necessary to heal from Moral Injury and choose to live.
Continuing Education: Approved up to 1.5 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, Nurses, ATSS, Victim Advocates and Suicide Prevention.
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E12 - A Cross-Discipline Exploration of Trauma-Informed Practice - Pete Singer, MSW, Zero Abuse Project/Advanced Trauma Consulting Audience Level: Intermediate: Appropriate for attendees who have been in the field 5-10 years and have basic information on a topic. Trauma-informed practice has become a focus in many emotionally-intensive fields. The idea is discussed, but it is often not well defined, and practical means of implementation seem elusive. This presentation starts with a brief analysis of what distinguishes trauma from other adverse events. It then explores six key principles of trauma-informed practice: Physical and Emotional Safety; Trustworthiness and Transparency; Peer Support; Collaboration and Mutuality; Empowerment, Voice, and Choice; and Cultural, Historical, and Gender Considerations. These principles are applied to work with students and clients, staff, organizations, and systems/communities. The presentation strengthens understanding of trauma, its prevalence, and its historical, physical, emotional, spiritual, and systemic impact. It asserts that trauma-informed practice is about the underlying culture and values by which individuals and organizations abide, rather than a checklist or spreadsheet. This deeper exploration of trauma-informed practice reframes the discussion and gives rise to practical strategies for assessment, development, and implementation. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1.Understand the importance of trauma-informed practice. 2.Identify key components of trauma-informed practice. 3.Identify strategies to expand and assess trauma-informed practice.
Continuing Education: Approved up to 1.5 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, Attorneys, Substance Abuse Counselors, DVOTP, ATSS and Victim Advocates. IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 1.5 credit hours Trauma Care.
E13 - Self-Care Session: Sound Healing - Part 1: Kiesa Carbin, CAMTC, Part 2: Sarah Brennan
Lunch 12:00pm – 1:00pm PT
Summit Afternoon Workshops (F 1-13) 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm PT
F1 - TKF's Safe School Model - Teaching Peace, Hope and Forgiveness - Tasreen Khamisa, MS, Tariq Khamisa Foundation; Benita Page, MS, Tariq Khamisa Foundation Audience Level: Beginning: Appropriate for all attendees as an introduction to a topic. This session is being facilitated by the Tariq Khamisa Foundation (TKF), a San Diego nonprofit successfully conducting educational programming to teach youth to repair harm, build healthy relationships, and proactively exercise peace. Gandhi once said “If we want to reach real peace in this world, we should start with educating children.” Our instruction teaches youth deeper lessons on accountability, compassion, collaboration, and forgiveness. We have to teach our children the social- emotional life skills needed to become resilient, mindful peacemakers as they face life’s challenges, hurts, and trauma. The purpose of this session is to introduce attendee to TKF’s Safe School Model, #25IVAT | #TraumaIntoTriumph | ivatcenters.org 111
a comprehensive array of proven effective services. The Model’s programming includes assembly presentations, classroom curriculum series, individualized mentoring, student leadership clubs, teacher trainings and parenting classes. Our educational methodology is rooted in restorative principles and practices. Attendees will learn strategies for creating safe spaces that support healing for children. Presenters will introduce you to TKF’s founding story of overcoming tragedy and violence through forgiveness. In this session participants will take part in an exercise the organization uses to teach youth a deeper understanding of forgiveness and its value in moving one beyond their trauma, hurts, and pains. TKF has assessed its Safe School Model’s through multiple process and outcome evaluations with findings that include the following results. For assemblies, 90% of students learn significant messages about consequences, violence, and forgiveness. For curriculum, 86% of students learn how to take actions to prevent or resolve problems and 82% learn how to feel positive about themselves. For mentored youth, misconduct incident levels were reduced by 67%. Our programming and its unique educational and prevention strategies are positively changing children and youth’s lives. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1.Describe TKF’s prevention model and its restorative focused services. 2.Describe TKF’s founding story of forgiveness and its restorative impacts. 3.Learn strategies that create safe spaces for traumatized children.
Continuing Education: Approved up to 1.5 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, ATSS, and Victim Advocates. IVAT Specialty Certifications: N/A
F2 - Mindful Forgiveness: Learning to Breathe and Let Go to Live Life on Purpose - JoYi Rhyss, Moxie Fitness LLC; Darby Sherman, Hawai'i Care Choices of East Hawai'i
Audience Level: Beginning: Appropriate for all attendees as an introduction to a topic. The Mindful Forgiveness workshops is a professional development training program funded in part by The Office of Youth Services in Hawaii is designed to teach & promote mindfulness and forgiveness as foundational daily living skills using the two research based tools: “Forgive for Good” by Dr. Fred Luskin and “Mindfulness in Daily Living” by Dr. Thao Le. Participants will be introduced to concepts, tools and practices that will allow them to implement a daily mindfulness practice and learn the steps of the Forgive for Good process. Participants will leave with a better understanding of how to let go of unhelpful thinking and be freer to have a more productive relationship with coworkers, family members and clients. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1.Practice three ways to cultivate mindfulness 2.Identify the 7 steps to forgiveness Through interactive activities 3. Experience how to apply these skills to let go of anger, frustrations and other negative emotions to obtain more joy & peace
Continuing Education: Approved up to 1.5 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, Substance Abuse Counselors, DVOTP, ATSS, and Victim Advocates. IVAT Specialty Certifications: N/A
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F3 - From Red Zone to End Zone: Methods and Measurement Issues in Assessing Campus Sexual Climate - Emilio Ulloa, PhD, San Diego State University; Brian Spitzberg, PhD, San Diego State University; Walter S. DeKeseredy, PhD, West Virginia University; Clea Sarnquist, DrPH, MPH, Stanford University; Jennifer Wagman, PhD, MHS, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health; Ruben Lane Forsman, PhD, LMSW, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, RaeAnn Anderson, PhD, University of North Dakota, Dipthi Battapadi, San Diego State University Audience Level: Intermediate: Appropriate for attendees who have been in the field 5-10 years and have basic information on a topic. At least since the 2014 Presidential Memorandum and the second White House Report , surveys of collegiate sexual climate and aggression have become relatively commonplace. As yet, however, there is still relatively little collective attention to coalescing such efforts in a way that allow for cumulative validity, reliability and generalizability of such research. Much of this work is treated as locally acquired and publicized knowledge, rather than given the scholarly imprimatur and public status that would allow refinement of methods over time. This panel seeks representative presentations of projects implemented in college contexts that offer insights into the challenges and opportunities provided by such research. Each presentation will describe the development, deployment, analysis and key findings of their climate surveys, with an eye toward panel discussion and establishing recommendations for future advancement of such research. Note to prospective submitters: A plan is currently in the works to organize one or more calls for special issues of an IVAT-affiliated journal on issues related to college sexual assault surveys. While submission or presentation on any panel that gets accepted from this call for the conference provides no guarantee of subsequent publication, submitters may want to consider the fit of their work with the draft version of the call that follows, given the resonance of both proposals. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1. Identify challenges and opportunities associated with this sexual assault research. 2. Identify which practices have implications for their own campuses 3. Learn about the opportunity to submit campus sexual assault research for publication in a special issue
Continuing Education: Approved up to 1.5 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, ATSS, Victim Advocates, and Child Abuse. IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 1.5 credit hours for Child & Adult Maltreatment.
F4 - Separation from Abusive Families: Systems, Safety, Stigma, and Support - Heather Pierce, MSEd, Steadfast Center Audience Level: Intermediate: Appropriate for attendees who have been in the field 5-10 years and have basic information on a topic. Many people coping with trauma have experienced abuse or neglect inflicted by family members, enduring the complex betrayal of being hurt by people they are dependent on for attachment and survival. These complexities are often misunderstood, stigmatized, or overlooked by helping professionals, healthcare systems, and even survivors themselves. Our ability to empathize and bear witness to the many internal and external conflicts, such as attachment and enmeshment, protection and exposure, love and betrayal, belonging and isolation, and shame and trust, are crucial to healing those injured in a familial context. To help repair the impact of relational trauma, we must deepen our understanding of the search for safety, connection, cultural identity, and support outside of one’s #25IVAT | #TraumaIntoTriumph | ivatcenters.org 113
family of origin. Drawing from research on estrangement, attachment, and loss, as well as personal and clinical insights, we will explore the resistance and resiliency of both client and clinician in navigating the multifaceted process of separating from abusive family members. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1. Identify the unique challenges facing people navigating separation from abusive families 2. Apply knowledge of the emotional impact of abuse in a familial context to the treatment of people with complex trauma 3. Recognize the impact on clinicians working with people who are attached to abusers
Continuing Education: Approved up to 1.5 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, Attorneys, Substance Abuse Counselors, DVOTP, ATSS, Victim Advocates, and Domestic Violence. IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 1.5 credit hours for Child Custody Evaluators, Trauma Care, Domestic Violence Offender Treatment and Child & Adult Maltreatment.
F5 - Orange County Human Trafficking Task Force: From Identifying a Victim to Trauma Informed Services - Nicole Strattman, MSW, County of Orange Social Services Agency; Juan Reveles, Anaheim Police Department; Michelle Heater, MA, Waymakers; Eya Garcia, JD, Orange County District Attorney Audience Level: Beginning: Appropriate for all attendees as an introduction to a topic. This workshop is presented by core members of the Orange County Human Trafficking Task Force. They will provide an overview of the crimes connected to Human Trafficking, such as pimping and pandering and how that differs from the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children. They will explain what causes a victim to be vulnerable to sex trafficking and exploitation and what goes on in the minds of their trafficker/exploiter. They will provide information on how to identify red flag signs of human trafficking and exploitation in the mental health field. This workshop will discuss recruitment tactics of traffickers and how they target and exploit at-risk juveniles and young adults. They will discuss the protocols in place when a sex trafficking victim is recovered by law enforcement and the steps involved in this initial contact. They will demonstrate how they work with victims using a trauma informed approach and how they have found success in this approach, such as the creation of a specialized courtroom for juveniles. Finally, participants will learn what steps to take if they suspect a person is a victim of Human Trafficking or Exploitation. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1. Identify two elements needed for human trafficking. 2. Identify two red flag signs that someone is being exploited or trafficked. 3. Identify two entities to call when it is suspected that someone is being trafficked or exploited.
Continuing Education: Approved up to 1.5 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, DVOTP, ATSS, and Victim Advocates. IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 1.5 credit hours for Trauma Care and Child & Adult Maltreatment.
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F6 - Making Court Ordered Treatment Fun! - Raquel Buchanan, The Center for Counseling & Education Audience Level: Intermediate: Appropriate for attendees who have been in the field 5-10 years and have basic information on a topic. Making Court-Ordered Treatment Fun! introduces the use of trauma informed care in court-ordered domestic violence group therapy programs through the inclusion of social games. This presentation addresses the role of trauma and intersectionality on participation and engagement in group treatment settings. In applying a trauma informed model, resistance in court-order programs is understood as a byproduct of shame and intersectional trauma. This presentation explores the use of therapy games in court-ordered domestic violence programs to reduce resistance and increase engagement. Making Court Ordered Treatment Fun! shares live video footage of a group therapy session and experiential techniques for participants to demonstrate the application of trauma informed treatment strategies. Participants will walk away with practical techniques to break down barriers found within the treatment of court-ordered domestic violence programs. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1.Describe three ways that trauma informed care influences the treatment, 2. Describe the role of resistance and shame on engagement in court-ordered therapy, 3 .Identify three strategies to promote engagement in court-ordered domestic violence group therapy.
Continuing Education: Approved up to 1.5 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, Attorneys, DVOTP, ATSS, Victim Advocates, Domestic Violence, and Child Abuse. IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 1.5 credit hours for Child Custody Evaluators, Domestic Violence Offender Treatment, and Child & Adult Maltreatment.
F7- Intimate Partner Violence Interventions in Faith Communities Part 1) Religion and Intimate Partner Violence - Andy Johnson, PhD, Bethel University; Laura Price, The Pride Institute Audience Level: Intermediate: Appropriate for attendees who have been in the field 5-10 years and have basic information on a topic. Religion and Intimate Partner Violence: Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a complex, multifaceted phenomenon that occurs in every known national, socioeconomic, religious, cultural, and ethnic group. Dynamics of IPV may differ according to the intersection of the social locations of a particular client, however, making one size fits all approaches to the understanding and treatment of IPV less effective and potentially even harmful in some cases. This session focuses on intimate partner violence as it affects persons at the intersection of diverse social locations, including religion, culture, ethnicity, national origin, immigration status, and sexual orientation. Unique beliefs, practices, and situations facing diverse persons affected by IPV that need to be considered to increase treatment effectiveness will be examined. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1. Describe unanticipated barriers, minimization by therapists, systemic inequalities, and misuse of religious scriptures involved in the treatment of religious IPV survivors. 2.Identify research results on religion and spirituality within IPV. 3. Describe how to partner with clergy.
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Part 2) Transforming Trauma through Research: Making a Difference in IPV Interventions in Faith Communities - Rene Drumm, PhD, MSW, University of Southern Mississippi Audience Level: Intermediate: Appropriate for attendees who have been in the field 5-10 years and have basic information on a topic. Transforming Trauma through Research: Making a Difference in IPV Interventions in Faith Communities: Overview of three studies on Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) within a Conservative Christian denomination, Seventh-day Adventist (SDA). We pose the questions: “How does research make inroads on social problems in faith communities?” and, “How can researchers and advocates work together to address IPV in faith communities?” The results reveal that the problem of IPV in the SDA church is on par with rates reported in national US samples. The results also highlight the ways in which SDA church members are victimized by their intimate partners through physical, sexual, emotional, financial, and spiritual means. This study helped researchers understand IPV from the perspective of the individual dealing with abuse as a church member. The third study documented the results of a clergy training to respond appropriately to initial disclosures of IPV in congregations. We conclude with some thoughts about these questions and discuss about how to leverage information to make change. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1. Recognize the extent of IPV among SDA church attendees and note its impact on victim/survivors 2. Understand how pastors learn to better respond to abuse disclosures 3. Apply research findings to create intervention coalitions between researchers, church officials, and IPV advocates
Continuing Education: Approved up to 1.5 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, DVOTP, ATSS, Victim Advocates, and Domestic Violence. IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 1.5 credit hours for Child Custody Evaluators, Trauma Care, and Domestic Violence Offender Treatment.
F8 - Attacking Expert Testimony on Parental Alienation (PA): Step-by-Step Approach for Trial Attorneys Representing Women Accused of PA – Pacific - John Myers, JD, University of the Pacific Audience Level: Beginning: Appropriate for all attendees as an introduction to a topic. This workshop provides trial attorneys practical tools to take apart expert testimony on parental alienation. Subjects analyzed include: (1) Lay the groundwork for impeachment by taking the expert’s deposition; (2) Use the learned treatise rule both to impeach and to admit relevant literature for the truth of the matter asserted; (3) Use the rule of completeness and the opening the door doctrine with experts; (4) Dissect the literature supporting PA; (5) Literature that is critical of PA; (6) Relevant case law; (7) Cross-examination of the PA expert; (8) Use ethical guidelines to impeach; (9) Direct examination of your expert. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1. Increase knowledge and ability to effectively impeach expert witnesses using the learned treatise rule 2. Increase knowledge of the relevant literature and case law with the goal of increasing the effectiveness of cross-examination 3. Increase understanding of the opening the door doctrine and the rule of completeness in examination of experts. #25IVAT | #TraumaIntoTriumph | ivatcenters.org 116
Continuing Education: Approved up to 1.5 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, Attorneys, DVOTP, ATSS, Victim Advocates, and Child Abuse. IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 1.5 credit hours for Child Custody Evaluators and Domestic Violence Offender Treatment.
F9 - The Brown Card: Going from Parole Prosecutor to Prison Art Provider - Debra Mares, JD, Women Wonder Writers Audience Level: Beginning: Appropriate for all attendees as an introduction to a topic. After spending so many years prosecuting homicides and participating in parole hearings, Debra realized crime problems are best solved with community support, including through the arts within schools and corrections. In this in-depth presentation, geared for law enforcement, educators, leaders and correction staff, Debra shares her story of going from a parole prosecutor to author and art provider, teaching in correctional facilities and creating cultural arts programs to help with rehabilitation, health and safety at schools, probation centers, juvenile halls and state prisons. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1. Gain an introduction to art in corrections 2. Understand the critical components to successful cultural arts programs for building resiliency and supporting rehabilitation 3. Understand the history and barriers to access to the arts
Continuing Education: Approved up to 1.5 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, Attorneys, ATSS, Victim Advocates, and Culture. IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 1.5 credit hours for Trauma Care.
F10 - How A Multidisciplinary Team Approach Helps Survivors Obtain Justice and Turn Trauma into Triumph - Jessica Pride, JD, The Pride Law Firm; Christy Heiskala, The Pride Law Firm, Noel Harlow
Audience Level: Beginning: Appropriate for all attendees as an introduction to a topic. Through case studies, the presenters will show how a multidisciplinary team approach can help survivors obtain justice and turn trauma into triumph. A collaborative effort that includes civil litigators, criminal prosecution teams, victim advocate, counselors, and investigative agencies not only helps the survivor obtain justice, it also assures that survivor is getting all the resources they need to heal and thrive. Presented by a multidisciplinary team including a civil attorney, a victim advocate, an investigative agency, and survivor that will share their journey from trauma to triumph. The presenters will share strategies to promote collaboration among professional groups and highlight innovative methods that local agencies can use to mobilize their community to jointly address sexual violence. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1. Identify practical application for multidisciplinary team approach to sexual assault cases 2. Identify benefits to survivors when agencies, attorneys, and advocates collaborate 3. Identify who should be a part of the multidisciplinary team and how their role helps survivors
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Continuing Education: Approved up to 1.5 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, Attorneys, Substance Abuse Counselors, DVOTP, ATSS, and Victim Advocates. IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 1.5 credit hours for Trauma Care.
F11 - Addressing the Behavioral Health Needs of Military Families: Implementation of NCTSN Trauma Informed Practices - Greg Leskin, PhD, UCLA NCTSN Audience Level: Intermediate: Appropriate for attendees who have been in the field 5-10 years and have basic information on a topic. The National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) Military and Veteran Family Program has developed a number of trauma-informed clinical programs, including education, training and evidence-based interventions to address the needs of military and veteran families and their children. This presentation will highlight a number of resources available to both military and community-based providers that address highly relevant issues facing military and Veteran families including family support during transitions, suicide prevention, substance abuse, as well as behavioral health issues like PTSD. Additionally, the NCTSN has developed a number of online training materials for military staff to clinically including child maltreatment and neglect, problematic sexual behaviors in children and youth (PSBCY). Many of these materials have been developed for the Military’s Family Advocacy Program (FAP), New Parent Support Program (NPSP) and other military service providers. Attendees will have opportunity to learn about a number of training resources and Communities of Practice (CoP) developed by NCTSN available for military providers within specific services lines. Lessons include Foundational Knowledge, Protective Factors Framework for Military Home Visitors, Skills for Psychological Recovery (SPR), PSBCY, Core Concepts on Child Trauma for Military Providers, and Wellness Approaches. Clinical treatment approaches using evidence-based interventions for military and Veteran families and children will be described, including case illustrations of military families receiving treatment in both military and community settings. Additionally, presenters will describe efforts to address the behavioral health needs of Veteran families and children transitioning out of military service. During this presentation, subject matter experts who have developed national training programs to address the mental health needs of children and youth presenting with PSBCY. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1. Describe resources and trauma informed interventions to address the needs of military children. 2. Define and share “common and up-to-date language” to understand/discuss PSBCY. 3. Describe unique stressors facing military kids.
Continuing Education: Approved up to 1.5 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, ATSS, Victim Advocates, and Child Abuse. IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 1.5 credit hours for Trauma Care and Child & Adult Maltreatment.
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F12 - SHIFT Happens: Powerful Tools for Combating Traumatic Stress - Beth Medina, MA, The Innocent Justice Foundation; Anthony Maez, MA, The Innocent Justice Foundation Audience Level: Beginning: Appropriate for all attendees as an introduction to a topic. For some professionals, traumatic stress happens on a daily basis. It’s not IF it will happen, it’s WHEN. Not to worry……your brain is built to adapt! This class will highlight the five categories of signs and symptoms of stress (Physical, Intellectual, Emotional, Behavioral, and World View), focus on specialized resiliency tools that can train your brain to increase its ability to combat traumatic stress, and develop personalized tools to help when SHIFT happens. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1.Understand how trauma affects the brain 2.Understand neuroplasticity and develop tools for harnessing it 3.Explore the science behind changing behaviors
Continuing Education: Approved up to 1.5 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, ATSS, Victim Advocates, and Child Abuse. IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 1.5 credit hours for Trauma Care and Child & Adult Maltreatment.
F13 – Self-Care Session: Yoga Nidra and Energy Medicine – Neva Ingalls, Inner Domain Healing Arts
Break 2:30pm – 3:00pm PT
Poster Session 1 3:00pm – 4:00pm PT
Monday, August 31st, 2020 3:00 – 4:00 pm PT Slot #1 Intimate Partner Violence/Relationship Aggression Julia Storch The Examination of Substance Use, Emotion Regulation, Aggressive Relationship Behaviors, and Relationship Satisfaction Among Male Victims of Relationship 49 Aggression Zuzana Vasiliauskaite Eight Types of Abuse: The Validation of Two Multidimensional Instruments of 23 Intimate Partner Violence Normand Brodeur Constructing Views on Intimate Partner Violence: An Empirical Study of Practitioners 19 Working with Perpetrators in the Province of Quebec 29 Zuzana Vasiliauskaite The Link Between Help Seeking and Different Types of Intimate Partner Violence Crystal Giesbrecht Animal Safekeeping in Situations of Intimate Partner Violence: Service Providers’ 75 Experiences 28 Zuzana Vasiliauskaite Reasons That Keep Women from Disclosing Intimate Partner Violence 68 Tabitha Powell Intimate Partner Violence Stigma and Depression: Does Social Support Help? 1 Jennifer Samp Turning Up the Gas: Gaslighting, Power, and Interactions in Close Relationships Sejung Yang Restorative Justice Practice and Intimate Partner Violence: A Content Analysis of 47 Mandated Treatment Session Notes April Breakfield & Kelly 2 Buckholdt The VHA Intimate Partner Violence Assistance Program Raising Awareness Symbol.
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Yangjin Park A Need for a New Paradigm to Address Domestic Violence Crimes: Clinicians’ 46 Experiences and Perspectives Elyse Thulin Evaluating Micro-, Meso-, and Macro-level Factors Associated with Intimate Partner Violence Acceptability across 51 Countries: Building Datasets to Answer Complex 51 Questions Shay Kreuziger Fifty-Two-Week Batterer Intervention Programs: An Effective Alternative to 48 Incarceration for Male Perpetrators. Sally Stevens Gender Differences in Trauma, IPV, and PTSD of Unstably Housed Adults: The Need 54 for Gender-specific Interventions for Men
Monday, August 31st, 2020 3:00 – 4:00 pm PT Slot #2 Trauma Angi Yoder Maina Wellbeing and Resilience: A Grounded Theory using a Trauma-Informed Lens for a 56 Healing-Centered Peacebuilding Approach 10 Priscilla Dass-Brailsford The Mental Health Consequence of Hurricane Matthew (2016) on Haitian Children 15 Lisa Purdy Does the Mind Matter? Evaluation of a trauma resilient curriculum. Jacob Perry From Subjective Self-report to Objective Psychophysiological Measurement: Comparing Biometrics and Biofeedback as a Method for Measuring Therapeutic 39 Change. Pooja Mhatre The Role of Collaborative Learning and Shared Experiences in Building Trauma- 55 Informed Systems 33 Ibukun Olabinjo The Impact of Trauma on MAP Treatment Lillian Bengtson Type and Timing of Trauma Exposure is Related to Prenatal Depression and 9 Breastfeeding Duration Greg Bohall The Assessment of Malingered Posttraumatic Stress Disorder; Profile and 43 Classification 62 Adrienne Habib Vicarious Trauma and the Therapist’s Sexual Self-Esteem Veronika Larova The Evolution of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Treatment: Lessons Learned 12 from MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy Matthew Porter A Novel Existential Theory Applied to Clinical Health Case Conceptualization: The case 79 of "Lacie" Seini O’Conner Corrective Political Experiences? Psychological Impacts of Public Testimony for 11 Survivors of Torture Aimee Wakai A Comparison of Pre and Post-operative PTSD in Response to Cardiac Disease and 7 Surgery and the Psychosocial Implications in Treatment
Monday, August 31st, 2020 3:00 – 4:00 pm PT Slot #3 Violence, Aggression and Adult Survivors of Child Abuse and IPV Neveen Ali-Saleh Darawshy Exposure to Community Violence and their Academic Achievements: The Indirect 22 Effects of Internalizing and Externalizing Symptoms 84 Andrew Phelps Structural Violence Engagement: Transforming Denial Step by Step Yeng Vue When Expectations become Reality: Trigger Moderates the Effect of Risk and 45 Aggression Alcohol Expectancies on Alcohol-primed Displaced Aggression Victoria O’Connor Emotion Dysregulation and Intolerance of Uncertainty: Transdiagnostic Precipitants 74 of Online Surveillance and Unwanted Pursuit Behaviors Daniel Urkov Impact of Childhood Trauma on College-age Students’ Health and Socio- 63 environmental Functioning 58 Tahani Chaudhry Role of Religious Leaders in the Process of Resilience in Survivors of IPV Everett Delfel Rejected and Retaliating: Social Exclusion and the Influence of Anger, Social Pain, and 41 Social Distress on Aggression Valerie Vessels Reckless Retaliation: Alcohol Expectancies Moderate the Impact of Impulsivity on 38 Alcohol-primed Triggered Displaced Aggression
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Alicia Castro Outcast and Outraged: Temporal Distance Moderates the Effect of Belonging on the 37 Relationship between Social Pain and State Anger Isabella DiLauro Don't Set Me Off! Trigger Moderates the Effect of Revenge Planning on Alcohol- 35 primed Displaced Sggression 34 Dawna Komorosky Animal Cruelty Across the Lifespan Lynette Lively Cookson Comparative Analysis of Trauma Symptom Profiles for Adult Survivors of Child Sexual 64 Abuse and Intimate Partner Violence M. Ainelle Mercado Posttraumatic Growth and Quality of Parent-Child Interaction in Mothers that 66 Experienced Child Sexual Abuse
End of the Day Self-Care Session: 4:15 pm – 5:15 pm PT Mindfulness – Gail Soffer, Mindful Warrior Project
Summit Morning Workshops (G 1-13) 8:30am – 10:00am PT
Tuesday, September 1st, 2020
G1 - Forensic Interview Protocols: An Update on the Major Forensic Interview Structures - Kathleen Faller, MSW, PhD, University of Michigan Audience Level: Intermediate: Appropriate for attendees who have been in the field 5-10 years and have basic information on a topic. This presentation will provide an important update on the major forensic interview protocols, focusing primarily on those employed in North America. The field of forensic interviewing has been impressively dynamic, with interview protocols evolving and being updated as new knowledge becomes available and new insights are generated. Current interview structures vary in terms of the degree to which they are scripted versus semi-structured, whether they screen for polyvictimization, advice about the use of media, whether they specifically address reluctance to disclose, whether one forensic interview is sufficient, and guidance about the introduction of externally derived information and evidence. Current interview structures attempt to balance sensitivity (detecting children who have been maltreated) with specificity (avoiding designating children who have not been maltreated as maltreated). This balancing act is very challenging and will be addressed by presenters on this panel. Interview protocols to be represented in the presentation are RADAR (Recognizing Abuse Disclosure types and Responding), the NICHD Revised Protocol, ChildFirst Interview Protocol and Training Program, The Childhood Trust Child Forensic Interview Training, the CornerHouse Forensic Interview Protocol, NCAC Pre-school Interview Protocol, and the APSAC Forensic Interviewing in Cases of Suspected Child Abuse Practice Guidelines and APSAC Clinics. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1. Provide an overview of the history and etiology of forensic interviews of children 2. Identify different models for forensic interviews of children 3. To articulate similarities and differences in forensic interview models or protocols
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Continuing Education: Approved up to 1.5 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, Attorneys, Substance Abuse Counselors, DVOTP, ATSS, Victim Advocates, and Child Abuse. IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 1.5 credit hours for Child Custody Evaluators and Child & Adult Maltreatment.
G2 - Seeking Intensity After Trauma: Understanding Chemsex, the Paired Use of Drugs and Sex - David Fawcett, MSW, PhD, Seeking Integrity LLC Audience Level: Intermediate: Appropriate for attendees who have been in the field 5-10 years and have basic information on a topic. Compulsive behaviors dissociate the user from uncomfortable feelings, numbing emotional pain while creating complications and consequences. Survivors of trauma frequently seek various strategies to separate from its physical, mental and emotional effects. While many seek detachment, some chose sympathetic arousal to cope and stimulants, especially when combined with sex, provide an analgesic distraction while fueling a desire for intensity and connection, as well. This workshop examines this phenomenon among men and women of any sexual orientation for whom the broad experience of various forms of trauma, including a variety of adverse childhood experiences, results in maladapative coping mechanisms such as Chemsex. Combining stimulants and sex dissociates the user from low self-worth, shame, and other inhibitions while boosting arousal, a sense of invincibility and high-risk sex. Providing skills for affective regulation and to manage the lower intensity of drug-free experiences are essential, along with helping the client develop a sense of compassion for themselves. This workshop reviews strategies to recognize emotional triggers, improve affective regulation, and manage and redifferentiate fused behaviors, all of which are essential for recovery and the restoration of healthy intimacy as well. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1. Describe 5 clinical symptoms of stimulant misuse and co-occurring hypersexuality. 2. Demonstrate understanding of the relationship between trauma and the need for intensity. 3. Assess treatment modalities for paired sex and stimulants.
Continuing Education: Approved up to 1.5 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, Substance Abuse Counselors, DVOTP, ATSS, Victim Advocates, and Domestic Violence. IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 1.5 credit hours for Trauma Care and Child & Adult Maltreatment.
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G3 - The New Title IX Regulations Are Here, and They’re Really Bad: Now What? - Wendy Murphy, JD, New England Law Audience Level: Intermediate: Appropriate for attendees who have been in the field 5-10 years and have basic information on a topic. New Title IX regulations have been released for the first time since 1975, and many of them are illegal. Most organizations are teaching schools and students how to comply. This session will teach you instead how to fight back and help stop the second-class treatment of women and girls in education. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1. Explain the history of Title IX in comparison to the new regulations 2. Explain 2 legal options available to advocates and survivors 3. Identify ways to advocacy works and how we can better protect victim's rights
Continuing Education: Approved up to 1.5 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, Nurses, Attorneys, ATSS, and Victim Advocates.
G4 - Naturalistic and Play Activities in Family Reunification Following Trauma - April Harris- Britt, PhD, AHB Center for Behavioral Health and Wellness Audience Level: Intermediate: Appropriate for attendees who have been in the field 5-10 years and have basic information on a topic. Family systems are often faced with the need for reunification services due to a myriad of circumstances following some form of trauma or adverse childhood experience. Such events include but are not limited to parental domestic violence or substance abuse within the home, childhood abuse or maltreatment, and complicated high-conflict custody disputes. This workshop will illustrate how play therapy techniques within and beyond the confines of the office can help families re- establish the interpersonal security and natural connection necessary for successful reunification after family trauma. The presenter will share how therapeutic interventions within family’s own community can be leveraged to create a multi-faceted reunification intervention. The underlying developmental, neurobiological, and psychological processes in this reunification intervention model will be explored through the lens of attachment, trauma, and social engagement theory. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1.Increase understanding of underlying developmental, neurobiological, and psychological processes in parent-child relational repair following trauma. 2.Identify play therapy interventions that can be utilized by family therapists engaged in parent-child reunification. 3.Become aware of how naturalistic
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G5 - Tools for Advocates and Service Providers working with Trafficking Survivors Part 1) Intersections: PTSD, Human Trafficking and Complex Trauma - Equipping Support Services and Providers with Tools to Address These Growing Problems - Jennifer Cox, MD, FAAFP Dignity Health; Ronald Chambers, MD, FAAFP Dignity Health Audience Level: Advanced: Appropriate for practitioners in the field 10+ years The mental health toll of human trafficking is exceptionally high. The vast majority of survivors experience major depression, posttraumatic stress disorder, or both. Unfortunately, the understandable distrust by survivors of authority figures, including law enforcement, legal services, healthcare professionals, and others, can present a significant barrier to identifying and treating these conditions. Professionals caring for victims and survivors of trauma should develop communication strategies and an environment inviting to support clients/patients to disclose sexual and physical trauma histories using methods that avoid re-traumatization to the client/patient. Physicians commonly care for survivors of trauma, but they may not always realize it. They should be aware that their own behaviors and language can trigger reactions from patients with PTSD and adopt a trauma- informed care approach wherever possible. As part of our commitment to provide trauma-informed care to victims and survivors of human trafficking in our Medical Safe Haven program, we have created a structure of integrated in-house mental healthcare services, along with in house patient advocacy. This approach significantly decreases the barriers to accessing and utilizing integrated health services and also provides a unique learning opportunity for clinical and non-clinical staff. Evaluation and experience with over 2,000 patient encounters have disclosed many unique health challenges survivors face that are best addressed through integrating medical, behavioral health, harm reduction, and coordinated care with qualified community resource partners. This presentation will provide shared learnings from the development of a nationally recognized innovative clinic. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1.Define tools that reduce and mitigate barriers to accessing and trauma-informed health services by survivors of human trafficking. 2.Access resources to sustain trauma-informed approaches to care. 3.Discuss the efficacy and lasting benefits of immediate and long-term integrated care for survivors
Part 2) Advocating Inward: Maintaining Self Awareness While Advocating for Others - Shena Kitt, Florida Coalition Against Domestic Violence Audience Level: Beginning: Appropriate for all attendees as an introduction to a topic. Advocates in the anti-violence field often face the hardships associated with advocacy while feeling rewarded. Burnout, stress, and secondary trauma can become more familiar than empowerment- based philosophies and self-care practices in the 24-hour work environment that practitioner’s term human services provision. So, how does one sustain? Anti-violence movement leaders often find themselves challenged not with the complexities and impact of violence, though equally important, but with sustaining advocates within the movement constantly battling high turnover rates, compassion fatigue, and organization-wide burnout. As Henry Ford states, “coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1.Understand how trauma can impact advocacy efforts. 2.Discuss how personal traumatic experiences can impact advocacy efforts. 3.Explore ways that agencies can create environments that foster healing for both advocates and survivors.
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Continuing Education: Approved up to 1.5 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, ATSS, and Victim Advocates. IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 1.5 credit hours for Trauma Care and Child & Adult Maltreatment.
G6 - Trauma, Batterer Intervention, and (Female) Perpetrators of IPV Part 1) We're Not Victims! Female Perpetrators of IPV - Lesley Lambo, PhD, Concordia University Audience Level: Intermediate: Appropriate for attendees who have been in the field 5-10 years and have basic information on a topic. This study examines women who engage in or initiate violence in their intimate relationships. Through qualitative in-depth interviews with twenty-five women who were mandated to undergo treatment for intimate partner violence, I examined the reasons and justifications used by women to explain why they resort to violence as a strategy in conflict with their intimate partners. This study situates itself within a body of literature that is polemical in nature and ideologically divided with respect to women’s use of violence in their intimate relationships. On the one hand, intimate partner violence is understood to be heavily gendered and asymmetrical. This paradigm argues that a patriarchal and male-dominated society and culture sustains male violence against women and when women resort to violence toward a male partner, it is either reactive or in self-defense. On the other hand, proponents of gender symmetry consider intimate partner violence to be gender neutral where women are as likely as men to perpetrate violence. This study situates itself somewhere in between these two perspectives, i.e. that women are as likely as men to perpetrate intimate partner violence but suggest that gender is a mediating factor. The findings from this study reveal that women are capable of a significant level of violence and practice coercive control in their relations with their non- violent intimate partners. Self-defense or retaliation was not a causal factor in the participant’s justification for resorting to violence. The narratives of the women in this study provide an essential insight into their subjective experiences of intimate partner violence and the processes that result in their use of violence and aggressive behavior. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1. Understand the reasons and justifications female perpetrators use to explain their violence against their non-violent male intimates. 2. Describe how gender is fundamental to understanding and accounting for female perpetrated IPV. 3. Identify a treatment protocol that includes coercive control and childhood trauma
Part 2) Addressing Trauma When Working with Individuals Mandated for Batterer Intervention - Sara Brammer, PhD, Domestic Violence Services; Tony Dishman, DMin, Synergy Services Audience Level: Intermediate: Appropriate for attendees who have been in the field 5-10 years and have basic information on a topic. Synergy Services wishes to present the impact of addressing trauma informed services when working with domestic violence offenders. A vast amount of literature is available that outlines the benefit of addressing trauma in the form of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES). Little work, however, has addressed how mandated batterer intervention treatment might be successfully augmented with a trauma informed treatment approach. This workshop will summarize and describe the current literature surrounding trauma informed care and adverse childhood experience. This discussion will
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include an activity that invites each participate to learn from their own experience what an ACE is and discuss ACEs in a small group format. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1.Summarize and define the available work on adverse childhood experiences, trauma informed care and batterer intervention. 2.Understand how trauma informed care could augment a mandated bip program and still address accountability 3.Analyze the ability of an agency to provide this service.
Continuing Education: Approved up to 1.5 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, DVOTP, ATSS, Victim Advocates, and Domestic Violence. IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 1.5 credit hours for Trauma Care, Domestic Violence Offender Treatment, and Child & Adult Maltreatment.
G7- Risk Factors and Challenges Impacting Women Survivors of IPV Part 1) Staying in a Violent Relationship or Living in Precarious Life Conditions? When Intimate Partner Violence and Homelessness Intersect in Women's Lives - Catherine Flynn, PhD, University of Quebec Audience Level: Beginning: Appropriate for all attendees as an introduction to a topic. Most studies conducted in the province of Quebec have discussed men’s homelessness (Brassard et Cousineau, 1998, Grimard, 2011; Lupien, 2013, Turchetto, 2012, Gaudet, 2016). The literature indicates that not only has the experience of women has been poorly addressed, but few studies have been conducted within a feminist perspective. Their homelessness has been little problematized as the product of violence perpetrated against women, and in this context, intimate partner violence was only partially studied. Few studies have identified IVP as a risk factor for women’s homelessness (Tyler et coll., 2009; Petering et coll., 2014). On the other hand, IVP is an important difficulty faced by homeless women (Tyler et coll., 2009; Petering et coll., 2014). No one has drawn a specific portrait of how IPV and homelessness are intertwined in women’s life course. This presentation aims to document how Intimate partner violence (IPV) and homelessness intertwine in the life courses of women. The results that will be presented were obtained using chronological timeline analysis and thematic content analysis. 46 women who experienced both episodes of IPV and homelessness were interviewed in a life course interview within eight regions of the Province of Quebec. The results show four different trajectory configurations which are not mutually exclusive. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1. Describe the links between intimate partner violence and homelessness 2. Explain the specifics of the four pathways to homelessness criticize social programs, policies and services that produce social exclusion.
Part 2) Bearing the Brunt of the Pandemic: Intimate Partner Violence, COVID -19 and Immigrant Women - Sujata Warrier, PhD, Battered Women’s Justice Project Audience Level: Beginning: Appropriate for all attendees as an introduction to a topic. There has been increasing attention to the plight of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) survivors under the current circumstances of the pandemic. The general population as well as IPV victims face a range of practical, financial, economic and health issues. It is a specially challenging time for immigrant survivors who are also coping with the added trauma of uncertain immigration status. The #25IVAT | #TraumaIntoTriumph | ivatcenters.org 126
presentation will explore the myriad challenges in the following areas: loss of employment, lack of access to health care and benefits, increased violence in the home, isolation and being trapped, inability to escape, lack of services, halted immigration proceedings, continued ICE operations, detention facilities and closed borders. Each area will be examined both separately as well as through an inter-sectional lens that lays bare the ongoing trauma and the disproportionate impact on immigrant survivors. Both a framework for analysis as well as strategies for individual and systems change work will be discussed. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1.Describe the specific ways in which COVID – 19 impacts immigrant survivors of IPV, 2.Augment current intersectional understanding of immigration status, coercive control and IPV, 3.Discuss a viable framework for analysis and case work with immigrant survivors, 4.Identify strategies for case
Continuing Education: Approved up to 1.5 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, Substance Abuse Counselors, DVOTP, ATSS, Victim Advocates, and Domestic Violence. IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 1.5 credit hours for Child & Adult Maltreatment.
G8 – Gun Violence, Firearm Safety, and the Art of Healing Part 1) Using Gun Violence Restraining Orders to Protect the Community – Mara W. Elliott, JD, San Diego City Attorney Audience Level: Intermediate: Appropriate for attendees who have been in the field 5-10 years and have basic information on a topic. San Diego City Attorney Mara W. Elliott will present on her Office's Gun Violence Restraining Order (GVRO) program and how she's using California's Red Flag law to remove guns from dangerous owners. A large portion of the more than 300 GVROs her Office has obtained were used to prevent intimate partner homicide or gun violence in the home. City Attorney Elliott has been lauded as a pioneer in using GVROs to prevent gun violence tragedies and her Office has been selected by the Governor to train law enforcement agencies throughout California on how to use GVROs as a tool to save lives.
Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1. Describe risks of firearms in homes. 2. Utilize assessment questions with clients and families regarding firearm safety. 3. Explain firearm safety tactics to clients and families.
Part 2) Firearms in Homes: Assessing and Educating for Safety - Lisa Rapp-McCall, PhD, MSW, Saint Leo University Audience Level: Beginning: Appropriate for all attendees as an introduction to a topic. American firearm violence has become a serious public health concern. Every day, 310 people are shot with a gun. Yearly 113,108 are shot and certain groups are particularly vulnerable to firearm injuries and death (gunviolencearchive.org). For instance, firearm injuries are the second leading cause of death among children and adolescents (Cunningham, et.al., 2019). Access to firearms is associated with increased severity of intimate partner violence, as every sixteen hours a woman is
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shot and killed by her current or former partner (Bradyunited.org). Households with firearms have been found to have higher suicide and substance abuse rates (Morgan, Gomez, & Rowhani-Rahbar, 2018). Firearms in the home and their storage are two vital areas which impact our clients. A 2005 study indicated that storing household firearms which were unloaded or locked was associated with a 70% reduction in unintentional injuries and 73% of self-inflicted injuries (King et al., 2019). Clinicians can have a direct influence on firearm safety in the U.S. by addressing firearm safety in their standard client assessments and educating individuals about safe firearm storage. Yet, most are not routinely asking about access and storage of firearms (Slovak, Brewer, & Carlson, 2008). Early research suggests brief assessment and safety information provision to be helpful in reducing firearm injuries and death (Crifasi, Doucette, McGinty, Webster, & Barry, 2018). This session will focus on increasing comfort in broaching this topic with clients, provide clinicians with firearm safety brief assessment tools, which can provide information on which clients have guns and how they are being stored. Help identify groups of clients who are most vulnerable to injury and death from firearms, and provide information (especially for those who do not own or store a firearm) to gently educate clients and prevent firearm injury and death.
Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1. Describe risks of firearms in homes. 2. Utilize assessment questions with clients and families regarding firearm safety. 3. Explain firearm safety tactics to clients and families.
Part 3) The Art of Healing: Creative Applications in the Wake of Pain - Satya Hinduja, MA, multidisciplinary artist; Stephanie Mercedes, artist; Todd Mack, Music in Common; John McKenna, Operation Respect; Michael Levittan, PhD, Private Practice Audience Level: Intermediate: Appropriate for attendees who have been in the field 5-10 years and have basic information on a topic. Studies have proven beyond medical and clinical treatment; the arts make a profound impact in the healing process. Hear from experts providing unique applications and experiences for those managing injury, illness and pain, as well as deep and recessed trauma, on the interpersonal and inter-community level. Learn, experience and witness for yourself how this creative circle of practitioners are helping individuals and communities heal through sonic, visual and musical arts. There will be brief demonstrations of healing arts, including deep listening, music therapy and the transformation of arms and ammunition into sculpture!
Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1. Describe risks of firearms in homes. 2. Utilize assessment questions with clients and families regarding firearm safety. 3. Explain firearm safety tactics to clients and families.
Continuing Education: Approved up to 1.5 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, Attorneys, ATSS, and Victim Advocates. IVAT Specialty Certifications: N/A
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G9 - Promoting Positive Behaviors: Interconnected Choices and Nonviolence Part 1) First Do No Harm: Nonviolence to Animals, Planet, Others and Self - Glenna Tinney, MSW, ACSW, DCSW, Captain, U.S. Navy (Ret.), National Partnership to End Interpersonal Violence Across the Lifespan (NPEIV) Audience Level: Beginning: Appropriate for all attendees as an introduction to a topic. This workshop will focus on how our choices in all areas of our lives are interconnected and how they contribute to either a violent or nonviolent approach to our relationships with ourselves, other people, animals, and the planet. This connection manifests in each of our lives daily by the level of harm we inflict intentionally or unintentionally on other living beings, including in our intimate relationships. How can we take responsibility for the harm we inflict and make different choices that move us closer to living a life in which we first, do no harm? Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1.Articulate how reverence for life affects our relationships with all living beings 2.Discuss how the choices we make in our lives contribute to either a violent or nonviolent approach to life 3.Explain how power, control, dominance, objectification, and marginalization affects violent behavior
Part 2) Prevention Strategies in Preparation of Aftermath of Covid-19 Pandemic - Joyce Thomas, RN, MPH, PNP, FAAN, Center for Child Protection and Family Support Audience Level: Intermediate: Appropriate for attendees who have been in the field 5-10 years and have basic information on a topic. The purpose of this workshop is to discuss child abuse prevention strategies as we move toward the aftermath of Corona virus. COVID 19 pandemic has brought unprecedented changes to our communities, institutions, and life as we have known it to be. Child abuse reports have plummeted due to closures of childcare centers and schools. For months, residents have been under a stay-at- home order, individuals are practicing social distancing, and there is a ban on gatherings of 10 or more people. In many states, it is unknown how long these restrictions will continue and what the ultimate impact will be. Research documents when parents are stressed, the risk of harm to children increases tremendously. It is critical to recognize how Covid-19 will impact on prevention activities for children, parents, and families. The stress of unemployment, food shortages, and financial insecurity has strained relationships between children and those who care for them and these realities have forced children to be stuck with adults who may not keep them safe. There are numerous challenges in providing child abuse prevention programs especially to African American families who are also over-represented in Covid-19 fatalities. As the number of corona virus cases begin to decline, reopening plans for day cares, schools, and other youth serving agencies must be done slowly, carefully, and with a goal to prevent further harm. Parents and teachers must not only address the child’s academic performance, the need for frequent hand washing, wearing of masks, and social distancing, but they must also deal with the aftermath of Covid-19 pandemic as we seek to protect children from abuse. First there will be a discussion of several evidence-based prevention programs known to the Center for Child Protection and Family Support. and there will be dialogue about implications of Covid-19 that could impact prevention. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1.Identify prevention strategies designed to strengthen economic support to families. 2. Understand parenting skills that promote positive behaviors. 3. Discuss the implications of Covid-19 on child abuse prevention.
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Continuing Education: Approved up to 1.5 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, ATSS, and Victim Advocates. IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 1.5 credit hours for Trauma Care.
G10 - Prevention of Female Genital Mutilation through Early Interventions - Amanda Parker, AHA Foundation Audience Level: Intermediate: Appropriate for attendees who have been in the field 5-10 years and have basic information on a topic. The focus of our presentation is the prevention of FGM through early intervention, as well as ensuring that women and girls who have been subjected to these abuses receive appropriate, culturally- sensitive responses. It is commonplace for girls from communities practicing FGM to be pulled out of formal education to take part in FGM ceremonies. It is a traumatizing experience and has been linked to lower educational outcomes in girls. Counselors, social workers, and medical professionals are in an optimal position to identify girls who are at risk or subject to FGM. It is therefore essential they are trained; to understand FGM, how to undertake appropriate risk assessments and their child protection responsibilities. Our presentation will address: •FGM and the four major types practiced, •The reasons commonly given for the practice of FGM, including a mix of cultural, social and beliefs prevalent among families and communities, •Health consequences, immediate and long-term, •Psychological consequences, •The legal framework, •Raising awareness of FGM within your organization, •Undertaking a risk assessment, including successful engagement with children at risk, families, and affected communities, •Making a referral. Unlike other forms of child sexual abuse, genital mutilation is a one-off event. FGM is not generally performed with intent to harm, but to ensure girls conform to specific cultural expectations. Yet the physical and psychological effects of FGM can be permanent and life threatening. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1. Identify the major risk factors for a minor child who may be at risk of undergoing FGM. 2. Use an understanding of female genital mutilation risk factors to respond to incidents of FGM, or where to turn for help in determining how to respond. 3. Identify health and psychological harms of FGM.
Continuing Education: Approved up to 1.5 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, DVOTP, ATSS, Victim Advocates, and Child Abuse. IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 1.5 credit hours for Trauma Care and Child & Adult Maltreatment.
G11 - Identifying Patterns and Prevention Strategies for Military Sexual Trauma and Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) Part 1) Military Sexual Trauma Over the Years - Shyamala Karuvannur, MD, Dept of Veterans Affairs; Brendt Parrish, PhD, Clinical Psychologist VA San Diego Audience Level: Intermediate: Appropriate for attendees who have been in the field 5-10 years and have basic information on a topic. Veterans have a high incidence of sexual trauma in the military. Per the DOD 1996 survey, 55 –70 % of women in the military and 14% of men in the military report sexual trauma. Sexual trauma is a dehumanizing, soul damaging assault, leaving survivors with identifiable indicators. This study may help provide strategies for prevention of sexual assault in the military. Objective: A simple #25IVAT | #TraumaIntoTriumph | ivatcenters.org 130
questionnaire was used . Patients who screened positive for military sexual trauma (MST) 2016-2019 were approached to take part in this study. The questionnaire asks them to identify the nature of the trauma, the perpetrator and whether they have any of the physical and psychological concomitants associated with MST. The response was compared to one by MST patients in a previous study in 2000-2006 by the Principal Investigator (PI). The objective was to see what improvements have been made in the handling of MST by the military and compare and contrast the changes, presentation and symptomatology. Research Design: The study is a prospective cross sectional survey. Patients in primary care clinics reporting military sexual trauma were approached. Willing participants responded to a self-administered questionnaire. Methodology: 100 Primary Care patients who endorsed MST responded to the questionnaire. Their responses were compared that of 100 patients in the prior study . Results: Compared to the previous study the patients were younger, mean age being 31. Child sexual abuse in the current group was lower, they came from better socioeconomic backgrounds and less dysfunctional homes. There was more underage drinking, and personality disorders. PTSD ,depression, anxiety were most common diagnosis. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1. Identify patterns leading to MST 2.Iddentify Prevention strategies 3.Describe survivor suggestions for improved care
Part 2) The Veterans Health Administration Model for Intimate Partner Violence Screening and Intervention Services - Kelly Buckholdt, PhD, VHA Intimate Partner Violence Assistance Program; Laura Taylor, LSCSW, Department of Veterans Affairs Audience Level: Intermediate: Appropriate for attendees who have been in the field 5-10 years and have basic information on a topic. The Veterans Health Administration (VHA), the largest integrated health care system in the United States, offers intimate partner violence assistance and prevention to Veterans and their intimate partners. This session will illustrate how the VHA Intimate Partner Violence Assistance Program (IPVAP) has incorporated a trauma-informed, person-centered, and recovery-oriented framework into a continuum of care. This comprehensive set of practices, tools, and services extends from foundational safety and preparedness in the clinical setting in which universal education and screening occurs to safety planning and provision of services and is consistently implemented at facilities nationwide. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1. Articulate specific steps to screening for IPV that are consistent with a trauma-informed approach 2. Identify opportunities to be flexible and patient-centered in assessment and safety planning 3. Learn how to connect with local VHA IPVAP services
Continuing Education: Approved up to 1.5 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, DVOTP, ATSS, Victim Advocates, and Domestic Violence. IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 1.5 credit hours for Trauma Care.
G12 - Building Resilience into Practice: Trauma-Informed Approaches Part 1) Bring Trauma-Informed into your Community, Your Practice, Your Life - Megan Garza, MA, LMFT, YWCA Metro St. Louis; Karen Rich, PhD, LCSW, Marywood University Audience Level: Advanced: Appropriate for practitioners in the field 10+ years
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What’s the buzz behind the “buzz word” Trauma-Informed Care? Review the key principles, methods of Trauma-Informed Care and what improved outcomes can be achieved with such an approach. Examine more fully how vulnerable populations are impacted by trauma and the need for awareness of the impact of intergeneration transmission of trauma. Explore how trauma-informed care is being implemented in a diversity of settings including using a trauma-informed approach in police investigations of sexual assault crimes and working with abuse victims to support and build resiliency. Consider how can your workspace and environment can be more trauma-informed for staff and clients alike. Audience participation will be encouraged to discuss the barriers for bringing trauma- informed care to one’s community and share ideas for possible solutions Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1. Develop a basic understanding of Trauma-Informed Care, its key principles and methods. 2. Identify two unique issues and challenges in working with trauma survivors. 3. Modify programs to be responsive to trauma victims
Part 2) Compassion Satisfaction, Compassion Fatigue, and Burnout in Nurses - Sonya Crabtree- Nelson, PhD, LCSW, DePaul University; Peter DeYoung, MSN, Nurse Educator with Defense Military Readiness Training Institute Audience Level: Intermediate: Appropriate for attendees who have been in the field 5-10 years and have basic information on a topic. Nurses are often required to provide a high level of empathic care to clients experiencing short and long-term trauma, which can result in compassion fatigue (CF) and burnout. CF is a result of the empathic link nurses have with patients experiencing trauma symptoms; whereas burnout is from environmental factors such as too many shifts, bad leadership and poor equipment. The effects of CF and burnout experienced by nurses can include an increase in absenteeism and staff turnover, decrease in quality of patient care, decreased patient satisfaction, decrease in patient safety, and difficulty recruiting and retaining staff. This non-experimental study surveyed 1000 nurses in the Christus Santa Rosa Health System in Central Texas to determine levels of compassion satisfaction, compassion fatigue, and burnout as well as the demographic and work-related components linked to high or low levels of each. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1. Identify three factors that influence compassion satisfaction, compassion fatigue, and burnout in nurses. 2. Name three resiliency building strategies to help combat CF and burnout 3. Identify the main areas of push back to resiliency building
Continuing Education: Approved up to 1.5 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, Nurses, ATSS, Victim Advocates, and Child Abuse. IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 1.5 credit hours for Trauma Care and Child & Adult Maltreatment.
G13 – Self-Care Session: Chair Yoga – Nancy Chontos
Break 10:00am – 10:30am PT
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Summit Parallel Plenaries (H 1-8) 10:30am – 12:00pm PT
H1 – Approaches and Models for Treating and Preventing Trauma, Stress, & Grief from the COVID-19 Virus: A Focus on Children Panelists: Viola Vaughan-Eden, PhD, MJ, MSW, Norfolk State University, National Partnership to End Interpersonal Violence Across the Lifespan (NPEIV); Ernestine Briggs-King, PhD, National Child Traumatic Stress Network; Tasha Jackson, LCSW, Gulf Coast Children's Advocacy Center; Arvis Jones, MT, Center 4 Grief & Loss 4 Children, Erin Runnion; Moderator: Kelly Champion, PhD, Cadeus Behavioral Health
Audience Level: Intermediate: Appropriate for attendees who have been in the field 5-10 years and have basic information on a topic There have been different approaches, evidence-based interventions, and promising practices in treating traumatized children and helping them recover and heal to promote resiliency so that they are not at risk for future detrimental symptoms. This panel will discuss different approaches to dealing with stress, trauma, and grief for children and youth, especially with respect to the recent pandemic. The panelists will respond to questions as well as stimulate discussion. Opening Question: What types of treatment seems appropriate given the different feelings experienced by children with the virus, and how to determine what is most important treatments for children during this time (safety, acknowledging the experience, anxiety, fears, sleep disturbances, being out of school, etc.)? Closing Question: Given the discussion, what techniques, approaches or recommendations can be made support those working with children and to adjust to life after the pandemic? Objectives: As a result of this session, participants will be able to: 1. Discuss two different approaches in treating traumatized children 2. Identify two of risk to help deter future occurrences in children 3. Describe two available options and models for treating trauma, stress, and grief, that primarily focus on children.
Continuing Education: Approved up to 1.5 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, Nurses, ASTSS, Victim Advocates, and Child Abuse
IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 1.5 credit hours for Trauma Care and Child and Adult Maltreatment
H2 - Different Models & Approaches for Trauma, Grief, & Self-Care for Adults, with Respect to the COVID-19 Virus, Pandemics, & for the Future Panelists: Kevin Connors, MS, MFT, California Southern University; Mary Jo Barrett, MSW, Center for Contextual Change, Gimel Rogers, PsyD, ABPP, F.I.R.E; Alan Abrams, MD, JD, Village of Promises; Moderator: Diana Barnes-Fox, MA, National Partnership to End Interpersonal Violence Across the Lifespan Across the Lifespan (NPEIV) Audience Level: Intermediate: Appropriate for attendees who have been in the field 5-10 years and have basic information on a topic
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Where does trauma come from? Where is it stored in the body? How do we keep up to date with the changing perception of trauma and the new paradigms in the field for working with adults who have experienced trauma? This panel will discuss different treatment models and approaches, including how the impact of trauma is measured. It is important to learn about different approaches that work with different people who have experienced trauma. Opening Question: Reconceptualizing what is trauma, addressing how multiple traumas, including oppression, racism, sexism, pandemics happening simultaneously, affect parents, families, and other adults, and how do you respond as a clinician? Closing Question: What resources, techniques, or approaches can help support caregivers balancing different, and potentially conflicting, roles? Objectives: As a result of this session, participants will be able to: 1. Discuss two different treatment models in dealing with trauma in adults and families 2. Identify two ways the impact of trauma can be measured 3. Describe two the available resources for caregivers
Continuing Education: Approved up to 1.5 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, Nurses, ASTSS, and Victim Advocates
IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 1.5 credit hours for Trauma Care
H3 - What’s Next for Social Justice Movements? Panelists: Wendy Walsh, PhD, Marc Pilisuk, PhD, Saybrook University; Azim Khamisa, Tariq Khamisa Foundation; Carolyn West, PhD, University of Washington, Meghan Fagundes, PhD, Institute on Violence, Abuse and Trauma; Moderator: Jacquelyn White, PhD, University of NC at Greensboro, National Partnership to End Interpersonal Violence Across the Lifespan (NPEIV)
Audience Level: Intermediate: Appropriate for attendees who have been in the field 5-10 years and have basic information on a topic This roundtable discussion focuses on movements for social justice to combat prejudice and oppression of people who are different in one way or the other from the majority population. The focus is on changing systems and norms that have been present for generations and produce trauma, violence, and hate. What works and how do we implement such movements to activate true changes in priorities and norms? Opening Question: As the need for social justice movements is greater than ever before (old issues/new challenges), how do we get social justice to be a priority action item in dealing with Black Lives Matter, #MeToo, LGBTQ, Gun Safety, gender equity, and divisiveness? Closing Question: Does peace get ignored and how does the role of the media play a role in social justice movements to implement change? Objectives: As a result of this session, participants will be able to: 1. Discuss two different social justice movements designed to combat prejudice and oppression 2. Identify two societal norms that have been present for generations and perpetuate trauma, violence, and hate 3. Describe two ways social justice movements have worked to implement change in societal norms
Continuing Education: Approved up to 1.5 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, Nurses, ASTSS, and Victim Advocates
IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 1.5 credit hours for Trauma Care
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H4 - ACEs – Screenings and International Perspectives from ACES Aware Nations Panelists: David Corwin, MD, University of Utah School of Medicine; Stacie LeBlanc, JD, MEd, The Up Institute, American Professional Society of Abuse on Children (APSAC); Vincent Felitti, MD, University of California; Pamela Pine, PhD, MPH, Stop the Silence®: Stop Child Sexual Abuse, Inc.; Tamara Hamai, PhD, Hamai Consulting, Joyce N Thomas, RN, MPH, PNP, FAAN, Center of Child Protection and Family Support; Moderator: Kathleen Gorman, LLM, MSW, RSW Audience Level: Intermediate: Appropriate for attendees who have been in the field 5-10 years and have basic information on a topic The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) research and its major findings are much more widely known now. However, what are the next steps in utilizing this knowledge to help prevent the negative effects of ACEs throughout the lifespan. Can we intervene in childhood before the long-term negative effects occur? Should we conduct screenings for children and adults on a wide basis, and what are the concerns for doing this? What types of resources or referrals would then be needed? How to address these issues without causing further harm? Opening Question: The controversies regarding the screening of ACES include suggestions of widespread overuse, without adequate understanding of how to implement the information, no resources to intervene if someone has many ACEs, lack of research as a screening tool, etc. Why the resistance and what would help the knowledge of ACEs gain momentum? Closing Question: Given the controversies, what are the next steps to help the healthcare and mental health community accept/understand this approach to assessment? Objectives: As a result of this session, participants will be able to: 1. Gain knowledge/understanding of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) research and its findings 2. Discuss two pros and two cons of screenings of adults and children on a wide scale basis 3. Describe two available resources for the screening of ACEs
Continuing Education: Approved up to 1.5 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, Nurses, Attorneys, ASTSS, and Victim Advocates
IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 1.5 credit hours for Trauma Care and Child And Adult Maltreatment
H5 – Multidisciplinary Responses to Human and Labor Trafficking Panelists: Jamie Beck, JD, Free to Thrive; Jason Lundquist, MA, Waco Police Department; Joseph Scaramucci, McLennan County Sherriff’s Office; Carmen Kcomt, La Maestra Community Health Centers; Moderator: Andrew Pari, LCSW, Sexual Assault Awareness LLC Audience Level: Intermediate: Appropriate for attendees who have been in the field 5-10 years and have basic information on a topic This Roundtable discussion focuses on the types of community coordinated multidisciplinary responses, intervention and prevention programs in dealing with human trafficking, especially in the time of the recent pandemic. Now that we are more aware of the extent of trafficking and its traumatic effects, how do we combat it? Trainings in trauma-informed work, screenings, and other approaches by various systems of care will be discussed. Is legislation and policy changes needed? How do these affect those who choose to work in the sex industry? Opening Question: How can law enforcement and service providers work together to coordinate multidisciplinary responses to human and labor trafficking and what should the responses of clinicians, law enforcement and attorneys be?
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Closing Question: How can communities work together to process this information toward systems changes? Objectives: As a result of this session, participants will be able to: 1. Identify two different agencies and local community resources who work together to combat Human/Labor Trafficking 2. List two different approaches by various systems of care for those involved in Human/Labor Trafficking 3. Describe two possible roles of clinicians, law enforcement, legal entities, and political figures in the fight against Human/Labor Trafficking
Continuing Education: Approved up to 1.5 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, Nurses, ASTSS, and Victim Advocates
IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 1.5 credit hours for Trauma Care
H6 - Reducing Domestic Violence in Special Populations Panelists: Mildred Muhammed, My F.O.C.U.S. LLC; Antonia Drew Vann, The Asha Project; Sujata Warrier, PhD, Battered Women’s Justice Project; Oliver Williams, PhD, MPH, MSW, African American Domestic Peace Project; Jacquelyn Campbell, PhD, RN, FAAN, Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing Moderator: Sandi Capuano Morrison, MA, IVAT, NPEIV Audience Level: Intermediate: Appropriate for attendees who have been in the field 5-10 years and have basic information on a topic Reducing Domestic Violence in Special Populations, such as those Topic: This Roundtable discussion focuses on intervention and prevention of domestic violence across the lifespan. Topics include restorative justice, different approaches and programs that are more geared to specific populations and cultures, and trauma informed approaches. Are there promising practices for working with some of the more specialized populations where domestic violence is quite high? What are key aspects that are needed to be included in programs when working with these various populations of victims/survivors? Resources do not appear to be available in many locations to help in these types of cases, so how do we improve this situation? What is needed to do so? Opening Question: Are there promising practices for working with and reducing domestic violence in special populations where it is quite high, and what do we mean by special populations with respect to DV? Closing Question: What do people need to understand that distinguishes the response to special populations and what sensitivities as service providers do we need to bring to the table? Objectives: As a result of this session, participants will be able to: 1. Identify two programs geared to specific populations and cultures in the intervention and prevention of DV 2. Discuss two ways that DV programs should be aware of with respect to various populations 3. Determine two ways to improve resources concerning DV in special populations
Continuing Education: Approved up to 1.5 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, Nurses, Attorneys, DVOTP, ASTSS, Victim Advocates, and Cultural Content
IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 1.5 credit hours for Trauma Care and Domestic Violence Offender Treatment
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H7 - Addressing Immigration and the Separation of Families Panelists: Leslye Orloff, JD, National Immigrant Women’s Advocacy Project; Olivia Rosillo, MA, LMFT, Private Practitioner; Brenda Punsky, LCSW, LLM, Center for Child Health and Resiliency; Anne Bautista, Access, Inc.; Moderator: Diana Avalle, PsyD, Institute on Violence, Abuse and Trauma (IVAT) Audience Level: Intermediate: Appropriate for attendees who have been in the field 5-10 years and have basic information on a topic There has been substantial controversy concerning policies during the past few years where children have been separated from their families in immigration cases, and also in other types of court cases. These situations have been exacerbated with the recent pandemic. How have policies affected the families and the children? Who is dealing with the trauma to the children and parents in these cases? With the current political mentality, Sanctuary cities, recent policies nationally, how are organizations, advocates, clinicians, and attorneys dealing with the outcomes of these situation when working with the children and families? Opening Question: Media focus tends to have tunnel vision, with initial outrage at horrific situations with immigration and the separation of families, and then now with less media focus on the effects of COVID 19 on immigrants. How do we keep these very present problems as part of the discussion and how do we address the concerns/trauma with families that are involved? Closing Question: How do we look at these forms of oppression, including dehumanization of families that are involved in the system, and overcome them together, seeing them as another aspect of systemic oppression? Objectives: As a result of this session, participants will be able to: 1. Discuss two ways current immigration policies have affected families 2. Identify two ways organizations (advocates, clinicians, attorneys, etc.) are dealing with the trauma to the children and parents. 3. Describe two possible approaches to keep the focus on these growing concerns Continuing Education: Approved up to 1.5 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, Nurses, Attorneys, ASTSS, Victim Advocates, and Cultural Content. IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 1.5 credit hours for Trauma Care
H8 - Gun Violence and Mass Shootings Panelists: Rachael Frost, Frost ICED/Investigation, Consultation, Education & Development, Nikki Faddick, Moms Demand Action; Charles Branas, PhD, Director of Columbia's Center for Injury Science and Prevention; Margaret Formica, MSPH, PhD, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Nina Agrawal, MD, Columbia Medical Center; Moderators: John McKenna, Operation Respect; Michael Levittan, PhD, Private Practice
Audience Level: Intermediate: Appropriate for attendees who have been in the field 5-10 years and have basic information on a topic Gun Violence as a public health crisis and has become a national epidemic. How are we dealing with these issues to promote gun safety and well-being in such a controversial and divisive climate What are the barriers to changing polices to reduce mass shootings and gun violence ? How do we promote bystander awareness, law enforcement, mental health, activism surrounding these traumatic situations? How do we frame the topic to facilitate useful recommendations? These and other related controversial issues of gun safety vs 2nd Amendment rights will be discussed. Opening Question: #25IVAT | #TraumaIntoTriumph | ivatcenters.org 137
What are the barriers to changing gun policies to reduce mass shootings and gun violence, which are at epidemic rates, considering the counter argument of second amendment rights? Closing Question: With every right comes responsibility, so how do we balance what is the most important right: the right to bear arms or the right to be safe, and is there a compromise?
Objectives: As a result of this session, participants will be able to: 1. Identify two barriers to changing gun polices to reduce mass shootings and gun violence 2. Discuss two issues of gun safety vs 2nd Amendment rights 3. Describe two ways to promote gun safety while balancing the right to bear arms
Continuing Education: Approved up to 1.5 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, Nurses, ASTSS, and Victim Advocates
IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 1.5 credit hours for Trauma Care
Lunch 12:00pm – 1:00m PT
Poster Session 2
Tuesday, September 1st, 2020 1:00 – 2:00 pm PT Slot #4 Sexual Aggression/Assault and Trafficking Samuel Hales Assessing the Treatment Needs of Sexually Aggressive Male Students at UK 31 Universities Kira Schieck Is Victim Relationship Related to Characteristics of Children with Concerning 70 Sexual Behaviours? Tracey Curwen Aligning sexual abuse crime and punishment from child and adolescent victims' 81 perspectives Chuka Emezue Supporting Male Victims of Sexual Assault: Exploring the Role of Stigma 24 Awareness & Stigma Management by Victim Service Providers (VSP) Avery Beall Who Sexually Abuses Transgender Individuals? Perpetrator and Abuse 71 Characteristics: A Review of Literature Elyse Thulin Understanding male and female perceptions and experiences of sexual and 53 gender-based violence in South Kivu, eastern DRC to tailor interventions 44 Sarbinaz Bekmuratova Sexual Violence Among People with Disabilities: Police Officers’ Perspective 5 Julie Williams Female Sexual Offenders: Assessment and Treatment 3 Bailey Thompson A History of Sexual Violence in Athletics Andy Johnson Innovative Collaborative Program: Labor Trafficking Undergraduate Class 25 Project Caitlin Fuller, Hannah Miles & Jennifer Examining Adult Sexual Assault, Suicidality and Non-Suicidal Self -Injury in 8 Staples Trans Populations 40 Sasha Georgiades Military Sexual Trauma and Institutional Betrayal 16 Mary Gamboa Physician and Medical Student Awareness of Human Trafficking in San Diego
Tuesday, September 1st, 2020 1:00 – 2:00 pm PT Slot #5 Child Abuse, Adverse Childhood Experiences, Families and Parenting Sarah Moreno Early Head Start Children at Developmental Risk: the Relationship Between 17 Risky Development and Family Protective Factors Arianne Jean-Thorn The moderating role of social support in the association between parent-child 18 attachment and resilience in sexually abused children
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Michelle Knox A Multi-Site Study of the Effectiveness of Education about Physical Punishment 89 for Pediatrics Resident 36 Justine Caouette Emotion recognition and emotion regulation in child victims of sexual abuse Kira Donaldson The Relationship between Social Support and Education & Employment Status 21 within Transition Age Foster Youth Ashley Logsdon Exploring the Effectiveness of Evidence-Based Parenting Programs for the 13 Prevention of Child Maltreatment Paige Thompson Gender Differences of Parenting Stress During Child Custody Dispute Cases as 42 Measured by the Parenting Stress Index- Fourth Edition Rosalba Hernandez Demographic Predictors of Successful Participation and Positive Outcomes for 27 Families Enrolled in Family Preservation Program Paloma Gallegos Examining Adverse Childhood Experiences and Juvenile Involvement in the 67 Legal System Brenda Franz Examining the Relationship Between the Big Five Personality Dimensions and 61 Adult Adoptees 26 Jesus Palapa Engaging fathers and father figures in the care and upbringing of their children. Ronald Stolberg What does divorce look like? Children's Representations of Divorce and Family 86 through Drawings Utilized in Child Custody Evaluations. Ronald Stolberg The Relationship Between MMPI-2 Validity Scales and the Scales of the 87 Parenting Stress Index and the Parent-Child Relationship Inventory. 32 Michelle Knox A Multi-Site Study of the ACT Raising Safe Kids Program in Portugal
Tuesday, September 1st, 2020 1:00 – 2:00 pm PT Slot #6 Teen Dating Violence, Campus Assault, and Vulnerable Populations 77 Londyn Miller Community Violence and its Impact on African American Couples Elyse Thulin Adolescent Risk of Dating Violence and Electronic Dating Abuse: A Latent Class 50 Analysis Andréanne Fortin Physical violence perpetration in teen dating relationships: The role of behaviors 14 and subjective perceptions in daily conflicts Crystal Giesbrecht & 76 Miranda Field Nato' we ho win: Using Cultural Expressive-Arts to Build Resilience Jeffrey Duong Treatment implications for individuals with autism spectrum disorder that 20 experience trauma Poco Kernsmith From Victim to Perpetrator: The Impact of Childhood Experiences on 90 Perpetration of Teen Dating Violence 72 Paige Smith NC LGBTQ Domestic Violence Response Network Constance Coates Disclosure of violent experiences among college students: Examinations by 6 gender, sexual orientation, and race Stoddy Carey Marginalized Communities at the Intersections of Culture and Campus Sexual 73 Assault across UCLA, UCSB, & UCSD 83 Elizabeth Stuart Considerations for the Expansion of Resources for Transgender Inmates 80 Samantha Torres Posttraumatic Growth Among Incarcerated Populations Brian Gutierrez Clinical Strategies to Foster Self-Compassion Among LGBTQ+ Individuals who 82 Experience Trauma
Break 2:00pm-2:30pm PT
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Summit Afternoon Workshops (I 1-13) 2:30pm – 4:00pm PT
I1- Teen Dating Violence - Dorothy Espelage, PhD, University of North Carolina Audience Level: Intermediate: Appropriate for attendees who have been in the field 5-10 years and have basic information on a topic This session will discuss recent research on the associations among bullying, gender-based harassment and teen dating violence and interventions to address these forms of violence. These innovative efforts involve developing apps for students to communicate both emotional and physical safety concerns, youth-led student campaigns to address mental health issues and school climate concerns, and professional development training programs for school police officers. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1.Understand associations among bullying, gender-based harassment, and dating violence. 2.Identify ways to engage youth to address bullying, sexual violence, and dating violence. 3.Appreciate how technology can maximize current prevention efforts.
Continuing Education: Approved up to 1.5 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, Nurses, ATSS, and Domestic Violence. IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 1.5 credit hours for Trauma Care.
I2 - Putting the Spotlight on Elder Abuse - The Hidden Crime - Especially During & After COVID 19 - Paul Greenwood, LLB, Retired deputy DA San Diego Audience Level: Beginning: Appropriate for all attendees as an introduction to a topic. The presenter will draw upon his 22 years as an elder abuse felony prosecutor covering such crimes as sexual assaults, homicides, neglect, financial exploitation, emotional and physical abuse. He will demonstrate how many times allegations of elder abuse are either mistaken as "just civil matters' or are not investigated at all. Greenwood will also focus on how COVID 19 has impacted the lives of so many older adults and the lessons that we can learn from this pandemic to better safeguard those whose lives have been utterly impacted. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1. Understand the various forms of elder abuse 2. Appreciate the common misconceptions that can hinder or delay successful investigations and prosecutions of perpetrators of elder abuse 3. Provide tools for creating or expanding a multi disciplinary approach in the learner's community. Continuing Education: Approved up to 1.5 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, Attorneys, ATSS, Victim Advocates, Ethics, Aging and Long Term Care. IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 1.5 credit hours for Trauma Care and Child & Adult Maltreatment.
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I3 - From Institutional Betrayal to Institutional Courage: Applications to Campus Sexual Assault Prevention - Brianna C. Delker, PhD, Western Washington University; Alexis Adams-Clark, MS, University of Oregon; Melissa Barnes, MS, University of Oregon Audience Level: Intermediate: Appropriate for attendees who have been in the field 5-10 years and have basic information on a topic Many college students who are sexually assaulted face further harm by the institution in the aftermath of assault. Institutional betrayal refers to actions and inactions by institutions that enable abuse to occur, failing to protect members and to hold transgressors accountable. Institutional betrayal is connected to mental and physical health problems for survivors, above and beyond sexual violence itself. Preventing and addressing institutional betrayal involves fostering a set of values, attitudes, policies, and action steps known as institutional courage. In this workshop, participants will learn about institutional betrayal trauma research and apply this knowledge to practice addressing institutional betrayal by means of institutional courage, using a specific applied case of campus sexual assault. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1. Define institutional betrayal and institutional courage 2. Identify patterns in institutional betrayal surrounding campus sexual assault 3. Apply knowledge of institutional betrayal to identify novel institutional courage solutions for campus sexual assault prevention
Continuing Education: Approved up to 1.5 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, Nurses, and ATSS. IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 1.5 credit hours for Trauma Care.
I4 - Interventions and Assessments in Special Populations Part 1) Trauma Informed Instruction in the Special Education Setting: Identification and Interventions for Students and Teachers - Michele DeBerry, MS, Oklahoma State Department of Education; Jenae Tindell, MS, Oklahoma State Department of Education
Audience Level: Beginning: Appropriate for all attendees as an introduction to a topic. Students with disabilities experience childhood trauma not unlike neurotypical children. For some students with disabilities, traumatic events in life further impacts their ability to form relationships, learn and display appropriate classroom behavior, as well as gain academic skills. Teachers of these students must provide specially designed instruction in the areas of social emotional learning, academics, self-regulation, as well as be specifically trained in trauma-informed care, crisis prevention and de-escalation practices. Educators who work with students with disabilities report experiencing significant vicarious trauma, compassion fatigue, and are more likely to consider leaving the field of education. Educators must be supported socially, emotionally and with ongoing resources in order to minimize the long-term effects of vicarious trauma. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to:
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Part 2) The People in Your Neighborhood: Working with Sexual and Gender Minority Youth - Amy Russel, Arthur D. Curtis Children's Justice Center, JD, MSEd Audience Level: Beginning: Appropriate for all attendees as an introduction to a topic. This session will focus on building awareness of the context and experiences of gender and sexual minority (LGBTQ+) victims of child sexual abuse, and offer training participants strategies for providing forensic interviews, services and advocacy in a meaningful and culturally sensitive manner. In this session, we will examine the factors that place sexual and gender minority youth at greater risk for maltreatment and barriers these youth may face following victimization and trauma. This session will offer training participants an opportunity to examine current practices and learn practical skills to improve responses and interview techniques for gender and sexual minority survivors of sexual violence and exploitation of children. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1.Explain what puts LGBTQ+ children at greater risk for sexual victimization 2.Discuss reasons why LGBTQ+ youth may fail to disclose their victimization 3.Describe skills to improve responses to LGBTQ+ youth who have been victimized
Continuing Education: Approved up to 1.5 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, ATSS, Victim Advocates, Domestic Violence, and Child Abuse. IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 1.5 credit hours for Trauma Care and Child & Adult Maltreatment.
I5 - Orange County Human Trafficking Task Force: An Enhanced Collaborative Model using a Victim-centered Trauma-informed Approach. - Nicole Strattman, MSW, County of Orange Social Services Agency; Juan Reveles, Anaheim Police Department; Linh Tran, MSW, County of Orange Social Services Agency; Eya Garcia, JD, Orange County District Attorney Audience Level: Intermediate: Appropriate for attendees who have been in the field 5-10 years and have basic information on a topic. It takes more than hard work and the best intentions to make a collaboration work. A true collaboration consists of individuals willing and able to meet continuously with their multidisciplinary partners, seeing the issue through one's own eyes as well as through the eyes of their partners. The best collaboration is built through relationships and is cemented through policy at each organization. This type of collaboration only occurs through learning and growing together as a team. In this workshop, the Orange County Human Trafficking Task Force will address how the work began and will share how the task force continues to address the needs of the work both re-actively and proactively. The facilitators represent the various disciplines it takes to move the anti-trafficking work forward in Orange County, California. This Task Force represents one model, and this model continues to show itself to be truly adaptable to the ebbs and flows of this ever-evolving work. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1. Identify two needs of the different parts of the human trafficking work, and how each need is addressed by each partner 2. Identify two ways to leverage each agency's strengths, and how to fill in gaps 3. Name two barriers between entities and the efforts made to continue to address barriers
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IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 1.5 credit hours for Trauma Care and Child & Adult Maltreatment.
I6 – Reviewing the Evidence for a Trauma-Informed Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) Intervention: The Strength at Home Program – Casey Taft, PhD, National Center for PTSD, VA Boston Healthcare System; Boston University School of Medicine; Strength at Home
Audience Level: Intermediate: Appropriate for attendees who have been in the field 5-10 years and have basic information on a topic The trauma-informed “Strength at Home” program was initially developed and validated through randomized controlled trials of veterans and is currently being implemented across the VA healthcare system through a national rollout. More recently, the program has shown efficacy in court-mandated civilians who reported using severe forms of IPV. This presentation will review the social information processing model for IPV that the program is based on, provide an overview of program elements, and describe the state of the current research for the program.
Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1. Review social information processing model for intimate partner violence. 2. Discuss strategies for motivating those who use intimate partner violence to increase their engagement in the therapeutic process. 3. Review the research evidence for the Strength at Home program.
Continuing Education: Approved up to 1.5 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, DVOTP, ATSS, Victim Advocates, and Domestic Violence. IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 1.5 credit hours for Trauma Care, Domestic Violence Defender Treatment, and Child & Adult Maltreatment.
I7- Continuity of Care: Coordinated Approaches to Working with Survivors Part 1) Violence against Women and Homelessness in Remote Regions of the Province of Québec - An Intersectional Analysis of Women's Life Courses - Catherine Flynn, PhD, University of Quebec Audience Level: Intermediate: Appropriate for attendees who have been in the field 5-10 years and have basic information on a topic.
Although there have not been any studies on violence against women and homelessness in rural or remote areas of the province of Quebec, many North American studies have shown that domestic violence (Watson, 2016; Coll, 2014, Murray 2011, Richards et al., 2010, Tyler et al., 2001) and sexual abuse (Simons and Whitbeck 1991, Tyler et al., 2001) are important risk factors for women’s homelessness. In a context where rurality is often neglected as an intersection point in the lives of women who are victims of violence (Sandberg, 2013), this communication offers an intersectional analysis of different institutional and symbolic barriers that complicate women’s efforts to escape violence, thus producing social exclusion. This communication offers an intersectional analysis of different institutional and symbolic barriers that complicate women’s efforts to escape violence in remote regions of Province of Quebec, thus producing social exclusion.
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Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1. Teach the main structural obstacles that women face to get out of a context of violence 2. Explain the ethical issues associated with the mobilization of knowledge in these environments 3. Criticize the socio-economic context that contributes to women poverty
Part 2) Intimate Partner Violence: A Law Enforcement & Clinical Approach in Working with Survivors Kathryn Hamel, PhD, California Southern University; Kevin J. Connors, MS, MFT, California Southern University
Audience Level: Intermediate: Appropriate for attendees who have been in the field 5-10 years and have basic information on a topic.
Intimate partner violence (IPV), encompassing physical and sexual violence, stalking and psychological aggression, impacts approximately one in four women and one in seven men, according to the Center for Disease and Control. Furthermore, the societal impact of IPV is immeasurable and includes survivors who often experience physical and mental problems, including depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder. While primary prevention is key, stakeholders spanning a wide-range of interdisciplinary fields are responsible for the continuity of care in the wake of intimate partner violence victimization and the resulting interpersonal trauma that often ensues. This workshop will explore practical ways in which practitioners from law enforcement, county social services departments, victim advocates, mental health professionals, deputy district attorneys and other stakeholders can collaborate to shield against secondary victimization, while maximizing interpersonal trauma healing. A special emphasis will be given to best practices for first-responders, including police officers.
Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1. Understand the nature, pervasiveness and costs of intimate partner violence (IPV) and interpersonal trauma 2. Identify governmental, non-profit and other non-governmental organizations who are involved in the “continuity of care” for victims
Continuing Education: Approved up to 1.5 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, Nurses, Attorneys, Substance Abuse Counselors, DVOTP, ATSS, Victim Advocates, and Domestic Violence. IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 1.5 credit hours for Trauma Care and Child & Adult Maltreatment.
I8 - Aimed at Living: The Art of Surviving and Thriving Past Gun Violence - Michael Levittan, PhD, Private Practice; Will Barton, Association of Mouth and Foot Painting; Marisol Martinez, Operation Respect's Parkland Project; Vanessa Contopulos, MA, Coast Music Therapy Audience Level: Beginning: Appropriate for all attendees as an introduction to a topic.
Too many young lives have been traumatized and lost in the current era of mass shootings and widespread gun violence. The “Lockdown Generation” today sees no truly safe environment, as bullets have sprayed through parks, schools, shopping malls, theaters, concerts venues, and houses of worship. Despite seeming societal amnesia regarding the issue, it is obvious that innocent people dying from gun violence has reached epidemic proportions in the United States. One horrific killing
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emerges before the last one fades from awareness. The death toll climbs, with over 35,000 gun- deaths per year in America. The country has lost more of its citizens to gun violence than in all the wars in its history, combined. This workshop delineates the extent of the problem, the issues involved on both sides of the gun control debate, and promising solutions to end the needless violence. There is particular emphasis on creative solutions – art and music – that inspire activism and promote healing. Healing requires learning to live through and with, the lasting fears and trauma, and embracing creative forms of expression which provide remarkable and surprising results. The presenters of this workshop include a student survivor from Parkland, Florida, a gun violence victim, and a music therapist working with survivors. Interact with courageous survivors, creative advocates and innovative practitioners demonstrating that the human spirit is more resilient than one can possibly imagine. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1.Identify the major issues involved – from opposing sides - in the gun violence debate. 2.Describe intended meanings and interpretations of the second amendment. 3.Describe some promising solutions to this public health crisis.
Continuing Education: Approved up to 1.5 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, ATSS, and Victim Advocates. IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 1.5 credit hours for Trauma Care.
I9 - Indigenous Peoples: Historical Trauma, Systemic Violence and Healing Part 1) Substance Abuse and Healing from Unresolved Grief for Native Americans: A Phenomenological Study - Rick Froyd, PhD, MA, New Mexico Highlands University; Brent Robbins, PhD, Point Park University Audience Level: Intermediate: Appropriate for attendees who have been in the field 5-10 years and have basic information on a topic.
There appears to be a consensus among scholars suggesting a disproportionate misuse of psychoactive substances by Native Americans in the United States. Further, scholars studying Native American history likened the Native American experiences to the Holocaust of the Jewish people and suggested that Native Americans suffered from posttraumatic stress disorder from historical trauma in terms of individual, intergenerational, and community perspectives. They also offered a cogent argument for these factors being a central tenet associated with Native Americans plagued by substance abuse disorders. This study addressed a gap in the literature regarding the lived experiences of Native Americans in the Navajo tribe living in Northwestern New Mexico in terms of grief and substance abuse. The purpose of this study was to understand the way in which Native Americans from the Navajo tribe viewed death and loss, and then explore how this dynamic presents as symptoms or sequela leading to alcohol or other substance use disorders. The goal of this study was to provide the scientific literature with rich detail with which to create, implement, and refine a culturally appropriate substance abuse intervention designed to prevent unresolved grief from being a trigger for relapse for the Native Americans attending compulsory substance abuse treatment. Our results extend Braveheart’s work by focusing on the lived experiences of our Native American participants. In so doing, we captured the essences of the intensely deep grief associated with substance abuse. The abundant and richly meaningful data provided by these participants offers a strong indication that Native American clients struggling with substance abuse issues possess an
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innate desire to engage in the sometimes mysterious, yet profoundly meaningful cultural and traditional practices. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1. Comprehend and describe the statistical data regarding the disproportionate representation of Native Americans with Substance Use Issues in the United States 2. Learn the unique “lived experiences” of N.A. participants who struggle with grief and SA 3. Describe traditional practices for SA tx
Part 2) No More Stolen Sisters - Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Children - Shurene Premo, MSW, San Diego State University Alumni; Trish Martinez, San Diego Regional Human Trafficking – CSEC Advisory Council Audience Level: Beginning: Appropriate for all attendees as an introduction to a topic. Topics to be addressed include transgender victims who are Native American, foster care children, boarding school and Mission system survivors, brutality by law enforcement on Native women and girls, and Native women or girls who died while in custody in the state of California. Strategies for preventing victimization against Native American women and girls will be discussed, including how to decrease the numbers of MMIWG in the state of California. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1) Discuss the percentage of Native & Non-Native offenders on MMIWG in US 2) Describe how systemic violence is one of many tragedies Indigenous families face in battle of restoring health & wellbeing 3) Identify difference between historical trauma & intergenerational trauma today & how it's a tool still
Continuing Education: Approved up to 1.5 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, Attorneys, Substance Abuse Counselors, DVOTP, ATSS, Victim Advocates, Domestic Violence, Child Abuse, and Culture. IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 1.5 credit hours for Trauma Care and Child & Adult Maltreatment.
I10 - Did I Want it?:Orgasm During Sexual Assault and Repetition Compulsion - Andrew Pari, LCSW, Sexual Assault Awareness LLC Audience Level: Intermediate: Appropriate for attendees who have been in the field 5-10 years and have basic information on a topic.
Arousal during sexual assault is possibly the most devastating aspect for the survivor. It is rarely discussed in the literature and often not addressed clinically at all. It leads to lower levels of reporting than already exist for rape survivors due to prevailing myths of what it means to orgasm in an assault. Additionally, it can lead to the experience of repetition compulsion in sexual acting-out where the survivor replays elements of their assault. Misunderstood in law enforcement and the judicial system, in addition to juries, it creates further barriers to investigation, prosecution and conviction of sexual assault. The presenter will dispel myths and prejudice towards these victims, discuss the neuro- biology underlying fear and arousal, and provide investigators and prosecutors with tools and knowledge to turn the trauma of arousal into evidence supporting prosecution versus viewing arousal as evidence of consent. New data demonstrating arousal in sexual violence and the trauma it causes will be reviewed. This presentation will include new developments and qualitative data on #25IVAT | #TraumaIntoTriumph | ivatcenters.org 146
understanding repetition compulsion to create a controversial new theory in using guided exposure to reduce trauma symptomology. The presenter will discuss the myths and prejudice around this while providing psychotherapists with treatment tools to address the trauma for clients who play these themes out. Survivor-based survey data demonstrating forced sex repetition compulsion and how it harms and benefits the survivor will be reviewed. A cutting edge case study illustrating these concepts will be shared with the audience. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1. Describe the biological and psychological underpinnings of sexual arousal and response during rape/sexual assault. 2. Describe hormonal and psychological elements of sexualized repetition compulsion. 3. Compare several theoretical techniques to aid those suffering from sexualized repetition compulsion.
Continuing Education: Approved up to 1.5 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, Attorneys, DVOTP, ATSS, Victim Advocates, and Domestic Violence. IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 1.5 credit hours for Trauma Care and Child & Adult Maltreatment.
I11 - Non-Traditional Strategies for Care Part 1) Natural and Integrative Therapies for Military Members and First Responders - Jessi Beyer, Jessi Beyer International, LLC Audience Level: Beginning: Appropriate for all attendees as an introduction to a topic.
In my presentation titled “Natural and Integrative Therapies For Military Members and First Responders”, I will discuss eight natural and integrative therapies that can be powerful additions to trauma healing journeys. While talk therapy is very well-supported and is the most common form of therapy, it is completely useless for military members and first responders who avoid it because of the stigma surrounding asking for help. Through expert interviews and reading published research, I have concluded that there are alternatives or additives to talk therapy that can be powerful additions to the healing journey and that are more welcoming and less stigmatized that traditional talk therapy: Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Craniosacral Therapy, Dance-Movement Therapy, Trauma-Sensitive Yoga, Equine-Assisted Therapy, Canine-Assisted Therapy, Ecotherapy and Nature-Based Therapies, and Flower Essence Therapy. My presentation will give an overview of the therapies and the evidence surrounding them as to bring awareness to the therapies so that more of our military members and first responders can feel comfortable getting the help they need and deserve. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1.Understand why natural therapies are often more effective for trauma healing for military members and first responders. 2.Describe nine natural therapy methods that can be powerful additions to a survivor's healing journey. 3.Comprehend the effect that the therapy stigma has on trauma survivors
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Part 2) Family/Significant Other Inclusion in Treatment for Trauma - Elizabeth Warpe, PhD, VA San Diego Healthcare System, University of California, San Diego Audience Level: Beginning: Appropriate for all attendees as an introduction to a topic.
Significant evidence has demonstrated the association between social support and mental health outcomes, particularly for trauma-related disorders. Further, symptoms of trauma-related disorders have been shown to have deleterious effects on relationships, particularly with regard to avoidance, emotional numbing, and hyperarousal. These effects even broaden to impacts on the mental health of other members of the family (e.g. children, spouses). The connection between coping with trauma and social support is particularly important for veterans, who experience higher levels of trauma than the general population. The purpose of this talk is to provide evidenced-based strategies for including families/significant others in treatment of trauma-related care for Veterans. As treatment can take a wide variety of forms, it is important to consider the spectrum of involvement, from collateral reporting, psychoeducation, and conjoint or family treatments. This talk will look at that spectrum of involvement, including possible contraindications for involvement of family members or considerations for the sequencing of care. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1.Review research examining the importance of relationships in treatment for trauma-related disorders. 2.Provide a spectrum of evidenced-based strategies for inclusion of families in trauma treatment. 3.Identify areas of future need for inclusion of families in mental health care.
Continuing Education: Approved up to 1.5 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, Nurses, Substance Abuse Counselors, DVOTP, ATSS, and Victim Advocates. IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 1.5 credit hours for Trauma Care.
I12- Leading a Trauma Informed Workforce - Christi Garner, MA, LMFT, Private Practice Audience Level: Intermediate: Appropriate for attendees who have been in the field 5-10 years and have basic information on a topic.
Organizations need a way to help transform trauma into moments of connection, understanding and healing. Leading a trauma informed workforce is a presentation to help those who work in high stress situations with those in crisis to learn tools to regulate the nervous system and make safety in their connections. This somatic evidence based approach to trauma informed care leads to stronger community trust, strengthening the organization, creating less burnout and turnover, and results in healthier communities. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1.Learner will know the biochemical, affective and cognitive impacts of traumatic stress 2.Learner will learn how to conceptualize organizational level of trauma informed care and have a tool for assessing workforce 3. Learner will learn 5 evidence based somatic trauma interventions to use in crisis
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Continuing Education: Approved up to 1.5 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, Substance Abuse Counselors, DVOTP, ATSS, and Victim Advocates. IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 1.5 credit hours for Trauma Care.
I13 – Self-Care Session: Somatics, Traditions, and Self-Care – Kathleen Gorman, LLM, MSW, RSW
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2020
MEGA♪ Affiliated Training – 8:30am – 5:00pm PT (Separate registration required)
Summit Morning Workshops (J 1 - 13) 8:30am – 11:30am PT (break 9:55am – 10:05am PT)
J1 - Increasing Resilience through Teletherapy, Resilience Briefs, and Mobile Application Mini- Games to Overcome Trauma and COVID-19 Stressors with Youths - Machelle Madsen Thompson, PhD, MSW, Florida State University Audience Level: Advanced: Appropriate for practitioners in the field 10+ years
Practitioners will learn to understand and implement the protective factors that lead to resilience in youths following trauma in the climate of COVID-19. Resilience is a broad concept that can be difficult to implement within crisis intervention settings. This training will teach attendees how to understand the protective factors leading to resilience and their application to youths as they experience trauma coupled with social isolation, anxiety, and misunderstanding of the COVID-19 virus. Current research-supported protective factors will be addressed through exploring specific examples of measurement, remote interventions, and activities families and practitioners across disciplines can use to increase resilience as children face the uncertainties and losses due to the current pandemic. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1. Learn about protective factors and trauma resilience helpful with young people during Covid-19. 2. Learn about e-resilience interventions, telehealth, a resilience mobile app, and child-centered resilience briefs. 3. Address self-care for providers.
Continuing Education: Approved up to 3 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, ATSS, Victim Advocates, and Child Abuse. IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 3 credit hours for Trauma Care and Child & Adult Maltreatment.
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J2 - An Update on Integrated Treatment for Complex Trauma - Christine Courtois, PhD, MA; Sylvia Moratta-Walters, PhD, MA, George Washington University Audience Level: Intermediate: Appropriate for attendees who have been in the field 5-10 years and have basic information on a topic.
Complex trauma is the result of repetitive and layered forms of attachment trauma and childhood abuse, along with other forms of prolonged and repetitive trauma often in conditions of entrapment. The aftereffects are themselves complex and span the neurobiological/somatic, psychological, interpersonal, and spiritual and extend beyond the symptoms of classic PTSD. This presentation will first provide an overview of aftereffects, with emphasis on the neurobiological and dissociative. The new freestanding diagnosis of Complex PTSD is now included in the World Health Organization International Classification of Disorders-11 and will be described. We will review several newly developed sets of Clinical Practice Guidelines for the treatment of PTSD based on the systematic review and evaluation of available research. The applicability of their recommendations to the treatment of complex trauma/CPTSD is currently the subject of heated debate. This workshop will provide information about the debate and how the recommendations can be incorporated into the treatment of CPTSD. We will also discuss recently developed Professional Practice Guidelines for the treatment of complex traumatic stress disorders that are more broadly based on research findings, authoritative clinical writing, and preferences and values of clients. These documents and the presenter’s recently published revision of her 2009 book on complex trauma will provide the foundation for an integrative transtheoretical treatment model for complex trauma which will be provided Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1. Identify several main descriptors of complex trauma. 2. Describe 3 primary aftereffects of complex trauma. 3. Identify 3 criteria of the ICD-11 diagnosis of CPTSD.
Continuing Education: Approved up to 3 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, DVOTP, ATSS, Victim Advocates, Domestic Violence, and Child Abuse. IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 3 credit hours for Trauma Care and Child & Adult Maltreatment.
J3 - Campus Models for Prevention and Response Audience Level: Intermediate: Appropriate for attendees who have been in the field 5-10 years and have basic information on a topic.
Part 1) A Renewed Framework for Sexual Violence Research and Response - Jennifer Wagman, PhD, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health; Karol Dean, PhD, Aurora University, Illinois; Kevin Swartout, PhD, Georgia State University In this presentation, we consider sexual violence within the context of the Socio-ecological Model of behavior, recommending the addition of a situational dimension to this model to more fully describe the behavior within its context and enhance its predictive ability. By extending the Socio-ecological Model to include examination of situational factors that are likely to be present in the specific circumstances of sexual assault, it is possible to identify opportunities for prediction of assault while highlighting potential interventions. Given the complexity of attempting to modify human behavior, #25IVAT | #TraumaIntoTriumph | ivatcenters.org 150
influenced by a range of proximal and distal factors, we propose several foci for future applied scholarship to reduce sexual violence perpetration. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1.Participants will learn the elements of the Socio-ecological Model, considering the addition of a new situational level. 2.Participants will learn how sexual violence research can build on its strong foundation while responding to new questions 3.Participants will learn how campus-based anti-
Part 2) Human Trafficking Awareness for College & University Stakeholders - Stacy Sechrist, PhD, North Carolina Network for Safe Communities, University of North Carolina at Greensboro; John Weil, MA, North Carolina Network for Safe Communities, University of North Carolina at Greensboro; Kristin Stout, North Carolina Network for Safe Communities, University of North Carolina at Greensboro Audience Level: Beginning: Appropriate for all attendees as an introduction to a topic. This presentation will provide a general overview of human trafficking, as well as, a description of college student vulnerabilities to human trafficking, how traffickers may identify and target potential victims, possibilities of integrating human trafficking identification and response into existing campus violence response and programming, and examples from recent cases occurring in a college context. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1. Understand what human trafficking (HT) is & how it shows up in a college population 2. Understand vulnerabilities of students for HT & tactics/strategies that traffickers may use to target students 3. Understand potential strategies to identify HT victims & develop prevention/response
Continuing Education: Approved up to 3 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, ATSS, Victim Advocates, and Child Abuse. IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 3 credit hours for Trauma Care and Child & Adult Maltreatment.
J4 - Where to Start First? Treating Dissociative Children and Adolescents with High Rate of Comorbidity – Frances Waters, DCSW, MSW, Private Practice; Joyanna Silberg, PhD, Leadership Council on Child Abuse & Interpersonal Violence Audience Level: Intermediate: Appropriate for attendees who have been in the field 5-10 years and have basic information on a topic.
Dissociative children and adolescents often present with a plethora of comorbid symptoms that can cause severe impairment in attention, relationships, school adjustment, and self-control. Some disturbing behaviors, such as obsessive-compulsive disorders, eating disorders, substance abuse, and destructive, suicidal or homicidal behaviors, can be very dangerous and often difficult to manage. These behaviors can take center stage in the treatment trajectory and be very resistant to typical interventions. Often, these children’s placements are disrupted, and they cycle through residential, psychiatric hospitals, foster and adoptive homes with little improvement. Increased dosages and varied medications are prescribed with little efficacy. This workshop will describe when and how to target these disturbing and resistant symptoms while exploring dissociative mechanisms that are driving the symptoms. Examining internal dynamics of often hidden states, origin of past, unresolved traumas and environmental stressors that contribute and perpetuate these symptoms will be discussed. Creative Intervention strategies that uncover and treat these symptoms will be described. Clinical vignettes, artwork, and videos will illustrate the process of treatment. #25IVAT | #TraumaIntoTriumph | ivatcenters.org 151
Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1.Learn how to recognize dissociative mechanisms that are driving the symptoms 2.Learn how to interview the child for hidden states that carry the symptoms 3.Learn creative strategies to stabilize the child to minimize disturbing behaviors
Continuing Education: Approved up to 3 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, DVOTP, ATSS, Victim Advocates, and Child Abuse. IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 3 credit hours for Trauma Care and Child & Adult Maltreatment.
J5 - Identifying Trafficking Tactics and Serving the Needs of Survivors Part 1) What Do I Need to Know About Human Trafficking! - Diana Barnes-Fox, MA, National Partnership to End Interpersonal Violence Across the Lifespan; Kristen Rose-White, San Bernardino's Coalition Against Sexual Exploitation, State-Certified Advocate, CSEC Audience Level: Beginning: Appropriate for all attendees as an introduction to a topic.
According to the CDC, there is a serious public health problem that negatively affects the well-being of individuals, families, and communities. Human trafficking! Human Trafficking is a form of modern- day slavery. It has been estimated between 12 to 27 million people are held in slavery around the world today, men, women, and children. Documented to undocumented, foreign nationals, and citizens, this problem affects people all around the world. You may think slavery is only in history books but it's happening today, even in your neighborhood. Do you know what human trafficking is? Do you know the signs? Could you tell if someone is being trafficked or what to look for? Do you know the differences in the type of traffickers or their tactics? Health and mental health provider will leave with a better understanding of all these questions on Human Trafficking and insight from two survivors Human trafficking is not a crime of movement, but rather the dehumanizing practice of holding another in compelled service using whatever means necessary, whether physical or psychological. People who are subjected to involuntary servitude are held against their will and forced to work, frequently under the threat of violence to themselves or their families. Victims of debt bondage are typically required to work for low wages to repay an excessive or unreasonable amount of money in exchange for a service, such as transportation or a recruiter fee for a job. The victims are then compelled to pay off their debts by becoming modern-day slaves. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1. Describe what is Human Trafficking. 2. Identify 3 types of the trafficker. 3. Describe 3 tactics trafficker’s use
Part 2) A Holistic and Trauma-Informed Approach to Serving the Needs of Human Trafficking Survivors - Jamie Beck, JD, Free to Thrive Audience Level: Beginning: Appropriate for all attendees as an introduction to a topic.
Human trafficking survivors have complex and varying needs. They have survived complex trauma, which impacts how they interact with others. This program will provide participants with the skills and tools they need to work with human trafficking survivors in a trauma-informed manner. Participants
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will learn how to determine if someone is a human trafficking survivors, how to conduct a client intake and needs assessment, and provide an overview of the service Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1.Learn about the various needs of human trafficking survivors 2. Gain an understanding of what it means to be “trauma-informed” 3. Learn about best practices for serving the needs of human trafficking survivors in a trauma- informed manner
Continuing Education: Approved up to 3 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, Substance Abuse Counselors, DVOTP, ATSS, and Victim Advocates. IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 3 credit hours for Trauma Care and Child & Adult Maltreatment.
J6 - Innovation and Engagement within Intimate Partner Violence Interventions -Elizabeth Gilchrist, PhD, MPhil, MA, University of Edinburgh Audience Level: Intermediate: Appropriate for attendees who have been in the field 5-10 years and have basic information on a topic. The ADVANCE study is an NIHR (UK) funded study which is seeking to advance theory and treatment approaches for men in substance misuse treatment who perpetrate intimate partner abuse (RP-PG-1214-20009). This presentation presents new data exploring the needs of substance use couples in the UK and presents a subset of the findings from the initial testing of the subsequently developed intervention which was the workstream 4: the feasibility trial. This includes reporting and discussing the impact and implications of integrating new knowledge about the various roles of substance use into an intimate partner intervention and explores the value of new resources used within the intervention, including session structure, film clips and out of session contact. The conclusion is that tailored interventions that use innovative engagement and retention strategies are highly regarded by professionals and clients within substance use settings and feedback from partners and ex-partners suggest they have a positive impact on the lives of families previously affected by substance use related IPV. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1. Describe the complexity of the relationships between substance use and intimate partner abuse 2. Identify approaches to increasing engagement and retention within substance use related IPV groups work intervention 3. Describe the benefit of tailored integrated approaches to IPV treatment
Continuing Education: Approved up to 3 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, DVOTP, ATSS, Victim Advocates, and Domestic Violence. IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 3 credit hours for Trauma Care, Domestic Violence Offender Treatment and Child & Adult Maltreatment.
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J7 - Dangerousness Assessment - Jacquelyn Campbell, PhD, RN, FAAN, Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing Audience Level: Intermediate: Appropriate for attendees who have been in the field 5-10 years and have basic information on a topic The Danger Assessment (DA) is a validated instrument and process to be used with women experiencing violence from an intimate partner to help them make a realistic appraisal of their level of danger for being killed or almost killed by that intimate partner. Participants will receive an overview of the updated DA that has choking/strangulation on the calendar, updated information on the importance of using the calendar process as the basis for safety planning and updated scoring information that takes into account increased risk if choking/strangulation has resulted in an alteration in consciousness. Participants will also learn updated information on what kinds of safety strategies can be recommended at each level of Danger. New information on the DA-I (for immigrant women), the DA-Circle (for Indigenous women), the DA-R for women in same sex relationships, the new DA-5 (for health care and other social services settings – e.g. housing), new information on the LAP and the DALE, and the myPlan app will also be provided. Finally, there will be a discussion about the use of the DA in the time of COVID19 as well as issues of bias in the use of risk assessment for domestic violence cases in the criminal justice system. Participants will be eligible for certification in the DA at the completion of the session and will receive directions on how to obtain and use the certification. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1. Acquire an overview of the Danger Assessment, the DA-I (for immigrant women), the DA-Circle (for Indigenous Women), the DA-R (for women in same sex relationships), the DA-5 (short form for health care and other social services settings), the LAP and DALE and DA Judicial Bench Card for the criminal justice system. 2. Gain information about the updated scoring on the Danger Assessment (DA) as well as new calendar assessment and safety planning strategies based on the DA, including the updated my Plan app. 3. Discuss application of the DA in the time of COVID19 and issues of bias in the use of risk assessment for domestic violence cases in the criminal justice system.
Continuing Education: Approved up to 3 CE credits for: Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, Substance Abuse Counselors, DVOTP, ATSS, Victim Advocates, Domestic Violence, and Child Abuse. IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 3 credit hours for Child Custody Evaluators, Trauma Care and Domestic Violence Offender Treatment.
J8 - Child Forensic Interviewing - What’s Trauma Got to Do with It? - Patti Toth, JD, APSAC’s Child Forensic Interview Clinics (Sponsored by APSAC) Audience Level: Intermediate: Appropriate for attendees who have been in the field 5-10 years and have basic information on a topic.
Significant strides have been made in child forensic interviewing (CFI) in the last 3 decades, based on an impressive body of ongoing research. There is now widespread agreement about the basic principles, components and techniques that comprise best practice child forensic interviewing. At the same time, a great deal of attention has recently been focused on what neuroscience can tell us about the impact of trauma on memory, and how to incorporate “trauma-informed” techniques in victim interviews. In the US, an interview approach called the FETI (Forensic Experiential Trauma #25IVAT | #TraumaIntoTriumph | ivatcenters.org 154
Interview) has gained popularity in adult sexual assault and domestic violence cases, and is sometimes suggested as appropriate for interviews of children where abuse is suspected. Experienced child interviewers have raised concerns about the applicability of some of the adult- focused “trauma-based” approaches in situations where a child has been ‘groomed’ over a period of time to participate in sexual activity, and whether the type of trauma experienced in a typical domestic violence or adult sexual assault is the same and has the same impact on the brain as the trauma experienced by many child victims. This workshop will provide an overview of the principles and components of “trauma-informed” interview approaches, including the FETI. It will compare them with widely agreed best practices in child forensic interviewing, in order to identify areas of agreement and areas of difference. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1.Identify basic principles & components of "trauma-informed" interviewing 2.Compare similarities & differences between adult focused "trauma-informed" approaches & CFI best practices 3.Assess applicability of adult focused "trauma-informed" techniques to CFI
Continuing Education: Approved up to 3 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, Attorneys, ATSS, Victim Advocates, and Child Abuse. IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 3 credit hours for Child Custody Evaluators, Trauma Care, and Child & Adult Maltreatment.
J9 - The Integration of Sylvia the “Wood Nymph” and the Role of PTSD/ Dissociation in Eating Disorders (Part 1) - Timothy Brewerton, MD, Medical University of South Carolina Audience Level: Intermediate: Appropriate for attendees who have been in the field 5-10 years and have basic information on a topic.
Dr. Brewerton presents his first case of dissociative identity disorder and binge eating that spawned his clinical research interest in trauma and EDs. Video clips from various stages during treatment illustrate the dissociative processes and the various "alters" identified. He illustrates how these “alters” take on specific adaptive functions and separate identities, which protect the self and are often archetypal in nature. Evolving concepts from psychotherapy theory and neuroscience are highlighted during the presentation. In the second part of this daylong workshop, he will present an overview of the current state of clinical science and practice regarding traumatized ED patients and advocate for trauma-informed care and practice. He will also present new findings showing the results of an integrated treatment protocol for EDs and PTSD. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1. Understand the historical development of dissociation. 2. Compare the adaptive functions of the various alters described in this case presentation. 3. Describe neurobiological findings that support the validity of DID. 4. Recognize at least 2 possible therapeutic approaches to ED + PTSD.
Continuing Education: Approved up to 3 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, Nurses, Substance Abuse Counselors, DVOTP, ATSS, and Victim Advocates. IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 3 credit hours for Trauma Care and Child & Adult Maltreatment.
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J10 - Improving Services and Access to Care for Victims of Sexual Violence Part 1) Navigating Change: From Institutional Betrayal to Institutional Courage - Rebecca Campbell, PhD, University of Michigan Audience Level: Advanced: Appropriate for practitioners in the field 10+ years This workshop discusses the impact of sexual assault on survivors’ behavior, memory, & health, & their experiences disclosing the assault. Organizational failures in the institutional response to sexual assault are presented as are systems for accountability & rebuilding survivors’ trust. In addition, creating trauma-informed services & promoting cultural change to remedy organizational failures are emphasized. Practical suggestions & examples are included. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1.Define terms, concepts, and statistics related to caring for transgender victims of violence 2.Outline five components of competent, affirming care for transgender victims of violence 3.Illustrate three methods to improve delivery of interventions by SART members through case studies
Part 2) Moving from Friendly to Competent: Raising the Bar to Provide Affirming Care to Transgender Victims of Violence - Becky Navarro, MS, Eskenazi Health; Morgan Younger, MSW, LSW, CCM, Gender Health Program Audience Level: Beginning: Appropriate for all attendees as an introduction to a topic. The transgender community has historically faced increased rates of physical & sexual violence, yet they have very low rates of reporting & seeking help following an assault. Many health care providers, investigators, prosecutors, & victim service providers consider themselves allies of the lesbian, gay, bisexual & transgender communities, but they may not have the knowledge & skills necessary to meet the complex, unique needs of transgender individuals who experience sexual & intimate partner violence. Transgender individuals experience many barriers to accessing health care, & these barriers are compounded when attempting to seek help after experiencing violence. During this session, a foundation of knowledge will be outlined regarding appropriate terminology & concepts for providing trauma informed care for transgender victims of violence. Methods of providing affirming, competent care by various SART members to improve patient trust & participation in the medical & criminal justice process will be discussed. Scripting will also be reviewed that can be used by different disciplines, from the initial encounter to case resolution, to foster competent care for transgender victims of violence. Case studies will be used to illustrate the application of materials discussed during the presentation. Finally, the newly published 2019 Indiana Guidelines for the Medical Forensic Examination for Adult & Adolescent Sexual Assault Patients will be discussed highlighting the appendix & extensive reference & resource list focused on the care of transgender victims of sexual violence. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1.Define terms, concepts, and statistics related to caring for transgender victims of violence. 2.Outline five components of competent, affirming care for transgender victims of violence. 3.Illustrate three methods to improve delivery of interventions by SART members through case studies.
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J11 - Understanding and Managing Stress, Trauma, and Grief in the time of COVID-19 - Morgan Shaw, PsyD, Institute on Violence, Abuse, and Trauma; Meghan Fagundes, PhD, Institute on Violence, Abuse and Trauma Audience Level: Beginning: Appropriate for all attendees as an introduction to a topic. This session will focus on better understanding the complex reactions all of us are experiencing in these trying and uncertain times. We will explore individual reactions of stress, grief, and trauma during the pandemic, and how to better make sense of these interactions on our brain, body, and relationships. The presentation will cover how these interactions affect us from a neurobiological and physiological perspective, in addition to the psychological, emotional, and social impacts. We will discuss the many new barriers to adjusting to a new reality while remaining connected, productive, and healthy. We will also outline specific techniques that can be used to ground ourselves and regain control over our body’s normal reactions to these increasingly difficult times.These techniques will help us learn to regain some sense of safety and control in order to improve health and well-being. We will also offer specific tools for how to maintain productivity, communicate effectively, and adjust to the many new changes to our professional and personal lives. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1.Define key concepts including cumulative stress, grief, and trauma and identify how these concepts may be experienced differently in the context of a pandemic. 2.Identify three ways that the experience during the pandemic is affecting one's brain and body. 3.Identify three specific techniques used to ma
Continuing Education: Approved up to 3 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, Nurses, Attorneys, Substance Abuse Counselors, DVOTP, ATSS, and Victim Advocates. IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 3 credit hours for Trauma Care.
J12 - Ethical Dilemmas and Compassion Fatigue: The Interface of Energy Management - Mary Jo Barrett, MSW, Center for Contextual Change Audience Level: Advanced: Appropriate for practitioners in the field 10+ years The ethical guidelines for therapists were once governed by simple, direct, utterly unambiguous rules. But in today's far more informal therapeutic climate, with greater latitude afforded the therapist, the old rules don't seem so clear anymore. The increase of technology has increased the confusion. The lack of clarity, coupled with the increasing demand of both professional and personal life in this millennium, has fatigued struggling clinicians. This course will explore creating and maintaining clinically sound boundaries through the lens of the clinicians self care. It is an ethical imperative for clinicians/health care providers to stay physically, emotionally, psychologically, and spiritually fit in order to provide ethically sound services. We will explore how our work impacts us and our professional choices. Together we will openly explore the ethical dilemmas we face around boundaries involving such issues. You'll come away with clearer ideas for establishing boundary guidelines at the beginning of treatment and reestablishing them if and when boundary violations seem imminent. How to maintain our health and our own boundaries to assure the ethical boundaries of our clients are maintained. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1. List 2 ways to assess the client's motivation, stage of change & preferred mode of learning #25IVAT | #TraumaIntoTriumph | ivatcenters.org 157
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Continuing Education: Approved up to 3 CE credits for: Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, Nurses, Attorneys, Substance Abuse Counselors, DVOTP, ATSS, Victim Advocates, and Ethics. IVAT Specialty Certifications: N/A
J13 – Self-Care Session: Yin Yoga **Session runs 8:30-10am) – Glenna Tinney, MSW, ACSW, DCSW, Captain, U.S. Navy (Ret.), National Partnership to End Interpersonal Violence (NPEIV)
Lunch 11:30am – 12:30pm PT
Summit Afternoon Workshops (K 1-13) 12:30pm – 3:30pm PT (break 1:55pm – 2:05pm)
K1 - Preventing Punitive Violence against Children: “Positive Discipline in Everyday Parenting” (Sponsored by APSAC) - Joan Durrant, PhD, Max Rady College of Medicine, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences Ashley Stewart-Tufescu, PhD, University of Manitoba Audience Level: Advanced: Appropriate for practitioners in the field 10+ years Long considered to be an acceptable and even necessary part of childrearing all over the world, physical and emotional punishment are rapidly becoming redefined as violence. Positive Discipline in Everyday Parenting (PDEP) was created to prevent punitive violence by transforming parents’ views of their role from control to mentorship; from shaping behavior to promoting healthy development. Neither permissive nor punitive, PDEP helps parents to understand children’s development and their perspectives, and to approach conflict as a problem to be solved, rather than as behavior to be punished. PDEP was designed to be relevant across highly diverse settings and cultures. In this workshop, we will describe the PDEP framework and present case studies of how it has been successfully introduced in Canada, as well as in under-resourced regions and in contexts of conflict, disaster and ongoing trauma.
Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: not on cvent 1. Identify the developmental outcomes associated with punitive violence against children 2. Distinguish between behavioral parent training and a developmental violence prevention parenting approach 3. Identify the essential components and processes associated with successfully transporting a violence prevention program to diverse contexts
Continuing Education: Approved up to 3 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, Nurses, Attorneys, ATSS, Victim Advocates, Child Abuse. IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 3 credit hours for Child Custody Evaluators, Trauma Care, Child & Adult Maltreatment
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K2 - Treating Complex Trauma - Kevin Connors, MS, MFT, California Southern University Audience Level: Intermediate: Appropriate for attendees who have been in the field 5-10 years and have basic information on a topic.
Increasingly, clinicians are beginning to recognize that many of their clients have histories of complex and chronic abuse. They are confronted with dissociative defenses and, ultimately, may realize that one or more of their clients are struggling with Dissociative Identity Disorder. Clinicians, unfamiliar with the diagnosis, struggle to support their clients through a complex array of intra-psychic dynamics, overwhelming emotions, and distorted beliefs generating internal storms and external anguish. The clients’ lives are marked by constant crisis, unremitting self-mutilation, and repeated threats of suicide. This workshop synthesizes state of the art knowledge about complex post-traumatic stress disorder, attachment theory, and dissociative defenses as well as often overlooked but equally critical issues of power, control and shame. Reframing client reactions from oppositional or manipulative through an empathic attunement to the nature of their defenses, the history of their abuse, and the direction of their healing empowers therapists to formulate effective and nuanced treatment plans. Focusing on clinical concerns and conflicts, common in the first two stages of treatment; the therapist is challenged to advance treatment by exploring what is being expressed through the therapeutic relationship. The therapist is challenged to communicate in ways and on levels where language often fails; guiding the client through new ways of thinking, perceiving, and being. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1. Identify clients with complex trauma histories and dissociative defenses 2 .Delineate how complex trauma and dissociation complicate treatment 3. Describe effective treatment strategies to increase client safety and stability
Continuing Education: Approved up to 3 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, Nurses, Substance Abuse Counselors, DVOTP, ATSS, Victim Advocates, Domestic Violence. IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 3 credit hours for Trauma Care, Child & Adult Maltreatment
K3 - Moving Toward Sustainable Impact: Designing the Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Your Prevention and Treatment Program - Tamara Hamai, PhD, Hamai Consulting Audience Level: Advanced: Appropriate for practitioners in the field 10+ years Practitioners are under increasing pressure to empirically demonstrate program effectiveness. This pressure is partly driven by the internal desire to make as big an impact as possible with existing resources and capacities. It is also driven by the external need to attract funding and donations. Academics face similar pressure as more funding sources are also demanding that research have real-world application and implications. Introductory versions of this workshop have been presented at the summit in past years. This year, the workshop is targeted at senior program managers with a deep understanding of their existing program models and implementation. This session will walk attendees through the process of designing an evaluation of the effectiveness of their programs and services. During the workshop, they will (a) document their community-informed and research-based program model, (b) identify the data they need to track what they’re doing, how well they’re doing it, and the outcomes that result from their program, and (c) identify methods for collecting data for those outputs and outcomes. This process will yield immediate results – attendees will leave with the full contents of an evaluation plan for their program.
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Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1.Assess the relevance and quality of evidence base for your program. 2.Build a logic model that can be used in funding applications. 3.Identify and operationally define the program outcomes. 4.Identify gaps in existing evaluation methods/data. 5.Identify existing and new sources of data.
Continuing Education: Approved up to 3 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, Nurses, ATSS, Victim Advocates, Child Abuse. IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 3 credit hours for Child & Adult Maltreatment
K4 – Restorative Parenting Part 1) Restorative Parenting: Advanced Application and Program Integration - David Mathews, PsyD, MA, One T, LLC Audience Level: Beginning: Appropriate for all attendees as an introduction to a topic.
This workshop/training will provide information, materials and activities used in providing RP services. Restorative Parenting Practices are considered best practices for addressing the relationship needs of trauma experienced children and their parents. At this training, practical application of the materials for individual sessions and group settings, will be presented. An outline including the curriculum and a discussion guide will also be presented for use with individual clients as well as in group settings with parents and children. Practical and easily integrated activities will be demonstrated. Attendees will be able to immediately use parts and pieces presented in this workshop in their respective clinical practices. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1. Increase understanding of the RP process, philosophy and curriculum. 2. Increase understanding of at least three RP strategies to implement and integrate into a current or new program 3. Explore ways to apply parts or all of the Restorative Parenting principles and trauma-informed care info.
Part 2) Restorative Parenting: Foundational Principles - David Mathews, PsyD, MA, One T, LLC Audience Level: Beginning: Appropriate for all attendees as an introduction to a topic. Restorative Parenting is a process for resetting, rebuilding and strengthening parent-child relationships when the child had experienced high stress, trauma or violence in the family. The main point of this program is to increase the possibility for the trauma experienced child to have a voice and for the parent to better understand the perspectives of the child. This workshop will focus on presenting the foundational principles and practical strategies for providing Restorative Parenting services to parents. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1. Increase understanding of the Restorative Parenting program, process and principles. 2. Learning at least 2 Restorative Parenting strategies for working with parents of trauma experienced children or youth. 3. Increase understanding for being able to implement Restorative Parenting principles
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Continuing Education: Approved up to 3 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, DVOTP, ATSS, Victim Advocates, Domestic Violence and Child Abuse. IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 3 credit hours for Child Custody Evaluators, Trauma Care, Child & Adult Maltreatment
K5 - Breaking Isolation: Recognizing Trafficked Victims of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault within Immigrant and Refugee Communities - Anne Bautista, JD, MFT, Access, Inc.; Carolyne Ouya, MFT, Access, Inc. Audience Level: Intermediate: Appropriate for attendees who have been in the field 5-10 years and have basic information on a topic.
This workshop will help service providers recognize trafficked victims of domestic violence and sexual assault within the immigrant and refugee communities and how to better prepare their agency to provide culturally appropriate victim support without judgment. Being able to recognize the intersections between domestic violence, sexual assault, and trafficking allows your agency to provide holistic support while keeping the victim safe. The reason this is important is that victim service agencies that focus on a type of victim (domestic violence, sexual assault, or trafficking) may mistakenly turn away a victim that would have qualified for assistance while legal service providers in immigration law may fail to recognize all forms of relief available to immigrant victims. Although Access has represented primarily domestic violence victims since 1997, our work under the SAVE Legal Network of San Diego County (SAVE), which began in 2014, required that we serve primarily victims of sexual violence. Of the more than 600 victims of sexual violence have served from the immigrant and refugee communities from October 1, 2014 to date, 80% were victims of sexual assault from intimate and non-intimate partners, including sex trafficking by their spouse, sexual violence by employer, and past sexual abuse by trusted family and community members. Since the shelter in place orders due to Covid-19, these vulnerable communities are facing increased threats to their safety as they become further isolated and imprisoned with the belief that they are to blame for their past and current situation. Despite this, marginalized victims continue to come forward including more victims from the deaf community to seek assistance from our agency. We realize that our methods of reaching isolated victims in the community, our initial connection made at the intake, and our ability to empower the victim to move forward, and expand her support network is based on our ability to recognize the intersections of the domestic violence, sexual assault, and trafficking and realities faced by immigrant and refugee communities. In doing so, we can break the isolation that prevents victims from not only seeking help but using it. We therefore, through this interactive training, hope to help your agency do the same. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1.Create meaningful relationships with marginalized populations, revise intake to allow the victim to feel comfortable sharing 2.Learn types of victimization domestic violence, sexual assault, human trafficking and how these intersect 3.Apply protections available under immigration law-VAWA,U,and Tvisa
Continuing Education: Approved up to 3 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, Attorneys, DVOTP, ATSS, Victim Advocates, Domestic Violence, and Culture.
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IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 3 credit hours for Trauma Care, Domestic Violence Offender Treatment and Child & Adult Maltreatment.
K6 - Intersections: Where Domestic Violence, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Meet David Mandel, MA, David Mandel & Associates LLC Audience Level: Beginning: Appropriate for all attendees as an introduction to a topic.
Many families impacted by domestic violence perpetrators’ behaviors have multiple, complex, intersecting issues. In the past, we might have referred to these as co-occurring issues. But the language of co-occurrence often doesn’t provide us with a sense of how these issues interact. For example, listing the family’s issues is not as powerful as explaining how the domestic violence perpetrator interfered with his partner’s recovery, for example. Listing that the family has experienced both domestic violence and child behavioral health issues is not as useful as describing how the perpetrator’s violence has produced anxiety and aggression in the children. Using an intersections framework, we increase perpetrator accountability, improve our ability to diagnosis and treat each member of the family, and improve our ability to help the adult and children survivors. This session will provide guidance in how to make the connections, or intersections, and make them work for us in our practice. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1.Describe how mental health and substance abuse issues intersect with the perpetrator’s behaviors and tactics 2. Partner with the survivor around child safety issues related to intersecting issues 3.. Engage and address perpetrators around their intersecting issues
Continuing Education: Approved up to 3 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, Nurses, Attorneys, Substance Abuse Counselors, DVOTP, ATSS, Victim Advocates, Domestic Violence, Child Abuse, and Substance Abuse. IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 3 credit hours for Child Custody Evaluators, Trauma Care, Domestic Violence Offender Treatment, and Child & Adult Maltreatment.
K7 - Mental Health Treatment in the Context of Intimate Partner Violence - Carole Warshaw, MD, National Center on Domestic Violence, Trauma & Mental Health; Gabriela Zapata-Alma, LCSW, CADC, National Center for Domestic Violence, Trauma & Mental Health Audience Level: Advanced: Appropriate for practitioners in the field 10+ years A large body of research has demonstrated that experiencing abuse by an intimate partner is associated with a wide range of mental health consequences. Some are the direct results of violence; others are related to the traumatic psychophysiological effects of ongoing abuse. Less well researched, however, are the ways that people who abuse their partners engage in coercive tactics related to their partner’s mental health as part of a broader pattern of abuse and control – tactics known as mental health coercion. For survivors of ongoing intimate partner violence (IPV), responding to trauma raises another set of concerns, particularly when the trauma is unremitting, and symptoms reflect a response to ongoing danger and coercive control. At the same time, many survivors experience multiple types of trauma over the course of their lives, including structural violence and marginalization. While more research is needed on IPV-specific treatment interventions,
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evidence indicates that interventions that are adapted to meet the specific needs of survivors of IPV are most effective. This session provides an overview of the impact of IPV on survivors’ mental health and a framework for treatment in the context of IPV, including IPV-specific treatment strategies and suggestions for incorporating an IPV- and trauma-informed approach. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1. Describe 2 ways a survivor's mental health is impacted by IPV 2. Identify treatment frameworks for survivors of IPV 3. Discuss how abuse by an intimate partner can be associated with a range of mental health consequences.
Continuing Education: Approved up to 3 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, Nurses, DVOTP, ATSS, Victim Advocates, and Domestic Violence. IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 3 credit hours for Trauma Care, Domestic Violence Offender Treatment, and Child & Adult Maltreatment.
K8 - Coordinated Responses to Crimes against Children Part 1) Technology Facilitated Crimes against Children - Robert Peters, JD, Zero Abuse Project Audience Level: Intermediate: Appropriate for attendees who have been in the field 5-10 years and have basic information on a topic.
Escalating technological integration in everyday life has been accompanied by an exponential increase in technology-facilitated child abuse. Diverse online platforms are now utilized for exploitative purposes, the quantity of child sexual abuse material in existence has skyrocketed, and offender anonymization strategies continue to increase in sophistication. The quantity alone is staggering; technology companies reported a record of 45 million images and videos explicitly depicting child sexual abuse in 2018. This chapter will review literature and practitioner insights into the increasing scope and severity of child sexual abuse material and present demographic characteristics of those who perpetrate technology-assisted crimes against children. It will then describe hands-on offender grooming strategies and their analogues in the digital age; survivor perspectives on the impact of child sexual abuse material distribution; and finally, emerging issues and trends in this field, including sextortion, live streaming, gaming platforms, the dark web and other anonymization methods, virtual reality, remote cloud storage, and encryption. The chapter will conclude with recommendations in combating technology-facilitated child abuse. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1.Articulate hands-on offender grooming strategies and their analogues in digital environments. 2.List emerging trends in technology facilitated crimes against children. 3.Describe literature and practitioner insight into the increasing scope and severity of child sexual abuse material.
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Part 2) When Faith Hurts: Recognizing and Responding to the Spiritual Impact of Child Abuse - Victor Vieth, JD, MA, Zero Abuse Project Audience Level: Intermediate: Appropriate for attendees who have been in the field 5-10 years and have basic information on a topic. In this workshop, students receive an overview of the research on the spiritual impact of child abuse. Applying this research, students receive practical suggestions for addressing this dynamic before, during and after forensic interviews. Promising practices for building effective partnerships between faith and child protection professionals will also be presented. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1. Receive an overview of the research on the spiritual impact of child abuse. 2. Learn about spiritual blocks that may impair a child's ability to disclose abuse 3. Learn about promising practices for developing faith and child protection collaborations
Continuing Education: Approved up to 3 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, Attorneys, ATSS, Victim Advocates, and Child Abuse. IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 3 credit hours for Trauma Care and Child & Adult Maltreatment.
K9 - The Integration of Sylvia the “Wood Nymph” and the Role of PTSD/ Dissociation in Eating Disorders (Part 2) - Timothy Brewerton, MD, Medical University of South Carolina Audience Level: Intermediate: Appropriate for attendees who have been in the field 5-10 years and have basic information on a topic.
Dr. Brewerton presents his first case of dissociative identity disorder and binge eating that spawned his clinical research interest in trauma and EDs. Video clips from various stages during treatment illustrate the dissociative processes and the various "alters" identified. He illustrates how these “alters” take on specific adaptive functions and separate identities, which protect the self and are often archetypal in nature. Evolving concepts from psychotherapy theory and neuroscience are highlighted during the presentation. In the second part of this daylong workshop, he will present an overview of the current state of clinical science and practice regarding traumatized ED patients and advocate for trauma-informed care and practice. He will also present new findings showing the results of an integrated treatment protocol for EDs and PTSD. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1. Understand the historical development of dissociation. 2. Compare the adaptive functions of the various alters described in this case presentation. 3. Describe neurobiological findings that support the validity of DID. 4. Recognize at least 2 possible therapeutic approaches to ED + PTSD.
Continuing Education: Approved up to 3 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, Substance Abuse Counselors, DVOTP, ATSS, and Victim Advocates. IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 3 credit hours for Trauma Care and Child & Adult Maltreatment.
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K10 - Transforming the Shame of Sexual Trauma with the Wisdom of Somatic Experiencing Molly Boeder Harris, MA, The Breathe Network Audience Level: Intermediate: Appropriate for attendees who have been in the field 5-10 years and have basic information on a topic.
Given the pervasive levels of sexual trauma within our society and the way in which it impacts survivors at a physiological level, many people live with the conscious and unconscious residue of trauma in their bodies. They may also be more likely to default into threat response patterning even when faced with mild stimulus or challenge. When we are not sensitive to how the whole human organism holds somatic memory, nor the nuanced ways in which trauma impacts the brain, survivors may be vulnerable to debilitating, cyclical shame patterns as well an exacerbation of other trauma responses through contact with well-intentioned care and service providers. Addressing the residue of shame for sexual trauma survivor can be more complex as it is an emotion not as readily released like other emotions. In addition, shame has been used historically to oppress and inhibit healthy sexual expression. Shame is also held uniquely in the survivor body as a result of entering the nervous system state of freeze, which can catalyze feelings of culpability in the body of the survivor who was unable to interrupt or actively defend against the attack. At the same time, combining the elements of physioeducation, movement and empathic witnessing can assist the survivor in liberating themselves from a sense of somatic shame. Utilizing the philosophy and tools of Somatic Experiencing, combined with some of the foundational elements of trauma-informed care, particularly for movement and mindfulness practices, we will consider deeply personalized, embodied and sustainable approaches to transforming shame. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1.Describe the general principals of how the nervous system stores and resolves trauma as understood by Somatic Experiencing (SE), 2.Identify 3 facts about trauma survival physiology that counterbalance victim-blaming, 3.List three trauma-informed care adaptations for healing + advocacy providers to use.
Continuing Education: Approved up to 3 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, Nurses, Substance Abuse Counselors, DVOTP, ATSS, Victim Advocates, Domestic Violence, and Child Abuse. IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 3 credit hours for Trauma Care and Child & Adult Maltreatment.
K11 - Resilience for Trauma-Informed Professionals: Protecting Ourselves from Secondary Traumatic Stress - Patricia Kerig, PhD, University of Utah Audience Level: Beginning: Appropriate for all attendees as an introduction to a topic.
A wealth of research and clinical literature has been devoted to helping mental health professionals recognize and address the negative effects of exposure to others' trauma, termed secondary traumatic stress, vicarious trauma, or compassion fatigue. However, less recognition has been given to the fact that those concerns also are relevant to front line staff and first responders who work with traumatized individuals in a wide variety of systems, including child welfare, domestic violence, rape crisis, criminal/juvenile justice, law enforcement, disaster relief, medical care, homeless advocacy, gang violence intervention, as well as research contexts in which investigators study trauma and violence. This workshop will introduce participants to evidence-informed techniques effective for mental health professionals and non-professionals alike that foster preparedness, resilience, and
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adaptive coping in the face of secondary exposure to trauma in real-world contexts, and will emphasize the practical application and dissemination of these skills within our workplace environments. Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1. Identify reactions associated with secondary traumatic stress, vicarious trauma, and compassion fatigue 2. Utilize effective coping strategies during exposure to trauma-related material 3. Carry out effective self-care strategies in the aftermath of secondary exposure to trauma
Continuing Education: Approved up to 3 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, Nurses, Attorneys, Substance Abuse Counselors, DVOTP, ATSS, and Victim Advocates. IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 3 credit hours for Trauma Care.
K12- Legal and Ethical Issues in Using Telehealth and Dealing with COVID-19 - Chris Zopatti, JD, Callahan, Thompson, Sherman & Caudill, LLP Audience Level: Advanced: Appropriate for practitioners in the field 10+ years The coronavirus pandemic has presented considerable challenges to everyone in society including mental health care professionals. It has also forced all of us to overcome discomforts with unusual “ways of doing business”. Many therapists must embrace new ways of conducting therapy, including the use of telehealth by phone, Skype or Zoom. This presentation will discuss best practices for providing safe therapy techniques who are either doing, or wish to do supervision and therapy by telehealth. We will discuss the benefits and drawbacks of online therapy, the basics such as sure your computer system can support the program, checking the platform you are using for number of participants and duration of time available, and other methods to prevent frustration and confusion and address HIPAA issues which are not waived indefinitely. This presentation will also discuss best practices when resuming your in-office practice in light of COVID-19. Please note that we prepared this description several weeks prior to the conference. The coronavirus pandemic is a rapidly changing landscape. Because the laws, regulations, and related information continually change, the content and subject of this presentation will also most likely change. Attendees are encouraged to monitor local, state and federal officials to stay in compliance with their guidance.
Objectives: As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: 1. Identify best practices for providing safe therapy techniques who are either doing, or wish to do supervision and therapy by telehealth. 2. Discuss the benefits and drawbacks of online therapy, the basics such as sure your computer system can support the program, checking the platform you are using for number of participants and duration of time available 3. Identify methods to prevent frustration and confusion and address HIPAA issues which are not waived indefinitely.
Continuing Education: Approved up to 3 CE credits for: Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors, Nurses, Attorneys, Substance Abuse Counselors, ATSS, Victim Advocates and Ethics. IVAT Specialty Certifications: up to 3 credit hours for Trauma Care and Child & Adult Maltreatment.
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K13 – Self-Care Session: "ZoomProv" Comedy Care ** Runs 12:30 – 2pm – Andrew Pari, LCSW, Sexual Assault Awareness LLC
End of the Day Self-Care Mindfulness Wrap Up: 3:45 pm – 4:45 pm PT - Gail Soffer, Mindful Warrior Project Summit Adjourns 4:45pm PT
Speaker Index
Speakers Session Branas, Charles H08 Abrams, Alan H02 Brass, Chelsea C07 Adams-Clark, Alexis I03 Breakfield, April Poster #2 Agrawal, Nina H08 Brekke, Tanden Poster #40 Aguilar, Jenny Poster #80 Brennan, Lauren D03 Alexander, Randell A04 Brennan, Sarah E13 Ali-SAleh Darawsha, Poster #22 Brewerton, Timothy K09, J09 Neveen Briggs-King, Ernestine H01, D04 Amabile, Claire Poster #52: Brodeur, Normand Poster #19: Anderson, Katherine C10 Brown, David B11 Anderson, RaeAnn F03 Buchanan, Raquel F06 Arscott, Joyell D07 Buck, Martina D08 Bariani, Antonella D03 Buckholdt, Kelly Poster #15, G11 Barker, Melanie C09 Burner, Heather C04 Barnes, Melissa I03 Campbell, Jacquelyn D07, H06, J07 Barnes-Fox, Diana H02, J05, A02 Campbell, Rebecca J10 Barocas, Briana Poster #46 and 47 Caouette, Justine Poster #36 Barrett, Mary Jo J12, B12, H02 Carbin, Kiesa E13 Barrows, Stacy D13 Carey, Stoddy Poster #73 Barton, Will I08 Carr, Sara Giovanna C09 Battapadi, Dipthi F03 Carrillo, Ricardo B06 Bautista, Anne H07, K05 Castro, Alicia Poster #37 Bautista-Bohall, Mary- Poster #31 Chambers, Ronald G05: Jo Champion, Kelly H01, B09 Beall, Avery Poster #71 Chang, Kimberly B05 Beck, Jamie J05, H05, B05 Chaudhry, Tahani Poster #58 Bekmuratova, Sarbinaz Poster #44 Chisolm-Straker, B05 Belding, Wendy B11 Makini Bengtson, Lillian Poster #9 Chontos, Nancy G13 Beyer, Jessi I11 Chovanec, Michael D06 Binnie, Gillian C04 Christensen, Don B11, A11 Boeder Harris, Molly K10 Christensen, Janie E06 Bohall, Greg Poster #43 Cirina-Chiu, Cathy F03 Bokoch, Rebecca Poster #82 Coates, Constance Poster #6 Book, Lauren B01 Connors, Kevin K02, D02, B12, I07, H02 Boyle, Gregory B01 Contopulos, Vanessa I08 Bradham, Hannah Poster #81 Corwin, David H04 Brammer, Sara G06 Counsil, Tyler C01 Courtois, Christine J02 #25IVAT | #TraumaIntoTriumph | ivatcenters.org 167
Cox, Jennifer G05 Garza, Megan G12 Crabtree-Nelson, G12 Geffner, Robert Opening Plenary, B06 Sonya Georgiades, Sasha Poster #40 Curwen, Tracey Poster #81 Giesbrecht, Crystal Poster #75 & 76 Dass-Brailsford, Poster #10 Gilchrist, Elizabeth J06 Priscilla Glosson, Kia D01 Dean, Karol J03 Goodman, Gail B04 and C01 DeBerry, Michele I04 Gordon, Jeoffry C02 DeKeseredy, Walter S. F03 Gorman, Kathleen H04, I13 Del Rosario, Noelan E02 Goulet, Betsy C01 Delfel, Everett Poster #41 Greenwood, Paul I02 Delker, Brianna I03 Gutierrez, Brian Posters #80, 82, 83 DeYoung, Peter G12 Habib, Adrienne Poster #62 Diaz-Ramos, Noemy Poster #30 Hales, Samuel Poster #31 DiLauro, Isabella Poster #35 Hamai, Tamara K03, B09, H04 Dishman, Tony G06 Hamberger, Kevin B07 Donaldson, Kira Poster #21 Hamel, Kathryn I07 Donde, Sapana A03 Harlow, Noel F10 Douglas, Emily C04 Harris, Dorian D06 Drew Vann, Antonia H06 Harris-Britt, April G04 Drumm, Rene F07 Harvey, Tyesa A05 Ducote, Richard B08 Hazlett, Abigail C07 Duong, Jeffrey Poster #20 Heater, Michelle F05 Duran, Jorge A09 Heinz, Taylor F09 Durrant, Joan K01 Heiskala, Christy F10 Ecoffey, Donnel D01 Hernandez, Rosalba Poster #27 Elliott, Ellen A12 Hinduja, Satya G08 Elliott, Mara W. G08 Ingalls, Neva C13, F13 Ellis, James A09 Jackson, Tasha H01 Emezue, Chuka Poster #24 Jacquin, Kristine Poster #67 Espelage, Dorothy I01, B03 Jain, Dipana Poster #35 Factor, Drew C02 James, Brooklyn B09 Faddick, Nikki H08 Jean-Thorn, Arianne Poster #18 Fagundes, Meghan J11, H03 Jenkins, Kamy B11 Faller, Kathleen B04, E08, G01 Johnson, Andy Poster #25, F07 Fawcett, David G02 Jones, Arvis H01 Felitti, Vincent H04 Joseph, Renee D03 Field, Miranda Poster #24 Karuvannur, Shyamala G11 Fletcher, Maria Jose E07 Kcomt, Carmen H05 Flynn, Catherine I07, G07 Kerig, Patricia K11 Formica, Margaret H08 Khamisa, Azim H03 Forrest, Joy A08 Khamisa, Tasreen F01 Forsman, Ruben Lane F03 Kitt, Shena G05 Fortin, Andréanne Poster #14 Knox, Michele Poster #32 and #89 Francis, Payton Opening Plenary, G08 Komorosky, Dawna Poster #34 Franz, Brenda Poster #61 Konrad, Sonia E07 Frost, Rachael H08 Kreuziger, Shay Poster #48 Froyd, Rick I09 Lambo, Lesley G06 Fuller, Caitlin Poster #8 Langhinrichsen- B07 Gage, Leah E09 Rohling, Jennifer Gaines, K. Drorit Poster #43 Larova, Veronika Poster #12 Gallegos, Paloma Poster #67 Lartey, Elizabeth Poster #81 Gamboa, Mary Poster #16 Laughon, Kathryn A10 Garcia, Eya I05, F05 LeBlanc, Stacie A04, E01, H04 Garner, Christi I12 Lees, Jessica B08 Garrick, Jacqueline D08 LePak, Connor Poster #65 #25IVAT | #TraumaIntoTriumph | ivatcenters.org 168
Leskin, Gregory F11 Parker, Amanda G10 Levittan, Michael A05, G08, H08, I08 Parrish, Brendt G11 Lindsay, Kaitlyn Poster #29 Perry, Jacob Poster #39 Lipson, Glenn B05 Peters, Robert K08 Lively Cookson, Poster #64 Phelps, Andrew Poster #84 Lynette Pierce, Heather F04 Loerzel, Emily D07 Pilisuk, Marc H03 Logsdon, Ashley Poster #13 Pine, Pamela D04, H04 Lopez, Teresa A07 Pokrajac, Teri B02 Lundquist, Jason E05, C05, H05 Porter, Matthew Poster #79 Lynch, Katherine A09 Powell, Tabitha Poster #68 Mack, Todd G08 Premo, Shurene I09 Maez, Anthony F12 Price, Laura F07 Mandel, David K06 Pride, Jessica F10 Mariglia, LisaMarie B11 Marotta-Walters, Sylvia J02 Punsky, Brenda H07 Mares, Debra F09 Purdy, Lisa Poster #13 & 15 Martinez, Marisol I08, G08, Opening Plenary Ramdihal, Alyssa Poster #30 Martinez, Trish I09 Rapp-McCall, Lisa G08 Mathews, David K04 Rasmussen, Lucinda B01 Matthews, Jennifer D01 Reveles, Juan I05, F05 McKenna, John G08, H08 Rhyss, JoYi E02, F02 McLean, Maralee C08 Rich, Karen G12 McMahon, Katie C09 Robbins, Brent I09 Medina, Beth F12 Roberts, Amie C06 Mercedes, Stephanie G08 Roberts, Erin D01 Mhatre, Pooja Poster #55 Rogers, Gimel H02 Miccio-Fonseca, L.C. Affiliated Training - MEGA, Romeo, Monica Poster #31 B01 Rose, Angela C03, B10 Milchman, Madelyn E08 Rose-White, Kristen J05 Miller, Londyn Poster #77 Rosenbaum, Alan B07 Montalvo-Liendo, Nora A10 Rosenthal, Lynn Opening Plenary, B12 Moreno, Kelly A07 Rosillo, Olivia H07 Moreno, Sarah Poster #17 Rothenberg, Sofia Opening Plenary Session, Morrissey, Mary Beth B02 G08 Capuano Morrison, Opening Plenary, B10, H06 Russell, Amy I04, B08, E04 Sandi Samp, Jennifer Poster # 1 Muhammad, Mildred C07, H06 Sarnquist, Clea F03, E03 Murphy, Christopher B09 Saxon, Kentina D09 Murphy, Wendy B10, D10, G03 Scaramucci, Joseph C05, H05 Musson, Sabrina Poster #43 Schane, Murray B10 Myers, John F08 Scherer, Michael Poster #35 Navarro, Becky J10 Schieck, Kira Poster #70 O'Connor, Seini Poster #11 Sechrist, Stacy Poster #43, J03 O'Connor, Victoria Poster #74 Sendek, Deborah A04 O'Neal, Keri Poster #20 Shaw, Morgan B04, J11, A09 Olabinjo, Ibukun Poster #33 Sheldon, Sawyer Poster #69 Omilian, Susan A02 Sherman, Darby F02 Oriola, Bukola Poster #40 Orloff, Leslye H07 Sherman, Heather Poster #65 Ouya, Carolyne K05 Shoup, Leigha D08 Page, Benita F01 Silberg, Joyanna J04 Palapa, Jesus Poster #26 Singer, Pete E12 Pancer, Cynthia A01 Slye, Ashley A07 Pari, Andrew H05, K13, B09, I10 Smith, Meredith B03 Park, Yangjin Poster #46
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Smith, Paige Poster #72 Vaughan-Eden, Viola C12, A04, B04, H01 Vessels, Valerie Poster #38 Soffer, Gail C11, Mindfulness Wrap Up Vieth, Victor B08, K08 Vines, Shaughanassee C10 Spitzberg, Brian F03 Vue, Yeng Poster #45 Stevens, Sally Poster #54 Wagar, Janet E06
Stewart-Tufescu, K01 Wagers, Shelly B07, C08 Ashley Wagman, Jennifer F03, J03 Stolberg, Donald Poster #86 & 87 Wakai, Aimee Poster #7 Storch, Julia Poster #49 Walsh, Wendy H03 Stout, Kristin J03 Wang, Regina Poster #16 Strattman, Nicole I05, F05 Warrier, Sujata B02, G07, H06 Stuart, Elizabeth Poster #77 Warshaw, Carole K07 Swartout, Kevin J03 Waters, Frances J04, A01 Taft, Casey I06 Weathersby Ball, B03 Taylor, Laura G11 Crissy Thomas, Joyce G09, H04 Weil, John J03 Thomley, Rebecca Poster #35 West, Carolyn D05, B12, H03 Thompson, Bailey Poster #3 Wheeler, Elizabeth Poster #79 Thompson, Machelle J01 Madsen White, Jacquelyn Opening Plenary, H03, B03 Thompson, Paige Poster #42 White, Jessica T. E10 Thulin, Elyse Poster #50 Wigginton, Claire Poster #38 Tindell, Jenae I04 Williams, Julie Poster #5 Tinney, Glenna G09, J13, B07, A13 Williams, Oliver Opening Plenary, B06, H06 Wilson, Saunie D01 Torres, Samantha Poster #83 Wingfield, Debra A08
Toth, Patti J08 Warpe, Elizabeth I11 Tran, Linh I05 Yang, Sejung Poster #47 Trible, Rosemary A10 Yoder Maina, Angi Poster #56 Trujillo, Angelia Poster #60 Yoder, Katherine D08 Ulibarri, Monica D03 Yorke, Nada A06 Younger, Morgan J10 Ulloa, Emilio F03 Urkov, Daniel Poster #63 Zager, Camila Poster #79 Usadi, Eva D11, E11 Zapata-Alma, Gabriela B07, K07 Vasiliauskaite, Zuzana Poster #23 Zopatti, Chris K12
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