2021 VIRTUAL CONFERENCE WELCOME TO THE 16TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON CRIMES AGAINST WOMEN
Welcome to the Conference on Crimes Against Women 2021. This year, we celebrate 16 years of cutting-edge interdisciplinary training, connecting thousands of professionals working in tandem towards the shared goal of moving the needle towards ending violence against women.
This time last year, as COVID-19 began its sweep across the country, it was our hope that after one virtual conference, we would be able to again be together to learn, network and share information on Crimes Against Women. The Conference Board and Team once again decided that the 2021 Conference should pivot from the in-person conference to a hybrid of Virtual Live and On Demand sessions. With a new platform, we hope that your experience will serve as a place for you to find connection and community, new knowledge and inspiration.
It is my honor to welcome you to the 2021 Virtual Conference on Crimes Against Women. We are so glad that you have joined us.
To everyone who has taken valuable time to attend this Conference or who is joining us online for the first time—on behalf of Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson, Dallas Police Chief Eddie Garcia, Dallas County Sheriff Marian Brown, Dallas County District Attorney John Creuzot, and all of us at Genesis Women’s Shelter & Support—thank you for your service to your communities and for your unwavering commitment to women everywhere. We are proud to be celebrating 16 years of the Conference on Crimes Against Women, we are proud of our partnerships with our co-hosts, but most of all, we are proud to partner with all of you. What a difference we are making together!
MISSION OF CCAW The mission of the Conference on Crimes Against Women (CCAW) is to provide a national forum to disseminate the highest level of training, information, and strategies to Jan Langbein, Chief Executive Officer professionals who are responders and advocates to victims of the many Genesis Women’s Shelter & Support and varied forms of crimes against women including domestic violence, & Conference on Crimes Against Women human trafficking, sexual assault, and strangulation.
CONFERENCE PRESENTED BY
GENESIS WOMEN’S SHELTER & SUPPORT provides safety, shelter and support for women who have experienced domestic violence and raises awareness regarding its cause, prevalence, and impact. 24-hour hotline: 214.946.HELP (4357) | www.genesisshelter.org Help is free and confidential
THE DALLAS POLICE DEPARTMENT is dedicated to protecting all Dallas citizens from crimes through its prevention, patrol, and investigative activities. With respect to the victimization of women, the Department has deployed significant resources to effectively investigate the full range of crimes that are committed against women. While all personnel share the responsibility to combat these crimes, the Department has specialized units that have the primary investigative responsibility for the investigation of domestic violence, protective order violations, stalking, sexual assault, registered sex offenders, trafficking, and homicide.
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I. IGNITE AWARD WINNERS ...... 4 ›
II. ICCR ...... 4 ›
III. KEYNOTE PRESENTATION ...... 5 ›
IV. TIPS & TRICKS ...... 5 ›
V. SPONSORS ...... 6 ›
VI. ACCREDITATION INFORMATION ...... 7 ›
VII. LIVE SESSION SCHEDULE ...... 9 ›
VIII. ON DEMAND SESSIONS ...... 15 ›
IX. STRANGULATION SERIES ...... 19 ›
X. SESSION DESCRIPTIONS ...... 20 ›
XI. EXHIBITORS ...... 32 ›
XII. SPEAKER BIOS ...... 33 ›
XIII. CCAW INFO ...... 46 ›
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In 2019, the Conference on Crimes Against Women (CCAW) created the annual IGNITE Award to highlight and honor various courageous efforts that are sparking awareness and action across the country. This year, the 16th annual Virtual Conference on Crimes Against Women would like to recognize a select group of first responders who worked tirelessly throughout the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic to make a difference in their community, combating domestic violence and sexual abuse. These first responders, consisting of law enforcement, advocates, prosecutors, and counselors, were nominated by their peers and then selected by CCAW as change makers in the ongoing fight toward ending violence against women.
WE INTRODUCE TO YOU, THE RECIPIENTS OF THE 2021 CCAW IGNITE AWARD:
LISA JAWORSKI NVRDC
CARLA MALEY SHANTEL STANDEFER
OFFICER AMY K. CUMMINS MATTHEW MINICK
THE INSTITUTE FOR COORDINATED COMMUNITY RESPONSE
INTRODUCING ICCR’S INAUGURAL VIRTUAL CONFERENCE! Critical training and resources for implementing systemic responses to domestic violence in rural communities nationwide.
KEYNOTE: How One Case Changed a Town Staley Heatly has served as District Attorney for the 46th District of Texas – population 18,000, spanning three counties – since 2006. On July 4, 2009, when five-year-old Kati Ernest was beaten to death in her home on the edge of town, Staley’s approach to domestic violence cases was forever changed. Kati’s mother, Kristina, initially confessed to the crime; but something didn’t add up. Two years later, after following a hunch and digging deeper into the violent past of Kristina’s boyfriend, Tommy Castro, Staley instead brought Castro to trial, where he was sentenced to life in prison for Kati’s death.
Learn how one rural Texas community drastically changed its systemic approach to domestic violence following Kati’s horrific and preventable murder, from starting a body worn camera program, to putting together a Battering Intervention & Prevention Program, to establishing a family violence coalition that later became the region’s first nonprofit domestic violence agency.
MONDAY, OCT. 4 - TUESDAY, OCT. 5, 2021 8:30 AM - 4:15 PM CST
$100 FOR INDIVIDUALS • $75 FOR GROUPS OF 5+
LEARN MORE & REGISTER WWW.INSTITUTECCR.ORG/RURAL-CONFERENCE 4 ⚐ November 5, 2017 is a day that will forever live PLENARY & KEYNOTE in infamy in Sutherland Springs, Texas. Allegedly prompted by a dispute with his mother-in-law, the PRESENTATION perpetrator proceeded to plan and execute a massacre at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, killing 26 people, 17 of which were female. The 16th annual HOLISTIC Conference on Crimes Against Women will open with a first-hand account into the investigation. This keynote presentation will provide insight into two ADVOCACY: main focuses: 1) domestic violence/mass shooting responses and recovery within a rural environment The Sutherland Springs Tragedy versus an urban/metropolitan environment, and 2) the & How Everyone Has a Role need for holistic advocacy that describes how to Play in Protecting Victims & everyone (LE, attorneys, nurses, advocates, etc.) has a role to play in protecting victims and communities, Their Communities especially when those communities are close-knit like they are in rural areas.
MAJOR COREY LAIN Texas Rangers "F" Company MAY 17, 2021 ROBERT KRUPA 9:00 A.M. - 10:30 A.M. CST Assistant Special Agent in Charge (ASAC) of the FBI San Antonio Division
CONFERENCE TIPS & TRICKS CONFERENCE FEEDBACK & TECH CAFE EVALUATIONS SUPPORT Don’t miss these opportunities to All session evaluations will be Having issues? connect with fellow professionals in attendance this year. Visit this completed on the Conference Check this out. area of the Conference Center to Center. If you have any specific network with other professionals, concerns about a speaker or TECH SUPPORT PDF catch up on conference events, session, contact the CCAW Team hold open discussions on current on the Conference Center. topics, and watch relevant videos before and in between sessions.
The CCAW Conference is conducted for the sole purpose of providing training to only those people employed by government agencies, service providers, or nonprofits in the fields of law enforcement, prosecution, social work, medicine, advocacy, and others who work directly with victims of crimes against women. The CCAW management reserves the right to refuse admission to any individual who does not meet these criteria.
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PLATINUM SPONSORS
GOLD SPONSOR SILVER SPONSOR
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*PLEASE NOTE: Credit for CEU's is only awarded to those who registered for CCAW.
CONTINUING NURSING EDUCATION (CNE) • Up to 28 hours of CE for Nursing • 3 of those hours apply toward Death Investigation Forensic Nursing This nursing continuing professional development activity is approved by the International Association of Forensic Nurses, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR VICTIM ASSISTANCE (NOVA) • Up to 89.6 hours of CE for D-SAAP (Dept. of Defense Sexual Assault Advocate Certification Program) • Up to 89.6 hours of CE for NACP (National Advocate Credentialing Program) CAPCE represents that this program has met standards for accreditation and does not endorse the opinions or content presented. For more information, or to register a concern go to: https://www.capce.org/CertificateTrouble/Index
STATE BAR OF TEXAS/TEXAS CENTER FOR JUDICIARY • Up to a maximum of 87 participatory hours of CLE • 10.5 hours of Ethics Hours are self reported through the Texas Bar portal (Course #174114770)
TEXAS COMMISSION ON LAW ENFORCEMENT (TCOLE) • Up to 135.5 hours of TCOLE-eligible sessions Attendees requiring TCOLE credit must self-report through their agency or department. CCAW is not able to submit on their behalf. Certificates must be submitted per TCOLE requirement for online training. Please be aware of your TCOLE training cycle. Questions should be directed to the attendee’s training division or TCOLE. Your total hours will be listed on the certificate. Hours are based on evaluations completed and submitted for sessions attended.
TEXAS STATE BOARD OF EXAMINERS OF MARRIAGE & FAMILY THERAPISTS (LMFT) • Up to 31 hours of CEU credit may be available for Clinical Professionals • Up to 1.5 eligible hours of Clinical Ethics credit may be available CCAW and Genesis Women’s Shelter & Support complies with Continuing Education Requirements designated by the Texas State Board of Examiners of Professional Counselors, the Texas State Board of Social Worker Examiners, and the Texas State Board of Examiners of Marriage and Family Therapists. We encourage licensees to determine which courses contain topics related to their specific field of work.
TEXAS STATE BOARD OF EXAMINERS OF PROFESSIONAL COUNSELING (LPC) • Up to 31 hours of CEU credit may be available for Clinical Professionals • Up to 1.5 eligible hours of Clinical Ethics credit may be available CCAW and Genesis Women’s Shelter & Support complies with Continuing Education Requirements designated by the Texas State Board of Examiners of Professional Counselors, the Texas State Board of Social Worker Examiners, and the Texas State Board of Examiners of Marriage and Family Therapists. We encourage licensees to determine which courses contain topics related to their specific field of work.
TEXAS STATE BOARD OF SOCIAL WORK EXAMINERS (LMSW & LCSW) • Up to 31 hours of CEU credit may be available for Clinical Professionals, including 1.5 ethics • Up to 76 hours of CEU credit may be available for Advocacy Professionals, including 4.5 ethics CCAW and Genesis Women’s Shelter & Support complies with Continuing Education Requirements designated by the Texas State Board of Examiners of Professional Counselors, the Texas State Board of Social Worker Examiners, and the Texas State Board of Examiners of Marriage and Family Therapists. We encourage licensees to determine which courses contain topics related to their specific field of work.
OUT-OF-STATE ATTENDEES • Training credit may be awarded at your state’s licensing agency’s discretion • Your licensing agency can contact Operations Manager, Megan Baak, at 214.389.7772 or [email protected] with any questions regarding your attendance
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HOW TO RECEIVE CREDIT • Your certificate will include provider numbers for this Conference. • To receive accreditation, each attendee must report their attendance to their individual reporting agency. It is up to each individual reporting agency to accept eligible hours and report those hours. CCAW Staff will be monitoring each webinar for attendance accuracy in case of an audit. Please note completion of each session survey is required. • Attendees can track their attendance and continuing education credits at any time during the Conference by logging into the Conference center. Upon completion of each session, a certificate will be available, or, upon completion of the entire conference, a full transcript will be available NOTE: Only ONE certificate will be sent after completion of the survey, and will contain the name of the attendee who registered for CCAW. No certificates will be given to attendees who did not register for CCAW.
STRANGULATION SERIES ACCREDITATION **Additional Registration Required, see pg. 19** CONTINUING NURSING EDUCATION (CNE) • Up to 8 hours of CNE-eligible sessions • Attendees must attend ALL Strangulation Series sessions to receive CNE accreditation This activity has been submitted to the International Association of Forensic Nurses (IAFN) for approval to award contact hours. The IAFN is accredited as an approver of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation (ANCCCA). STATE BAR OF TEXAS/TEXAS CENTER FOR JUDICIARY • Up to a maximum of 7.5 participatory hours of MCLE/CJE Hours are self reported through the Texas Bar Portal (Course # 174116393) TEXAS STATE BOARD OF SOCIAL WORK EXAMINERS (LMSW/LCSW) • Up to 8 hours of CEU credit may be available for Clinical Professionals. • Up to 8 hours of CEU credit may be available for Advocacy Professionals. NOTE: All attendees seeking CEU accreditation must check with their licensing board to ensure CEU approval is given. TEXAS COMMISSION ON LAW ENFORCEMENT (TCOLE) • Up to 8 hours of TCOLE-eligible sessions • CCAW Staff will monitor who attends each session in case of an audit To receive TCOLE accreditation, each attendee must report their attendance to their individual reporting agency. It is up to each individual reporting agency to accept eligible hours and report those hours. HOW TO RECEIVE CREDIT 1) Your certificate will include provider numbers for the Strangulation Series. 2) To receive accreditation, each attendee must report their attendance to their individual reporting agency. It is up to each individual reporting agency to accept eligible hours and report those hours. CCAW Staff will be monitoring each session for attendance accuracy in case of an audit. Upon completion of the Strangulation Series evaluation, attendees will receive a Strangulation Series certificate with relevant course numbers for reporting. NOTE: At the conclusion of the Conference on Crimes Against Women, attendees will receive a Strangulation Series certificate issued in their name with relevant course numbers for reporting. No certificates will be given to attendees who did not register for the
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You will notice the following symbols on the webinar schedule and description pages. These identify which sessions are credit eligible.
= ADVOCACY = CLINICAL = MCLE/CJE = TCOLE = CNE = NOVA/DSAAP
8 ⚐ LIVE SESSION SCHEDULE
05.17.2021 • MONDAY
9:00 A.M. - 10:30 A.M. OPENING PLENARY KEYNOTE PRESENTATION HOLISTIC ADVOCACY: THE SUTHERLAND SPRINGS TRAGEDY & HOW EVERYONE HAS A ROLE TO PLAY IN PROTECTING VICTIMS & THEIR COMMUNITIES Major Corey Lain, Robert Krupa
10:45 A.M. - 12:15 P.M.
FINDING HOPE IN THE COURTHOUSE: CASE STUDY: THE MAKING OF A PIMP NASHVILLE’S COURT-BASED FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER Brooke Grona-Robb Diane Lance, Becky Bullard
HIDDEN TRUTHS: WHAT A FULL ASSAULT SCREENING SPYWARE/MONITORING SOFTWARE: AN CAN REVEAL IN AN EMERGENCY ROOM SANE OVERVIEW OF CAPABILITIES & SIMPLE STEPS SETTING & FOR PROSECUTORS AT TRIAL FOR FINDING IT Brittany Pahl, Krystal King, Patricia Powers Bryan Franke
IDENTIFYING & INVESTIGATING SURVIVOR TIPS ON SEX TRAFFICKING: FROM ASPHYXIATION CRIMES THE STREET, FOR THE STREET Kelsey McKay, Kimberly Orts Rachel Fischer
12:30 P.M. - 1:30 P.M.
NEW ELDER ABUSE APP FOR TEXAS LAW COVID & THE BLACK SURVIVOR ENFORCEMENT & FIRST RESPONDERS Carvana Cloud Julie Krawczyk, Cheryl Wattley
CREATING INNOVATIVE HOUSING SOLUTIONS FOR SURVIVORS Barbie Brashear, James Gonzalez
= CASE STUDY = ADVOCACY = CLINICAL = MCLE/CJE = TCOLE = CNE = NOVA/DSAAP 9 ⚐ 05.18.2021 • TUESDAY
9:00 A.M. - 10:30 A.M.*
CATCHING A PREDATOR: INVESTIGATING THE TAKING AWAY GUNS FROM DOMESTIC HOWARD UNIVERSITY RAPIST VIOLENCE OFFENDERS & KEEPING THEM *NOTE: This session runs long, 9:00 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. AWAY Melissa Hoppmeyer, Lisa Shepperd Jennifer Waindle, David Keck
INVESTIGATING & PROSECUTING VIOLENT PUBLIC TRUST: CONFRONTING LAW CRIME IN TRIBAL COMMUNITIES: WORKING ENFORCEMENT SEXUAL MISCONDUCT IN THE WITH VICTIMS IN CURRENT & COLD CASES #METOO ERA Patricia Thackston, Leslie A. Hagen, Michelle Rivard Parks Tom Tremblay
STRANGULATION: FROM STATUTE TO SENTENCE Michael Denton, Kelsey McKay
10:45 A.M. - 12:15 P.M.
APPS, NESTS, & TILES: EXPLORING THE PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS TO THE POLICING INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT) & IMPACT ON CRISIS IN COMMUNITIES OF COLOR & LOW- SURVIVORS INCOME COMMUNITIES Elaina Roberts Branville Bard, Kristen Roman, Dave Thomas
ENDING THE GAME: UNDERSTANDING CASE STUDY: RYAN COLEMAN: PORTRAIT PSYCHOLOGICAL COERCION IN COMMERCIAL OF SERIAL RAPIST TARGETING VULNERABLE SEXUAL EXPLOITATION ... WOMEN Rachel Thomas, Emily Hollerbach Johna Stallings, Micala Clark
CASE STUDY: HAREM OF HORROR: A THE SHADOW OF DEATH: I FEAR NO EVIL, BATTERER'S MANIPULATION OF HIS VICTIMS EXCEPT THE ONE WHO "LOVES" ME & THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM Rachael Frost Elissa Wev
12:30 P.M. - 1:30 P.M.
PROSECUTOR'S POWER: ADULT SEXUAL IN HER SHOES ASSAULT TEAM Krista Fultz Kim D'Avignon, Emily Dixon
= CASE STUDY = ADVOCACY = CLINICAL = MCLE/CJE = TCOLE = CNE = NOVA/DSAAP 10 ⚐ 05.19.2021 • WEDNESDAY
9:00 A.M. - 10:30 A.M.
EMPOWERING YOUNG WOMEN ON CAMPUS WOULD YOU RECOGNIZE A STAGED WOUND OR CRIME SCENE IF YOU STEPPED IN IT? Kaiti Dinges Bill Smock
IMPLEMENTING A HOLISTIC APPROACH: THINK LIKE THERE IS NO BOX: THE SCOPE OF WHAT CLIENTS GAINED WHEN WE EVOLVED FORENSIC NURSING INTO A WRAP-AROUND AGENCY Kaylin Dawson Ruth Guerreiro, Krista Fultz, Jordyn Lawson, Amber Nealy
CASE STUDY: U.S. V. MCCAULEY: LESSONS PREVENTING MURDER IN SLOW MOTION: LEARNED FROM A TRIBAL SEXUAL ASSAULT IDENTIFYING, ASSESSING, & MANAGING RISK Laura Richards INVESTIGATION & TRIAL Lecia Wright
10:45 A.M. - 12:15 P.M.
THE JUDICIAL LANGUAGE PROJECT: USING PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT FOR SURVIVORS RESEARCH TO PERSUADE MEDIA & COURTS TO OF SEX TRAFFICKING & COMMERCIAL SEXUAL AVOID HARMFUL LANGUAGE EXPLOITATION Wendy Murphy Jessica Brazeal
CASE STUDY: TO MEXICO & BACK: FINDING SURVIVOR ADVOCATES: A KEY TO THE JUSTICE FOR IZZY & ALEK MULTIDISCIPLINARY TEAM Lori Nelson, Donna Bloom, Matt Cain, Michael Graves Christine Cesa, Marc Wirtz
THE PETECHIAL HEMORRHAGE COURT VIRTUAL LAB: VINELINK COMPUTER LAB CHALLENGE: ARE YOU READY? Karen Adams Bill Smock, Rachel Fischer, Beth Fitzgerald-Weekley
12:30 P.M. - 1:30 P.M.
MONITORING TRANSACTIONS: HOW DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HIGH-RISK TEAM & FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS IDENTIFY & REPORT PROTECTIVE ORDERS Lauren Cisneros, Julianna Sweeney HUMAN TRAFFICKING Steven Cobb
ELDER ABUSE & THE FEDERAL RESPONSE IN HER SHOES Donna Strittmatter Max, Dawn Theiss Jordyn Lawson
= CASE STUDY = ADVOCACY = CLINICAL = MCLE/CJE = TCOLE = CNE = NOVA/DSAAP 11 ⚐ 05.24.2021 • MONDAY
9:00 A.M. - 10:30 A.M.
THE NUTS & BOLTS OF THE COMMUNITY HOW NOT TO LOSE AN SVU CASE ADVOCACY PROGRAM Donna Kelly Shelley Reader
JUSTICE FOR ALL: CULTURALLY-SENSITIVE WOULD YOU RECOGNIZE A STAGED WOUND RESPONSES FOR MINORITY SURVIVORS OF OR CRIME SCENE IF YOU STEPPED IN IT? DOMESTIC VIOLENCE Bill Smock Carvana Cloud
*RESTRICTED TO LAW ENFORCEMENT & PROSECUTORS* CASE STUDY: SUTHERLAND SPRINGS: FIRST LEVERAGING TECHNOLOGY TO FIND SEX BAPTIST CHURCH MASS FATALITY, PT. 1 TRAFFICKING VICTIMS FASTER WITH SPOTLIGHT Kristin McGunnigle, Joseph Scaramucci Corey Lain, Robert Krupa
10:45 A.M. - 12:15 P.M.
COURAGEOUS CONVERSATIONS: IMPROVING CASE STUDY: SUTHERLAND SPRINGS: FIRST OUR RESPONSE TO VICTIM OF DOMESTIC & BAPTIST CHURCH MASS FATALITY, PT. 2 SEXUAL VIOLENCE IN THE BLACK COMMUNITY Tom Tremblay, Ayana Wallace, Carolyn West Corey Lain, Robert Krupa
TRAFFICKING SCREENING TOOL FOR LATIN@S HOLDING THE FRAMEWORK: WORKING WITH ACCESSING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PROGRAMS SURVIVORS OF MULTI-ABUSE TRAUMA Lindley King Lumarie Orozco
MOVING TOWARD JUSTICE: PRETRIAL TRAPPED! COERCIVE CONTROL THROUGH THE MOTION PRACTICE LENS OF A SURVIVOR PHOTOGRAPHER Jane Anderson, John Wilkinson Katie Amber
12:30 P.M. - 1:30 P.M.
CAUGHT IN THE CROSSFIRE: HOW CHILDREN HOW TO SEIZE SMARTPHONES & PRESERVE ARE AFFECTED BY DOMESTIC VIOLENCE DATA Bryan Franke Amber Nealy, Jordan Gates
DISARM DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE-RELATED FIREARMS LAWS Rachel Graber, Lisa Geller
= CASE STUDY = ADVOCACY = CLINICAL = MCLE/CJE = TCOLE = CNE = NOVA/DSAAP 12 ⚐ 05.25.2021 • TUESDAY
ALL DAY • 10:00 A.M. - 6:00 P.M. *RESTRICTED TO LAW ENFORCEMENT & PROSECUTORS* *Pre-Registration is required. Separate login information will be sent by SEARCH. Please check your email if you are pre-registered.* COMPUTER LAB: SOCIAL MEDIA OPEN-SOURCE INTELLIGENCE INVESTIGATIONS Lauren Wagner, Tim Lott
9:00 A.M. - 10:30 A.M.
LGBTQ LATIN@ REALITIES: ADDRESSING GENDER BUILDING A COORDINATED COMMUNITY & SEXUAL-IDENTITY BASED VIOLENCE FROM A RESPONSE FOR STALKING Jenn Landhuis CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE APPROACH Jose Juan Lara, Jr.
CASE STUDY: NEW & BETTER JUSTICE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE FATALITY REVIEW: STATE OF FOR VICTIMS WITH INTELLECTUAL & THE ART COMMUNICATION DISABILITIES Neil Websdale Wendy Murphy
NOT ONE MORE: UNIQUE PERSPECTIVES ON ENHANCING THE COURT PROCESS FOR DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HOMICIDE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE LITIGANTS Julie Owens, Christine Brungardt, Kelsey McKay, Neil Schori, Katherine Wurmfeld, Kim Piechowiak, Danielle Pugh-Markie Dawn Wilcox
10:45 A.M. - 12:15 P.M.
ASSESS YOURSELF BEFORE YOU ASSESS YOUR CAPTURING DRUG-FACILITATED SEXUAL PATIENT: HOW IMPLICIT BIAS COMPLICATES ASSAULT & OTHER DRUGGING CRIMES HEALTHCARE IPV SCREENING Trinka Porrata Cathy Glenn, Kaeli Vandertulip
CASE STUDY: BRYANT JONES: JUSTICE AFTER DOMESTIC & SEXUAL VIOLENCE RESPONSES PROSECUTORIAL TRAUMA FOR URBAN NATIVE PROGRAMS Melissa Hoppmeyer, Amanda Tenorio Victoria Ybanez, Hope Wenke
CALL ME CRAZY: THE ROLE OF SURVIVAL & WOMEN'S USE OF VIOLENCE: THE IMPACT OF FEAR IN INVESTIGATIONS & PROSECUTIONS ARREST & CONVICTION Melissa Scaia Kelsey McKay, Kristen Troken
12:30 P.M. - 1:30 P.M.
WHAT HB 902 CAN DO FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES MOMMY DEAREST: WHEN TO HELP PROTECT & SAVE THROUGH THE OFFICE FOR VICTIMIZATION HITS CLOSE PREGNANT WOMEN VICTIMS OF CRIME TO HOME Kathrina Peterson, Sara Gilmer Jeanne Allert, Deanna Wallace Doreen Hunter
= CASE STUDY = ADVOCACY = CLINICAL = MCLE/CJE = TCOLE = CNE = NOVA/DSAAP 13 ⚐ 05.26.2021 • WEDNESDAY
9:00 A.M. - 10:30 A.M.
CRACKING THE CODE ON GENERATION Z: INDIGENOUS VICTIMS OF TRAFFICKING IN HOW TO BUILD NEW ALLIANCES TO FIGHT NORTH AMERICA CRIMES AGAINST WOMEN Rochelle Keyhan, Oscar Delgado, Kathleen Gately Hsin-Yin Yang, Ziwei Qi
AQUATIC CRIMES AGAINST WOMEN STAGED OFFICER-INVOLVED DOMESTIC & SEXUAL AS NONCRIMINAL AQUATIC DEATHS PT. 1 VIOLENCE Mark Wynn Andrea Zaferes, Pam Schmidt
AN EXAMINATION OF THE CRITICAL ROLE OF CASE STUDY: STATE OF WASHINGTON V. JAMES CORRECTIONS IN ABUSER ACCOUNTABILITY BERNHARD: SPOUSAL RAPE, SEXUAL ASSAULT, & CIRCUMSTANTIAL PHYSICAL EVIDENCE Scott Hampton Maureen Astley
10:45 A.M. - 12:15 P.M.
CATCH COURT: A RESTORATIVE JUSTICE MILITARY SEXUAL TRAUMA: THE WHO, WHAT, RESPONSE FOR VICTIMS OF HUMAN WHEN, WHERE, WHY, & HOW TO FIX IT TRAFFICKING Martina Chesonis Gwen England
AQUATIC CRIMES AGAINST WOMEN STAGED CASE STUDY: TRIUMPHS & TRAGEDIES IN AS NONCRIMINAL BATHTUB DEATHS PT. 2 USING EXPERT WITNESSES Cynthia Jones, Margaret Bassett, Jason Campo, Florence Nocar, Andrea Zaferes, Pam Schmidt Kim Nguyen Finn
*RESTRICTED TO LAW ENFORCEMENT & PROSECUTORS* WHAT A DIFFERENCE A DAY MAKES: THE VIRTUAL LAB: LOCATING TRAFFICKING VICTIMS TRANSITION FROM MINOR TO ADULT THROUGH ONLINE OPERATIONS TRAFFICKING VICTIM Joseph Scaramucci Jeanne Allert
12:30 P.M. - 1:30 P.M.
EXPERT WITNESS TESTIMONY IN DOMESTIC IN HER SHOES VIOLENCE CASES Kristene Ruddle Melissa Scaia, Meriel Lester, Scott Miller, Julie Owens
= CASE STUDY = ADVOCACY = CLINICAL = MCLE/CJE = TCOLE = CNE = NOVA/DSAAP 14 ⚐ ›› ON DEMAND SESSIONS
ADULT FORENSIC INTERVIEWING PROGRAM: CHALLENGES & SOLUTIONS FOR POLICING, THE HOW & WHY OF BRINGING ONE TO PROSECUTION, & ACCOUNTABILITY IN RURAL YOUR JURISDICTION COMMUNITIES Micala Clark, Jen Peuplie, Khara Breeden, Johna Stallings Ric Hertel
ANIMAL ABUSE + FAMILY VIOLENCE: COLLABORATION SAFETY: SAFETY PLANNING INVESTIGATION & PROSECUTION STRATEGIES & LETHALITY ASSESSMENT TO KEEP FAMILIES SAFE Myra Strand Allie Phillips
ASSESSING LAW ENFORCEMENT’S RESPONSE TO COMBATING VICARIOUS TRAUMA IN SEXUAL ASSAULT: RECOMMENDATIONS FROM FIRST RESPONDERS THROUGH EFFECTIVE THE SAKI SEXUAL ASSAULT UNIT ... LEADERSHIP Kevin Strom, Amy Durall, James Markey Kayce Munyeneh
BEYOND "PRAY, STAY, OBEY": A CONVERSATION ON BRIDGING THE GAP UNDERSTANDING & SUPPORTING CHRISTIAN OF MALE SURVIVORS BY EXAMINING FEMALE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE VICTIMS SURVIVOR SERVICES Julie Owens Karla Vierthaler, Louis Marven
COURT-ORDERED ABUSE: VIOLENCE & LONG- BEYOND TRAUMA-INFORMED CARE LASTING TRAUMA OF WOMEN FORCED TO Ruth Guerreiro CO-PARENT WITH THEIR ABUSER Doreen Hunter, Barry Goldstein, Maureen Therese Hannah
BLACK GIRLHOOD, INTERRUPTED: CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE & HOLISTIC PORNOGRAPHY’S IMPACT ON SEXUAL VIOLENCE ABUSIVE PARTNER INTERVENTIONS IN THE LIVES OF BLACK GIRLS & WOMEN Brittany Davis, Juan Carlos Areán Carolyn West
CREATING & SUSTAINING A SEXUAL ASSAULT BODY-WORN CAMERA CONSIDERATIONS & RESPONSE TEAM (SART) FOR YOUR TRIBAL THE VICTIM IMPACT Angela Weekes COLLEGE CAMPUS Raquel DeHerrera, Amber Warman
THE DEADLY INTERSECTION OF DOMESTIC BUILDING A DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CASE WITH VIOLENCE & GUN VIOLENCE DURING COVID THE DEFENSE IN MIND Nancy Oglesby, Larry Braunstein Melissa Paquette, Ruhi Bengali
BUILDING A TRAUMA-INFORMED RESPONSE DIFFERENTIATED BATTERER INTERVENTION TO VIOLENT CRIME IN INDIAN COUNTRY PROGRAMMING FOR OFFENDERS Leslie A. Hagen Cassandra Munoz
= CASE STUDY = ADVOCACY = CLINICAL = MCLE/CJE = TCOLE = CNE = NOVA/DSAAP 15 ⚐ ›› ON DEMAND SESSIONS
EFFECTIVE & ETHICAL HEALTHCARE I JUST CAN'T THINK STRAIGHT: PARTNER INTERVENTIONS FOR PATIENTS INFLICTED BRAIN INJURY, DOMESTIC EXPERIENCING HUMAN TRAFFICKING VIOLENCE, & A WAY FORWARD Kim Nash Rachel Ramirez
AN INCLUSIVE & INDIVIDUALIZED RESPONSE EFFECTIVE REPORT WRITING IN GENDER FOR VICTIMS OF CRIME WITH DISABILITIES: BASED VIOLENCE CASES Robert Frechette THE ADULT ADVOCACY CENTER'S MODE Leigha Shoup, Katherine Yoder
ENHANCING VICTIM PARTICIPATION IN LABOR TRAFFICKING IN THE U.S. & STALKING INVESTIGATIONS SUCCESSFUL LOCAL INVESTIGATIONS Jennifer Landhuis, Patrick Brady Rochelle Keyhan, Joseph Scaramucci
LEGAL RIGHTS OF IMMIGRANT SURVIVORS: ETHICAL INVESTIGATION & PROSECUTION OF PUBLIC BENEFITS, HOUSING, & VICTIM SEXUAL ASSAULT CRIMES Julie Germann, Justin Boardman SERVICES Rocio Molina, Krista Del Gallo
EXPOSING WHAT’S CONCEALED: LEVERAGING THE MOST DANGEROUS POWER OF THE EXISTING FEDERAL STATUTES TO INCREASE VICTIM PROSECUTOR: CHARGING DECISIONS IN SAFETY & OFFENDER ACCOUNTABILITY SEXUAL ASSAULT CASES John Guard, Heidi Bonner Julie Germann
FIREARMS & FAMILY VIOLENCE: CONNECTING THE PATHWAY TO PREVENT MASS SHOOTINGS NLETS: TOP 10 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW Teri Harsin Amanda Elkanick Oder
FORENSIC EVALUATION OF GUNSHOT WOUNDS: “NO FACE, NO CASE”: RESPONDING TO APPLICATIONS FOR DOMESTIC & OFFICER- WITNESS INTIMIDATION IN DOMESTIC INVOLVED SHOOTINGS, PT. 1 & 2 VIOLENCE CASES Bill Smock John Guard, Heidi Bonner
NO WITNESSES? NO PROBLEM!: FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES THROUGH THE OVERCOMING EVIDENTIARY CHALLENGES IN OFFICE FOR VICTIMS OF CRIME Kathrina Peterson, Sara Gilmer A SEXUAL ASSAULT TRIAL Tiffany Larsen, Jay Gordon, Ashley Harkness
IACP LESSONS LEARNED: STRENGTHENING LAW PROSECUTOR'S PERSPECTIVE ON ENFORCEMENT RESPONSE TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & SEXUAL VIOLENCE NATIONAL DEMONSTRATION CHANGES TO TITLE IX SEXUAL ASSAULT INVESTIGATIONS INITIATIVE Melissa Hoppmeyer, Kathryn Marsh Rachel Apfelbaum, Fred Fletcher, Denise Jones, Scott Stevens, Angela Weekes
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RAISING THE STANDARD: WHAT TO UNDERSTANDING THE NEEDS OF VICTIMS OF EXPECT FROM AN EFFECTIVE ON-SCENE ABUSE IN THE DEAF COMMUNITY INVESTIGATION Heather Daley, Wilma Dennis Mark Wynn
SCREENING IN: EXPLORING BEST PRACTICES UNSILENCING THE NON-STATE TORTURE & & PRACTICAL STRATEGIES FOR IDENTIFYING & TRAFFICKING ORGANIZED & PERPETRATED RESPONDING TO TRAFFICKING WITHIN FAMILY SYSTEMS Sara Gilmer, Sulan Chang, Erika Gonzalez Linda MacDonald, Jeanne Sarson
SHARPER IMAGE: CREATING A CLEARER USING CODE ENFORCEMENT TO ADDRESS PICTURE OF STALKING RISK HUMAN TRAFFICKING Jennifer Landhuis, TK Logan Dennis Domagas
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS & SUSTAINABILITY USING GYNECOLOGICAL TEACHING ASSISTANTS OF YOUR DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HIGH RISK TO TRAIN NURSES & ADVOCATES TEAM Liana Hill, Gail Swafford Kelly Dunne, Heather Davies
SUPERVISED VISITATION: STRATEGIES FOR USING VICTIMS OF CRIME ACT FUNDING TO FAMILIES EXPERIENCING INTIMATE PARTNER BREAK DOWN LEGAL BARRIERS FOR VICTIMS VIOLENCE Jennifer Rose, Julie Aldrich, Beth McNamara Kathrina Peterson, Heather Bellino, Jason Buckner
TEAMWORK MAKES THE DREAM WORK: THE U VISA: A TOOL TO SUPPORT VICTIMS, ATTORNEYS & CASE MANAGERS WORKING COMMUNITIES, & LAW ENFORCEMENT TOGETHER FOR IMMIGRATION CLIENTS Kristine Cruz, Sulan Chang Rocio Molina, Jane Anderson
TEXAS PROTECTIVE ORDER REGISTRY: BEYOND VOLUNTARY INTOXICATION: IT’S NOT THE BASICS CONSENT FOR SEX, YOU KNOW! Kim Piechowiak Myra Strand
WHAT’S YOUR STORY? LAW ENFORCEMENT TRIBAL HOUSING: PAST, PRESENT, & FUTURE & THE LGBTQ+ COMMUNITY WORKING Wyanet Tasker TOGETHER Michael Crumrine, Denise Jones
UNDERSTANDING NARCISSISM AS THE KEY WHEN PREDATORS TAKE FLIGHT: A BIRD'S EYE TO UNDERSTANDING DOMESTIC ABUSE & VIEW OF SEXUAL ASSAULT GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE Scott Hampton Ramani Durvasula
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TECHNOLOGY ARTIFACT AWARENESS John Trenary SAVE THE DATE FOR THE 17TH ANNUAL
WHEN YOUR GUT TELLS YOU YOUR PATIENT ISN’T SAFE AT HOME: LEGAL SOLUTIONS TO MEDICAL PROBLEMS Amanda Elkanick Oder, Bronwyn Blake
WHO IS GUILTY? ANALYZING CULPABILITY IN HUMAN TRAFFICKING PROSECUTIONS Brooke Grona-Robb, Cara Pierce MAY 23-26, 2022 WHY WON’T SHE LISTEN? HOW TO EFFECTIVELY COMMUNICATE WITH SURVIVORS & INCREASE PARTICIPATION Jordyn Lawson, Ruth Guerreiro
WITNESS INTIMIDATION: ELIMINATING THE PAYOFF Jane Anderson, John Wilkinson
WOMEN WHO WERE SEXUALLY ABUSED AS CHILDREN: MOTHERING, RESILIENCE, & PROTECTING THE NEXT GENERATION Teresa Gil
YESTERDAY I CRIED: EXPLORING THE BARRIERS AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN FACE WHEN REPORTING VIOLENCE Ramona Curtis
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**NOTE: This series requires additional registration and is not available in the basic CCAW Virtual Conference pass package. To add on the Strangulation Series, contact [email protected]** Why didn’t she say no or fight back? Does that mean she consented? Why didn’t she mention the asphyxiation? How do we prove it wasn’t rough sex? Where should investigators look for digital evidence? All these questions and more will be answered in this two-part session given by prosecutors, forensic nurses, law enforcement, survivors, and leaders in the Bondage and Discipline, Dominance and Submission, Sadochism and Masochism (BDSM) community. Asphyxiation is a weapon used by domestic abusers, rapists, killers, pornographers, and traffickers. The use of asphyxiation (including strangulation, suffocation, and aquatic violence) in sexual crimes adds a layer of degradation for a victim and a film of confusion for investigators and prosecutors. The presence of violence in pornography has contributed to the normalization of these dangerous acts, and suspects have learned to escape punishment and just call it rough sex. This session will include training from the BDSM & kink community, as well as identifying opportunities for law enforcement to better determine truth from fiction. Using real case examples, this session will provide ways to navigate these cases, prevent this defense, and discuss solutions to improve how we respond to these crimes. Through consultation, creativity, and community partnership, these perpetrators can be caught and successfully prosecuted. From the most typical sexual assault or strangulation case to the most complex human trafficking trial and homicide case, this two-day session will change how the system identifies and filters the evidence so that attendees will be prepared to take on the most dangerous offenders in our society.
05.20.21, 8:30 A.M. - 12:30 P.M. CST PART 1: THE SEXUALIZATION OF STRANGULATION: Fetish or Felony? Click here to view the agenda.
05.21.21, 8:30 A.M. - 12:30 P.M. CST PART 2: THE SEXUALIZATION OF STRANGULATION: Fetish or Felony? Click here to view the agenda. SPEAKERS KELSEY MCKAY, JD JOSEPH SCARAMUCCI President of RESPOND Against Violence and Former Prosecutor Detective, McClennan County Police Department
KHARA BREEDEN, DNP, MS, RN, SANE-A, SANE-P, AFN-BC MYRA STRAND CEO of Texas Forensic Nurse Examiners (TXFNE) Strand Squared Solutions
ALLISON FRANKLIN PAUL THORNS Director of the CARES program, SAFE Alliance Executive Director, Marquis Lifestyle Center
SCOTT HAMPTON, PHD ANDREA ZAFERES Director of Ending the Violence Medicolegal Death Investigator
PRESENTED BY Kelsey McKay &
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ADULT FORENSIC INTERVIEWING AQUATIC CRIMES AGAINST WOMEN BEYOND "PRAY, STAY, OBEY": PROGRAM: THE HOW & WHY OF STAGED AS NONCRIMINAL AQUATIC UNDERSTANDING & SUPPORTING BRINGING ONE TO YOUR JURISDICTION DEATHS PT. 1 & PT. 2 CHRISTIAN DOMESTIC VIOLENCE Andrea Zaferes, Pam Schmidt VICTIMS Micala Clark, Jen Peuplie, Khara Breeden, Johna Bodies found in water cases are some of the Julie Owens Stallings most misdiagnosed deaths worldwide. The Abused churchgoers are a largely misunderstood By modeling the Children's Assessment Center, most common being intimate partner homicides and underserved domestic violence victim The Forensic Center, a Texas non-profit agency staged as accidental or suicidal bathtub deaths. population. Few clergy are trained to understand with a mobile forensic nursing program, created Unfortunately, law enforcement and death the complexities of domestic violence. A portion an in-house adult forensic interviewing program. investigators are rarely trained in aquatic homicides of the award-winning documentary "Broken Vows: This workshop will demonstrate how to develop and aquatic torture. The Part 1 workshop will be a Religious Perspectives on Domestic Violence" an adult forensic interviewing program utilizing lecture discussing the basics of aquatic death and will be presented. Attendees will learn about the protocols, technology, and tele-forensic investigations with women as victims. Part 2 is an dangerous teachings that entrap victims and tips interviewing. Live streaming, online platforms, and interactive workshop examining a bathtub death for educating and supporting Christian victims and COVID concerns will also be discussed. and navigating through a 3D crime scene bathtub survivors. death investigation. ANIMAL ABUSE + FAMILY VIOLENCE: BEYOND TRAUMA-INFORMED CARE INVESTIGATION & PROSECUTION ASSESSING LAW ENFORCEMENT’S STRATEGIES TO KEEP FAMILIES SAFE RESPONSE TO SEXUAL ASSAULT: Ruth Guerreiro RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE SAKI Trauma work has not always been trauma- Allie Phillips SEXUAL ASSAULT UNIT ASSESSMENT informed. In this workshop, the presenter will With 68% of American homes having pets, family PROGRAM explore the history of the conceptualization and violence first responders and prosecutors should Kevin Strom, Amy Durall, James Markey treatment of how traumatic events affect people. understand how pets are targeted to gain silence This workshop will provide an in-depth look at the A look at how services became trauma-informed and compliance of victims, impacting successful National Sexual Assault Kit Initiative Sexual Assault and next steps will be discussed. This workshop investigations and prosecutions. This workshop Unit Assessments, which evaluate the entire sexual will provide the tools to keep the momentum and will explore the latest research on the importance assault investigative process and involve structured become better advocates to survivors. of addressing animal abuse in family violence interviews of personnel within law enforcement dynamics, how agencies can work together, and agencies. The presenters will discuss challenges, BLACK GIRLHOOD, INTERRUPTED: investigation and prosecution trial strategies. investigator experience and training, standards of PORNOGRAPHY’S IMPACT ON SEXUAL investigative follow up, report documentation, and VIOLENCE IN THE LIVES OF BLACK GIRLS AN INCLUSIVE & INDIVIDUALIZED communication and collaboration with partners. & WOMEN RESPONSE FOR VICTIMS OF CRIME WITH Carolyn West DISABILITIES: THE ADULT ADVOCACY ASSESS YOURSELF BEFORE YOU Pornographic images involving Black girls and CENTERS’ MODE ASSESS YOUR PATIENT: HOW IMPLICIT women is a pervasive reality in the media and Leigha Shoup, Katherine Yoder BIAS COMPLICATES HEALTHCARE IPV culture. This workshop will unpack the historical The Adult Advocacy Centers (AACs) provide SCREENING origins of contemporary pornography images and holistic, accessible, and trauma-informed Cathy Glenn, Kaeli Vandertulip identify how these representations promote sexual services to adult crime victims with disabilities in Implicit and unchecked bias can lead to the violence against Black women. Prevalence rates a universal and multi-sensory environment. AACs oppression of groups of people. This workshop will and risk factors for sexual victimization as well work to facilitate multidisciplinary coordinated explore ways that implicit bias shows up in medical as evidence-based prevention and intervention responses that promotes safety and well-being. settings. Presenters will illustrate situations where strategies will also be discussed. This workshop will examine this unique approach bias flares up in emergency rooms and hospitals, to victim services in effort to assist attendees in as well as discuss how a healthcare provider can BODY-WORN CAMERA CONSIDERATIONS understanding best practices for survivors. identify their own individual biases and rely on the & THE VICTIM IMPACT dynamics of IPV. Angela Weekes APPS, NESTS, & TILES: EXPLORING THE This workshop will discuss the use of body-worn INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT) & IMPACT ON cameras in interpersonal and intimate partner SURVIVORS violent crime investigations, its challenges, and Elaina Roberts policy considerations. Victim impact, victim safety, The Internet of Things has rapidly and drastically and privacy related to what is captured on body changed how people live their lives and interact, worn cameras will be addressed. Considerations, and offenders are misusing these technologies as activation vs deactivation and who has access to tools of abuse, especially for offenses involving the material will also be discussed. domestic and sexual violence and stalking. This highly interactive workshop, along with a simulated video experience, will deliberate on the experiences of tech abuse victims. = CASE STUDY = ADVOCACY = CLINICAL = MCLE/CJE = TCOLE = CNE = NOVA/DSAAP 20 ⚐ SESSIONS
CASE STUDY: BRYANT JONES: JUSTICE CALL ME CRAZY: THE ROLE OF SURVIVAL CAUGHT IN THE CROSSFIRE: HOW AFTER PROSECUTORIAL TRAUMA & FEAR IN INVESTIGATIONS & CHILDREN ARE AFFECTED BY DOMESTIC PROSECUTIONS VIOLENCE Melissa Hoppmeyer, Amanda Tenorio Kelsey McKay, Kristen Troken Amber Nealy, Jordan Gates Bryant Jones, a domestic violence batterer, Violence, rape, and trauma change how a survivor In this lunch session, attendees will examine how exploited gaps in the criminal justice system by communicates. Victim reports are often critically domestic violence impacts the family system capitalizing on the victim's refusal to cooperate. inaccurate judgments. The most common and through a child’s eyes. The presenters will discuss Subsequently, Jones was involved in a brutal effective defense to crimes against women is to common symptoms that children experience and assault and kidnapping with the victim again attack their credibility. Implanting a seed of “crazy” how a mother’s trauma can impact her relationship refusing to cooperate. This case study will discuss can destroys their credibility. This workshop will be with them. Attendees will learn strategies to help the investigation's success, how the victim regained presented by a former prosecutor and a survivor empower this population to overcome and trust in the system, and was able to receive justice. who persisted together to overcome this exploited manage the effects of domestic violence on the defense. family system. BUILDING A COORDINATED COMMUNITY RESPONSE FOR STALKING CAPTURING DRUG-FACILITATED SEXUAL CHALLENGES & SOLUTIONS Jenn Landhuis ASSAULT & OTHER DRUGGING CRIMES FOR POLICING, PROSECUTION, Established responses to domestic and sexual & ACCOUNTABILITY IN RURAL violence are often elevated to the same level Trinka Porrata COMMUNITIES for stalking. Effective coordinated responses Drug-facilitated sexual assault cases are the most Ric Hertel to stalking requires joining multidisciplinary commonly-known drugging crimes. Evidence, This workshop will focus on issues unique to rural community partners to meet the needs of victims. consent battles, urine sample delays, limited facts, communities and the challenges inherent to the This workshop will focus on building a coordinated and victim statement accuracy are all issues. Drugs investigation, case preparation, prosecution, and response to stalking and promote the education are also used to facilitate other crimes against post-sentence management of domestic violence and awareness of stalking as a component of this women as well. This workshop will cover these cases. The presenter will focus on key legal and response. drugs, how they are delivered, how cases present, logistical issues that make assisting survivors and how they impact drugged driving cases. in these jurisdictions challenging. Community BUILDING A DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CASE familiarity and survivor privacy, protective orders, WITH THE DEFENSE IN MIND CASE STUDY: CATCHING A PREDATOR: officer retention, and underreporting will also be Nancy Oglesby, Larry Braunstein INVESTIGATING THE HOWARD discussed. When investigating and prosecuting domestic UNIVERSITY RAPIST violence cases, victim behavior can appear Melissa Hoppmeyer, Lisa Shepperd COLLABORATION SAFETY: SAFETY counter-intuitive and victims frequently become This case study will explore the law enforcement PLANNING & LETHALITY ASSESSMENT uncooperative prior to trial. This workshop will and state's attorney's office investigation into the address the difficult issues of bringing a successful serial sexual predator, Julian Lee Everett. Methods Myra Strand domestic violence case to trial. Presenters will used to investigate historical allegations of sexual Safety planning and lethality assessment should address how the defense will view and prepare assault, barriers and issues, and charging decisions be individualized, holistic, and empowering. for the case, as well as address best practices for will be examined. The investigation aftermath, an Every survivor’s unique plan that includes law enforcement and prosecutors. understanding of Everett's crimes by investigators technology, lethality assessment, and emotional/ and prosecutors, and subsequent serial rapist psychological safety is essential. This workshop BUILDING A TRAUMA-INFORMED charges will also be discussed. will explore various safety planning models, non- RESPONSE TO VIOLENT CRIME IN INDIAN clinical lethality assessment tools, and human- COUNTRY CATCH COURT: A RESTORATIVE JUSTICE centric, trauma-informed methods. Attendees Leslie A. Hagen RESPONSE FOR VICTIMS OF HUMAN will learn how to identify and leverage existing The manner in which a crime victim is interviewed TRAFFICKING client assets in the safety planning and lethality can dramatically impact her answers and Gwen England assessment process. willingness to have her case prosecuted. This CATCH Court is a human trafficking and prostitution workshop will address the effects of trauma, court, certified through the Ohio Supreme court, COMBATING VICARIOUS TRAUMA IN from a prosecutor’s perspective, on victims and serving women in the criminal justice system that FIRST RESPONDERS THROUGH EFFECTIVE witnesses. The presenter will provide best practice have been identified as victims of trafficking. LEADERSHIP examples for incorporating a trauma-informed law CATCH provides court and criminal justice workers Kayce Munyeneh enforcement and prosecution response into violent a new perspective on how to supervise, treat, and Vicarious trauma, the result of long-term work with crime cases in Indian Country. respond to this population of victimized women victims of crime, can detrimentally impact how first who are often arrested on criminal charges. responders are able to interact with those they serve. This workshop will discuss how attentive leadership and basic human capital theories can dramatically improve work environments for first responders. Attendees will receive tools to assess their work environments and turn around toxic workplaces.
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A CONVERSATION ON BRIDGING CRACKING THE CODE ON GENERATION THE DEADLY INTERSECTION OF THE GAP OF MALE SURVIVORS BY Z: HOW TO BUILD NEW ALLIANCES DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & GUN VIOLENCE EXAMINING FEMALE SURVIVOR TO FIGHT CRIMES AGAINST WOMEN DURING COVID SERVICES Melissa Paquette, Ruhi Bengali Karla Vierthaler, Louis Marven Hsin-Yin Yang, Ziwei Qi Research shows that access to a gun makes it Statistics reveal that it is very difficult for female According to recent studies, Generation Z has five times more likely that a woman will die at survivors to report an abuse or assault. The earned the reputation as “the cause generation” the hands of a domestic abuser. The COVID-19 numbers are even more dismal for male survivors. for being socially conscious, participating in crisis has intensified these gun-related domestic This workshop will consider how the barriers male worldwide activism, and is the most diverse violence factors. This workshop will discuss the survivors face can also indicate barriers and generation in American history. This workshop will lethal intersection of domestic violence and service access for women. The presenters will illustrate how Gen Zers can serve as the bridges gun violence and examine legislative and non- discuss how to form valuable partnerships and connecting different age groups and discuss legislative solutions to supporting victims and their incorporate effective messaging strategies. creative successful collaborative projects with law families. enforcement and community agencies. COURAGEOUS CONVERSATIONS: DIFFERENTIATED BATTERER INTERVENTION IMPROVING OUR RESPONSE TO VICTIM CREATING CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE PROGRAMMING FOR OFFENDERS OF DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE IN & HOLISTIC ABUSIVE PARTNER Cassandra Munoz THE BLACK COMMUNITY INTERVENTIONS Evidence-based practice research indicates Ayana Wallace, Tom Tremblay, Carolyn West Brittany Davis, Juan Carlos Areán that when risk levels are contaminated, low risk By understanding the impact of the chronic New ways abusive partner intervention in a offenders will become better batterers because compound traumas of the Black community, law coordinated community response to domestic they are exposed to higher risk offenders. This enforcement will learn to enhance their response violence needs flexible, holistic approaches that workshop will focus on the design/implementation to domestic violence and sexual assault incidents. reflect the strengths and the needs of particular of the current model and discuss use of risk Attendees will learn how historical trauma and communities. This workshop will introduce new and assessment, identified risk levels, construct details, oppression shape relationships between police strengthened strategies to increase engagement and programming components for each treatment and the Black community and recognize how and teach attendees how to identify national level at various agencies. current day societal and institutional factors and practices that value culture and community biases create obstacles to help seeking. and learn guiding principles applicable to their DISARM DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: A individual jurisdictions. COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO DOMESTIC COURT-ORDERED ABUSE: VIOLENCE & VIOLENCE-RELATED FIREARMS LAWS LONG-LASTING TRAUMA OF WOMEN CREATING INNOVATIVE HOUSING FORCED TO CO-PARENT WITH THEIR SOLUTIONS FOR SURVIVORS Rachel Graber, Lisa Geller ABUSER Barbie Brashear, James Gonzalez This lunch session will introduce attendees to Disarm Doreen Hunter, Barry Goldstein, Maureen Therese This lunch session will describe how a collaborative Domestic Violence, a comprehensive, online Hannah program with a domestic violence coordinated overview of state laws addressing the intersection Recent articles highlight the increasingly community response and the Coalition for the between domestic violence and firearms. States' common occurrence of women being forced Homeless of Houston is addressing unique laws governing firearm possession by adjudicated into violent co-parenting relationships with their housing solutions for survivors. Other interventions abusers, removal of firearms therefrom, a how- abuser. This workshop will analyze cases of and solutions that are being offered in different to guide for survivors, and advocates seeking violence perpetrated against women during communities and the gaps and needs for survivors protective orders that will disarm the abuser will child exchanges and discuss targeted violence. related to housing solutions will also be discussed. also be discussed. Attendees will review the red flags and warning signs of this type of domestic violence and identify CREATING & SUSTAINING A SEXUAL DOMESTIC & SEXUAL VIOLENCE ways in which to prevent it from happening. ASSAULT RESPONSE TEAM (SART) FOR RESPONSES FOR URBAN NATIVE YOUR TRIBAL COLLEGE CAMPUS PROGRAMS COVID & THE BLACK SURVIVOR Raquel DeHerrera, Amber Warman Victoria Ybanez, Hope Wenke Carvana Cloud Sexual Assault Response Teams (SARTs) on tribal American Indian and Alaska Native women This lunch session will explore the root causes of college and university campuses can make a huge experience higher rates of domestic and sexual domestic violence and domestic violence-related difference in the lives of tribal students who have violence than any other population. Culturally- homicides in the Black community. The five social been sexually assaulted. Unfortunately, SARTs on informed responses for indigenous victims determinants of health to reduce domestic violence tribal and university campuses are few in numbers. are critically important to enhance safety. This in the Black community and developing practical In this workshop, a SART will be defined, challenges workshop will explore the challenges indigenous solutions for culturally-relevant and trauma- will be identified, and SART development methods victims face when seeking victim services in urban informed responses related to domestic violence on college campuses will be discussed. areas and describe the full range of training and in the Black community during the COVID-19 technical assistance available through Red Wind pandemic and beyond will also be discussed. Consulting.
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DOMESTIC VIOLENCE FATALITY REVIEW: EMPOWERING YOUNG WOMEN ON ETHICAL INVESTIGATION & PROSECUTION STATE OF THE ART CAMPUS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT CRIMES Neil Websdale Kaiti Dinges Julie Germann, Justin Boardman The Domestic Fatality Review concept stems from Empowering Young Women on Campus is a Sexual assault case investigations and prosecutions historic origins related to women public health female-specific program that educates college- encounter ethical dilemmas as prosecutors and concerns, the feminist movement, the civil rights aged women about issues including gender law enforcement are forced to make decisions movement, and more. Philosophical linkages led to inequality, healthy and unhealthy relationship that will affect case outcomes. The presenters will the need for increased perpetrator accountability behaviors, body image, self-confidence vs. address large caseloads, case clearances, victim regarding crimes against women offenses. Using a self-esteem, and rape culture. This workshop cooperation, solvability, and conviction rates. multidisciplinary model, this workshop will address will examine societal aspects that contribute to Questions that come up when handling sexual makeup, scope of activity, process, and outcomes gender-based violence and relationship violence violence cases will also be discussed. of domestic violence fatality reviewing. on campus. Attendees will learn how to implement gender-specific prevention programming on AN EXAMINATION OF THE CRITICAL DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HIGH-RISK TEAM campus. ROLE OF CORRECTIONS IN ABUSER & PROTECTIVE ORDERS ACCOUNTABILITY Lauren Cisneros, Julianna Sweeney ENDING THE GAME: UNDERSTANDING Scott Hampton This lunch session will provide protective order PSYCHOLOGICAL COERCION IN Holding abusers accountable requires processes for applicants, lethality assessment for COMMERCIAL SEXUAL EXPLOITATION & stakeholders to coordinate their services but criminal cases flagged high risk, and methods on EXPLORING ONE PROMISING SOLUTION corrections has received less attention than law how to use these processes to advance criminal enforcement, the courts, or abuser intervention case prosecution. A general overview of the Rachel Thomas, Emily Hollerbach programs. This workshop will present information Domestic Violence High-Risk Team Model and The mental health treatment of victims of human about the tactics abusers use to manipulate the how to collaborate across multiple agencies to trafficking reveals one disturbing trend that cannot corrections system. Risk assessment strategies, coordinate victim safety and successful prosecution be ignored: Victims oftentimes exhibit strong victims and survivor needs, and abuser disclosures will also be discussed. attachments to their trafficker and/or the lifestyle made within the walls and community-based of commercial sexual exploitation. This workshop programs will also be discussed. EFFECTIVE & ETHICAL HEALTHCARE will highlight a survivor-written, coercion-resiliency INTERVENTIONS FOR PATIENTS curriculum utilized in victim-serving facilities in 23 EXPERT WITNESS TESTIMONY IN DOMESTIC EXPERIENCING HUMAN TRAFFICKING states that address and minimize the effects of VIOLENCE CASES Kim Nash psychological coercion in trafficking. Melissa Scaia, Meriel Lester, Scott Miller, Julie This workshop will address interventions that Owens healthcare professionals can apply to the patient ENHANCING THE COURT PROCESS FOR Attorneys ask experts to testify to better inform who is known or suspected to be experiencing DOMESTIC VIOLENCE LITIGANTS the courts about the decisions domestic violence human trafficking; going beyond screening and Katherine Wurmfeld, Kim Piechowiak, Danielle victims make. This workshop will provide the many discussing specific care. Law enforcement and Pugh-Markie aspects of working as an expert witness, including prosecutors can bolster their understanding of This workshop will introduce the tools needed benefits and drawbacks to advocates as expert how documented observations, diagnoses, care to enhance court processes and response in witnesses, legal settings and issues, and testifying provided, and patient responses in the medical the complex and challenging cases that involve on behalf of victim of battering charged with record could assist in investigating and prosecuting domestic violence. Designed for court staff crimes. trafficking cases. in customer-facing roles and administrative/ management roles, these court leaders will achieve EXPOSING WHAT’S CONCEALED: EFFECTIVE REPORT WRITING IN GENDER a greater ability to identify litigants involved in LEVERAGING EXISTING FEDERAL BASED VIOLENCE CASES domestic violence cases and enhance the ways in STATUTES TO INCREASE VICTIM SAFETY Robert Frechette which they interface with their courts. & OFFENDER ACCOUNTABILITY Gender-based and family violence crimes are John Guard, Heidi Bonner pattern crimes that require careful documentation. ENHANCING VICTIM PARTICIPATION IN Research has repeatedly shown that the presence This workshop will examine how police, medical, STALKING INVESTIGATIONS of a firearm in an intimate partner relationship and other official reports have the potential to Jennifer Landhuis, Patrick Brady substantially increases the risk of a homicide. This make or break a case and either empower or Understanding why stalking victims contact the workshop will provide an overview of federal re-victimize. The presenter will explore descriptive police is vital to improving responses, victim firearms laws and law enforcement authority language and share tools for writing clear, cooperation, and decision-making. Using the latest to enforce federal gun laws. The presenters complete, and accurate narratives. research findings, coupled with case studies from will discuss promising legislation and practices actual stalking investigations, this workshop will concerning the seizure of firearms in the context ELDER ABUSE & THE FEDERAL RESPONSE challenge your problem-solving skills to identify of IPV. and deter stalking behaviors, develop strategies to Donna Strittmatter Max, Dawn Theiss corroborate allegations of unwanted contact, and The Dept. of Justice's Elder Justice Initiative combats enhance victim participation in investigations and elder abuse by providing a multitude of resources prosecutions. to the community, victims, law enforcement, and professionals working in the elder services field. This lunch session will highlight the Elder Justice Initiative and discuss resources and federal laws currently being utilized to combat elder abuse, including criminal prosecution and civil remedies. = CASE STUDY = ADVOCACY = CLINICAL = MCLE/CJE = TCOLE = CNE = NOVA/DSAAP 23 ⚐ SESSIONS
FIREARMS & FAMILY VIOLENCE: CASE STUDY: HAREM OF HORROR: A HOW TO SEIZE SMARTPHONES & CONNECTING THE PATHWAY TO BATTERER'S MANIPULATION OF HIS PRESERVE DATA PREVENT MASS SHOOTINGS VICTIMS & THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE Bryan Franke Amanda Elkanick Oder SYSTEM This lunch session focuses on smartphones, how As mass shootings become more common, tools Elissa Wev to collect and preserve data, and obtaining the and laws that will prevent these crimes from Christopher Whaley, probationer and master data or information needed from these devices. continuing are needed. In this workshop, the manipulator, kept his pregnant girlfriend prisoner Attendees will learn how to ensure maximum data presenter will describe recent mass shootings, to her probation conditions before pleading extraction from smartphones and gain insight into identify red flags, and discuss current laws as well to probation on two felony charges of family various encryption obstacles, as well as how to as examine loopholes for these offenders and how violence against her. This case study will examine combat them and preserve smartphone data. communities can collaborate effectively to identify how Whaley exploited systematic and personal high-risk offenders, create firearm surrender vulnerabilities to weaponize the criminal justice IACP LESSONS LEARNED: protocols, and survivor protections. system against his victims and will explore STRENGTHENING LAW ENFORCEMENT strategies for prosecuting probation violations by RESPONSE TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE FINDING HOPE IN THE COURTHOUSE: batterers. & SEXUAL VIOLENCE NATIONAL NASHVILLE’S COURT-BASED FAMILY DEMONSTRATION INITIATIVE JUSTICE CENTER HIDDEN TRUTHS: WHAT A FULL ASSAULT Rachel Apfelbaum, Fred Fletcher, Denise Jones, Diane Lance, Becky Bullard SCREENING CAN REVEAL IN AN Scott Stevens, Angela Weekes The Jean Crowe Advocacy Center, a unique EMERGENCY ROOM SANE SETTING & Representatives of selected demonstration sites resource that provides a Family Justice Center FOR PROSECUTORS AT TRIAL will highlight the efforts of the Integrity, Action, model within the courthouse, was developed in Brittany Pahl, Krystal King, Patricia Powers and Justice: Strengthening Law Enforcement response to Nashville’s Safety & Accountability Studies show that when female victims and Response to Domestic and Sexual Violence Audit that found multiple safety concerns in the survivors present to the emergency department, National Demonstration Initiative agencies. The courthouse and throughout the criminal justice the violence they endure is not monolithic in nature presenters will discuss details of how receiving system. This workshop will discuss the model's but, many times, are overlapping traumas. This resources, support, and technical assistance innovative advocacy services, partner connections, workshop will describe the initial inner workings of strengthens agency response to and investigations victim safety, and offender accountability. the program's process, expansion, its subsequent of domestic violence, sexual assault, strangulation, enhanced screening process, and the legal and and stalking, as well as replication for agencies. FORENSIC EVALUATION OF GUNSHOT prosecutorial implications when bringing a full WOUNDS: APPLICATIONS FOR assault profile to trial. IDENTIFYING & INVESTIGATING DOMESTIC & OFFICER-INVOLVED ASPHYXIATION CRIMES SHOOTINGS, PT. 1 & 2 HOLDING THE FRAMEWORK: WORKING Kelsey McKay, Kimberly Orts Bill Smock WITH SURVIVORS OF MULTI-ABUSE The gravity and lethality of strangulation assaults Medical and scientific literature has repeatedly TRAUMA has the ability to predict future homicides for documented that clinical physicians have a Lindley King domestic violence victims, as well as police great deal of difficulty in correctly distinguishing A survivor's mental health issues or substance use officers who do not have the necessary protocols, between entrance and exit wounds. Their opinions can cause a polarization in approaches to service training, or guidance to investigate and collect based upon the size of the wound, not its physical with survivors often interacting with providers unique evidence. Attendees will learn to overcome characteristics. This workshop will address these in multiple fields who all have distinct ways of common challenges strangulation presents, lack misinterpretations and therefore the misdiagnosis providing services. This workshop will discuss the of external injury, lack of victim, and missed and of gunshot wounds, police, nurses, physicians, and connections between gender-based violence, misunderstood evidence. prosecutors. mental health, and substance use, how to better work together for multi-abuse trauma survivors, I JUST CAN'T THINK STRAIGHT: PARTNER FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES THROUGH and vicarious trauma effects. INFLICTED BRAIN INJURY, DOMESTIC THE OFFICE FOR VICTIMS OF CRIME VIOLENCE, & A WAY FORWARD Kathrina Peterson, Sara Gilmer HOW NOT TO LOSE AN SVU CASE Rachel Ramirez The Office for Victims of Crime will present funding Donna Kelly Abusers intentionally target a victim’s head, neck, opportunities that support programs serving victims This workshop is designed to walk attendees and face with terrifying and painful repeated of all crime, including trafficking, elder abuse, through each stage of the criminal justice system in assaults and strangulation. When these injuries sexual assault, domestic violence, mass violence a guided discussion and presenting best practices continue unidentified and untreated, struggles with and terrorism, and fraud. Attendees will learn standards for district attorneys, with an emphasis mental health, substance use, suicide, and a list of how to access the more than $3 billion in funding on proactive pretrial action by investigators and physical health issues can occur. Attendees will for victim service programming, VOCA formula, prosecutors. The presenter will discuss real case learn how to educate survivors and staff, support trafficking, tribal funding, and discretionary scenarios, research on persuading jurors, and their advocacy, and leave ready to integrate program funding. methods for avoiding common pitfalls and making knowledge into practice. impactful presentations.
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IMPLEMENTING A HOLISTIC APPROACH: THE JUDICIAL LANGUAGE PROJECT: *RESTRICTED TO LAW ENFORCEMENT & WHAT CLIENTS GAINED WHEN WE USING RESEARCH TO PERSUADE PROSECUTORS* EVOLVED INTO A WRAP-AROUND MEDIA & COURTS TO AVOID HARMFUL LEVERAGING TECHNOLOGY TO FIND AGENCY LANGUAGE SEX TRAFFICKING VICTIMS FASTER WITH Ruth Guerreiro, Krista Fultz, Jordyn Lawson, Amber Wendy Murphy SPOTLIGHT Nealy This workshop will provide research-based Kristin McGunnigle, Joseph Scaramucci Holistic approaches focus on both a client's outside examples of how the language used to describe Over the last five years, Spotlight has helped and inside world. This workshop will explore how violence against women can contribute to the harm investigators identify victims of sex trafficking the domestic violence movement has impacted women endure in society. Dual subject, needless in North America while adapting to the ever- client services and examine how an agency can eroticism, active/passive voice, vagueness, the changing online sexual marketplace. Through a overcome barriers in its quest to advance client power of language, using and avoiding certain case study and hands-on exercises, attendees will services. Attendees will discuss a trauma-informed terminology, and how language can help prevent see first-hand how Spotlight has evolved to help model, training, protocols, treatment planning, or contribute to the added harm victims' violent prioritize leads and identify victims quicker by and a programming structure to help create unity experiences will also be discussed. leveraging the latest, innovative technology. among various teams. JUSTICE FOR ALL: CULTURALLY-SENSITIVE LGBTQ LATIN@ REALITIES: ADDRESSING INDIGENOUS VICTIMS OF TRAFFICKING RESPONSES FOR MINORITY SURVIVORS GENDER & SEXUAL-IDENTITY BASED IN NORTH AMERICA OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE VIOLENCE FROM A CULTURALLY Rochelle Keyhan, Oscar Delgado, Kathleen Gately Carvana Cloud RESPONSIVE APPROACH A large gap in understanding different Indigenous Minority women are disproportionately affected Jose Juan Lara, Jr. communities exists. These communities are often by domestic violence with foreign-born women This workshop is designed to discuss the lumped into one nationality when encountering nearly twice as likely to be killed by an intimate intersections of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, the U.S. legal system; often underserved and partner than a non-intimate. Additionally, factors Transgender, Queer, and Latin@ identities within misunderstood. This workshop will discuss unique to immigrants contribute to the increase in interpersonal and systemic violence. Culturally incorporating culture into a victim-centered their vulnerability. This workshop will examine the inappropriate practices when responding to acts approach to working with Indigenous trafficking cultural barriers that African American, Hispanic, of gender and sexual identity-based violence that survivors from Mexico and U.S., and share helpful South Asian, and Middle Eastern domestic target LGBTQ Latin@ communities and the need resources for working with survivors from these violence victims face while seeking justice. for building and sustaining culturally-relevant communities. partnerships to effectively address and respond to LABOR TRAFFICKING IN THE U.S. & violence will also be addressed. IN HER SHOES SUCCESSFUL LOCAL INVESTIGATIONS Krista Fultz, Jordyn Lawson, Kristene Ruddle *RESTRICTED TO LAW ENFORCEMENT & This experiential interactive workshop utilizes the Rochelle Keyhan, Joseph Scaramucci Washington State Coalition Against Domestic In this workshop, attendees will hear from national PROSECUTORS* Violence’s interactive virtual activity “In Their experts about the various types of labor trafficking VIRTUAL LAB: LOCATING TRAFFICKING Shoes.” Attendees will have the opportunity to happening across the U.S. The presenters will VICTIMS THROUGH ONLINE walk in the shoes of a survivor of domestic violence, also discuss case studies of successful, local OPERATIONS be able to make decisions along her journey, and investigations of family-based labor trafficking, Joseph Scaramucci then debrief the experience with fellow attendees. hospitality industry labor trafficking, and restaurant- This lab will teach both new and seasoned based labor trafficking. Attendees will learn how human trafficking investigators how to conduct INVESTIGATING & PROSECUTING to detect and gather evidence in various types of sting operations using minimal manpower and VIOLENT CRIME IN TRIBAL COMMUNITIES: labor trafficking cases. resources while maintaining officer and victim WORKING WITH VICTIMS IN CURRENT & safety. The presenter will discuss locating ads COLD CASES LEGAL RIGHTS OF IMMIGRANT associated with human trafficking, tools used to Patricia Thackston, Leslie A. Hagen, Michelle Rivard SURVIVORS: PUBLIC BENEFITS, identify likely victims, surveillance techniques, Parks HOUSING, & VICTIM SERVICES picking meet locations, and suspect identification This workshop will focus on the investigation and Rocio Molina, Krista Del Gallo and apprehension. prosecution of serious violent crimes by tribes This workshop will discuss the range of publicly working with their federal and state partners, as funded victim and social services programs, legal CASE STUDY: THE MAKING OF A PIMP well as strategies for cold case investigations. assistance, and the wide range of services and A summarization of tribal courts and systems assistance that are legally available regardless of Brooke Grona-Robb, Cara Pierce considerations when handling cases, core immigration status. The presenters will instruct on This case study discusses Allen Nash, an extremely prosecution strategies, and the Bureau of Justice how to identify the benefits for which immigrant violent pimp that victimized, kidnapped, and Assistance's Sexual Assault Kit Initiative will also be victims qualify and teach best practices for forced young women to engage in commercial discussed. accompanying immigrant survivors applying for sex, and who was finally prosecuted on state benefits. kidnapping and federal human trafficking charges. The uniqueness of these trials to include aspects of his co-conspirators, victims, and individuals from his past will also be addressed.
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MILITARY SEXUAL TRAUMA: THE WHO, MOVING TOWARD JUSTICE: PRETRIAL “NO FACE, NO CASE”: RESPONDING TO WHAT, WHEN, WHERE, WHY, & HOW TO MOTION PRACTICE WITNESS INTIMIDATION IN DOMESTIC FIX IT Jane Anderson, John Wilkinson VIOLENCE CASES Martina Chesonis Pretrial motions may be necessary to exclude John Guard, Heidi Bonner Military Sexual Trauma (MST) is a broad term irrelevant evidence, litigate the admissibility of Witness intimidation cannot be effectively referring to experiences of sexual assault or out-of-court statements, admit expert testimony, investigated unless knowledge about how it repeated, threatening harassment during an or introduce evidence of a defendant’s other occurs, how to investigate it, and how to respond individual's military service. This presentation crimes and “bad acts.” This workshop will address in a way that protects the witness while holding will provide a broad look at Military Sexual common pretrial motions in cases of intimate the offender accountable is understood. Using Trauma, covering the statistics of MST, reporting partner violence, sexual assault, stalking, and recorded audio and written letter examples, procedures, and institutional barriers facing the human trafficking. Case scenarios about various the presenters will examine witness strategies Department of Defense and affecting survivors of pretrial strategies will be discussed. offenders use to compel victims to recant or fail to military sexual trauma. appear in court. CASE STUDY: NEW & BETTER JUSTICE MOMMY DEAREST: WHEN VICTIMIZATION FOR VICTIMS WITH INTELLECTUAL NOT ONE MORE: UNIQUE PERSPECTIVES HITS CLOSE TO HOME & COMMUNICATION DISABILITIES ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HOMICIDE Jeanne Allert Domestic sex trafficking is often portrayed as a Wendy Murphy Julie Owens, Christine Brungardt, Kelsey McKay, dark person pulling the strings of emotional control This case study will examine the reporting, Neil Schori, Dawn Wilcox from a distance. However, a disturbingly frequent investigation, and prosecution involving stroke Half of all murdered women are killed by intimate occurrence of the perpetrator can be right in victim, Ruby McDonough's sexual assault by a partners. National experts in criminal prosecution/ the victim's circle of influence: The mother. This nursing home aide. The presenter will showcase strangulation, victim advocacy, faith-based workshop will explore cases where the offending how Ruby challenged her incompetency ruling counseling, homicide data collection, prevention party is the victim's maternal parent and how that and set a precedent that require officials involved efforts in schools and colleges, and offender dynamic impacts a successful outcome. in criminal matters to provide disabled crime intervention will explore this complex topic, sharing victims with all necessary accommodations to unique experiences and lessons learned. Survivor MONITORING TRANSACTIONS: HOW ensure equal access to justice. insights, danger assessment, survivor-centered FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS IDENTIFY & advocacy, and support for survivors of homicide REPORT HUMAN TRAFFICKING NEW ELDER ABUSE APP FOR TEXAS LAW victims will also be discussed. Steven Cobb ENFORCEMENT & FIRST RESPONDERS This lunch session will examine the role financial NO WITNESSES? NO PROBLEM!: institutions play in identifying and reporting Julie Krawczyk, Cheryl Wattley OVERCOMING EVIDENTIARY potential human trafficking to law enforcement The Elder Financial Safety Center in Dallas has CHALLENGES IN A SEXUAL ASSAULT and provide an overview of the regulatory designed a prototype app for service providers TRIAL mandate that financial institutions have to report who suspect elder abuse. This lunch session will Tiffany Larsen, Jay Gordon, Ashley Harkness suspicious account activity. Transactional red flags highlight tools and information that assist and Cold case sexual assault investigations are that financial institutions consider when monitoring connect vulnerable older adults to community difficult, but trying those cases can be even more for potential human trafficking and their reporting and legal resources. Tip sheets for interviewing challenging. In this workshop, presenters will use processes will also be discussed. victims with memory loss, bruises and pressure examples of evidentiary challenges in a complex sores screen captures, and report forms will also multi-survivor sexual assault trial, including THE MOST DANGEROUS POWER OF THE be introduced. admitting medical evidence without a live witness, PROSECUTOR: CHARGING DECISIONS IN overcoming objections to “outsourced” DNA SEXUAL ASSAULT CASES NLETS: TOP 10 THINGS YOU SHOULD analysis, and supporting the survivor's memory of Julie Germann KNOW the event in an alcohol-facilitated sexual assault. The charging guidelines on prosecutorial Teri Harsin discretion are minimal with prosecutors relying on The International Justice and Public Safety THE NUTS & BOLTS OF THE COMMUNITY a combination of legally relevant and irrelevant Network (Nlets) is often misunderstood among ADVOCACY PROGRAM variables in determining whether to bring charges. the criminal justice community. This workshop Shelley Reader The odds of a jury conviction often lead to will distinguish the difference between Nlets and Research has shown that long-term advocacy is charging decisions that are led by gender bias and the FBI's NCIC system, clarify data origins and more effective than short-term emergency shelter stereotypes. This workshop will equip attendees to ownership, and exhibit Nlets network transactions, and that survivors desired services outside of better identify standards for charging that eliminate visual map displays, and data sources to assist the traditional shelter model. This workshop will gender bias. law enforcement with investigations and their daily illustrate how using the Community Advocacy duties. Program can help promote self-sufficiency within survivors of domestic violence. The presenters will discuss what a community-based advocacy program looks like and how to implement one.
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OFFICER-INVOLVED DOMESTIC & SEXUAL PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT FOR RAISING THE STANDARD: WHAT TO VIOLENCE SURVIVORS OF SEX TRAFFICKING & EXPECT FROM AN EFFECTIVE ON-SCENE Mark Wynn COMMERCIAL SEXUAL EXPLOITATION INVESTIGATION This workshop is intended to educate service Mark Wynn providers about the dynamics and impact of Jessica Brazeal This workshop will illustrate how to effectively arrive officer-involved domestic and sexual violence. Women seeking services due to their sex trafficking at a successful investigation to ensure victim justice, The presenter will provide insight into the lack of and commercial sexual exploitation experiences public safety, and offender accountability. Six accurate statistics and the unique characteristics often have a background of extensive child abuse, objectives of a victim-centered, trauma-informed of conducting investigations. Nationally- history with domestic violence and substance on-scene investigation will be discussed. A focus established standards for recruiting, training, abuse, lack high levels of formal education, etc. on interviewing techniques, victim behaviors, corrective discipline, and the continued need for This workshop will explore how to account for all offender motivation and manipulation, probable implementation of policy will also be discussed. of these factors to allow for program development cause, justifiable self-defense and determining that is trauma-informed, culturally sensitive, and dominant/primary aggressor will also be THE PETECHIAL HEMORRHAGE COURT achievement-based. presented. CHALLENGE: ARE YOU READY? Bill Smock, Rachel Fischer, Beth Fitzgerald-Weekley PROSECUTOR'S PERSPECTIVE ON CASE STUDY: RYAN COLEMAN: This workshop will explore the science, medicine, CHANGES TO TITLE IX SEXUAL ASSAULT PORTRAIT OF SERIAL RAPIST TARGETING and physiology of petechial hemorrhages to INVESTIGATIONS VULNERABLE WOMEN inform the role of expert witnesses or strangulation Melissa Hoppmeyer, Kathryn Marsh Johna Stallings, Micala Clark prosecutors. The presenter will describe how The 2020 amendment of Title IX Sexual Ryan Coleman committed a series of serial rapes petechial hemorrhages are created, dispel myths, Harassment and Sexual Assault investigations is in Arizona and Texas and, once released on bond, explain how someone can be fatally or non-fatally unprecedented for colleges and universities but not committed two more rapes. The presenters will strangled and have no petechial hemorrhages, for sexual assault prosecutors who try some of the explain how to present extraneous offenses during and discuss how blood flows into and out of the most challenging cases. The presenters will discuss cases, handle counselors as expert witnesses, and head and neck. changes made to Title IX, to the investigations of keep out prostitution activities of complainants. sexual harassment and sexual assault, and trauma- SANE exams, DNA evidence, and effective PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS TO THE informed methods of sexual assault prosecutions. punishment evidence will also be discussed. POLICING CRISIS IN COMMUNITIES OF COLOR & LOW-INCOME COMMUNITIES PROSECUTOR'S POWER: ADULT SEXUAL SCREENING IN: EXPLORING EVIDENCE- ASSAULT TEAM BASED, PRACTICAL STRATEGIES FOR Branville Bard, Kristen Roman, Dave Thomas Kim D'Avignon, Emily Dixon IDENTIFYING & RESPONDING TO The 2020 death of a Black man killed by a This lunch session will discuss a new specialized TRAFFICKING white police officer reignited a conversation unit called the Adult Sexual Assault Team, devised Sara Gilmer, Sulan Chang, Erika Gonzalez about racism in American policing that sparked to strengthen ties with law enforcement and Organizations must be able to effectively identify nationwide protests. Calls to defund the police develop agency and community partnerships in human trafficking victimization, beyond red flags reflect a deeply and historically fraught relationship order to better prosecute adult sexual assaults. The and stereotypes, to properly deliver services for between police and the communities they serve. presenters will discuss procedures to better serve trafficking victims and survivors. Representatives This workshop will tackle reform-oriented questions survivors, informative statistics from unit cases, and from the Office for Victims of Crime's human and provide applicable solutions for police techniques for training patrol officers. trafficking team will discuss validated screening department implementation. tools related to human trafficking, policies and PUBLIC TRUST: CONFRONTING LAW procedures for trauma-informed screening PREVENTING MURDER IN SLOW ENFORCEMENT SEXUAL MISCONDUCT processes, and resources for screening potential MOTION: IDENTIFYING, ASSESSING, & IN THE #METOO ERA victims of trafficking. MANAGING RISK Tom Tremblay Laura Richards Through an examination of case studies, after- THE SHADOW OF DEATH: I FEAR NO In the U.S., four women are murdered each day action reviews, and the national demand for EVIL, EXCEPT THE ONE WHO "LOVES" ME by a current or former partner. The DASH Risk increased accountability of all forms of sexual Identification, Assessment, and Management misconduct, this workshop will inspire proactive Rachael Frost Model is informed by multi-agency analysis of leadership strategies to address and prevent law This workshop will examine intimate partner- domestic homicides, near misses, and domestic enforcement sexual misconduct. This workshop will related targeted violence, including murder, abuse allegations. Attendees will learn about also identify practices for prevention, supervision, suicide, and familicide, as well as what coercive control behaviors, high risk clusters, and and accountability in law enforcement in order to precipitates these events behaviorally and in why motivation is vitally important to understand combat these crimes and enhance public trust. terms of target location. The presenter will address along with the timeline. emotional and psychological abuse patterns and danger and risk assessments, explore the repetitive and predatory nature of the violence and the perpetrators themselves, and threat assessment and management investigations.
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SHARPER IMAGE: CREATING A CLEARER STRANGULATION: FROM STATUTE TO SURVIVOR ADVOCATES: A KEY TO THE PICTURE OF STALKING RISK SENTENCE MULTIDISCIPLINARY TEAM Jennifer Landhuis, TK Logan Michael Denton, Kelsey McKay Christine Cesa, Marc Wirtz The Stalking Harassment Assessment & Risk Profile Despite codified laws, convictions are rare Survivor advocates are essential members of the (SHARP) is a free, web-based tool that provides because barriers still exist and inhibit the laws' multidisciplinary team and therefore, professionals a risk assessment of stalking situations based on effectiveness. This workshop will discuss charging, and allies are encouraged to develop a toolkit the intentional course of conduct, fear, concern for common defenses, and effectively translating to be used while working alongside them. By safety and other emotional distress, and behaviors. cases to a judge or jury. From setting bonds to examining case studies, attendees will be able This workshop will discuss a case scenario picking juries and using experts, the presenters will to identify tools and best practices to use with assessment demonstrating how to increase victim provide practical tips to evaluate and strengthen survivor advocates. safety and coordinate strategies to hold offenders a case from probable cause to beyond a accountable. reasonable doubt. SURVIVOR TIPS ON SEX TRAFFICKING: FROM THE STREET, FOR THE STREET *RESTRICTED TO LAW ENFORCEMENT & STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS & PROSECUTORS* SUSTAINABILITY OF YOUR DOMESTIC Rachel Fischer COMPUTER LAB: SOCIAL MEDIA OPEN- VIOLENCE HIGH RISK TEAM Dive into the world of the sex trafficking trade SOURCE INTELLIGENCE INVESTIGATIONS Kelly Dunne, Heather Davies through the eyes of a survivor and now forensic The Domestic Violence High Risk Team (DVHRT) nurse. With her knowledge of the street and Lauren Wagner, Tim Lott Model is an innovative model to prevent domestic medical expertise, the presenter will provide From finding photos of evidentiary value to violence homicides by continuously auditing the in-depth insight into the language, secrets, confirming linkages between suspects and domestic violence response system to identify and terminology, and healthcare implications of sex- victims, the online world unlocks new aspects of close systemic gaps. This workshop will discuss trafficked victims. Prosecution, advocacy strategies investigations. This day-long, hands-on lab will go the critical systems audit function, how to close from a survivor's perspective, strangulation, and over many aspects of open-source intelligence systems gaps, and explore the tools and strategies life-saving interventions will be discussed. gathering, and give specific examples of how DVHRTs can use for successful team operations this intelligence can be relevant to crimes against and sustainability. TAKING GUNS FROM DOMESTIC women investigations. VIOLENCE OFFENDERS & KEEPING THEM SUPERVISED VISITATION: STRATEGIES AWAY SPYWARE/MONITORING SOFTWARE: FOR FAMILIES EXPERIENCING INTIMATE Jennifer Waindle, David Keck AN OVERVIEW OF CAPABILITIES & PARTNER VIOLENCE There are three types of protocols: court-centered, SIMPLE STEPS FOR FINDING IT Jennifer Rose, Julie Aldrich, Beth McNamara law enforcement-centered, and probation- Bryan Franke The work of providing supervised visitation for centered. This workshop will provide an overview This workshop will educate attendees on what families experiencing intimate partner violence of firearm surrender protocols that have been spyware can and cannot do, certain conditions is complex. This workshop will offer a roadmap implemented across the country and specifically that must exist for specific software to function, for communities working to address the visitation explore the strengths of probation-centered firearm and what can be done to stop it. Attendees will needs of survivors and their families by providing surrender protocols, especially in collaboration be shown simple steps that can be performed with an overview of the history of visitation, tools with the legal system overall. the smartphone in question that may give insight to for organizational and community readiness, whether specific spyware is present or not. strategies for practices that promote safety and TEAMWORK MAKES THE DREAM healing, and opportunities for funding. WORK: ATTORNEYS & CASE CASE STUDY: STATE OF WASHINGTON MANAGERS WORKING TOGETHER FOR V. JAMES BERNHARD: SPOUSAL RAPE, CASE STUDY: SUTHERLAND SPRINGS: IMMIGRATION CLIENTS SEXUAL ASSAULT, & CIRCUMSTANTIAL FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH MASS FATALITY, Kristine Cruz, Sulan Chang PHYSICAL EVIDENCE PT. 1 & 2 This workshop will highlight the benefits of Maureen Astley Corey Lain, Robert Krupa creating inter- and intradisciplinary collaborations First, a medical emergency, it was later investigated This two-part case study will examine how between case managers/advocates and and prosecuted as a brutal spousal rape and investigators coordinated and managed the attorneys when working on immigration cases by sexual assault. Subsequently, the State's theory investigation into the unprecedented mass guiding the client through the process of obtaining was that Mr. Bernhard purposefully injected his casualty attack in Texas. The Texas Department necessary evidence and preparing their personal wife with an overdose of insulin, rendering her of Public Safety-Texas Rangers will describe how statement. The presenters will provide practical unconscious and vulnerable. This case study will the Incident Command System was employed, tips for obtaining supporting evidence for a discuss case details, the investigation, pitfalls and how investigators managed and conducted the client's immigration case and working with service limitations, complicated medical testimony, and investigation, how the different crime scenes were providers. the process of trial. processed, lessons learned, and what worked after the incident.
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TECHNOLOGY ARTIFACT AWARENESS TRAPPED! COERCIVE CONTROL UNDERSTANDING THE NEEDS OF VICTIMS THROUGH THE LENS OF A SURVIVOR OF ABUSE IN THE DEAF COMMUNITY John Trenary PHOTOGRAPHER Forensic sciences have since evolved to now help Katie Amber Heather Daley, Wilma Dennis investigators make sense of digital clues that are This workshop will explore how the strategy and The lack of communication with hearing providers, left behind. This workshop will introduce attendees tactics of coercive control traps victims by the access to the outside world, and the tight-knit culture to many of the most common sources of technology perpetrator, as well as by a system and society, of the deaf community provide different ways of evidence, help attendees develop an awareness that tend to adopt the offender's lens over the living and dealing with domestic violence. This of technology artifacts, and arm attendees with an survivor's. Through the eyes of both a photographer workshop will discuss the needs of deaf survivors, understanding of what technology artifacts might and survivor, this workshop analyzes different their unique struggles, and difficulties in receiving exist related to the crime. perspectives using imagery, research, and a domestic violence/sexual assault services to review of common lens distortions. include Deaf, DeafBlind, DeafDisabled, and Hard TEXAS PROTECTIVE ORDER REGISTRY: of Hearing survivors. BEYOND THE BASICS TRIBAL HOUSING: PAST, PRESENT, & Kim Piechowiak FUTURE CASE STUDY: U.S. V. MCCAULEY: LESSONS Protective orders are key to a thorough investigation, Wyanet Tasker LEARNED FROM A TRIBAL SEXUAL prosecution, and accountability for family violence. Indigenous survivors of domestic and sexual ASSAULT INVESTIGATION & TRIAL In 2020, a protective order registry was launched violence have experienced a lack of housing that provides justice system stakeholders increased options due to historical policies, legislation, Lecia Wright access to valuable information. This workshop will and illness in the U.S., to include COVID-19 that This case study will discuss a Native American highlight how this registry can be used for these has exposed long-existing gaps and inequities. woman's sexual assault by Anthony McCauley, violent crimes while enhancing safety for survivors, During this workshop, historical factors, processes a Native American male and explain how victims their families, first responders, and the community. for housing assessment implementation, and next in small communities can feel restricted in their steps options to develop or expand current local ability to disclose and report a sexual assault. The THINK LIKE THERE IS NO BOX: THE SCOPE projects will be discussed. investigation, forensic DNA analysis, the trial, the OF FORENSIC NURSING jury outcome, and lessons learned will also be Kaylin Dawson CASE STUDY: TRIUMPHS & TRAGEDIES discussed. Forensic examinations are much more than a IN USING EXPERT WITNESSES directional guide for sexual assaults. Benefits UNSILENCING THE NON-STATE TORTURE are immeasurable when agencies begin utilizing Cynthia Jones, Margaret Bassett, Jason Campo, & TRAFFICKING ORGANIZED & forensic nurses for other victims of crime including Florence Nocar, Kim Nguyen Finn PERPETRATED WITHIN FAMILY SYSTEMS domestic violence, child abuse, gun shots, and Expert witnesses can be very effective in court stabbings. This workshop will discuss best practices for prosecuting violence victimization cases, Linda MacDonald, Jeanne Sarson for evidence collection as well as guide law especially since most people (including jurors) Acts of torture against women are seldom enforcement and prosecutors through ways to believe pervasive stereotypes about these crimes. acknowledged or criminalized with women’s better utilize forensic nurses. This case study will present one successful and survival responses misunderstood and/or labeled one unsuccessful prosecution that utilized expert as mentally ill. This workshop will discuss women CASE STUDY: TO MEXICO & BACK: FINDING witnesses and discuss points where different who self-identified surviving family systems that JUSTICE FOR IZZY & ALEK strategies could have been employed and tortured and trafficked them. The presenters will Lori Nelson, Donna Bloom, Matt Cain, Michael critically evaluate questions and responses. share models that illustrate the modus operandi Graves of such non-State torturers in their efforts to When Maria Isabel “Izzy” Romero Medina was UNDERSTANDING NARCISSISM AS THE demonstrate the torture they survived. seeking services related to domestic violence, no KEY TO UNDERSTANDING DOMESTIC one predicted her child’s father, Ricardo Martinez ABUSE & GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE USING CODE ENFORCEMENT TO would murder her and abduct their four-year- ADDRESS HUMAN TRAFFICKING old son, Alek. This case study will walk attendees Ramani Durvasula Dennis Domagas through the criminal investigation and prosecution, Current models of family and gender-based Massage establishments and alcoholic beverage the civil legal process that ensured Alek’s return to violence do not account for narcissism with key establishments have become business models for safety, and the many lessons learned along the pillars of narcissism being patterns that are often prostitution and human trafficking as pimps and way. intergenerational, culturally reinforced, and a human traffickers are opening businesses disguised byproduct of existing frameworks of gender as legitimate establishments. This workshop TRAFFICKING SCREENING TOOL privilege, patriarchy, social and economic discusses regulation and code enforcement as a FOR LATIN@S ACCESSING DOMESTIC stratification, and authoritarianism. This workshop way for law enforcement to deal with these illicit VIOLENCE PROGRAMS will clarify what narcissism is and how it is central businesses that are otherwise limited due to law Lumarie Orozco to understanding domestic abuse and gender- enforcement's limited resources, manpower, and The National Latin@ Network for Healthy Families based violence. time. & Communities, a Project of Casa de Esperanza, will present a tool to identify Latin@ survivors of trafficking who access services in domestic violence shelters and programs. This culturally relevant tool is the result of the collaboration between national and local staff that engage with communities daily to provide support to Latin@ survivors. = CASE STUDY = ADVOCACY = CLINICAL = MCLE/CJE = TCOLE = CNE = NOVA/DSAAP 29 ⚐ SESSIONS
USING GYNECOLOGICAL TEACHING VOLUNTARY INTOXICATION: IT’S WHEN PREDATORS TAKE FLIGHT: A ASSISTANTS TO TRAIN NURSES & NOT CONSENT FOR SEX, YOU KNOW! BIRD'S EYE VIEW OF SEXUAL ASSAULT ADVOCATES Liana Hill, Gail Swafford Myra Strand Scott Hampton This workshop will describe the utilization of The vast majority of alcohol-facilitated assaults The sexual safety of airline passengers is rarely Gynecologic Teaching Associates (GTAs) that are not reported. This workshop will explore the considered, serving as a paradise for potential offer trainings in clinical skills labs through hands- profusion of sexual assaults that occur while a victim perpetrators and a nightmare for potential victims. on care, including pelvic examinations, photo is under the influence of alcohol, provide skills to This workshop will review sexual assault cases documentation, and age-varied scenarios. assist in the recognition of the effects of alcohol, that occurred on airplanes. The presenter will Additionally, an explanation on how GTAs in evaluate degrees of intoxication, and show how discuss offender tactics, barriers to reporting, advocate training allow advocates to learn how substantial incapacitation impacts a complete and victim blaming, drug-facilitated assaults, the role to practice various assessment skills on a volunteer, thorough investigation and prosecution. of first responders, human trafficking, jurisdictional rather than a victim, will also be provided. complexities, investigative components, and WHAT A DIFFERENCE A DAY MAKES: THE prevention strategies. USING VICTIMS OF CRIME ACT FUNDING TRANSITION FROM MINOR TO ADULT TO BREAK DOWN LEGAL BARRIERS FOR TRAFFICKING VICTIM WHEN YOUR GUT TELLS YOU YOUR VICTIMS Jeanne Allert PATIENT ISN’T SAFE AT HOME: LEGAL Kathrina Peterson, Heather Bellino, Jason Buckner The Trafficking Victims Protection Act and many SOLUTIONS TO MEDICAL PROBLEMS Victims of domestic violence, elder abuse, and state statutes assert a line of demarcation between human trafficking typically have a wide array of how victims of domestic trafficking are to be Amanda Elkanick Oder, Bronwyn Blake civil legal needs. Texas is now using federal VOCA identified and addressed based on age. When This workshop will provide knowledge to medical dollars to continue and expand legal services an individual turns 18, responses and services professionals about how to screen patients for to victims of crime. This workshop will cover the shift. The presenter will discuss how a case can health-harming social needs and implementing evidence base for how civil legal aid helps crime be investigated, prosecution limitations, victim a Medical-Legal Partnership. Civil-legal services victims and spotlight innovative approaches to placement considerations, the role of parents/ help break down barriers through protective providing these essential services. guardians, and aftercare service challenges. orders, divorce/custody petitions, crime victims' compensation, and more to allow patients to THE U VISA: A TOOL TO SUPPORT WHAT HB 902 CAN DO TO HELP PROTECT fully pursue the healthcare plans set out by their VICTIMS, COMMUNITIES, & LAW & SAVE PREGNANT WOMEN providers. These civil-legal remedies for patients ENFORCEMENT Doreen Hunter will be discussed. Rocio Molina, Jane Anderson Until 2019, Texas law excluded pregnant women Immigrant victims of crime are often reluctant to as a protected class. The passage of HB 902 WHO IS GUILTY? ANALYZING call police for help. Victims of domestic violence provided increased penalties to a pregnant CULPABILITY IN HUMAN TRAFFICKING and sexual assault experience immigration-related woman's assault and moved all assaults to a felony PROSECUTIONS abuse and threats of deportation. This workshop charge. This lunch session will discuss HB 902 and Brooke Grona-Robb will explain the U Visa, requirement details, how existing Texas laws can assist in prosecuting Sex trafficking cases often involve suspects in immigration relief, victim participation strategies, and saving mothers and unborn babies from a role as both an offender and a victim. When access to toolkits, tools, U Visa resources, and the immediate and long-term harm. investigators and prosecutors analyze their National Immigrant Women’s Advocacy Project involvement, it is often difficult to determine who web library. WHAT’S YOUR STORY? LAW should be charged and what is a just outcome. This ENFORCEMENT & THE LGBTQ+ workshop will provide guidance on how to fairly VIRTUAL LAB: VINELINK COMPUTER LAB COMMUNITY WORKING TOGETHER evaluate a defendant in both offender and victim Michael Crumrine, Denise Jones situations to achieve justice. Karen Adams Intimate partner and sexual violence against the This computer lab, displaying advanced mobile LGBTQ+ community is often under-reported WHY WON’T SHE LISTEN? HOW technology, will demonstrate how to search for or overlooked by law enforcement who are TO EFFECTIVELY COMMUNICATE offender custody status and court case information; also untrained in determining the predominate WITH SURVIVORS & INCREASE register for real-time, automated custody status aggressor in these cases. This workshop will PARTICIPATION and court case notifications; and learn how to explore the consequences of negative responses Jordyn Lawson, Ruth Guerreiro access VINE’s “Guide Me” tool, a new interactive by law enforcement and analyze how control This workshop will discuss typical reactions feature in VINE connecting victims to state and tactics used in an LGBTQ+ relationship are not the from victims that may affect their ability and/ national service providers using intuitive questions. same as a heterosexual, cisgender one. or willingness to participate in the investigation, prosecution, or therapeutic process based on where they are at in the stages of change. The presenters will also lay out practical ways to address these reactions and overcome barriers to more effectively communicate with victims of domestic violence.
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WITNESS INTIMIDATION: ELIMINATING YESTERDAY I CRIED: EXPLORING THE THE PAYOFF BARRIERS AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN Jane Anderson, John Wilkinson FACE WHEN REPORTING VIOLENCE Intimidation tactics often prevent victims from Ramona Curtis identifying as such or from participating in the According to the Institute for Women’s Policy justice system. To overcome these challenges, Research, more than 40% of Black women keep victims safe, and achieve justice requires experience physical violence by an intimate collaboration between criminal justice partner during their lifetimes, compared with professionals and community-based programs. 31.5% of all women. This workshop will explore This workshop will introduce prosecution strategies the barriers African American women face when it to minimize intimidation opportunities, identify it comes to reporting domestic and sexual violence. when it occurs, evidence of intimidation, and how Victim invisibility, programming, and prevention to aggressively prosecute intimidation-related will also be discussed. crimes to include forfeiture by wrongdoing cases. WOMEN WHO WERE SEXUALLY ABUSED SWAG STORE! AS CHILDREN: MOTHERING, RESILIENCE, & PROTECTING THE NEXT GENERATION Do you plan on attending this year's 2021 Virtual Conference on Crimes Against Women (CCAW), or are you dedicated to ending violence against women? Teresa Gil Represent this year's 2021 CCAW, or show your passion for advocacy with this Approximately 22 million mothers in the U.S. have year's 2021 CCAW swag. There are plenty of options and colors for everyone. a child sexual abuse (CSA) history. This workshop will examine the therapeutic needs and concerns Click the link below to visit our online store and grab a shirt for you and your of mothers who have survived CSA. The presenter family today! will synthesize related scholarly literature, her research, her psychotherapy experience working CLICK HERE TO VISIT THE STORE! with survivor moms, and discuss protective factors that successful mothers have used for themselves and for their children.
WOMEN'S USE OF VIOLENCE: THE IMPACT OF ARREST & CONVICTION Melissa Scaia The issue of women's violence against their intimate partners came to the forefront when states and localities passed laws and policies that increased numbers of victims being arrested, charged, and convicted for domestic violence-related offenses. This workshop will discuss the impact that the arrest and conviction have on victims of battering, Premium Unisex Tee Premium Long Sleeve Tee criminal justice interventions, and victim safety. $17.50 $22.50 Available in other colors Available in other colors WOULD YOU RECOGNIZE A STAGED WOUND OR CRIME SCENE IF YOU STEPPED IN IT? Bill Smock Women are murdered by their intimate partners at an alarming rate. To compound these horrific acts, offenders often times manipulate the crime scene in an attempt to throw investigators off the track by "staging" the homicide. Unfortunately, many offenders get away with murder due to investigational errors. This interactive session will discuss investigational techniques while navigating through a 3D crime scene.
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= CASE STUDY = ADVOCACY = CLINICAL = MCLE/CJE = TCOLE = CNE = NOVA/DSAAP 31 ⚐ 2021 EXHIBITORS Exhibitor booths will be available virtually in the Conference Center.
APPRISS is the provider of the VINE Service. VINE is a solution that lets victims of crime and other concerned citizens access timely and reliable information regarding offenders. It is offered free of charge to registrants, is completely confidential, and features multiple language support.
ODYSSEY IMPACT drives social change through innovative storytelling and media, connecting faith and secular communities. Founded in 1987 as the National Interfaith Cable Coalition, Odyssey Impact® is an interfaith 501c3 that harnesses the goodwill of faith based and secular organizations to build awareness, change attitudes and catalyze actions for social change through award-winning films, powerful stories, impact campaigns and coalitions of change makers.
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THE CONFERENCE ON CRIMES AGAINST WOMEN provides practical instruction, using current information, the newest ideas and most successful intervention strategies, to those professionals responsible for combating the many and varied forms of crimes against women. The Conference is conducted for the sole purpose of providing training to only those people employed by governmental or non-profit agencies in the fields of law enforcement, prosecution, social work, victim's advocacy, therapy, probation/parole, campus safety, and medicine who work directly with victims of crime.
GENESIS WOMEN'S SHELTER & SUPPORT provides safety, shelter, and support for women who have experienced domestic violence, and to raise awareness regarding its cause, prevalence, and impact.
INSTITUTE FOR COORDINATED COMMUNITY RESPONSE provides a full year of training, resources, networking opportunities, and technical assistance for rural, under resourced Texas counties who are motivated to improve their systemic response to domestic violence through the creation of a Coordinated Community Responses.
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KAREN ADAMS is the training manager for JUAN CARLOS AREÁN is an internationally- BRONWYN BLAKE is the legal director of the Appriss Insights’ public safety training program. recognized activist, public speaker, trainer and Texas Advocacy Project and the founder of their Ms. Adams provides training on Appriss facilitator, and published author. Since 1991, Teen Justice Initiative, a program that advocates technology solutions to victims, service providers, he has worked to engage men across different for teen victims of dating violence. Ms. Blake has advocates, law enforcement, and criminal justice cultures to become better fathers, intimate partners, been featured on America's Most Wanted and professionals. VineLink Virtual Computer Lab and allies to end domestic violence and achieve Court TV as an expert and has previously clerked gender equity. Mr. Areán works as a program at the Family Justice Division of the Travis Co. D.A.'s JULIE ALDRICH, grant program specialist at the director at Futures Without Violence. Creating Office. When Your Gut Tells You Your Patient Office on Violence Against Women for the Justice Culturally Responsive & Holistic Abusive Isn’t Safe at Home: Legal Solutions to Medical for Families Program, focuses on courts, training, civil Partner Interventions Problems legal services, and supervised visitation for families that have experienced domestic violence. Ms. MAUREEN ASTLEY is a senior deputy DONNA BLOOM has served as an executive Aldrich has worked on family court enhancements prosecuting attorney with the Franklin Co. director, community educator, client advocate, and for victims of domestic violence, training for Prosecutor's Office in Pasco, WA. Ms. Astley's is currently the director of Legal Services, where she custody evaluators, supervised visitation issues, cases largely focus on crimes against children, provides civil legal services to victims of domestic and exchange services. Strategies for Families sexual assault, sex trafficking, domestic violence, violence and sexual assault. As an expert, Ms. Experiencing Intimate Partner Violence and violent crimes against persons. She Bloom is a sought-after speaker and trainer on the exclusively prosecutes all the Failure to Register complex issues and intersection between domestic JEANNE ALLERT is the founder and director as a Sex Offender crimes for her jurisdiction. violence, child abuse, and neglect. CASE STUDY: of The Samaritan Women, a national, faith-based CASE STUDY: State of Washington v. James To Mexico & Back: Finding Justice for Izzy & organization providing restorative care to survivors Bernhard: Spousal Rape, Sexual Assault, and Alek of domestic sex trafficking, as well as the Institute for Circumstantial Physical Evidence Shelter Care, which serves as a research, training, JUSTIN BOARDMAN is a retired detective and equipping entity to help establish new shelter BRANVILLE BARD served as the commanding who served with the West Valley City Police Dept. in officer of the Education and Training Division, programs. Mommy Dearest: When Victimization Utah. Det. Boardman was assigned to the Special Hits Close to Home; What a Difference a Day captain of the 22nd District, and police inspector Victims Unit for seven years. During that time, he Makes: The Transition from Minor to Adult within the Philadelphia Police Department. In 2015, conducted nearly 300 forensic child and 140 adult Trafficking Victim Commissioner Bard became chief of police and victim interviews. Det. Boardman has co-authored director of Public Safety with the Philadelphia a Trauma-Informed Victim Interview protocol for KATIE AMBER is a survivor, certified ADA Housing Authority. In 2017, Bard was appointed adult victims of trauma. Ethical Investigation & advocate, and the Founder of End Coercive Commissioner of the Cambridge Police Dept., Prosecution of Sexual Assault Crimes Control USA (ECCUSA). As a survivor of childhood where he currently serves. Practical Solutions to domestic violence, sexual assault, kidnapping, the Policing Crisis in Communities of Color and HEIDI BONNER is an associate professor in the severe trauma, and coercive control, ECCUSA Low-Income Communities Dept. of Criminal Justice at East Carolina Univ. Dr. restores the dignity of child and adult survivors Bonner’s research focuses on the administration of of coercive control and focuses on changing the MARGARET BASSETT is the deputy director the criminal justice process with an emphasis on way the country understands, responds to, and and director of the Expert Witness Program at the police decision-making and the effects of policies prevents intimate partner violence. Trapped! Institute on Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault. and programs on police operations, including Coercive Control Through the Lens of a Survivor Ms. Bassett provides expert witness consultation intervention in intimate partner violence. Exposing Photographer and training on interpersonal cases, testifies as What’s Concealed: Leveraging Existing an expert witness in criminal and civil court cases, Federal Statutes to Increase Victim Safety & JANE ANDERSON brings her expertise in and is an adjunct professor at the Univ. of Texas at Offender Accountability; “No Face, No Case”: prosecuting domestic violence, sexual violence, Austin. CASE STUDY: Triumphs & Tragedies in Responding to Witness Intimidation in Domestic and human trafficking to her role as an attorney Using Expert Witnesses Violence Cases advisor with AEquitas. Prior to joining AEquitas, Ms. Anderson served as an assistant state attorney with HEATHER BELLINO oversees agency PATRICK BRADY is an assistant professor in the Florida's 11th Judicial Circuit and was a founding operations, funding, and service delivery as the Dept. of Criminology at the Univ. of West Georgia. member of the Miami-Dade State Attorney's chief executive officer at Texas Advocacy Project, After working for a number of years with justice- Human Trafficking Unit and Task Force.Moving Inc., an agency whose mission is to end dating and involved juveniles, Dr. Brady's work focuses on Toward Justice: Pretrial Motion Practice; The U domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking in improving community and justice system responses Visa: Tool to Support Victims, Communities, and Texas as well as empowering survivors through free to stalking, domestic and sexual violence, Law Enforcement legal services and access to the justice system and and reducing burnout among criminal justice advances prevention through public outreach and professionals. Enhancing Victim Participation in RACHEL APFELBAUM is a project manager education. Using Victims of Crime Act Funding Stalking Investigations for the International Association of Chiefs of to Break Down Legal Barriers for Victims Police (IACP), where she aims to enhance law BARBIE BRASHEAR is the executive director enforcement’s response to violence against women. RUHI BENGALI is the associate research for the Harris Co. Domestic Violence Coordinating Previously, Ms. Apfelbaum was a project assistant director at Everytown for Gun Safety and leads Council. Ms. Brashear is an expert witness in for the National Law Enforcement Leadership their research efforts on the intersection of intimate domestic violence cases and a domestic violence Institute on Violence Against Women and later as partner violence and guns. Ms. Bengali has expert trainer. She has provided case management project coordinator for IACP’s Trauma Informed years of experience in policy research and data and training to hundreds of law enforcement and Sexual Assault Investigation Training Initiative. analysis on issue areas ranging from gun violence, health care professionals, advocates, social service IACP Lessons Learned: Strengthening Law immigration reform to affordable housing. The providers, criminal justice system professionals, Enforcement Response to Domestic Violence Deadly Intersection of Domestic Violence & teachers, students, and the public. Creating & Sexual Violence National Demonstration Gun Violence During COVID Innovative Housing Solutions for Survivors Initiative 34 ⚐ SPEAKER BIOS
JESSICA BRAZEAL is the chief programs officer BECKY BULLARD is the senior director of MARTINA CHESONIS works as the director at New Friends New Life, an agency that serves programs for the Nashville Office of Family Safety, of communications for the Service Women’s Action trafficked and sexually exploited women and where she oversees the work of OFS programs Network (SWAN). Captain Chesonis is also the children. Ms. Brazeal is also a licensed professional and manages multidisciplinary teams examining administrator for the Military Women's Coalition counselor, supervisor, and is an EMDR-certified domestic & sexual violence high-risk cases, and a captain in the U.S. Air Force Reserves. consultant in training. Ms. Brazeal has provided strangulation, firearms dispossession, humanSWAN holds sex offenders accountable in the therapeutic services as well as provided expert trafficking, and fatality review. Ms. Bullard is also a military justice system and provides other services testimony in both criminal and civil courts in Texas. consultant for OVC TTAC, and previously created for women related to military sexual trauma. Program Development for Survivors of Sex & directed the Denver Anti-Trafficking Alliance. Military Sexual Trauma: The Who, What, When, Trafficking & Commercial Sexual Exploitation Finding Hope in the Courthouse: Nashville’s Where, Why, and How to Fix It Court-Based Family Justice Center LAWRENCE BRAUNSTEIN is a partner in the LAUREN CISNEROS is chief of the Protective law firm of Braunstein & Zuckerman, Esqs., in White MATT CAIN has worked for the Denton Police Order Division at the Travis Co. Attorney's Office. Plains, New York, and an adjunct professor of Law Dept. for 22 years. Lt. Cain has helped to create Ms. Cisneros began working for the Travis Co. at Hofstra Univ. Law School in Hempstead, New a Domestic Violence High Risk Team while he Attorney’s Office in January 2013 in the Family York. Mr. Braunstein serves on the faculty of the was serving as the supervisor for the Dept.’s child Violence Intake. Later that year in March, Ms. NYPD Sex Crimes and Child Abuse Investigation abuse and domestic violence units. Lt. Cain was Cisneros moved to the Protective Order Division Course and Homicide Investigator Course. promoted to lieutenant in 2018 and is currently and has been there over six years. Domestic Building a DV Case with the Defense in Mind assigned as a shift commander. CASE STUDY: To Violence High-Risk Team & Protective Orders Mexico & Back: Finding Justice for Izzy & Alek KHARA BREEDEN is the CEO of Texas Forensic MICALA CLARK works for the Texas Forensic Nurse Examiners: Forensic Center of Excellence JASON CAMPO, assistant district attorney of Nurse Examiners as their legal counsel, where she that works to close the gap in medical forensic Cameron Co., Texas, currently serves as a felony assists survivors of family violence, sexual assault, services for victims of violence by developing a prosecutor in charge of the Family Violence Unit. and human trafficking navigate the criminal justice collaborative approach. The Forensic Center is a Mr. Campo initiated the Cameron Co. Domestic system and provides legal advocacy services. As community-based nursing program that responds Violence Task Force and serves as a trainer on the an assistant district attorney, Ms. Clark worked to 38 locations throughout Harris and surrounding use of expert witnesses in family violence cases with family violence survivors and did a rotation in counties and includes an adult forensic interviewing through the Institute for Domestic Violence & Sexual the Family Criminal Law Division. Adult Forensic program. Adult Forensic Interviewing Program: Assault. CASE STUDY: Triumphs & Tragedies in Interviewing Program: The How & Why in The How & Why in Bringing One To Your Using Expert Witnesses Bringing One To Your Jurisdiction; CASE Jurisdiction, The Sexualization of Strangulation: STUDY: Ryan Coleman: Portrait of Serial Rapist Felony or Fetish? CHRISTINE CESA is a survivor of commercial Targeting Vulnerable Women sexual exploitation, certified in the Ending the CHRISTIE BRUNGARDT, emeritus professor Game curriculum, and a certified instructorCARVANA CLOUD is the executive director of of Leadership Studies at Fort Hays State Univ. and who develops curriculum for law enforcement Community Empowerment Solutions, a legal services her husband, Dr. Curt Brungardt's daughter Jana, training. Ms. Cesa is an advocate and trainer for collaborative designed to support and empower a 25-year-old law student at Kansas Univ., was human trafficking, gender-based violence, the victims and communities affected by crime. As a murdered by her ex-boyfriend. The Brungardts Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children, at- former prosecutor, Ms. Cloud managed the Special established Jana's Campaign, a national prevention risk issues pertaining to girls and women, and the Victims Bureau of the Harris Co. District Attorney’s education organization with the single mission of need for care and support. Survivor Advocates: Office. Ms. Cloud trains on strangulation, expert reducing gender and relationship violence and A Key to the Multidisciplinary Team witness testimony, and culturally-specific advocacy delivering educational programs. Not One More: in criminal investigations and prosecutions. COVID Unique Perspectives on Domestic Violence SULAN CHANG is the program director of & The Black Survivor; Justice for All: Culturally- Homicide victim services at Mosaic Family Services, a Sensitive Responses for Minority Survivors of safe haven for survivors of human trafficking and Domestic Violence JASON BUCKNER served for five years as a family violence. Ms. Chang has experience in non-commissioned officer in the U.S Army and is intensive case and program management and STEVEN COBB is an Anti-Money Laundering currently the Texas VOCA and VAWA administrator. labor and sex trafficking. Ms. Chang provides officer at CIBC Bank USA. Mr. Cobb serves as Mr. Buckner's worked for the Texas Veterans professional training, community education, and the Enhanced Due Diligence Team lead within Commission and the Dept. of Public Safety. He has technical assistance on human trafficking, family the Financial Crimes Compliance Dept., where he been with the Governor’s Office since 2011, and violence, trauma-informed care, and other related oversees the establishment of new client relationships ensuring all Anti-Money Laundering/Know has worked with Homeland Security and Criminal topics. Screening In: Exploring Evidence- Justice Grants in various roles during this time. Based, Practical Strategies for Identifying & Your Customer requirements are met. Mr. Cobb Using Victims of Crime Act Funding to Break Responding to Trafficking; Teamwork Makes is a certified Anti-Money Laundering specialist Down Legal Barriers for Victims the Dream Work: Attorneys & Case Managers and a member of the Illinois Bar. Monitoring Working Together for Immigration Clients Transactions: How Financial Institutions Identify & Report Human Trafficking
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MICHAEL CRUMRINE is a sergeant for BRITTANY DAVIS, coordinator for Gender & WILMA DENNIS is an advocate at Abused the Child Abuse Unit in the Austin Police Dept., Family Justice at the Center for Court Innovation, Deaf Women Advocacy Services. ADWAS is investigating in both the Homicide and the Sex provides expert assistance to courts and the #1 Deaf DV/SA agency in the U.S. that has Offender Apprehension and Registration Units. Sgt. communities across the country that seek to supportive housing for mothers and children. Ms. Crumrine is the current president of the Lesbian and enhance their response to domestic violence, Dennis is Deaf, with ASL as her native language and Gay Peace Officers Association, the first and only sexual assault, and human trafficking. She also helps survivors navigate through the complexities in Texas that adopted a gender-neutral affidavit helps coordinate Project SAFE that enhances of the legal systems and understand their rights as related to victim anonymity. What’s Your Story? services for justice-involved black women who are survivors. Understanding the Needs of Victims of Law Enforcement & the LGBTQ+ Community survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault. Abuse in the Deaf Community Working Together Creating Culturally Responsive & Holistic Abusive Partner Interventions MICHAEL DENTON started in Travis Co. as a KRISTINE CRUZ is the legal program director prosecuting attorney, later as director of the Trial at Mosaic Family Services. Prior to law school, KAYLIN DAWSON, forensic examiner Division for the Travis Co. Attorney’s Office, and Ms. Cruz completed a post-graduate fellowship program’s nurse coordinator at Albany Medical finally as judge for Travis Co.'s domestic violence at Polaris in Washington D.C. Before coming to Center, is nationally-certified in the Adult Sexual County Court-at-Law #4. Hon. Denton's advocacy Mosaic as a staff attorney, Ms. Cruz completed Assault Patient and is NYSDOH-certified in the began as a volunteer for Austin’s (then) Rape Crisis a fellowship where she practiced constitutional adult/adolescent sexual assault patient. Ms. Center. He was also co-chair of the Austin-Travis and immigration law, challenging discriminatory Dawson was a review member for the Dept. of Co. Domestic Violence Task Force. Strangulation: immigration laws in federal court. Teamwork Criminal Justice on the Sexual Assault Evidence From Statute to Sentence Makes the Dream Work: Attorneys & Case Collection Kit Model Policy and Policy for Managers Working Together for Immigration Identification of Unknown Patients.Think Like KAITI DINGES is the executive director of Jana's Clients There is No Box: The Scope of Forensic Nursing Campaign, Inc., a national education and violence prevention organization with the single mission of RAMONA CURTIS is the director of workforce KRISTA DEL GALLO is a policy manager at reducing gender and relationship violence. Ms. programming at Tulsa Community College with the Texas Council on Family Violence working to Dinges works with thousands of students and a demonstrated history of working in the higher enhance systems’ response and expand relief and citizens educating them on healthy, and unhealthy, education industry. Ms. Curtis has experience in options for survivors of domestic violence with a relationship behaviors and how to be active Community Engagement, Student Development, focus on immigration, housing and economic bystanders. Empowering Young Women on Community Corrections, Adult Education, and stability, child custody, and health. Ms. Del Campus Criminal Justice. Yesterday I Cried: Exploring the Gallo has experience in direct advocacy with Barriers African American Women Face When adult survivors, hotline advocacy, and community EMILY DIXON is an assistant criminal district Reporting Violence outreach efforts. Legal Rights of Immigrant attorney in the Tarrant Co. Criminal District Survivors: Public Benefits, Housing, & Victim Attorney's (TCDA) Office. Ms. Dixon has worked KIM D'AVIGNON, board certified in Criminal Services in the TCDA's office since 2014 and has been Law, is an assistant criminal district attorney (ACDA) assigned to misdemeanor, felony, and the Special in the Tarrant County District Attorney's Office, who OSCAR DELGADO, training and field building Victims Unit. She is currently the assistant chief of the currently heads up the new Adult Sexual Assault lead at Collective Liberty, helps build and Adult Sexual Assault Team. Prosecutor's Power: Team (2019). Ms. D'Avignon has worked as an maintain culturally-competent, trauma-informed, New Adult Sexual Assault Team ACDA since 2001 in various departments such as anti-trafficking coalitions that connect local Family Violence, Narcotics, and Crimes Against stakeholders across the nation. Over the past 10 DENNIS DOMAGAS is a senior police officer Children and chief since 2015. Prosecutor’s years, he has worked in various anti-trafficking for the Differential Response Team in the Houston Power: New Adult Sexual Assault Team efforts in the U.S. and Mexico. Mr. Delgado is also Police Dept.’s Vice Division. Officer Domagas’ an outreach coordinator for the New England duties and responsibilities are to conduct inspections HEATHER DALEY is a hotline advocate for Coalition against Trafficking.Indigenous Victims of business establishments for compliance with the National Deaf Domestic Violence Hotline of Human Trafficking in North America state codes, county regulations and municipal at Abused Deaf Women’s Advocacy Services ordinances. Officer Domagas provides training (ADWAS). ADWAS is the #1 Deaf DV/SA agency RAQUEL DEHERRERA works for Red Wind to law enforcement departments and agencies, in the U.S. that provides deaf hotline services. Ms. Consulting, Inc. and is of Taos Pueblo, Chiricahua as well as to civilian groups and organizations. Daley is profoundly Deaf, uses ASL as her first Apache, and Mexican descent. Ms. DeHerrera is Using Code Enforcement to Address Human language, and provides comfort to deaf survivors, a trainer for the National Tribal Advocate Center Trafficking helping them navigate the struggles within the deaf where she co-facilitates the 40-Hour Sexual Assault community. Understanding the Needs of Victims Training Institute, providing training and critical KELLY DUNNE is the chief of operations and of Abuse in the Deaf Community frameworks for tribal sexual abuse advocates to director of training and technical assistance for effectively and appropriately respond to sexual the Jeanne Geiger Crisis Center. She created the HEATHER DAVIES is the project specialist for assault survivors in their communities. Creating & Domestic Violence High Risk Team Model which the National Training and Technical Assistance at Sustaining a Sexual Assault Response Team seeks to reduce domestic violence homicides and the Jeanne Geiger Crisis Center. Ms. Davies works (SART) for Your Tribal College Campus re-assaults by employing risk assessment practices across the country to implement the Domestic to identify potentially lethal offenders, establishes Violence High Risk Team Model and the Danger case-specific multidisciplinary responses, and Assessment for Law Enforcement. Before joining coordinates monitoring of high-risk domestic Jeanne Geiger, Ms. Davies worked for Casa violence cases. Strategies for Success & Myrna. Before Casa, she was an attorney and civil Sustainability of Your Domestic Violence litigator. Strategies for Success & Sustainability of Your Domestic Violence
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AMY DURALL is a project manager for the FRED FLETCHER is the founder of Fletcher KRISTA FULTZ is the director of advocacy and International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) Consulting, which specializes in leadership and education at Genesis Women’s Shelter & Support with a portfolio including the Sexual Assault Kit victim-focused and trauma-informed policing. and supervises both outreach and residential Initiative, Enhancing Law Enforcement Response As a chief, he created expanded systems-based advocacy and oversees all community education to Victims, and Law Enforcement-Based Victim advocacy services, robust community advocacy efforts, speaking engagement requests and court Services. Prior to joining the IACP, Ms. Durall partnerships, and initiatives like restorative justice. accompaniment programs. She also participates in served as the Victim Services director for two Chief Fletcher helped build the city’s first Family multiple coordinated community response teams. separate law enforcement agencies. Assessing Justice Center and Victim Services Unit to bring law Previously, Ms. Fultz worked at Haven House as Law Enforcement’s Response to Sexual Assault: enforcement together with community-based and a justice courts victim advocate and children's Recommendations from the SAKI Sexual systems-based advocacy. IACP Lessons Learned: counselor. Implementing a Holistic Approach: Assault Unit Assessment Program Strengthening Law Enforcement Response to What Clients Gained When We Evolved Into a Domestic Violence & Sexual Violence National Wrap-Around Agency; In Her Shoes RAMANI DURVASULA is a clinical Demonstration Initiative psychologist, published author, and the CEO KATHLEEN GATELY is a member of the & founder of LUNA, LLC. Dr. Durvasula is BRYAN FRANKE is the current president and Herring Pond Wampanoag Tribe and serves also a professor of Psychology at California founder of 2C Solutions, LLC. As a detective for on the Enrollment Committee. Previously, Ms. State Univ., Los Angeles. She trains clinicians, the Longmont Police Dept., Det. Franke worked in Gately served as a board member, and has been advocates, and survivors on the dynamics of the Cyber Crimes Unit and developed the Boulder educating herself and taking extensive trainings narcissistic personalities and relationships with Co. Computer Forensics Lab. 2C Solutions trains with many organizations to help combat substance an eye to facilitating clinical intervention, policy professionals on how to investigate, prosecute, abuse, domestic violence, and sexual exploitation development, workplace consulting, and better proactively monitor the use of technology by in her tribal community. Indigenous Victims of clinical outcomes. Understanding Narcissism as probation clients, and conduct digital crime/ Human Trafficking in North America the Key to Understanding Domestic Abuse & technology-based investigations. How to Seize Gender-Based Violence Smartphones & Preserve Data; Spyware/ JORDAN GATES has been a Women & Monitoring Software: An Overview of Children's therapist at Genesis Women's Shelter & GWEN ENGLAND is the program leader Capabilities & Simple Steps for Finding It Support since August 2016. Ms. Gates provides for CATCH, which specializes in working with individual and group therapy at both the Outreach women suffering from multiple complex trauma ALLISON FRANKLIN is the director of the and Residential locations. She is trained in EMDR, and addiction. Previously, Ms. England served CARES program at SAFE Alliance and is a TF-CBT, CPT, play therapy, and attachment as the supervising officer for the CATCH Court nationally recognized survivor leader, subject therapy. Caught in the Crossfire: How Children specialized docket. CATCH is a restorative matter expert, and accomplished speaker who are Impacted by Domestic Violence justice docket designed to provide healing and addresses sex trafficking and sexual exploitation dignity to women who have survived the life of with the comorbidity of drug abuse, mental LISA GELLER is the state affairs manager at prostitution and sex trafficking. CATCH Court: health issues, and intersections with the criminal the Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence, and A Restorative Justice Response for Victims of justice system. At SAFE, Ms. Franklin provides works to pass and implement evidence-based Human Trafficking comprehensive services for trafficked youth.The gun violence prevention policies at the state Sexualization of Strangulation: Felony or level, extreme risk protection orders and domestic KIM NGUYEN-FINN is a mental health Fetish? violence protective orders. Additionally, Ms. Geller counselor, licensed professional counselor, helps manage DisarmDV.org, a gun violence board-approved supervisor, and lecturer in the ROBERT FRECHETTE is a detective with website about laws, statistics, statutory processes, School of Rehabilitation Counseling and Services. the Rochester Police Dept. in New Hampshire, and domestic violence protective order cases. Dr. Nguyen-Finn provides counseling for anxiety specializing in gender-based crimes. Det. Disarm Domestic Violence: A Comprehensive disorders, OCD, depression, trauma resolution, Frechette has over 19 years of experience in Guide to Domestic Violence-Related Firearms and gender identity. She is UTRGV Office for which he also served as a patrol officer, SWAT Laws Victim Advocacy and Violence Prevention's officer, and drug recognition expert. He is also a supervising consultant counselor and is a domestic nationally-registered paramedic, working part- JULIE GERMANN is the founder and consultant violence and sexual assault expert witness. CASE time in a hospital-based expanded scope role. at Finding the Right, LLC, where she provides STUDY: Triumphs & Tragedies in Using Expert Effective Report Writing in Gender Based training and technical assistance to improve Witnesses Violence Cases response to sexual assault, domestic violence, and child abuse. Ms. Germann is a former prosecutor RACHEL FISCHER is a survivor leader and a RACHAEL FROST is the CEO of Frost with over a decade of experience prosecuting pioneer in the fight against human trafficking. Investigation, Consultation, Education, & cases of violence against women and children. Ms. Fischer specializes in human trafficking Development, and a retired master investigator. Ethical Investigation & Prosecution of Sexual research and rescue and finding missing children. Ms. Frost, a 20-year law enforcement veteran, Assault Crimes; The Most Dangerous Power of She published her autobiography, "Taking specialized in multidisciplinary team program the Prosecutor: Charging Decisions in Sexual Back the Pen", and shares her story with various development, implementation, and operation Assault Cases audiences. Ms. Fischer collaborates with several through information and enterprise system anti-trafficking agencies, both statewide and management. Ms. Frost has investigated and international, to combat trafficking.Survivor Tips testified as an expert witness in numerous cases on Sex Trafficking: From the Street, For the regarding domestic violence, sexual assault, Street strangulation, and stalking. The Shadow of Death: I Fear No Evil, Except the One Who 'Loves' Me
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TERESA GIL is a psychotherapist, professor, JAY GORDON serves as a prosecutor in LESLIE A. HAGEN serves as the Dept. of author, and trainer with a private practice that deals the Adult Sex Crimes Division of the Harris Co. Justice’s (D.O.J.) first National Indian Country with addictions and recovery from child abuse District Attorney’s Office, recently trying 10 jury training coordinator. In this position, Ms. Hagen and trauma. Dr. Gil is also a professor at Hudson trials involving either murder or sexual assault. is responsible for planning, developing, and Valley Community College. She has worked as a Mr. Gordon works alongside officers, deputies, coordinating training in a broad range of matters trainer and consultant in human service settings, investigators, and social workers from all Harris relating to the administration of justice in Indian developing and facilitating dozens of workshops Co. law enforcement agencies to investigate and Country. She started with the D.O.J. as an assistant and trainings on pertinent clinical issues. Women prosecute perpetrators of sexual assault, and seek U.S. attorney in the Western District of Michigan. Who Were Sexually Abused as Children: justice for survivors. No Witnesses? No Problem!: Building a Trauma Informed Response to Mothering, Resilience, & Protecting the Next Overcoming Evidentiary Challenges in a Violent Crime in Indian Country; Investigating Generation Sexual Assault Trial & Prosecuting Serious Violent Crime in Tribal Communities SARA GILMER leads the human trafficking team RACHEL GRABER is the director of public at the Dept. of Justice’s Office for Victims of Crime policy at the National Coalition Against Domestic SCOTT HAMPTON is the director of Ending and guides the team in managing over $160 Violence, focusing on domestic violence-related the Violence that provides educational classes million across more than 240 awards. Ms. Gilmer and intersectional public policy. Ms. Graber to perpetrators of domestic and sexual violence. analyzes policy, designs and implements anti- has organized and participated in numerous Dr. Hampton is also the project coordinator for trafficking award programs, manages national congressional briefings about domestic violence, Strafford Co.’s Supervised Visitation Center. He training and technical assistance initiatives, and and has been instrumental in the development consults professionals on the handling of domestic collaborates with interagency partners and and passage of important legislation to protect and sexual violence cases, conducting workshops, subject matter experts across the country. Funding survivors, provide services, and keep firearms and testifying in court as an expert witness Opportunities Through the Office for Victims out of the hands of abusers. Disarm Domestic in interpersonal violence-related cases. An of Crime; Screening In: Exploring Evidence- Violence: A Comprehensive Guide to Domestic Examination of the Critical Role of Corrections Based, Practical Strategies for Identifying & Violence-Related Firearms Laws in Abuser Accountability; The Sexualization Responding to Trafficking of Strangulation: Felony or Fetish?; When MICHAEL GRAVES is the chief of the Family Predators Take Flight: A Bird's Eye View of CATHERINE GLENN is the injury prevention Violence Division for the Denton Co. District Sexual Assault trauma outreach coordinator for Texas Health Attorney's Office. Prior to his work in the D.A.'s Presbyterian Hospital teaching injury and violence office, Mr. Graves served in law enforcement MAUREEN HANNAH, professor of prevention. Ms. Glenn is also a registered nurse for 18 years. He specializes in training on jury psychology at Siena College in New York, teaches with 15 years of experience, and has a background selection, trial skills, family violence prosecution, abnormal psychology, intimate relationships, in emergency room and trauma nursing. Assess capital litigation, and capital and non-capital counseling theories and techniques, and other clinically-relevant courses. Dr. Hannah is the editor Yourself Before You Assess Your Patient: How training for the prosecution. CASE STUDY: To of Family and Intimate Partner Violence Quarterly Implicit Bias Complicates Healthcare IPV Mexico & Back: Finding Justice for Izzy & Alek Screenings and has written on intimate relationships, intimate partner abuse, child custody litigation involving JOHN GUARD is a chief deputy at the Pitt ERIKA GONZALEZ is a program coordinator Co. Sheriff’s Office, with experience in line level domestic violence, and grief therapy topics. Court and senior attorney at the Coalition to Abolish response, investigative response, first and second Ordered Abuse: Violence and Long Lasting Trauma of Women Forced into Co-Parenting of Slavery & Trafficking who provides training and level supervision, and agency management. a Violent Parent technical consultation to legal and social service For over two decades, Chief. Dep. Guard has providers on comprehensive legal services for specialized in investigating domestic violence trafficking survivors. Ms. Gonzalez has worked ASHLEY HARKNESS is a felony prosecutor cases and has been instrumental in developing in the Human Trafficking Division of the Fort Bend with the Foreign National population to provide policies and procedures related to domestic comprehensive, direct legal services in the areas County District Attorney’s Office and handles the violence response. Exposing What’s Concealed: prosecution of all human trafficking cases and of immigration and criminal law. Screening In: Leveraging Existing Federal Statutes to Increase Exploring Evidence-Based, Practical Strategies Victim Safety & Offender Accountability; related offenses. She has worked in regular trial for Identifying & Responding to Trafficking “No Face, No Case”: Responding to Witness courts handling simple assaults up to murders, and Intimidation in Domestic Violence Cases has also spent time working in Domestic Violence, JAMES GONZALEZ is the director of housing Intake, Human Trafficking, and Adult Sex Crimes. at The Coalition for the Homeless. Mr. Gonzalez RUTH GUERREIRO is the senior director of No Witnesses? No Problem!: Overcoming works with homeless and domestic violence clinical and non-residential services at Genesis Evidentiary Challenges in a Sexual Assault providers in Harris, Fort Bend, and Montgomery Women’s Shelter and Support. Her expertise Trial counties. He has a special interest in social justice, includes trauma, domestic violence, attachment, gender/ gender identity issues, concentrated and parenting support. Ms. Guerreiro supervises TERI HARSIN, Nlets training and development poverty, affordable housing, economic inequality, all of the clinical staff, provides trainings to manager, served in the Marine Corps and is and the cultural impacts of family and intimate Genesis staff and community members and expert currently responsible for the development and partner violence. Creating Innovative Housing testimony in court, and oversees the counseling delivery of training on matters related to Nlets. Solutions for Survivors and advocacy services provided at the non- Ms. Harsin previously worked for the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, conducting residential location. Beyond Trauma-Informed Care; Implementing a Holistic Approach: training and auditing in the field on state and What Clients Gained When We Evolved Into a national information sharing systems, such as Nlets Wrap-Around Agency; Why Won’t She Listen? and FBI CJIS services. Nlets: Top 10 Things You How to Effectively Communicate with Survivors Should Know & Increase Participation
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RIC HERTEL has been the elected prosecuting CYNTHIA JONES is a professor of philosophy at KRYSTAL KING is a SANE nurse at Parkland attorney in Ripley Co., Indiana, since January, the Univ. of Texas Rio Grande Valley, and conducts Hospital. Ms. King currently works on the hospital- 1999. Prior to becoming prosecutor, Mr. Hertel did research and publishes on issues of advocacy, wide screening and response team that addresses, criminal defense work. He has presented regularly gender, violence, culture, and marginalization. Dr. not just sexual assault, but all assaults on patients for the Indiana Prosecuting Attorney’s Council, Jones has extensive experience as a volunteer for that present through the emergency department. and is currently the immediate past president. domestic violence and rape crisis programs and She is dedicated to providing trauma-informed Mr. Hertel has acted as faculty for the National currently serves as the founding director of the care and comprehensive medical forensic District Attorney’s Association throughout the U.S. Office for Victim Advocacy & Violence Prevention. examinations to victim patient populations. Hidden on various topics. Challenges & Solutions for CASE STUDY: Triumphs & Tragedies in Using Truths: What a Full Assault Screening Can Policing, Prosecuting & Accountability in Rural Expert Witnesses Reveal in an Emergency Room SANE Setting & Communities for Prosecutors at Trial DENISE JONES, sergeant at the Clark Co. LIANA HILL is the forensic nurse examiner Sheriff's Office, has served in multiple divisions, LINDLEY KING has been working in the field of program director for Crisis Services of North including corrections, court services, and road gender-based violence for nearly a decade and Alabama (CSNA), providing direct services to patrol. She served as a supervisor in the Jail, recently transitioned from working in a community victims of assault. Ms. Hill began the first Domestic Road, and Professional Standards Divisions domestic violence program to managing her own Violence Nurse Examiner program in the state, before transferring to the Investigations Division private practice. Working from a harm reduction expanding assault care services to victims. Ms. Intimate Partner Crime Unit. Sgt. Jones focuses model, Ms. King's practice focuses on serving Hill began her career in the U.K., and is one of on changing department culture and responding survivors of gender-based violence, multi-abuse four nurses in Alabama that holds both SANE-A to and investigating intimate partner crime. trauma and substance use through a social justice and SANE-P certifications.Using Gynecological IACP Lessons Learned: Strengthening Law framework. Holding the Framework: Working Teaching Assistants to Train Nurses & Enforcement Response to Domestic Violence with Survivors of Multi-Abuse Trauma Advocates & Sexual Violence National Demonstration Initiative; What’s Your Story? Law Enforcement JULIE KRAWCZYK is the director of the EMILY HOLLERBACH is a support and growth & the LGBTQ+ Community Working Together Elder Financial Safety Center leading the nation specialist with Ending the Game, an intervention in the prevention, protection, and prosecution curriculum for victims of trafficking and exploitation. DAVID KECK has been the project director of financial crimes and prevention of financial Ms. Hollerbach is also a survivor of domestic sex for the National Resource Center on Domestic exploitation, frauds, and scams. Ms. Krawczyk trafficking, and is passionate about identifying and Violence & Firearms since its inception in January oversees operations for the first-of-its-kind Center, uprooting shame from sexual exploitation, and of 2017. Mr. Keck provides training and technical a unique collaboration between The Senior fostering sisterhood through survivor community assistance on enforcement and implementation Source, Dallas Co. Probate Courts, and Dallas Co. and education. Ms. Hollerbach has previous of firearms prohibitions. He speaks frequently on District Attorney’s Office.New Elder Abuse App experience in administration and program topics related to firearms and domestic violence. for Texas Law Enforcement & First Responders management. Ending The Game: Understanding Taking Guns from Domestic Violence Offenders Psychological Coercion in Commercial Sexual & Keeping Them Away ROBERT KRUPA is the assistant special agent Exploitation & Exploring One Promising in charge (ASAC) of the San Antonio Field Office. Solution DONNA KELLY has been an Sexual Victims ASAC Krupa held investigative positions as FBI Unit (SVU) prosecutor for 30 years, and now EEO Mediator, in the White-Collar Crime/Public MELISSA HOPPMEYER is the chief of the serves as a senior deputy district attorney for Salt Corruption squad, in the Public Corruption Squad Sexual Assault and Family Violence Unit in Prince Lake Co. Ms. Kelly is an experienced, passionate, (Denver), as SSA (Denver Field Office White- George’s Co., and experienced prosecutor and aggressive prosecutor seeking justice for all Collar Crime Squad) and in the Public Corruption advocating for victims of violent crime, specifically victims. She has also been an advocate for laws Squad (San Antonio). CASE STUDY: Sutherland domestic violence and sexual assault. She has and court rules that improve outcomes for victims Springs: First Baptist Church Mass Fatality, assisted in drafting numerous legislative bills and hold defendants accountable. How Not to PART 1 & 2 and has testified before the Maryland General Lose an SVU Case Assembly to help implement stronger criminal COREY LAIN, commander of Texas Rangers laws for crimes of violence. CASE STUDY: ROCHELLE KEYHAN, CEO of Collective Company "F”, supervises three Ranger lieutenants. Bryant Jones: Justice After Prosecutorial Liberty, develops and executes the organization's Maj. Lain has been involved in major and high- Trauma; CASE STUDY: Catching a Predator: strategic direction and collaborations focused profile criminal investigations and leads many Investigating the Howard University Rapist; on human trafficking, recruiting, and maintaining Texas Ranger Division initiatives, including the Prosecutor's Perspective on Changes to Title IX robust collaborative networks of law enforcement, Officer-Involved Shooting Investigation Working Sexual Assault Investigations agency stakeholders, and service providers. Group, Region-6 Special Operations Group, the Previously, Ms. Keyhan was a prosecutor in the Unsolved Crimes Investigation Program, Central DOREEN HUNTER is a survivor and the chair Philadelphia Family Violence and Sexual Assault Texas Unmanned Aerial Systems, and incident of the Stop Abuse Campaign in Texas. She has Unit, and then director of the Disruption Strategies commander for major criminal incidents. CASE lobbied and testified at the State Capitol on the Dept. at Polaris. Indigenous Victims of Human STUDY: Sutherland Springs: First Baptist Church Texas version of the Safe Child Act #HB3121. In Trafficking in North America; Labor Trafficking Mass Fatality, PART 1 & 2 April 2019, Ms. Hunter held a rally at the Texas in the U.S. & Successful Local Investigations Capitol, bringing awareness to child filicide issues connected to family court and child abuse fatalities. Court-Ordered Abuse: Violence and Long Lasting Trauma of Women Forced into Co-Parenting of a Violent Parent; What HB 902 Can Do to Help Protect & Save Pregnant Women
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DIANE LANCE serves as the dept. head for MERIEL LESTER began her career as an DANIELLE PUGH-MARKIE is the director of Metro’s Office of Family Safety in Nashville, and assistant county attorney in the Stearns Co. Judicial Education and Leadership at the Center oversees Metro’s Family Justice Center work, Attorney's Office. Ms. Lester is now an assistant for Court Innovation (CCI). Ms. Pugh-Markie including the 2019 opening of the Family Safety chief of the Criminal Division, which includes implements judicial training and leadership Center. Ms. Lance has spent the majority of her supervising four assistant county attorneys in the programs in courts nationally and internationally. career focusing on family violence with early work Domestic Violence Unit. She has handled intimate Prior to CCI, she was the director of Program as the director of a domestic violence shelter in partner violence crimes, including the caseload in Development and Judicial Engagement for the San Diego. Finding Hope in the Courthouse: the Stearns Co. Domestic Violence Court. Expert Family Violence and Domestic Relations Program Nashville’s Court-Based Family Justice Center Witness Testimony in Domestic Violence Cases at the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges. Enhancing the Court Process for JENNIFER LANDHUIS is the director of the TK LOGAN is a professor at the Univ. of Kentucky, Domestic Violence Litigants Stalking Prevention, Awareness, and Resource Dept. of Behavioral Science. Her research and Center (SPARC), of AEquitas. Ms. Landhuis has writings focus on stalking, partner abuse, sexual KATHRYN MARSH serves as special counsel, been an advocate and educator on the issues of assault, protective order effectiveness, safety, and assistant chief of the Special Victims Family Violence stalking, domestic violence, and sexual assault for coping with victimization. Dr. Logan is an author Unit, and legislative & co-chair for the State’s 23 years. Building the Coordinated Response on over 175 research articles and serves on the Attorney’s Office in Prince George’s Co., Maryland to Stalking; Enhancing Victim Participation editorial board of two international journals. and associate professor with the National Criminal in Stalking Investigations; SHARPer Image: SHARPer Image: Creating a Clearer Picture of Justice Training Center of Fox Valley Technical Creating a Clearer Picture of Stalking Risk Stalking Risk College. Ms. Marsh is a professional trainer for state attorneys, law enforcement, organizations, JOSE JUAN LARA, JR., project manager at the TIM LOTT is the director of Operations and and other legal professionals. Prosecutor's National Latin@ Network (Casa de Esperanza), High-Tech Crime Training Services for SEARCH, Perspective on Changes to Title IX Sexual is responsible for managing, coordinating, and responsible for managing, coordinating, and Assault Investigations delivering training and technical assistance in the leading all financial and administrative functions. areas of enhancing cultural responsiveness in the Mr. Lott also supports the High-Tech Crime LOUIS MARVEN is a training specialist at courts. Mr. Lara has expertise in the areas of cultural Training Services Program of SEARCH, a national the National Sexual Violence Resource Center, competence and responsiveness, dynamics program that provides expert technical assistance where he develops resources and provides of gender-based violence, LGBTQ, language and training to justice and public safety agencies technical assistance on serving male survivors. Mr. access, organizational development, and victim on successfully conducting electronic crimes Marven has developed programs and provided advocacy. LGBTQ Latin@ Realities: Addressing investigations. Social Media Open-Source training to meet the needs of LGBTQ communities, Gender and Sexual-Identity Based Violence Intelligence Investigations including youth and older adults. A Conversation from a Culturally Responsive Approach on Bridging the Gap for Male Survivors by LINDA MACDONALD is a human rights Examining Female Survivor Services TIFFANY LARSEN, chief prosecutor in the Civil defender and activist from Nova Scotia, Canada. Rights Division at the Harris Co. District Attorney's Ms. MacDonald speaks at the United Nations, DONNA STRITTMATTER MAX is an Office, has worked closely with law enforcement educates internationally, trains caregivers, assistant U.S. attorney in the Northern District of agencies, sexual assault nurse examiners, doctors, researches on non-State torture (NST), and has Texas where she prosecutes criminal healthcare advocates, and crime lab analysts to help bring many published articles. Her primary goals are fraud and serves as the elder justice coordinator. justice to sexual assault survivors. Ms. Larsen to raise awareness of this very invisible crime Prior to her current position, Ms. Strittmatter Max previously served as an expert advisor on legal against women, advocate for laws globally on spent over 15 years prosecuting white collar crime issues related to sex crimes in the Appellate Court. non-State torture, and promote NST victimization- at the Dallas Co. District Attorney’s Office as the No Witnesses? No Problem! - Overcoming traumatization-informed care and prevention. chief of the Specialized Crime Division. Elder Evidentiary Challenges in a Sexual Assault Unsilencing the Non-State Torture & Trafficking Abuse & the Federal Response Trial Organized & Perpetrated Within Family Systems KRISTIN MCGUNNIGLE serves as a product JORDYN LAWSON is the director of residential trainer for Thorn, a nonprofit building technology services at Genesis Women’s Shelter and supervises JIM MARKEY is a 30-year veteran of the to defend children from sexual abuse. Ms. both the emergency shelter and Annie’s House Phoenix Police Dept. Det. Sgt. Markey is currently McGunnigle leads and maintains user-facing transitional living program. Previously, Ms. Lawson a senior law enforcement specialist for The training, support, and engagement with Thorn's was the assistant clinical director at Genesis. Research Triangle Institute providing technical core products. Leveraging Technology to During that time, she has provided individual and assistance for the Dept. of Justice Bureau of Justice Find Child Sex Trafficking Victims Faster with group counseling services to women, adolescents, Assistance Sexual Assault Kit Initiative. Assessing Spotlight and children victims of domestic violence, sexual Law Enforcement’s Response to Sexual Assault: assault, and childhood trauma. Implementing a Recommendations from the SAKI Sexual Holistic Approach: What Clients Gained When Assault Unit Assessment Program We Evolved Into a Wrap-Around Agency; In Her Shoes; Why Won’t She Listen? How to Effectively Communicate with Survivors & Increase Participation
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KELSEY MCKAY is the president of RESPOND KAYCE MUNYENEH, founder of Optimize FLORENCE NOCAR serves as the chief equity Against Violence and McKay Training & Consulting, LLC, a full-service, minority and woman-owned and diversity officer of the Office of Institutional LLC. Ms. McKay trains and consults nationally agency, has worked with the South Carolina Equity and Diversity at The Univ. of Texas Rio to strengthen how communities collaborate, Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Grande Valley. Ms. Nocar previously served on investigate, and prosecute strangulation, sexual Sexual Assault, the Survivors and Advocates for the Native American Indian Organization, the violence, and intimate partner violence cases. Empowerment Program, the Metropolitan Police Native American Law Students’ Association, and She develops experts to testify and trains on the Dept., and the National Center for Victims of as an associate editor for the Indigenous Peoples’ implementation of a strangulation supplement Crime. Ms. Munyeneh is also an adjunct professor Journal of Law, Culture & Resistance. CASE and community collaboration. Call Me Crazy: for the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security DVIP STUDY: Triumphs & Tragedies in Using Expert The Role of Survival & Fear in Investigations Program. Combating Vicarious Trauma in First Witnesses & Prosecutions; Identifying & Investigating Responders Through Effective Leadership Asphyxiation Crimes; Not One More: Unique AMANDA ELKANICK ODER is currently the Perspectives on Domestic Violence Homicide; WENDY MURPHY, former child abuse and survivor services and training director with Texas The Sexualization of Strangulation: Felony or sex crimes prosecutor, has been teaching sexual Advocacy Project. Ms. Oder has been working Fetish?; Strangulation: Statute to Sentence violence law for more than 15 years at New with survivors as a shelter advocate, program England Law in Boston, where she also directs the director, and policy analyst. She has served on BETH MCNAMARA is the co-founder and Women's and Children's Advocacy Project., Ms. statewide task forces, community planning groups, co-executive director of Inspire Action for Social Murphy is an impact litigator whose cases have and committees that are centered on ending Change, a nonprofit organization working to helped to improve the constitutional and civil rights intimate partner violence and sexual assault. create social change and improved opportunities of abused women and children. The Judicial Firearms & Family Violence: Connecting the for those experiencing barriers to safety as a Language Project: Using Research to Persuade Pathway to Prevent Mass Shootings; When result of domestic and sexual violence. She Media & Courts to Avoid Harmful Language; Your Gut Tells You Your Patient Isn’t Safe at has authored and contributed to numerous CASE STUDY: New & Better Justice for Victims Home: Legal Solutions to Medical Problems publications and training resources and has with Intellectual & Communication Disabilities developed and conducted educational programs NANCY OGLESBY is a co-founder of Justice and professional trainings. Supervised Visitation: KIM NASH, a registered nurse and forensic 3D, a company that offers training and consulting Strategies for Families Experiencing Intimate nurse examiner, is a forensic nurse specialist for to allied professionals nationally on issues of child Partner Violence the International Association of Forensic Nurses. abuse, domestic violence, and sexual assault. Ms. Nash provides clinical skills training through Ms. Oglesby has been a career prosecutor SCOTT MILLER, co-director for the Domestic simulation laboratories, utilizing live models to in Virginia for over 20 years. She is currently Abuse Intervention Project, coordinates Duluth's teach care for providers from across the U.S., with Virginia’s Domestic and Sexual Violence Resource Coordinated Community Response to domestic an emphasis on those working for under-served prosecutor. Building a DV Case with the Defense violence, trains nationally and internationally on the populations. Effective & Ethical Healthcare in Mind components of the Duluth Model of intervention, Interventions for Patients Experiencing Human and helps develop new resource materials and Trafficking LUMARIE OROZCO is a project manager for curricula. Additionally, Mr. Miller is a contract the National Latin@ Network for Healthy Families trainer and forensic interviewer for First Witness AMBER NEALY, assistant director of clinical & Communities (NLN), a project of Casa de Child Abuse Resource Center in Duluth. Expert and professional services at Genesis Women’s Esperanza. Currently, Ms. Orozco oversees the Witness Testimony in Domestic Violence Cases Shelter and Support has worked with survivors of organization's intimate partner homicide initiatives domestic violence, victims of sex trafficking and and provides strategic technical assistance to ROCÍO MOLINA is the deputy director for the prostitution, women with substance use disorders organizations, agencies, and coalitions seeking National Immigrant Women’s Advocacy Project and probationers. Ms. Nealy is trained in EMDR, to enhance service provision and access for at American Univ. Washington College of Law, CPT, and Theraplay trauma-informed, evidenced- Latina survivors of domestic violence. Trafficking and is an immigration attorney serving immigrant based models and has also received training in Screening Tool for Latin@s Accessing Domestic survivors. Ms. Molina provides legal counsel, TF-CBT, Expressive Arts Therapy, and Play Therapy. Violence Programs research, technical assistance, and training for the Caught in the Crossfire: How Children are benefit of immigrant victims of domestic violence, Impacted by Domestic Violence; Implementing KIMBERLY ORTS has been employed with sexual assault, and human trafficking. The U Visa: a Holistic Approach: What Clients Gained the Travis Co. Sheriff’s Office for 26 years and Tool to Support Victims, Communities, and Law When We Evolved Into a Wrap-Around is currently assigned to the Family Violence Unit, Enforcement Agency primarily investigating the spectrum of crimes involving intimate partner violence for the past CASSANDRA MUÑOZ is currently the LORI NELSON, director of community five years. Det. Orts has been a part of the Crisis supervisor of the Domestic Violence Unit at engagement with Denton Co. Friends of the Negotiations Team for 13 years and is currently Franklin Co. Municipal Court Dept. of Pretrial Family (DCFOF), is also the facilitator of Denton’s a team leader. Identifying & Investigating and Probation Services. Ms. Munoz created Domestic Violence High-Risk Team with DCFOF, Asphyxiation Crimes a comprehensive strategic plan in order to Denton Police Dept., and the District Attorney's implement the Colorado Domestic Violence Risk Office, Probation. Previously, Ms. Nelson worked Needs Assessment and the Ontario Domestic at the Children's Advocacy Center of Denton Assault Risk Assessment in Franklin Co. Municipal Co., facilitating and conducting numerous Court. Differentiated Batterer Intervention multidisciplinary case review meetings and Programming for Offenders forensic interviews. CASE STUDY: To Mexico & Back: Finding Justice for Izzy & Alek
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JULIE OWENS became a victim advocate after JEN PEUPLIE is the Adult Forensic Interview PATRICIA POWERS is an attorney advisor surviving domestic violence attempted murder. Program manager with The Forensic Center of for AEquitas. As a senior deputy prosecuting For three decades, Ms. Owens has consulted Excellence and has been advocating for families attorney, she specialized in sexual violence, and trained nationally and internationally for and individuals of crime in the community for over domestic violence, child sexual and physical organizations, governments, and professionals. twenty years. Ms. Peuplie has experience working abuse, homicides, and cold cases. Ms. Powers She created a domestic violence crisis team for with victims and witnesses of domestic violence, was appointed as a highly qualified expert ERs and a transitional shelter before directing elder abuse, human trafficking, sexual assault, for the Army's Criminal Investigative Division, domestic violence trauma therapy research at the and strangulation. Adult Forensic Interviewing and provided specialized training for Criminal National Center for PTSD. Beyond "Pray, Stay, Program: The How & Why in Bringing One To Investigations Special Agents and the Judge Obey": Understanding & Supporting Christian Your Jurisdiction Advocate General’s Corps. Hidden Truths: Domestic Violence Victims; Expert Witness What a Full Assault Screening Can Reveal Testimony in Domestic Violence Cases; Not ALLIE PHILLIPS is an author and the founder & in an Emergency Room SANE Setting & for One More: Unique Perspectives on Domestic CEO of the Sheltering Animals & Families Together Prosecutors at Trial Violence Homicide Program, the first and only global initiative helping domestic violence shelters create on-site pet ZIWEI QI is an assistant professor in the Dept. MELISSA PAQUETTE is the counsel of housing. Ms. Phillips has also served as a former of Criminal Justice at Fort Hays State Univ. Prior to community safety initiatives at Everytown for Gun prosecuting attorney as the founder/director of Fort Hays State Univ., Dr. Qi taught in the Justice Safety developing community-based gun violence the National Center for Prosecution of Animal and Policy Studies Dept. at Guilford College. She reduction strategies. Ms. Paquette collaborates Abuse, and as a deputy director. Animal Abuse has been actively engaged in research involving with government agencies, gun violence + Family Violence: Investigation & Prosecution gender and crime, restorative justice, social prevention groups, and other stakeholders to Strategies to Keep Families Safe entrepreneurship in the criminal justice system, support implementation and funding of gun and experiential learning. Cracking the Code on violence prevention strategies. Previously, Ms. KIMBERLY PIECHOWIAK is the domestic Generation Z: How to Build New Alliances to Paquette was the director of legal services at the violence training attorney for the Texas Office Fight Crimes Against Women Safe Horizon Domestic Violence Law Project. The of Court Administration. Ms. Piechowiak Deadly Intersection of Domestic Violence & prosecuted family violence cases for 20 years RACHEL RAMIREZ is the founder and director Gun Violence During COVID and implemented the family violence prosecution of the Center on Partner Inflicted Brain Injury, a program at San Antonio Municipal Court. She has project of the Ohio Domestic Violence Network BRITTANY PAHL, director of Nursing for been training law enforcement officers, attorneys, that provides leadership to raise awareness on the Forensic Nursing and Community Programs, and judges on the issue of domestic violence emerging area of brain injury caused by domestic previously worked as a Rapid Assessment Team for many local, state, and national agencies. violence. Ms. Ramirez trains on trauma-informed nurse and SANE supervisor. Ms. Pahl has helped Enhancing the Court Process for Domestic approaches, mental health, substance use, to plan, develop, and implement a hospital- Violence Litigants; Texas Protective Order and a recent national focus on partner inflicted wide screening and response to identify and Registry: Beyond the Basics brain injury. I Just Can't Think Straight: Partner provide trauma-informed forensic nursing care Inflicted Brain Injury, Domestic Violence, & a to patients who have experienced violent crimes CARA PIERCE, chief over the Human Trafficking Way Forward through patient care, education, and protocol and Transnational Organized Crime section of and procedure development. Hidden Truths: the Texas Attorney General’s Office, previously SHELLEY READER is the program manager at What a Full Assault Screening Can Reveal served as the human trafficking coordinator for The Crisis Center in Littleton, CO, which provides in an Emergency Room SANE Setting & for the Northern District of Texas. Ms. Pierce has shelter, advocacy, and therapy services to survivors Prosecutors at Trial prosecuted more than 80 child and adult sex of domestic violence. In 2016, Ms. Reader was an trafficking cases and convicted 13 gang members integral member of The Crisis Center team during MICHELLE RIVARD PARKS, licensed and associates of child sex trafficking in Ft. Worth the implementation of the Community Advocacy attorney in the areas of tribal law and federal and Dallas. CASE STUDY: The Making of a Pimp Program and the Lethality Assessment Program. Indian law, is an appointed member of the North The Nuts & Bolts of the Community Advocacy Dakota Supreme Court State and Tribal Court TRINKA PORRATA, retired Los Angeles Police Program Committee. In January 2011, she was appointed Dept. (LAPD) detective of 25 years, is a widely- by U.S. Attorney Eric Holder to serve on the U.S. recognized presenter on the investigation of drug- LAURA RICHARDS is a criminal behavioral Dept. of Justice Violence Against Women Federal facilitated sexual assault. Ms. Porrata’s expertise analyst, investigator, and advocate who has & Tribal Prosecution Task Force. Investigating is in sexual assaults and narcotics, especially worked at New Scotland Yard in charge of the & Prosecuting Serious Violent Crime in Tribal trendy drugs of abuse. Since retiring from the Homicide Prevention Unit, the Violent Crime Communities LAPD, she has provided training internationally for Intelligence and Analysis Unit, and the Sexual agencies from local to federal, medical personnel, Offences Section. Ms. Richards founded Paladin, KATHRINA PETERSON is the acting deputy and community resources. Capturing Drug- a National Stalking Advocacy Service, and director over the State Compensation and Facilitated Sexual Assault & Other Drugging spearheaded the Domestic Violence Law Reform Assistance Division, where she oversees the Crimes campaign in England and Wales. Preventing Office for Victims of Crimes (OVC) state formula Murder in Slow Motion: Identifying, Assessing funding programs. Ms. Peterson also advises the & Managing Risk OVC director on legislative, regulatory, policy, and legal matters as attorney advisor. Funding Opportunities Through the Office for Victims of Crime; Using Victims of Crime Act Funding to Break Down Legal Barriers for Victims
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BROOKE GRONA-ROBB is an assistant JEANNE SARSON is a Canadian, feminist NEIL SCHORI is pastor at The Edge Church attorney general in Texas. Previously, Ms. Grona- human rights defender who has focused her practice in suburban Chicago. In 2007, Stacy Peterson Robb was deputy chief prosecutor of the Crimes on exposing and naming family-based non- confided to him that her husband, Drew Peterson, Against Children Division for the Dallas Co. District State torture (NST) as a specific form of violence had killed his previous wife. She disappeared two Attorney’s Office, where she prosecuted Human against women and girls. With Linda MacDonald, months later. Pastor Schori served as a key witness Trafficking and Internet Crimes Against Children Ms. Sarson developed models explaining NST, in Peterson's subsequent murder trial. He assists cases for 14 years. CASE STUDY: The Making of gathering insights into the torturers' M.O., and victims and helps train church leaders to respond a Pimp; Who is Guilty? Analyzing Culpability shaping NST victimization-traumatization informed properly to domestic violence victims. Not One in Human Trafficking Prosecutions care when supporting women's recovery and More: Unique Perspectives on Domestic freedom efforts. Unsilencing the Non-State Violence Homicide ELAINA ROBERTS is a technology safety Torture & Trafficking Organized & Perpetrated legal manager with the National Network to End Within Family Systems LEIGHA SHOUP is the deputy director of Domestic Violence, Safety Net project, providing the Adult Advocacy Centers and has served as training and technical assistance on technology MELISSA SCAIA is the director of International the secretary of the Northwest Ohio Rescue & abuse, guidance, and analysis on legal matters. Training for Global Rights, for Women, part of an Restore Coalition, the regional response to human Previously, Ms. Roberts was with the National international research project related to batterer trafficking. Ms. Shoup is a state, national, and Center for Victims of Crime as the director of intervention programs (BIP), and co-facilitates a international presenter on the topics of diversity, Strategic Initiatives and legal director of the BIP. Ms. Scaia was recently the executive director inclusion, and accessibility when working with Stalking Resource Center. Apps, Nests, & Tiles: of Domestic Abuse Intervention Programs, known multidisciplinary teams to serve survivors of crime. Exploring the Internet of Things (IoT) & Impact as the Duluth Model. Prior to that role, she was the An Inclusive and Individualized Response for on Survivors executive director of Advocates for Family Peace. Victims of Crime with Disabilities: The Adult Expert Witness Testimony in Domestic Violence Advocacy Centers’ Model KRISTEN ROMAN was appointed Cases; Women's Use of Violence: The Impact Associate Vice Chancellor and Chief of Police of Arrest & Conviction BILL SMOCK is a police surgeon who directs of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Police the Clinical Forensic Medicine Program for the Department in January of 2017. Prior to her JOSEPH SCARAMUCCI is a detective with Louisville Metro Police Dept. Dr. Smock is a clinical appointment, Chief Roman served for 26 years the McLennan Co. Sheriff’s Office and has professor of Emergency Medicine at the Univ. of with the City of Madison Police Department. In participated in John-Suppression events and Louisville School of Medicine and chair of the addition, she coordinated department Critical sting operations. Det. Scaramucci has worked Institute on Strangulation Prevention's National Incident Stress Management efforts and both state and federal investigations as a task Medical Advisory Committee. Would You developed and supervised the department’s Peer force officer, and has led and trained numerous Recognize a Staged Wound or Crime Scene if Support Program. Practical Solutions to the agencies throughout the U.S. on how to conduct You Stepped In It? Policing Crisis in Communities of Color and operations. He also provides technical support for Low-Income Communities human trafficking operations and investigations. JOHNA STALLINGS is the chief of trafficking Labor Trafficking in the US & Successful Local and sex crimes for the Harris Co. District Attorney's JENNIFER ROSE is the co-director and founder Investigations; Leveraging Technology to Office. Previously, Ms. Stallings handled numerous at Inspire Action for Social Change. Ms. Rose Find Child Sex Trafficking Victims Faster with violent and child related crimes before opening works as a consultant, providing training on Spotlight; Locating Trafficking Victims Through her own criminal practice in 2001. From 2001 the issues of violence against women and girls, Online Operations; The Sexualization of to 2008, she worked with the mentally disabled engaging people who use violence, working with Strangulation: Felony or Fetish? and others with addiction or mental health issues. youth, community organizing, and LGBTQ+ issues. Adult Forensic Interviewing Program: The How Prior to co-founding Inspire Action, she held a PAM SCHMIDT is a retired crime scene & Why in Bringing One To Your Jurisdiction; number of leadership positions at local domestic investigator with nearly 2,000 hours of forensic CASE STUDY: Ryan Coleman: Portrait of Serial and evidence training. Ms. Schmidt has trained violence programs. Supervised Visitation: Rapist Targeting Vulnerable Women Strategies for Families Experiencing Intimate with the New York City’s Office of the Chief Partner Violence Medical Examiner and the FBI. She is certified as SCOTT STEVENS is sergeant of the Detective's a senior crime scene analyst and currently teaches Division with the Iowa City Police Dept. From KRISTENE RUDDLE has served as a at the Law Enforcement Academy on Crime 2013 to 2018, Sgt. Stevens served as Iowa City’s Residential Client Advocate for Genesis Women’s Scene. Aquatic Crimes Against Women Staged domestic violence investigator, where he worked Shelter & Support for 9 years. As an advocate, as Noncriminal Aquatic Deaths Pt. 1; Aquatic on incidents of domestic abuse, harassment, Ms. Ruddle works with women, both single women Crimes Against Women Staged as Noncriminal stalking, and enforcement of protective orders. and mothers with children, who have experienced Bathtub Deaths Pt. 2 He provides training and education on topics intimate partner violence, engages community of domestic violence for community groups, resources, establishes partnerships with other LISA SHEPPERD is a detective at Prince advocates, and law enforcement. Expert Witness agencies and businesses, and delivers public George's Co. Police Dept. In January 2016, Testimony in Domestic Violence Cases awareness presentations. In Her Shoes Det. Shepperd was reassigned to the Criminal Investigation Division’s Domestic Violence Unit. From there, she went on to work for the Child and Vulnerable Adult Abuse Unit before getting transferred to the Sexual Assault Unit and now investigates in the Homicide Unit. CASE STUDY: Catching a Predator: Investigating the Howard University Rapist
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MYRA STRAND is the chief servant leader AMANDA TENORIO is a survivor of domestic PAUL THORNS is a 20-year Army veteran of Strand Squared Solutions, providing training, violence whose story includes physical abuse with a background in military intelligence and education, consultation, and agency support in against herself and her son and more than three actively engaged in the BDSM/Fetish Community the areas of trauma and response to over 20,000 years of legal battles with her abuser. Ms. Tenorio since 1998. Mr. Thorns has presented a variety professionals. Previously, Ms. Strand was a faculty works at the University of Maryland Medical of classes to the kink/BDSM community that member at Northern Arizona Univ. and Coconino Center Shock Trauma as a domestic violence vary from skills development, core philosophies, Community College where she taught issues of intervention specialist, where she sees victims of relationship dynamics, communication and one- violence, sexuality, and applied intersectionality. intimate partner violence and human trafficking. on-one mentorship, including a kink presentation Collaboration Safety: Safety Planning & CASE STUDY: Bryant Jones: Justice After to mental health providers and classes for victims’ Lethality Assessment; The Sexualization of Prosecutorial Trauma advocates. The Sexualization of Strangulation: Strangulation: Felony or Fetish?; Voluntary Felony or Fetish? Intoxication: It’s Not Consent for Sex, You PATRICIA THACKSTON is policy advisor with Know! the Bureau of Justice Assistance, Office of Justice TOM TREMBLAY is a retired police chief and Programs, U.S. Department of Justice. Ms. Thackston the owner of Thomas Tremblay Consulting and KEVIN STROM is the director of Research manages a portfolio of tribal justice-related grant Training as a national and international advisor and Triangle Institute's Center for Policing Research and programs and cooperative agreements including trainer for police, prosecutors, advocates, higher Investigative Science. Dr. Strom has led numerous the Tribal Justice Systems Program, the Tribal Justice education, the military, and the private sector. Mr. projects in forensic- and policing-related research, Systems Strategic Planning Program, tribal violent Tremblay is a contracted subject matter expert on including foundational work for the U.S. Dept. crime initiatives, and a wide range of tribal training domestic violence and sexual assault for numerous of Justice that helped to define and quantify the and technical assistance projects. Investigating organizations. Courageous Conversations: problems associated with unsubmitted evidence & Prosecuting Serious Violent Crime in Tribal Improving Our Response to Victim of Domestic in law enforcement agencies. Assessing Law Communities and Sexual Violence in the Black Community; Enforcement’s Response to Sexual Assault: Public Trust: Confronting Law Enforcement Recommendations from the SAKI Sexual DAWN THEISS is an assistant U.S. attorney with Sexual Misconduct in the #MeToo Era Assault Unit Assessment Program the No. District of Texas, Civil Division, handling a wide variety of civil litigation matters, including JOHN TRENARY is a high-tech crime training GAIL SWAFFORD is the executive director affirmative False Claims Act investigations, instructor for SEARCH, The National Consortium of the Child Advocacy Center of Cullman. Ms. defensive matters, and bankruptcy. Prior to the for Justice Information and Statistics. Det. Trenary Swafford worked as children's program director Attorney's Office, Ms. Theiss' work focused on coordinates and provides training on high-tech at Cullman Area Mental Health before joining federal and state court litigation in the principal crime investigations to local, state, and federal the Child Advocacy Center of Cullman. She areas of financial services, real estate, and justice and public safety agencies. He is a has served as a field instructor for the Univ. of business. Elder Abuse & the Federal Response cybercrimes detective/digital forensic examiner in Alabama, Univ. of North Alabama, Samford the Linn Co. Sheriff’s Office, where he manages the Univ., Univ. of Southern California, and Wallace DAVE THOMAS is the program manager for the offices’ Digital Forensics Laboratory.Technology State Community College. Using Gynecological International Association of Chiefs of Police, and is Artifact Awareness Teaching Assistants to Train Nurses & retired from the Montgomery Co. Police Dept. As Advocates an officer, Mr. Thomas taught at the Police Training KRISTEN TROKEN is a survivor of domestic Academy, served on the S.W.A.T. team, was a violence and sexual assault, and has become a JULIANA SWEENEY is the coordinator of the proactive proponent, working on behalf of women Travis Co. Domestic Violence High Risk Team. hostage negotiator, and member of the Domestic Violence Unit where he developed curriculum and who have had similar experiences. Ms. Troken is Ms. Sweeney began working at the Travis Co. a plaintiff in a class-action lawsuit against the city Attorney's Office as an intern in the Protective policy in domestic violence training. Practical Solutions to the Policing Crisis in Communities and county that failed to protect survivors of sexual Order Division in 2013, and has continued to be of Color and Low-Income Communities assault, and hopes to make a difference in the lives involved with the county in various capacities. of survivors. Domestic Violence High-Risk Team & Protective Call Me Crazy: The Role of Survival RACHEL THOMAS is a human trafficking Orders & Fear in Investigations & Prosecutions survivor and educator for Ending the Game. Ms. Thomas has extensive experience teaching, is clinical practice WYANET TASKER is a co-trainer for Red KAELI VANDERTULIP Wind’s Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence training, curriculum writing, public speaking and manager for the American College of Emergency Tribal Advocate Trainings with direct service mentoring. Founder of Sowers Education Group Physicians. Ms. Vandertulip collaborates with the experience in a residential treatment facility, a and lead author of Ending the Game and The injury prevention coordinator for Texas Health school setting, disabilities case management, Cool Aunt, she helps survivors break the bonds Presbyterian Dallas teaching various groups shelter services, and a housing program. Ms. of attachment to traffickers and the lifestyle of about recognition of personal biases, improving Tasker provides culturally-specific training and commercial sexual exploitation. Ending The compassionate care, and consent in intimate Game: Understanding Psychological Coercion technical assistance, focusing on special survivor relationships. Assess Yourself Before You Assess in Commercial Sexual Exploitation & Exploring Your Patient: How Implicit Bias Complicates populations, such as children/youth, male, Two One Promising Solution Healthcare IPV Screenings Spirit/LGBT, and survivors with disabilities. Tribal Housing: The Past, Present, & Future
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KARLA VIERTHALER is advocacy and AMBER WARMAN is a program coordinator ELISSA WEV is an asst. district attorney in the resources director for the National Sexual Violence for Red Wind Consulting and an enrolled Family Violence Division of the Dallas Co. District Resource Center, providing technical assistance Cheyenne River Sioux tribe member. Ms. Attorney’s Office. Ms. Wev began her career as on sexual violence prevention and intervention Warman is an advocate for abused families and a public defender and now works prosecuting topics. Ms. Vierthaler previously worked for the victims of sexual assault and human trafficking and strangulation cases, aggravated assaults, and Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape, where she has worked on rebuilding the Campus Community murders and serves on the LGBTQ+ Task Force. developed resources and provided training on the Response Team at United Tribes Technical College CASE STUDY: Harem of Horror: A Batterer's impact of sexual violence in various communities, for victims/survivors of domestic violence and Manipulation of His Victims & the Criminal including adults in later life, people with disabilities, sexual assault on campus. Creating & Sustaining Justice System and others. a Sexual Assault Response Team (SART) for A Conversation on Bridging the DAWN WILCOX is a domestic violence survivor Gap for Male Survivors by Examining Female Your Tribal College Campus Survivor Services and educator. Ms. Wilcox founded Women Count USA: U.S. Femicide Database in 2017, and CHERYL WATTLEY is a professor at the UNT LAUREN WAGNER is a high-tech Crime Dallas College of Law teaching criminal law in is creating the first comprehensive database of training specialist in the High-Tech Crime Training the first-year curriculum. She is also the director of all women and girls murdered by men in the U.S. Services department of SEARCH, where she experiential education, teaching professional skills from 1950 to present. She also works to challenge performs tasks related to training local, state, and and criminal law. Prior to UNT Dallas College victim-blaming media narratives. Not One More: Unique Perspectives on Domestic Violence federal agencies on computer technology issues of Law, she was a professor of law and director Homicide with criminal justice applications. As an expert on of clinical education at the Univ. of Oklahoma social networking websites within law enforcement College of Law. New Elder Abuse App for JOHN WILKINSON is an attorney advisor investigations, she routinely provides technical Texas Law Enforcement & First Responders with AEquitas, and presents on trial strategy, legal assistance to law enforcement agencies in active analysis and policy, and ethical issues related cases. Social Media Open-Source Intelligence ANGELA WEEKES serves at the Nampa Family to violence against women. Mr. Wilkinson has Investigations Justice Center. Previously, she was a detective presented on the investigation and prosecution of corporal at the Nampa Police Dept., ending domestic violence, sexual violence, stalking, and JENNIFER WAINDLE was previously a as a corporal in the Crimes Against Person’s human trafficking and conducts research, develops supervisor for DeKalb Co. State Court Probation, Unit. Cpl. Weekes is certified at the Federal Law training materials, and provides case consultation where she designed policies and procedures Enforcement Training Center in domestic violence and technical assistance for prosecutors. Moving regarding the monitoring of domestic violence. and the Idaho Peace Officer’s Standards and Toward Justice: Pretrial Motion Practice; In 2014, Inv. Waindle implemented Georgia's Training Academy in domestic violence and sexual Witness Intimidation: Eliminating the Payoff first statewide, formal firearms protocol on a assault. Body-Worn Camera Considerations misdemeanor level, aimed at retrieving firearms & the Victim Impact; IACP Lessons Learned: MARC WIRTZ is the director of a Level II Trauma from probationers and enforcing the federal Strengthening Law Enforcement Response to Emergency Dept. in Downtown Los Angeles. firearms ban for persons convicted of family Domestic Violence & Sexual Violence National Mr. Wirtz is the program leader for the Survivor violence offenses. Taking Guns from Domestic Demonstration Initiative Advocate Program in the Emergency Dept. to Violence Offenders & Keeping Them Away help staff and physicians identify victims and HOPE WENKE is an enrolled member of the potential victims of human trafficking. Prior to his AYANA WALLACE is the training specialist Omaha Tribe of Nebraska, and is the Urban nursing career, Mr. Wirtz worked in Washington of Ujima, Inc.: The National Center on Violence Native Training and Technical Assistance D.C. on Healthcare Policy and Reform. Survivor Against Women in the Black Community, a project coordinator for Red Wind Consulting, Inc., Advocates: A Key to the Multidisciplinary Team of the DC Coalition Against Domestic Violence. working with urban Native programs to build and enhance their responses to indigenous victims LECIA WRIGHT, asst. U.S. attorney in the District Ms. Wallace has worked for over a decade in the of Nebraska, General Crimes Unit, represents the domestic violence field providing both direct service of domestic violence and sexual violence. Ms. Wenke previously served as program director U.S. in violent crimes to include, felony assaults, to survivors and technical assistance to advocates, sexual assault, domestic abuse, child sexual of the Haseya Advocate Program. Domestic & law enforcement, community-based partners, and abuse, child abuse, and homicide cases. She faith communities. Courageous Conversations: Sexual Violence Responses for Urban Native Programs also prosecutes child pornography offenses, Improving Our Response to Victim of Domestic white collar fraud, and computer crimes. Ms. and Sexual Violence in the Black Community CAROLYN WEST is professor of Clinical Wright serves as the Tribal Liaison for Nebraska. CASE STUDY: United States v. McCauley DEANNA WALLACE is a victim assistance Psychology at the Univ. of Washington where she teaches courses on the Psychology of Black Lessons Learned from a Tribal Sexual Assault specialist for Homeland Security Investigations, Investigation & Trial and bridges the gap between law enforcement Women and Sex Crimes and Sexual Violence. Dr. West trains, consults, works as an expert witness in needs and victim services. Ms. Wallace works KATHERINE WURMFELD is the director of with federal agents, law enforcement officers, and domestic violence/sexual assault cases, conducts Family Court Programs at the Center for Court nonprofit organizations on cases involving human workshops, and creates innovative training Innovation (CCI). Ms. Wurmfeld provides oversight trafficking, child exploitation, and financial crimes. materials to provide culturally-sensitive services to for CCI’s family court operating projects, training, She is also a subject matter expert and trains on survivors of color. Black Girlhood, Interrupted: technical assistance, and strategic planning victim issues and trauma-informed interviewing Pornography’s Impact on Sexual Violence in the Lives of Black Girls & Women; Courageous advice to courts around the country to enhance practices. Mommy Dearest: When Victimization Conversations: Improving Our Response to their response to domestic violence- and child- Hits Close to Home Victim of Domestic and Sexual Violence in the related relief. She has served as co-chair for the Black Community Lawyer’s Committee Against Domestic Violence. Enhancing the Court Process for Domestic Violence Litigants
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MARK WYNN is a national trainer to police executives, patrol officers, training officers, prosecutors, judges, legislators, social service providers, healthcare professionals, and victim advocates. An international lecturer at police academies all over the world, Mr. Wynn is a Fulbright specialist for the Dept. of State and is a domestic violence survivor, enabling him to teach both effectively and passionately. Officer- Involved Domestic & Sexual Violence; Raising the Standard: What to Expect From an Effective On-Scene Investigation HSIN-YEN YANG is an associate professor in the Dept. of Communication Studies at Fort Hays State Univ. in Hays, KS. Previously, Dr. Yang worked as a political campaigner, social activist, radio host, and researcher in various organizations and adviser of PR campaigns. She is currently the faculty adviser of the FHSU Chapter of the Public Relations Student Society of America. Cracking the Code on Generation Z: How to Build New Alliances to Fight Crimes Against Women VICTORIA YBANEZ is Navajo and Apache, and serves as the executive director of Red Wind Consulting, Inc. working to end violence against American Indian/Alaskan Native women. At Red Wind, Ms. Ybanez coordinates and provides Tribal Technical Assistance for recipients of the Tribal Governments Program for the U.S. Dept. of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women. Domestic & Sexual Violence Responses for Urban Native Programs KATHERINE YODER is the executive director of the Adult Advocacy Centers, which she founded in March 2019. Ms. Yoder is a forensic interviewer and has been an advocate for people with disabilities for 20 years. An Inclusive and Individualized Response for Victims of Crime with Disabilities: The Adult Advocacy Centers’ Model ANDREA ZAFERES is a medicolegal death investigator who specializes in the handling of aquatic cases from the scene to the courtroom. Ms. Zaferes trains law enforcement, medical examiners, coroners, domestic violence workers, medical personnel, and jurisprudence members to recognize, document, and investigate aquatic homicide, death, assault, and abuse cases; analyzing and building cases, and has developing standards for their investigation. Aquatic Crimes Against Women Staged as Noncriminal Aquatic Deaths Pt. 1; Aquatic Crimes Against Women Staged as Noncriminal Bathtub Deaths Pt. 2; The Sexualization of Strangulation: Felony or Fetish?
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