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A-01 - Effective Interventions With Men Who Batter

Lundy Bancroft

This workshop draws from both research and clinical experience to demonstrate that domestic violence perpetration is largely rooted in attitudes and values that support male violence towards females. We will explore the batterer's profile and tactics, with a particular eye to understanding how he manages to be a tyrant at home while simultaneously escaping detection by the outside world. We will then review research and case illustrations to show best practices for safe and effective interventions with men who batter to promote family safety, hold the offender accountable, and promote change.

A-02 - New and Clear Differences Between African American and European American Male Adolescent Sexual Offenders and Implications for Culturally Based Treatment

David Prescott

In a previous paper Dr. Burton found a few very small differences between racial groups. However, based on his clinical work he hypothesized that the groups may differ in terms of deviant sexual interest and indeed in this study they do - with Caucasian youth having significantly more deviant sexual interests after controlling for salient variables such as poverty and severity of crime. Potential reasons for this and culturally based treatment which takes advantages of the strengths of a given culture.  

A-03 - A Decade of War: Behavioral Health Support for Army Youth

Paul Ban PhD; Andrew Dennis

The Child, Adolescent and Family Behavioral Health Office (CAFBHO) is helping to organize a major and emerging agenda for the United States (U.S.) Army involving the development of School Behavioral Health (SBH) and Child and Family Assistance Center (CAFAC) services for military students and families on several Army Installations with high levels of deployment of soldiers.  This presentation will include discussion of the impacts of deployment and re-deployment on soldiers and their families, other stresses being experienced, and how innovative SBH services are being developed and implemented to assist students and families in contending with deployment and related traumatic events.   Ideas for trauma services enhancement, and measurement of service impacts (including preliminary data) will be presented, along with an update on the CAFBHO and how it is interfacing with other major trauma related initiatives in the U.S.

A-04 - Field Safety and Tactical Awareness

Robert Graham, BS

This workshop will focus on the risks of working in the community in public service. We will explore what risks field staff face and how to recognize and mitigate those risks. Attendees will learn how to gauge their level of awareness and how to coordinate their senses and gut instincts to recognize and avoid dangerous situations. The session will cover planning, preparation and using internet tools for safety. It will also address dealing with dangerous animals and using back up personnel effectively. This session is designed for non-uniformed staff who perform work in the community.

A-05 - Medicolegal Investigation of Deaths in Infants and Young Children

Richard Harruff, MD, PhD

This presentation will include an overview of sudden, unexpected death in the early years, including natural deaths, especially Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), accidents, and homicides by abuse and neglect.  Designed primarily for death investigators, the presentation will be relevant also for law enforcement, prosecutors, and child protective services.  Material from case studies, including scene investigation and postmortem examination will be used in explaining and discussing topics ranging from current standards of investigation and classification of sudden infant death to shaken baby syndrome, co-sleeping, environmental and consumer product hazards, shaken baby syndrome, and retinal hemorrhages.

A-06 - Leading in tough times:  How to Exercise Leadership in your Child Welfare Legal System

Tim Jaasko-Fisher, JD

The challenges facing the child welfare become more complex with each passing year.  Courts, agencies, and communities have become interlinked in ways that require leadership across social, professional and geographic boundaries.  At times, not only do we fail to agree on solutions to problems, but we cannot even agree on how to define the problem itself.  This session will share tools from disciplines such as problem typology, adaptive leadership, and implementation science to help participants create a framework for leadership in their own community.      

A-07 - Medical-Legal Partnerships to Improve Child Health

Scott Crain, JD/Brian Johnston, MD, MPH

To help keep children healthy and safe, pediatricians with low-income patients increasingly turn to lawyers who practice poverty law. The Seattle Medical Legal Partnership brings lawyers into the healthcare setting to help patients navigate complex legal systems that often hold the solution to the social determinants of their health and health disparities. By addressing these “upstream” causes through interdisciplinary partnership, we are working to break the link between poverty and poor health, while empowering parents to be safe, nurturing and effective. Join us as we discuss the benefits and challenges of our partnership, along with examples from our local experience.

A-08 - Anticipating and Responding to Abuse Recantation (Direct Webcast)

Thomas D. Lyon PhD, JD

This workshop will provide practical suggestions for forensic interviewers and guidance for professionals who evaluate children’s reports when recantations occur. We’ll review the research on abuse recantation and watch and comment on excerpts of forensic interviews.

A-09 - Increasing the Educational Outcomes for Youth in Foster Care: Special Education & 504

Lori Gessler/Shanna McBride

Quality Special Education services are individualized, intensive and expensive.  Resources are limited.  Presented by Treehouse Educational Advocates, this course will provide information and tools needed to work with a school district in getting the support services a child needs.  Topics to be covered include: Special Education Law, Individualized Education Program (IEP), 504 Plans, Referral and Evaluation Process, Dispute Resolution and Special Education Discipline.  

A-10 - Identifying Drug Endangered Children: A Collaborative Approach

Lori Moriarty

Ignored, abused, and abandoned – these are some of the chronic conditions experienced by children raised in environments where there is illegal drug use, manufacturing, cultivation and distribution.

Drug endangered children are part of a very large, and growing population of children whose lives have been seriously and negatively impacted by dangerous drugs.  Thousands of these children across our state go unnoticed and do not receive the necessary care and treatment to heal from these abusive environments.  If ignored and left unmonitored, these children continue to be victims caught in a cycle of drug abuse. The primary challenge with illegal substance abuse and drug endangered children is in aligning systems responsible for preventing, intervening, and treating these issues to achieve common outcomes.

The National Strategy for Drug Endangered Children focuses on the formation of multi-disciplinary partnerships that take advantage of existing agency personnel, resources, and responsibilities and coordinate their mutual interests and duties to meet the specific needs of these children.  The focus on these children’s needs is throughout the entire process until the child is in a permanent, safe and positive functioning environment.

A-11 - Adverse Childhood Experience & Resilience in Washington

Dario Longhi PhD/Laura Porter/Sasha Silveanu MA

Washington is the only state with detailed information about Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) -- the most powerful determinate of health and social functioning.   This workshop will present analysis of ACE and related data, and explore the significance of two vital systems for resilience: community capacity and social/emotional support.

A-12 - Fathering Our Children: Dads’ Experiences in the Child Welfare System

Jeremiah Donier/Patrick Dowd JD/Patrick Tiekamp/Na'im Williams/Jonah Idczak/John Allen

Four fathers who are “veterans” of the child welfare system share the stories of their initial involvement with child welfare as well as of their journeys toward safe and lasting reunification with their children.   Their experiences highlight the importance of engaging fathers with their children, identify challenges unique to fathers involved in the child welfare system, and recommend strategies to address these challenges.  As members of the Washington State Parent Advocacy Committee, they will also discuss how they mentor other fathers entering the system and advocate for program and policy change to strengthen the role of fathers in child welfare. 

A-13 - The Assessment and Treatment of Female Sexually Abusive Youth

Susan Robinson, MSW

Females may still be the minority of those committing sexual offenses, but they are a population that is in need of research and clinical attention. Because of the lack of knowledge with this population, treatment providers have been left applying the well-seasoned offense-specific treatment models developed for males to females. However, the current thinking is that aggressiveness is gendered and treatment models need to be developed through a lens of female development and epistemology. This workshop will provide an overview of the research on female sexually abusive youth and discuss assessment and treatment implications.

A-14 - Meth and Drug Trafficking in Indian Country Today

David Rogers, BS

Native Americans suffer from the highest addiction rate for meth abuse over all other demographic groups in the United States. Because of this Meth has had a devastating impact on tribal communities and drained resources from other local issues. Drug Traffickers, recognizing the addiction rate in Indian Country have purposely selected Indian Country as places to transport, store, smuggle and sell meth among other drugs.

A-15 - Best Practices and Legal Issues in Working with LGBTQ Youth in Out-of-Home Care

Susan Sommer, JD

This workshop will focus on the unmet needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) youth in out-of-home care, who commonly suffer needless discrimination and misunderstanding.  It will offer training and resources, including training manuals, reports and tool kits developed by Lambda Legal with such partnering organizations as the NASW, CWLA, and the Council on Social Work Education.  The workshop will also canvas legal issues relevant to work with this population, and is appropriate for child welfare administrators and staff, as well as for judges, attorneys and advocates who work with LGBTQ youth in care.

A-16 - Lost Sparrow Documentary

Chris Billing

In 1978, two Crow Indian brothers, Bobby and Tyler Billing ran away from home on Monday and were found dead on Tuesday on the railroad tracks. They were buried on Wednesday. Their family moved to their summer home on Thursday and barely spoke of the boys again. Lost Sparrow is their adoptive brother's, Chris Billing, journey to bring Bobby and Tyler home and confront a painful truth that shattered his family.