Event Description
Featuring Cheryl Lanktree, PhD, and John Briere, PhD, of the MCAVIC-USC Child and Adolescent Trauma Program, this web-based training event is sponsored by the NCTSN Complex Trauma Working Group. This presentation is part of a series addressing components of evidence-based interventions for complex trauma, adaptation of intervention approaches for different treatment settings and age groups, engagement strategies, and strategies for working with families.

To register for this free online event, please visit the NCTSN Learning Center for Child and Adolescent Trauma. If you are new to the Learning Center, you must create an account (click on "Create new account" in the upper right corner), and you must enroll in the Complex Trauma Speaker Series course, under Continuing Education. Continuing Education Credits (CEs) are available for this course.

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Sponsoring Agency
American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children

Additional Information
A week-long Child Forensic Interview Clinic that provides an unparalleled intensive training opportunity for professionals responsible for investigative interviews with children in suspected abuse cases. Appropriate for those just beginning as well as those with some experience. The APSAC Clinics present a balanced review of several prominent interview models and bring some of the most well-known national experts together to teach and facilitate practice interviews which are critiqued and videotaped. The Clinic culminates with a Mock Court experience for attendees.

Participants include: law enforcement investigators, child interviewers, CPS investigators, social workers, and any other professional responsible for investigative interviews with children in suspected child abuse cases

Event Contact
Dee Dee Bandy
American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children
Phone: (630) 941-1235

Sponsoring Agency
The Trauma Center at JRI

Event Description
We will explore post-traumatic responses at different developmentallevels, as well as the treatment implications of these findings. Wealso will explore how affect regulation and the interpretation ofinnocuous stimuli as threats require interventions aimed atrestoring active mastery and the capacity to focus on the present.Traumatic memories often are dissociated and may be inaccessibleto verbal recall or processing. Therefore, close attention mustbe paid to the development of inner resources to deal withdysregulation and helplessness, as well as the careful timing of theexploration and processing of the traumatic past.

*NCTSN members: click here for information on discounted registration for this conference*

Event Description
In this online presentation, Chandra Ghosh Ippen, PhD of the Child Trauma Research Program of UC San Francisco discusses the core concepts and primary treatment goals of Child-Parent Psychotherapy for Childhood Traumatic Grief. CPP-CTG is an adaptation of Child-Parent Psychotherapy, a dyadic evidence-based treatment for young children who have experienced a trauma. Core concepts are illustrated through clinical examples. This online presentation is part of a series on traumatic grief in children and adolescents.

To register for this free online event, please visit the NCTSN Learning Center for Child and Adolescent Trauma. If you are new to the Learning Center, you must create an account (click on "Create new account" in the upper right corner), and you must enroll in the Child Traumatic Grief Speaker Series course, under Continuing Education. Continuing Education Credits (CEs) are available for this course.

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Event Description
Ann Masten of the University of Minnesota discusses resilience of children and families in the aftermath of disasters. This online presentation is part of a series on terrorism and disaster.

To register for this free online event, please visit the NCTSN Learning Center for Child and Adolescent Trauma. If you are new to the Learning Center, you must create an account (click on "Create new account" in the upper right corner), and you must enroll in the Terrorism, Disaster, and Children Speaker Series course, under Continuing Education. Continuing Education Credits (CEs) are available for this course.

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Event Description
Mandy Habib, PsyD, of North Shore University Hospital discusses issues of treatment engagement for multiply traumatized youth in group treatment settings. This presentation is part of a series addressing components of evidence-based interventions for complex trauma, adaptation of intervention approaches for different treatment settings and age groups, engagement strategies, and strategies for working with families.

To register for this free online event, please visit the NCTSN Learning Center for Child and Adolescent Trauma. If you are new to the Learning Center, you must create an account (click on "Create new account" in the upper right corner), and you must enroll in the Complex Trauma Speaker Series course, under Continuing Education. Continuing Education Credits (CEs) are available for this course.

Series Flier

Seminars have been designed primarily for professionals in mental health, medicine and nursing, law, law enforcement, education, prevention, research, advocacy, child protection services, and allied fields. All aspects of child maltreatment will be addressed including prevention, assessment, intervention and treatment with victims, perpetrators and families affected by physical, sexual and psychological abuse and neglect. Cultural considerations will also be addressed.

Event Contact
Jim Campbell
American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children
Phone: (877) 402-7722

Sponsoring Agency
Dartmouth Medical School

Event Description
This is an intensive, introductory, one day program. Through discussion and hands-on learning, you'll acquire skills needed to practice evidence-based mental health. We use an active, case-based approach in a comfortable, small-group environment. A hallmark of this workshop is the low student-faculty ratio and the individual attention each participant receives from the faculty.

Target audience:

• Psychiatrists, psychologists, registered nurses and other mental health professionals who want to learn the evidence-based process to improve the effectiveness of their clinical practice.
• Especially useful for resident training directors and individual practitioners converting to evidence-based approaches.
• Attendance will be limited to 40 participants to maximize individual learning.

Event Flier

Sponsoring Agency
National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges

Event Description
Join us in Chicago for NCJFCJ's 72nd Annual Conference focusing on juvenile and family law topics including custody and visitation, divorce, child abuse and neglect, domestic violence, juvenile delinquency, and substance abuse.

Event Description
Laurel Kiser, PhD, MBA, Director of the Family-Informed Trauma Treatment Center discusses how to engage and work with children and families who experience ongoing, chronic trauma. This online presentations is part of a series addressing components of evidence-based interventions for complex trauma, adaptation of intervention approaches for different treatment settings and age groups, engagement strategies, and strategies for working with families.

To register for this free online event, please visit the NCTSN Learning Center for Child and Adolescent Trauma. If you are new to the Learning Center, you must create an account (click on "Create new account" in the upper right corner), and you must enroll in the Complex Trauma Speaker Series course, under Continuing Education. Continuing Education Credits (CEs) are available for this course.

Series Flier

Spongsoring Agency
Office for victims of Criime

Event Description
The Office for Victims of Crime is pleased to present the National Victim Assistance Academy (NVAA), one of the most important training events available to victim service providers.

Who should attend? The NVAA is important to a broad range of service providers, including those who work in:

• Justice-based programs.
• Community/nonprofit organizations/faith-based programs.
• Law enforcement.
• Mental health programs.
• Elder abuse programs.
• Hospitals and medical organizations.

Who are the instructors? Courses are taught by teams of nationally recognized scholars, researchers, and practitioners with hands-on experience—leaders in the field of victimology, criminal justice, and victims' rights and services.

What courses are being offered? NVAA offers a multi-level educational experience to match the full range of skills providers need today.

Event Sponsor
Foster Family-Based Treatment Association

Event Description
This conference features over 60 workshops for every type of treatment foster care professional. It is the only North American-based annual conference developed by and for treatment foster care professionals and foster parents.

• Learn the most effective and cutting-edge techniques used in the field.
• Network with experienced professionals from throughout North America.
• Improve competency and enhance best practices.
• Exchange information and ideas with professional colleagues.

Event Description
In this presentation, Robert Macy, PhD of the Trauma Center focuses on how the various members of the public health system can work together to provide psychological assistance to children and families in the period immediately following a disaster. This online presentation is part of a series on terrorism and disaster

To register for this free online event, please visit the NCTSN Learning Center for Child and Adolescent Trauma. If you are new to the Learning Center, you must create an account (click on "Create new account" in the upper right corner), and you must enroll in the Terrorism, Disaster, and Children Speaker Series course, under Continuing Education. Continuing Education Credits (CEs) are available for this course.

Series flier

Sponsoring Agency
International Trauma Studies Program

Event Description
Founded in 1997, the International Trauma Studies Program (ITSP) is a training and research institute in New York City. The program is committed to enhancing the resilience and coping capacities in individuals, families, and communities that have endured and/or are threatened by traumatic events - domestic and political violence, armed conflict and natural disaster.

Our advanced seminar will feature live web-based presentations and conversations with leaders and innovators in the field as well as case consultations, project supervision and experiential learning. Participants will work on an ongoing research project at the institute and will have access to our bibliographic and audiovisual library of presentations and workshops.

Applications for the seminar may be downloaded at:
http://itspnyc.org/advanced_seminar0910.doc

Sponsoring Agency
Department of Psychiatry Allegheny General HospitalPittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Event Description
Trauma-Focused Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), developed by Judith Cohen, Anthony Mannarino, and Esther Deblinger, is an empirically supported treatment for children and families exposed to traumatic life events. This two-day training will provide an intensive review of all of the TF-CBT treatment components, with a specific focus on clinical implementation strategies. It would be beneficial for participants to have completed the TF-CBT online training course at www.musc.edu/tfcbt prior to the live training.

Sponsoring Agency
Institute on Violence, Abuse, and Trauma

For more information and registration:
(858) 527-1860 x4030

Sponsoring Agency
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Event Description
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is proud to announce the 24th Annual Midwest Conference on Child Sexual Abuse Treatment. The goal of the conference is to provide a wide range of information on the latest developments and treatment methods and to suggest improved ways of dealing with the day-to-day challenges that occur in working with child sexual abuse. Therapists, child protection workers, attorneys, law enforcement officers, medical professionals, and anyone with a need to know more about child sexual abuse treatment will benefit from the conference.

Event Contact
Jim Campbell
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Phone: (608) 262-2352

Sponsoring Agency
Federation of Families for Children's Mental Health

The National Federation of Families for Children's Mental Health announces "Children's Mental Health Matters" as the theme for its 20th anniversary conference, a celebration of family involvement, expansion of the Federation of Families and two decades of committed individuals, families, and communities. This conference will focus on how families and their partners are successfully keeping the theme of "Children's Mental Health Matters" at the forefront to impact services, policy and the development of a stronger family voice in transforming children's mental health.

Call for presentations: http://www.ffcmh.org/conference2009/callforpresentations.html