The Lecture Series is held at various times throughout the year in DCAC’s state-of-the-art training facility. The Lecture Series is designed for the sole purpose of providing training to only those people employed by governmental and nonprofit agencies in the fields of law enforcement, prosecution, child protective services, social work, children’s advocacy, therapy, probation, parole, and medicine who work directly with child victims of crime and whose intent is to help children in their healing process.
There is no cost to attend, but participants must pre-register online.
Registration is limited to professionals employed in governmental and nonprofit agencies who work directly with children and families. Please note, some trainings are further restricted to only those professionals in the fields of law enforcement, prosecution, child protective services, social work, children’s advocacy, therapy, probation, parole, and medicine who work directly with child victims of crime whose intent is to help children in their healing process. DCAC staff reserves the right to refuse registration and/or admission to any individual who does not meet these criteria. If you have any questions about your registration, please email Lana Ahrens at lahrens@dcac.org.
Continuing Education
Continuing professional education credit has been applied for on behalf of the following groups:
- Texas State Board of Examiners of Marriage and Family Therapists (LMFT)
- All attendees seeking CEU accreditation must check with their licensing board to ensure CEU approval is given.
- Texas State Board of Examiners of Professional Counselors (LPC)
- All attendees seeking CEU accreditation must check with their licensing board to ensure CEU approval is given.
- Texas State Board of Social Work Examiners (MSW)
- Attendees wishing to obtain TCOLE credit must self-report through their department. Lecture Series is not able to submit on their behalf.
OUT-OF-STATE ATTENDEES
Training credit may be awarded at your state’s licensing agency’s discretion.
PLEASE NOTE
Only ONE certificate per registration can be obtained after completion of session survey. No certificates will be given to attendees who did not register.
2022 Calendar
LGBTQIA+ Youth and Sexual Health – Hybrid
Speaker: Al-Killen Harvey
Date: Thursday, May 12, 2022
Time: 9 AM to 3 PM
IN PERSON REGISTRATION LINK: https://cvent.me/Ezarg9
VIRTUAL REGISTRATION LINK: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/193212101346067983
Integrating Sexual Health with Male Victims of Abuse – Hybrid
Speaker: Al-Killen Harvey
Date: Friday, May 13, 2022
Time: 8:30 AM to 12:30 PM
IN PERSON REGISTRATION LINK: https://cvent.me/01vLEq
VIRTUAL REGISTRATION LINK: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/4429989943469346060
Towards Culturally Responsive Treatment: Increasing Awareness on Privilege, Racism, and Microaggression and Generational Trauma
Date: Thursday, May 19, 2022
Time: 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM
VIRTUAL REGISTRATION LINK: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/2320814381414964238
The Impact of Poverty and the Impact of Mass Incarceration for Youth
Date: Friday, May 20, 2022
Time: 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM
IN PERSON REGISTRATION LINK: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/7165998186675113232
Analysis of Patterns of Denial in Sex Offenders
Speaker: Darrel Turner
Date: Monday, June 20, 2022 and Tuesday June 21, 2022
Time: 9 AM to 5 PM
After 12 years of data collection and analysis, the APOD (Analysis of Patterns of Denial) among sex offenders has been published and is available for use. The APOD is a twelve-item checklist that identifies denial techniques that sex offenders and falsely accused persons use in the course of denying guilt of a sex offense.
The APOD distinguishes the manner in which guilty suspects engage in denial versus falsely accused suspects – and the difference is significant. The APOD allows the interviewer to compare the suspect’s response pattern to these two groups with significant scientific accuracy. In this workshop, the twelve items are introduced and seen in use via recordings of interviews of suspects in actual sex offense cases. In addition, attendees will learn interview and interrogation techniques such as specific responses, questions, timing of questions, types of confrontation, wording of questions, effective responses, and lines of query for use in interviews when these denial techniques are used by the suspect. The APOD has been called “Amazing,” “Next level,” and, “the Future,” by professionals who have attended these introductory workshops.
The training is geared toward attorneys and law enforcement officials who work these types of cases. Attendees may include representatives from our partners in law enforcement, medical, the district attorney’s office, Child Protective Services, and DCAC staff. The presentations should be geared to those working with crimes against children.
History, Equity and Policy: The Formation of Permissive Violence on Native American/Alaska Native Populations
Speaker: Karyn Kameroff
Date: Thursday, June 30, 2022
Time: 9 AM to 12 PM Central
Hosted Events
Empathy Based Interrogation
August 15 – August 19, 2022
March 27 – March 31, 2023
Speakers:
Chief Mike Milnor (Ret.)
Nancy Oglesby – Career Prosecutor
Mark MacKizer – Special Agent, FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit (Ret.)
A science-based interview and interrogation philosophy designed to keep suspects talking.
Students will learn how to:
- Effectively identify and interview different suspect personalities.
- Use strategies to enhance accurate information gathering and corroboration.
- Use empathy and persuasion to maintain longer dialogues.
- Create an interrogation “Ops Plan” that includes the strategic use of evidence.
- Use perspective conversion™ to keep a suspect engaged in the conversation.
