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Only ONE certificate per registration can be obtained after completion of session survey. No certificates will be given to attendees who did not register.

*Please register with business email address* Investigating child abuse cases require coordination and communication to ensure a successful outcome. First and foremost, protecting the child is our goal and even in homicide cases there are often other children in the home that require the attention of child protective services. It is critical that everyone work together to make sure that all children involved are protected, evidence is not lost, and efforts are not duplicated. It is critical that law enforcement officers and child protective services’ investigators work together throughout the entire investigation.

As a career prosecutor for over 20 years, Nancy has handled thousands of domestic violence, child abuse, elder abuse and sexual assault cases. In addition, she has trained allied professionals nationwide including prosecutors, law enforcement officers, advocates, medical professionals and forensic interviewers on the issues surrounding these types of crimes. She has had the opportunity to be appointed to state committees and task forces in these areas by four Virginia Governors. She also co-authored Virginia’s Model Law Enforcement Protocol in the areas of Domestic Violence, Stalking and Child Homicide Investigation.

Prior to co-founding Justice 3D, Mike had been involved in law enforcement for over 34 years, most recently retiring as Police Chief of Altavista, Virginia. Over the years he has worked in various positions which include Interim Sheriff, Director of Public Safety, Coordinator of an FBI/Virginia State Police multi-jurisdictional task force, Senior Supervisory Investigator, uniformed Deputy Sheriff and Polygraph Examiner. In addition to being involved in thousands of investigations, Mike has also done an extensive amount of teaching in criminal justice with an emphasis in the areas of sexual assault, child abuse, elder abuse and domestic violence. He has been a Professor of Criminal Justice at Liberty University, as well as lecturing across both Virginia and the United States.

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Family Advocate programs are growing and building a significant role within the CAC world. Come learn how the Dallas Children’s Advocacy Center has grown their program from one family advocate to 23 in six years. Explore how DCAC has adapted and expanded to meet the needs of the changing population of individuals and families served.

Mindy Jackson serves as the Director of Support Services for the Dallas Children’s Advocacy Center. She has worked in client serving organizations for twenty years. Mindy served as a children’s coordinator in the domestic violence field in Tarrant County for ten years until she transitioned to the Dallas Children’s Advocacy Center where she has been the Director of Support Services for seven years. As the director, she supervises two assistant directors, family advocates, children’s family advocates, on-call crisis worker, and administrative staff. Her team has grown from three to 23 staff members over the course of six years, and Mindy has had to navigate the significant growth of her program and the challenges and opportunities it has presented. She has also provided consulting to other CAC’s across the United States.

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This workshop will provide state-of-the-art information on traumatic impact on young children. In particular, the child’s idiosyncratic experience will be highlighted, as well as the creative and unique defensive mechanisms they employ — defenses that are useful during traumatic events, and can become problematic later on. Children’s art work will be shown to clarify the profound impact of relational complex trauma on children’s sense of integrity, identity, and internal world views. Finally, information will be provided on consensus areas about how to best help children address traumatic impact in therapy, including a community response that consistently reinforces safety and trust, and trauma-informed responses.

Eliana Gil, Ph.D, RPT-S, ATR continues her life-long commitment to training and education by sharing what she has learned and offering meaningful training opportunities. Over the years of being a public speaker, teacher, and consultant, she has found it rewarding to stimulate interest in a range of relevant topics such as working with traumatized children, play therapy and post-traumatic play, family play therapy, relational treatments, among others. In addition, over the course of a long career, several assessment and treatment models have emerged in the context of varied clinical settings and with the assistance of talented colleagues. She looks forward to continuing to share information in a relaxed and nurturing teaching environment and will also provide opportunities for colleagues to present on their areas of expertise.

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This workshop will provide state-of-the-art information on traumatic impact on young children. In particular, the child’s idiosyncratic experience will be highlighted, as well as the creative and unique defensive mechanisms they employ — defenses that are useful during traumatic events, and can become problematic later on. Children’s art work will be shown to clarify the profound impact of relational complex trauma on children’s sense of integrity, identity, and internal world views. Finally, information will be provided on consensus areas about how to best help children address traumatic impact in therapy, including a community response that consistently reinforces safety and trust, and trauma-informed responses.

Eliana Gil, Ph.D, RPT-S, ATR continues her life-long commitment to training and education by sharing what she has learned and offering meaningful training opportunities. Over the years of being a public speaker, teacher, and consultant, she has found it rewarding to stimulate interest in a range of relevant topics such as working with traumatized children, play therapy and post-traumatic play, family play therapy, relational treatments, among others. In addition, over the course of a long career, several assessment and treatment models have emerged in the context of varied clinical settings and with the assistance of talented colleagues. She looks forward to continuing to share information in a relaxed and nurturing teaching environment and will also provide opportunities for colleagues to present on their areas of expertise.

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Children are often referred for therapy services by school personnel who find their behaviors or affect suggestive of family issues or mental health concerns. Once in treatment, school counselors, teachers, and psychologists may have periodic and brief contact with mental health professionals about treatment goals and progress. At times, progress is evident in the child’s immediate positive behavior changes; other times, the school sees little change even when the child is engaged in treatment. In other words, treatment gains do not always transfer to improved behavior or performance in school. This workshop will discuss the impact of trauma on children and ways in which less overt symptoms can manifest in the classroom. In addition, the presenter will discuss a collaborative, trauma-focused, neurologically-driven approach that creates safety nets around children. These safety nets provide similar lessons and language and can promote and encourage parallel principles and interventions.

Dr. Jennifer Shaw will specify how this collaboration can occur and how children can bring lessons from therapy to the school setting, increasing the likelihood of symptom reduction and academic success. With such a bridge from the therapy office to the child’s larger community, teachers and other involved professionals can better identify signs of escalation, regression, or distress. Dr. Shaw will review concrete strategies to initiate and maintain a collaborative approach to treatment planning and treatment course among professionals in the community. Jennifer Shaw received a Master’s and Doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology from the American School of Professional Psychology, Washington, D.C. She has a special interest in working with children with a history of early trauma who develop sexual behavior problems, and continue her work with Boundary Project, a research-informed assessment and treatment program initially developed by Dr. Gil for children ages 4-12 years with sexual behavior problems.

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The presentation examines behaviors of offenders, such as grooming of victims and their families – as well as self-grooming by an offender to prepare himself to offend – that are engaged in to obtain access to victims, prevent disclosure of the sexual abuse, and to gain the trust and sometimes even “love” of their victims. Also, subsequent behaviors of these groomed victims may appear counter to what would be expected from a victim of sexual abuse (eg. delayed disclosure, recanting disclosure, appeared “attached to” or “defensive of” the offender). The presentation examines this through professional experience, personal research studies, available research, and uses videos of interviews of sex offenders and victims. Additionally, the presentation examines how these variables impact juries’ decisions in these types of cases (for example, if the victim appears ‘defensive’ of or “attached to” the offender, if the victim appears “happy” in images of CP, and the impact of substance abuse on the part of the victim). The training is geared toward attorneys and law enforcement officials who work these types of cases. Additionally, the presentation has received excellent feedback from victim advocates and mental health professionals who work with offenders or victims.

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*Please register with your business email. Dr. Turner provides training in the APODD, a research-based instrument for use in interviewing and interrogating adults suspected of sexual offenses. The instrument was created by analysis of interviews and interrogations made with adult male suspects accused of sexual offenses who are interviewed but not charged. The purpose of the research is to compare the response patterns of this group of individuals with a group of offenders that have been convicted who are still denying their offenses. These two groups represent, in the research, an “innocent” group versus a “guilty” group.

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This 4-hour day will cover various types of physical abuse, including bruising, bite marks, suspicious burns, neglect, failure to thrive, shaken baby syndrome, and more. During the presentation, students will learn crime scene procedures, evidence collection, photography, court demonstrative evidence, typology, symptomology, determination of intentional vs. accidental injury, and so much more.

As a member of the San Diego Police Department’s Child Abuse Team in (1981), Phyl Peltier was frustrated when he encountered his first burn case, and found no practical methods in place for determining whether the case was accidental or non-accidental. Out of that frustration, and after inquiring of doctors, prosecutors, defense attorneys, child abuse investigators, and social services, through a trial and error basis, Peltier developed the immersion burn worksheet to help investigators and the blue dye demonstration for which he is known. Phyl has taught throughout the United States, Canada, and England. He has taught for international organizations in the United States and Canada such as The International Coroners and ME’s Association and The International Forensic Nurses Assn in Montreal. He has also qualified as an expert witness on burn injuries in several courts, including the (Queen’s Court ) in Australia. Phyl’s expertise is not limited to burn injuries, however. He also teaches investigative techniques on the broad spectrum of child abuse, bites, and fingerprints, demonstrative evidence, interview & interrogation and many other investigative categories. Phyl has testified as an expert witness in suspicious burn injuries in criminal prosecutions. An instructor in the investigation of child abuse, as well as suspicious burn injuries, since 1981, Phyl received the Excellence in Instruction Award from the Robert Presley Institute of Criminal Investigation for 1999-2000 and again in 2005-2006.

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In child abuse investigations, interviewees may include: victims, caretakers, siblings, neighbors, medical personnel and more. Confrontational interrogations refer to the suspected offender and will focus on the “Why” instead of the “If”.

As a member of the San Diego Police Department’s Child Abuse Team in (1981), Phyl Peltier was frustrated when he encountered his first burn case, and found no practical methods in place for determining whether the case was accidental or non-accidental. Out of that frustration, and after inquiring of doctors, prosecutors, defense attorneys, child abuse investigators, and social services, through a trial and error basis, Peltier developed the immersion burn worksheet to help investigators and the blue dye demonstration for which he is known. Phyl has taught throughout the United States, Canada, and England. He has taught for international organizations in the United States and Canada such as The International Coroners and ME’s Association and The International Forensic Nurses Assn in Montreal. He has also qualified as an expert witness on burn injuries in several courts, including the (Queen’s Court ) in Australia. Phyl’s expertise is not limited to burn injuries, however. He also teaches investigative techniques on the broad spectrum of child abuse, bites, and fingerprints, demonstrative evidence, interview & interrogation and many other investigative categories. Phyl has testified as an expert witness in suspicious burn injuries in criminal prosecutions. An instructor in the investigation of child abuse, as well as suspicious burn injuries, since 1981, Phyl received the Excellence in Instruction Award from the Robert Presley Institute of Criminal Investigation for 1999-2000 and again in 2005-2006.

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This workshop will address the HOW TO’s of EMDR therapy with children and adolescents. This includes the overarching structure of preparation phase, and the multifactor model of preparation (Gomez) that includes creative and playful ways of increasing capacities in children before and in between trauma processing. How to go through assessment and processing phases using playful and developmentally appropriate strategies will be covered and demonstrated. Case conceptualization, treatment planning and target identification strategies will be addressed. This workshop will present how to establish the
child’s readiness to move into trauma processing as well as playful, age-appropriate and creative strategies that prepare the child’s nervous system for processing. Moreover, the child’s stability and sense of safety is highly dependent upon the parent’s capacity to provide it. The work with the parents within the eight phases of EMDR treatment is pivotal. This workshop will also present an attachment based systemic model to work with parents and children. This presentation is full of practical and ready to use strategies that will impact the effectiveness and outcome of your therapeutic work.

Ana M Gomez, MC, LPC born in Colombia (South America) is a psychotherapist in private practice, author of several books, chapters and articles, and a lecturer internationally known for her innovative work with children and adolescents. Ana Gomez is an EMDRIA approved consultant; an EMDRIA advanced training provider, an EMDR Institute and EMDR-IBA trainer and a trainer of trainers. Furthermore, Ana has received training in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Play Therapy, Sandtray Therapy, Theraplay, Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB), and the use of the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI). She has worked with children, adolescents, adults and families affected by trauma and adversity for overt 25 years. Ana has presented in more than 40 cities in the USA. She has also presented in close to 30 cities in four continents.

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This workshop will address the HOW TO’s of EMDR therapy with children and adolescents. This includes the overarching structure of preparation phase, and the multifactor model of preparation (Gomez) that includes creative and playful ways of increasing capacities in children before and in between trauma processing. How to go through assessment and processing phases using playful and developmentally appropriate strategies will be covered and demonstrated. Case conceptualization, treatment planning and target identification strategies will be addressed. This workshop will present how to establish the
child’s readiness to move into trauma processing as well as playful, age-appropriate and creative strategies that prepare the child’s nervous system for processing. Moreover, the child’s stability and sense of safety is highly dependent upon the parent’s capacity to provide it. The work with the parents within the eight phases of EMDR treatment is pivotal. This workshop will also present an attachment based systemic model to work with parents and children. This presentation is full of practical and ready to use strategies that will impact the effectiveness and outcome of your therapeutic work.

Ana M Gomez, MC, LPC born in Colombia (South America) is a psychotherapist in private practice, author of several books, chapters and articles, and a lecturer internationally known for her innovative work with children and adolescents. Ana Gomez is an EMDRIA approved consultant; an EMDRIA advanced training provider, an EMDR Institute and EMDR-IBA trainer and a trainer of trainers. Furthermore, Ana has received training in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Play Therapy, Sandtray Therapy, Theraplay, Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB), and the use of the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI). She has worked with children, adolescents, adults and families affected by trauma and adversity for overt 25 years. Ana has presented in more than 40 cities in the USA. She has also presented in close to 30 cities in four continents.

REGISTRATION LINK: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/6432902098787834640

This workshop will address the HOW TO’s of EMDR therapy with children and adolescents. This includes the overarching structure of preparation phase, and the multifactor model of preparation (Gomez) that includes creative and playful ways of increasing capacities in children before and in between trauma processing. How to go through assessment and processing phases using playful and developmentally appropriate strategies will be covered and demonstrated. Case conceptualization, treatment planning and target identification strategies will be addressed. This workshop will present how to establish the
child’s readiness to move into trauma processing as well as playful, age-appropriate and creative strategies that prepare the child’s nervous system for processing. Moreover, the child’s stability and sense of safety is highly dependent upon the parent’s capacity to provide it. The work with the parents within the eight phases of EMDR treatment is pivotal. This workshop will also present an attachment based systemic model to work with parents and children. This presentation is full of practical and ready to use strategies that will impact the effectiveness and outcome of your therapeutic work.

Ana M Gomez, MC, LPC born in Colombia (South America) is a psychotherapist in private practice, author of several books, chapters and articles, and a lecturer internationally known for her innovative work with children and adolescents. Ana Gomez is an EMDRIA approved consultant; an EMDRIA advanced training provider, an EMDR Institute and EMDR-IBA trainer and a trainer of trainers. Furthermore, Ana has received training in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Play Therapy, Sandtray Therapy, Theraplay, Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB), and the use of the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI). She has worked with children, adolescents, adults and families affected by trauma and adversity for overt 25 years. Ana has presented in more than 40 cities in the USA. She has also presented in close to 30 cities in four continents.

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This case study recalls the practices of a joint operation between Grand Prairie Police Department and Garland Police Department to identify, and ultimately arrest, a subject who was unsure and hesitant to act out in the beginning, but chooses to victimize one of two potential children.

Tony Godwin has been employed by the Garland Police Department for 25 years and is currently assigned to the Northern Texas Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force (ICACTF) where he has served since 2006. Tony is responsible for the investigation of child molestation cases involving strangers, child sexual assault cases involving strangers, child pornography, and the internet solicitation of children for sexual purposes. Tony has conducted in excess of 1,800 criminal investigations as the primary Detective into offenses related to the exploitation of children.  Tony is a certified computer and cell phone forensic examiner and has conducted in excess of 2,500 cell/computer forensic acquisitions. Tony has conducted joint criminal investigations while assisting the Federal Bureau of Investigation, The United States Postal Service, the Department of Homeland Security Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency, the United States Secret Service and other local Law Enforcement agencies in an effort to combat child exploitation and child pornography on the World Wide Web.

Brandon Poor has been with the Grand Prairie Police Department since 2006. Brandon has a Bachelor of Music from Texas Christian University and a Master of Music from the Manhattan School of Music. Brandon joined the Domestic Crimes Unit in 2014 and was assigned as Crimes Against Children Detective until 2016. During that time, he investigated sexual and physical abuse cases against children, as well as child homicide and death cases. In 2016, Brandon was assigned to the Internet Crimes Against Children Unit, the first at Grand Prairie Police Department. As a member of the Northern Texas ICAC Task Force and FBI Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force, Brandon has investigated offenses of child pornography, solicitation/enticement, and other offenses involving the exploitation of children. Brandon is also a certified forensic computer and cell phone examiner, and has conducted hundreds of digital forensic examinations for ICAC cases, as well as many others. Brandon teaches child exploitative investigation techniques and child exploitation presentations to professionals around the US and abroad.

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For social workers and therapists who work with traumatized youth and family members, it is important for us to not only provide trauma-informed care but also to use reduce the chances for additional harm. Race is an important factor which is infrequently discussed yet still plays an important role in the therapist-client dyad. EMDR and Brainspotting are trauma-informed and evidenced-based approaches which are effective for PTSD symptoms. Anti-racist psychotherapy is a framework which incorporates all of the above, as well as an understanding of the social, historical, and neurobiological mechanisms which underlie current symptoms of distress and racial trauma. In situations where there are racial differences (or similarities) between the client and professional, the social construction theory of race, and how we either respond or neglect it, can either improve the therapeutic alliance or maintain therapeutic ruptures. The presentation will involve an anti-racist critique of the historical function of social services in racial contexts, recommendations for conducting EMDR and Brainspotting from an anti-racist perspective, strategies for engaging youth and families in the trauma resolution process, and self-care recommendations for professionals who work with traumatized populations.

David Archer, MSW, MFT, is an anti-racist psychotherapist from Montreal, Canada. In addition to being trained as a clinical social worker, he is also a registered couple and family therapist. Though mindfulness, intersectional feminism, and critical race theory inform his philosophic approach, he works full time in private practice using EMDR, Brainspotting, EFT, and other mind-body strategies which utilize memory re-consolidation and working memory taxation methods. Areas of interest relate to working with individuals who have suffered from PTSD, racial trauma, minority stress, addictions, and eating disorders. Mr. Archer is an ally of LGBTQ, Black, Indigenous, and oppressed people of color around the world.

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There is an increased public awareness around the prevalence, impact and salience of sex trafficking, human trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation. When allegations of trafficking and exploitation are made known to law enforcement and social services, the forensic interview process can be an effective tool for gathering victim statements and assessing what has occurred. This training will discuss the specifics of working with victims of trafficking and exploitation and offer guidance for conducting forensic interviews with this population.

Learning Objectives:

1. Discuss the prevalence, dynamics and realities of human trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation.

2. Provide techniques and strategies for effectively interviewing victims of trafficking and exploitation, through sample language and case examples.

3. Offer guidance on how the MDT can best serve victims of trafficking and exploitation.

Rita Farrell has over 20 years of experience working with child abuse investigations as a forensic interviewer and founding executive director of a child advocacy center. In her role as a forensic interview specialist and trainer for Zero Abuse Project, Rita admits that her role as a forensic interviewer of child abuse victims is her “true passion.”

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The on‐going global pandemic has highlighted the rise in incidents of child sexual abuse, and the urgent need for training in the area of understanding, investigating, prosecuting and supervising adults who commit sexual assaults. This special virtual training event is presented by three internationally recognized experts who together will bring you a unique, tri‐perspective, condensed Master Class covering four key areas of working with adults who commit sexual assault on children. The day will be a live virtual webinar event, with the opportunity for attendees to interact with the presenters, each of whom has trained thousands of professionals annually. This is a rare opportunity to be part of the presentation and see them interact and discuss these important aspects of Child Sexual Assault.

Graham Hill, Ph.D.
Dr. Hill is a British Criminologist and expert on adults who sexually abuse children and men who
commit non‐familial child abduction/murder. He is a former detective and Senior Investigating
Officer for Major and Specialist Crime and the founder and first Head of Behavior Analysis for
the UK’s Child Exploitation and On‐line Prevention Centre (CEOP‐UK). Dr. Hill is a Research
Fellow at Leeds University and a member of the British Society of Criminology.

Lawrence Jay Braunstein, J.D.
Lawrence Jay Braunstein is a partner in the law firm of Braunstein & Zuckerman, Esqs, in White
Plains, New York, and an adjunct professor of Law at Hofstra University Law School in
Hempstead, New York. His practice is concentrated in the areas of Matrimonial and Family Law
and related civil and criminal litigation, specifically focusing in the area of child custody
litigation and litigation involving allegations of child sexual abuse, physical abuse and abusive
head trauma (shaken baby). He is a former prosecutor, now a defense attorney, and since 1999
has served on the faculty of the NYPD Detective Bureau Training Unit. He has conducted
hundreds of trainings with police departments across the United States, with the FBI Behavioral
Analysis Units, and with police agencies in England, Scotland, Wales, and South Africa.

Jim Tanner, Ph.D.
Dr. Tanner has worked with sex offenders for the past 50 years in almost every capacity within
the justice system. He is sworn staff in Colorado serving as a Cyber Crime Analyst to
Probation/Parole in Colorado and has examined over 1,700 sex offenders’ computers. He serves
as a Qualified Expert Witness in Colorado Courts in A) Computer Forensics and B) Sex Offender
Cognitive Sets & Grooming Strategies. Dr. Tanner has provided training on sex offender
cognitive sets and field forensics for APPA, NLECTC, HTCIA, USDOJ, DOD, ICAC and other
“alphabet” agencies in the US and EU.

*Session will not be recorded.

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The Project FIND One-Day Training is designed for individuals working on multi-disciplinary teams (MDT’s) and in other service organizations seeking to gain additional information about the risk factors, realities and strategies for working with individuals with disabilities and individuals with mental health disorders. The training is founded in forensic interviewing best practices with considerations and adaptations to account for individual disability, mental health disorder, language capacity and cultural background. Similar to the Project FIND Two-Day Training, the one-day curriculum is designed to introduce MDT members and other service organization staff to practical applications for engaging and communicating with individuals with intellectual Disabilities, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Cerebral Palsy, Physical Disabilities, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Communication Disorders, Mental Health Disorders, Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders, Bipolar and Related Disorders, Depressive Disorders, Anxiety Disorders, and Trauma-Related Disorders. Understanding the unique characteristics of these groups and the ability to communicate effectively is paramount in creating safe environments and supporting quality of life.

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Investigating child abuse cases require coordination and communication to ensure a successful outcome. First and foremost, protecting the child is our goal and even in homicide cases there are often other children in the home that require the attention of child protective services. It is critical that everyone work together to make sure that all children involved are protected, evidence is not lost, and efforts are not duplicated. It is critical that law enforcement officers and child protective services’ investigators work together throughout the entire investigation.

As a career prosecutor for over 20 years, Nancy has handled thousands of domestic violence, child abuse, elder abuse and sexual assault cases. In addition, she has trained allied professionals nationwide including prosecutors, law enforcement officers, advocates, medical professionals and forensic interviewers on the issues surrounding these types of crimes. She has had the opportunity to be appointed to state committees and task forces in these areas by four Virginia Governors. She also co-authored Virginia’s Model Law Enforcement Protocol in the areas of Domestic Violence, Stalking and Child Homicide Investigation.

Prior to co-founding Justice 3D, Mike had been involved in law enforcement for over 34 years, most recently retiring as Police Chief of Altavista, Virginia. Over the years he has worked in various positions which include Interim Sheriff, Director of Public Safety, Coordinator of an FBI/Virginia State Police multi-jurisdictional task force, Senior Supervisory Investigator, uniformed Deputy Sheriff and Polygraph Examiner. In addition to being involved in thousands of investigations, Mike has also done an extensive amount of teaching in criminal justice with an emphasis in the areas of sexual assault, child abuse, elder abuse and domestic violence. He has been a Professor of Criminal Justice at Liberty University, as well as lecturing across both Virginia and the United States.

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CE-CERT consists of five developmental skills that can be cultivated to maintain emotion regulation of practitioners
during helping sessions with persons who may be dealing with difficult circumstances. The aim of the skill
development is to improve emotion regulation and to increase the meaningfulness of the job and satisfaction in the
vocation.

The five skill domains are:
• Increasing experiential engagement;
• Reducing ruminations
• Easing Emotional Labor
• Development of an Intentional Narrative
• Parasympathetic Recovery

CE-CERT is both a practice model and a supervision approach. Implementation and skill development occur
through a combination of training and on-going supervisory coaching

Brian Miller, Ph.D. provides training and consultation on topics of secondary trauma, trauma informed supervision, and implementation processes nationally and internationally. He is an individual member of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network, and chaired the NCTSN Secondary Trauma Supervision Workgroup. He is the developer of the CE-CERT model for intervening with secondary trauma in service providers and the Shielding model of trauma-informed supervision, both of which have been published and disseminated across mental health and child welfare systems. His book, Reducing Secondary Traumatic Stress: Skills for Sustaining a Career in the Helping Professions is slated for publication in the Fall of 2020. Dr. Miller’s experience includes tenure as Director of Children’s Behavioral Health at Primary Children’s Hospital, Director of Mental Health Services for Salt Lake County; Director of the Trauma Program for Families with Young Children at The Children’s Center in Salt Lake City; Clinical Director of Davis Behavioral Health, Associate Director of the Utah State Division of Mental Health; and as a psychotherapist in private practice. He holds a Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve in Cleveland, Ohio, where he was a Mandel Leadership Fellow. He is the past board president for the National Alliance on Mental Illness, Utah Chapter, and serves on the editorial review boards for the journals Traumatology and Contemporary Psychotherapy.

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CE-CERT consists of five developmental skills that can be cultivated to maintain emotion regulation of practitioners
during helping sessions with persons who may be dealing with difficult circumstances. The aim of the skill
development is to improve emotion regulation and to increase the meaningfulness of the job and satisfaction in the
vocation.

The five skill domains are:
• Increasing experiential engagement;
• Reducing ruminations
• Easing Emotional Labor
• Development of an Intentional Narrative
• Parasympathetic Recovery

CE-CERT is both a practice model and a supervision approach. Implementation and skill development occur
through a combination of training and on-going supervisory coaching

Brian Miller, Ph.D. provides training and consultation on topics of secondary trauma, trauma informed supervision, and implementation processes nationally and internationally. He is an individual member of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network, and chaired the NCTSN Secondary Trauma Supervision Workgroup. He is the developer of the CE-CERT model for intervening with secondary trauma in service providers and the Shielding model of trauma-informed supervision, both of which have been published and disseminated across mental health and child welfare systems. His book, Reducing Secondary Traumatic Stress: Skills for Sustaining a Career in the Helping Professions is slated for publication in the Fall of 2020. Dr. Miller’s experience includes tenure as Director of Children’s Behavioral Health at Primary Children’s Hospital, Director of Mental Health Services for Salt Lake County; Director of the Trauma Program for Families with Young Children at The Children’s Center in Salt Lake City; Clinical Director of Davis Behavioral Health, Associate Director of the Utah State Division of Mental Health; and as a psychotherapist in private practice. He holds a Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve in Cleveland, Ohio, where he was a Mandel Leadership Fellow. He is the past board president for the National Alliance on Mental Illness, Utah Chapter, and serves on the editorial review boards for the journals Traumatology and Contemporary Psychotherapy.

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Respiration is the physiological foundation of being alive. Without respiration the heart cannot beat, the brain cannot function, and all cells will die. A solid understanding of respiration is necessary to effectively recognize, identify, document, investigate, diagnose, and when appropriate, prosecute, fatal and nonfatal, pediatric asphyxiation. Kelsey and Andrea will take you on a respiration journey from the external atmosphere, through the airways and lungs, to blood, into cells, right through to the final exhalation of respiratory byproducts. You will then use learning by discovery to apply this knowledge to different types of pediatric asphyxia involving inert gases, manual suffocation, neck compression, drowning, choking, torso compression, restraint postures, and more.

Asphyxiation abuses and homicides often lack any external signs. This lack of external evidence often misguides the criminal justice system and results in missed opportunities to identify and investigate serious cases ranging from physical abuse, sexual violence and homicide.

Part II of this presentation will take the audience through case histories of each type of asphyxiation while learning what questions to ask, evidence to document, medical records to study, and experts with whom to consult, in order to best determine the manner of asphyxiation. This presentation will provide you with practical, evidence-based investigative techniques and protocols for working fatal and nonfatal pediatric asphyxiation cases.

Kelsey McKay trains and consults nationally for communities to implement protocol in various fields including intimate partner violence, child abuse, sexual assault, the use of expert witnesses, translating trauma other complex topics. She is a former prosecutor who exclusively prosecuted strangulation related crimes for seven years. She has developed and implemented protocol for strangulation and domestic violence response and treatment. She works with law enforcement to develop protocol and implement the use of a Strangulation Supplement into the field transforming the role of first responders to be more investigative by carrying her knowledge and needs as a prosecutor into the field on every case. She is President and CEO of the non-profit organization, RESPOND Against Violence that works to develop evidence-based protocol with forward-thinking approaches.

Andrea Zaferes is a medicolegal death investigator specializing in the handling of aquatic cases from scene to courtroom. She 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. She assists in analyzing and building such cases in the U.S. and abroad and has developed standards for their investigation. She is recognized in multiple jurisdictions and the U.S. Army as an expert witness in bodies-found-in-water/aquatic death investigation. For over 30 years, she has taught dive and surface teams around the world to perform water rescue and find/recover submerged evidence and bodies. She is an author and frequent public speaker on the topics of aquatic death and aquatic abuse.

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Respiration is the physiological foundation of being alive. Without respiration the heart cannot beat, the brain cannot function, and all cells will die. A solid understanding of respiration is necessary to effectively recognize, identify, document, investigate, diagnose, and when appropriate, prosecute, fatal and nonfatal, pediatric asphyxiation. Kelsey and Andrea will take you on a respiration journey from the external atmosphere, through the airways and lungs, to blood, into cells, right through to the final exhalation of respiratory byproducts. You will then use learning by discovery to apply this knowledge to different types of pediatric asphyxia involving inert gases, manual suffocation, neck compression, drowning, choking, torso compression, restraint postures, and more.

Asphyxiation abuses and homicides often lack any external signs. This lack of external evidence often misguides the criminal justice system and results in missed opportunities to identify and investigate serious cases ranging from physical abuse, sexual violence and homicide.

Part II of this presentation will take the audience through case histories of each type of asphyxiation while learning what questions to ask, evidence to document, medical records to study, and experts with whom to consult, in order to best determine the manner of asphyxiation. This presentation will provide you with practical, evidence-based investigative techniques and protocols for working fatal and nonfatal pediatric asphyxiation cases.

Kelsey McKay trains and consults nationally for communities to implement protocol in various fields including intimate partner violence, child abuse, sexual assault, the use of expert witnesses, translating trauma other complex topics. She is a former prosecutor who exclusively prosecuted strangulation related crimes for seven years. She has developed and implemented protocol for strangulation and domestic violence response and treatment. She works with law enforcement to develop protocol and implement the use of a Strangulation Supplement into the field transforming the role of first responders to be more investigative by carrying her knowledge and needs as a prosecutor into the field on every case. She is President and CEO of the non-profit organization, RESPOND Against Violence that works to develop evidence-based protocol with forward-thinking approaches.

Andrea Zaferes is a medicolegal death investigator specializing in the handling of aquatic cases from scene to courtroom. She 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. She assists in analyzing and building such cases in the U.S. and abroad and has developed standards for their investigation. She is recognized in multiple jurisdictions and the U.S. Army as an expert witness in bodies-found-in-water/aquatic death investigation. For over 30 years, she has taught dive and surface teams around the world to perform water rescue and find/recover submerged evidence and bodies. She is an author and frequent public speaker on the topics of aquatic death and aquatic abuse.

REGISTRATION LINK: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/7381835608462691343