Lecture Series

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.

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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Angela Brunson
Angela Brunson has been a Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney since October 1997. She has been assigned to the Cyber Crime Division since May 2016 where she exclusively prosecutes child sexual abuse material offenders and online child predators. She hosts a monthly Zoom meeting for ICAC investigators, analysts, and prosecutors for in five southern California counties. She has completed both the Level 1 and Level 2 Digital Evidence for Prosecutors training programs provided by the National Computer Forensics Institute. She has provided training to multiple local, state, and federal agencies: LA County Probation Department, LASD, LAPD, Sexually Violent Predator Unit at the LADA’s Office, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Homeland Security Investigations, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. She has attended and presented at multiple national Internet Crimes Against Children Conferences. She also provides Cyber Life Safety & Awareness presentations to students, parents, school administrators, and various community organizations throughout Los Angeles County. Outside of the office, she is a Crossfit Coach, a marathon runner, a motorcycle racer, and the proud owner of two ridiculously silly Pygmy goats.

*Restricted to Law Enforcement and Prosecutors Only.

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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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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/679881229286993423

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.

REGISTRATION LINK: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/505960480005584656

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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.

REGISTRATION LINK: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/3089970034976772108

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.

REGISTRATION LINK: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/88429734985684236

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://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/6634599809644718607

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