Sponsoring Agency
American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children and Institute on Violence, Abuse, and Trauma at Alliant International University

Event Description
The interview is a critical tool in gathering information on child maltreatment. Yet barriers created by cultural differences can interfere with the ability to gain important information, and often lead to misunderstandings and misinformed decision making. This training will address guidelines and strategies for taking culture into account when assessing for child abuse and neglect.

Participants will learn how to:

• Build rapport with children and their families
• Minimize language barriers
• Make effective use of interpreters
• Steer clear of common pitfalls in cross-cultural interviews

Event Description
This conference has become a unique forum for people from all disciplines and philosophies to gather for in-depth exchange of current information on all facets of violence, abuse and trauma prevention, intervention and research. We are one of the very few conferences that actually includes researchers, practitioners, advocates, consumer-survivors, and front-line workers from all disciplines to share information, discuss controversial issues, and have the difficult dialogues. Topic tracks span intimate partner violence, child maltreatment, children exposed to violence, youth violence, criminal justice issues, sexual assault, people with disabilities, treatment of victims and offenders, elder abuse, trauma, and more.

Event Description
Dr. Patricia Lester discusses Families OverComing Under Stress (FOCUS) a family-centered resilience building program for military families.

To register for this event, please visit the NCTSN Learning Center for Child and Adolescent Trauma. If you are new to the Learning Center and would like to earn CEs, you must create an account (click on "Create new account") and enroll in the course Military Families Learning Community Master Speaker Series, under Continuing Education. Or log in as a guest if you do not plan on earning CEs.

Sponsoring Agency
Traumatic Stress Institute

Event Description
Risking Connection is a curriculum-based foundational trauma training program for professionals working with survivors of trauma. RC provides a philosophy and framework for understanding extreme symptoms and behaviors, managing crises, addressing vicarious trauma, and achieving lasting healing.

Through use of RC training, organizations can create more trauma-informed treatment cultures. The RC Training Program uses a Train-the-Trainer model of dissemination whereby organizations can gain the capacity to do ongoing RC training in their organization.

Sponsoring Agency
Sidran Institute

Event Description
Join us for an informative and intensive two-day training devoted to the essentials of the Risking Connection in Faith Communities Curriculum. Risking Connection uses a new way of thinking and relating to take the fear out of helping trauma survivors. RC makes it easier for you and the survivors in your life.

Risking Connection teaches a relational framework and skills for working with survivors of traumatic experiences. The focus is on the relationship as the active ingredient in healing.

Sponsoring Agency
National Child Traumatic Stress Network

Event Description
Forty percent of service members have children, and among those service members, 40% have children under the age of six. Mental health professionals can help these children cope with the stresses that their families experience. In this presentation, Network members discuss how they have worked with branches of this country's military to promote the wellbeing of young children in military families. Presenters are: Kay Connors, LCSW-C, Joy Osofsky, PhD, Ruth Paris, PhD, and Phil Stepka, PhD.

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 course Young Children and Trauma: Service System Responses, under Continuing Education. Continuing Education Credits (CEs) are available for this course.

Event Description
This symposium will focus on practical strategies that build upon the innovations and strengths of rural communities and address the behavioral health needs of their children and families. The purpose is to disseminate information on how to create and sustain services and supports for children and their families in rural America. Partnerships at the Federal, state and community levels are key to sustainability, particularly during these challenging economic times. Innovative partnerships can help reduce the impact of behavioral health problems and promote a good quality of life for the entire community, including those with behavioral health challenges.

The Rural Behavioral Health Symposium will focus on how to create and sustain services and supports during these challenging economic times so that communities are able to reduce the impact of behavioral health problems and promote a good quality of life for the entire community, including those with behavioral health challenges. The sessions will assess the outcomes of these practices for children, adolescents, young adults, their families and the communities in which they live. Sessions will also address lessons learned and provide useful take-home strategies and tools for ?at home" implementation.

Registration by September 3 is required to attend this symposium.

Sponsoring Agency
International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect

Event Description
Congress Subthemes:

1. Cultural perspectives in strengthening families and protecting children
2. Identifying, treating and preventing family and sexual violence
3. Impact of armed conflict on families and children
4. Family strengthening: A key to the prevention of child abuse and neglect
5. Youth empowerment in the prevention of generational child abuse and neglect

Call for Abstracts:
http://www.ispcan.org/congress2010/documents/Call4Abstracts2010.pdf

Event Description
The Association of Traumatic Stress Specialists hosts its annual conference.

Event Description
This 2 day workshop will focus on the clinical skills necessary to conduct a comprehensive assessment and provide treatment of sexual behaviour problems in children. The presenters will provide an overview of the research, discuss current best practices, and use case examples to illustrate strategies to assess and treat children with sexual behaviour problems. Understanding research is key to providing evidence-based practice in the assessment and treatment of children (<12 years of age) presenting with sexual behaviour problems.

This two day training will (a) Lay the foundation to provide an overview of the research and empirically based, Best Practice Guidelines for assessment and treatment; (b) Outline empirical evidence regarding what to assess and who might be at risk to continue once identified; (c) Identify the roles of multi-systems in assessment and treatment i.e., who needs to be involved and how (i.e., caregivers, systems, schools, other professionals); (d) Treatment options, strategies and tools.

Sponsoring Agency
Trauma Treatment Training Center

Event Description
Child Forensic Interviewer Training is intended for a wide range of professionals who interview children about suspected child abuse.

Child Forensic Interviewer Training consists of 35 hours of classroom work over 5 days. The training includes lectures and practice interviews with non-abused children and role-play interviews with adults portraying allegedly abused children. These interviews are videotaped and reviewed by faculty and peers, and include mock trial practice. Small group discussionsprovide ample opportunity for interaction among trainees and nationally recognized peers and researchers. This training highlights cutting-edge, practical information and promotes interdisciplinary collaboration. Multidisciplinary teams are welcome.

Event Description
This is the fifth in a series of six free online presenations on fostering family and youth involvement in trauma treatment.

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 course Partnering with Youth and Families in Trauma Settings, under Continuing Education. Continuing Education Credits (CEs) are available for this course.

Event Description
Marine Corps Captian William P. Nash, MD discusses combat operational stress injuries, the response to them, and how they impact the families of returning service members

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 and would like to earn CEs, you must create an account (click on "Create new account") and enroll in the course Military Families Learning Community Master Speaker Series, under Continuing Education. Or log in as a guest if you do not plan on earning CEs.

Sponsoring Agency
Trauma Treatment Training Center

Event Description
Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) is a short-term, specialized behavior management program designed for young children experiencing behavioral and/or emotional difficulties and their families. It is an evidence-based treatment supported by over 30 years of research and practice by PCIT providers throughout the United States andinternationally (www.pcit.org). PCIT is an assessment driven, criteriabased therapy which focuses on improving positive child behaviors through a strong parent-child relationship. Research has found thatsuccessful completion of PCIT decreases parenting stress and reduces child behavior problems in the home, school, and public settings.

In addition to training and providing follow-up consultation toclinicians, the TTTC works with agency supervisors to implement the model, maintain fidelity to the model, and build training capacity within the agency. The TTTC collaborates with agency administrators around issues of fiscal management and sustainability, as well as with third party payers to authorize modelsas billable therapies to ensure agency reimbursement.

Event Description
This conference is designed to raise awareness of developmental trauma disorder. The featured presenter is Bessel A. van der Kolk, MD, Professor of Psychiatry, Boston University Medical School and Medical Director, Trauma Center at Justice Resource Institute.

Most children who experience multiple traumatic events do not meet criteria for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and are often diagnosed with a host of other disorders. In light of the fact that there is no good diagnosis for these children, The National Child Traumatic Stress Network's DSM-V Task Force has proposed a new diagnosis for the upcoming DSM-V called Developmental Trauma Disorder (DTD). This conference will review theoretical rationale for DTD as a vital diagnosis for traumatized children.

Sponsoring Agency
Solutions On Site

Event Description
Presented by Dr. Janina Fisher, this workshop will offer a conceptual model for treating the effects of trauma and dissociation and present techniques to engage clients who are resistant, overwhelmed, impulsive, preoccupied with internal stimuli and unable to effectively process verbal input. These verbal and somatic approaches emphasize present moment experience and help clients to better integrate the therapeutic work by fostering internal coherence and mindfulness and strengthening capacities to deal with the challenges of daily life. Because they are inherently stabilizing they are appropriate for clients presenting with any trauma-related diagnosis, including Borderline Personality Disorder and bipolar disorder as well as Dissociative Identity Disorder and other Dissociative Disorders.

Event Description
This training provides an overview of the definitions and symptoms of Compassion Fatigue, Burnout, Vicarious Trauma, and Secondary Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. The training will include an interactive exploration of self-care techniques, strategies for recognizing symptoms of Compassion Fatigue, and strategies managers can use to ensure balance and self-care for those that they supervise. Anyone working in the field of victim services, or anyone working with victims of crime in related fields could benefit from this training. Through case studies, role-playing, and other interactive exercises, you will gain the knowledge and skills to lessen the impact of Compassion Fatigue while enhancing your professional and personal well-being.

Event Description
Major Eric Flake, MD of the US Air Force discusses Air Force culture and collaboration with an NCTSN site in Gulfport, MI.

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 and would like to earn CEs, you must create an account (click on "Create new account") and enroll in the course Military Families Learning Community Master Speaker Series, under Continuing Education. Or log in as a guest if you do not plan on earning CEs.

Event Description
This is the last in a series of six free online presenations on fostering family and youth involvement in trauma treatment.

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 course Partnering with Youth and Families in Trauma Settings, under Continuing Education. Continuing Education Credits (CEs) are available for this course.

Sponsoring Agencies
SAMHSA, NIAAA, NIDA, DOE, OJJDP, ONDCP, Association of Recovery Schools, Reclaiming Futures, and the Society for Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment Effectiveness.

Event Description
The Joint Meeting on Adolescent Treatment (JMATE) offers a unique opportunity for practice, research, and recovery communities to exchange ideas and data, thereby moving the field of adolescent treatment toward effective, evidence-based and promising practices for alcohol and other drug treatment.

Sponsoring Agency
Dawn Farm

Event Description
Current research highlights the relationship between chemicaluse, addition and trauma. This presentation by Tana Bridge, PhD, LMSW, MSW---an award-winning trauma expert---will review events involved with trauma exposure, trauma specificsymptomology, the impact trauma has on the brain and on coping and subsequent substance use, and how to aid individuals struggling with trauma and chemical dependency.

Sponsoring Agency
Chadwick Center for Children and Families

Event Description
Come together: Celebrate our 25th anniversary. The San Diego Conference focuses on multi-disciplinary best-practice efforts to prevent, if possible, or otherwise to investigate, treat, and prosecute child and family maltreatment.

The objective of the San Diego Conference is to develop and enhance professional skills and knowledge in the prevention, recognition, assessment and treatment of all forms of maltreatment including those related to family violence as well as to enhance investigative and legal skills. Issues concerning support for families, prevention, leadership, policy making and translating the latest research into action are also addressed.

Event Description
Join top researchers, advocates, and health and social service professionals for the first national conference on infant and children's mental health.

A call for papers will be issued in May 2010 and conference registration will open in September 2010.

Event Description
This conference is the focal point for the national dissemination of outcome data, ongoing research and policy development updates in the children's mental health field. The conference features a wide array of symposia, papers and poster presentations from an international field of scholars, educators, policy makers and families who are integrally involved in shaping the children's mental health field in America. The featured keynote speaker is educator, youth advocate, and author Geoffrey Canada. The online proposal submission process opens on August 15, 2010.

Sponsoring Agency
American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children

Event Description
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.

Submissions for the Colloquium are accepted through October 7, 2010.