[bsw] 2011 Hope and Help for Children and Families Conference

[Amy Toole]

North East Texas Child Advocacy Center

9th Annual

2011 Hope & Help for Children & Families Conference

With new and expanded session options.

Training is FREE of charge!!!

Thursday, June 16th, 2011 at His House Ministries, 616 Airport Road,
Winnsboro, TX  75494

6 hours of CEU's for TCLEOSE, LPC, Social Work, 

Presumptive Eligibility Certification & Victim Service Certificate.

Sponsored by the NETCAC Co-Hosted by Wood County District Attorney
Services 

and Upshur County Family Violence Intervention Program.

Registration is FREE!

Register by phone (903) 629-7588, fax (903) 629-7590, 

or mail NETCAC, P.O. Box 484 Winnsboro, TX  75494, By Friday June
10th!!!!

Goals and Objectives: 

To equip and train multidisciplinary team members and community
professionals to best serve, help and assist child and adult victims of
sexual abuse/assault, physical abuse, witnesses of violent crime, severe
neglect and victims of bullying and self-harm.

The NETCAC is an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed
Professional Counselor's by the LPC Board of Examiners for the State of
Texas (provider #464) and for Social Workers by the Texas State Board of
Social Worker Examiners (provider #3663) TCLEOSE hours provided through
Wood County Constable.

Schedule:

8:00AM - 8:30AM: Sign In/Register

TRAC 1

8:30 - 10:00AM: Janice Sager & Kristi Heiman with the Texas Dept. of
Criminal Justice Victim Services Division - Program Overview,
Confidential Notification, Victim Participation in Parole Review.

10:15 - 11:45AM: Ms. Sager & Heiman will continue with Victim Impact
Statements, Statutory Victim Impact Statement Access & Mandates for Key
Decision Makers, Collaborative County Victim Impact Protocols &
Guidelines.

11:45-1:30: Lunch on your own

1:30 - 3:00PM: Diana Ramirez Gansle - Dallas Regional Coordinator Crime
Victim Services Division Office of the Attorney General - The Crime
Victims' Compensation Program uses the PRESUMPTIVE ELIGIBILITY process
to better serve victims & families. Upon completion of this workshop,
individuals are certified to submit Crime Victim Compensation
applications (cont.)

3:15 - 4:45PM: Continued Presumptive Eligibility - Allows advocates to
work directly with victims to gather the necessary documentation for the
application. Having a complete application speed the response to victims
and streamlines the process.

TRAC 2

8:30 - 10:00AM: Detective Sheila Greene with Dallas Police Department
will train on Understanding Dynamics of Victim, Batterer, and Children
and will take an in-depth look at what is included as family violence
under the law, domestic violence, the dynamics of family violence calls,
causes, Dominance Theory, Equality Theory, batterer tactics, Batterer's
Intervention/Prevention and victim dynamics. These dynamics must be
understood prior to arriving at the scene so arrests can be made and
victim safety ensured.

10:15AM - 11:45AM: Detective Sheila Greene with Dallas Police Department
will present on Predominant Aggressor to increase officers' knowledge
and skills in handling domestic violence calls in which violence
occurred to both individuals. The topic will review the problems created
by dual arrests and improper arrest of the victim. Both compliant and
suspect perspectives will be discussed along with self-defense issues,
offensive and defensive injuries, probable cause and alternatives to
arrest.

11:45AM - 1:30PM: Lunch on your own

1:30PM - 3:00PM: Detective Sheila Greene with the Dallas Police
Department will train on Investigation of Strangulation Cases to
increase awareness of the lethality of strangulation and will cover
identification of the subtle signs and symptoms of strangulation,
documenting evidence and steps for successful prosecution of
strangulation along with steps for successfully interviewing the victim.

3:15PM - 4:45PM: Mary Lynn Palmer - Nurse Practitioner - will train on
Signs and Symptoms of Sexually Transmitted Diseases and Sexual Assault
Exams.

 

TRAC III

8:30 - 10:00AM: Private Practice Licensed Professional Counselors
Deborah Chelette-Wilson and Carmen Conley will train on EFT a simple
meridian-based energy therapy to provide rapid relief from
physical-emotional issues such as fear, anger, sadness, worry, cravings,
nightmares, physical pain, traumatized children and more. It's premise
is that negative emotions are a result of a disruption in the body's
energy system. Practitioners report remarkable results.

10:15AM - 11:45AM: Dr. Chris Simpson, LPC and Professor from Texas A&M
will train on Non-Suicidal Self-Injury (NSSI) which has perplexed
professionals for decades. This behavior challenges "common sense"
approaches to working with clientele. This presentation will introduce a
means to conceptualize the self-injuring client. Also, some myths about
the behavior will be challenged. Additionally some techniques for
working with the self-injuring individual will be introduced.

11:45AM - 1:30PM - Lunch on your own.

1:30PM - 3:00PM: Mr. Lee Gill, Education Specialist with Region 8, will
speak on Bullying - the definition and impact of bullying. He will also
discuss the New Frontier in Bullying - Cyberbullying. He will train on
how to recognize and respond to all types of bullying and give
Strategies for Action.

3:15PM - 4:45PM: Kathy Smedley, LPC-S, LMFT, LSOTP, NCC NETCAC Program
Director will speak on Children Who Sexually Abuse Other Children,
sexually harmful behaviors, signs of sexual behavior problems, discuss
what is natural and healthy development, intervention with an
introduction on appropriate tools and techniques.

 

 

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Amy Toole                                           

BSW Program Secretary 

Project RESPECT Secretary                 

Department of Social Work

Henderson 311

(903) 886-5893

Amy_Toole at tamu-commerce.edu <mailto:Amy_Toole at tamu-commerce.edu> 

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The measure of success is not whether you have tough problem to deal
with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.
- John Foster Dulles

 

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