SOMB's 3rd Annual Conference in conjunction with the DVOMB. This training is appropriate for all levels of professionals working with adult sex offenders, juveniles who have committed sexual offenses and/or domestic violence offenders. All trainings offered at this conference can be used for training hours for sex offender providers and domestic violence offender providers. All conference registrations MUST be received by June 19th, 2009.

"The goal of this interdisciplinary conference is to present and discuss the state-of-the-art information on various aspects of Child and Adolescent Psychopathology. The conference will be of interest to those who are doing research with young people and to those working within child and adolescent mental health, education, social work and youth justice systems." Abstracts and the Registration (word) should be sent to: Professor Cecilia A. Essau: c.essau@roehampton.ac.uk

"This course is designed for professors at universities or colleges interested in implementing Winona State University’s Child Advocacy Studies (CAST) curriculum at their institution. Interested universities must complete an application. Selected universities will be able to send two professors to a week-long conference at WSU. "

From Theory to Practice is Men Can Stop Rape's most comprehensive Strength Training. For three days in the nation's capital, participants will learn the approach that has made MCSR one of the most sought out leaders in the primary violence prevention field. See website for more details and training schedule.

"This institute is a critical three-day series that focuses on the issues and challenges working with today’s fathers & families. Moreover, how the trends and consequences of relationships between fathers & mothers impact child development/well-being. This training will apply to various groups within the diverse communities and professional fields as well as the opportunity for parents to be engaged with three tremendous presenters we have selected in a seminar format."

"All who work with a young preschool population are welcome. This training can enhance the professional development of teachers, students and mental health providers working with this population. Research highlighting the importance of intervention in abuse with even very young children will precede a review of assessment techniques for children 18-36 months and children 3-4 years when sexual abuse is suspected. This will be followed by a discussion of intervention and management techniques to help protect these children's safety."

"Through a series of panel discussions, workshops, and artistic expressions, IDVAAC will explore the definitions of and the journey to healing with survivors of domestic violence and adults who witnessed domestic violence as children. The conference will highlight the experiences of these individuals, with a focus on how to move forward in the healing process. Featured panelists and performers will include: survivors of domestic violence, adults who witnessed violence as children, domestic violence practitioners, artist, and scholars whose work addresses this issue. Please join us at this important event."

This year's conference is titled Circle of Hope, Circle of Healing. It will include workshops on methamphetamine, forensic interviewing, domestic violence, legal updates, the mind of a perpetrator, putting a case together for prosecution, prescription drug crimes, and many other topics. Speakers will include Detective Michael Johnson, Marie Travisio, Bonnie Clairemont, and Justin Patchin. Registration deadline is July 20, 2009.

The Indian Health Service Division of Behavioral Health is proud to present the 2009 National Behavioral Health Conference, the nation's premiere opportunity for collaboration, networking, strategy-building, and knowledge-sharing for behavioral health care providers working in Indian Country. Honoring Our Traditions, While Embracing Change. This year's conference explores innovative and best practice approaches to behavioral health integration while honoring and demonstrating a commitment to Native traditional ways.

This training is intended for mainstream advocates including men and women of majority populations who are seeking to serve as allies to Communities of Color, Women, LGBTQ, Elder, Native, Immigrants and Refugees populations. Women Of Color Network is pleased to announce that we will pay travel and lodging for 10 NON-OVW funded mainstream advocates, to join 40 mainstream OVW grantees who receive training funds and are responsible for their own travel and lodging.
If you are a MAINSTREAM OVW GRANTEE or work for an OVW funded program, follow this link to apply:
http://pubs.pcadv.net/wocn/ovwallycultcomp.pdf
If you are a NON-OVW FUNDED MAINSTREAM ADVOCATE,follow this link to apply:
http://pubs.pcadv.net/wocn/nonovwcultcomp.pdf

"This course, designed for civil and criminal child protection investigators as well as prosecutors and child protection attorneys, will provide detailed instruction in the investigation of a crime scene and how seemingly unimportant details can be become critical at trial. This course will include a crime scene investigation to be conducted in the “mock house” at the new NCPTC training facility."

This conference brings together individuals representing academia, public health researchers and practitioners from federal and state government and the private sector, and provides a forum for collegial dialogue within and across these disciplines. The conference is an excellent opportunity to meet with colleagues and shape the future of health communication, marketing, and media practice. The conference planning committee invites abstracts for both oral and poster presentations in the following submission types - Research and Evaluation, Theoretical and Practice/Program-Based in one of four program tracks:
* Health Marketing: Nuts, Bolts and Beyond
* Social Determinants of Health
* New Frontiers - Trends and Technology
* Partnerships/Collaborations - Synergistic Relationships
Deadline for submission is March 16, 2009

This new training will be an opportunity for advocates, CCR coordinators, prosecutors, probation officers, social workers and counselors to look at the issues that arise when women are arrested for domestic violence crimes. Though it is often perceived that women are increasingly using violence, much depends on the response of the system. This training will look at all aspects of the system response--from police, prosecution and probation policies to developing educational and support groups for women who are charged.

"This course will be designed for teams of prosecutors and forensic interviewers. The course will require the prosecutors to conduct a direct examination of their forensic interviewers, and to conduct a re-direct examination after their forensic interviewers have been cross-examined. The prosecutors, working with their forensic interviewers, must also respond to the critiques of their forensic interviews from a defense expert. "

Contact Marilyn for more information on this conference.

"The Child Trauma Academy offers a series of cost-effective introduction to viewing maltreated and traumatized children through the lens of neurodevelopment. Each week, for 10 weeks, participants sit in on a 1.5 hour clinical consultation/interdisciplinary staffing conducted by Dr. Perry and the ChildTrauma Academy Fellows. During each session, the clinical challenges posed by a client (as presented by a subscribing clinician) are reviewed and discussed in context of a developmental/neurodevelopmental perspective. The case-based series' teaching model, which requires participants to join a conference call as well as log in to an Internet site providing visual supplementation, has been very useful in helping clinicians and front-line staff better understand the neurodevelopmental principles involved in many of the primary symptoms displayed by the children they serve. "

In several of his books, James Garbarino writes about the power of the environment on the development of our children, the pervasiveness of negative influences, how bad things sometimes happen to good families, and how parents and schools can teach resilience and social competence. Dr. James Garbarino ‘s research focuses on issues in the social ecology of child and adolescent development. He has a long standing interest in a wide range of violence-related issues - war, child maltreatment, childhood aggression, and juvenile delinquency.

" The National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges and the Office on Violence Against Women are hosting a conference to inform professionals about how to provide safe supervised visitation and exchange services that take domestic violence into account at the Omni San Diego Hotel. National experts will provide education on safety for adult victims and children; services for diverse populations; community collaboration; and advocacy. "

"The National Sexual Assault Conference is a two and a half day, advocacy-based conference providing advanced training opportunities and information to sexual violence prevention educators, anti-sexual violence advocates, counselors, health care professionals, law enforcement officers, prosecutors, social workers, psychologists, and public health workers." Now accepting workshop proposals at http://www.outreach.psu.edu/programs/sexual-assault/call-for-proposals.html

A conference for diverse practitioners to consider dyadic approaches in helping young children at risk and their families. Presenters include Barbara Kalmanson, Ph.D and Janet Dean, L.C.S.W. Call for poster session deadline is July 24, 2009. Submit your abstract to Denise Findlay dmf56@u.washington.edu.

The conference is titled "Promoting Peace in the Home, Your Community, and the World: Linking Practice, Research, and Policy Across the Lifespan". It is open to Advocates, Researchers, Psychologists, Social Workers, Nurses, Judges, Attorneys, Clergy, Counselors, Military, Marriage and Family Therapists, Volunteers, Physicians, Policy Makers, Educators, Law enforcement, Probation and Parole, Psychiatrists, Shelter and Crisis Center Workers, Consumers and others. Please see website for more information on the conference.

"The Twenty-Eighth Annual UC Davis National Child Abuse and Neglect Conference and accompanying institutes are designed for professionals involved in the investigation, evaluation, and treatment of abused and neglected children and triers of fact. The conference is planned to advance knowledge and practice standards of professionals in the fields of medicine, nursing, social work, mental health, and criminal and juvenile justice."

This course is intended for anyone working with families affected by domestic violence. This interactive structure allows participants to acquire and practice skills to be used in leading groups. For participants who work with victims and don't intend to lead groups, this training is a primer on what happens in abuser intervention groups. This program has been approved for CEU credits for social workers, mental health counselors, licensed marriage and family therapists, and licensed alcohol and drug counselors.

Rivers of Hope will host a training by expert Mark Wynn on "Building a Community Coordinated Response to Domestic Violence". Continuing education credits will be available. More information on this training to come.

"The Joint Center on Violence and Victim Studies (JCVVS) is involved in a collaborative effort with the National Center for Victims of Crime (NCVC) to raise awareness and provide knowledge and enhanced competence in supporting and serving crime victims with disabilities. That collaborative effort will result in the "Responding to Crime Victims with Disabilities National Conference" to be held in 2009. "

The organizers of this conference are welcoming abstracts. Please see flyer for more information. Deadline for submitting abstracts is July 17, 2009.

"The National Conference provides valuable professional education on the latest research and innovative health prevention and clinical responses to domestic violence. Co-chaired by 35 organizations, including the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Nursing, and the National Network to End Domestic Violence, the gathering has been hailed as “the best violence related conference” in the country and is expected to draw more than 1,000 participants from around the world."

"This CornerHouse® Advanced Forensic Interview Training is open to law enforcement, child protection investigators, prosecutors, and child interview specialists who have completed the required prerequisites and work as part of their multidisciplinary team. This course teaches advanced forensic interviewing issues, modifies the CornerHouse® RATAC®, interview protocol for physical abuse and other violent crimes, provides a mock cross-examination demonstration and provides participants the opportunity to learn and utilize a videotaped interview assessment tool to critique their own interviews. Students will either have a videotaped interview peer reviewed or they will participate in an interview role-play with an actor."

This national conference offers treatment and assessment workshops to professionals working in the field of child sexual abuse treatment. Among the 66 institutes and workshops on prevention, investigation, and treatment issues for victims and offenders, this conference features more than 20 new speakers and over 40 new topics.

This year´s Scientific Assembly is aimed at offering opportunities for nurses, researchers, educators, law enforcement, policy makers and all related professionals and to share important knowledge and experiences related to forensic nursing.
2009 Scientific Assembly Objectives:
* Promote unique and innovative roles which expand forensic nursing globally
* Identify ways to promote leadership in forensic nursing practice
* Utilize evidence based information which facilitates
knowledge development in forensic nursing * Incorporate new and evolving forensic nursing research and
evidence based knowledge and practice. * Recognize contributions from other professional disciplines who collaborate with forensic nurses
Important Information for all Abstract Submissions:
All abstract submissions must be made online. Abstracts that do not adhere to submission guidelines or do not relate to conference goals will not be accepted for review. Full abstract submission guidelines are available on the submission website. Submission Deadline is on February 13, 2009. The conference dates are October 21-24, 2009, in Atlanta, Georgia.

This conference is intended for psychiatric clinicians, psychiatrists, practitioners, nurses, psychologists, health scientists, educators, trainers, researchers, managers, and policymakers engaged in the study or treatment of aggressive behavior of psychiatric patients. It will focus on clinically relevant and practically useful interventions aiming at treating and reducing violent behavior of psychiatric and forensic patients. Call for abstracts deadline is March 21, 2009.

This conference will be the first chance for male students from across the country to explore how to find positive ways to reach campus men with messages against dating and other forms of men’s violence, and for gender equality. It will provide opportunities to discuss how to deal with backlash and hostility, and how to work in partnership with women’s groups.

The conference features two keynote speakers and 15 workshops designed to educate and give hope to people who live with mental illness and their families. Visit website for more details.

"ChildFirst™ is the forensic interview training program of NCPTC. Presented in collaboration with CornerHouse®, this course is designed for investigative teams of law enforcement officers, social workers, prosecutors, child protection attorneys, and forensic interviewers. Students are taught the forensic interviewing protocol developed by CornerHouse®. This protocol, entitled RATAC®, has been specifically recognized and approved by a number of appellate courts. This course includes lecture and discussion, review of CornerHouse® videotaped interviews, skill building exercises and an interview practicum. "

Featuring speakers, workshops, and poster sessions focusing on Child Maltreatment, Children Exposed to Violence, Intimate Partner Violence, Sexual Violence, Teen/Youth Violence, Elder Abuse, Diverse Populations, Community Violence, and Substance Abuse. Up to 19 hours of CEs available, provided by the Institute on Violence, Abuse & Trauma

This international conference provides a unique opportunity for personal and professional growth, networking, and the dissemination of new knowledge in the area of sexually traumatized boys and men. This four-day event will feature numerous workshops for male survivors of sexual abuse, their loved ones/partners, and professionals who work with them. Call for presentation deadline is April 15, 2009.

End Violence Against Women (EVAW) International is inviting abstracts for presentations to be given at their international conference to be held on April 7-9. Deadline for submissions is May 29, 2009. Please see website for more details on criteria.

This is an opportunity to hear about the latest research in the field of family violence, meet new family violence researchers, and see old friends which has been both intellectually enlightening and professionally energizing in past conferences. More details to come!

This is an opportunity to hear about the latest research in the field of family violence, meet new family violence researchers, and see old friends which has been both intellectually enlightening and professionally energizing in past conferences. More details to come!