"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. "

FaithTrust Institute wants your sermons addressing child abuse, rape, and domestic violence. Please email your sermons as a Microsoft Word attachment and as a video or audio file to training@faithtrustinstitute.org. Include your name, faith tradition, and contact information (phone number and mailing address). Sermons will be judged on the following criteria:
* Clarity and accuracy of information about the issues
* Well-grounded presentation of theological context
* Use of sacred texts from your faith tradition
* Creativity in presenting the nuances of victimization and our faith traditions
Deadline is November 30, 2009.

A MN Fringe Festival favorite returns!
Two Bowls of Cereal and Some Bacon
written and performed by Mahmoud Hakima
directed by MaryLynn Mennicke
in collaboration with Zarawaar Mistry
Mahmoud Hakima recalls heart-rending childhood memories, from meeting a Mystery Girl and tolerating racial slurs, to playing Nintendo and confronting an abusive stepfather. He can't promise cereal or bacon, but he can promise truth. A humorous, personal, and moving show. (Ages 12+)
Performances held at:
Dreamland Arts
677 Hamline Ave. N.
St. Paul, MN 55104
FOR TICKET INFO & PURCHASE: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/80928
$15 / Regular Admission,
$12 / MN Fringe Festival Button, Seniors,
Students, AD Patrons
For directions to the theater, follow this link:
http://www.dreamlandarts.com/shows/detail.php?eventId=137 Each performance will be followed by a post-show discussion with the playwright and director.
$10 suggested donation at the door to help benefit area Women and Children's Shelters.
For more information call Bridge Productions, 651.501.9273

EVAW International is hosting a series of webinars, to provide training and technical assistance on the topic of forensic compliance. The first two webinars are:
Medical Forensic Exams Conducted without a Report Being Made to Law Enforcement, on Thursday, October 15th at 11:00am PST.
Alternative Reporting Methods (e.g., anonymous reporting, third party reporting), on Thursday, November 5th at 11:00am PST.
For more information on each webinar, please see the website.

January 2010 will mark the 7th observance of National Stalking Awareness Month (NSAM). Throughout the next month, the Stalking Resource Center and the Office on Violence Against Women will be updating the National Stalking Awareness Month Web site. This Web site offers fact sheets, media tools, brochures, posters, and artwork, and much more for you to download and use in your local activities during Stalking Awareness Month.

A 3-Day Conference showcasing the lessons learned from the three national demonstration sites of the OVW funded Judicial Oversight Demonstration Initiative (JODI). This conference will identify key components, explore the reality behind the research, and provide creative strategies for communities to work together to provide comprehensive strategies for safety and accountability.

This conference will provide innovative, practical strategies for anyone in schools or agencies who works with students who present challenging behaviors. With a variety of sessions designed for PreK-12 teachers, administrators, program specialists, social workers, psychologists, counselors, university faculty, paraprofessionals and others, participants will learn proven strategies to help close social and achievement gaps. See website for more details.

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.

Sexual assault and abuse can have serious mental health consequences for women and children. Understanding the range of potential mental health needs of survivors and how to address them within an empowerment-based framework is an important part of providing services for survivors that enhance their safety and wellbeing. This presentation will provide an overview of current research on mental health, violence, and abuse and will offer steps that advocates and other professionals can take within their agencies and organizations to address mental health issues in sensitive, appropriate, and empowering ways. Registration is Required (by Wednesday, November 4, 2009), contact amy.kenzie@state.mn.us

The APHA Annual Meeting & Exposition is the oldest and largest gathering of public health professionals in the world, attracting more than 13,000 national and international physicians, administrators, nurses, educators, researchers, epidemiologists, and related health specialists. APHA's meeting program addresses current and emerging health science, policy, and practice issues in an effort to prevent disease and promote health.

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.

Take Back The Night is pleased to announce their first National Conference on Saturday, November 7, 2009 at Columbia University in New York City. Fully funded by the Avon Foundation for Women, the conference will celebrate and memorialize the past, take stock of the present, and set a course for the future as an international organization dedicated to ending sexual violence and supporting survivors of sexual violence.

The Northland Women's Policy Forum is a gathering designed to bring together policy makers, community leaders, advocates, and all those interested learning more about the intersection of women and public policy.
Guests include: Amy Brenengen, Office on the Economic Status of Women; Deb Fitzpatrick, Center on Women and Public Policy, Humphrey institute; Deborah Schlick, Affirmative Options Coalition; Suzanne Koepplinger, Minnesota Indian Women’s Resource Center; Kathleen Murphy, Constitutional Amendment For Equality (CAFE)

The training is designed for designed for judges, court clerks and other court personnel, probation and parole officers, prosecutors, defense bar, and domestic violence advocates. This training is especially useful for those who work in batterer programs and those who work with domestic violence offenders in other venues.

Illinois Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers conference on pornography with presenters: Dr. Michaie Seto, Ph.D. presenting his research on child pornography and Cordelia Anderson, M.A. NCMEC, presenting on prevention and policy.

This conference will give innovators a platform to share their practices and methods of evaluation, and to give conference participants the opportunity to take these models back to their communities. Workshops and panels will address new prevention efforts such as restorative justice circle treatment, working with children affected by domestic violence, anonymous violence hotlines, and couples’ group work and will include research findings and methods for evaluating programs. Sessions will also address the challenges and successes of working with underserved populations.

This conference is applicable to all youth service providers - social workers, educators/administrators, mental health professionals, youth program providers, all who work with youth. You will learn the specific consequences necessary to stop the child’s seven big guns of: truancy, running away, suicidal threats, violence, disrespect, sexual promiscuity, and drug and alcohol abuse. You’ll leave with a full tool kit for helping parents improve their parenting skills and knowing how to reach the resistant child or adolescent.

A webinar that will discuss the U visa and how law enforcement can use it to protect undocumented victims of crime.

Speakers: Hamish Sinclair of manalive in San Francisco and Rhea Almeida of the Institute for Family Services in Somerset, NJ. Additional faculty TBD. Hosted by: Barbara Hart, Muskie School. The topic for discussion will be on community organizing to build support networks and strong mentoring relationships for men working to end their violence toward their intimate female partners.

This 1-day training includes advanced work on theological and ethical principles of response team ministry, enabling the team to address their specific needs around policy and process and to improve their collaborative work with the judicatory team after a disclosure or allegation of clergy misconduct. You should attend if you are an experienced and knowledgeable pastoral response team chair or member, or a judicatory executive, after-pastor, interim clergy, or support staff who works with the response team. Trainer for this event will be Rev. Dr. Sarah Rieth, who is an Espiscopal priest serving as a pastoral psychotherapist and consultant in independent practice in Charlotte, North Carolina.

"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. "

Please join us for a screening of Straightlaced - How Genders Got Us All Tied Up and fundraiser for GroundSpark. Straightlaced unearths how popular pressures around gender and sexuality are confining American teens. With a fearless look at a highly charged subject, this film highlights more than 50 teens from diverse backgrounds.

This training is tailored for new advocates and is designed to lay the philosophical framework and foundation of knowledge they will need to be an effective advocate. Please join us for this highly interactive and informative training.

The Minnesota Department of Public Safety, Office of Justice Programs 23rd Annual Conference on Crime Victims will be held on May 26- 28, 2010. Have you or your organization conducted interesting research lately? Developed an innovative program? Improved your program management? Established public policy initiatives, policies or procedures? Created new collaborations or reached out to expand your service capacity? Have “lessons learned” to share? If so, submit a presentation proposal! Submissions are due Friday, November 20, 2009 For proposal forms contact Alicia Nichols, Conference Director, 651.201.7318, Alicia.nichols@state.mn.us

This memorial service recalls the lives of those killed in the past 12 months due to anti-transgender violence. TransVoices will sing as part of the program.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
We are accepting proposals for symposia, workshops, individual papers, and posters. Acceptable proposals may address theory, research, and/or practice issues related to interpersonal violence and focused on one or more of the conference threads. Symposia will be 90 minutes, and papers should be 20-25 minutes. Workshops will be held on the first day of the conference and may be either a half day or a full day (3 or 6 hours)
Symposia and Papers Due: December 1, 2009
Posters Due: December 18, 2009

The Stalking Resource Center (SRC) of the National Center for Victims of Crime and the Battered Women’s Justice Project (BWJP) are pleased to announce a new and exciting training opportunity. The national conference, “Intimate Partner Stalking Advanced Training for Prosecutors, Law Enforcement, and Victim Service Providers,” will be held in Las Vegas, Nevada on December 2-3, 2009.
This advanced training is being offered only to individuals who have attended one or more of the previous national conferences hosted by the SRC or a locally hosted Stalking Resource Center training, and will build on participants' foundational knowledge of intimate partner stalking by providing concrete skills and tools to use in the investigation and prosecution of intimate partner stalking cases and when providing services to victims.
The training will feature an array of nationally renowned trainers on the issues of intimate partner stalking. Conference participants will receive in-depth training on:
-Investigation skill building
-Prosecution strategies
-Intervention, safety planning, and risk assessment
As always, our training will provide an opportunity to network with your colleagues from across the country about challenges facing practitioners in this field.
Registration is free of charge.

This workshop will feature Dr. Karina Walters, of the School of Social Work at the University of Washington. An enrolled member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, Dr. Walters founded and directs the university-wide, interdisciplinary Indigenous Wellness Research Institute at the University of Washington and is an affiliate faculty of the West Coast Poverty Center. Her research focuses on historical, social, and cultural determinants of physical and mental health among Native American individuals, families and communities as well as cultures of poverty and two-spiritedness.

This training will prepare you to effectively use your policy and procedures addressing complaints of clergy misconduct and boundary violations including:
* Legal issues
* Theological issues
* Dealing with the media
* Supporting the congregation
* Adjudicating the complaint with fairness and transparency

The Stalking Resource Center, in partnership with the U.S. Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women, will host a Webinar at 1:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (12:00 p.m. CST, 11:00 a.m. MST, 10:00 a.m. PST) on December 14, 2009, in preparation for the seventh National Stalking Awareness Month (NSAM). Topics to be addressed will include:
•The history and evolution of NSAM
•Resources available for communities working to raise awareness about stalking
•Planning for National Stalking Awareness Month 2010.
Participants will have an opportunity to share ideas for NSAM events and activities for January 2010. If you would like to participate in this Webinar, please register at the following link: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=iJJQKpjFrfsR9oIv0wUOYA_3d_3d

Deadline for proposals: September 18th, 2009. See flyer for detailed information on proposal submission.

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 year’s conference promises new opportunities to share information essential to improving service systems for children with serious emotional and behavioral disturbances and their families.

This training will prepare you to train others on healthy boundary issues for clergy and spiritual leaders using A Sacred Trust curriculum.

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.

"This conference will motivate the violence prevention field to adopt evidence-based programs and provide support, guidance, and tools to help practitioners implement these programs successfully in their own communities. Attendees will hear from seasoned practitioners in the field and be given the opportunity to network with others in the industry."

Join fellow law enforcement personnel, prosecutors, victim advocates, judges, parole and probation officers, rape crisis workers, medical personnel, faith community members, educators and others for this conference highlighting promising practices and emerging issues in sexual assault, domestic violence and stalking. See website for more details.

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!

National Coalition Against Domestic Violence's 2010 conference is themed Changing Faces of the Movement. See website for more details on registration and conference information.

CALCASA is proud to be hosting the 2010 National Sexual Assault Conference in Los Angeles. For registration details and information, click on the link to access a survey.