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Effective Strategies to Communicate with Individuals with Serious Mental Illness (Part 1 of 2) - This workshop will present strategies to communicate with tact, respect, kindness, and strength with some of those most beleaguered by mental disorders. Ellis is known for presentations both clinically sound and streetwise, including his graphic role-play of the behaviors of concern. This training will also include information on ways to increase one's intuitive ability to discern the intentions of people who have difficulty communicating in straight-forward ways.

E-02

This workshop will demonstrate how to use effective strategies for compliance with ICWA. Learning how to engage multiple service providers, and practice the multiple elements of the Indian Child Welfare Act, will be the focus for the presentation. How various systems can work with tribes to achieve the intent of the Act would be described through a thoughtful description of the Washington tribal inter-governmental agreement and the Centennial accord.

E-03

Motivational interviewing with adolescent sexual abusers I - a rapid course This is a skill based session for intermediate and advanced practitioners that will quickly review the principles and methods of Motivational Interviewing and how to apply them to male adolescent sexual abusers when getting them engaged in treatment or working with issues of denial of other stuck spots in treatment. This workshop will address the ethical issues, training concerns and other salient issues in the use of this method. In part II of the workshop, hands on exercises for those interested will be offered and processed.

E-04

When the Disclosure Does Not Match the Evidence - First responders in child sexual abuse allegations are often required to make quick but complicated assessments of the validity of a child's reported abuse. Information from the initial complainant may be correct, misunderstood, confused, or false. The existence of corroborative evidence may or may not match the allegations. First Responders must not allow his/her personal feelings to effect the outcome of a thorough investigation. Maintaining a sensitive and open mind is critical to establishing the facts as they exist. Case examples will be presented. Child abduction, stranger rape, date rape and delayed allegations cases will be discussed. Participants of various skill levels may benefit from this workshop.

E-05

Sudden Unexplained Infant Death - New Investigative Techniques (REPEAT)- The investigation of sudden, unexpected infant death is a unique inquiry that involves skills and knowledge traditionally considered foreign to many classically educated law enforcement investigators. New data collection tools, interviewing techniques and surveillance protocols will be highlighted and/or demonstrated. This presentation is targeted for individuals with experience in the investigation of death, specifically cases involving infants or children. In addition, individuals representing emergency responses organizations, CPS providers, and family welfare agencies may find the information presented useful in understanding the critical tasks associated with medico legal investigation of an infant's death.

E-06

Community Collaborations - Getting To the Core! - For those practitioners in the field who have experienced that "we can't do this alone" feeling, this session will focus on a successful working model of community collaboration. What goes into developing a team approach toward poverty issues in collaboration with other agencies (i.e. schools, faith-based, social service, youth groups, law enforcement, etc.) and how that collaboration can provide successes for families. What are the pitfalls and what are the rewards. Participants will leave with at least two "next steps" in developing local inter-agency collaborations.

E-07

The High Cost of Adverse Childhood Experiences (Part 1 of 2) - Incredible new brain research and health studies show how child maltreatment shapes the individual, drives high cost social problems, creates intergenerational violence and becomes an extremely powerful determinant of physical, mental and behavioral health. After a summary of this newest scientific research, we'll learn why the most noticeable intergenerational cycles of violence are more than one generation learning "bad behavior" from another-and what we can do about it.

E-08

Psychological Evaluations in Dependency and Termination Cases: What they can and cannot do for you: (Part 1 of 2) - These workshops are designed for all disciplines and levels of expertise. Part I will provide conceptual and practical guidelines for positive collaboration with psychological consultants. You will learn how to get the most value from psychological reports and how to judge the quality of the report. You will learn: how to best communicate your needs to the examiner and define the scope of the information wanted.

E-09

PCIT in Washington State: From Research Lab to the Community - Is Parent Child Interaction Training (PCIT) a passing fad or is it here to stay? PCIT, an Evidenced Based Practice (EBP), brings about rapid improvement in child behavior, decreases parental stress, strengthens the parent-child relationship, and decreases re-referral into the child welfare system. Imagine this: A parent is taught specific skills then plays with their child while a coach feeds the parent every word, every line, every interaction from another room via bug-in-the ear technology. The parent and child have instant success that is replicated at home and generalized to other children in the family. Learn about this intervention and be a part of creating positive change for families.

E-10

The Development of the Juvenile: Sex Offender Assessment Protocol-II: Sex Offender Assessment Protocol-II, (JSOAP) - In this presentation, I will focus on the development and validation of one scale in particular that was designed to assess risk in adolescent boys who engaged in sexually coercive behavior. I will explore the usefulness of this scale with pre-adolescents and with girls. This talk will lead directly into the last presentation on the predictive validity of this scale.

E-11

Case Analysis and Ethical Considerations for the Child Abuse Prosecutor - This workshop will detail the many ethical dilemmas that a child abuse prosecutor may encounter from the investigation stage of a child abuse case till the trial. Such topics as ethical charging considerations, proper defense discovery and ethical contact with child victims will be discussed. A special emphasis will be on ethical guidelines in the preparation victim/witness for Court.

E-12

Reframing abuse: New directions for child protection - Epidemiologic studies from around the fifty states have shown a real and significant decline in the incidence of sexual abuse over the past decade or more. At the same time, however, child abuse professionals have experienced a resurgence of the "backlash" phenomenon that marked the start of the previous decade. In 2004, Prevent Child Abuse America (PCAA) commissioned The Frameworks Institute, a well-known public relations firm, to analyze the challenges before them in preventing child abuse.

Briefly put, the Frameworks study suggested that, while the campaign against child abuse has been successful to date, unless there is a major shift in the way society regards both abuse and those who respond to it on society's behalf, further gains are less likely. Several deep-seated sociological constructs or "frames" were discussed, which were felt to be obstructive to future progress by isolating and encapsulating the family unit, effectively isolating the family from societal support. Widespread ignorance of normal child development was documented, and its role in the continuation of abusive practice discussed. Finally, suggestions were offered for "reframing" child abuse in a way more conducive to future success.

E-13

Diagnosis and Treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in Children - Children are all-too-often exposed to traumatic events that might lead to PTSD in adults. However, diagnostic criteria for PTSD were formulated to capture the response of soldiers to acute exposure to life-threatening events. While some traumatized children develop adult-like PTSD symptoms, many others show an even more complex array of symptoms. This has resulted in the proposal by several leading traumatologists to propose a new diagnostic category tentatively titled "Developmental Trauma Disorder" (DTD). Diagnostic criteria for DTD will be compared to criteria for PTSD, and therapeutic programs that have experience success treating PTSD (or DTD) in children will be discussed.

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Historical Trauma Leading Up To the Enactment of the Indian Child Welfare Act (Part 2 of 3) - This workshop will expand upon the traumatic historical events leading up to the enactment of the Indian Child Welfare Act. Workshop participants will gain an understanding of the psychological and sociological impacts of government policies on Native American communities across the nation. Our current understanding and the challenges of implementing the law is best understood in the context of a history of colonization. This workshop is for any individual seeking to explore a deeper awareness of government policies impacting Tribes in the United States.

E-15

Resolving Conflict on MDT teams (REPEAT) - Multidisciplinary teams are comprised of professionals from many different disciplines. They provide an avenue for rich, comprehensive assessments of the cases before them. Along with these positives there is the potential for issues to arise. Conflict within teams, especially law enforcement and CPS, often occurs. This presentation will focus on ways leaders and team members can resolve conflict effectively over time.

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Taking Care of Ourselves - How compassion fatigue affects service workers. - This training is to help social workers, therapists, police officers and anyone who works directly with traumatized people, traumatizing events, and high-need populations. This will help those in these fields take better care of them selves professionally and personally. Everyone who works in this field is exposed to people who need an extraordinary amount of time and energy. People in this field usually WANT to help others and sometimes it can feel like you cannot give enough. If your communication skills and personal boundaries are not paid attention to, the result can be that you give too much and have nothing left for YOU. This causes burn out easily which can be harmful for you and your clients; it can affect the quality of work you do and the quality of life you have. This training is to help you learn how to take better care of yourself and become aware of (and embrace!) your limitations.