Child Abuse Awareness and Prevention - Lorain County General ...

Lorain Community Collaborative on
Child Abuse Awareness and Prevention
Presents:
6 th Annual Conference
Child Abuse Awareness
and Prevention
Wednesday, April 13th, 2011
Time:
Place:
7:30am to 5:30pm
Lorain County Community College
Spitzer Conference Center
1005 N. Abbe Rd, Elyria, OH 44035
This event was made possible by the support of:
Lorain County Board of Mental Health
Lorain County Community College
Lorain County Family and Children First Council

Applewood Centers
Beech Brook
Bellefaire JCB
LORAIN COMMUNITY COLLABORATIVE
ON CHILD ABUSE
AWARENESS AND PREVENTION
Berea Children's Home & Family Services
Blessing House
Educational Service Center of Lorain County
Elyria Charities, Inc.
Elyria City Health District
Kiwanis International-Elyria Club
Lorain County Board of Mental Health
Lorain County Children & Families Council
Lorain County Community College
Lorain County Children Services
Lorain County General Health District
Murray Ridge Center
Neighborhood House Association
The Nord Center/Child & Adolescent Services
The Nord Center/Kidz First Children's Advocacy Center
The Nord Center/Sexual Assault Care Unit
Parents as Teachers
Voices for Children
Registration Form
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Organization
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Occupation Email (if receipt desired)
Please check below for CEU credits or Contact hours for counselors and social workers.
Eight Credit hours have been applied for.
□ Continuing Education Units for Social Workers and Counselors CEUs)
□ Contact hours for Nurses
□ Certificate of Attendance
Lorain County Community College (OLN-008-P) is approved as a provider of continuing nursing
education by the Ohio Board of Nursing through the provider approver unit at the Ohio League
for Nursing (OBN-006-92).
Please check one track for the Morning Session: 9:30- 11:30am
□ Track 1: Demand For Prostitution/Human Trafficking; Response Plans
□ Track 2: Ohio’s Victim Compensation Program
□ Track 3: What’s Culture Got To Do With It? Cultural Competency Skills
Please check one track for Afternoon Session I: 1:00- 3:00pm
□ Track 1: Pediatric Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Care
□ Track 2: Hearsay, Exceptions to, Adverse Witnesses & CAC Interviews
□ Track 3: Trauma Informed Care: Basics in Assessment & Treatment of Trauma
Please check one track for Afternoon Session II: 3:15- 5:15pm
□ Track 1: Overview of Interpersonal Violence in Pediatrics
□ Track 2: Teens, Intimate Partner Violence and Stalking
□ Track 3: Understanding Development in Child Maltreatment Cases
Return Registration with payment (checks payable to The Nord Center) to:
ATT: Michelle Michener
Lorain County Community College
1005 N. Abbe Road, Elyria, Ohio, 44035
Fax to: 440.366.4115
email: mmichene@lorainccc.edu
To Pay by Credit Card: Visa, Master Card or Discover
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Cost
Students with ID & Agency Group of 3 $35.00
Early Bird before April 6th $40.00 After April 6th and Same Day $50.00
Limited Scholarships Available, Please contact Michelle Michener for more information at
440.366.4165 or by email mmichene@lorainccc.edu

APRIL 2011
CHILD ABUSE AWARENESS MONTH
EVENTS IN LORAIN COUNTY
9th Annual
RALLY FOR KIDS
Saturday, April 2, 2011
12AM to 5PM
Midway Mall (between the food court and Macy’s)
Sponsored by
Voices for Children, Blessing House
and Lorain County Children Services
This is a chance for all to come together and celebrate kids and families. Kids can
have fun with arts and crafts, balloons, face painting, clowns, and cartoon characters
throughout the day. Lorain County agencies will be on hand to answer questions
and pass along information regarding their programs for families and children.
If your local agency would like to participate in this year’s rally please contact:
Ed Wacker at (440) 329-5158 or email
edwacker@vfclc.org
Sister Mary Berigan at (440) 240-1851 or email
Take advantage of a great opportunity to have staff and parents trained!
Kidz First Children’s Advocacy Center is providing free Stewards of Children
presentations throughout the month of April! Stewards of Children is a
comprehensive sexual abuse prevention training program that educates adults to
prevent, recognize, and react responsibly to child sexual abuse. The Stewards of
Children program is designed for organizations that serve children and adolescents
providing prevention training for staff, volunteers, parents, and other interested
adults. Contact Kristi Miller at 440-204-4287.
Kidz First Children’s Advocacy Center, a program of the Nord Center, is proud to bring The
Clothesline Project to Lorain County. The T‐shirts exhibited were created by survivors of
sexual abuse/assault and their families in Lorain County. Many of the T‐shirts are from
survivors who have worked with our sister program Lorain County Rape Crisis. Each t‐shirt
tells a story of abuse, violence, and in many cases, hope! The exhibit includes more than
100 shirts. During April this traveling display will be at several locations in Lorain County.
Contact Mari Colon at
440‐204‐4361.
APRIL 13, 2011 CONFERENCE AGENDA
7:30-8:00 AM Registration, Display Tables, Continental Breakfast
8:00-8:15 AM Welcome and Introduction of Community Collaborative
8:15-9:15 AM Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Child Abuse: Kidz First Multi-disciplinary Team
9:15-9:30 AM Break
Medical Track Legal Track Mental Health Track
9:30-11:30 AM
The Demand for Prostitution
& Human Trafficking Response
Plans
Mary Jay, MA &
Maggie Billings
(Session 1)
Room 214 (2 nd Floor)
Ohio’s Victim Compensation
Program
Kelli Grace
Ohio Attorney General’s
Office
(Session 1)
Room 118)
“What’s Culture Got To Do
With It?” Why Cultural
Competence is essential in
the work that we do and
how to increase this skill
set.
Lois Stepney, MSW, LISW-
S
(Session 1)
Grand Ballroom
11:30-1:00 PM
(Speaker:11:45-12:45
PM)
Buffet Style Lunch: Grand Ball Room
Keynote Speaker: Erna Olafson, PhD, PsyD
Why Trauma Matters: Understanding Childhood Trauma and Its Consequences
1-3:00 PM
Pediatric Sexual Assault
Nurse Examiner Care: Trace
Forensic Evidence Yield,
Anogenital Injury
Documentation, and Judicial
Outcomes
Gail Horner, RNC, MS, PNP
Stacy Violi, MS
(Session 2)
214 (2 nd Floor)
Hearsay, Hearsay Exceptions,
Defendant’s
Right to Confront Adverse
Witnesses, and
CAC Interviews and
Disclosures
Emily Pelphrey, JD
Assistant Attorney
General, Special
Prosecutions Unit
(Session 2)
Room 118
Trauma Informed Care:
The Basics in Assessment
and Treatment of Trauma
Erna Olafson, PhD, PsyD
(Session 2)
Grand Ballroom
3-3:15 PM Break
3:15-5:15 PM
Overview of Interpersonal
Violence in Pediatrics
Linda Lewin PhD,
PMHCNS-BC
Mona Hassan, MSN,
PhD Candidate
(Session 3)
214 (2 nd Floor)
Teens, Intimate
Partner Violence
and Stalking
Kelli Grace
Ohio Attorney General’s
Office
(Session 3)
Room 118
Understanding Development
in Child Maltreatment
Cases: Keeping
treatment relevant as the
pediatric patient's needs
change.
Shari Uncapher, MSW,
LISW-S
(Session 3)
Grand Ballroom
5:15-5:30 PM Wrap Up & Distribution of CEU Certificates

April 13, 2011 Conference Presenters
Kidz First Multi-Disciplinary Team Members
Sgt. Mark Carpentiere: Law Enforcement (Lorain Police Department)
Sherry Glass JD: Lorain County Prosecutor’s Office
Nancy Griffiths, MSSA: Lorain County Children’s Services
Kathleen Kern, PhD: Lorain County Board of Mental Health
Mindi Kuebler, RN, BSN, SANE-A: Sexual Assault Care Unit
Becky Opel, LSW: Kidz First Children’s Advocacy Center
Maggie Billings
Maggie Billings is a Bachelor of Arts Individualized Degree Candidate (May 2011) and research
assistant at The University of Toledo and is working with research that addresses human trafficking in
Lucas County. Current grant is to identify the movement of sex trafficking and prostitution in Ohio
through crime mapping. She serves on the Demand Sub-Committee representing Northwest Ohio
and is the Diversion Program Coordinator for the Lucas County Human Trafficking Coalition
(LCHTC), Toledo, Ohio.
Kelli Grace
Kelli Grace has worked for the citizens of Ohio for 24 years. In the Crime Victims Assistance and
Prevention Section., Ms. Grace worked 5 years as an Investigator and 1 year as a Lead Investigator
prior to becoming the Public Information Manager. Ms. Grace works closely with the victims and
family members of violent crime. She provides information concerning services available to victims
both within the Attorney General’s Office and with our outside partners.
Mona Hassan, MSN, PhD Candidate
Mona Hassan graduated from Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt with her Master’s in Nursing and is
currently a PhD candidate in Nursing at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. She is
currently working on her dissertation: Patterns of sexual abuse among children who received care in
an emergency department. Although currently on sabbatical, she has the position of Assistant
Lecturer for the Pediatric Nursing Department, at Cairo University, Cairo Egypt.
Gail Horner, RNC, MS, PNP
Gail Horner graduated from Wright State University with her Master’s of Science in Nursing and
received her Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Certificate from The Ohio State University. She is
currently the Pediatric Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) Coordinator at Nationwide
Children’s Hospital’s Center for Child and Family Advocacy in Columbus, Ohio. She performs
physical exams for suspected victims of child sexual and physical abuse and coordinates the SANE
program within the emergency department.
Mary Jay, MA,
Mary Jay received her Master of Arts from Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, Michigan and
majored in Sociology. Mary Jay is a Disease Intervention Specialist with the Toledo-Lucas County
Health Department. As Chair of the Anti-Human Trafficking Coalition at the Lucas County Health
Department, she establishes, implements, presents on and oversees anti-human trafficking policies
and procedures for Lucas County, Ohio.
Linda Lewin, PhD, PMHCNS-BC
Dr. Lewin earned a Doctorate in Philosophy in Educational Psychology from the University of
Toledo. She earned a Master of Science in Nursing in Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing from Ohio
State University. She also earned a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Capital University. Dr
Lewin is a certified Child/Adolescent Psychiatric Clinical Nurse Specialist from American Nurses
Credentialing Center. She is currently an Assistant Professor at Case Western Reserve University
and is the immediate Past Board President of the Ohio Professional Society on the Abuse of Children.
Erna Olafson, PhD, PsyD
Dr. Olafson received her Doctorate in History (Second Field: Social Anthropology) from the
University of California at Berkeley, California and her Doctorate in Psychology from the California
Graduate School of Family Psychology (Merged in 1998 with the American School of Professional
Psychology, which became Argosy University in 2001). She is currently an Associate Professor of
Clinical Psychiatry and Pediatrics at Children’s Hospital Medical Center and University of Cincinnati
College of Medicine. She is also Co-chair of the Judicial Education Working Group of the National
Child Traumatic Stress Network.
Emily Pelphrey, JD, Assistant Attorney General, Sex Crimes Unit
Emily Pelphrey received her law degree from Suffolk University Law School, Boston, Massachusetts.
She currently works for The Ohio Attorney General’s Office as Assistant Attorney General for the
Special Prosecutions Unit, as Sex Crimes Unit Coordinator. She is a founding member of the Statewide
Ohio Sexual Assault Response Team (SART) and a member of the Ohio Trafficking in Persons
Study Commission.
Lois Stepney, MSW, LISW-S
Lois Stepney received her Bachelor of Social Work from Oakwood College, Huntsville, Alabama and
her Master’s in Social Work from The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. She is currently the
Project Coordinator of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
(SAMHSA) grant as well as one of the Emergency Department Social Workers for the Center for
Child and Family Advocacy at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, Ohio.
Shari Uncapher, MSW, LISW-S
Shari Uncapher received her Bachelor’s Degree of Social Work from Youngstown University and her
Masters of Social Work from The Ohio State University, Columbus Ohio. She is the Program
Manager for the Center for Child and Family Advocacy and the Department of Behavioral Health
Services at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus Ohio.
Stacy Violi, MS
Stacy Violi received her Bachelor of Science in Biology from Heidelberg College and her Master’s of
Science in Molecular and Physiology from the University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati Ohio. She is
currently a Forensic Scientist, in DNA analysis, for the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification
and Investigation.