Dr. Adams has been involved in the medical evaluation of suspected sexual abuse since 1984, first as the director of the Sexual Abuse Evaluation Program at the University of Kansas Medical Center, and then at Valley Medical Center in Fresno, California. During her career, she has examined over 3,000 children for suspected child sexual abuse, and has reviewed records and colposcopic photographs on approximately 6,000 more.

Dr. Adams has published extensively in the field of medical evaluation of suspected sexual abuse, including papers on agreement among examiners on normal vs. abnormal genital findings, the development and continuing revision of a medical literature-based tool for interpreting medical findings in suspected sexual abuse, a study of the frequency of abnormal findings in legally confirmed cases of sexual abuse, a study of findings in sexually abused adolescent girls, and a study of the appearance of the hymen in adolescent girls who have not been abused or had sexual intercourse. Dr. Adams is one of the editors of a new textbook published by STM Learning, Medical Response to Child Sexual Abuse; A guide for professionals working with children. She also speaks regularly at national and international meetings on topics of sexual abuse and adolescent gynecology, and is active as an expert witness in child sexual abuse cases nationwide.

Dr. Adams has been active in the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children, the North American Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology, and in the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Child Abuse and Neglect, where she was an elected member of the Executive Committee for two years. She is also a member of an honorary society for physicians involved in the field of child maltreatment, the Ray E. Helfer Society. Dr. Adams is also Board Certified in the newly recognized subspecialty of Child Abuse Pediatrics.

Currently, Dr. Adams is a Professor of Clinical Pediatrics in the Division of General Academic Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine at UCSD. She is involved in teaching, clinical care, and research in several settings, including the Chadwick Center for Children and Families at Rady Children’s Hospital of San Diego. Dr. Adams also acts as a consultant for the Sexual Abuse Response Team and Child Abuse Program at Palomar and Pomerado Hospitals in San Diego County.

Elizabeth Ahern is a developmental psychology Ph.D. candidate at the University of Southern California. She researches children's disclosure of maltreatment and the emergence of early lying ability with Tom Lyon, JD, PhD. Elizabeth is a child interviewing specialist at the Center for Assault Treatment Services and at the Edelman Children's Court. Elizabeth has conducted multiple trainings in child forensic interviews and organizes monthly peer reviews of child forensic interviews.

Sandra Alexander has 40 years’ experience in child abuse prevention including hands on CPS casework and supervision in South Carolina, prevention programming and advocacy and 18 years nonprofit management in child abuse prevention organizations. Currently, she is a Subject Matter Expert in Child Maltreatment in the Division of Violence Prevention (DVP), National Center for Injury Prevention and Control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). She works on CDC child maltreatment prevention initiatives, chairs the DVP Child Maltreatment Workgroup and represents the CDC on other national child maltreatment initiatives. Previous positions include Executive Director of Prevent Child Abuse Georgia, founding board member and Executive Director of the Council on Child Abuse and Neglect (now Prevent Child Abuse South Carolina) and consultant for the National Center on Grandparents Raising Grandchildren at Georgia State University.

She is a past board president and former board member of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC) and former chair and current prevention advocate for the Fulton County (Atlanta) Child Fatality Review Committee. She has developed numerous prevention programs, provided training on prevention nationally and internationally, and served as a prevention voice for local and national media. Sandra authored the chapter on “Prevention” in Child Maltreatment—A Comprehensive Photographic Reference Identifying Potential Child Abuse published by G.W. Medical Publishing in 2005 and “Preventing Future Deaths Through Effective Prevention Recommendations and Actions”, in Child Fatality Review, published by G.W. Medical Publishing in 2007. She is currently co-editing a book on Child Maltreatment Prevention.

Brian Allen, Psy.D., is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at Sam Houston State University and the executive director of the Texas Center for Child & Adolescent Trauma. He received his doctorate in clinical psychology from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, completed his doctoral internship at the UC Davis Medical Center Children’s Hospital, and was a post-doctoral fellow at the National Center for Child Traumatic Stress at UCLA and Duke University. His research focuses on the developmental impact of childhood trauma, and the evaluation and implementation of evidence-based practices with maltreated children. His research has been published in the journals Child Maltreatment; Trauma, Violence, & Abuse; Journal of Interpersonal Violence; and Journal of Traumatic Stress, among others. He maintains a small practice utilizing Trauma-Focused CBT and Parent-Child Interaction Therapy with children who have experienced trauma.

EDUCATION
• King Saud University, Bachelor's degree in Social Science section, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Excellent, honor degree
• Michigan University, Master’s degree in Educational Leadership, Michigan
• Practice as a social guide in KSA jointly with Security Forces Hospital, Military Hospital and other Saudi schools
• Worked as a social worker in Riyadh Najd School
• Worked as a social worker in Kingdom School
• Worked as a social worker in Bin Khaldon School
• Worked as a social worker in The National Family Safety Program
• Membership in (DSCA Philanthropic Organization)
• Participated in social interventions in Child Abuse and Neglect Cases
• Participated in Therapeutic Approaches
• Participated in Dealing with families of Abused Children
• Participated in (I am safe, strong and smart child
• Participated in interviewing victims of child Sexual Abuse
• Participated in Dealing with Abused Female Adolescents

Mr. Armstrong is a High-Tech Crime Training Specialist in the High-Tech Crime Training Services Department of SEARCH, where he coordinates and provides training on high-tech crime investigations and forensics. Mr. Armstrong retired from the San Diego Police Department in 2006 after more than 27 years of service. When he retired, he was Lead Investigator for the ICAC grant in San Diego County. In this role, he was involved in both proactive and reactive investigations, forensic investigations, computer maintenance, office network and networking hardware, and grant financial planning. Immediately prior to his ICAC assignment, he spent 6-plus years as a Child Abuse Investigator, investigating every type of child abuse and child exploitation.

Honorable Susan W. Ashley was appointed as Special Justice for Rochester District Court on June 7, 2006, designated as a Family Division Judge on January 4, 2008 and a Circuit Court Judge on July 1, 2011. She received her Bachelor or Arts degree from the University of New Hampshire in 1990 and her Juris Doctor from Suffolk University Law School in 1993. Her previously employment includes positions as a Judicial Clerk for the New Hampshire Superior Court, Deputy County Attorney for Strafford County, Deputy Clerk for Strafford Superior Court and New Hampshire Judicial Branch Family Division Administrator.

Judge Ashley implemented and presides over the Strafford County Employability Program, the only child support program in New Hampshire to supervise parental accountability while supporting obligors in finding and maintaining employment. Currently, Judge Ashley is collaborating on the Bridge Project with Dartmouth Medical School’s Trauma Interventions Research Center and child protection and juvenile justice agencies in New Hampshire, to establish a trauma-informed juvenile justice system, including screening all delinquency cases for potential trauma treatment.

Paul Baeten began his career in child abuse in 1988, as a social worker at the Confidential Doctor’s Offices for Child Abuse in Rotterdam and Breda. He holds his master degree in Social Sciences. From 1996 till 2003 he worked as a policy officer at the Dutch Institute for Care and Welfare where he implemented a national support program for the development of the Advice and Reporting Centres for Child Abuse.

He is the (co)author of six books and several reports and articles. Subjects of these publications are children who witness domestic violence and assistance programs for abusive families.

Since 2003 he is the manager of the Advice and Reporting centre in The Hague. Close collaboration with the police and the emergency departments of the local hospitals resulted in new protocols for reporting cases of suspected child abuse and neglect. Particular for this protocol is that children are being reported from parents who are being seen or reported with severe drugs- or alcohol abuse, suicide attempts or domestic violence.

Dr. Begle earned her M.S. and Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Purdue University, and completed her pre-doctoral internship in Clinical Psychology at the Medical University of South Carolina, as well as her Postdoctoral Fellowship at the National Crime Victims Research and Treatment Center (NCVC) at the Medical University of South Carolina. Dr. Begle joined the faculty in October 2010. Her research interests include investigation of high risk behaviors, such as substance use and delinquent behaviors, in relation to different types of trauma exposure in adolescents. She is also interested in prevention of trauma exposure in young children.

Dr. Christopher Bellonci is a Board-Certified Child/Adolescent and Adult Psychiatrist who has worked in residential treatment and school consultation since completing his Child Psychiatry training at McLean Hospital in 1993. He is currently Assistant Professor in the Psychiatry Department of Tufts University School of Medicine and the Senior Psychiatric Consultant at Walker in Needham, Massachusetts. Walker is a multi-service agency working with children experiencing severe emotional and behavioral disorders secondary to major mental illness, trauma, and developmental disorders. He is President-Elect of the American Association of Children’s Residential Centers. Dr. Bellonci has consulted to the Department of Children’s Services in Tennessee in support of their efforts to decrease seclusion and restraint and better monitor the use of psychotropic medications for children in care.

Dr. Bellonci co-authored the Practice Parameter on the Prevention and Management of Aggressive Behavior in Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Institutions with Special Reference to Seclusion and Restraint for the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP).Dr. Bellonci is a member of AACAP’s Workgroup on Quality Issues which is responsible for writing the practice parameters that define the standards of care for the field of child psychiatry.

In 2008 he provided testimony to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and Labor regarding unlicensed and unregulated boot camps and wilderness programs as well as the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support regarding the increasing use of psychotropic medications for children in the Child Welfare System.

Scott Benton is an associate professor of pediatrics working in Jackson, MS for the University of Mississippi Medical Center. He is board certified in general and child abuse pediatrics and Chief of the Division of Forensic Medicine. He has been in academic settings since 1995 evaluating suspected child maltreatment cases and promoting childhood injury prevention. He has a longstanding interest in the use of technology to aid in the documentation of forensic examinations.

Scientific Education
Studies of Human Medicine, HU Berlin, Charité. Thesis: Analysis of recovery-corrected SUV in Positron emission tomography, Clinic Department of Nuclear Medicine, CCM, Berlin

Working experience
Senior Clinician, University Children’s Hospital Zurich Department of Psychosomatics and Psychiatry Intern/Resident in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University hospital, Zurich, Switzerland Intern/Resident in Paediatrics at Ruhr-University Hospital Bochum, Germany Intern/Resident in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University Hospital, Essen, Germany Intern/Resident in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University hospital, Dresden, Germany Intern/Resident in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Hopital Esquirol, Paris, France

Research
Psychoneuroimmunology in maltretreated children, Kispi, Zurich Prenatal stress in mice: neurotransmitter- and receptor-profiles in brain, KJPD, Zurich Effect of psychostimulants in cell-culture, KJPD, Zurich Stress-triggered modulation in immune adaptation, maternal behaviour and neuronal development of the off-spring; FHS of - McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada NGF and hair loss, Psycho-Neuro-Immunology, AG Petra Arck, CCV, Berlin, German ADHD and IQ, Psychiatry for children and adolescents, CCV, Berlin, Germany

Arthur Bohanan is a consultant and instructor for Fox Valley Technical College, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. He is the co-author of “Child Fatality Investigation,” “Basic Response to Missing and Abducted Children,” and “Investigative Strategies for Missing and Abducted Children,” which is taught nationwide. He is Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) certified as a Mass Fatality Course Instructor, and a certified police instructor with over 47 years in the study and practical application of forensics in thousands of violent crime scenes.

Mr. Bohanan began at the Sevier County Sheriff’s Department while still in high school. He then worked for the FBI, U.S. Army Military Police, Jefferson County Sheriff’s Department, and retired as a Police Specialist III, former AFIS Manager, and Senior Forensic Examiner with the Knoxville Police Department. Mr. Bohanan set up the first ICAC unit in Tennessee in 1999 before retiring in 2001. He has a bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice from East Tennessee State University with further studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Mr. Bohanan was inducted into the International Hall of Fame in Atlanta (sponsored by the Inventors Clubs of America) with two distinguished awards, plus a doctorate in science and technology for pioneering research involving children’s fingerprints. He has completed research at the University of Tennessee’s “Body Farm” with the FBI, U.S. Secret Service, and Oak Ridge National Lab. Arthur holds patent #5,395,445 issued March 7, 1995 for the “Method and Apparatus for Detecting Fingerprints on Skin.” He also discovered that fingerprints of children prior to puberty are chemically different from adult prints

Sergeant Borowski has been assigned to the Lee Gross Anthone Child Advocacy Center (CAC) since 2007, where she has conducted more than 700 forensic interviews of victims of child sexual abuse. She has introduced to Erie County and conducted numerous control telephone calls in furtherance of criminal child sexual abuse cases. Sergeant Borowski presented on control phone calls at the annual Erie County Multi-Disciplinary Team training. She has been a member of the New York State Police for the past 20 years. Sergeant Borowski has served as a road trooper, investigator and an undercover narcotics officer.

Jocelyn Bourgeois has been a social worker with Child, Youth & Family Services for 21 years. Child, Youth & Family Services is a government department that has the legislative authority for the protection of children in the province of Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada. She has worked in the areas of assessment and long term protection. Jocelyn is currently providing financial and supportive services to children living with relatives who would otherwise be in foster care if parents had not agreed to relative placements.

In conjunction with carrying an active caseload, Jocelyn has also been in the position of Child Protection Coordinator for the past 16 years. This is a liaison position shared between Child, Youth & Family Services and the Janeway Children’s Hospital (the only children’s hospital in the province of Newfoundland & Labrador). In the capacity of coordinator, Jocelyn provides consultation and mentoring to Child, Youth & Family Services’ social workers province wide. She also provides guidance and direction to hospital staff and community based professionals in matters of child maltreatment. Jocelyn is a member of the Child, Abuse Treatment Team, Janeway Family Centre, where she co-facilitates treatment groups, delivers educational / training sessions. Since 1994 Jocelyn has been an active member of the Child Protection Coordinating Committee, a multi-disciplinary committee that oversees the Child Protection Program of the Janeway Hospital. Jocelyn is frequently involved in the development of protocols and policies that are based on best practice in child and family maltreatment.

Dr. Kerri Boutelle joined the UC San Diego Faculty from the University of Minnesota, where she was the Director of a child and adolescent eating disorder and obesity program and created and researched treatments for children who are overweight. Dr. Boutelle has been working with youth and young adults who have weight or eating related issues for over 12 years. Dr. Boutelle is the Behavioral Director of the Weight and Wellness Clinic, a clinic for youth (and their families) who struggle with their weight, and leads parenting groups and provides individual and family therapy. Dr. Boutelle also sees patients in the eating disorder program for family based and individual treatment of anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder and EDNOS. Dr. Boutelle's current research is focused on parenting children to reduce weight, parent and child skills for reducing binge eating, and epidemiological studies regarding adolescents who have been successful in weight loss.

Doug Braun-Harvey consultants with addiction and mental health treatment programs to envision, design, implement and evaluate the integration of sexual health based treatment. Mr. Braun-Harvey received his master’s degree in counseling from National University in 1982. He has been a California Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist since 1982 and a Certified Group Psychotherapist since 1994. He Founded The Sexual Dependency Institute of San Diego in 1993 where he provides outpatient treatment for men with out of control sexual behavior.

From 2001 - 2005 Mr. Braun-Harvey consulted with Stepping Stone of San Diego to create, design and implement the nation’s first sexual health in recovery relapse prevention program to improve chemical dependency client retention rates and treatment outcomes. His book “Sexual Health in Drug and Alcohol Treatment: group facilitator’s manual” was published by Springer Publishing Company (Sprigerpub.com). The companion book “Sexual Health in Recovery: professional counselor’s manual” was also published.

He presents locally, nationally and internationally on sexual health, out of control sexual behavior, group psychotherapy and sexual health as a means for improving clinical treatment outcomes. Currently Mr. Braun-Harvey is in private practice in Mission Valley.

Melissa Lim Brodowski joined the Office on Child Abuse and Neglect (OCAN) at the Children’s Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, US Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC in 2002. At OCAN, she serves as the Prevention Specialist and Acting Home Visiting Team Leader. In this capacity, she oversees the discretionary grant program and technical assistance activities related to home visiting at OCAN. This includes playing a lead role in the collaboration with the Maternal and Child Health Bureau regarding the implementation of the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program, managing the Supporting Evidence-based Home Visiting Program and national cross-site evaluation, and overseeing the National Quality Improvement Center on Early Childhood.

In addition, she leads the Prevention Subcommittee of the Federal Interagency Workgroup on Child Abuse and Neglect and supports other prevention activities at the Children’s Bureau. She has over 19 years of experience working in the field of child welfare and social services.

Prior to her current position, she worked as a Management Analyst with the Alameda County Department of Children and Family Services in Oakland to develop new programs, manage interagency agreements, implement various special projects, and compile the Department’s annual report on children in foster care. She also worked as a substance abuse counselor for pregnant and parenting mothers at a San Francisco methadone clinic. She completed her Masters Degree in Social Welfare and Public Health from the University of California at Berkeley in 1997. She is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, School of Social Work.

Dr. Brookman-Frazee is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at UCSD, Research Scientist at the Child and Adolescent Services Research Center (CASRC) at Rady Children’s Hospital, and licensed clinical psychologist. She received her Ph.D. from the Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She completed her pre-doctoral clinical internship at UCSD and her post-doctoral fellowship at UCSD and CASRC. Dr. Brookman-Frazee’s research is focused on translating evidence-based interventions into community settings. She has an NIH-funded study focused on improving community mental health services for children with autism spectrum disorders. Specifically, she partnered with community stakeholders to develop and test an evidence-based mental health intervention protocol and therapist training model for children with autism spectrum disorders serve in community mental health clinics.

Dr. Brookman-Frazee is also involved in research implementing evidence-based practices for infants and toddlers with disorders of relating and communicating, characterizing usual care psychotherapy process and outcomes for children with disruptive behavior disorders, and evaluating a community developmental and behavioral screening and intervention program for children in foster care. Other research interests include improving community-based care for children with developmental and behavioral problems, early screening and intervention, parent training, research-practice partnerships, clinician training/supervision, and parental stress in parents of children with disabilities. Dr. Brookman-Frazee’s clinical interests are in parent training interventions for children with autism spectrum disorders, developmental disabilities, and disruptive behavior problems. She provides clinical supervision in a parent training program for children with autism spectrum disorders and to practicum students and pre-doctoral interns in a community mental health clinic. Dr. Brookman-Frazee also teaches seminars in parent training, behavior management and autism spectrum disorders to psychiatry fellows and practicing therapists.

Dr. Daniel Broughton is Professor of Pediatrics at the prestigious Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota where he has practiced for 30 years. Dr. Broughton and his wife Sheila live in Rochester, where they raised their three children. In addition to being a primary care pediatrician, he is one of America’s foremost experts and advocates on child abuse and victimization issues. As a physician, expert witness, author, lecturer, and advocate, his leadership on behalf of child victims is well known and highly respected.

Perhaps less recognized is that he was a co-founder of America’s missing children’s movement. In 1981, shortly after the tragic abduction and murder of Adam Walsh, Dan Broughton served on the steering committee of the first national conference on missing and exploited children. He became a founding board member of NCMEC in 1984, and in 1988 became its Chair, a position he held until 2001. He continues to serve on the Board of Directors of NCMEC.

Mrs. Bryant is currently the Deputy Commonwealth’s Attorney, Violent Juvenile Crime and Domestic Violence Unit, Norfolk Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office. She supervises a unit of prosecutors that focuses on child abuse, juvenile crime and domestic violence.  In 2010, she was selected as the sole recipient of the Virginia Commonwealth’s Attorneys’ Distinguished Prosecutor Award for Juvenile Prosecution and Domestic Violence Prosecution. Also in 2010, she was one of thirty Virginia lawyers selected by the Virginia Lawyers Weekly as a “Leader in the Law”; she was recognized as a “champion for victims of juvenile crime and domestic violence.” She has prosecuted a large number of homicide cases to include child fatalities, intimate partner fatalities and a death-penalty case. 

Nadine J. Burke Harris, MD, MPH, FAAP, AE-C, is the founding physician and Medical Director of the Bayview Child Health Center, a community-based satellite clinic of California Pacific Medical Center. Dr. Burke Harris oversees the operations of the clinic and provides care to children and youth living in the Bayview Hunters Point Community of San Francisco. Despite its location within the city of San Francisco, which has one of the highest physician-per-capita ratios in the United States, Bayview is federally designated as a medically underserved area.

Dr. Burke Harris has recently embarked on a new project to create the Center for Youth Wellness, a comprehensive health and wellness center that integrates medical, mental health, holistic and social services for an evidence-based approach to improving the health and well-being of urban children and youth. Her areas of interest are in health disparities, child trauma, nutrition and asthma. Particularly, her focus is serving communities where issues of poverty and race present challenges to conventional healthcare and education. She also maintains her clinical practice at the CPMC Bayview Child Health Center.

Dr. Burke Harris received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Berkeley. She is a graduate of the University of California, Davis School of Medicine. Dr. Burke Harris also holds a Masters of Public Health degree from Harvard School of Public Health. She completed her internship and residency in Pediatrics at the Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford. Dr. Burke is board certified in Pediatrics.

Professor Roger Byard is currently the Professor of Pathology at The University of Adelaide, and Senior Specialist Forensic Pathologist at Forensic Science SA in Adelaide, Australia. He has published a number of papers in the area of pathology, as well as the third edition of his text Sudden Death in the Young and the Encyclopaedia of Forensic and Legal Medicine. He also had an extremely short career as a travel writer. He is the Editor-in Chief of Forensic Science Medicine and Pathology.

Bridget Byrne provides administrative and secretarial support to the program manager of Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Eastern Health, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. This program provides coordinated and comprehensive services for children and youth facing emotional, social or behavioral challenges and their parents. Bridget also provides consultation and support to the secretaries and therapists throughout the program. She has been employed in health care since 1971. Bridget was instrumental in the development and completion of the “RBC Reaching Out – sharing Janeway Group Programs throughout Newfoundland and Labrador” project. She has fulfilled many roles in the course of this project – minuting meetings and maintaining records, editing and formatting manuals, maintaining liaison with agencies and participants province wide, organizing travel arrangements, coordinating presenters and managing financial matters.

Kris Campbell is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Utah. She has a research focus in understanding and improving outcomes of children and families remaining in the home following child maltreatment. She currently holds a Career Development Award from the NICHD. She is also a child abuse pediatrician and a general pediatrician with the University of Utah.

Dr. James Cantor is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto and has been studying the role of the brain in sexual interests and sexual offending for over ten years. He is currently the Head of the Law & Mental Health Research Section at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) and is the Editor-in-Chief of Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment, the official journal of the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers (ATSA).

Dr. Cantor published the largest existing MRI study of pedophilia and was recently a $1 million research operating grant by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) to expand his work to include newly developed MRI techniques, including Diffusion Tensor Imaging and Magnetization Transfer Imaging. Dr. Cantor trains doctoral and pre-doctoral students in psychology and coordinates the clinical assessments of the Kurt Freund Laboratory and the Sexual Behaviour’s Clinic of CAMH, which conduct over 250 such assessments annually.

Terry Eisenberg Carrilio, Ph.D., L.C.S.W, has had a career spanning over 35 years working with various populations, and most recently with vulnerable families and communities. She has experience in direct clinical practice, supervision, and teaching, as well as in prevention program development, implementation, and evaluation. Dr. Carrilio received her Doctorate and Master of Social Science from the Bryn Mawr College School of Social Work and Social Research. She also holds an M.ED. in Counseling from Antioch University and is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in California and Virginia. Dr. Carrilio served as the Co-Principal Investigator for the Healthy Families San Diego Clinical Trial and as the Principal Investigator for the California Safe and Healthy Families and Answers Benefiting Children Statewide Dissemination and Technical Assistance Projects. She is a retired San Diego State University faculty member, and currently works on projects involving family and child harm reduction.

Dr. Victor G. Carrion is an Associate Professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine and Director of the Stanford Early Life Stress Research Program. He is in the faculty at the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford and Associate Editor for the Journal of Traumatic Stress. After completing medical school training at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Dr. Carrion completed his residency at University of Pennsylvania and his fellowship in Child Psychiatry and Research at Stanford University. Since joining the faculty at Stanford, Dr. Carrion’s research has concentrated in understanding how early life stress, such as traumatic experiences, alter behavior and emotion and the role of brain structure and function in these findings. He is also interested in the development of new treatment modalities that are focused and targeted.

He has received awards from the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, the National Association for Research in Schizophrenia and Affective Disorders, the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and the National Institute of Mental Health. Dr. Carrion has recently been appointed to serve in the Mental Health Oversight and Accountability Commission for the State of California.

Andra K. Chamberlin is a trainer and forensic interviewer for the National Children’s Advocacy Center and specializes in teaching participants how to conduct legally-defensible child forensic interviews. She has over 22 years of experience working in the child abuse field and 15 years conducting video-recorded forensic interviews of children, as well as testified as an expert witness in criminal courts. Andra has 11 years of experience in developing, teaching, evaluating, and improving forensic interviews trainings. She has presented at local, regional, state, national and international child abuse conferences on child forensic interviewing and multidisciplinary team functioning and has trained forensic interview specialists, prosecutors, law enforcement, therapists, client advocates, social workers, and children’s advocacy center staff.

Andra was part of the community organization that established the CAC in Midland Texas where she served as the Program Director/Lead Forensic Interviewer for 14 years. During her tenure as CAC Program Director, Andra facilitated case review meetings for multiple child protection teams. The Midland Child Protection Team was held to be a model by the Children’s Advocacy Centers of Texas and the Office of the Attorney General of Texas and the team presented at state and national conferences on multidisciplinary team functioning. She has also worked in a rape crisis center and directed a Court Appointed Special Advocate program. Andra received her Master’s in Applied Research Psychology from the University of Texas of the Permian Basin.

Catherine Connell is a state licensed Clinical Social Worker. Ms. Connell received her Bachelors of Social Work at Michigan State University. She received her Masters of Social Work, at Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. Ms. Connell is currently employed with the FBI as a Child/Adolescent Forensic Interviewer with the Office of Victim Assistance. She provides interviews, consultation and training for FBI Agents, Assistant United States Attorney’s, and other federal and state law enforcement. Prior to the Bureau Ms Connell was the Director of Intervention and Treatment, at CARE House, a Child Advocacy Center in Pontiac, Michigan. She was responsible for the collaboration of the multidisciplinary team, conducting and supervising forensic interviews, and the coordination of follow-up services for child victims and their families.

Prior to this, she was the Forensic Interviewer for 7 years, in Mt. Clemens, Michigan. Ms Connell was on the Executive committee for MACE, a multi-jurisdictional task force for Internet crimes. She developed an Internet Safety program for professionals and the community to educate regarding dangers children encounter on the Internet. Ms Connell has been qualified as an expert witness on multiple subjects in civil and criminal cases, in Federal and local jurisdictions. Ms Connell recently coauthored and published an article on interviewing Compliant Victims.

Lisa Conradi, PsyD, as Project Manager, provides day-to-day management of CTISP, overseeing the project’s budget, reports, and writing papers on creating trauma-informed systems. Lisa presents nationally on innovative practices designed to improve the service delivery system for children who have experienced trauma.

She is a Clinical Psychologist at the Chadwick Center for Children and Families at Rady Children’s Hospital, San Diego, and is also working with the National Center for Child Traumatic Stress at the University of California, Los Angeles, as Program Manager for the current Breakthrough Series Collaborative on “Using Trauma-Informed Child Welfare Practice to Improve Placement Stability.”

Currently, she also carries a small client caseload and has received training from the developers on Trauma-Focused Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) and Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP).

She received her undergraduate degree in Psychology from the University of California, Davis and her graduate degree in Clinical Psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology in San Diego, California. Outside of her Chadwick Center and UCLA responsibilities, she is on the editorial boards for the Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment and Trauma and the Journal of Child and Adolescent Trauma and recently served as an editor for the upcoming book, Female Offenders of Intimate Partner Violence.

David L. Corwin, MD is Professor and Chief of the Pediatrics’ Child Protection and Family Health Division at the University of Utah and Medical Director of Primary Children’s Center for Safe and Healthy Families. He is board certified in Psychiatry, Child Psychiatry and Forensic Psychiatry. From 6/09 until 4/11 he served as the first Chair of the National Health Collaborative on Violence and Abuse (NHCVA). He is a founder and member of the Executive Committee for the Academy on Violence and Abuse (AVA), an international medical society dedicated to promoting health education and research addressing violence and abuse.

Dr. Corwin is also a founder of the Helfer Society, an honorary society for physician leaders specializing in child abuse medicine. He chaired the group that founded the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC) in 1986 and founded the California Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (CAPSAC) that same year. APSAC awarded Dr. Corwin its Outstanding Service Award in 1993 and it’s Outstanding Professional of the Year Award in 2007.

In 2006, he was selected as one of twenty national child abuse physician leaders to join the Whitworth Seniors Forum, an ongoing policy work group focused on advancing efforts within the healthcare system to prevent, identify and to treat child abuse and neglect. Dr. Corwin initiated and directs the Child Abuse Medicine Quality Improvement Center at the University of Utah and Primary Children’s Medical Center and initiated its work to develop a national web-based external peer review program. Dr. Corwin has worked as a consultant, educator, evaluator and/or expert witness addressing child abuse cases throughout the United States, Great Britain, Europe, Canada, Thailand and South Korea over the past 30 years.

Dr. Alfons Crijnen is a child and adolescent psychiatrist working in the fields of child and adolescent trauma, delinquent behavior, and education, as well of mental health in immigrant populations. He introduced the Good Behavior Game to the Netherlands to prevent the development of aggressive behavior in elementary-school children.. He developed preventive courses on child-rearing for parents.

He is currently involved in the implementation of Positive Behavior in School-intervention in Dutch elementary and secondary schools. Dr. Crijnen was principal investigator of two large epidemiological studies examining and comparing levels of psychopathology and risk-factors in Turkish and Moroccan immigrant-children, adolescents and their families living in the Netherlands. He introduced the omni-cultural mean of problem behavior when he compared levels of parent-reported problem behavior of children and adolescents in epidemiological samples of children living in 12 different countries. The models of medical interviewing skills, which he developed while he was a general practitioner in the eighties, are still widely used in medical education and the training of residents in general practice. He is married, his wife is an artist and he has two grown-up sons.

Peter Dahlin, MS, is a private consultant, based out of Northern California, providing organizational development, training, and curriculum development services to a variety of organizations throughout the country. He is passionate about integrating creativity and fun in solving organizational challenges. He has created and taught social worker, supervisor, manager, executive and trainer courses and is a regularly invited presenter to regional and national conferences.

Most recently, he has served as the Chair for the West Coast Child Welfare Trainer’s Conference for the past five years and continues as the 2012 Chair of the 22nd Annual Event. Peter is the former Director of a twelve-county regional training Academy providing training, consultation, and organizational development services in the San Francisco Bay Area. He worked for San Francisco County for nearly ten years, in roles as a social worker, supervisor and manager. He has nearly 20 years of direct service, supervision, training and management experience in human services.

Within his community, he served on the Board of Directors for the Pacific Center for Human Growth for six years, as treasurer and then as President.

Dr. Carla Kmett Danielson is an Associate Professor at the National Crime Victims Research and Treatment Center (NCVC) in the Department of Psychiatry at the Medical University of South Carolina. Dr. Danielson earned her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at Case Western Reserve University in 2003. Dr. Danielson’s research and clinical interests focus on both treatment and prevention with high risk adolescent populations. In the area of treatment, her current program of research, involves the development and evaluation of Risk Reduction through Family Therapy, an ecologically-based intervention targeting trauma-related psychopathology, substance abuse, and HIV-risk behaviors among adolescent sexual assault victims.

Dr. Danielson also is involved in treatment research investigating the role of cultural factors in the assessment and treatment of Hispanic victims of traumatic events. In the area of prevention, Dr. Danielson is the Principal Investigator and Program Director of the SAMHSA-funded EMPOWERR Program, which focuses prevention of HIV and substance abuse among African American adolescents. Dr. Danielson has been the recipient of numerous awards in recognition of her work in the aforementioned areas, such as the 2008 Early Career Award for Outstanding Contributions to Practice, awarded by the American Psychological Association's Section on Child Maltreatment, Division 37 and an Early Career Investigator Award from the College on Problem of Drug Dependence. She has published over 45 papers on topics related to child maltreatment and psychopathology and has presented on these topics nationally.

Deborah Daro, Ph.D. is a Research Fellow at Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago. Prior to joining Chapin Hall in January 1999, Dr. Daro served as the Director of the National Center on Child Abuse Prevention Research, a program of the National Committee to Prevent Child Abuse, where she contributed to the development of Health Families America (HFA), a strategy for developing a universal system of support for all new borns and their parents.

With over 20 years of experience in evaluating child abuse treatment and prevention programs and child welfare reform efforts, she has directed some of the largest multi-site program evaluations completed in the field. Dr. Daro’s current research and written work focuses on developing reform strategies that embed individualized, targeted prevention efforts within more universal efforts to alter normative standards and community context. She also is examining strategies to create more effective partnerships among public child welfare agencies, community-based prevention efforts and informal support systems.

Dr. Daro has published and lectured widely. Her commentaries and findings are frequently cited in the rationale for numerous child abuse prevention and treatment reforms. Most recently, she testified before the House Ways and Means Committee in support of the President Obama’s proposal to provide home visiting services to assist new parents in caring for their infants. She has served as President of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children and as Treasurer and Executive Council member of the International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect. Dr. Daro holds a Ph.D. in Social Welfare and a Master’s degree in City and Regional Planning from the University of California at Berkeley.

Dr. Michael Andrew de Arellano is an associate professor and a licensed clinical psychologist at the National Crime Victims Research and Treatment Center (NCVC) in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Medical University of South Carolina, where he specializes in serving children and adults who have been victimized by crime and other types of traumatic events. His research focuses on evaluating and adapting evidence-based treatments for ethnic minority populations.

Dr. de Arellano has developed several clinical programs that provide evidence-based practices to trauma exposed children and families from traditionally underserved populations (e.g., ethnic minority, rural/remote, inner city, economically disadvantaged). Dr. de Arellano also runs a specialized program for Hispanic women and men that have experienced domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking. Dr. de Arellano has received national recognition for his work with traditionally underserved populations, and he continues to develop clinical programs and research to address disparities in mental health.

Dr. Esther Deblinger is a licensed clinical psychologist and professor at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey —School of Osteopathic Medicine. She is co-founder and co-director of the New Jersey Child Abuse Research Education and Service (CARES) Institute, which is a member center of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN).

Dr. Deblinger has conducted extensive clinical research examining the mental health impact of child abuse and the treatment of PTSD and other abuse-related difficulties. She has authored numerous scientific articles and book chapters, and published four books including, Treating Sexually Abused Children and Their Non-offending Parents: A Cognitive Behavioral Approach.

Dr. Deblinger and her collaborators, Drs. Judy Cohen and Anthony Mannarino, have developed and extensively tested Trauma-Focused Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), a treatment program that has evolved as the clear standard of care for children and adolescents who have experienced abuse and trauma. In 2001 TF-CBT was given an “Exemplary Program Award” by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. In 2004 it was named a Best Practice by the Kauffman Best Practices Task Force of the NCTSN, and was given the highest classification for an evidence based practice by the U.S. Department of Justice sponsored report, Child Physical and Sexual Abuse: Guidelines for Treatment.

Dr. Deblinger is a frequent invited speaker at local, national and international conferences and she served two terms on the Board of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children. In addition to her administrative research and teaching activities, Dr. Deblinger remains active as a clinician and supervisor.

Paul DerOhannesian is a graduate of Georgetown University (1975) and Albany Law School (1978). For 22 years as an Assistant District Attorney at the Albany County District Attorney's Office, he oversaw a Special Assault Unit responsible for the investigation and prosecution of all sexual assault, child abuse, domestic violence, and child homicide cases.

Paul is a nationally recognized writer and lecturer on sexual assaults, child abuse, and child homicide. He is the author of Sexual Assault Trials, a two-volume book now in its Third Edition, (2006 Lexis Law Publishing Co. and supplemented annually) and other articles in the area of trial strategy and techniques. Mr. DerOhannesian has taught extensively throughout his career with approximately 300 presentations and provided extensive training to federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies.

Mr. DerOhannesian is involved in numerous community efforts relating to child abuse including multidisciplinary child abuse, domestic violence, and state and local government task forces on child abuse. In 2001, he was appointed by Governor Pataki to the Advisory Board of the New York State Department of Children and Family Services. He is a member of the NYS Children's Justice Task Force and Forensic Interview Steering Committee, and is a contributing author of its Forensic Interviewing Best Practices Manual (2003). He was also a member of the State University of New York Task Force on Sexual Assault (2006-2007).

Shannon Dorsey, Ph.D., is a Clinical Psychologist and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington, School of Medicine. Dr. Dorsey’s research and clinical focus is on evidence-based treatment for children and adolescents. Within this area, she has particularly focused on evidence-based interventions for youth impacted by trauma, youth with behavior disorders, and youth involved with child welfare. Dr. Dorsey is an expert in Trauma-focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) and conducts trainings nationally and internationally. She is the Principal Investigator on an NIMH-funded project evaluating TF-CBT and evidence-based engagement strategies for youth exposed to trauma who are in foster care.

Recently, Dr. Dorsey also has been focusing on launching evidence-based interventions in low-resource countries, including sub-Saharan Africa, Iraq, and Cambodia. She is a Co-Investigator on an NIMH-funded study examining the feasibility of providing TF-CBT to youth who have been orphaned in Tanzania. In addition to her NIMH-funded work, Dr. Dorsey is currently working on a number of state and government-funded projects with the goal of improving outcomes for youth by increasing their access to and receipt of evidence-based treatments. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Washington in 2007, Dr. Dorsey was an Assistant Professor in the Duke University, School of Medicine where she worked on both NIMH and SAMHSA-funded projects and initiatives, including the National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative.

Howard Dubowitz, MD, MS is a Professor of Pediatrics and Director of the Center for Families at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore. He is President of the Helfer Society, an honorary international group of physicians working in the field of child maltreatment. Dr. Dubowitz serves on the Council of the International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect and on the Board of Prevent Child Abuse America. He is a clinician, researcher, and educator, and he is active in the policy arena. His main interests are in child neglect and prevention. Dr. Dubowitz edited Neglected Children: Research, Practice and Policy and co-edited the Handbook for Child Protection Practice and International Aspects of Child Abuse and Neglect. He has over 150 publications.

Jan Dunn is the Statewide Co-Coordinator for the California Network of CAC's, which provides consultation, communication, technical assistance, outreach, training, networking and continued support of existing and emerging California multidisciplinary programs. She is a past president of the National Children's Alliance Board of Directors.

Ms. Dunn served 26 years as a peace officer in California, retiring as an Investigator with Placer County D.A.'s Office in 2005, where she specialized in the investigation and prosecution of child abuse and sexual assault cases for over 15 years. She previously served 10 years as a patrol officer and detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. Ms. Dunn provides training and technical assistance in child forensic interviewing, investigation of child abuse, and facilitates team development on a state and national level.

Ms. Tilton Durfee has been a leader in the field of child welfare and child fatality review for more than twenty years. Under her leadership, ICAN coordinates services among public and private agencies for the identification, treatment and prevention of child abuse in Los Angeles County . She is the past Chairperson of the U.S. Advisory Board on Child Abuse and Neglect.

Dr. Durfee, a child psychiatrist, began multi-agency child fatality review in 1975 and initiated the first team in Los Angeles County in 1978. He has published in the medical literature on child death, child sexual abuse, and grief and mourning in child in survivors of fatal/severe family violence .

Dr. Anna Edwards received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Georgia and completed her pre-doctoral internship at the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans. Since that time, she has served in an Emory University Post-Doctoral position as part of a treatment-outcome study, and as a Public Health Research Scientist through Battelle and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She has served as an Associate Program Director with the National SafeCare Training and Research Center since 2006 and in that capacity has conducted clinical supervision, research, training, program administration, and curriculum development.

She has published multiple articles and chapters, as well as made presentations at professional conferences, related to the implementation of evidence-based parenting programs and prevention of child maltreatment and its negative effects on children. In her work with the National SafeCare Center, Dr. Edwards coordinates efforts with partners around the United States to implement the evidence-based SafeCare parenting program, including the Georgia Department of Human Services and agencies in Oklahoma, California, Kansas, and Washington.

Cassandra Edwards is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley (2002) and the University of San Francisco School of Law (2006). She has worked for the District Attorney since 2007 and is currently assigned to the Sex Assault Unit, prosecuting cases involving both children and adult victims of sex crimes. She has been involved in community outreach programs at local high schools, specifically regarding "sexting" and other digital communication. While at UC Berkeley, Mrs. Edwards was involved in "After Hours" a peer safety group that focused on sex assault and support for victims as it related to the college community.

Harry Elias is a Superior Court Judge for the County of San Diego. He is starting his 21st year. He presides over both juvenile and criminal cases. He is the chairperson of the California Children's Justice Act Task Force. Prior to his appointment to the bench, Judge Elias was a deputy district attorney and the Chief of the Family Protection Division.

Dr. Noora Ellonen works as a researcher in Police College of Finland. Dr. Ellonen is a criminologist and her latest research is focused on violence against children. In her current research she is specialized to analyze criminal processes of suspected cases of violence against children.

Kathryn is an Oklahoma native currently living on the Central Coast of California. She is a curriculum developer and master trainer at the Kinship Center Education Institute, Salinas. She is also an adjunct faculty member in the psychology department of California State University, Monterey Bay, where she teaches coursework in research methods, experimental psychology and psychopathology.

Kathryn was a founding board member for the Children’s Advocacy Center of Southern Oregon, where she was an advocate for children and families in the criminal justice system. She has served as member of the Native American/Alaskan Native Advisory Council, Western Regional Children’s Advocacy Center, Colorado Springs, CO, and is currently a board member of the Native American Children's Alliance, Cleveland, OH, an inter-tribal membership organization. She also serves the Cherokee Nation as a curriculum consultant. Her research interests include indigenous wisdom and native identity as a response to historical trauma in American Indian communities and higher education.

Stacy Essex is a clinician and the Quality Improvement Coordinator at Child & Adolescent Treatment Services in Buffalo NY. She has been a social worker since 1992. Ms. Essex has spent her career working with youth that have been abused and neglected and providing clinical supervision to staff. In February 2007, Ms. Essex entered a mentorship with Stefan Perkowski, LCSW-R, ACSW, concentrating on the treatment of children regarding sexual abuse issues.

Ms. Essex trains clinicians in the treatment of children regarding sexual abuse issues. Ms. Essex provides mental health consultation to the Erie County Multi-Disciplinary Team. In her private practice, Ms. Essex has been involved in civil and criminal cases where issues related to the Child Sexual Abuse Accommodation Syndrome were under review.

A graduate of Rutgers University and Douglass College School of Social Work, Ms. Essex is a licensed clinician in New Jersey (currently inactive) and New York.

Mark D. Everson, Ph.D. is Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Program on Childhood Trauma and Maltreatment at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He received his Ph.D. in child development from Stanford University in 1982 and received postdoctoral training in clinical and pediatric psychology from the University of California at San Francisco and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Dr. Everson’s specialty is the evaluation and treatment of child maltreatment and especially child sexual abuse. He has lectured extensively on the topic, and has published numerous articles and book chapters. He has served on the National Board of Directors of APSAC, the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children, and co-chaired APSAC task forces that developed practice guidelines on investigative interviewing.

Tom Fallon is an Assistant District Attorney in Dane County (Madison) Wisconsin where he is the prosecution coordinator and interagency liaison for child abuse cases. Previously Mr. Fallon was an Assistant Attorney General with the Wisconsin Department of Justice in the Criminal Litigation, Antitrust and Consumer protection Unit. Mr. Fallon handled a wide variety of cases from Arson to Racketeering. He specialized in Sexually Violent Person proceedings, Sexual Assault, Murder and Child Abuse prosecutions.

Prior to joining the Wisconsin Department of Justice Mr. Fallon was an Assistant and Deputy (First Assistant) District Attorney in Kenosha County Wisconsin. Mr. Fallon began his career prosecuting paternity and child support enforcement cases for the Kenosha County Child Support Agency.

He lectures frequently as well as authored four publications: The Basic Do's and Don'ts of Interviewing, NRCCSA NEWS, Vol. 4, No. 3 May/June 1995, National Resource Center On Child Sexual Abuse of the National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect, A Prosecutor's Perspective on Court Preparation: Boundaries and Roles, Chapter 6, of Preparing Children for Court, editor Lynn M. Copen, Sage Publications, July 2000; The Miranda Primer, a training manual for law enforcement officers on Wisconsin Interrogation Law, co-authored with Assistant Attorney General David Perlman for the Wisconsin Department of Justice, February 2004, and the Safe Schools Legal Resource Manual- Revised, October 2007 co-edited with Assistant Attorney General David Perlman for the Wisconsin.

Dr. Xiangming Fang received his PhD in Agricultural Economics and Management from Zhejiang University in 1999 and PhD in Applied Economics from the University of Minnesota in 2004. He was the first place winner of the 2005 Universities Council on Water Resources (UCOWR) PhD Dissertation Award in the field of Water Policy and Socio-Economics. He was the 2008 recipient of the Paula and Gregory Chow Best Paper Award of the Chinese Economists Society. In 2008, he also received the Kaafee Billah Memorial Award for his contributions in economic research at CDC. He has published in American Journal of Preventive Medicine, Journal of Development Studies, Journal of Family Violence, Journal of Pediatrics, Gerontologist, Western Journal of Emergency Medicine, Archives of General Psychiatry, and American Journal of Public Health.

A native of Minnesota, Diana Faugno graduated with a degree in Nursing from the University of North Dakota in 1973 and she received her Master’s in Nursing from the University of Phoenix in 2006. She is a Board Director of EVAW International as well as a board member of CAPSAC.  Currently she is a per diem contract staff nurse as well.  She is a fellow in the American Academy of Forensic Science, as well as a Distinguished Fellow in the International Association of Forensic Nurses. She has made numerous presentations to Sexual Assault Response Teams across the country as well as scientific community assemblies such as the American Academy of Science, EVAW International Conference. She provides trainings across the county to assist teams in development of staff on topics using curriculums and educational standards on various topics.

Ms. Faugno is the co-author of Color Atlas of Sexual Assault (Mosby Publications 1997). This was the first book of its kind in the nation. She is also co-author of Sexual Assault across the Life Span, (GW Medical 2003) and numerous other publications.

Dr. Farst is a child abuse pediatrician with the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Center for Children at Risk and works with the Team for Children at Risk and Emergency Department at Arkansas Children’s Hospital. After residency training in internal medicine and pediatrics, she was in private practice for 3 years and then did a fellowship in child abuse pediatrics at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital before joining the faculty at UAMS in 2004. She is board certified in general pediatrics and child abuse pediatrics.

David Finkelhor is Director of Crimes against Children Research Center, Co-Director of the Family Research Laboratory, Professor of Sociology, and University Professor, at the University of New Hampshire. He is well known for his conceptual and empirical work on the problem of child sexual abuse, reflected in publications such as Sourcebook on Child Sexual Abuse (Sage, 1986) and Nursery Crimes (Sage, 1988). In his recent work, Child Victimization (Oxford University Press, 2008), he has tried to unify and integrate knowledge about all the diverse forms of child victimization in a field he has termed Developmental Victimology. Altogether, he is editor and author of 12 books and over 200 journal articles and book chapters.

He has received grants from the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect, and the US Department of Justice, and a variety of other sources. In 1994, he was given the Distinguished Child Abuse Professional Award byAPSAC; in 2004 he received the Significant Achievement Award from the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers; in 2005 he and his colleagues received the Child Maltreatment Article of the Year award, and in 2007 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Society of Criminology.

Monica M. Fitzgerald, Ph.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist and Assistant Professor at the Kempe Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Child Abuse and Neglect at the University of Colorado Medical School. She is the Director of Training and Evaluation in the Kempe Child Trauma Program and focuses on Denver-Kempe Childhood Trauma Collaborative projects with the Denver Department of Human Services. This Collaborative is part of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) and aims to raise the quality of mental health care for trauma-exposed children and their families throughout Colorado.

Dr. Fitzgerald leads the CTP Evidence Based Training Initiative. Dr. Fitzgerald’s research focuses on studying the impact of child abuse and trauma exposure on children’s psychosocial and emotional adjustment, parent emotion focused communication behaviors, and the uptake of evidence supported treatments (ESTs) in community based settings. Dr. Fitzgerald is an expert trainer in several ESTs, including TF-CBT and AF-CBT, and regularly conducts trainings, consultation, and evaluation nationally on these models. She is a Board member of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC).

Dr. Fluke has more than 30 years of experience in social service delivery system research in the area of child welfare and mental health services for children. In 2007, he became the first Director of the Child Protection Research Center at American Humane Association and was named Vice President of the center in June 2010.

As a Research Manager, he has experience in directing research and evaluation projects focused on maltreatment surveillance data, children’s mental health, child protective service risk and safety assessment, expedited permanency, guardianship, family group decision making, trauma services, adoption, and screening. He is also active in the area of national child maltreatment data collection and analysis and has worked with data collection programs in Canada, Saudi Arabia and the U.S., as well as for UNICEF. He has been active in research and evaluation at all levels of government, in the nonprofit sector, and with foundations and associations, both in the U.S. and internationally.

Dr. Fluke is the author or co-author of numerous scholarly publications, including articles in journals such as Child Abuse & Neglect, Child Maltreatment and Children and Youth Services Review. He has presented papers at both national and international meetings and conferences, and has served on several national and international research advisory groups. He is Co-Chair of the Working Group on Child Maltreatment Data Collection for the International Society for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect. Dr. Fluke holds a Ph.D. in organizational decision science from Union Institute and Universities, a master’s degree in anthropology from Pennsylvania State University, and a bachelor’s degree in mathematical anthropology from the University of Northern Colorado.

Dr. Kathleen Franchek-Roa is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University Of Utah School Of Medicine. She currently teaches residents and medical students about pediatric medicine. In addition, Dr. Franchek-Roa has a special interest in domestic violence and how this impacts children’s mental and physical health. She developed a curriculum to teach residents about the role of the physician in identifying and assisting victims of domestic violence. Dr. Franchek-Roa is currently teaching this curriculum to Residents at the University Of Utah School Of Medicine. As a member of the Utah Domestic Violence Council Subcommittee on Health Care, Dr. Franchek-Roa also provides this training to health care providers throughout the State of Utah.

Dr. Franchek-Roa has received several awards for her teaching and her involvement in community projects related to domestic violence. She is currently working on several research projects to develop guidelines for identifying and intervening in violent families and to analyze the effect that witnessing violence has on children.

Dr. Lori Frasier is a professor of Pediatrics at the University of Utah School of Medicine and Medical Director of the Medical Assessment Team at the Center for Safe and Healthy Families at Primary Children’s Medical Center in Salt Lake City. She received her medical and undergraduate degrees at the University of Utah. She completed a pediatric residency at the University of Washington and Children’s Hospital of Seattle, and was a fellow in child sexual abuse at the same institution. She has been on the faculties of the University of Iowa and the University of Missouri-Columbia colleges of medicine.

Dr. Frasier currently serves on Board of Directors of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children and the Governing Board of the National Center for Shaken Baby Syndrome/Abusive Head Trauma. She has published many articles and chapters on child abuse topics, and has lectured nationally and internationally on the subject. She is one of the first board certified child abuse pediatricians and sits on the sub board for Child Abuse Pediatrics of the American Board of Pediatrics.

LeAnn Gardner, LMSW, MDiv, currently works as a forensic interviewer and therapist at the Dee Norton Lowcountry Children’s Center in Charleston, SC. Prior to working in the CAC setting, she taught social work at Baylor University and worked in the child welfare system in Waco, TX. LeAnn has also served as an Associate Pastor and is an ordained Baptist minister.

Kristin is the Senior Director of Developmental Services (DS) at Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego. The Division of Developmental Services includes diagnostic and treatment programs that support children who have, or are at risk for, developmental delays or disabilities and/or have early evidence of social, emotional and/or learning problems. Kristin’s formal education includes undergraduate degree from Indiana University and a Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology from San Diego State University.

In 1974, Kristin established the Developmental Evaluation Clinic (DEC), a neuro-developmental clinic specifically for premature and sick infants graduating from the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Rady Children’s Hospital. The program grew to support all children 0-5 at risk and was the foundation for creation of the Developmental Screening and Enhancement Program (DSEP) for children in foster care, and the Autism Discovery Institute. In 1998 the rehabilitation departments merged with early childhood programs and formed the current Division which has 14 departments and 290 employees providing over 100,000 developmental, rehabilitative and early childhood mental health visits per year. Most recently the needs of complex children identified through DSEP and the County Performance Improvement Project resulted in the creation of “KidSTART”.

Dr. Goldstein is Director of Sexual Medicine at Alvarado Hospital, Clinical Professor of Surgery at University of California at San Diego and Director of San Diego Sexual Medicine where he maintains his clinical practice. Dr. Goldstein holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering from Brown University, with an honors thesis in biomedical engineering. In 1975, he graduated from McGill University Faculty of Medicine in his hometown of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He was on the faculty of Boston University School of Medicine for 25 years. Dr. Goldstein has been involved with sexual dysfunction research since the late 1970's.

Dr. Goldstein is currently President of The Institute for Sexual Medicine, Inc., a charitable corporation for education and research in the field. He is Secretary of the International Society for the Study of Women’s Sexual Health, a former President of the Sexual Medicine Society of North America, a board member of the International Society for Sexual Medicine and a member of the International Academy of Sex Research, the American Urological Association, the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists, and the International Society for the Study of Vulvovaginal Disease. The World Association for Sexual Health awarded the Gold Medal to Dr. Goldstein in 2009 in recognition of his lifelong contributions to the field.

Dr. Goldstein has authored more than 350 publications and edited numerous books in the field of sexual dysfunction. He is Editor-in Chief of The Journal of Sexual Medicine, the official journal of the International Society for Sexual Medicine, its regional affiliate societies, and the International Society for the Study of Women’s Sexual Health.

Christopher Spencer Greeley, was received his undergraduate degree from Hobart College in Geneva New York where he majored in Biology and Religious Studies. He received his medical degree from the University of Virginia in 1992 and complete internship and residency in pediatrics at Vanderbilt University. He spent three years in private pediatric practice in Franklin Tennessee before returning to Vanderbilt University in the Division of General Pediatrics in 1998.

Dr. Greeley was the 2006 Ray E Helfer Award winner. The Ray E Helfer Award is an annual award jointly presented by The American Academy of Pediatrics and The National Alliance of Children’s Trust and Prevention Funds “to a distinguished pediatrician for his or her contribution to the prevention of child abuse and neglect.” In 2007 he relocated to Texas. He is Associate Professor of Pediatrics in the Center For Clinical Research and Evidence-Based Medicine at the University of Texas Heath Science Center at Houston. Dr. Greeley was appointed by Texas Lt. Governor Dewhurst to the state-wide Blue Ribbon Task Force and serves as the Chair. His work is supported by a K23 award through the NICHD.

Michael C. Grogan, Ph.D., is currently the Project Director for the Jeannette Prandi Childrens' Center (JPCC), a multi-disciplinary interview center for Marin County. In that role he coordinates the interviews for children when an allegation of abuse is lodged. He is also responsible for providing training to forensic interviewers, police officers, district attorney personnel and social workers related to child abuse allegations and interviewing techniques.

Prior to his work at the JPCC, Dr. Grogan was the director of the Child Sexual Abuse Treatment Program. In that capacity he provided supervision to the clinical staff that treated child victims, adolescent sex offenders, adult survivors, parents of child victims and adult sex offenders. Dr. Grogan currently has a private practice in San Rafael, CA where he sees individuals, couples and children. This past year, in conjunction with the district attorney's office, he co-wrote and produced a film related to the practice of "sexting." The 28 minute film is currently being shown to middle and high school students. Data is being collected from the students viewing the film regarding their reactions to the film and their own personal digital communication behavior.

Sherry Hamby is a Research Associate Professor of Psychology at Sewanee, the University of the South, studying the methodological and measurement challenges of violence research and cross-cultural issues in measuring and intervening for violence.

Dr. Hamby is the Editor for the American Psychological Association journal, Psychology of Violence. Dr. Hamby is a co-author of the Juvenile Victimization Questionnaire—the core of the National Survey of Children’s Exposure to Violence, which is the largest survey conducted on youth victimization and the source of the most up-to-date and comprehensive statistics on youth violence. Dr. Hamby is author or co-author of more than 50 publications on family violence and youth victimization, including The Conflict Tactics Scales Handbook and Sortir Ensemble et Se Respecter, the first Swiss dating violence prevention program.

With Mary Beth Skupien, she conducted the first reservation-based study of intimate partner violence among American Indians. A licensed clinical psychologist, Dr. Hamby has received awards from the National Register for Health Service Providers in Psychology and the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children.

Dr. Michael L. Haney is the Division Director for Prevention and Interventions in the Florida Department of Health, Children’s Medical Services. Dr. Haney has extensive background in child abuse and disaster behavioral and mental health response (28 years), including working for the Florida Department of Children and Family Services as Bureau Chief for Family Safety and Preservation. He is a Nationally Certified Counselor, a Certified Critical Incident Stress Manager, and a Licensed Mental Health Counselor. He graduated from the University of North Florida with a B.A. in Psychology, received a M.Ed and Ed.S in Mental Health Counseling from the University of Florida. He holds a doctorate in Psychology from Lacrosse University.

More recently Dr. Haney was appointed by Governor Charlie Crist’s Chief Child Advocate to serve on the Child Abuse Prevention and Permanency Advisory Council. Dr. Haney was appointed to the Florida State Mental Health Planning Council representing the Florida Department of Health, as well as, the Florida Department of Children and Families workgroup on trauma informed care. He continues to serve on a variety of subcommittees and workgroups at the request of the Surgeon General or Secretary of the Department of Children and Family Services, including the Sub-Committee on Safe Families and the Gabriel Myers Child Death Workgroup. He has co-authored several articles and one book chapter on child abuse.

Nancy Sanders Harper is the Medical Director for the CARE (Child Abuse Resource & Evaluation) Team at Driscoll Children’s Hospital in Corpus Christi, TX. She graduated from Dartmouth Medical School in 1995, and completed her pediatric residency in 1998 at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth in Virginia. After graduation, Dr. Harper served as a staff pediatrician and Child Abuse Consultant for Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, and then moved overseas to US Naval Hospital Okinawa in Japan where she continued as a Child Abuse Consultant. In 2004, Dr. Harper resigned from the US Navy and entered into fellowship training in Forensic Pediatrics at Brown University in RI, graduating in January 2007. Dr. Harper has served on the state legislative committee tasked with the development of guidelines for designating regional centers of excellence for child abuse in Texas. Dr. Harper is a consultant on the medical advisory committee for Superior Health Plan for foster care. She is the current Co-Chair for the Texas Pediatric Society Committee on Child Abuse and Neglect. Dr. Harper was recently appointed by Governor Perry to the state-wide Blue Ribbon Task Force charged with addressing child abuse prevention and the promotion of child well-being for the state of Texas.

Holly Hatton is a Senior Researcher for the Center for Human Services at the University of California, Davis. She specializes in designing and conducting evaluations of community based programs that serve vulnerable children and families. Hatton's expertise is in family processes during early childhood with a particular emphasis on the role that caregivers play in supporting children's social and emotional well-being within vulnerable contexts. She maintains a career in academic research related to child and family development utilizing her experience in basic research and advanced statistics to inform her design and analysis of applied evaluation studies, and vice versa. She is active in translating and disseminating current research findings in the areas of parenting, early social development and child welfare services. Additionally, Hatton provides content expertise and guidance for the training and teaching of practionners working in child welfare services. She has published articles in the Journal of Family Psychology, Protecting Children, Journal of Extension, and the Journal of Family Relations.

Mathias (Mat) H. Heck, Jr., born and raised in Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio, attended Marquette University and Georgetown University Law Center. He is a career Prosecutor, having worked as an Assistant Prosecutor after law school, and later being elected Prosecuting Attorney in 1992. In November 2008, he ran unopposed for his fifth 4-year term as the elected Prosecuting Attorney of Montgomery County, Ohio.

Mr. Heck is a member of many professional associations and involved in numerous civic organizations. He is the President of the Board of Directors of the National Children’s Alliance, a founding partner and Chair of the Executive Steering Committee of Dayton’s CARE House Child Advocacy Center, past President and past Chairman of the Board of the National District Attorneys Association, serves as a member of the Criminal Justice Council and House of Delegates of the American Bar Association, Secretary and member of the Board of Regents of the National College of District Attorneys, and is a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and a Committee Chair.

He is admitted to practice in all courts in Ohio, the United States District Court, Southern District of Ohio, United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit, United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court.

Alison Hendricks, is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who has extensive experience working with children and families affected by trauma. For seven years, she has been working at the Chadwick Center of Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego and during that time has provided Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) and Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) to a diverse group of children and families, many of whom are involved in the Child Welfare System. She participated in the Breakthrough Series Collaborative on TF-CBT, completed the Train the-Trainer Program for TF-CBT, and served as a faculty member on the National Learning Collaborative on TF-CBT. As an expert in TF-CBT, she has provided extensive training and consultation on it and cultural adaptations to it and other programs across the country.

AShe served as Co-Chair of the Workgroup on Adapting Latino Services, which published the Adaptation Guidelines for Serving Latino Children and Families Affected by Trauma. Previously, she treated homeless families and survivors of domestic violence in New York City and school children in Honduras. She received her BA in Psychology at Columbia University and her MSW at Hunter College School of Social Work.

Bruce Herman, MD, is a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Utah School of Medicine where he is Program Director of the Pediatric Emergency Medicine fellowship and the Associate Residency Program Director for Fellowship Education. He is board-certified in Pediatrics, Pediatric Emergency Medicine, and Child Abuse Pediatrics.

His research interests are in the prevention and diagnosis of abusive head trauma. He was principal investigator of a statewide ‘Shaken Baby Education Project’ and has been an investigator in multi-center projects looking at biomarkers in abusive head trauma and the accurate diagnosis of abusive head trauma utilizing key historical and clinical elements. He has published several peer-reviewed journal articles about child abuse. He received his BA and MD degrees from the University of North Carolina and did his Pediatric residency at the University of Utah/Primary Children’s Medical Center.

Dr. Steven Hickman is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist and an Assistant Clinical Professor in the UCSD Department of Psychiatry. Dedicated primarily to his primary role as Director of the UCSD Center for Mindfulness, Dr. Hickman is also engaged in the psychological care and support of people coming to terms with pain and illness. Much of his clinical work centers on the assessment and treatment of patients with chronic pain, cancer and other medical conditions. Dr. Hickman founded the UCSD Center for Mindfulness in 2000, and has since taught over 30 Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) courses, as well as adapting the program for nurses and for medical students. His focus on mindfulness has two dimensions: mindfulness as a practice to be taught to patients and mindfulness as a central component of psychological and medical treatment. Thus, the Center for Mindfulness has as its purpose both the fostering of mindfulness-based interventions for patient care, and professional training and development for psychotherapists, physicians and other healthcare providers in mindfulness-based interventions. Furthermore, Dr. Hickman serves on the Executive Committee of the UCSD Center for Integrative Medicine under the auspices of the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine.

Latasha High is a Greenville, SC native who earned her B.A. from Davidson College and later graduated from the University of South Carolina with a Master’s Degree in Social Work. She is licensed as an independent clinical practice social worker and has worked extensively in the area of substance abuse and outreach, primarily serving the Hispanic community. She moved to Charleston, SC in 2004 and began working for the county as a Latino Program Specialist, providing counseling and outreach services to the Hispanic community of Charleston County.

In 2008 she became the Outreach Program Manager at the National Crime Victims Treatment and Research Center of the Medical University of South Carolina. She currently works under the VAWA (Violence Against Women’s Act) Grant as an evidence-based trauma services clinician for Hispanic women who have been victimized by physical and/ or sexual violence. She also promotes community education through her participation in health partnerships and research endeavors within the university. Latasha has been a public speaker for much of her life, and has developed and conducted trainings for medical health professionals in the areas of Latino Health Issues, Women’s Issues, Cultural Competence, Addiction, and Anger Management.

Supervisory Special Agent (SSA) Tia A. Hoffer has a doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology. Prior to her work with the FBI, she was employed by the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health, where she conducted psychological assessments, individual, and group psychotherapy. SSA Hoffer has been with the FBI for over thirteen years and is currently assigned to the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit III.

SSA Hoffer provides operational support to federal, state, and local law enforcement through case consultations, on-site deployments and is a member of the FBI’s Child Abduction Rapid Deployment Team. She has trained criminal justice and mental health professionals in matters involving child abductions, child homicides, and sexual victimization of children for federal state, and local law enforcement.

SSA Hoffer is currently conducting research on the following topics: Suicide Among Child Sex Offenders, Criminal Histories of Animal Cruelty Offenders and An Analysis of the General Assessment Questionnaire Supplemental as a Reliable Measure of the Five Factor Model.

Dr. Stan Huey is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Southern California, and principal investigator for an NIMH-funded clinical trial for juvenile gang offenders. Dr. Huey’s program of research centers on evidence-based treatments for ethnic minorities, and how ethnicity and culture influence psychotherapy outcomes. His recent work has focused on effective treatments for youth with serious behavioral and emotional problems, exposure therapy for phobias, and treatment mechanisms that account for clinical change.

Chandra Ghosh Ippen is Associate Research Director of the Child Trauma Research Program at the University of California, San Francisco and the Early Trauma Treatment Network, a member of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN). She has worked on seven longitudinal studies and has conducted treatment outcome research on the effectiveness of psychosocial intervention programs with Spanish-speaking children and parents. She is co-author of a published randomized trial that documents the efficacy of child-parent psychotherapy (CPP) with children exposed to domestic violence as well as other traumas. She is also co-author of Losing a Parent to Death: Guidelines for the Treatment of Traumatic Bereavement in Infancy and Early Childhood (2003), which describes CPP treatment for Childhood Traumatic Grief.

She has 7 years of experience disseminating empirically based treatments and has conducted in-depth CPP disseminations in four states and trainings on diversity-informed practice in 14 states. As a first generation East Indian/Japanese American who is fluent in Spanish, she is committed to examining how culture and context affect perception and mental health systems. She is past co-Chair of the Culture Consortium of the NCTSN and author of three chapters that detail the importance of integrating a cultural focus when working with young children who have experienced trauma.

In her spare time she bakes pies with her 7 year-old son. She is on a mission to bake 1000 pies in a lifetime.

Annette Wisk Jacobi serves as the Chief of the Family Support & Prevention Service at the Oklahoma State Department of Health. The Family Support & Prevention Service consists of the following programs and efforts:
1) Children First: Oklahoma’s Nurse-Family Partnership;
2) The Office of Child Abuse Prevention;
3) The Federal Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention Grant;
4) The Child Abuse Training and Coordination Program;
5) The Strengthening Families Initiative: A Partnership with Smart Start Oklahoma; and
6) The Federal Affordable Care Act Home Visiting Grant.
Ms. Jacobi received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Oklahoma State University and her Juris Doctorate degree from the University of Oklahoma. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Oklahoma Institute for Child Advocacy, the National Alliance of Children’s Trust and Prevention Funds, and the Oklahoma City Archdiocese Catholic Charities. She also serves on the Oklahoma Child Death Review Board and is a Master of the William J. Holloway, Jr. American Inn of Court.

Kay Jankowski is an assistant professor of psychiatry at Dartmouth Medical School in Hanover, New Hampshire. She is a clinical psychologist who specializes in the treatment of children, adolescents, and adults who have been traumatized and suffer posttraumatic symptoms. She provides training and consultation to providers in New Hampshire and elsewhere in best practices for treatment of trauma related disorders in children and adolescents. She presents regularly to community and professional organizations on trauma and PTSD and conducts research on developing and testing effective treatments for traumatized adolescents. She also has worked extensively in disseminating evidence-based practices for traumatized children and adolescents to community mental health settings and helping child-serving state systems (child welfare, juvenile justice, family courts) become more trauma informed.

Tine K. Jensen, Psych. Ph D, is associate professor at the University of Oslo, Department of Psychology and a senior researcher at the Norwegian Center on Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies in Oslo. She is a specialist in clinical child psychology. Her doctoral thesis is on child sexual abuse; disclosure processes and models for helping families. She was a visiting scholar at the University of Maryland, Medical School in 2002-2003. She has been primary investigator of a longitudinal study on children traumatized by the 2004 South East Asian tsunami. She and her research group is currently conducting an RCT study comparing TF-CBT with treatment as usual for traumatized youth in regular mental health clinics in Norway. A similar study is being conducted where a modified TF-CBT model will be given to unaccompanied asylum seekers under the age of 15. Dr. Jensen has extensive teaching and supervising experience.

Mike Johnson is a native of San Antonio, Texas. He earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Criminal Justice with a minor in Psychology at Southwest Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas.

Mr. Johnson joined the Plano Police Department in September 1982. Upon graduation from the Police Academy he spent four months as an undercover narcotics officer. After being assigned to the Patrol division for four years, Johnson transferred to the Criminal Investigations division in 1986 and began investigating child abuse. In August 2010, he retired from the police department to accept the newly created position of Director of Youth Protection for the Boy Scouts of America.

Detective Johnson is considered an ambassador for child advocacy. He is a founding member of the Collin County Children’s Advocacy Center, and in 1996 he was named the Center’s “Child Advocate of the Year”. Mike was appointed to the National Board of Directors for the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC) in 1998, and was President of the APSAC Texas State Chapter.

In addition to serving on numerous national boards and task forces, Johnson has been instrumental in helping shape Texas laws relating to child abuse. He has served on the Texas State Attorney General’s Sexual Offender Protocol Task Force and Senator Florence Shapiro’s Blue Ribbon committee to formulate the now instated “Ashley Laws.” He frequently lectures at national and state conferences focusing on multidisciplinary teams and their intervention in child maltreatment.

He lives in a suburb of Dallas, Texas, with his wife and their three children.

Minna Joki-Erkkilä, MD has been a forensic medical examiner of CSA since 1998. Dr. Joki-Erkkila is Head of the Board for Finnish Pediatrics and Adolescent Gynecology Association. She is a member of the Nordic Working Group for Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health.

She serves as a:
Board for Finnish Pediatrics and Adolescent Gynecology Association
Member of Nordic Working Group for Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
Consultant in National working group for starting child advocacy center in Finland
Consultant for Finnish Social Pediatric Committee

Lisa M. Jones is a Research Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of New Hampshire and faculty at the Crimes against Children Research Center (CCRC). She has over 10 years of experience conducting research on child victimization and evaluating national, state, and community-level responses to youth victims. Dr. Jones currently serves as principal investigator on the “Evaluation of Internet Child Safety Materials Used by ICAC Task Forces in School and Community Settings,” a project funded by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ). She is also co-investigator on the 3rd Youth Internet Safety Survey (YISS3), a national survey of youth exposure to unwanted experiences online.

Additional research areas include trends in child victimization, the investigation and prosecution of child-victim crimes, Children’s Advocacy Centers, and statutory rape victimization. Dr. Jones has numerous peer-reviewed publications from her research. She is author or co-author on several papers on Internet crimes against children. She serves on the editorial boards of Child Maltreatment and Child Abuse and Neglect, and presents regularly across the country on the topics of child abuse and child victimization.

Kate Joyner coordinates Advanced Mental Health and Gender-Based Violence Nursing for Stellenbosch University. Her voluntary work during the States of Emergency in counseling, training and public education for Rape Crisis and helping to establish the first crisis clinic for political detainees and feminist shelter for battered women in Cape Town. This has matured into a lifelong commitment to enable the provision of sensitive, compassionate care to those affected by violence in society. Kate is the first nurse to have won the Dumo Baqwa award for best original research article in the South African Journal of Family Practice in 2007.

Education: D Phil in Social Science Methods, Stellenbosch University; M Soc Sci, University of Cape Town (UCT); Health Sciences Educator (UNISA); Post-Basic Diploma in Psychiatric Nursing and Diploma in Nursing (General, Psychiatric, Community) and Midwifery, both at Groote Schuur Hospital/UCT/Carinus College.

Wouter Karst, MD, is a forensic physician at the Netherlands Forensic Institute, Department of Forensic Medicine, Section of Forensic Pediatrics. He received his medical degree at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. After working in the field of forensic medicine in the Dordrecht region, his sole focus became the evaluation of child abuse cases in 2008 at the forensic medical child abuse center in Utrecht. In 2011, he moved to his current position at the Netherlands Forensic Institute in The Hague. Wouter Karst is evaluating child abuse cases from all over the country and has experience in testifying and teaching physicians and other disciplines in evaluating child abuse.

Dr. Lynne Katz is the Director of the Linda Ray Intervention Center at the University of Miami and a Research Assistant Professor in the Departments of Psychology and Pediatrics. Since 1993, she has coordinated the program’s comprehensive early intervention services for close to 1000 infants and toddlers born prenatally cocaine exposed and their families.

Dr. Katz and her staff have served as an important early childhood link with the Miami Juvenile Court. She is the Director of the Miami Child Well Being Court translational research and training grant activities funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to disseminate the Miami model in collaboration with Judge Lederman and RTI International. She also served as Project Director for the Miami Safe Start Initiative, the Miami Early Head Start Child Welfare Initiative and the Infant and Young Children’s Mental Health Program, working with the Juvenile Court to provide early intervention, assessments and Child-Parent Psychotherapy services to young children who have been maltreated or exposed to violence.

Dr. Katz was chosen for the Miami Juvenile Court Wall of Honor in recognition of her contributions to the Juvenile Court. She is co-author of the book: Child- Centered Practice for the Courtroom & Community: A Guide to working effectively with young children and their families in the child welfare system.

Marilyn Kaufhold, M.D. is a pediatrician who is board certified in Pediatrics and Child Abuse Pediatrics. She has been associated with the Chadwick Center for Children and Families at Rady Children's Hospital, San Diego, since 1978. Currently, she is the Assistant Medical Director, responsible for the Forensic and Medical Unit of the Chadwick Center for Children and Families.

Her medical education was at St. Louis University School of Medicine. Pediatric internship and residency were at Jackson Memorial Hospital, the University of Miami. Following a fellowship in Developmental Pediatrics, she worked in the field of developmental disabilities for 19 years, some of which overlapped with early work in child abuse. Working in these dual areas of abuse and developmental disabilities resulted in a professional interest in developmentally disabled victims of abuse. She is a member of APSAC, the AAP Section on Child Abuse, and the Helfer Society. She has been associated with the California Clinical Forensic Medical Training Center for the past 10 years and is currently responsible for Education in the area of child and adolescent sexual abuse. She has been an instructor in the sexual assault, child physical abuse, and domestic violence areas.

Walter H. Kaye, M.D. is a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California San Diego and Director of the Eating Disorder Research and Treatment Program. Dr. Kaye attended Ohio State Medical School, trained in neurology at the University of Southern California, and trained in psychiatry at the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Kaye was then a fellow and research physician at the National Institute of Mental Health for 7 years where he conducted research on appetite regulation, behavior, and treatment for disorders. Dr. Kaye was on the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh for 20 years until joining UCSD. His current research is focused on exploring the relationship between brain and behavior using brain imaging and investigating new treatments in anorexia and bulimia nervosa. He is also the principal investigator for an international, multi site collaboration on the genetics of anorexia and bulimia nervosa. Dr. Kaye has an international reputation in the field of eating disorders and is the author of more than 250 articles and publications.

Susan J. Kelley is the Dean of the College of Health and Human Sciences at HYPERLINK "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_State_University" \o "Georgia State University" Georgia State University. She is also currently the Director of the National Center on Grandparents Raising Grandchildren, and founder and director of Project Healthy Grandparents, at Georgia State University.

Prior to her current positions, Kelley had previously served as Chairperson and Professor, Department of Maternal-Child Health Nursing at Boston College. She was also the Director of Nursing education at Massachusetts Emergency Medical Services and a pediatric nurse at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, and Boston City Hospital. She has also served as a guest lecturer at George Mason University.

Kelley has specialized in the field of child abuse, since 1979 and has appeared as a featured expert on child abuse on national programs including the Today Show, NBC Evening News and CBS Morning News.

As a pediatric nurse in the 1980s, Kelley interviewed many of the children involved in the Fells Acres Day Care Center sexual abuse case in Malden, Massachusetts. Kelley’s interview techniques in that case later came under criticism from members of the media and were called “improper” and “biased” by a Massachusetts appellate judge after video tapes of her questioning of the children were played in court during the appeal of one of the defendants.

In 2000, Kelley served on the "Task Force for International Child Health Nursing Alliance". Kelley is a reviewer for the academic journal Nursing Research, as part of their peer review process.

Nancy Kelly has been making independent films for over 30 years. Her most recent film, “TRUST: Second Acts in Young Lives,” premiered at the 2010 Mill Valley Film Festival and has screened at several other festivals. She is creating educational materials for the use of “TRUST” in educating high school students and teachers about child sexual abuse.

Kelly’s award-winning documentary “SMITTEN”(PBS Prime Time Special, 2006) enters the world of Rene di Rosa, who is smitten by art. For over 50 years the renowned Napa Valley collector and California art patron has been adding the work of unknown and emerging artists to his ever-growing and vast collection. Rene’s collected works are the world’s largest, most notable collection of Northern California art. “SMITTEN” had 2517 PBS airdates and is on iTunes in twelve countries.

Kelly also wrote, produced and directed the documentary “DOWNSIDE UP” (PBS Independent Lens, 2003), which captures the beginnings of America's largest museum of contemporary art, MASS MoCA, which was built in an abandoned factory in North Adams, Massachusetts. Through the eyes of Kelly and her family, most of who worked in the factory before it closed, DOWNSIDE UP is about the tentative, dangerous notion of hope in a town widely viewed as hopeless. Kelly led the “DOWNSIDE UP” Listening Tour, an outreach effort supported by the Ford Foundation and National Endowment for the Arts.

She produced and directed the critically-acclaimed narrative feature film “THOUSAND PIECES OF GOLD,” starring Rosalind Chao and Academy Award winner Chris Cooper, about a young Chinese woman who comes to America during the Gold Rush as a slave. Developed in association with the Sundance Institute, it was theatrically released in the top twenty US markets, sold for television all over the world, and featured in twenty international film festivals.

Annie Kempe is a retired Occupational Therapist and author of two books, the first about her father’s story and professional work, entitled, A Good Knight For Children: C. Henry’s Quest to Protect the Abused Child.

She recently contributed a chapter for a book series celebrating the fifty year anniversary of Dr. Kempe’s speech “The Battered Child Syndrome,” the first book of which will be released soon.

Julie Kenniston is the Director of Training and Education at Butler County Children Services in Hamilton, Ohio, and the Executive Director of The Center for Family Solutions, Butler County’s developing child advocacy center. She is also an independent contractor and trainer presenting nationally and internationally on interviewing, investigation, and the prosecution of child abuse cases. She is a trainer for the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children and the National District Attorneys Association. Ms. Kenniston organized and coordinated the Forensic Training Institute for The Childhood Trust in Cincinnati, Ohio starting in August 1997 and has trained in the program since its inception. She co-authored and trains ONCAC’s Beyond the Silence forensic interviewer course. She is also a faculty member for Finding Words Ohio. Ms. Kenniston was a Sexual Abuse Investigator for Hamilton County Department of Human Services where she conducted over 3,000 forensic interviews of alleged child victims of sexual abuse. Ms. Kenniston is a board member for the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC), co-chairing the forensic interviewer certification task force, beginning in January 2009 and the Member at Large on the Executive Committee in 2011.

Gene Klein, LCSW, is the Executive Director of Project Harmony, a non-profit child protection center providing services to enhance the quality of child abuse investigations. Mr. Klein has over 20 years of experience in agencies serving children and families. He serves on the board of directors for the National Children’s, the Nebraska Foster Care Review Board, the Governor’s Commission for the Protection of Children, and the Omaha Archdiocese Review Board for the Protection of Children. In addition to hundreds of local presentations, Mr. Klein has trained multiple times for regional and national Protect our Children conferences, NCA Leadership Conferences, and the National District Attorney Association. Mr. Klein holds a bachelor’s degree from Creighton University and a master’s degree in social work from the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

Dan is the Manager of Child and Family Services in Carver County Minnesota where he has worked for the past 13 years. He has previous county social work and supervisory experience and has also worked in residential care, day treatment, and in-home therapy. Dan’s experience with leading change includes implementing Structured Decision Making with other Minnesota Counties since 1999, initiating an ongoing continual learning methodology taught by Casey Family Programs in 2002, and learning the Signs of Safety approach through an ongoing consulting relationship with Andrew Turnell that began in 2005.

Ronald C. Laney was recently appointed the Senior Advisor to the Administrator of OJJDP. His new responsibilities include enhancing OJJDP visibility and participation within the law enforcement arena, continuing to work with agencies and organizations in the field of missing and exploited children, representing the OJJDP Administrator and OJJDP at national conferences, overseeing activities relating to National Missing Children's Day, and working on OJJDP National Conference planning and other national initiatives.

From February 2000-2010, he held the position of Associate Administrator of the Child Protection Division. As the Associate Administrator, he administered projects, programs, and initiatives related to crimes against children and children exposed to violence. This includes providing leadership and funding in the areas of prevention, intervention, treatment, and enforcement. From 1993 to 2000, he served as the Director of the Missing and Exploited Children’s Program. From 1981 through April 1993 as OJJDP’s Law Enforcement Program Manager, he developed a series of National Law Enforcement Training programs that are still offered throughout the country today. More than 100,000 prosecutors, law enforcement, and child protective and medical officials have participated in these training programs since 1982. Prior to coming to OJJDP, Mr. Laney was a Program Manager in the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration for 5 years.

Mr. Laney served as a probation officer in St. Petersburg, Florida in 1974. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1964 to 1970 before being wounded during his second tour in Vietnam.

Mr. Laney has received numerous awards from local and state law enforcement organizations for his work in juvenile law enforcement. He has a Master’s degree in Criminal Justice from the University of South Florida and a Bachelor’s degree in Criminology from the University of Tampa, FL.

Stacie LeBlanc is the executive director of the New Orleans Children’s Advocacy Center (CAC) and the Audrey Hepburn Children At Risk Evaluation (CARE) Center at Children’s Hospital. She has a law degree from Loyola University and a master’s in early childhood development from the University of New Orleans. Since Stacie become the executive director of the program at the Children’s Hospital , it has grown into a multi-physician program that treats an average of 1,000 maltreated children annually and trains pediatric fellows in the field of child abuse. In 2005, Stacie was appointed as an assistant professor of pediatrics for the LSU School of Medicine. She assumed the operation of the New Orleans CAC and co-located the NOCAC and the CARE medical program in a beautiful child-friendly cottage alongside Audubon Park in 2008.

As the chair of the legislative committee for the Task Force on Child Sexual Abuse, Stacie drafted, testified and successfully passed 11 legislative amendments for the protection of children, prosecution of their offenders and protection of mandated reporters. For her success in policy change, Stacie received the 2008 Champion for Children Award. Her professional achievements were recognized again in 2010 when she was named a Health Care Hero by New Orleans CityBusiness.

Prior to her position at Children’s Hospital, Stacie worked as a prosecutor. In that role she was initially apprehensive of physicians recording caretaker interviews until she realized their potential to further the protection of children. As an administrator of a Children's Hospital child abuse program, she has experienced how valuable recorded histories are for the protection of providers and their institutions.

Rosalyn Lee earned a Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, as well as master’s degrees in Public Health and Public Policy from Emory University and the University of Chicago. Dr. Lee is a Behavioral Scientist in the Etiology and Surveillance Branch within the Division of Violence Prevention, at the National Center for Injury Prevention, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Her work there primarily focuses on two areas of violence—child maltreatment and youth violence. She currently serves as science officer for cooperative agreement projects that focus on identifying neighborhood level risk and protective factors related to youth violence. Additionally, she has been working with colleagues in the Etiology and Surveillance Branch investigating differences among intimate partner violence perpetrators by history of childhood exposure to various forms of violence in the family environment (e.g., experiencing child maltreatment and witnessing intimate partner violence).

Paulina Leiva has oriented her professional experience in nonprofit organizations since 2006. She has been with Amparo y Justicia Foundation for four years, first as a Communication and Marketing Chief and later as a Project Manager. She assumed as a General Manager of the Foundation in September 2011.

Her MBA and Marketing studies have allowed her to apply her managerial skills in order to achieve important goals of the Foundation. Her work has made possible the successful organization of three big international seminars about child sexual abuse, the last of which was held in August 2011.

Laurel K. Leslie, MD, MPH is an Associate Professor at Tufts University School of Medicine, with a primary appointment in the Department of Medicine and holds a secondary appointment in Pediatrics. She is also the Director of the Program for Aligning Researchers and Communities for Health within the Tufts Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI).

Dr. Leslie's research interests focus on the identification and treatment of developmental and mental health needs of children and adolescents across the health, mental health, and school sectors. Her research portfolio currently includes an RC1 award from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute investigating the utility of ECG screening prior to beginning stimulant medications for children with ADHD; funding from the Charles H. Hood Foundation researching rates of psychotropic medication use in youth in CW/CPS across 92 communities in the U.S. and factors predicting geographic disparities; and funding from the Deborah Munroe Noonan Memorial Research Fund regarding the identification and treatment of developmental and mental health problems in young children ages 0-2 years receiving child welfare/child protective services. She holds a Distinguished Fellowship from the William T. Grant Foundation focused on the integration of research, policy, and practice in partnership with the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families.

Carl Lewis is president of Carl Lewis Consulting, LLC, which he founded after retiring from 25 years as a police officer and senior criminal investigator specializing in the investigation of crimes against children. Carl continues his work in the child abuse intervention field, offering expert testimony on the Child Sexual Abuse Accommodation Syndrome (Summit, 1983) and other child abuse issues as he has done in more than 200 cases in California and federal courts since 1995. Carl is the elected Vice President of CAPSAC, the California Professional Society on the Abuse of Children. He is a licensed California private investigator.

Carl is an engaging speaker and instructor, presenting training in specialized forensic interviewing of children to hundreds of law enforcement, social service, and mental health providers.

Dr. Alan J. Litrownik is professor of psychology at San Diego State University and a member of the faculty in the SDSU/UCSD, Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology. His primary research interests as an investigator with the Child and Adolescent Services Research Center focus on at-risk children and factors that determine adaptive and maladaptive outcomes. He is the San Diego site PI for LONGSCAN and a Senior Associate Editor of Child Abuse & Neglect.

Mr. Lott is a High-Tech Crime Training Specialist in the High-Tech Crime Training Services Department of SEARCH, The National Consortium for Justice Information and Statistics, where he coordinates and provides training on high-tech crime investigations and forensics to local, state, and federal justice and public safety agencies. A former deputy probation officer with the Sacramento County (California) Probation Department, Mr. Lott has advanced training in computer forensics investigations and data recovery. He was assigned to the Sacramento Valley Hi-Tech Crimes Task Force, where he conducted probation compliance checks on offenders who have been convicted and placed on probation for offenses involving the possession of child pornography, stalking through the use of social networking sites or cellular devices, and identity theft. In addition to completing compliance checks, he lead investigations of peer-to-peer networks used to trade child pornography.

Liana Lowenstein, MSW, RSW, CPT-S, is an author, sought-after speaker, and practitioner with over 20 years of specialized work with children, adolescents and families. She provides clinical supervision to mental health practitioners and consults to several mental health agencies. She has a reputation as a dynamic workshop leader and has presented trainings across North America and abroad.

She is founder of Champion Press publishing company and has authored numerous publications including the highly-acclaimed books, Paper Dolls & Paper Airplanes: Therapeutic Exercises for Sexually Traumatized Children (with Crisci & Lay), Creative Interventions for Troubled Children & Youth, Creative Interventions for Children of Divorce, and Creative Interventions for Bereaved Children. She is editor of the books, Assessment and Treatment Activities for Children, Adolescents, and Families: Practitioners Share Their Most Effective Techniques (Volumes One and Two) and Creative Family Therapy Techniques. She is a Certified Child Psychotherapist and an approved supervisor with the Canadian Association for Child and Play Therapy.

Pauline is a nationally-known trainer and consultant in cultural competency and Children’s Advocacy Centers. For over 18 years she has provided consultation to multi-disciplinary teams working on complex child abuse cases. She has worked with numerous Native American communities across the nation and trained on various issues such as providing culturally competent services, trauma in adults and children, developmental disabilities, Spanish speaking forensic interviews and wellness. In addition to training and consulting, since 2002 Pauline has worked as a Behavior Support Consultant for clients with disabilities. She was the forensic interviewer with the team that implemented the first CAC in Albuquerque in 1990. She has a BA in Spanish Literature from the University of Rochester and an MA in Counseling from the University of New Mexico. She lives in Albuquerque with her husband and three children.

Meghan Lukasik, PhD, has been a licensed Clinical Psychologist since 1998. She has been working at Rady Children’s since the summer of 1999. She is currently the Clinical Director for KidSTART, a new and innovative program that provides transdisciplinary assessment and treatment for children with complex developmental, mental health, medical, and family needs. Dr. Lukasik has extensive experience in diagnostic assessment of autistic spectrum disorders, attentional disorders, behavior, learning disabilities, feeding problems, and infant/toddler mental health. She received her doctorate in psychology from The California School of Professional Psychology in San Diego, CA (now Alliant University). Dr. Lukasik’s goal in working at Rady Children’s is to collaborate with parents and professionals, to identify each child’s strengths and weaknesses, and to link children to appropriate earlty intervention services while also considering the needs of the family as a whole.

Thomas D. Lyon, J.D., Ph.D. is the Judge Edward J. and Ruey L. Guirado Chair in Law and Psychology at the University of Southern California. His research interests include child abuse and neglect, child witnesses, and domestic violence. He is the Past-President of the American Psychological Association’s Section on Child Maltreatment (Division 37) and a former member of the Board of Directors of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children.

He has published over 50 papers in law reviews, psychology journals, and books, has authored or co-authored over 70 research presentations at psychology and law conferences, and has conducted over 130 trainings with judges, attorneys, law professors, social workers, psychologists, and reporters. His work has been supported by the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the United States Department of Justice, the National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect, the California Endowment, and the Haynes Foundation.

Dr. Mannarino is currently Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, and Director of the Center for Traumatic Stress in Children and Adolescents at Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA. He is also Professor of Psychiatry at the Drexel University College of Medicine.

Dr. Mannarino has been a leader in the field of child traumatic stress for the past 25 years. He has been awarded numerous federal grants from the National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect and the National Institute of Mental Health to investigate the clinical course of traumatic stress symptoms in children and to develop effective treatment approaches for traumatized children and their families.

Dr. Mannarino has received many honors for his work, including the Betty Elmer Outstanding Professional Award, the Most Outstanding Article Award for papers published in the journal Child Maltreatment given by the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC), the Model Program Award from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration for “Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Child Traumatic Stress”, and the Legacy Award from the Greater Pittsburgh Psychological Association.

Dr. Mannarino is currently serving a two-year term as the President of APSAC, and is the President-Elect of the Section on Child Maltreatment, Division of Child, Youth, and Family Services, American Psychological Association.

Kathleen McChesney has held unique leadership positions in the Federal Bureau of Investigation, heading field offices in Chicago, Illinois and Portland, Oregon and culminating in her appointment to the Bureau’s third highest position—Executive Assistant Director. Following her thirty-two year law enforcement career she became the Executive Director of the Office of Child Protection for the US Catholic Bishops Conference and later was named as Vice President, Global Security for the Walt Disney Company.

She currently provides consulting services for business and faith-based institutions. Kathleen has received several prestigious awards including the US President’s Meritorious Achievement Award, the Lifetime Achievement Award for Women in Policing and the Hildegard Van Bingen Woman for the World Award. She serves on several non-profit boards, including the National Childrens Alliance.

Dr. Maricella Mendez-Sherwin, Ph.D. specializes in early intervention treatment focusing on children and families who have experienced trauma. Dr. Mendez-Sherwin has worked with children and families for over ten years. She provides Parent Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), the Incredible Years Parenting Group models and Child Parent Psychotherapy (CPP). She is currently part of the Junior Faculty to become a CPP trainer. Dr. Mendez-Sherwin is the Associate Director of Training, in Children’s Mental Health, at Children’s Institute Incorporated where she has the role of trainer in childhood intervention models and is a leader in growing the Child Parent Psychotherapy Program. She is bicultural (Mexican-American) and bilingual.

Clorinda Merino has a Master’s in Educational Counseling from the University of San Diego and is a licensed Psychologist in México. She has worked in the field of Child Abuse Prevention for over 20 years now and is currently the Project Coordinator for the Safe Kids California Project of Rady Children’s Hospital-Chadwick Center in San Diego. Clorinda is an experienced trainer on a variety of topics in the field of child abuse and cultural competency. She has trained around the State of California on the California Safe and Healthy Families home visiting model and has done other trainings in many countries in Latin America.

Assistant District Attorney Karen Meredith has been a prosecutor in Alameda County for over 29 years. She has specialized in the prosecution of sexual assault cases—including that of child moles—for the last 17 years. She headed the Office's Sexual Assault Vertical Prosecution Team and is currently the district attorney at CALICO, Alameda County's child advocacy center. As part of her responsibilities at CALICO—a position she has held for over 7 years—she facilitates interactions between law enforcement and social workers and, to date, has collaborated on over 2000 child forensic interviews. Karen is the Chair of CNCAC and is involved statewide in the training of police officers and social workers on the forensic interviewing of children.

David Meyers is a Senior Attorney with the Center for Families Children and the Courts, and has been working in the field of juvenile law since 1995. His current responsibilities include statewide curriculum development and training facilitation for attorneys and court professionals engaged in juvenile law practice and he represents California and CFCC on a number of state and national boards and workgroups dedicated to improving attorney representation and juvenile court practice.

David has taught throughout the country and extensively within California on a multitude of subjects relating to juvenile courts and attorney practice. As a member of CFCC’s Juvenile Court Assistance Team (JCAT), David is also directly responsible for leading statewide juvenile court improvement efforts in several California counties, including Los Angeles, San Diego, and Alameda. Projects include interdisciplinary training, linking probation departments to applicable child welfare initiatives, and facilitating stakeholder collaboration at all systems levels.

Prior to joining CFCC, David served an Assistant Attorney General in Tucson representing their Child Protective Services Division, worked for agencies in Sacramento representing children and families in child welfare cases, and spent several years in private practice defending children in juvenile delinquency matters. David is licensed to practice law in California, Arizona and the Pascua Yaqui Nation. He holds a bachelor’s in journalism and music from the University of Florida and his JD from the University of Arizona. David is the former music critic for his hometown newspaper and plays piano in a Sacramento area club.

Dr Munschy received his Doctorate of Psychology from the University of Northern Colorado in 1992 and his Masters in Agency Counseling from the same university in 1987. His clinical experience dates back to 1978, and he has held various positions in the fields of mental health and education since that time. Dr. Munschy's administrative experience includes serving as: clinical program director of a large inpatient facility treating substance abuse/dependence and dual diagnoses, director of mental health services in a community mental health center, program coordinator of an adolescent partial hospitalization program, clinical staff manager of MST Services, Connecticut Statewide MST Program Director, and Director of Clinical Training at MST associates.

Dr Munschy has also taught graduate level coursework in a number of universities and most recently served as Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Connecticut Health Center. Dr. Munschy has extensive training and experience as a clinical supervisor as well as experience as a national/international consultant. For the past seven years, he has been working closely with Dr. Charles Borduin in providing consultation and training in the MST model for problem sexual behavior youths (MST-PSB) in Connecticut. In Oct of 2006, Dr. Munschy left his position as Connecticut MST Program Director and joined Dr. Borduin full time at MST Associates in the dissemination of the MST-PSB treatment model in the United States and abroad.

John E.B. Myers, JD, is Distinguished Professor and Scholar at the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law. He has written more than 100 chapters and articles, primarily on child maltreatment. His writing has been cited by more than 140 courts, including the United States Supreme Court and the California Supreme Court and Court of Appeal. John’s writing has been cited more than 370 times in law reviews and books. John is a frequent speaker at conferences, having made more than 400 presentations in the U.S., Belgium, Canada, Chile, Hungary, Poland, and Scotland.

Recent awards include Professor of the Year, Evening Division, University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law and the William Friedrich Memorial Award and Lecture, awarded by the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children both in 2010.

Barbara Needell is a Research Specialist at the Center for Social Services Research at the University of California at Berkeley. She is the recipient of the 2008 Peter Forsythe Award for Leadership in Public Child Welfare from the American Public Human Services Association. As Principal Investigator of the California Child Welfare Performance Indicators Project (funded by the California Department of Social Services and the Stuart Foundation), she has worked extensively with statewide and county specific administrative data.

Barbara and her team at UCB collaborate with state and county colleagues to produce and publicly disseminate (http://cssr.berkeley.edu/ucb_childwelfare) the data used to support the California Child Welfare Outcomes and Accountability System.

She is a member of California’s Child Welfare Council, which was created as part of the Child Welfare Leadership and Performance Accountability Act of 2006. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Mills College, with a B.A. with Honors in Psychology. She received her M.S.W. and Ph.D. with Distinction from the School of Social Welfare at Berkeley. She is the mother of two fine young men.

Jessica Newmyer has 15 years experience in working with foster youth. She has helped to redesign service delivery of Child Welfare Services in the East Region of San Diego County (Neighborhoods for Kids) and is currently a CWS Manager in East Region Child Welfare. Ms. Newmyer worked for YMCA Youth and Family Services as a Case Manager teaching Independent Living Skills and developing plans for foster youth transitioning out of the dependency system. Ms. Newmyer then went to work for San Diego Youth and Community Services as Program Manager for the Independent Living Skills Program. After working for several years with foster youth after they have been through the Child Welfare System, Ms. Newmyer developed a desire to work with children entering the Child Welfare System and started working for the County of San Diego Child Welfare Services. She has worked in Emergency Response, Court Intervention, Voluntary Services, Continuing Services, and Intensive Family Preservation Program. Ms. Newmyer is currently the Day to Day Manager for the San Diego team participating in a Breakthrough Series Collaborative that is focused on making Child Welfare more trauma-informed with the ultimate goal of improving placement stability for children in foster care. Ms. Newmyer is also a trainer for Public Child Welfare Training Academy and trains on Child Welfare Investigations, Family Engagement and Case Planning.

Mark Eugene Nunes, MD, FAAP is Division Chief, Medical Genetics for Kaiser Permanente San Diego, and Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of California, San Diego.

After completing his residency in Pediatrics in 1992, he pursued concurrent fellowships in Clinical Genetics, Laboratory Genetics, and Medical Teratology at the University of Washington, Seattle under the mentorship of Peter Byers. His interest in distinguishing inborn errors from accidental injury began there. Appointed Director of a DNA Diagnostic Laboratory and assuming a Pediatric faculty position in an Air Force teaching hospital, he reviewed several cases in which distinguishing metabolic bone disease from nonaccidental trauma was critical. He became a regional consultant in child abuse, and remains an expert witness in Pediatrics, Forensic Pediatrics, Clinical Genetics, and Laboratory Genetics. He was fortunate to spend a year and a half studying forensic pediatrics with Kent Hymel.

From 2005 through 2008, he was the Co-Director of the Metabolic Bone Disease Clinic at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio caring for over 300 patients and families with congenital and acquired bone fragility, He is Academic Medical Director for Kaiser’s Healthy Bones Program in San Diego, and is a regional consultant for skeletal dysplasia and osteogenesis imperfecta for Kaiser Southern California. An interest in sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) lead to his founding Kaiser’s San Diego Cardiogenetics Clinic, which he serves as Medical Co-Director. Since 2001, he has spearheaded educational seminars at national meetings to educate Geneticists on evaluating suspected child abuse, and educate Forensic Pediatricians on recognizing genetic disorders. Research interests include the diagnosis and natural history of metabolic bone disease, ethnic and genetic factors affecting bone quality, and use of the Electronic Medical Record (EMR) in “duty to inform” circumstances.

Married to an obstetric nurse, Nancy, they have three children: Mary, Gabriel, and Madelyn.

Dr. Sharyn Parks is a Science Officer in NCIPC’s Division of Violence Prevention where her work focuses on surveillance of child maltreatment and other violence related issues. Prior to joining the Division of Violence Prevention she was an EIS Officer assigned to the Texas Department of State Health Services. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Biology from the University of Missouri-Columbia, a Master’s in Epidemiology from Saint Louis University School of Public Health, and a PhD in Psychiatric Epidemiology from the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health. Prior to joining the EIS program, Dr. Parks was involved in research investigating race and socioeconomic differences in the long-term outcomes of childhood maltreatment as well as other work on child maltreatment related to substance use. From 2002 to 2004, Dr. Parks worked as an epidemiologist and human subjects contact in the NCIPC Office of the Director.

Supervisory Special Agent (SSA) Terri Patterson entered the FBI in 1997 and was assigned to the Miami Division where she investigated violent crime and Crimes Against Children (CAC). She later supervised the Miami Division’s first CAC squad and served as a program manager at FBI Headquarters before being assigned to the National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime (NCAVC). She has trained law enforcement officers and prosecutors in the United States, Latin America, the Caribbean and Southeast Asia. Prior to entering the FBI, SSA Patterson was employed by the Commonwealth of Virginia where she conducted psychological assessments of individuals convicted of violent sexual offenses. In that capacity, she was appointed to the Governor’s Sex Offender Program Action Committee, designed to assess and improve Virginia’s ability to appropriately manage violent sexual offenders. SSA Patterson holds a Ph.D. in Psychology. She has conducted research in the area of witness memory and behavioral indicators of deception. Her research has been presented both nationally and internationally, most recently at the International Investigative Interviewing Conference in Brussels.

Diane Paulsell is a senior researcher and associate director of the human services research division. She studies the effects of early childhood education, home visiting, parenting programs, and policy on low-income families with young children. Her areas of expertise include early childhood home visiting, home-based child care, early childhood systems, and measurement of program implementation and quality.

Paulsell has both national and international experience on studies of early childhood programs. She directs the Home Visiting Evidence of Effectiveness Review, a systematic review of the research literature on early childhood home visiting. For Supporting Evidence-Based Home Visiting to Prevent Child Maltreatment, she leads a study of systems change in 17 grantee sites. She also directed the Early Learning Initiative evaluation, a multifaceted study of community-wide early childhood interventions. In the area of child care, Paulsell directed Support Quality in Home-Based Child Care, a study designed to identify promising strategies for improving quality in home-based settings. She also serves as the senior adviser of the Early Head Start for Family Child Care Project Evaluation. She has played leading roles in several studies of Head Start and Early Head Start.

Donna Pence was selected to be the first female Special Agent with the Tennessee Bureau in 1976 after two years in the Metropolitan Nashville Park Police.  During her 25 years with the Bureau she worked undercover, special crimes, and field investigations.  She organized the Bureau's first missing children's efforts as well as being designated as the Bureau's child abuse investigation specialist.  During her tenure she was the Special Agent in Charge of both the Drug Enforcement Unit and the Training and Recruitment Unit.  Upon her retirement, she moved to San Diego, California where she joined the Academy of Professional Excellence, a project of San Diego State University as a trainer and curriculum specialist.  She is the Immediate Past Chair of the Board of Directors of the California Network of Child Advocacy Centers, a board member of the California Professional Society on the Abuse of Children, a member of the San Diego Child Fatality Review Committee and the San Diego United Way Visioning Council on Child Abuse.

Donna has authored or co-authored numerous articles and book chapters as well as a book, "Team Investigation of Child Sexual Abuse: The Uneasy Alliance," with Charles A. Wilson.  Donna was the lead writer on APSAC's Investigative Interviewing of Children Guidelines.  She is currently working on a chapter titled "Forensic Investigation of Child Abuse" for the upcoming 3rd edition of the APSAC Child Maltreatment Handbook.  She has conducted training for multidisciplinary audiences in 37 states and 6 countries on child and adult interviewing and investigative issues around child maltreatment.

Dr. Pierce is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine and an attending physician at Children's Memorial Hospital Pediatric Emergency Department. Dr. Pierce’s subspecialty training is in Pediatric Emergency Medicine with additional training in the area of child abuse. She received her medical degree from Louisiana State University of New Orleans in 1989, her specialty training in Pediatrics from Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1992, and her subspecialty training in Pediatric Emergency Medicine from the University of Pittsburgh, Children’s Hospital, in 1994.

Dr. Pierce is currently an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and the Director of Research and faculty development for the pediatric emergency department and she is the medical director for the Injury Risk Assessment and Prevention Laboratory at the University of Louisville. Before joining Children's Memorial Hospital, Dr. Pierce was an Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, University of Louisville School of Medicine. Prior to that, Dr. Pierce was the Division Chief of the Child Abuse Assessment Center at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh in addition to a clinical appointment in the Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine.

Dr. Pierce is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics as well as the Society for Pediatric Research. Dr. Pierce began her collaboration with Dr. Bertocci in 1997 that combines the expertise of medicine and engineering and utilizes both a clinical and an experimental approach. Her research focus is the development of injury plausibility models for differentiating abusive and accidental trauma in the young child. This collaborative work results in translational research that is guided by case-based studies with experiments and modeling directly linked to pertinent clinic issues.

Dr. Puddy joined the Division of Violence Prevention with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in March 2007 and is currently Branch Chief for the Program Implementation and Dissemination Branch. At the CDC, he has also served as a Behavioral Scientist for a range of projects in the areas of suicide, child maltreatment, and youth violence prevention. Richard has over 15 years’ experience working in the field of child’s mental health, child welfare, and social services. He earned his Bachelor’s degree in psychology from Temple University and worked as a Child and Adolescent Service System Program (CASSP) Coordinator in Pennsylvania before pursuing his doctoral studies at the University of Kansas. While in Kansas, he earned Master’s degrees in both Clinical Child Psychology and Public Health. He obtained his doctorate in Clinical Child Psychology and was awarded the Pre-doctoral New Investigator Award in Mental Health Services Research.

Richard also received the American Psychological Association's Division 37 (Child, Youth, and Family Services) award for the outstanding doctoral dissertation exploring the role of service coordination for children with serious emotional disorders. He completed a two year Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the Penn State Prevention Research Center for the Promotion of Human Development. Prior to joining the CDC, Richard served as Assistant Director of the University of South Florida’s Collaborative for Children, Families and Communities and also as a faculty member in the Department of Child and Family Studies at the Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute.

Emily Putnam-Hornstein, MSW, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California’s School of Social Work. She also maintains a research appointment on the California Child Welfare Performance Indicators Project at the Center for Social Services Research. Emily’s current research is focused on record linkages between administrative data sources in an effort to improve the surveillance of non-fatal and fatal child maltreatment. Emily graduated from Yale University with a BA in Psychology, received her MSW from Columbia University, and earned her PhD in Social Welfare from the University of California at Berkeley.

Lieutenant Chris Ragsdale, MSW, is an active duty Licensed Clinical Social Worker serving in the United States Navy. Lt. Ragsdale is currently assigned to the United States Marine Corps 1st Marine Division’s, 11th Regiment. Operational Stress Control and Readiness (OSCAR) program aboard Camp Pendleton, California. Chris is a Board Certified Diplomat of Clinical Social Work.

Prior to becoming active duty with the Navy in 2010, Lt. Ragsdale interviewed over 3000 children who were associated with child abuse matters, primarily child sexual abuse. The forensic interviews performed by Lt. Ragsdale involved multiple investigative jurisdictions to include: The Department of Social Services, local law enforcement, State Bureau of Investigations and federal entities such as The Federal Bureau of Investigations, The United States Postal Inspector, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Lt. Ragsdale has worked in the field of child maltreatment since 1992 working as a Child Protective Services Investigator, a coordinator and forensic interviewer for a Children's Advocacy Center, and as a youth and family therapist. Lt. Ragsdale has served as an adjunct instructor for The Program on Childhood Trauma and Maltreatment for the Division of Child Psychiatry at the University Of North Carolina School Of Medicine and has lectured on child maltreatment matters both regionally and nationally. Lt. Ragsdale has served as a faculty member for the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC) Forensic Institutes since 2004.

Dr. Elizabeth Ralston is the founding executive director of the Dee Norton Lowcountry Children’s Center in Charleston, South Carolina. Established in 1989, the Center has served over 18,000 children. Dr. Ralston is the co-Director of Project BEST that has coordinated Community Based Learning Collaborative through Children’s Advocacy Centers across South Carolina. Dr. Ralston served on the Board of the South Carolina Professional Society on the Abuse of Children, the National Children’s Alliance and on the NCTSN Child Welfare and Judicial committees.

Mr. Reardon is an Assistant United States Attorney in the Eastern District of California. He is the Project Safe Childhood coordinator. His primary focus is the prosecution of crimes against children, including the prosecution of domestic child sex trafficking. Prior to joining the Eastern District, he was a prosecutor in the United States Army JAG Corps, and clerked in the Eastern District.

Phil Redmond is the associate director of the Child Care program area of The Duke Endowment, a private foundation headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina. Redmond received his undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina and his law degree from Campbell University School of Law. Prior to joining the Endowment, he served as executive director of The Children’s Law Center in Charlotte, North Carolina. Redmond currently serves on the Board of the Council on Accreditation and has served on other nonprofit boards and advisory committees. He presents regularly on evaluation and capacity building.

Veronica Reich is a psychologist with 16 years of experience and an advanced degree in Ontological Coaching. She has been active with Fundación Amparo y Justicia since the organization commenced operations 13 years ago. She has served as a member of the Board of Directors and as general coordinator for the psychological and social services provided to families who have suffered the loss of a son or daughter as a result of homicide involving rape.

Veronica has also contributed to the enhancing the Foundation’s system of psychological care, supervising teams of psychologists and social workers and reaching out to the social services network to ensure that families receive appropriate public services while seeking to ensure that the trauma they have experienced is channeled in the most appropriate, healing fashion possible.

Kenda is a clinical social worker with the Janeway Family Centre, Mental Health & Addictions Program, Eastern Health. She is a member of the Adolescent Team and is Team Leader for the Child Abuse Treatment Team. Kenda is involved in developing treatment programs as well as providing assessment and treatment for abused children and their families. She is also a member of the Janeway Child Protection Program.

Kenda works in private practice as a mental health clinician with Aspens and Oaks and also teaches clinical skills to first year medical students at Memorial University of Newfoundland Medical School.

Charlene “Char” Rivette is the Executive Director of the Chicago Children’s Advocacy Center, and has over 20 years of experience in the fields of child welfare, mental health, and human services. After moving from Detroit, Michigan to Chicago in 1993, Char began working at DuPage County Health Department (Glen Ellyn), and later at Our Children’s Homestead (Naperville). Just prior to joining the CCAC, Char served as Chief of Program Operations at Little City Foundation in Palatine and Chicago.

She has been engaged as a clinician, case manager, advocate, supervisor, administrator, and leader in the field. In addition, Char has worked as a private therapist for children in the foster care system and as a consultant with Quality Improvement Associates. Char has extensive knowledge and experience in program development and implementation, fiscal management, team and leadership development, and quality improvement. Char earned a Master’s Degree in Social Work from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and her Bachelor’s Degree of Science in Education from Central Michigan University. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Child Welfare Worker in the state of Illinois.

Marilyn McCoy Roberts serves as OJJDP’s Deputy Administrator for Programs. In that capacity, she oversees the Office’s three program divisions. She was formerly the Director of OJP’s Drug Courts Program Office, which was established under the 1994 Crime Law to administer a drug court grant program and to provide financial and technical assistance to drug courts.

Ms. Roberts came to the Justice Department in May 1995 from the National Center for State Courts’ Office of Government Relations where she was a Senior Policy Analyst. During her 18-year career at the National Center for State Courts, Ms. Roberts held a number of management positions, including Deputy Director of the Washington Office. She has staffed and directed national research projects and has written on a number of court administration topics, including legislative relations, substance abuse and the courts, and gender bias in the courts.

Ms. Roberts holds a B.A. in Sociology from the University of Denver and an M.P.A. from the University of Colorado. She is a Fellow of the Court Executive Development Program of the National Center for State Courts’ Institute for Court Management.

Ms. Rogers is the Deputy Director of the Criminal Law Division and Director of the Center for Litigation Training and Community Practice Management (CLTCPM) at Department of the Navy. While serving as an expert on military justice litigation, she is responsible for development / implementation of all policy and guidance related to military justice litigation including drafting changes to the UCMJ, the Manual for Courts-Martial, DoD/DON directives and regulations. She is legal advisor to the Sexual Assault Prevention Training Program and CLTCPM. In December 2006, Ms. Rogers was appointed by President Bush as founding Director of the SMART Office for the Department of Justice. Since 2004, Ms. Rogers was the Director of the National Institute for Training Child Abuse Professionals (NITCAP). She has trained extensively throughout the US and internationally on prosecution and investigation of criminal cases involving child homicide, child sexual / physical abuse, maltreatment and sexual abuse involving victims with developmental disabilities. She has published several articles.

Since 1999, Ms. Rogers was a Senior Attorney at the APRI’s National Center for Prosecution of Child Abuse. She was recognized as NCPCA’s expert in child fatalities and victims with developmental disabilities. Prior to NCPCA, Ms. Rogers was a Deputy District Attorney in San Diego for 11 years. She tried over 120-felony jury trials, with a 92% success rate. She served 7 years in the Family Violence division prosecuting child abuse, child homicide, DV assault and homicide and cases involving victims with disabilities. She is the former Chair of the Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus Review Board on Sexual Abuse and Pastoral Conduct. She served on the CA Governor’s Board for the Association of Retarded Citizens, and Columbia University’s Blue Ribbon Panel. While living in London, England, she taught at the university level and appeared as an American legal correspondent for SKY Television. She was an adjunct law professor at George Mason University School of Law and California Western School of Law.

Dr. John S. Rolland is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Chicago and Executive Co-Director of its affiliate post-graduate family and couples therapy training institute the Chicago Center for Family Health. In addition to his training in medicine and psychiatry at the University of Michigan and Yale University, Dr. Rolland received a masters degree from the Harvard School of Public Health. He then was the Founder and Director of the Center for Illness in Families at Yale University.

Widely recognized for his conceptual model, clinical work, and research with families facing serious physical disorders, he has published extensively including his landmark book, Families, Illness, and Disability: An Integrative Treatment Model and co-author of Individuals, Families, and the New Era of Genetics: Biopsychosocial Perspectives. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a former Fellow of the Institute for Social and Policy Studies at Yale. He is Past-President of the American Family Therapy Academy. His professional honors include AFTA’s Innovative Contributions to Family Therapy Award and the Blanche Ittleson Award from the American Orthopsychiatric Association. He serves on the Editorial Boards of a number of journals including: Family Process, Journal or Marital and Family Therapy, and AIDS Education and Prevention, and the Board of Directors of Families, Systems, & Health: The Journal of Collaborative Family Health Care. From 2000-2006, he founded and co-led an international human rights project in Kosovo, the Kosovar Family Professional Education Collaborative.

Donna Ronan, MSW RSW, has been the program manager for Child and Adolescent Mental Health with Eastern Health in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, since January 2010. Since 1991, she has worked with children and families since 1976 and has served as the team leader for the Janeway Family Centre as well as the Chair of the Child Protection Program for the Janeway Children’s Health Centre and Rehabilitation Centre (the only acute care children’s hospital serving the province of Newfoundland and Labrador). Donna is also in private practice as a mental health clinician with Aspens & Oaks (a community based consultation and counseling agency) and serves in volunteer positions in the community. Donna has been in a leadership position for program development and managed the “RBC Reaching Out—sharing Janeway Group Therapy Programs Throughout Newfoundland and Labrador” project.

Nicole Rooney became a Deputy District Attorney in 1999 in the San Diego County District Attorney’s Office after graduating from Boston University School of Law in 1998. During her tenure as a Deputy District Attorney, In her career, Ms. Rooney has tried over seventy felony cases. Ms. Rooney is currently a Team Leader in the Family Protection Division, where she supervises junior attorneys and prosecutes homicide cases as well as complex physical and sexual child abuse cases. Ms. Rooney has taught on child abuse and child abuse laws at the International Conference on Family Maltreatment, the Coordinated Investigation Response to Child Abuse Training, and at District Attorney’s Office. Ms. Rooney has also taught on evidence, criminal law, internet crimes against children and domestic violence.

Bryan Samuels is the Commissioner of the Administration on Children, Youth and Families (ACYF). Samuels has spent his career formulating service delivery innovations and streamlining operations in large government organizations on behalf of children, youth, and families. As Chief of Staff for Chicago Public Schools (CPS), Mr. Samuels played a leadership role in managing the day-to-day operations of the third largest school system in the nation with 420,000 students, 623 schools, 44,000 employees, and a $5 billion budget.

Prior to this role, from 2003 to 2007, Samuels served as the Director of the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS). While Director, he moved aggressively to implement comprehensive assessments of all children entering care, redesigned transitional and independent living programs to prepare youth for transitioning to adulthood, created a child location unit to track all runaway youth, and introduced evidence-based services to address the impact of trauma and exposure to violence on children in state care. Prior to 2003, Samuels taught at the University of Chicago’s School of Social Service Administration. Samuels holds a Master’s Degree from the University of Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy Studies and a Bachelor’s of Arts Degree from the University of Notre Dame.

Dr. Ben Saunders is a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Medical University of South Carolina. He serves as the Associate Director of the National Crime Victims Research and Treatment Center and as Director of the NCVC’s Family and Child Program. Dr. Saunders received his Ph.D. in clinical social work from Florida State University in 1982; a master’s degree in marriage and family therapy from Virginia Tech in 1979; and a B.A., in religious studies from the University of South Florida in 1977.

He is a Licensed Independent Social Worker-Clinical Practice, a member of the Academy of Certified Social Workers, and a Diplomat in Clinical Social Work. In 2001 Dr. Saunders received the Research Career Achievement Award from the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children and in 2008 was invited to deliver the APSAC William Friedrich Memorial Lecture. In addition to his research and teaching activities, Dr. Saunders provides clinical supervision, consultation, training, and program consultation concerning mental health treatment of abused children and their families, and is a frequent lecturer and trainer at national and international conferences.

Rob Sawyer is currently an independent consultant in child welfare. He has been appointed as a Senior Fellow with American Humane Association. He has over 30 years of experience in the Minnesota Child Welfare System and has additional expertise in children's mental health services. He frequently presents nationally and internationally on differential response in child protective services, child welfare outcomes and transformation of child welfare systems.

Anna Wilson Shaw, MSEd, is the Child Abuse School Liaison and Education Program Manager at the Dee Norton Lowcountry Children's Center (DNLCC) in Charleston, SC. In this capacity she provides training and consultation to school personnel on identifying, reporting and responding to suspicions of abuse or neglect and invites school personnel to participate in multidisciplinary team staffing’s. She also coordinates a programmatic grant and collaborates with departmental staff to organize and execute new training initiatives. Prior to joining DNLCC, she taught in South Carolina and New York City.

Kristen Shealy, EdM, CAS, provides bilingual, trauma-focused mental health services as a Trauma Counselor and Victim Services Provider at the National Crime Victims Research and Treatment Center (NCVC) at The Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC). Kristen is bilingual in English and Spanish, and is particularly interested in increasing access to and providing culturally- and linguistically-competent services to traditionally underserved populations exposed to trauma. Kristen works on an Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) grant providing trauma-focused counseling and intensive case management services to people who have lost loved ones to homicide, and co-facilitates the Survivors of Homicide Support Group in Charleston. Kristen also works on a Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) providing trauma-focused mental health counseling and case management services to Latino women (primarily) and their children who have been victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking.

Kristen is a member of the MUSC Disparities in Mental Health workgroup, and is also part of the NCVC’s Community Outreach Program- Esperanza (COPE). Kristen earned her BA in Psychology and minor in Italian from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She earned her EdM in Risk and Prevention, and Certificate of Advanced Study (CAS) in Counseling from Harvard University. As a graduate student, Kristen was awarded grants from the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies in 2006 and 2007 to develop and implement trauma-informed programs with formerly abandoned street children in Bolivia.

Joy Lynn E. Shelton received her B.A. in History from Mary Washington College in Fredericksburg, VA, in 1997. While attending college she was a legal intern for the Stafford County Commonwealth’s Attorney. There, she conducted legal research and assisted the attorneys in all phases of trial preparations. This experience sparked an interest in the criminal justice field and led her to her current position within the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

Mrs. Shelton began her career with the FBI in 1998 and joined the National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime (NCAVC) in 1999. Currently, Mrs. Shelton is a Crime Analyst within the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit –3 Crimes Against Children, a component of NCAVC. She serves as the Principal Researcher for the FBI’s research on maternal filicide and has co-authored and published two articles on the topic of neonaticide – the killing of child within 24 hours of birth. She is also a co-researcher for the Suicide Among Child Sex Offenders project.

Mrs. Shelton has presented at a wide-variety of national training venues to include American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC) annual conferences, American Prosecutors Research Institute Child Fatality conference, American Psychiatric Association, and Institute of Pediatric Medical Education. She is also an instructor at the FBI’s National Academy at Quantico, VA.

Maj. Connie Shingledecker is a 33-year veteran law enforcement officer with the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office. In 1997 she was instrumental in the transfer of Child Protective Investigations from the Department of Children and Families to the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office. The program was successful and has been duplicated by six other sheriff’s offices in Florida.

Maj. Shingledecker is currently the Investigative Bureau Chief over Criminal Investigations, Child Protective Investigations and Narcotics and Vice. She has a BA degree in Public Administration and is a graduate of the FBI National Academy, 185th Session. Maj. Shingledecker is instructs in the areas of Domestic Violence, Sexual and Physical Child Abuse, Death Investigations, Ethics and Courtesy, Sudden Unexplained Infant Death Investigation, and Crime Scene Re-Enactment/Re-Construction. In 2006 the Florida Medical Examiners selected her to represent Florida Law Enforcement on a 5 person team that traveled to Atlanta, Georgia and received training from the Center for Disease Control in Sudden Infant Death Investigation.

She is the chair of the Florida Child Abuse Death Review Team and was appointed by Governor Crist to represent law enforcement on the State Child Abuse Prevention and Permanency Council committee.

Judy is a clinical social worker and holds the position of Team Leader for the Janeway Family Centre, Mental Health & Addictions Program, Eastern Health. She is a member of the Child Abuse Treatment Team and is involved in developing treatment programs as well as providing assessment and treatment for abused children and their families. She is also the Co-Chair of the Janeway Child Protection Program.

Ms. Sievers is currently the statewide Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) Coordinator through the Beth-El College of Nursing and Health Sciences in Colorado Springs. In 1995, Val and emergency nurse colleagues developed the first SANE program in Colorado at Memorial Health system in Colorado Springs, which serves as a model program for the state. Val continues to provide forensic healthcare to adults, adolescents and children at Safe Passage, formerly known as the Children's Advocacy Center of the Pike's Peak Region.

Val has more than 25 years of experience as a registered nurse with extensive practice in the arena of emergency and trauma services and critical care nursing. She currently is certified in emergency nursing, as a sexual assault nurse examiner in the care of adults, adolescents and children.

Val's professional affiliations include: The International Association of Forensic Nurses, Emergency Nurses Association, The American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children, National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists, Sigma Theta Tau and the American Nurses Association.

Dr. Harmesh Singh is currently working as Professor & chief of Department of Pediatrics at Dayanand Medical College & Hospital, Ludhiana, and Punjab, India. He is on the panel of National Faculty for Pediatric Advanced Life Support and Neonatal Advanced Life Support Programmes of India. He is a resource faculty for conducting workshops on HIV/AIDS, GOI & WHO workshops on essential newborn care. He is an active member of medical education cell of the institution and participates in its workshop for faculty members. He is a national faculty for trainings in prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (CAN). He is the member of International as well as National society for prevention of CAN. He organized a multidisciplinary workshop on prevention of CAN at Ludhiana, India where professionals from various disciplines including pediatricians, nurses, teachers, lawyers and police department participated.

He has also published a book on, What is child Abuse and Neglect. He has presented papers and invited guest lectures at various CAN conferences e.g. Singapore, Hongkong, San Diego, and Perth. He was awarded Heinz fellowship of RCPCH, London and Fellowship of Indian Academy of Pediatrics (FIAP). Dr. Singh has 150 publications, four books & 20 chapters in other books. He has delivered about 65 invited guest lectures and chaired 27 scientific sessions. Prof. Singh is an active member of Indian Society for prevention of CAN. He participated as a resource faculty in the National Consultative meet and workshop on recognition and response to child abuse the Indian Scenario Child Rights and Protection Programme at New Delhi in October 2007. He also participated in the multidisciplinary Training of Trainers in child protection sponsored by ISPCAN at Mumbai. He was a resource faculty for a TOT and capacity building workshop on CAN at Delhi in 2006.

Detective Derek Stigerts has been a police officer for 21 years with the Sacramento Police Department, the last 7 years in the detective division. He was assigned to the Child Abuse/Sex Assault Unit for one year then in 2006, transferred to the Vice Unit where he became a full time member of the Sacramento FBI Division’s, Innocence Lost Task Force, where he works solely on domestic sex trafficking investigation. The task force combines Special Agents of the FBI and detectives with the Sacramento Police Department and Sacramento Sheriff’s Department. The unit’s primary responsibility is investigating domestic sex trafficking cases, prostituted juveniles, and prosecuting those responsible for their exploitation. Det. Stigerts is an instructor at the FBI’s Crimes Against Children, Juvenile Prostitution Forensic Interviewing Course and has presented at other federal and state trainings regarding domestic sex trafficking. Det. Stigerts has qualified and testified as an expert in federal court in California, Texas, and Nevada as well as in state court in California regarding various prostitution and sex trafficking topics.

Debra A. Strong (MA Economics, California State University and MPhil, Public Policy Analysis, RAND Graduate School) is a senior researcher at Mathematica Policy Research in Princeton, New Jersey. Ms. Strong studies program implementation, vulnerable families, and public policy change efforts. She is the Deputy Project Director for the national cross-site evaluation of the Supporting Evidence-Based Home Visiting to Prevent Child Maltreatment Grantee Cluster (the EBHV grant program) sponsored by the Children’s Bureau in the Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). For this evaluation, she oversees evaluation technical assistance provided to grantees and their evaluators, and a study of the costs of home visiting operations.

Along with studying the implementation of programs for vulnerable families as part of other national evaluations such as Building Strong Families and the National Welfare to Work Grants Program, and Ms. Strong has studied programs for noncustodial fathers, child-only welfare, supported work and transitional employment, programs to help nursing home residents understand Medicare, domestic violence prevention, and social and economic conditions in rural areas. She led a study comparing the roles of the U.S. Government and private philanthropies in addressing health and social services needs and examining alternative ways for both sectors to partner. Along with her work on EBHV she is currently evaluating two foundation-sponsored advocacy initiatives to expand health insurance coverage and to improve the ability of minority serving colleges and universities to help shape higher education policy.

Dr. Sugerman graduated from Thomas Jefferson Medical College in 2004, completed a Masters of Public Health at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health in 2003, and his residency in emergency medicine at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in 2007. He subsequently joined the CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service as a medical officer in San Diego County (2007-2009), working on communicable disease control, followed by a position at the Global Immunization Division, Africa Team (2009-2010).

Dr. Sugerman’s public health research activities have focused on vaccine preventable diseases, syndromic surveillance, health system strengthening, outbreak response, and injury prevention. Past projects have included a WHO-funded, Global Childhood Unintentional Injury Surveillance System (GCUIS) in Colombia, Egypt, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Uganda, along with injury surveillance among long-term Afghan refugees living in Pakistan; measles outbreak response among children with personal belief exemptions; H1N1 pandemic response; meningitis and multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) surveillance along the US-Mexico border; monkeypox surveillance with the U.S. Army in Kole, DR Congo; polio and measles control in West Africa; and technical assistance to UNICEF and the Haitian MOH on vaccination campaigns after the 2011 earthquake. Current work in the Division of Injury Response has focused on traumatic brain injury and pre-hospital triage of injured patients. In addition Dr. Sugerman works clinically at the Emory University Hospital Emergency Department.

Eric Sulkers is a paediatrician from the Netherlands, specializing in endocrinology, diabetes and child protection. Since 2006, Eric has been the primary consultant to the Child Protection agency in Zeeland, a southwest province of the Netherlands. As part of this role, he was central in developing the use of the Signs of Safety (SofS) approach in Zeeland and established a high risk pregnancy project, where social workers from the hospital and family services work together using a SofS approach and also a domestic violence project (with social workers from woman’s shelter, adult mental health, and family services collaborating again, using the SofS approach).

He was hired by the county administration in 2008 to perform a 2-year reform project, where he has brought solutions - focused work and Family Involvement Strategies (FIS) - to both the child protection and the family services in a coordinated way, so to create a common language between the 2 fields.

In addition to his skills and experience in establishing effective child protection practice in the medical context, Eric’s principle interest is in combining the Signs of Safety approach with general solutions - focused ideas, Motivational Interviewing, with different forms of Family Involvement strategies and with an approach to coaching parents of 'out of control' youth (Non-Violent Resistance). Eric cooperates with and regularly hosts trainings in his home town.

Premi Suresh M.D. is a child abuse pediatrician working at Rady Children's Hospital San Diego. She completed her internship and residency in pediatrics at Children's Hospital and Research Center in Oakland, CA and her fellowship in child abuse pediatrics at the Chadwick Center.

Mr. Syed joined Rady Children's Hospital and Health Center in 2009 as Vice President of Human Resources. In addition to ensuring the efficient and effective operations of the Human Resources function, Mr. Syed is also responsible for leading Rady Children’s organizational change strategy as well as the operations of the Occupational Health, Environmental Services, and Food Services departments. His experience includes positions a Project Consultant at Fairview Hospital and Health Systems, an Administrative Fellow, Benefits Manager, and Director of HR, Education and Organizational Development at Mercy Health System in Janesville, WI. Mr. Syed played a lead role at Mercy Health System in achieving the #1 best place to work designation twice from AARP and Mercy’s journey to receive the national Malcolm Baldrige Award designation in 2007.

He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Mass Communication and Masters in Healthcare Administration from the University of Minnesota. His professional associations include serving as an Examiner of the Wisconsin Forward Award, member of the Association of Psychological Type, and a board member of the Stateline Health Academy Taskforce in Southern Wisconsin/Northern Illinois. Mr. Syed is a Certified Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Professional and Green Belt Certified in Six Sigma.

Ms. Toohey has specialized in the area of alcohol and substance abuse since 1999. In 2006, Ms.Toohey began working solely as an independent and has since worked with many agencies as a speaker, facilitator, presenter and instructor. She works as a part-time trainer with the Grossmont College Foster, Adoptive and Kinship Care Education Program where she is a PRIDE facilitator, curriculum developer and trainer for such topics as: substance abuse, birth parent/foster parent relationships, domestic violence, stress reduction and Teamwork Toward Permanency. She is also employed part-time as a Parent Partner with San Diego’s Community Services for Families East Region. She is an instructor for the SDSU Academy for Professional Excellence; a master trainer for the PESA, Parent Empowerment/Engagement and Self-Advocacy training, and a trainer with UC Davis’ The Resource Center for Family-Focused Practice.

Ms. Toohey is on the San Diego CORE Team for the Breakthrough Collaborative Series; Creating a Trauma-Informed Child Welfare System, she is member of the Chadwick Trauma-Informed Systems Project National Advisory Committee, and a member of the California State Parent Team.

Ms. Toohey has been busy developing her own nonprofit organization as well; the Birth Parent Association (BPA) was incorporated in October of 2008. The Association was formed to promote sound mental health in our next generation by supporting any parent involved in Child Welfare Services; by providing education, resources, and advocacy to better navigate the Child Welfare System which will allow the parent to meet the requirements of their reunification plan and so regain custody of their children, and to do so in a timely manner.

She is a parent of five children; three of which have special needs. Two of her special kids are teenagers, one of whom is a foster/adopted youth.

Erika Tullberg is the Administrative Director of the Children’s Trauma Institute, a collaboration between the New York City Administration for Children's Services, the city's public child welfare agency, and the New York University Langone School of Medicine. The ACS-NYU Children's Trauma Institute is the National Child Traumatic Stress Network’s Child Welfare Category 2 Treatment and Service Adaptation Center and has developed interventions to address trauma and secondary trauma experienced by children, parents and staff in the child welfare system. Erika is also a co-chair of the Network’s Child Welfare Committee.

Erika was previously the Executive Director of Clinical Systems and Support for the New York City Administration for Children’s Services, where she led a multi-disciplinary department that planned, implemented and oversaw program and policy development within New York City’s child welfare system in the areas of domestic violence, mental health and substance abuse. Erika has a master’s degree in public health from the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, and a master’s degree in public administration from the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs. Most importantly, she is also a parent to a 21-year-old foster parent alumna.

Heather A. Turner is Professor of Sociology and Research Associate at the Crimes against Children Research Center at the University of New Hampshire. Dr. Turner’s research program has concentrated on social stress processes and mental health. She is especially interested the effects of violence, victimization, and other forms of adversity on the social and psychological development of children and adolescents. Dr. Turner has conducted numerous surveys and published over 50 articles, including many focusing at the epidemiology of childhood victimization and mental health.

She is currently co-principal investigator for the OJJDP funded National Survey of Children’s Exposure to Violence (NATSCEV) – a study designed to obtain comprehensive estimates of children’s exposure to multiple forms of violence and victimization across the full developmental spectrum (age 0-17). The survey also assesses a variety of family, community, and individual level correlates of children’s exposure to victimization as well as the emotional and behavioral outcomes of such exposure. Dr. Turner is also the Director of the International Conference on Social Stress Research and the Chair of the Sociology of Mental Health Section of the American Sociological Association (ASA).

Jennifer Turner, J.D., is currently the Assistant Supervising Attorney, Conflict Parent Office, with Dependency Legal Group of San Diego. She has specialized in the representation of clients in juvenile dependency cases since 1999, first at the Alternate Public Defenders and then with the Office of San Diego County Counsel. She has been supervising parents’ attorneys since the inception of Dependency Legal Group of San Diego. She has extensive trial experience in dependency courts representing parents, children, and HHSA. Certified to teach trial skills by the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA), she lectures frequently on issues relating to ethics, trial skills, witness preparation and dependency trial strategies at regional, state and national forums including the National Association of Counsel for Children and the California County Counsel’s Association.

Fiona graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in criminal justice from California State University, Long Beach and in 1996 she received a Master of Social Work degree from California State University, Sacramento, specializing in children and families. Her experience includes working in residential services at the Placer County Children’s Receiving Home as the placement and crisis social worker, emergency response and on-going services in child protection/welfare services, as well as mental health emergency response for A.C.C.E.S.S. (Placer County’s Adult, Child, Community Emergency Services). Ms. Tuttle was the Court Liaison for Placer County’s dependency court.

In 1995, Ms. Tuttle attended her first Child Forensic Interview Training (CFIT) and was hired as the first full time child forensic interviewer/program coordinator for the Placer Multi-Disciplinary Interview Center in 1998. Since her career began as a forensic interviewer she has received extensive training throughout the nation involving forensic interviewing and child molest, physical abuse and witnesses to violence. Ms. Tuttle provides training throughout the state for child forensic interviewers, teams and first responders to child abuse. She has created a regional peer review for child forensic interviewers, a practice that has garnered considerable interest and support. Since joining the Placer MDIC team, she has conducted hundreds of interviews with children in the area of felony child maltreatment.

Dr. Anthony Urquiza is a clinical psychologist and Director of the CAARE Center, Department of Pediatrics, University of California Davis Children's Hospital. He earned undergraduate and graduate degrees at the University of Washington; and completed an internship at Primary Children’s Medical Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. The CAARE Center provides medical evaluations, psychological assessments, and a range of mental health treatment services primarily for abused and neglected children.

During the last decade, Dr. Urquiza's primary clinical research interest and publications address all types of violence within the family with an emphasis on child maltreatment. In addition, he has been adapting Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) to families involved in child welfare systems (i.e., physically abusive families, foster families, adoptive families). In addition, he has been instrumental in developing PCIT as an intervention for Spanish-speaking families. He is currently involved in a PCIT dissemination and implementation training project, which has trained more than 100 community mental health agencies throughout the United States.

Charlotte van der Wall (Msc) is chief of staff at the Children's and Youth Trauma Centre at Fier Fryslan, an expertise and treatment centre on the prevention, safety interventions and treatment of the traumatic effects of domestic violence and violence in dependent relationships (trafficking, honour related violence). She's a member of the Dutch board of the National Trauma Network (LCVT), concerning chronic traumatic stress. Fier Fryslan participates in the Dutch Chronic Trauma Studies, a national study coordinated by the LCVT.

Charlotte was born in Amsterdam in 1970 and has a six year old daughter and a three year old son. She lives with her partner and children in Fryslan, the beautiful northern part of the Netherlands. She graduated psychology at the University of Amsterdam in 1998. Subsequently she started working in general mental health care with children and adults. After two years she switched to forensic psychiatry as psychotherapist and informer of justice. She worked with offenders of domestic violence and sex offenders. She gave training to police officers and psychotherapist about working with offenders and motivational interviewing. After six years forensic psychiatry she started as treatment officer of adolescents with personality disorder. Two years later the challenge of a Trauma Centre in the northern part of the Netherlands came on the road. She decided to take this challenge, especially because Fier Fryslan, with its systemic approach to domestic violence and violence in dependent relationships is the ultimate way of combining forensic experience and general mental health problems. As chief of staff of the Childrens and Youth Trauma Centre Fryslan she is leading in the professional organization and content of the treatment, as well as the scientific research and post graduate education for professionals.

For two decades, Laura van Dernoot Lipsky has been working with trauma survivors. After regularly spending nights volunteering in a homeless shelter at age 18, she went on to work with survivors of child abuse, domestic violence, acute trauma and natural disasters. Also active in community organizing and social-justice movements, she has acquired an intimate knowledge of the toll that trauma can take on those who are called to help.

With her theory of Trauma Stewardship she combines the age-old wisdom of traditions from around the globe with the most cutting-edge contemporary research, inviting those of us who have been exposed to hardship, suffering, or trauma, whether directly or indirectly, to reinvent how we approach caring for others and ourselves.

She has shared her practice of Trauma Stewardship through workshops and gatherings, traveling across North America and around the world to bring this work to a dizzyingly broad array of workers—from community organizers and health care workers in Japan to zookeepers and reconstruction volunteers in the post Katrina New Orleans, from U.S. Airforce pilots to Canadian fire fighters, from public school teachers to private practice doctors. Over and over, she was asked to write this book.

Laura continues her work with Trauma Stewardship, collaborating with others to develop sustainable work practices and maintaining a private counseling practice for individuals. She is also the founder and director of a Spanish-language preschool and grade school enrichment program that offers an environmental and social-justice curriculum.

Training
1976-1980 Social-Pedagogical Academy Jelburg `the 'in Baarn, discipline socio-cultural work
1983-1987 University of Utrecht, Department of Development and Socialization.
Propedeuse: sociology, Main Subject: Social Pedagogy.
Advanced subsidiary subjects: psychology and sociology of the aid

Work Experience
2004-present Board of Directors / Executive Fier Fryslân
Fier Fryslân is a treatment center and expertise in the area of violence in dependency relationships with 180 employees. It provides expertise and prevention, 1st, 2nd and 3rd line care in its field.

Kim Vander Dussen, Psy. D., RPT-S is an Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology at the American School of Professional Psychology at Argosy University Orange County. She is Immediate Past President of the California Branch of the Association for Play Therapy. Dr. Vander Dussen is a licensed psychologist and registered play therapist and supervisor and is also certified in EMDR. She has certificates in Play Therapy and Infant and Toddler Mental Health. Dr. Vander Dussen also serves on the faculty of UCSD’s Play Therapy Certificate Program. She is in private practice and specializes in the treatment of trauma, attachment, and children with developmental disabilities.

Victor Vieth serves as the Executive Director of the National Child Protection Training Center (NCPTC), a state of the art training complex located on the campus of Winona State University (WSU). NCPTC includes five moot court rooms, four forensic interview rooms and a “mock house” in which to conduct simulated child abuse investigations. NCPTC staff provides intensive instruction for undergraduate students and current professionals in the field on how to better recognize, react, and respond to children who are being abused.

Victor graduated magna cum laude from WSU and earned his Juris Doctor from Hamline University School of Law (HUSL). While studying at HUSL, he received the American Jurisprudence award for achievement in the study of Constitutional law and served as editor-in chief of the Law Review.

Victor has trained thousands of child-protection professionals from all 50 states, two U.S. Territories, and 17 countries on numerous topics pertaining to child abuse investigations, prosecutions and prevention. He gained national recognition for his work in addressing child abuse in small communities as a prosecutor in rural Minnesota. He has been named to the President’s Honor Roll of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children. The Young Lawyers Division of the American Bar Association named him one of the “21 Young Lawyers Leading Us Into the 21st Century.”

Margreet Visser is head of the Children's and Youth Trauma Center in Haarlem (the Netherlands)and is a fully licensed psychotherapist. She holds a masters degree in Psychology, and. she developed a combined CBT-Psychomotor program for child victims/witnesses (12 years of age and younger) of Domestic Violence with a parallel program for the non-offending parents. Next to that, she is developing therapy programs for adolescent boys and girls who were witnesses and victims of Domestic Violence. Together with her co-workers at the Children’s and Youth Trauma Center she developed several AF-CBT programs for traumatized children and their non-offending parents. Margreet Visser has given many lectures and workshops nationally and internationally. She is a guest lecturer in the post-doc course for Dutch judges and prosecutors, helped to established other Children’s and Youth Trauma Centers in the Netherlands and is working for Defence for Children in a matra-project in Georgia.

Ms. Lauren Wagner is a High Tech Crime Training Specialist in the Training Services Department of SEARCH where she performs tasks related to training local, state and federal agencies on computer technology issues with criminal justice applications. She provides technical assistance to law enforcement agencies in active cases, prepares training materials, teaches SEARCH investigative courses and speaks at conferences throughout the U.S. Ms. Wagner is an ICI certified instructor and received a 2009 “Excellence in Training” award from California POST.

Joddie Walker, Adams County Children's Advocacy Center Executive Director, holds a Master’s of Science in Forensic Psychology as well as a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, from York University in Canada, where she is from originally. Joddie is a Certified Trauma Specialist and Diplomat status with the American Academy of Traumatic Stress. Joddie has gained a considerable amount of experience in the area of trauma and critical incident stress management. She has been trained in the Mitchell Model (ICISF), NOVA and by Dr. William Steele, National Institute for Trauma and Loss in Children, Trauma Debriefing for schools and community. Her direct experience includes volunteerism with Critical Incident Stress Management teams that is comprised of police, fire, EMS and mental health professionals. Her response with CISM has included responding to survivors of September 11th terrorist attack on two occasions and two populations: survivors of the South Tower and New York City Police Department. Joddie is a Nationally Accredited Advocate-Advanced level has years of experience with domestic violence, rape, assault, adult survivors of child abuse and families of homicide and child abuse. In addition to her work with the multi-disciplinary team and CAC of Adams County, PA she works on contractual basis for the National Fallen Fire Fighter Foundation, educating Fire Chiefs about death notification procedures, trauma, grief and loss.

Cambria Rose Walsh, LCSW, has worked for Chadwick Center for Children and Families at Rady Children's Hospital since 2001. She is the Evidence-Based Practice Initiatives Manager at the Chadwick Center and is responsible for the overall development and management of two high profile and complex evidence-based practice (EBP) projects with national and international significance; the California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare (CEBC) and the Safe Kids California Project (SKCP).

Cambria is also a trainer for Trauma-Focused Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), one of the programs scientifically rated a "1" on the CEBC website. She was trained by the developers of TF-CBT and participated in a nationwide Breakthrough Series Collaborative on TF-CBT in 2005-2006. She completed the "train-the-trainer" series with the developers of TF-CBT in 2009. She currently provides training and ongoing consultation to agencies wishing to implement TF-CBT.

Previous to her work on the CEBC, she worked for six years as a mental health therapist at the Chadwick Center with children who were affected by trauma and their families. Cambria has an extensive history working with families involved with the child welfare system. Prior to working at the Chadwick Center, she was involved in a training program that focused on educating child welfare workers about domestic violence and its impact on families. She also has experience working as a school social worker and as a counselor in adult residential substance abuse treatment.

Mrs. Walsh holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Social Welfare (Double Major) from the University of California, Berkley and a Master of Science in Teaching from Pace University. Her academic and professional career has focused on how to better address the needs of underserved populations. With the intent to become a true practitioner/scholar, she has served at-need communities on the west and east coast as an inner-city teacher and a non-profit social service provider. Mrs. Walsh spent two years teaching in under-resourced public schools in the Bronx, New York through the Teach For America program. At the conclusion of her commitment to Teach for America, Mrs. Walsh returned to San Diego and worked as a Clinical Case Manager for transitional age foster youth as well as for families involved with the child welfare system. She now uses these experiences to inform her academic practice. Mrs. Walsh is currently a doctoral student in the SDSU/UCSD Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology and is working with Dr. Joseph Price at the Child and Adolescent Services Research Center (CASRC) investigating evidence-based behavioral interventions for foster families.

TV Presenter & Criminologist & Child Protection Expert - Mark is a former police detective who has far-reaching experience of working at the centre of high profile investigations.  During Mark’s police service, he specialised in major crime and child protection and he is renowned throughout the UK’s police forces as well as the national media for his expertise in these areas.

Mark has a high profile in the media and is a regular face on television as being a presenter for ITV’s flag ship current affairs program, Tonight, as well as a reporter on the BBC One Show, and BBCNewsnight.

Mark’s recent programs include Exposure: ‘On the Run’ which was broadcast on Monday 24th October at 10:35pm on ITV1. As well as BBC One Show ‘Facebook’ and on  ITV Tonight –‘Online Bullies’ and the series, ‘To Catch a Paedophile’ which involved spending 18 months with unique access follow the Metropolitan Police Child Abuse Command Unit. This program tackled the growing problem of Online Peadophiles and was nominated from over 900 entries from 35 countries for the BANFF World Television Awards.

Mark’s recent report for BBC Newsnight, addressed a serious concern regarding the lack of a National child abuse material database in the UK.

In addition, in the media Mark has covered and been an advisor in nearly all the high-profile crime cases over the last 3 years, which have included the death of Baby P and the Plymouth Nursery Paedophile Investigation, the murder of Joanna Yeates, The Crossbow Killer Stephen Griffiths, the Ipswich serial killer Steve Wright and the Cumbria spree killer Derek Bird.

As well as the disappearance’s of Madeleine McCann, Shannon Matthews and Jaycee Dugard (US), Mark is also the police advisor on many of the crime dramas on television. These include  BBC1 Silence and ITV Identity as well as running series programmes, Waking the Dead, Wire in the Blood and The Inspector Lynley Mysteries.

Mark's programmes can be seen by going to his website:
Website: www.williams-thomas.co.uk
Twitter: @mwilliamsthomas

Charles Wilson, MSSW, is the Executive Director of the Chadwick Center for Children and Families and the Sam and Rose Stein Endowed Chair in Child Protection at Children's Hospital-San Diego where he oversees a large multi-service child and family maltreatment organization providing prevention, intervention, medical assessment, and trauma treatment services, along with professional education and research. In addition, he directs the California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare, under contract with the California Department of Social Services, and the Safe Kids California Project, funded by the US/HHS Children's Bureau.

Former professional positions include the Executive Director of the National Children's Advocacy Center in Huntsville, AL, and a variety of roles in public child protection, from a front line worker in Florida and Tennessee in the 1970s, to the State Child Welfare Director in Tennessee (1982-1995).

Currently, he co-chairs the Child Welfare Committee of the SAMHSA-funded National Child Traumatic Stress Network and serves on the Board of the California Chapter of the National Children's Alliance. Previously, he has served as President of the American Professional Society on Abuse of Children and Vice President of the National Association of Public Child Welfare Administrators and as an ex-offico member of the National Children's Alliance Board of Directors. A frequent speaker at national and international conferences and seminars, he is also the author or co-author of numerous publications, articles, book chapters on team investigation of child abuse, forensic interviewing, evidence-based practices, and trauma-informed child welfare, as well as, the book Team Investigation of Child Sexual Abuse: The Uneasy Alliance.

Janis Wolak, J.D., is a Senior Researcher at the Crimes against Children Research Center, University of New Hampshire. She has directed US national studies about youth Internet use and Internet safety, including national surveys of law enforcement agencies about crimes related to the Internet, funded by the US Department of Justice, OJJDP. She is the author and co-author of numerous reports, book chapters, and peer-reviewed articles about youth victimization, youth Internet use, online predation, child pornography and other Internet-related sex crimes. She has provided training and served on expert panels nationally and globally in the field of Internet safety. In recognition of her work, she has received awards from the National Science Foundation and the Verizon Foundation.

Miriam Wolf, LCSW, is a license clinical social worker with over twenty years of experience in the field of child abuse and neglect. Currently, she works as a program consultant, trainer and curriculum developer on topics such as forensic interviewing, sexual abuse, domestic violence and teen dating violence. Her writing projects include: "National Children's Alliance Standards for Accreditation Manual" (first ed.), NCTSN's "Child Welfare Trauma Training Toolkit," and California's Child Forensic Interview Training curriculum.

Since 2003, she has worked as a consultant to the Keller Center in San Mateo County, CA, conducting forensic interviews and providing program consultation. Miriam also serves in courts as an expert witness, and is a frequent presenter at national and international conferences. Previously, Miriam held roles as Director of Stuart House, one of the first CAC's in the nation, as the Director of Training at a large non-profit child welfare agency, and as a social worker, therapist and program director in a variety of settings. Miriam is an elected Board member of the California Network of Child Advocacy Centers (CNCAC), and served for ten years on the California Board of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (CAPSAC). She holds master’s degrees in both social work and special education.

Dr. Wright is a Pediatrician who is board certified in General Pediatrics and Child Abuse Pediatrics. She practices as a hospitalist at Rady Children's Hospitalist and a Child Abuse Pediatrician at the local receiving home for kids entering into protective custody.

Fred Wulczyn is a Research Fellow at Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago. . In addition, he serves as a special advisor to Bryan Samuels, the Commissioner, Administration for Children Youth and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. He is the 2011 recipient of the James E. Flynn Award for Research and a past recipient of the National Association of Public Child Welfare Administrators’ (NAPCWA) Peter Forsythe Award for leadership in public child welfare.

Wulcyzn is lead author of Beyond Common Sense: Child Welfare, Child Well-Being, and the Evidence for Policy Reform (Aldine Transaction, 2005) and co-editor of Child Protection: Using Research to Improve Policy and Practice (Brookings Institution, 2007).

Wulczyn is director of the Center for State Foster Care and Adoption Data, which provides cutting edge information technology to states for use in research and management. His expertise includes analysis of administrative data, being an architect of Chapin Hall’s Multi-State Foster Care Data Archive and constructed the original integrated longitudinal database on children’s services in Illinois. Other areas of expertise include foster care, child maltreatment, child welfare services, fiscal policy, research and evaluation methodology, program design and evaluation, epidemiology and public health, administrative data and community-based services. The databases he has developed give state administrators a powerful capacity to analyze key child welfare outcomes, compare outcomes across agencies and jurisdictions, project future services patterns, test the impact of policy and service innovations, and monitor progress. Wulczyn designed two major social experiments: the Child Assistance Program and the HomeRebuilders Program. The child Assistance Program was awarded the Innovations in Government award from Harvard University and the Ford Foundation.

Wulczyn developed the nation’s first proposal to change the federal law limiting the ability of states to design innovative child welfare programs, which then led to the development of the Title IV-E waiver programs now used by 25 states to undertake system reform.

Bea Yorker has worked in the field of child abuse and neglect for over 25 years as a clinician, an educator and an administrator. She specifically has expertise in Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy and covert video surveillance.

Debra Zanders- Willis was appointed as the Director of Child Welfare Services for the County of San Diego Health and Human Services Agency in March 2009. She began her career with the County of San Diego in 1989 as a Protective Services Worker, conducting child abuse investigations and assisting families reunify with their children. During her career with the County of San Diego Ms. Zanders-Willis worked as a supervisor in adoptions, a program manager in the Central Region and an Assistant Deputy Director overseeing multiple centralized programs; the child abuse hotline, foster care/foster home licensing, county adoptions, Drug Endangered Children and Family to Family Initiatives.

Ms. Zanders-Willis participates on a number of advisory boards, including The California Evidenced-Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare (CEBC), The Chadwick Trauma-Informed Systems Project (CTISP), a member of the United Way Vision Council, the Executive Committee for the Commission on Children, Youth and Families as well as a member of the School of Social Work Advisory Committee. A resident of San Diego, Ms. Zanders-Willis earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology from the University of California, San Diego. She earned her Master’s in Counselor Education at San Diego State University.

Blake Zimmet, LCSW, works as the Training Coordinator for the California Evidence-Based Practice for Child Welfare (CEBC) team. In this position, he acts as a liaison with the California Social Work Education Center (CalSWEC) to develop workshops on the CEBC for IV-E Faculty and Staff as well as delivers presentations to other child welfare audiences. He also coordinates two annual mini-conferences in California to help disseminate information about the CEBC and highly rated practices to child welfare professionals and is currently coordinating CEBC online training efforts.

Blake worked in San Diego's child welfare system for five years as an Emergency Response Social Worker investigating allegations of child abuse and neglect. While working at Child Protective Services, Blake completed his MSW through San Diego State University's IV-E Program and served out his obligation. After taking time to work with disabled children in Mexico and learn the culture and language, Blake was employed as a full-time bilingual trauma therapist at the Chadwick Center from 2008-2010. He is experienced in such evidence-based practices as Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) and Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT). While working at the Chadwick Center, Blake has taken a special interest in volunteering his time to create and develop the Chadwick Center's Adventure Therapy Program. This program and its committee members are working to integrate sports and other outdoor activities (i.e., surfing) into the TF-CBT treatment model.