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Understanding and Confronting Vicarious Trauma
In this webinar, participants hear from a research psychologist and a veteran law enforcement official about their experiences with stress, vicarious trauma, and burnout.
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Keep Calm and Testify On: A Practical Guide for Giving Expert Testimony
Expert witness testimony is essential for helping jurors understand the dynamics of sexual assault, domestic violence, child abuse, trafficking, stalking, and other forms of gender-based violence.
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Trauma-Informed Direct Examination of Victims
Extensive research demonstrates the effects of trauma on memory and the impact on a victim attempting to recall a traumatic event.
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Building Healthier Organizations: A Shared Responsibility
Explore and learn strategies for addressing the negative impacts of the work with trauma survivors.
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A Natural Healing Approach to Trauma
This presentation will introduce participants to Medical Qigong that can empower individuals who have experienced a traumatic incident (including post-traumatic stress), as well as those within the helping professions who experience vicarious trauma.
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The Strength United Trauma Recovery Center: A Comprehensive Approach to Trauma-Informed Care
For children and adolescents, trauma can impact functioning in neurobiological development, emotional, social, cognitive, and behavioral areas. Therefore, comprehensive trauma-informed treatment programs are critical for the healing and recovery of traumatized children and their families.
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Tragic Endings: When Suicide or Homicide Follows a Botched Sexual Assault Investigation
This presentation will offer in-depth cases where sexual assault victims have been prosecuted for false reporting or related crimes.
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The Future of Victim Services- 2021 and Beyond
One in five people have been the victim of crime over the past ten years, but less than one in three report receiving help. Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) report receiving help from police in less than 20% of cases, and primarily turn to loved ones, health care providers and community-based services. Recent research confirms the long lasting emotional, physical, and financial struggles crime victims endure long past the crime event.
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“Fight, Flight, Freeze” to “Survival Mode” and “Reflexes and Habits”
The phrase “fight or flight” is still commonly used to describe how people react while being sexually assaulted, yet it fails and harms many sexual assault survivors on a daily basis. In reality, many victims of sexual assault don’t fight or flee. Adding “freeze” as a third possible response, which has become common, doesn’t fix the problem, for two reasons: First, any phrase that starts with “fight or flight” doesn’t reflect the reality for many survivors and leaves them feeling like their response was abnormal or wrong. Second, many survivor behaviors during sexual assault don’t fit under “fight,” “flight” or “freeze” because they’re habit-based behaviors, in which they aren’t “frozen” but rather behaving politely and submissively.
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Transforming Secondary Trauma: Providing Support When Empathy Runs Out
In this digital age, where mobile technology plays an omnipresent role in our lives, it is particularly important for victim service professionals to set appropriate boundaries and exercise self-care. For anyone in a helping profession, working with victims/survivors of violence can take a significant toll on their professional and personal well-being. With the added stress and anxiety of a worldwide pandemic, it’s more important than ever to find ways for service providers to take care of themselves and minimize harm, both to themselves as well as their clients.
