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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 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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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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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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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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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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Part 1: Effective Victim Interviewing: Helping Victims Retrieve and Disclose Memories
Part 1 includes clips from videotaped interviews with sexual assault victims, conducted by an investigator following best practices, including accompaniment by a victim advocate. With dramatic twists and turns, these interviews demonstrate the transformative effect of a good interview conducted by a skilled and compassionate investigator, with discussion centering on recommended practices.
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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.
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Part 2: Effective Victim Interviewing: Helping Victims Retrieve and Disclose Memories
For victims who report sexual assault, intimate partner violence, stalking, and other traumatic incidents, the purpose of an investigative interview is to help them: (1) retrieve details of the traumatic event from memory, and (2) disclose those details to the investigator. Yet all too often sexual assault victims have faced unjustified suspicion that their report is a false allegation. Building on Part 1 in this 2-part series of workshops offered by veteran law enforcement investigators, Part 2 focuses on examining the concrete strategies and techniques involved in: (a) conducting an initial interview and preliminary investigation, (b) planning, preparing, and conducting an in-depth victim interview, (c) documenting victim statements and other investigative findings, and (d) following up with additional interviews and an evolving investigation.
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In It for the Long-Haul: Concrete Strategies for Building a Trauma-Informed Workplace
In recent years, there has been a push for organizations to become trauma-informed. While this is a necessary endeavor that many technical assistance providers have pivoted many trainings towards, there is a dearth of information about what it means to build vicarious trauma (VT) awareness into an organization. Trainings provide a wonderful resource for staff and supervisors, however, becoming a trauma-informed workplace must do more to ensure systemic and ongoing efforts to reduce VT in the workplace. Government organizations often have additional barriers that limit how funds and resources are used.
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