Past Conferences

January 9th - 11th 2009
Holiday Inn
Albany, New York

Visit www.batteredmotherscustodyconference.org for additional information, hotel reservations, and conference registration.

(Formerly the International Conference on Family Violence)
September 12-17 2008
Town & Country Resort & Convention Center 500 Hotel Circle North (off Interstate 8)
San Diego, California 92108

A premiere, cost-effective, multidisciplinary conference that brings over 1,500 people and agencies together to make a significant positive impact on creating violence and abuse-free homes, communities, and societies.

April 2-4, 2008
www.IVATcenters.org

For more information contact Lauren Ossola, Professional Training and Continuing Education Coordinator; [email protected]

February 28 - 29, 2008
Hyatt Regency - Bethesda, MD

Schedule at a Glance
Registration information
Call for submissions

Co-sponsored by Divisions 35, 44 and 56. The Leadership Council is a collaborator.

Plenary Speakers: Arun Gandhi, Mary Koss, Jacquelyn Campbell, and David Finkelhor.

Topics include: Intimate Partner Violence, Child Maltreatment, Children Exposed to Violence and Abuse, Elder Abuse, Gender-Based Issues, Cultural Issues, Substance Abuse, and related themes. The focus will be on What We Know, What We Need to Know, and Where Do We Need to Go with respect to Research, Intervention, and Prevention.

A National Crisis
January 11th - 13th 2008
Friday Evening - Sunday Evening
The Albany Clarion Hotel and Conference Center Albany, New York

Visit www.batteredmotherscustodyconference.org
for additional information, hotel reservations, and conference registration.

Limited scholarships will be available to assist battered mothers to attend the conference. See attached brochure for details.

Come join with mothers, advocates, and professionals from across the nation to hear and dialogue with. . .

Wendy Murphy, Angela Shelton, Lundy Bancroft, Toby Kleinman, Joan Zorza, Diane and Kristen Hofheimer, Nancy Erickson, Barry Goldstein, Robin Yeamans, Garland Waller, Seth Goldstein, Geri Stahly, Joy Silberg, Rita Henley-Jensen, Renee Beeker, Dianne Post, Marcia Pappas, Ben Atherton-Zeman, Wendy Titelman, and many others who are working to combat the legal injustices facing protective mothers in the nation's family/divorce courts.

December 7 & 8, 2007

Throughout the country, battered mothers and children have been subjected to unjust court processes that have violated their most basic due process rights and resulted in abusive fathers gaining custody of their children.

The Symposium will bring together leading Supreme Court scholars and litigators with expert domestic violence and child custody lawyers to create a set of best practices for bringing these due process violations for redress to the United States Supreme Court. 

If you would like to register for the symposium, please click here.

Symposium Agenda 1. December 7th will focus on the problems in family court and is open to the public. 2. December 8th, for attorneys and invited guests, is a working program for Supreme Court litigators and dv/custody lawyers. Domestic violence & pro bono attorneys are encouraged to participate.

Confirmed Speakers

Friday, 1 to 5PM

1. Richard Ducote, leading domestic violence/custody lawyer 2. Joan Meier, Director, DV LEAP and Professor of Clinical Law, George Washington University Law School 3. Wendy Titleman, survivor (recently filed cert petition in the Supreme Court) 4. Irene Weiser, Stop Family Violence 5. Joyanna Silberg, Ph.D., Leadership Council on Child Abuse & Interpersonal Violence.

Saturday, 9 to 4 PM

1. John Duffy, Professor of Law, George Washington University Law School 2. Seth Galanter, Morrison & Foerster LLP 3. Greg Jacobs, Justice for Children 4. Barbara McDowell, Legal Aid Society of D.C. 5. Patricia Millett, Akin Gump 6. Paul Smith, Jenner & Block LLP 7. Barry Sullivan, Jenner & Block, LLP

For more information or for additional assistance, please contact our Symposium management partner, The Balcom Group. You can reach them at 804-580-8352.

11th International Conference on Family Violence

^{Formerly The Family Violence & Sexual Assault Institute}

Working Together to End Abuse

September 14 -19, 2006

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE - CHILD MALTREATMENT - ELDER ABUSE - TRAUMA -YOUTH VIOLENCE - SEXUAL ASSAULT - VIOLENCE PREVENTION

Affiliated Training Institutes - Thursday 9/14 and Friday 9/15  Pre-Conference workshops - Saturday, 9/16  Conference - Sunday, 9/17 to Tuesday, 9/19 Post-Conference workshops - Tuesday afternoon 9/19

Town & Country Resort and Convention Center

500 Hotel Circle North, San Diego, CA 92108

A premiere, cost-effective, multidisciplinary conference that brings over 1,500 people and agencies together to make a significant positive impact on creating violence and abuse-free homes, communities and societies

Earn Up to 14 CE Credits for Mental Health Professionals

Understanding and Working with Adolescent and Adult Self-Injurious Behavior

Thursday, September 14, 2006, 9am-5pm

Treating Complex Post-Traumatic Stress and Dissociation in Traumatized Children

Friday, September 15, 2006, 9am-5pm

Speakers Include:

Lisa Ferentz, Ph.D., Joyanna Silberg, Ph.D., and Frances Waters, DCSW

Presentation Topics: 1. Impact of neglect, trauma and violence 2. Specific "cycle of self-harm" 3. A comprehensive and in-depth approach to the treatment of children with histories of severe trauma and dissociation 4. Assessment techniques with differential diagnosis 5. Varied treatment techniques with traumatized children at different developmental stages

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Offered as Affiliated Training Institutes prior to the
The 11th International Conference on Violence, Abuse and Trauma

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Institute on Violence, Abuse and Trauma Now Including The Family Violence & Sexual Assault Institute
September 16-21, 2005

 

 

 

Nova Southeastern University
Fort Lauderdale , Florida
March 6-7, 2004

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This conference will explore multiple perspectives on child maltreatment, with an eye towards examining how new clinical, legal, and academic approaches might improve our society's response to child maltreatment. The presenters will explore legal, clinical, and system barriers that may interfere with child protection goals and explore new creative solutions for helping children caught in the cycle of intergenerational violence and abuse. Presenters will examine misinformation in the media, academia, and the courtroom about child maltreatment that may impede child protection goals and highlight scientific evidence concerning the physical and emotional consequences of child maltreatment. The conference will end with a panel discussion that will empower practitioners to think creatively about new directions for dealing with child maltreatment in their own locality.

Objectives Participants will be able to: 1.Identify physical and emotional sequelae of child  maltreatment 2. Identify examples of misinformation in the media, courtroom, and academia that have achieved acceptance to the detriment of child victims of abuse 3. Conceptualize new legal solutions for maltreated children's  therapeutic needs 4.Generate new legal, clinical, or research oriented 5.Ways to enhance protection of children in their own work

Sponsors

The Leadership Council on Child Abuse and Interpersonal Violence
Nova Southeastern University's Center for Psychological Studies
The Center's Institute on Trauma and Victimization (ITV)

Other collaborating organizations: Family Violence and Sexual Assault Institute, Futures Institute for Sustainable Development, The Sidran Institute, and Justice for Children