C-1: CTF Direct Service Meeting
Facilitator: Scott Addison
Summary: The CTFDS session will involve all current Direct Services Grantees who will share and discuss challenges/successes in providing prevention services. Topics of discussion will include different service delivery strategies and techniques to reach families as well as new barriers to success.
C-2: CTF Local Councils Meeting
Facilitator: Emily Schuster-Wachsberger, MA, LPC
Summary: This work-group session serves as an opportunity for all CTF Local Council members to share, collaborate and engage in activities that support their respective primary child abuse and neglect prevention missions.
C-3: Early Recognition of Child Physical Abuse: Are We There Yet?
Presenter: Bethany Mohr, MD, FAAP
Summary: This workshop will highlight the current data regarding child physical abuse as a framework for discussion regarding the need for better detection of child physical abuse. Ways in which medical providers and others may improve their ability to recognize possible child physical abuse will be highlighted; including the importance of knowledge and recognition of possible sentinel injuries. Case examples will be utilized to illustrate the main points.
Participants will be able to:
- Identify sentinel injuries and explain what constitutes a sentinel injury
- Recognize signs of child physical abuse
- Discuss various ways in which early recognition of child physical abuse may be accomplished
C-4: Engaging with Parents Impacted by Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities
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Presenter: Rick Barinbaum, MSW
Summary: This presentation provides participants with an overview of best practices to engage people impacted by an intellectual or developmental disability. The presentation will include information about intellectual disabilities and how to provide written material, structure meetings, communicate effectively, and assist individuals in understanding systems that they may be engaging in, whether child welfare, legal, educational, etc. The session will be part didactic presentation, part discussion, and part experiential learning.
Participants will be able to:
- Develop concrete practice skills and tools to implement when engaging and communicating with parents who are impacted by intellectual or developmental disabilities to ensure their comprehension
- Recognize the qualities of practitioners who successfully engage with parents impacted by intellectual or developmental disabilities
C-5: Forgotten Victims: Non-Abused Siblings of Sexual Abuse Victims
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Presenter: Kendall Wolz, MA, PLPC
Summary: When a disclosure of sexual abuse is made, most of the resources and treatment goals revolve around the needs of the identified victim. This workshop will explore how abuse impacts all non-offending family members, with a focus on the siblings. Attendees will learn to identify the needs of non-abused siblings to ensure they are involved in the treatment process.
Participants will be able to:
- Identify the effects of sexual abuse on non-abused siblings
- Discuss tangible ways to include non-abused siblings in treatment
C-6: Transgenerational Trauma and Resilience, A Historical Perspective of Maternal Disparities in the African American Community and Considerations for Leveraging Resilience
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Presenter: Sayida Peprah, PsyD
Summary: African American women are statistically found to be 4 times more likely to die from pregnancy-related complications than their European American counterparts. Similarly, they are 2-3 times more likely to experience preterm birth and 3 times more likely to give birth to a low birth-weight baby. Even when socio-economic factors are controlled for, the disparities remain significant. Contrastingly, other groups of African ancestry (Africans, Caribbeans…) do not share these outcomes. This suggests that something unique to the African American experience is impacting maternal health.
Race-related stressors and micro-stressors have been linked to negative maternal health outcomes. Of the many race-related stressors and micro stressors that exist for a pregnant African American woman, the experience of being under the care of a provider who lacks cultural sensitivity, humility, congruence and competence has been identified as a significant stressor and trigger during pregnancy. Additionally, lack of knowledge regarding the unique circumstances surrounding African American women’s historical trauma and the impacts these have on coping and physical health prevents providers from adequately addressing the needs of patients and clients.
This presentation will focus on increasing the competence, sensitivity and humility of providers working with African American women, in an effort to promote the establishment of trauma-free and supportive healthcare and social service environments for African American and other women of color. This presentation will also focus on increasing provider’s ability to detect and assess for significant coping vulnerabilities and strengths among African American mothers. Although the focus will be on the mother, highlights will be provided on the impacts of transgenerational trauma on the infant, child, parenting and family.
Participants will be able to:
- Detect, identify and assess for significant coping vulnerabilities and strengths among African American women, which can impact maternal-mental health and physical health
- Develop support strategies and interventions for pregnant and post-partum African American women
- Develop and increase provider cultural competence and humility for working with the African American family