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2023 Child Abuse Summit: Be Their Voice: Help Them Soar!

Annual Child Abuse Summit 2023: Be Their Voice: Help Them Soar!

Each year local Cumberland County and Fort Bragg community partners collaborate to provide a regional conference to highlight Child Abuse month in April. This year's Child Abuse conference will discuss the following topics: Rewind (the documentary), WORTH court, Criminal Justice, Dangers of Sexting and Texting, LGBTQ, Integration of Clinical Hypnosis and Child Abuse and Child Labor Trafficking 101.


Objectives


  • Neulinger: Participants will be able to discuss the documentary "rewind"
  • Leonard: Participants will be able to discuss what is Clinical Hypnosis and how a child can benefit from clinical hypnosis with other modalities
  • Leonard: Participants will be able to review the interplay between trace states and emotional psychological abuse
  • Leonard: Participants will be able to demonstrate how to access the subconscious mind and implement techniques to heal the mind from abuse
  • See: Participants will be able to discuss the connection between texting, sexting, and cyber bullying
  • See: Participants will be able to review, explain and understand how sexting and texting have evolved over the past decade
  • See: Participants will be able to demonstrate how to develop a policy plan
  • Cook: Participants will be able to demonstrate increased familiarity with the issues and barriers faced by lesbian persons in need of substance use disorder-related services
  • Cook: Participants will be able to explain the difference between substance use and abuse
  • Cook: Participants will be able to describe ways to provide more sensitive, affirmative, culturally relevant, and effective treatment to lesbian clients
  • Neulinger: Participants will be able to discuss the difference of what a child "presents" and what a child is feeling
  • Neulinger: Participants will be able to review the importance of body language, tone, and energy when interfacing with a potential child abuse victim
  • Neulinger: Participants will be able to demonstrate the importance of working as a team on a case
  • Lacey/Hair: Participants will be able to identify awareness and details of WORTH Court
  • Lacey/Hair: Participants will be able to discuss survivor scope of service and support needs with a clear understanding
  • Lacey/Hair: Participants will be able to summarize the many aspects of human trafficking and how it affects our communities
  • Cook: Participants will be able to identify increased familiarity of issues and barriers facing members of the LGBT community
  • Cook: Participants will be able to review the effects that discrimination and oppression can have on mental health and substance abuse issues
  • Cook: Participants will be able to explain the difference between different LGBT issues
  • Cook: Participants will be able to identify ways to provide more sensitive, affirmative, and culturally relevant and effective treatment to clients
  • Cook: Participants will be able to demonstrate ways to integrate respect and inclusion into the community
  • Campbell: Participants will be able to discuss the difference between the X Generation (and before) and the Y Generation (and beyond)
  • Campbell: Participants will be able to discuss how interviewing techniques have changed since the Y Generation has been established
  • Campbell: Participants will be able to discuss what caused the shift between Generation X and the new generations
  • Bumgardner: Participants will be able to demonstrate an understanding of child labor trafficking
  • Bumgardner: Participants will be able to identify the different forms of child labor trafficking
  • Bumgardner: Participants will be able to discuss how to respond as a community as well as individually
  • Neulinger: Participants will be able to review the "inside mind of a child abuse victim" learning about the intimate thoughts, logic, and beliefs of a child sexual abuse victim while trapped in the secret (pre-intervention)
  • Neulinger: Participants will be able to discuss the "secondary trauma of the prosecution process" reflecting the absence of CAC and how high-profile nature of a case can negatively impact the prosecution and the mental health of the victim
  • Neulinger: Participants will be able to identify "effective healing practices/positive reinforcements for survivors" on how to shift the perceptions, thoughts, logic and beliefs on what Sasha uses to positively reinforce a healthy life, post trauma

Speakers


  • Sasha Neulinger
  • Johnny D Leonard, MA, LCMHC, LCAS, Outpatient Therapist
  • Eric See, PhD, Professor of Criminal Justice
  • Avery Cook, MSW, LCSW, Interim Director of the Counseling Center
  • Bengie M Hair, BS MS, Management Support Supervisor
  • Caitlyn Lacey, JD, Assistant District Attorney

Audience


This event has been planned for mental health professionals, psychologists, social workers, marriage and family therapists, counselors, child advocacy centers, department of social services, law enforcement investigators, and other professionals working with children that have been abused or in high risk environments.

Contact Person: Bertina Parkins bertina.parkins@sr-ahec.org

Available Credits


Contact Hours (category A) CE for NC Psychologists 1.75

Southern Regional AHEC is recognized by the North Carolina Psychology Board as an approved provider of (Category A) Continuing Education for North Carolina Licensed Psychologists. No partial credit will be given.

CEU 0.18

Contact Hours 1.75

NCASPPB GSB 1.75

North Carolina Addictions Specialist Professional Practice Board has approved this classroom learning format for Substance Abuse General Skill Building hours, pending approval number.

Event Fees


This program is free to attend. This event has been sponsored by Army Community Services, Child Advocacy Center of Cumberland County, and Southern Regional AHEC.

$0.00

REWIND Documentary Screening

Keynote Speaker: Sasha Joseph Neulinger

Sasha Joseph Neulinger is a husband, hockey player, backcountry adventurer, motivational speaker, and an Emmy Nominated filmmaker - he also happens to be a survivor of multi-generational child sexual abuse:

"I believe that a person doesn’t have to know how they are going to climb their ‘mountain,’ they just need to know that they are committed to climbing it. With one foot in front of the other, and with each step taken, more of the path is revealed. Each step is something to build on. There is nothing easy about facing severe trauma, but the reclamation of one’s life in the face of adversity makes reaching the summit of that personal mountain that much more meaningful and empowering.

The view of the world from within the thick timber is very different than the view from the top of that mountain. Through the steps we take, we earn that shift in perspective: to see the scale of our lives independent of the trauma we experienced. I can recognize and accept that the mountain I climbed, while massive on its own, is just one piece of an expansive world. I can recognize that the trauma I experienced is just one piece of an expansive, multifaceted life.

I did not choose my trauma, nor have I chosen to be defined by it. But I did choose how I responded to it: how it would contribute to the shaping of who I am today. Through embracing my fear and confronting what scared me the most, I rediscovered my beauty and learned to harness my power. I built a loving and respectful relationship with myself and reclaimed ownership of my life… and it feels absolutely amazing!"

- Sasha Joseph Neulinger

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