March 29, 9am-2:00pm

TCC Southeast Campus, Building 9, room 9100, The Chat Room

(10300 East 81st Street, Tulsa, Oklahoma 7413)

Timothy Michaels-Johnson, J.D. – Executive Director, Tulsa Lawyers for Children

Having earned his Juris Doctorate with Honors from the University of Tulsa College of Law in 2011, Timothy Michaels-Johnson focused his career on child welfare. He joined the District Attorney’s Office of Tulsa County and prosecuted deprived child cases for nearly 5 years. Since 2016, Michaels-Johnson has worked for Tulsa Lawyers for Children representing children and training TLC’s volunteer attorneys. In May 2020, Michaels-Johnson was honored to become TLC’s third Executive Director. In addition to his work with TLC, Michaels-Johnson is Co-chair of the Juvenile Section of the Tulsa County Bar Association, member of the Oklahoma Supreme Court Oversight Committee on Uniform Representation of Children and Parents in Cases Involving Abuse and Neglect, Oklahoma State Coordinator for the National Association of Counsel for Children, and an adjunct professor at the University of Tulsa College of Law teaching Juvenile Law.

Gwendolyn Clegg, J.D. has dedicated the past twenty-three years of her legal career to representing parents, children and families involved in Oklahoma’s juvenile deprived court system.  Ms. Clegg has made substantial contributions to the legal field and community that have distinguished her as an expert in family representation and advocacy in deprived cases as demonstrated by her numerous professional speaking engagements and published articles. In January 2024, Gwendolyn Clegg was appointed as the Executive Director of Oklahoma’s new state-wide Family Representation and Advocacy Program.  The Family Representation and Advocacy Program is a legislative funded central office for high-quality legal representation for parents and children. Prior to her new appointment, Ms. Clegg was the Program Director of the Parent Representation Defense Program at Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma, Inc., in Tulsa County after having served the program as the Managing Attorney.  LASO’s parent defense program was the first and only proof of concept interdisciplinary parent defense office in the state of Oklahoma providing high quality legal representation to parents. Ms. Clegg serves the legal community as a voting member to the Oklahoma Supreme Court Task Force (now Oversight Committee) for the Uniform Representation of Children and Parents in Cases involving Abuse and Neglect, as well as serving as a member of the American Bar Association’s, Center for Children and the Law, National Association Parent Representation Steering Committee. Ms. Clegg received her juris doctorate from the University of Tulsa, College of Law in May 2000 and her bachelor’s degree in criminal justice from Northeastern State University in 1994. Upon graduation from law school Ms. Clegg received the prestigious Order of the Barrister’s Award and upon recommendation of the faculty was awarded the Lawyering Skills certificate.

Tara Glenn, LCSW is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker currently providing therapeutic services, consultation, and training to the Tulsa community through her private practice. The major areas of focus in her professional experience have included child abuse and trauma, attachment, parenting guidance, impact of trauma across the life span, and utilizing reflective perspectives to support professional efficacy. Tara is endorsed as an Infant Mental Health Specialist, IMH-E (III) through the Oklahoma Association of Infant Mental Health. She has worked with at-risk families for 11 years both in community and private practice settings, interfacing with multiple systems including child welfare, Juvenile Courts, school systems, and with medical teams. She identifies her values as being: joy, laughter, relationship, and compassion.

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Friday, February 23, 9am-12pm

TCC Southeast Campus, Building 8, room 8167

10300 East 81st Street, Tulsa, Oklahoma 74133

Dr. Brit’ny Stein is a Clinical Assistant Professor at OSU-Center for Health Sciences in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. She works in the OSU Behavioral Medicine Clinic conducting neuropsychological evaluations for children and adolescents. As a Licensed Health Service Psychologist and Nationally Certified School Psychologist, she has extensive experience providing supervision to graduate students, direct assessment and intervention services to children, and consultation to rural, urban, suburban, and residential treatment day schools. She has worked on several state and federally-funded grants to implement MTSS and improve school climate in schools, including partnering with the Oklahoma State Department of Education’s School Climate Transformation Grant, School Personnel Development Grant, and AWARE Grants.  She is passionate about supporting schools in the implementation of evidence-based practices for supporting mental health, behavioral, and academic outcomes for students. Dr. Stein also serves as the OSU BRIDGE Center’s Director of Technical Assistance.

Workshop Description: Come learn what autism looks like (including the most current diagnostic criteria with the DSM-V-TR changes), what supports are available for children in the schools and community, and how to provide parents with a toolbox of strategies for supporting children in the home setting.

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Tulsa Community College, Southeast Campus, 9100 Chat Room, Building 9 (10300 East 81st Street Tulsa, Oklahoma 74133)

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Presenters’ bios

Michael A Baxter, DO, DPH is an Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, OU-TU SCHOOL OF COMMUNITY MEDICINE, TULSA, OK. He received his Doctor of Osteopathy from Oklahoma State University. Dr. Baxter completed his Pediatric Residency with the Department of Pediatrics, University of Oklahoma in Tulsa as well as doing his Fellowship in Child Abuse Pediatrics. Currently, Dr. Baxter is Program Director for the Child Abuse Fellowship and Medical Director of the Children’s Advocacy Center. He is a diplomate of the American Board of Pediatrics, a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics section on child abuse and neglect. He received the Crimson Apple Teaching Award during his residency and was a finalist for the OU Aesculapion. Dr, Baxter is board certified in General Pediatrics and Child Abuse Pediatrics.

Jonathan Kratz, LCSW is an Assistant Clinical Professor in Tulsa. Jonathan is a licensed clinical social worker with extensive experience serving Spanish speaking populations in forensic, school-based, and outpatient mental health settings. Jonathan is a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT).

Learners will receive a pre-workshop preparation packet via email that provides an overview of the course, slides, and additional resources and information that will be helpful in their learning.

Ashleigh Kraft, LPC-S, IMH-E®  provides training and consultation in the areas of infant mental health, non-profit leadership, and trauma-informed care.  The major areas of focus in her professional experiences have included working with survivors of domestic violence, child maltreatment, and interpersonal trauma.  She is trained to provide Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP), Circle of Security and Reflective Supervision/Consultation, and is endorsed as an Infant Mental Health Mentor, Clinical.  She is a state-wide trainer for CPP in Oklahoma and is endorsed through Zero to Three as a certified state trainer for DC: 0-5.  Ashleigh is passionate about the power of relationships, supporting professional growth of therapists, and the importance of early relationships.

Leslie Clingenpeel, MSSL, CDSVRP is an activist and advocate for victims of human trafficking and domestic violence. Serving as the Executive Director at The Spring Shelter, in Sand Springs, Oklahoma — Leslie is responsible for leading the organization as well as for training and capacity building of service providers across the state of Oklahoma.  Leslie is committed to establishing and expanding resources which offer victim-centered services and trauma-informed programs. Mrs. Clingenpeel has worked in collaboration with the Human Trafficking Capacity Building Center through the Office for Victims of Crime to bring training and awareness across the state. She also built and launched a Training Catalogue & Speakers Bureau at The Spring and works as a consultant to outside agencies to help establish and develop Human Trafficking responses within their organizational

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Helmerich Hall, Room 219

Agenda:

12 pm- 12:30 pm                       Lunch

12:30 pm -12:40 pm                 Greetings and Welcome

12:40 pm – 2:10 pm                  Child Abuse and Neglect from a Medical Perspective (Dr. Lauren Conway)

2:10 pm – 2:20 pm                     Break

2:20 pm – 3:20 pm                    Domestic Violence (between Partners) Through A Child’s Eyes (Jordan Gustin)

3:20 pm – 3:45 pm                   Heather Simon, a lived experience perspective

Presenters’ bios

Lauren Conway, DO is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Pediatrics at The University of Oklahoma School of Community Medicine, Tulsa. Dr. Conway received her Doctorate in Osteopathic Medicine from Oklahoma State University College of Osteopathic Medicine in Tulsa in 2011.  She then completed a residency in general pediatrics, a chief residency in pediatrics, and fellowship in Child Abuse Pediatrics at the University Of Oklahoma School of Community Medicine. Dr. Conway is board certified through the American Board of Pediatrics in general pediatrics and child abuse pediatrics. Dr. Conway is the associate clerkship director for pediatrics and is the medical director of Fostering Hope, a foster care clinic.  She takes part in quality improvement and research activities involving child maltreatment and outcomes.  Dr. Conway is involved in the clinical education of learners of a multitude of backgrounds including nursing and medical students, and resident and fellow physicians.  She is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Dr. Conway is a member of The University of Tulsa Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Advisory Board and mentors undergraduate students interested in medicine.  She is a scholar member of the Ray Helfer Society, an honorary society for physicians specializing in child abuse. Dr. Conway lectures on child abuse and neglect at the local, state, and national levels.

Jordan Gustin, Jordan Gustin, LPC & Supervisor, IMH-E®(III). Jordan has been with DVIS since October of 2015. She started out as a Children’s Trauma Therapist then moved into the Children’s Trauma Program Manager and is now one of the Vice Presidents of Clinical Services. After receiving a B.A. in Psychology from Northeastern State University, Jordan earned an M.A. in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Regent University in Virginia Beach. While in Virginia Beach, she also completed training to become a Certified Traumatologist through the Green Cross Academy.  Throughout her career, she has primarily worked with children and adults who have experienced domestic and/or sexual violence, physical abuse, neglect, emotional abuse, and other traumas or stressors. She is trained to provide Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP), Circle of Security Parenting, Caring Dads, Written Exposure Therapy (WET), and is currently in the process of learning and implementing Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT).

Heather Simon, is an adult survivor of childhood domestic violence and a community advocate. She survived physical abuse and lived in a house full of turmoil. All the darkness was kept a secret behind closed doors until the murder of her abusive father became front page news. She has made a career of helping people make their dreams come true through homeownership as a mortgage lender for 25+ years. She had two adult sons who are her pride and joy. Heather made a commitment to her sons that they would never grow up in the cycle of abuse she experienced as a child. The cycle stopped with her. Being an advocate for Children, a voice for hope is what drives Heather.

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A training day for TCC students on “Changing the Odds after ACEs: Using PACEs to Promote Healing in Yourself and Others” 

April 20, 12:00pm – 4:00pm CDT

The Academic Building Seminar Center @ TCC NE campus: 3727 East Apache Street, Tulsa, Oklahoma 74115

Advanced registration is required, number of seats is limited

4 formal training hours through CECPD

Workshop description:

Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) include ten types of abuse, neglect and family dysfunction that increase the risk of physical and mental health problems. Exposure to childhood adversity can affect brain development, cause impairments in cognitive, social, and emotional development, increase health-harming behaviors, and create cycles of adversity in the next generation. However, research indicates that 10 protective and compensatory experiences (PACEs) also have powerful neurobiological and behavioral effects that can buffer the effects of ACEs. The five relationship-based and 5 resource-based PACEs can promote resilience in both children and adults with a history of ACEs. In this workshop, we will start with a short discussion of the ways that both adverse and protective experiences during childhood affect our well-being. Then we provide opportunities to a) use the PACEs measure to identify sources of resilience, b) create an ACEs and PACEs genogram to identify intergenerational patterns of adversity and resilience, and c) create individual PACEs plans to increase resilience in our own lives and in the lives of youth coping with the effects of childhood trauma and adversity.

Presenters:

Dr. Jennifer Hayes-Grudo, is a Regents Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at OSU Center for Health Sciences in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She is the Director of the Center for Integrative Research on Childhood Adversity (CIRCA), an interdisciplinary research and intervention center funded in part by an $11.3M grant from the National Institutes of Health. She is one of the principal investigators for the NIH-funded Healthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) grant, a 25-site, 10-year study of the effects of early life experiences on infant and child development, with a particularly focus on the effects of prenatal exposure to alcohol, opioids, and other substances. She is the author of the first scholarly book on Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), Adverse and Protective Childhood Experiences: A Developmental Perspective, published in 2020 by the American Psychological Association and is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the international journal Adversity and Resilience Science. She was formerly the Department Head of Human Development and Family Science at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, a George Kaiser Chair of Community Medicine at the University of Oklahoma in Tulsa, and an associate professor of medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from the University of Houston and a B.A. in Psychology from Texas Tech University.

Dr. Amanda Sheffield Morris is a Regents Professor and the George Kaiser Family Foundation Chair in the Department of Psychology at Oklahoma State University. Dr. Morris is a developmental scientist with research interests in parenting, socio-emotional development, early life adversity, and risk and resilience. With Jennifer Hayes-Grudo she is co-author of Adverse and Protective Childhood Experiences: A Developmental Perspective, and co-edited Authoritative Parenting: Nurturance and Discipline for Optimal Child Development, both published by the American Psychological Association. She is the editor in chief for the Journal of Research on Adolescence and is an Associate Editor for the journal Adversity and Resilience Science: Research and Practice published by Springer/Nature.

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A training day for TCC students on “Interdisciplinary Perspective on Child Abuse and Neglect” 

Friday, October 14^th, 9:00 am – 3:00 pm

Location: McKeon Center for Creativity, 910 S Boston Ave, Tulsa, OK 74119

Advanced registration is required, number of seats is limited

4 formal training hours through CECPD

Agenda

9:00 am – 9:30 am           Refreshments

9:30 am – 9:45 am           Welcome and greetings

Dr. Brad Duren, Dean School of Liberal Arts and Public Service, Tulsa Community College

Dr. Debbie Deibert, Associate Professor/Faculty Department Chair, Child Development and Education, Tulsa Community College

Dr. Daphna Gross Manos, Haruv USA Director

9:45 am – 10:45 am        Introduction to Child Abuse and Neglect and Childhood Trauma

Dr. Julie Miller-Cribs, Director, The University of Oklahoma Anne & Henry Zarrow School of Social Work

10:45 am – 11:45 am      The Influence of Trauma and Adversity during Childhood on Child Development

Dr. Amanda Sheffield Morris, Regents Professor and George Kaiser Chair, Oklahoma State University

11:45 am – 12:45 pm      Lunch

12:45 pm – 1:45 pm        Legal Perspective on Child Abuse and Neglect

Timothy Michaels-Johnson, Tulsa Lawyers for Children, Executive Director

1:45 pm – 2:45pm          Domestic Violence (Violence between Partners) Through A Child’s Eyes

Jordan Gustin, Vice President of Clinical Services, Domstic Violence Intervention Services and Heather Simon, a lived experience perspective

2:45 pm – 3:00 pm          Summary

Lecturers:

Julie E. Miller-Cribbs, MSW, PhD, Professor & Director, Oklahoma Medicaid Endowed Professor in Mental Health, Anne & Henry Zarrow School of Social Work, University of Oklahoma –Tulsa. Julie joined the OU faculty in 2006 as the Assistant Director in Tulsa and is currently serving as the Oklahoma Medicaid Endowed Professor in Mental Health and the Director of the Anne and Henry Zarrow School of Social Work. She is also the director of Social Simulation at OU-Tulsa and a Research Associate in the OU School of Community Medicine where she spends time developing social simulation training for social workers, medical students and other health professions as well as a number of community organizations and professionals. Julie has a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Colorado College, a master’s degree in social work from the University of Chicago and received her Ph.D. from Washington University George Warren Brown School of Social Work. Prior to her academic career, she worked for seven years as an Emergency Room Social Worker at a Level-One trauma facility and with urban families and youth at social service agencies in Chicago and St. Louis.

Amanda Sheffield Morris, PhD, is a Regents Professor and the George Kaiser Family Foundation Chair in the Department of Psychology at Oklahoma State University. Dr. Morris is a developmental scientist with research interests in parenting, socio-emotional development, early life adversity, and risk and resilience. With Jennifer Hays-Grudo she is co-author of Adverse and Protective Childhood Experiences: A Developmental Perspective, and co-edited Authoritative Parenting: Nurturance and Discipline for Optimal Child Development, both published by the American Psychological Association. She is the editor in chief for the Journal of Research on Adolescence and is an Associate Editor for the journal Adversity and Resilience Science: Research and Practice published by Springer/Nature.

Timothy Michaels-Johnson, J.D. Having earned his Juris Doctorate with Honors from the University of Tulsa College of Law in 2011, Timothy Michaels-Johnson focused his career in child welfare. He joined the District Attorney’s Office of Tulsa County and prosecuted deprived child cases for nearly 5 years. Since 2016, Michaels-Johnson has worked for Tulsa Lawyers for Children representing children and training TLC’s volunteer attorneys. In May 2020, Michaels-Johnson was honored to become TLC’s third Executive Director.

Jordan Gustin, Jordan Gustin, LPC & Supervisor, IMH-E®(III). Jordan has been with DVIS since October of 2015. She started out as a Children’s Trauma Therapist then moved into the Children’s Trauma Program Manager and is now one of the Vice Presidents of Clinical Services. After receiving a B.A. in Psychology from Northeastern State University, Jordan earned an M.A. in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Regent University in Virginia Beach. While in Virginia Beach, she also completed training to become a Certified Traumatologist through the Green Cross Academy.  Throughout her career, she has primarily worked with children and adults who have experienced domestic and/or sexual violence, physical abuse, neglect, emotional abuse, and other traumas or stressors. She is trained to provide Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP), Circle of Security Parenting, Caring Dads, Written Exposure Therapy (WET), and is currently in the process of learning and implementing Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT).  Jordan thoroughly enjoys working with individuals of all ages and truly believes in the power of connection and steadfast hope. Jordan recognizes that all behavior has meaning and that the key to changing behaviors is through relationships and connection. Jordan is particularly passionate about helping individuals heal from trauma that they have experienced throughout their lives. When Jordan is not supervising or providing therapy, she strives for balance in her life through spending time in the sunshine with loved ones, creating or crafting, and traveling the world with her partner, Johnny.

Heather Simon, is an adult survivor of childhood domestic violence and a community advocate. She survived physical abuse and lived in a house full of turmoil. All the darkness was kept a secret behind closed doors until the murder of her abusive father became front page news. She has made a career of helping people make their dreams come true through homeownership as a mortgage lender for 25+ years. She had two adult sons who are her pride and joy. Heather made a commitment to her sons that they would never grow up in the cycle of abuse she experienced as a child. The cycle stopped with her. Being an advocate for Children, a voice for hope is what drives Heather.

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April 15^th, 12:00 – 13:30 pm

By Doris L. Fransein, retired Oklahoma District judge for Tulsa County and former Chief Judge of the Juvenile Division, and Bambi Ortiz, CEO/Founder “Angel Against Trafficking Foundation”

Lecture description: In the first part of the session former Judge Fransein will present a general overview about children and youth sex trafficking in the USA. Judge Fransein will share here experience as the Oklahoma district judge for Tulsa County with dealing with cases of sex trafficking, from both legal and social perspective. In the second part of the session Bambi Ortiz will share a short version of her experience as a child being sex trafficked and the ways she is helping assist other survivors today in the  local community.

Short bios:

Doris L. Fransein is a retired Oklahoma District Judge of Tulsa County. She was the Chief Judge of the Juvenile Division from 2005 to 2018. Judge Fransein received a B.A. from Drury College and a J.D. from the University of Tulsa. Judge Fransein also worked as an adjunct professor of juvenile law at the University of Tulsa College of Law. Judge Fransein has received over the years many awards for her contribution for the fight against child maltreatment, including: Alma Wilson Award, Oklahoma Bar Association; “I Care” Award; The Child Partner Award; Judge of the Year, Oklahoma Gang Investigator; Adoptive Advocate, Oklahoma Department of Human Services; 2010: Judge of the Year, Oklahoma CASA Association.

Bambi Ortiz is a survivor of child sex trafficking and is now an advocate for others who are caught up in sex work and sex trafficking. She is the Founder of Angel Against Trafficking, a 501c3 mobile outreach delivering life-saving resources, love and hope to sex workers in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She is a published Author and has wrote a book called (That Life)that goes into detail some of the Traumas and hardships that she endured in the 27 years that she was a prisoner to sex Trafficking. Bambi is a demonstration to those in this life that a successful future, change and recovery are possible.

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April 8^th, 12:00 -1:30 pm

By Prof. John Davidson Fluke, Associate Director for Systems Research and Evaluation, University of Colorado, Denver.

Short description of the lecture: In child welfare, there is dichotomy between child safety and family preservation which is sometimes described as false. This dichotomy has been a source of tension in the US Child Welfare system and it remains a dynamic driver in orienting in Child Welfare policy over time and from place to place. The lecture will focus on the tension between these two orientations in child protection policies over the years from a systems research perspective and as reflected in the challenges faced by the involved children, families, and child welfare agency staff as differing views of priorities play out. The lecture will highlight research on engagement enabling policies such as differential response and family group decision making.

Short bio: Prof. Fluke is Associate Director for Systems Research and Evaluation at the Kempe Center with joint appointments as a Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and the Department of Epidemiology at the Colorado School of Public Health. Dr. Fluke’s research is focused on child protection decision-making and child maltreatment epidemiology. He is known internationally for his innovative and informative research and evaluation work in the areas of child welfare administrative data analysis, workload and costing, and performance and outcome measurement for children and family services. For the US government he has been PI or key staff for research and evaluation projects focused on improving the evidence base for various interventions with the US Health and Human Services Children’s Bureau, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMSHA), the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE), and with the US Agency for International Development (USAID). He has also worked on projects sponsored by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the Casey Family Services Foundation, the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation, and program evaluation projects for governmental child welfare agencies such as Colorado, New York City, Texas, Utah, and Washington. He has participated in numerous internationally based efforts to improve the global capacity to understand the epidemiology of child maltreatment including work with Canadian, Balkan, EU, German, Saudi Arabian, and Unicef data sources.  He is the author or co-author of more than 70 peer reviewed publications, as well as numerous book chapters and reports. He has co-edited two books National Systems of Child Protection through Springer Press and Decision Making and Judgement in Child Welfare and Protection: Theory, Research, and Practice through Oxford University Press.

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April 1, 12:00 – 1:30pm CDT (on Zoom)

Free lecture for OU students.

Students will be able to meet top professionals and researchers in the field of child abuse and neglect, learn about contemporary issues in the field of child maltreatment and will be given the opportunity to ask the lecturers questions.

By Prof. Gerald P. Mallon, DSW, Associate Dean of Scholarship and Research at the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College in New York City.

Prof. Mallon has been a child welfare practitioner, advocate, educator, and researcher for more than 46 years.. Dr. Mallon was the first child welfare professional in the U.S. to research, write about, and develop programs for LGBTQ+ youth in child welfare settings.  Dr. Mallon’s scholarship and practice has been recognized through multiple awards including The Judge Richard Ware Award – Louisiana Children’s Trust Fund; The New York State Citizens Coalition for Children Advocacy Award, the Hosteter-Habib Award, Family Equality Council; the Child Advocate of the Year Award – North American Council on Adoptable and induction in 2014 as a Fellow of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare. In 2017, Dr. Mallon was awarded the Adoption Excellence Award from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Dr. Mallon is an internationally recognized expert on LGBTQ+ children, youth, and family issues particularly as they relate to child welfare. And juvenile justice. Through his writing, advocacy, and training efforts, he has influenced major changes in policy and practice concerning LGBTQ+ youth within these systems.

Lecture description: Research indicates that LGBTQ+ youth experience higher rates of abuse and neglect compared to their heterosexual counterparts. Many LGBTQ+ youth are especially impacted by abuse and neglect situations as their identities are often subject to verbal harassment and violence at home, by their immediate family members, in schools, in the community and by the very systems that are designed to protect them. A high rate of LGBTQ+ youth will have traumatic experiences in their social world, such as discrimination, bullying, violence, and rejection. For many years the child welfare system has not acknowledge or understood this unique vulnerability of LGBTQ+ youth or included them within their child protection schemes and therefore have not tailored responses to address the trauma-related needs of this population. This lecture will address the risk factors for abuse and neglect among LGBTQ youth, the response of the welfare system to them, and the recommended trauma informed responses which should be adopted in the welfare services.

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