CEUs available for Social Work and LPC: $10 for 1 credit hour

Presenter’s Bio:  Dr. Hank Puls is a Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Pediatric Hospital Medicine at Children’s Mercy Kansas City. The overall goal of his research agenda is to reduce child maltreatment, particularly physical abuse among infants and young children. He is especially interested in public policies as prevention for child maltreatment and improving the equitable identification of children at risk for maltreatment. He has over 40 peer-reviewed publications in the areas of child maltreatment, public policy and the social determinants of health.

To learn more from Dr. Puls, check out his interview on One in Ten podcast from the National Children’s Alliance:

https://oneintenpodcast.org/episodes/do-anti-poverty-programs-reduce-child-abuse/

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with David McLeod, PhD, MSW

CEUs available for Social Work and LPC: $10 for 1 credit hour

Presenter’s Bio:  David McLeod, PhD, MSW has spent the past three decades working to actively reduce violence, particularly that directed at people and communities with diminished capacities for self-protection. In addition to being a Professor and the Interim Director of the AHZSSW he holds affiliate faculty status with the OU Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, the OU Center for Social Justice, the OU Carceral Consortium, the OU Institute for Community and Society Transformation, and the Ruth Knee Institute for Transformative Scholarship. David is highly involved in the community and is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Forensic Social Work(www.JoFSW.org), the Co-Editor of the Handbook of Forensic Social Work (available here), and the President of the National Organization of Forensic Social Work (www.NOFSW.org), and the Chair of the Oklahoma Children of Incarcerated Parents Legislative Advisory Committee. For more on his background and work visit www.damcleod.com.

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CEU available: $20 for 2 credit hours

Presenter’s Bio: Ruth Gottfried, PhD, is a senior lecturer and the director of the Master’s Degree Program in Dance Movement Therapy at the David Yellin Academic College of Education. Along with her work in Israel, Ruth serves as a consultant for the Secondary Traumatic Stress Innovations and Solutions Center at the University of Kentucky’s Center on Trauma and Children. In addition, she is an ambassador of applied compassion, certified through the flagship program at Stanford University’s Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education. Currently, Ruth is pursuing a second PhD at Tel Aviv University’s Department of East Asian Studies, focusing on compassion from a Buddhist perspective.

Workshop Description: with the holidays and a new year quickly approaching, it’s an important time for self-care and mutual support within a collaborative organizational culture to sustain us in the work of serving children and families. This workshop is designed to provide supervisors with a trauma-informed, compassion-based toolkit for addressing secondary traumatic stress. Following a theoretical overview, participants will engage in selected mindful compassion-based practices and interactive sharing sessions with peers. The workshop aims to empower supervisors with the skills needed to effectively integrate these practices into their work.

Link to the book: Gottfried, R. (2024). Compassion-based practices for secondary traumatic stress: A resource guide for helping professionals. Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Compassion-Based-Practices-for-Secondary-Traumatic-Stress-A-Resource-Guide-for-Helping-Professionals/Gottfried/p/book/9781032444710

Link to the book’s webpage: https://csts.care

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CEU available: $20 for 2 credit hours

Presenter’s Bio: Ruth Gottfried, PhD, is a senior lecturer and the director of the Master’s Degree Program in Dance Movement Therapy at the David Yellin Academic College of Education. Along with her work in Israel, Ruth serves as a consultant for the Secondary Traumatic Stress Innovations and Solutions Center at the University of Kentucky’s Center on Trauma and Children. In addition, she is an ambassador of applied compassion, certified through the flagship program at Stanford University’s Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education. Currently, Ruth is pursuing a second PhD at Tel Aviv University’s Department of East Asian Studies, focusing on compassion from a Buddhist perspective.

Workshop Description: with the holidays and a new year quickly approaching, it’s an important time for self-care and mutual support within a collaborative organizational culture to sustain us in the work of serving children and families. This workshop is designed to provide helping professionals with a trauma-informed, compassion-based toolkit for addressing secondary traumatic stress. Following a theoretical overview, participants will engage in selected mindful compassion-based practices and interactive sharing sessions with peers. The workshop aims to empower helping professionals with the skills needed to effectively integrate these practices into their work.

Link to the book: Gottfried, R. (2024). Compassion-based practices for secondary traumatic stress: A resource guide for helping professionals. Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Compassion-Based-Practices-for-Secondary-Traumatic-Stress-A-Resource-Guide-for-Helping-Professionals/Gottfried/p/book/9781032444710

Link to the book’s webpage: https://csts.care

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Participation is FREE with registration in advance.

CEUs available for social work: $10 for 1 credit hour

Lecture description: This lecture will present the speaker’s empirical research into family court responses to custody cases involving family abuse and parental alienation allegations.  These cases are often characterized as “high conflict.” The findings shed light on courts’ reluctance to believe domestic violence and particularly – child abuse – allegations by mothers against fathers; and the powerful role of crossclaims of parental alienation in reinforcing that reluctance. The findings also describe the rates at which mothers lose custody after alleging abuse.

Lecturer: Joan Meier,  Professor of Law and Director of  National Family Violence Law Center, George Washington University Law School

Prof. Joan Meier has been a clinical Law Professor for over 30 years at George Washington Law, where she founded three pioneering and nationally recognized interdisciplinary domestic violence clinical programs. She has published widely on domestic violence, custody, clinical teaching, criminal procedure, and various Supreme court decisions. Her major study “Child Custody Outcomes in Cases Involving Parental Alienation and Abuse Allegations,” funded by the National Institute of Justice, was completed in 2019. Its findings have been written about in scholarship and multiple media outlets including The Washington Post and The New Yorker.

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