August 20, 9am-12pm CDT on Zoom

Registration: $20* (FREE CEUs available for Social Work and Behavioral Health – with registration)

Workshop Description: physical and mental health inequities persist for 2SLGBTQ+ young people locally and nationally. These inequities result from systemic discrimination and rejection from others. Accepting and affirming adults save lives. According to the Trevor Project’s 2019 National Survey of LGBTO Youth Mental Health, LGBTO youth who report having at least one accepting adult were 40% less likely to report a suicide attempt in the last year. Trusted adults, including mental health clinicians, social workers, case managers, and educators, are uniquely positioned to support 2SLGBTO+ young people. This workshop will equip therapists and other helping professionals with fundamental information and best practices for supporting 2SLGBTO+ youth.

 Presenters’ Bios:

 Tammy Delocéano

Tammy is a proud Neurodivergent Latinx artist and a charismatic Youth advocate who joined the Amplify Team in 2020. Tammy currently serves as Amplify’s Training and Outreach coordinator where they support building up the skills people need to effectively engage and serve young people. With their background in photography and a Human relations degree from “The school of life”, Tammy has seen the power positive media representation and meaningful participation can have for marginalized community members. Tammy incorporates these ideas as well as their experiences working with young people to their activism and the Amplify training space with the hope of inspiring others to combat adultism, body-negativity and support our community’s young people to fully grow into themselves without fear.

Sierra Carter, CHES (she/her)

Sierra Carter joined Amplify in June 2023 as the Training Manager. For nearly 12 years, she worked in the Tulsa Health Department’s PREP program as an Adolescent Sexual Health Educator where she implemented various sex ed programs in Tulsa County school districts and youth-serving organizations. She also continues to serve as a nationally certified trainer for evidence-based intervention programs where she facilitates best practices in sex education and positive youth development. What fuels Sierra’s passion for adolescent health is the incredible people that she shares this work with in empowering young people to become the very best advocates for their themselves! She received her bachelor’s degree from Oklahoma State University in Health Promotion and maintains her credentials as a Certified Health Education Specialist.

Jenny Briggs, LMSW (she/her)

Jenny is a lifelong Tulsan who brings a strengths-based, systems-oriented approach and passion for youth voice to her work with Amplify. She earned her Master of Social Work from the University of Oklahoma in 2014 and is licensed by the Oklahoma State Board of Licensed Social Workers at the LMSW level. Jenny has over a decade of experience at the intersection of public health and community-based social work. In her current role as Director of Learning & Impact with Amplify Youth Health Collective, Jenny guides the strategic vision for Amplify’s capacity-building programs, supporting program staff and external partners to advance youth sexual health and well-being across Tulsa and the state of Oklahoma.

The event is open to the general professional audience.

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July 9, 9am-11am CDT at Circle of Care: 1616 N Gilcrease Museum Rd, Tulsa, OK 74127

Registration: $20* (FREE CEUs available for Social Work and Behavioral Health – with registration)

Workshop description:

Online safety for children is ranked as a top-tier societal and public health priority in the U.S. 95% of children have access to a digital device and the threat of online dangers is at an all time high.  Understanding the online risks that children are facing is key to preventing them from becoming reality.  Without training, children are not safe online.  This training helps adults better understand how online risks can affect children’s safety, privacy, mental health, and well-being.

Training Highlights

• How to approach technology use with children
• Recognizing warning signs in children experiencing digital dangers
• Strategies of online predators
• Current internet crimes against children trends
• Resources to support monitoring online activity.

Presenter’s bio:

Ronni Roney is the Education Coordinator at Abbott House Child Advocacy Center. In 2012, Ronni obtained her Master’s degree in Child and Family Services and has been working in the field of Child Abuse & Neglect in many different capacities.  As the Education Director at Abbott House, Ronni educates child serving organizations and professionals on the importance of Recognizing, Responding, & Reporting Child Abuse & Neglect through the alrt! and Safety in Action programs.  In 2021 Abbott House created “alrt!” an internet safety curriculum for 3rd-12th grade students which also includes a Parent/Caregiver Presentation.   Ronni has educated over 14,000 people in 3 years as well as worked alongside law enforcement agencies and other prevention experts in efforts to continuously bring up to date information to her participants.  Drawing from her professional experiences Ronni is able to explain internet crimes against children and the important role child serving organizations have in the investigative process.  Her passion and dedication to preventing abuse and protecting children in the community is clearly reflected in her trainings.

The event is open to the general professional audience.

*Please note the payment transaction will appear as “Haruv Institute” (mahon harov) and the confirmation may take several hours to appear in your email.

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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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