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OCTOBER IS DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AWARENESS MONTH - Domestic Violence impacts children, as well as the whole of society. Take an active part in our Conference, either as a sponsor or a participant. The subject is heart breaking and most people prefer to ignore it. Hiding our heads in the sand is NOT going to change the situation. We need to take an active part and say ENOUGH to violence and abuse NOW! We can change our world, one city at a time... one state at a time, by working together.
CHILD ABUSE & Court Ordered Child Abuse
OCTOBER 21-23 - LAS VEGAS, Nevada
at the beautiful Springs Preserve - 333 S. Valley View, Las Vegas, NV 89107
CHILD ABUSE HURTS EVERYONE
Beside the children, litigants, attorneys and judges are stressed out;
Therapists and social workers turn numb from compassion fatigue.
THERE ARE SOLUTIONS! Come to the Conference to find out.
Beside the children, litigants, attorneys and judges are stressed out;
Therapists and social workers turn numb from compassion fatigue.
THERE ARE SOLUTIONS! Come to the Conference to find out.
Each year, an estimated 58,500 children are court-ordered to go live with their abuser, which represents 160 children a day being condemned to a life of abuse, in the United States alone! Of those, 4 to 5 will be brutally murdered each month.
There is an epidemic of mothers being jailed for wanting to protect their children from rape, molestation and battery. These mothers loose everything: their children, liberty, job, home...
It is a BLEMISH on America and does NOT have to be that way. Recognizing the patterns of coercive control and abuse, learning about the damage it causes in the long term and the cost to society will empower involved professionals to make informed decisions based on solid research. We will expose the problem and come out with an ACTION PLAN.
Whom is this conference for?
1. Judges, Attorneys, other legal professionals (CLEs offered)
By the end of the conference, you will be able to make the difference between a high conflict divorce and a high risk divorce, allowing you to take appropriate measures to protect the victims. You will understand the dynamics of domestic violence using up-to-date research and the damages it causes society.
2. Social workers, Psychologists, Evaluators, Law Enforcement involved with Family Courts
By the end of the conference, you will be armed with up-to-date research regarding the effects of domestic violence and child abuse on the victims and society, and be able to discern the patterns played in the cases you are handling.
3. Spiritual Leaders, Teachers, Doctors, Nurses, General Public, Students in Law and Psychology
Anyone who would like to understand the patterns of control and abuse, help protect our children and take a stand against Domestic Violence and Child Abuse. Opportunity to become certified as an ADA advocate.
TUITION
Professionals getting Continued Education Credits ( Attorneys, Social Workers)
$299.00 if paid by 09/10/2010 - $399.00 if paid by 09/30/2010 - $499.00 if paid by 10/15/2010
Public and Students
$99.00 if paid by 09/10/2010 - $149 if paid by 09/30/2010 - $199.00 if paid by 10/15/2010
Become an ADA Certified Advocate (by webinar), available with this conference for $250.00 by 09/15/2010 - $350.00 by 10/15/2010 instead of the regular price of $495.00.
Booths available: $250.00 by 09/10/2010 - $300.00 by 09/30/2010 - $350.00 by 10/15/2010
REGISTER NOW: http://iqhbts.eventbrite.com
SPEAKERS
Karin Huffer, MFT - Ms. Huffer is a Marriage and Family Therapist speicializing in Counseling and Forensic Psychology, and an ADA Title II and Title III Specialist. After 20 years of groundbreaking research and clinical work, Ms. Huffer authored the book Overcoming the Devastation of Legal Abuse Syndrome, a powerfully validating self help book/textbook providing the means for prevention of and recovery from the public health menace of Legal Abuse Syndrome (LAS).
ADA ADVOCACY POWER: - As a Keynote Speaker and workshop leader, Ms. Huffer will share her groundbreaking research on LAS, a form of PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder), as being a psychic injury, not a mental illness. It is a personal injury that develops in individuals assaulted by ethical violations, legal abuses, betrayals, and fraud. Abuse of power and authority, and a profound lack of accountability in our courts have become rampant, compounding an already stressful experience. This stress can and does lead to physical illnesses. AMA statistics show that around 85% of all physical illness is directly attributable to stress. Legal Abuse Syndrome is a public health menace in this country. It leads to massive medical intervention costs, burdens insurance companies, and adds to Medicare and Social Security costs. Most painfully, it crushes the brilliance and creativity of its sufferers. Legal Abuse Syndrome is detrimental to all of society and nobody is immune.
ADA ADVOCACY POWER: - As a Keynote Speaker and workshop leader, Ms. Huffer will share her groundbreaking research on LAS, a form of PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder), as being a psychic injury, not a mental illness. It is a personal injury that develops in individuals assaulted by ethical violations, legal abuses, betrayals, and fraud. Abuse of power and authority, and a profound lack of accountability in our courts have become rampant, compounding an already stressful experience. This stress can and does lead to physical illnesses. AMA statistics show that around 85% of all physical illness is directly attributable to stress. Legal Abuse Syndrome is a public health menace in this country. It leads to massive medical intervention costs, burdens insurance companies, and adds to Medicare and Social Security costs. Most painfully, it crushes the brilliance and creativity of its sufferers. Legal Abuse Syndrome is detrimental to all of society and nobody is immune.
Barry Goldstein, Esq. - Mr. Goldstein practiced Law in New York State for 30 years and served on the board of directors of the local battered women's shelter for 14 years. He is an author, teacher, advocate for battered women and expert on abuser's legal tactics. His first book Scared to Leave, Afraid to Stay: Paths From Family Violence to Safety was published in 2002. For many years, Mr. Goldstein worked with the Community Change Project of the Volunteer Counseling Service teaching domestic violence classes for men convicted of abusing their partners. He is the co-editor of the recently published book Domestic Violence, Abuse, and Child Custody: Legal Strategies and Policy Issues.
The research is now overwhelming that courts routinely make particularly harmful decisions because they are using practices adopted 30+ years ago when no research was available. Many people think the system is corrupt and unethical, but Mr. Goldstein believes the research demonstrates most of the msitakes are made because misinformation has been repeated so long that it is deeply ingrained. It is important for the reputatio of court professionals and for the well being of children that we take a fresh look at standard practices based on up-to-date research.
Mr. Goldstein will conduct workshops related to the current problem in family courts, namely that thousands of children are being sent to live with abusers because of common errors the courts are making. Mr. Goldstein will help legal professionals recognize domestic violence, understand how gender bias unconsciously affects custody cases and how domestic violence harms children. Mr. Goldstein will share the research available to recognize the pattern of abusive behavior in domestic violence cases, how to challenge unqualified mental health professionals, how to present testimony of genuine experts and how to cite legal and scientific research as part of motions and appeals to get better results. Mr. Goldstein will also share up-to-date research so experts can make recommendations and predictions that are more accurate in protecting children. As present practices work so poorly for children, there is a need to form teams of health professionals working together with domestic violence experts in order to better protect children. Mental health experts will be shown how to recognize domestic violence, how to avoid confirmation bias and how standard psychological tests can distort findings and pathologize the victims.
David Gruder, PhD - Dr. Gruder is a clinical and organization psychologist, a Diplomate in Comprehensive Energy Psychology and the CEO of Integrity Revolution. He is an international speaker, trainer and consultatn who provides programs for businesses, nonprofits, educational institutions, religious institutions, and healthcare organizations. He has mentored helping professionals, politicians, business and commuty leaders, all the way up to World Trade Organization ambassadors. A multi-award-winning author, his latest book. the New IQ: How Integrity Intelligence Serve ou, Your Relationships and Our World, is a complete road map for creating sustainable happiness and success without sacrificing personal integrity or social responsibility. It has won awards in six unusually diverse categories: Conscious Business & Leadership, Current Events in Politics & Society, Social Change, Health & Wellness, Self-Help and Transformational Psychology. Hailed by Radio & Television Interview Reports as "America's Integrity Expert," Dr. Gruder is a frequent guest on many radio talk shows throughout North America. He is also the developer of the Conquering Anger Mountain Curriculum in Full-Spectrum Anger Intelligence, which illuminates the four distinctly different flavors anger comes in and how each needs to be dealt with in its own unique way.
Jane LeMond-Alvarez - Ms. LeMond-Alvarez is a crime analyst who has followed hundreds of cases of child cruelty. Her research shows that an alarming number of children are returned to their abusers only to be re-abused and in some cases killed. Every ten seconds, a child is abused. Every fifteen minutes, a child dies by their caregiver. Ms. Lemond-Alvarez is the creator of The Travelling Memorial Wall of Tears which will honor the children killed by their caregivers. The wall will be 25-feet long, approx. 7 feet high and will have two 52-inch TV screens scrolling the names of the children killed by their caregivers. It will be taken across the United Sttes to Washington D.C. to change Title 42USC - the law that permits abused children to be reunified with their abusers. Ms. LeMond-Alvarez used to manage the serious habitual juvenile offender program for the County of Ventura. She was sent to Washington D.C. to speak before a congressional group regarding juvenile offenders. There was a time during which she thought that these little punks needed to be locked up. The more research she did, the more she found that an alarming number of these kids were severely abuses as little ones... She completely turned her thinking around and now believes that instead of tracking them at 15 or 16, they need to be tracked from birth.
"LET'S GET REAL" - Ms. LeMond-Alvarez presentation will focus on the veil of confidentiality that needs to be lifted, about children's civil rights, about holding social services accountable for returning abused children to their abusers when they KNOW the child is in danger, and how to treat child cruelty as the crime it is, not a family problem.
Ms. Carlin will address the problem of dealing with, addressing and learning from mistakes and failures. Ms. Carlin believes that our mistakes are our greatest teachers - the problem is we do all kinds of acrobatics to "save face" and avoid liability when they occur because of the titles and roles that we hold - but we're in HUMAN services dealing with human beings and we're all human - our attempts at denying our error is actually what ends up causing and promoting what we fear the most. Through exemplifying in/famous failures Ms. Carlin will demonstrate that how we deal, rectify with and come to a place of peace with our mistakes is as important as the wise, professional, ethical, "right-on" decisions we make.
Renee Beeker - Ms. Beeker is the founder and President of the National Family Court Watch Project. A speaker and advocate for reform of the judicial system since 1996, Renee is a respected contributing member to many professional and grassroots organizations. Renee has been an invited speaker at numerous conferences around the United States. Renee's article, "The Illusion of Protection Uncovered: Review of the Special Journal Issue on Child Custody and Domestic Violence," was published in the February/March 2006 issue of the Domestic Violence Report. Renee has designed a comprehensive Court Watch observational instrument that is being used in the National Family Court Watch Project. Renee serves on various committees both in her state and nationally. Renee holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Organizational Communications from Eastern Michigan University.
IMPROVING JUSTICE IN FAMILY COURTS: BUILDING A FOUNDATION OF SAFETY FOR FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES - This presentation will provide a brief overview of the National Family Court Watch Project, where court watchers are using a uniform observational instrument to collect data. Attendees will be familiarized with some of the interesting results observed during the continuatin of the National Family Court Watch project.
Protective Mothers/Fathers and Courageous Kids will be speaking about their experience in Family Courts, and offer suggestions as to what they would have liked to see happen, instead of the nightmares they lived through.
David Gruder, PhD - Dr. Gruder is a clinical and organization psychologist, a Diplomate in Comprehensive Energy Psychology and the CEO of Integrity Revolution. He is an international speaker, trainer and consultatn who provides programs for businesses, nonprofits, educational institutions, religious institutions, and healthcare organizations. He has mentored helping professionals, politicians, business and commuty leaders, all the way up to World Trade Organization ambassadors. A multi-award-winning author, his latest book. the New IQ: How Integrity Intelligence Serve ou, Your Relationships and Our World, is a complete road map for creating sustainable happiness and success without sacrificing personal integrity or social responsibility. It has won awards in six unusually diverse categories: Conscious Business & Leadership, Current Events in Politics & Society, Social Change, Health & Wellness, Self-Help and Transformational Psychology. Hailed by Radio & Television Interview Reports as "America's Integrity Expert," Dr. Gruder is a frequent guest on many radio talk shows throughout North America. He is also the developer of the Conquering Anger Mountain Curriculum in Full-Spectrum Anger Intelligence, which illuminates the four distinctly different flavors anger comes in and how each needs to be dealt with in its own unique way.
Dr. Gruder's workshops will propose a framework for turning the sentencing system into a system requiring self-responsibility and accountability for offenders, having them undergo programs to resolve the Adverse Childhood Experiences that cause illness, violence and a host of other social problems to begin with. Dr. Gruder will share the reasons why therapy won't work until it revolves around self-responsibility, social responsibility, integrity, and resolving Adverse Childhood experiences -- and how to accomplish these goals as efficiently as possible. Dr. Gruder will explain why it is absolutely vital to evaluate a perpetrator's teachability regarding self-responsibility and accountability.
Linda Barnard, PhD - Dr. Linda Barnard is a licensed Marriage Family Therapist in private practice in Sacramento since 1981. In addition to a very active practice, Dr. Barnard has also served as a trainer and consultant to various domestic violence programs in northern California since 1982. Dr. Barnard frequently appears in court as an expert witness in domestic violence having testified in over 290 cases and conducted assessments in over 950 additional cases. She is a Board Certified Expert in Domestic Violence as well as Board Certified Expert in Traumatic Stress through the American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress. She has also qualified as an expert in rape trauma and other types of traumatic responses. In addition, she consults as an expert in complex, contested child custody cases where allegations of domestic vilence are involved. She is a frequent speaker at seminars and conferences around the state.
Dr. Barnard will speak of the issues of family violence and custody evaluators. She will talk about how to assess for domestic violence and sex abuse in custody evaluations, PAS, and the process for conducting assessments when family violence issues are involved.
Dianne Post - Dianne Post is an attorney whose career has focused on fighting one of the chief causes of poverty and injustice in the world – the inequality of women – with passion, creativity and great effect. Over the past 30 years, Ms. Post has worked in over 14 countries to design and implement fundamental legal, policy and programmatic reform on issues related to gender equality. Post is a gender specialist who works with vulnerable populations, especially women and children, in developing, transitional and developed countries to achieve their human rights and freedom from violence.
Pamela Donison, Esq., is a family law attorney, arbitrator, mediator, Collaborative Divorce pracititioner, and writer. She is the current president of the Arizona Women Lawyers Association, board member at large of the Arizona Chapter, Association for Conflict Resolution, and a member of the International Alliance of Holistic Lawyers. Ms. Donison says, "I realized after litigating many high conflict cases that the only people benefiting were the attorneys. Families are financially, emotionally, and physically devastated by the adversarial process, with the negative impact falling most heavily on children. As I saw firsthand how unnecessary most litigation was, it became unacceptable to continue on that path. My practice vision is of families divorcing differently than the standard litigation model. I advocate for peaceful, private resolution of family and family business conflicts – it’s the most humane, sensible and financially responsible way to 'untie the knot.'"
Linda Barnard, PhD - Dr. Linda Barnard is a licensed Marriage Family Therapist in private practice in Sacramento since 1981. In addition to a very active practice, Dr. Barnard has also served as a trainer and consultant to various domestic violence programs in northern California since 1982. Dr. Barnard frequently appears in court as an expert witness in domestic violence having testified in over 290 cases and conducted assessments in over 950 additional cases. She is a Board Certified Expert in Domestic Violence as well as Board Certified Expert in Traumatic Stress through the American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress. She has also qualified as an expert in rape trauma and other types of traumatic responses. In addition, she consults as an expert in complex, contested child custody cases where allegations of domestic vilence are involved. She is a frequent speaker at seminars and conferences around the state.
Dr. Barnard will speak of the issues of family violence and custody evaluators. She will talk about how to assess for domestic violence and sex abuse in custody evaluations, PAS, and the process for conducting assessments when family violence issues are involved.
Dianne Post - Dianne Post is an attorney whose career has focused on fighting one of the chief causes of poverty and injustice in the world – the inequality of women – with passion, creativity and great effect. Over the past 30 years, Ms. Post has worked in over 14 countries to design and implement fundamental legal, policy and programmatic reform on issues related to gender equality. Post is a gender specialist who works with vulnerable populations, especially women and children, in developing, transitional and developed countries to achieve their human rights and freedom from violence.
Ms. Post is a gender expert in gender based violence against women and children including domestic violence, sex-trafficking, prostitution and pornography. In addition to gender issues, Ms. Post has worked intensely on issues of discrimination related to African-Americans and the Roma in Europe. She works with governments, foreign aid agencies, and other partners to create, reform or implement laws, train actors in the government and criminal justice sectors and empower vulnerable populations. Ms. Post also consults on international cases having filed cases and had oral argument in the European Court of Human Rights, with United Nations bodies and with the Inter- American Commission on Human Rights.
HUMAN RIGHTS: CAN INTERNATIONAL LAW HELPS US HERE IN THE US? - Ms. Post will offer an experiential workshop centered on the similarities and differences in violence against women around the world and offer remedies to end this violence.Pamela Donison, Esq., is a family law attorney, arbitrator, mediator, Collaborative Divorce pracititioner, and writer. She is the current president of the Arizona Women Lawyers Association, board member at large of the Arizona Chapter, Association for Conflict Resolution, and a member of the International Alliance of Holistic Lawyers. Ms. Donison says, "I realized after litigating many high conflict cases that the only people benefiting were the attorneys. Families are financially, emotionally, and physically devastated by the adversarial process, with the negative impact falling most heavily on children. As I saw firsthand how unnecessary most litigation was, it became unacceptable to continue on that path. My practice vision is of families divorcing differently than the standard litigation model. I advocate for peaceful, private resolution of family and family business conflicts – it’s the most humane, sensible and financially responsible way to 'untie the knot.'"
HOLISTIC FAMILY LAW: CREATING PEACEFUL SOLUTIONS OUTSIDE THE COURTROOM - Ms. Donison's presentation will provide Alternative Dispute Resolution options and model concepts for Courts, attorneys, therapists, and divorcing parents. She will offer practical information about reducing family violence at the time of the divorce; an overview of ADR Methods (Mediation, Artibration, Collaborative Divorce); what ADR is NOT; the Pros and Cons of ADR vs Litigation in reducing conflict; costs and benefits; and ways to incorporate ADR programs into your Practice, Court, Community and Culture.
Jane LeMond-Alvarez - Ms. LeMond-Alvarez is a crime analyst who has followed hundreds of cases of child cruelty. Her research shows that an alarming number of children are returned to their abusers only to be re-abused and in some cases killed. Every ten seconds, a child is abused. Every fifteen minutes, a child dies by their caregiver. Ms. Lemond-Alvarez is the creator of The Travelling Memorial Wall of Tears which will honor the children killed by their caregivers. The wall will be 25-feet long, approx. 7 feet high and will have two 52-inch TV screens scrolling the names of the children killed by their caregivers. It will be taken across the United Sttes to Washington D.C. to change Title 42USC - the law that permits abused children to be reunified with their abusers. Ms. LeMond-Alvarez used to manage the serious habitual juvenile offender program for the County of Ventura. She was sent to Washington D.C. to speak before a congressional group regarding juvenile offenders. There was a time during which she thought that these little punks needed to be locked up. The more research she did, the more she found that an alarming number of these kids were severely abuses as little ones... She completely turned her thinking around and now believes that instead of tracking them at 15 or 16, they need to be tracked from birth.
"LET'S GET REAL" - Ms. LeMond-Alvarez presentation will focus on the veil of confidentiality that needs to be lifted, about children's civil rights, about holding social services accountable for returning abused children to their abusers when they KNOW the child is in danger, and how to treat child cruelty as the crime it is, not a family problem.
Ms. Carlin will address the problem of dealing with, addressing and learning from mistakes and failures. Ms. Carlin believes that our mistakes are our greatest teachers - the problem is we do all kinds of acrobatics to "save face" and avoid liability when they occur because of the titles and roles that we hold - but we're in HUMAN services dealing with human beings and we're all human - our attempts at denying our error is actually what ends up causing and promoting what we fear the most. Through exemplifying in/famous failures Ms. Carlin will demonstrate that how we deal, rectify with and come to a place of peace with our mistakes is as important as the wise, professional, ethical, "right-on" decisions we make.
Renee Beeker - Ms. Beeker is the founder and President of the National Family Court Watch Project. A speaker and advocate for reform of the judicial system since 1996, Renee is a respected contributing member to many professional and grassroots organizations. Renee has been an invited speaker at numerous conferences around the United States. Renee's article, "The Illusion of Protection Uncovered: Review of the Special Journal Issue on Child Custody and Domestic Violence," was published in the February/March 2006 issue of the Domestic Violence Report. Renee has designed a comprehensive Court Watch observational instrument that is being used in the National Family Court Watch Project. Renee serves on various committees both in her state and nationally. Renee holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Organizational Communications from Eastern Michigan University.
IMPROVING JUSTICE IN FAMILY COURTS: BUILDING A FOUNDATION OF SAFETY FOR FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES - This presentation will provide a brief overview of the National Family Court Watch Project, where court watchers are using a uniform observational instrument to collect data. Attendees will be familiarized with some of the interesting results observed during the continuatin of the National Family Court Watch project.
Protective Mothers/Fathers and Courageous Kids will be speaking about their experience in Family Courts, and offer suggestions as to what they would have liked to see happen, instead of the nightmares they lived through.
REGISTER NOW: http://iqhbts.eventbrite.com
