Child Marriage: Social & Ethical Problems ~ How to Advocate for Change

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<h2>Child Marriage: Social and Ethical Problems &amp; How to Advocate for Change </h2><h3>Loretta Jay, MA  (she/her)</h3><p>Justice of the Peace Association</p><h3>Marcie Hambrick, PhD, MSW (she/her/hers)</h3><p>Director of Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Programs</p><p>Prevent Child Abuse Vermont</p><h3>Lynn Stanley, LICSW (she/hers) </h3><p>Executive Director NASW VT </p><h3>Fraidy Reiss (she, her)</h3><p>Founder/Executive Director</p><p>Unchained At Last</p><h3>The Honorable Carol Ode</h3><p>Vermont State House of Representatives</p><p>Child marriage is still legal in the state of Vermont. This informative workshop will highlight the social, emotional, and ethical problems connected with child marriage, the need for &quot;brightline&quot; (no exceptions) laws, and what Vermont clinicians, marriage officiants, and citizens can do to advocate.</p><p><em>1﻿ Formal CE approved by NASW VT is available for a small fee. NASW VT approval #1096</em></p><p><em>NASW Vermont Chapter is recognized by the New York State Education Department&#x27;s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0683.</em></p><p></p><h3>Brought to you by :</h3><h3>Prevent Child Abuse Vermont</h3><h3>Justice of the Peace Association</h3><h3>N﻿ASW Vermont</h3><p></p><p><strong>Learning Objectives</strong></p><p>Participants will be able to:</p><ul><li>Describe the social, emotional and ethical issues connected to child marriage</li><li>Explain the need for brightline legislation</li><li>Discuss how to apply content knowledge to advocacy efforts      </li><p></p></ul><h3>About the Presenters:</h3><p><strong>Marcie Hambrick</strong> has a PhD in Sociology from Georgia State University with a Family, Health, and Life Course orientation. She also holds a Master of Social Work from Florida State University, and a Bachelor of Social Work from Dalton State College. She is the Director of Research and Programs at Prevent Child Abuse Vermont in the Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Division. She has presented widely on topics of the intersection of housing instability and food insecurity, health care worker emotional burnout, and child sexual abuse prevention. Dr. Hambrick’s primary focus is on implementing best practices in child sexual abuse prevention using developmentally appropriate and trauma-informed interventions that recognize adult responsibility for protecting children. She believes in programming that encompasses prevention of both victimization and perpetration. Pronouns: she / her</p><p><strong>Loretta Jay</strong> leads the professional association for civil marriage  officiants in the Northeast, advancing training opportunities and  pursuing matters that officiants care about.  With a Master’s degree in community psychology, Loretta has worked  on behalf of children and families for over thirty years. She initially held positions on the front lines for Connecticut’s Department of  Children and Families, then she managed and trained staff. Now, as a  consultant, she develops and evaluates child and family-focused programs for public agencies and nonprofits, and advocates for  underserved populations.  Efforts to end child marriage connect her two areas of expertise:  solemnizing marriages and children’s safety. On behalf of the Justice  of the Peace Association, Loretta is an outspoken advocate, raising  awareness and pushing for legislation throughout New England  states. She is the immediate past-president of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Fairfield (Connecticut) affiliate and currently sits on her hometown’s Human Services Commission.</p><p><strong>Lynn Stanley, </strong>LICSW is the Executive Director of the National Association of Social Workers, Vermont Chapter and New Hampshire Chapter. She has clinical experience and a strong macro social work background in social policy, training and facilitation, non-profit leadership, and volunteer board coordination. She spent fourteen years with Casey Family Services: first as a clinical case manager, then providing technical assistance to foster/ adoptive parent associations, and the last six years as the Team Leader for Casey’s school-based Franklin Family Resource Center. Lynn was the Lead for the NH Afterschool Network, working to increase out of school learning opportunities for youth and closing the opportunity gap for lower income youth. She is adjunct faculty/teaching lecturer in the Social Work Department at the University of New Hampshire. Lynn earned her BA from New College of Florida and her MSW from the University of New Hampshire. She is also a proud member of Zonta.</p><p><strong>Fraidy Reiss</strong> is the Founder and Executive Director of Unchained At Last. Fraidy Reiss was 19 when her family arranged for her to marry a man who turned out to be violent. But with no education or job, in an insular religious community where only men have the right to grant a divorce, she felt trapped. Still trapped at age 27, Fraidy defied her husband and community to become the first person in her family to go to college. She graduated from Rutgers University at age 32 as valedictorian (called “commencement speaker” at Rutgers). Her family declared her dead, but Fraidy persevered: With her journalism degree, she was hired as a reporter for the Asbury Park Press in New Jersey, eventually getting promoted to the paper’s elite investigative-reporting team. She went on to a career as an investigator at Kroll, the world’s largest investigations firm. At the same time, Fraidy managed to get divorced, win full custody of her two daughters and get a final restraining order against her ex-husband. But Fraidy knows that most women and girls who want to flee or resist an arranged/forced marriage are limited by finances, religious law and social customs. For them, Fraidy founded and now leads Unchained At Last. Fraidy is recognized internationally as an expert on forced and child marriage in America. Her writing on the subject has been published in the New York Times, Washington Post and countless other publications in the US and beyond, and she has been interviewed and featured by those outlets as well as Financial Times, BBC, PBS, NPR, CBS and others. Legislation she helped to write to end or reduce child marriage has been introduced and, in some cases, already passed in multiple US states. In December 2017, Forbes named Fraidy one of Five Fearless Female Founders to Follow in 2018.</p>

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