We wish to thank everyone who has registered for this symposium. The response has been overwhelming and we hope that you will learn valuable information that will help ease the traumas that children and adults face.

We are no longer able to accept more registrations. We have sent links to all of the emails of people who have registered. A few of them kept bouncing back, so there was no way we could send the details to them, for which we are sorry. We have also sent a set of resource materials in hopes they will be useful to you.

We hope you will join us next April 15, 2022 for our next symposium, Creating Rights-Respecting Children, Families and Communities.

For more information, contact yvissing@salemstate.edu

Salem State University presents the Center for Childhood & Youth Studies' Conference: Identifying, Preventing, and Addressing Trauma. In this special symposium with nationally renown speakers, participants will be given state-of-the-art information about what trauma is, how to identify it, how it manifests in both long and short term problems, and what we can do about it at both a personal and organizational level. A trauma prevention and trauma-informed organizational approach will frame the event.

Here is the schedule:

April 16: Identifying, Preventing and Addressing Trauma

8:30 – 4:45 Virtual Conference

8th annual Salem as a Safer Child Community Symposium

8:30 – Welcoming Addresses

9:00 – 10:00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS #1 Trauma in Children, Youth, Families and Communities. Michele Solloway, PhD, MPA, RPP, SEP. SUNY Downstate. Dr. Solloway will provide data on trauma, ACES, and a framework that will guide our understanding of trauma on this day.

10:00 – 11:00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS #2 Trauma Informed Organizations: What they are & how be one. Samantha Koury, Institute on Trauma and Trauma-Informed Care (ITTIC) at the University at Buffalo School of Social Work This keynote address will explore what trauma-informed care is and how it can be used in our different roles as we support children and youth. She will focus on how important it is for institutions to take a preventative, trauma-informed approach.

11:00 – 12:00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS #3 Screening Children for Trauma and Adversity: Opportunities and Concerns. Crimes Against Children and Traumatization. David Finkelhor, PhD. University of New Hampshire Center for Crimes Against Children & Family Research Laboratory. Protocols are being implemented to conduct universal screening for trauma and adversity in medical practices and schools. Dr. Finkelhor will talk about why caution is warranted, and some of the important considerations to be taken into account.

12:00 – 1:00 Breakout Sessions #1

A. Attachment and Trauma: A Relational Approach. Katie Thomas and Julianne Croes Child Witness to Violence. In this seminar, participants will explore how trauma can disrupt the attachment between caregivers and very young children. Participants will learn how to explore the caregiver’s own trauma history to discover their working model of the child. The methods used at the Child Witness to Violence Project (CWVP) to explore attachment will be explained as well as the process of conducting a trauma sensitive assessment to inform treatment. CWVP has been supporting the most underserved populations of the Suffolk County and the Greater Boston Area for over 30 years as part of the largest safety net hospital in New England. CWVP aims to identify, support, and advocate for very young children and their caregivers experiencing domestic violence and other kinds of trauma exposure.

B. Listening to the Marginalized Voices of Young People About Care Experiences. Zoe Kessler, Assistant Professor of Social Work. SSU In a perfect world, when children are put into placements they are to receive care they need to recover. Instead, sometimes the trauma they bring with them gets exacerbated. How caregivers can help children recover from trauma is the focus in this presentation.

1:00 – 2:00 Breakout Sessions #2

A. Trauma-informed Policy: Building Infrastructure for Resilience. Moira O’Neill, Importance of Being a Child Advocate Dr. O’Neill is the Child Advocate for the State of New Hampshire. will discuss what it means to be a child advocate and transform trauma science at the individual, organizational and policy levels.

B. Emotional Intelligence and Helping Grow Healthy Children and Families. Alyssa Blask Campbell, Seed and Sew Village of Vermont. Building Awareness and Regulation to Process Emotions In this workshop, folks will dive into the Collaborative Emotion Processing (CEP) method and the Phases of Emotion Processing to identify biases and social programming in order to regulate and process response to emotions. We will navigate the learned patterns and brain pathways, and how to bring awareness to reactions in order to build tools for responding.

2:00 – 3:00 Breakout Sessions #3

A. The Law and Child Trauma. Attorney Carmen Durso. Boston attorney helping trauma-inflicted children. Attorney Durso will talk about legal interventions for children who have experienced trauma

B. Support for distressed mothers: Impact of building healthy connections. Heather Howard. Florida Atlantic University School of Social Work. Dr. Howard will discuss her work with substance abusing and incarcerated parents and the relationships they have with their children. Dr. Howard will discuss her work with mothers with substance use and mothers who experience incarceration. Her research focus on gender-specific and trauma-informed care for women, grief, recovery, stigma reduction and health empowerment.

3:00 – 4:00 Breakout Sessions $4

A. Trauma of Child Sexual Abuse. Jetta Bernier from MASSKIDS MASSKIDS is the Commonwealth’s primary sexual abuse prevention organization. Jetta will be talking about the trauma that child sexual abuse inflicts. She will also provide identification and risk factors, and strategies about what to do for prevention, intervention and treatment.

B. Trauma and its Long-term Effects on Children. Jacquelyn Meyers, PhD: Trauma and Substance Abuse, Henri Begleiter Neurodynamics Lab, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, SUNY Downstate Dr. Meyers will show longitudinal data of the impact of how traumas early in life can manifest into physical health problems and chronic illnesses, mental health problems and both alcohol and substance abuse. Her stateof-the-art research shines a light on the long term consequences of trauma in the early years of life.

4:00 – 4:30 Wrap-up and Next Steps Yvonne Vissing, Director Center for Childhood & Youth Studies Sponsors

This symposium is co-sponsored by the Essex County District Attorney Office, Parents Helping Parents, the Foundation for Alcohol Education, MASSKids, Danvers Cares, SSU College/School of Social Work, SSU Alumni Association, SSU Center for Childhood & Youth Studies, SSU Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, SSU Meservey College of Health and Human Services, SSU Department of Healthcare Studies.

Registration is free but required.

Register here at Event Brite for the different sessions https://www.eventbrite.com/e/identifying-preventing-addressing-trauma-tickets-136840494603?aff=ebdssbeac

IF YOU WANT CEU CREDIT, PLEASE USE THIS LINK TO REGISTER. https://u-learn.salemstate.edu/browse/professionaleducation/courses/ncccys100

The cost for the CEUS is $30 and can be paid for at the above link.

This event is free and open to the public. It is sponsored by SSU, the Center for Childhood & Youth Studies, Parents Helping Parents, the Alcohol Education Foundation, Department for Healthcare Studies, School of Social Work, and SSU Alumni Association.

Please copy & paste the following link into a new browser to see the full agenda: http://cti.salemstate.edu/symposium.pdf

To request an accommodation for this event, please contact disability services at 978.542.6217 or email access@salemstate.edu.

Register at Event Brite or here at

https://salemstate.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6UzJR8m7SVSTCfO0miLS_Q

A webinar and zoom link will be sent to you after registering and prior to the conference.