The 32nd Annual Victims' Rights Conference-Rights, Access, Equity for All Victims

Holyoke, MA US
April 27, 2022

Date & Location:

Friday, April 27,2 022, 8:00 am to 3:30 pm, Baystate Health Education Center, Holyoke, MA

Goal:

Research suggests that safe and stable relationships with caregivers after victimization can lead to resiliency in children and decreases the impact of the trauma. How we define caregivers is broad, from parents to professionals within a multi-disciplinary team. The 32nd Annual Victim Rights Conference affords the opportunity for professionals to come together to learn how to better support victims and their caregivers no matter where the survivor is in their journey.  Participants will hear a firsthand account of “grooming” the process through which abusers build a trusting relationship with potential victims in order to manipulate or abuse them and ways, as caregivers, they can recognize the steps and intervene. Additionally, attendees will also learn of innovative programs designed to support professionals impacted by “second victim syndrome” which can be common in those working to support those impacted by trauma. 

The goal of this educational activity is to bring together a variety of disciplines to share best practices that will ensure support for survivors and those that work alongside them. 

 

Jointly Provided by:

The Hampden County District Attorney's Office, Baystate Family Advocacy Center, and Baystate Continuing Interprofessional Education

 

 

Target Audience

This course is designed for law enforcement, mental health professionals, victim witness advocates, physicians, nurses, psychologists and community providers.  

Learning Objectives

  1. Distinguish how traumas, stress, depression, and substance misuse by caregivers can be mapped to various neuronal and reward pathway disruptions which impact parenting.
  2. Apply physiology to symptoms of disrupted caregiving which may be recognized in the clinical setting and recognize how caregiver affect and regulation impact attachment, child regulation, affect and development.
  3. Implement specific strategies to develop caregiver and child sense of safety and reward in caregiving and promote recovery from trauma.
  4. Identify the five steps of grooming.
  5. Discuss long term psychological impacts of the grooming process.
  6. Identify ways to support the growth of a victim toward survivorship in their caregiving role.
  7. Explore tools and practical steps to incorporate trauma informed practices when working with children and families during child abuse investigations.
  8. Identify attainable goals for their MDT and individual practices in an effort to incorporate a more trauma informed response.
  9. Discuss the available resources to continue their efforts to establish a more trauma informed approach.
  10. Discuss the concept of Second Victim Syndrome.
  11. Recognize the need for Peer Support Programs.
  12. Identify additional resources in addition to Peer Support. 
Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 4.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 4.50 ANCC Contact Hours
  • 4.50 APA American Psychological Association
    Baystate Health is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Baystate Health maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
  • 4.50 ASWB Continuing Education Credit(s)
  • 4.50 IPCE Credit Hour(s)
  • 4.50 NBCC
    Baystate Health is an NBCC Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEP™) and may offer NBCC approved clock hours for events that meet NBC requirements. The ACEP solely responsible for all aspects of the program.
Course opens: 
03/01/2022
Course expires: 
04/27/2022
Event starts: 
04/27/2022 - 8:00am EDT
Event ends: 
04/27/2022 - 3:30pm EDT
Cost:
$70.00
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Program Schedule  

8:30         Welcome & Introduction
                Jessica Wozniak, PsyD
                Baystate Family Advocacy Center

8:45         Family Advocacy Center Overview
                

9:00         Keynote:  Yvonne's Story
                Yvonne Greene & Lisa McCue

10:00       Break

10:15       Amanda's Law-One Mom's Story on Effecting Change
                 Michelle Penna

11:15        Racial Inequities in Victimization

12:00        Lunch

1:00         1:11 Preventing Dating Violence
                 Anthony D. Gulluni, Hampden District Attorney

2:00          Burnout, Brains, and Befriending:  The Science of Burnout & How to Restore Resillience
                 Heather Forkey, MD & Jessica Griffin, PsyD

3:30          Adjourn

     


The design and content of Baystate Continuing Interprofessional Education (CE) activities support quality improvement in healthcare and provide fair and balanced views of therapeutic options. Faculty or planner conflicts of interest are resolved before the educational activity. Faculty Disclosure

None of the members of the faculty or planning committee have commercial relationships with commercial  companies providing goods or services used on patients.

Baystate Education Center
361 Whitney Avenue
Holyoke, MA 01040
United States

Meeting Room temperatures will fluctuate. 

Keynote Speakers
Yvonne Greene
Yvonne is a 44-year-old woman who was born and raised in Springfield, Massachusetts.  She has two daughters ages 14 and 10 and a twin sister. Yvonne is one of the lead singers of a group called “God’s Gifted” with her twin sister, younger brother and sister and has traveled many places singing God’s gospel.    In 2016 Yvonne survived an attack of domestic violence by her then husband, and the father of her two beautiful daughters.  The attack occurred in front of them and left her in a coma fighting for her life.  Yvonne courageously tells her story to shine a light on the devastating impacts of domestic violence on individuals and families and to inspire others to share their stories.  Yvonne is joined by Lisa McCue, one of the many advocates that assisted her in finding hope and resilience in her journey to healing. 

Lisa McCue
Lisa is a member of the Baystate Child Advocacy Training & Support Center.  She has been lifting up survivor’s voices for over 16 years through leadership, direct service, consultation, training and presenting on trauma informed victim services and victim rights.  Lisa’s perspective is shaped by her lived experiences.  Lisa is the current chair of the Boston Garden of Peace where her brother Kevin’s name is memorialized as a victim of homicide in 1999.  Her perspective is shaped by lived experience, learnings from the dedicated team of victim advocates she has provided leadership for, and the countless victims she has been privileged to walk beside as they journey through the aftermath of crime.  Lisa met Yvonne while working at the Family Advocacy Center and was inspired to support Yvonne’s journey in courageously telling her story as a survivor of domestic violence. 

Heather Forkey, MD
Director, Child Protection and Foster Children Evaluation Service
UMass Memorial Children's Medical Professor
Professor of Pediatrics
UMass Chan Medical School

Jessica L. Griffin, Psy.D.
Executive Director
Lifeline for Kids, Child Trauma Training Center & Resilience Through Relationships Center
Associate Professor of Psychiatry & Pediatrics
UMass Chan Medical School

Anthony D. Gulluni
Hampden District Attorney

Michelle Penna
On August 26, 2011, 20-year-old Amanda Plasse was brutally stabbed to death in her apartment in Chicopee, MA.  It was nearly two years later when it was revealed that two police officers took photographs with their personal cellphones and shared these photographs with others.  Michelle, Amanda’s mother would spend the next decade lobbying tirelessly on Beacon Hill to push through a bill banning first responders from taking and sharing unauthorized photos of crime victims, entitled “Amanda’s Law”.  This bill was signed into law on August 4, 2022.  Michelle shares her journey as a tireless advocate for her daughter to ensure that no other family has to experience what the Plasse’s did following the tragic loss of Amanda. 



Faculty Disclosure

The design and content of Baystate Continuing Interprofessional Education ( CE ) activities support quality improvement in healthcare and provide fair and balanced views of therapeutic options.  Faculty or planner conflicts of interest are mitigated before the educational activity.

None of the members of the faculty or planning committee have commercial relationships with commercial  companies providing goods or services used on patients.

In support of improving patient care, Baystate Health is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Available Credit

  • 4.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 4.50 ANCC Contact Hours
  • 4.50 APA American Psychological Association
    Baystate Health is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Baystate Health maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
  • 4.50 ASWB Continuing Education Credit(s)
  • 4.50 IPCE Credit Hour(s)
  • 4.50 NBCC
    Baystate Health is an NBCC Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEP™) and may offer NBCC approved clock hours for events that meet NBC requirements. The ACEP solely responsible for all aspects of the program.

Price

Cost:
$70.00
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Please Note:
  • Each participant must register themselves for the program.
  • Notify your Education Coordinator/ Supervisor that you have enrolled in the course and an interdepartmental funds transfer form must be submitted to Continuing Education.
In order to receive CREDIT, the evaluation must be completed by:Wed, 04/27/2022 - 1:45pm

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Cancellation:
If you must cancel, telephone Baystate Continuing Interprofessional Education at 413-322-4242 and follow your call with a written/email request.  All cancellations will incur a $25.00 fee.  Please note that we cannot refund cancellations received less than two weeks (10 business days) before the program date.

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