19th Annual Conference

Advocacy and Training Alliance, LLC 

Thank you to our Conference Host!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thank you to DMHA for the Scholarhship Funds

 

 

Thank you to our Gold Sponsors 

 

                 

Biltwell Event Center 

 

950 S White River Pkwy Dr W

Indianapolis, IN 46221

https://www.biltwelleventcenter.com/

 

Close to Downtown Indianapolis

Free Onsite Parking

Free Wifi

Invite Friends!

Thursday's Agenda 

8:30am-9:00am - Registration

 

9:00am-9:15am - Welcome

 

9:15am-10:45am - Dr. Kelly Socia

Using Language to Avoid Landmines: How to Convey Scientific Facts and Cut Through Myths When Discussing Stigmatized Populations

 

10:45am-11:00am - Break

 

11:00am-12:30pm - Dr. Jane Fleishman

Teaching Consent for Sexual Wellness for Adolescents with Problem Sexual Behaviors

 

12:30pm-1:30pm - Lunch 

 

1:30pm-1:45pm - Bobby Jones Award Ceremony

 

1:45pm-4:45pm - Dr. Jane Fleishman

Sexual Wellness: Why It Matters for Adolescents with Problem Sexual Behaviors

(3:15pm-3:30pm - Break)

 

4:45pm-5:00pm - Wrap Up

 

6  CE Credit Hours Available for Thursday

To be eligible for a certificate, you must attend the entire live training and complete an evaluation form within 24 hours following the live event.

August 24 and 25, 2023

Thursday and Friday

Fees

Both days – $325
One-day only – $225
Probation and DCS- Email for a coupon code

$50 discount available if completed prior to June 15, 2023.

 

Thank you to DMHA for a  generous grant that is allowing us to keep our fees at a lower rate.  Discount taken at check out.

Friday's Agenda

8:30am-9:00am - Registration

 

9:00am-9:15am - Welcome

 

9:15am-12:30pm - Dr. Michael Caldwell

Developmental Perspectives in the Treatment of Violent Adolescents Who Are Charged with Sexual Offenses

(10:45am-11:00am - Break)

 

12:30pm-1:30pm Lunch

 

1:30pm-1:45pm - Advocacy and Training Alliance Update

 

1:45pm-4:45pm - Dr. Jane Fleishman

Living on the Intersections: Why Racial, Ethnic, Gender, and Sexual Identities Matter for Adolescents with Problem Sexual Behaviors

(3:15pm-3:30pm - Break)

 

4:45pm-5:00pm - Wrap Up

 

6 CE Credit Hours Available for Friday

To be eligible for a certificate, you must attend the entire live training and complete an evaluation form within 24 hours following the live event.

Workshop Descriptions

Using Language to Avoid Landmines: How to Convey Scientific Facts and Cut Through Myths When Discussing Stigmatized Populations -  Dr. Kelly Socia

How can we convey important scientific information to folks who are not interested in ‘statistics’ and would rather listen to their ‘gut’? How can we cut through the widespread myths and misperceptions the public has about individuals with sex crime convictions, to promote fairer and more effective policies? This presentation will examine some of the right (and wrong) ways to communicate information about controversial and stigmatizing topics to the public and policymakers, so that the underlying message has the best chance of being listened to and acted upon.

Teaching Consent for Sexual Wellness for Adolescents with Problem Sexual Behaviors - Dr. Jane Fleishman

Developing consensual sexual relationships can be a challenge particularly in the context of clients with problem sexual behaviors. However, it can be difficult to teach consent in a context where we are all-too-often asking our clients to only say no to their impulses. Using a model developed by a comprehensive sexuality educator (Vernacchio, 2014) along with the Circles of Sexuality (Dailey, 1981), we can offer innovative and informative psychoeducational methods to teach consent. Consent includes such properties as clear communication, cognitive acuity, and enthusiastic affirmation. In their absence, sexual expression is not consensual. In this highly interactive training, we’ll discuss ethical dilemmas and tools to navigate consent. A great emphasis of this training will be on the application of principles to participants’ work with adolescents.

Sexual Wellness: Why It Matters for Adolescents with Problem Sexual Behaviors - Dr. Jane Fleishman

Bringing discussions of healthy sexuality to our clients necessitates candor and a comprehensive sexuality education approach. Yet how do we create an atmosphere of positive, non-coercive, and pleasurable sexual expression for individuals with problem sexual behaviors? Using a public health model which incorporates sexual health, sexual pleasure, sexual wellbeing, and sexual justice (Mitchell et al., 2021) and the Circles of Sexuality (Dailey, 1981), we can offer our clients an opportunity to develop the tools they need for consensual sexual and intimate relationships. This session will offer participants the most up-to-date research on effectiveness of comprehensive sexuality education, two models of comprehensive sexuality education for psychoeducational groups, ample time for application of these approaches, and the opportunity for frank discussion about the challenges our clients face.

Developmental Perspectives in the Treatment of Violent Adolescents Who Are Charged with Sexual Offenses - Dr. Michael Caldwell 

This workshop will discuss the bio-psychosocial development of intimacy skills in adolescents.  The workshop will discuss how these developmental processes go off track and how to assess the factors that produce maladaptive social and intimacy skills.  The workshop will cover family dynamics that facilitate or impair the development of adaptive intimacy skills and present methods to assess relevant family functioning.  The workshop will also present guidelines for incorporating developmental issues in the treatment of these adolescents.

Living on the Intersections: Why Racial, Ethnic, Gender, and Sexual Identities Matter for Adolescents with Problem Sexual Behaviors - Dr. Jane Fleishman

For adolescents with problem sexual behaviors, adolescents who have been marginalized because of their racial, ethnic, gender, or sexual identities have additional concerns. For many of these adolescents, arriving at a community or correctional residential program can evoke fears and concerns about harassment, bullying, or discrimination. This program will offer clinicians up-to-date information on language, biopsychosocial challenges, and information about activities for psychoeducational groups to allow these adolescents an opportunity to express their fears, hopes, and desires in a unique environment of inclusion.

Advocacy and Training Alliance, LLC has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7337. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Advocacy and Training Alliance, LLC is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

To be eligible for a certificate, you must attend the entire live training and complete an evaluation form within 24 hours following the live event.

Speakers

Dr. Kelly M. Socia, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the School of Criminology and Justice Studies at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, where he is also an assistant director for the Center for Public Opinion. His research interests include punitive views, sex offense policies, public opinion, and policymaking.
Dr. Kelly M. Socia, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the School of Criminology and Justice Studies at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, where he is also an assistant director for the Center for Public Opinion. His research interests include punitive views, sex offense policies, public opinion, and policymaking.
Jane Fleishman, PhD, MEd, MS, is an educator, writer, researcher, and author of The Stonewall Generation: LGBTQ Elders on Sex, Activism, and Aging. She presents regularly to organizations working to prevent sexual violence, is on a mission to promote sexual wellness, and doesn’t shy away from the difficult and complex realities of making that happen. She co-hosts a regular podcast on sex and aging, Our Better Half.
Jane Fleishman, PhD, MEd, MS, is an educator, writer, researcher, and author of The Stonewall Generation: LGBTQ Elders on Sex, Activism, and Aging. She presents regularly to organizations working to prevent sexual violence, is on a mission to promote sexual wellness, and doesn’t shy away from the difficult and complex realities of making that happen. She co-hosts a regular podcast on sex and aging, Our Better Half.
Dr. Michael F. Caldwell, Psy.D. is recently retired from positions as a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, and a Senior Staff Psychologist at the Mendota Juvenile Treatment Center and as a Co-Investigator with the MIND Research Network at the University of New Mexico. He has served as a consultant to the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Juvenile Justice, the National Academy of Sciences International Scientific Forum on Neuroscience and the Law, Sandra Day O’Connor School of Law at Arizona State University, the Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada – Las Vegas, the Mitchell Hamlin School of Law in St. Paul, among many others. He was a psychotherapist for 35 years and has published over 45 research publications or book chapters on the assessment and treatment of violent adolescents. He received his Master’s in Counseling Psychology from Kansas State University in 1976 and his doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the University of Denver in 1988.
Dr. Michael F. Caldwell, Psy.D. is recently retired from positions as a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, and a Senior Staff Psychologist at the Mendota Juvenile Treatment Center and as a Co-Investigator with the MIND Research Network at the University of New Mexico. He has served as a consultant to the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Juvenile Justice, the National Academy of Sciences International Scientific Forum on Neuroscience and the Law, Sandra Day O’Connor School of Law at Arizona State University, the Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada – Las Vegas, the Mitchell Hamlin School of Law in St. Paul, among many others. He was a psychotherapist for 35 years and has published over 45 research publications or book chapters on the assessment and treatment of violent adolescents. He received his Master’s in Counseling Psychology from Kansas State University in 1976 and his doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the University of Denver in 1988.

Learning Objectives

This conference is designed to help you

1. Utilize strategies for improving communication of statistics to the courts and clients we serve. 

2. Describe the informative psychoeducational methods to teach consent to youth who have engaged in sexually harmful behaviors.  

3. Understand what tools youth who engage in sexually problematic or harmful behaviors need in order to develop healthy consensual relationships. 

4. Understand how developmental perspectives impact the treatment of youth who adjudicated with a sexually harmful crime. 

5. Identify ways that each treatment program can allow for opportunities for racial, ethnic, gender, and sexuality to be addressed in psychoeducational groups. 

 

FAQ

When is this year conference?   Our 19thannual conference will be held Thursday & Friday, August 24 and 25, 2023.

Will the conference be in person for virtual?  The 2023 Conference will be in-person unless the venue or city regulations change the regulation.

Will there be a virtual option? No, at this time, the only conference agenda being planned is for in-person

How much is registration?   Both days – $325; One-day only – $225; $50 discount available if registration is completed prior to June 15, 2023.  DMHA Grant allows for lower fees, to be discounted at checkout.

Can we get a refund for registration?  Yes, we offer full refunds for registration if you email training@advocacyandtraining.org  by July 31, 2023. We cannot process refunds after this date.

Can I attend one day, or do I have to attend both?  You can attend 1 or both days of the conference. If you are only attending 1 day, you will select which day you will be attending when you complete your online registration.

Can I transfer my registration to someone else if I can no longer attend the conference?  No, with our registration system, we are not able to offer transfers.

What type of CE hours does your conference offer?  The conference offers up to a total of 12 Continuing Education Hours for Indiana LSW, LCSW, LMFT, LMHC through Indiana Professional Licensing Association. (CE License #- 98000590A)

Advocacy and Training Alliance, LLC has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7337. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Advocacy and Training Alliance, LLC is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.