MACA is pleased to announce our 8th Annual Statewide Conference 

Healing, Hope and Justice: An Advanced Conversation 

*** Conference Agenda ***

*** Session Descriptions ***

*** Presenter Biographies ***

Featuring a keynote from Mary Mazzio, Writer/Director/Producer of the film I AM JANE DOE  and Jessica Soto, Ropes & Gray Associate featured in the film, which chronicles the legal battle waged on behalf of victims of child sex trafficking on the classified advertising website, Backpage. 

Also featuring a plenary from Denise Edwards, Director of Government Affairs for the National Children's Alliance, who will speak about making the CAC voice heard at the national level.

Join us for a full day of professional development and networking with national experts and local colleagues, education on best practices and innovative methodologies for responding to children who have experienced sexual or physical abuse, and the following breakout workshops (click the workshop title to read the full description):

• Following the Evidence in the CSEC (Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children) Forensic Interview - Presenter: Julie Kenniston, MSW, LISW, National Criminal Justice Training Center 
• Doing What Works: Evidence-Based Treatments and Innovations in Children's Advocacy Centers - Presenter: Kelly Kinnish, PhD, Georgia Center for Child Advocacy
• When to Make a Mountain Out of a Molehill: The Significance of Sentinel Injuries - Presenter: Sasha Svendsen, MD, UMASS Memorial Medical Center
• Research Collaboration on the Prosecution of Child Sexual Abuse - Presenters: Stephanie Block, PhD, UMASS Lowell and Linda Williams, PhD, Wellesley Centers for Women
• Technology, Child Pornography and Trafficking - Presenter: Christopher Kelly, JD, Massachusetts Attorney General's Office
• Mental Health Services Response to the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children: Trauma-Focused Evidence-Based Treatment + Provider Training -  Presenter: Kelly Kinnish, PhD, Georgia Center for Child Advocacy
• Vicarious Trauma and Building Resiliency in Child Abuse Organizations - Presenters: Michele Mullen, MSW, LCSW and Sue Ascione, MS, Northeast Regional Children's Advocacy Center
• Pediatric Sexual Assault Evidence Collection and Crime Lab Analysis - Presenters: Michelle Levasseur, MS, Mass. State Police Crime Laboratory, and Rachel Niemiec, MSN, FNP-BC, Pediatric Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner
• Supporting Immigrant Survivors of Sexual Assault in Uncertain Times -Presenter: Hema Sarang-Sieminski, JD, Victim Rights Law Center

CEUs for Social Work, Nursing, and Licensed Mental Health Counselors available for an additional $25 per person. 

This program has been approved for 5.5 Social Work Continuing Education hours for relicensure, in accordance with 258 CMR. Collaborative of NASW and the Boston College and Simmons College Schools of Social Work Authorization Number: D 73559.

This program is approved for 5.7 Category 1 MaMHCA hours for re-licensure, in accordance with 262 CMR.

This continuing nursing education activity was approved by the Northeast Multistate Division, an accredted approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation (5.75 contact hours).

 

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Please note the deadline for cancellation is April 24th. Refunds will not be issued after this date.

Conference room block is open at the Sheraton Framingham Hotel, at the special rate of $135 per night (plus tax). For reservations, please call the Sheraton reservations line at 888-627-7184 and mention the Massachusetts Children's Alliance (Group ID: 35684).   Update: the room block has been extended to be open until April 23rd!