Thursday December 3 rd 2015 The Importance of Male Caregivers in the Treatment of Offending Youth Thursday December 3 rd 2015 9:00am to 10:30am 1.5 CEU Overview: The involvement of male caregivers is often critical to the success in treatment of youth who have sexually offended. This presentation will explore theoretical views of the importance of the male role model on developing youth, as compared and contrasted with views of mental health, probation, and family members themselves on the importance of the male caregiver in the treatment of the youth who has committed illegal sexual behaviors. Sample therapeutic issues commonly faced by male caregivers involved in the treatment of youth who have sexually offended will be discussed. Janice K. Church, Ph.D. is a Psychologist and Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Medicine. She is the Assistant Director of the Family Treatment Program and Adolescent Sexual Adjustment Project at Arkansas Children s Hospital. Dr. Church received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Louisville. She has conducted numerous workshops on child maltreatment issues at the state, national, and international levels. She is active in state and national professional organizations, particularly those with a focus on child abuse. Dr. Church is the current President of Arkansas ATSA. Karen Boyd Worley, Ph.D. is a Clinical Psychologist. She received her doctoral training at Texas Tech University. She is the Director of the Family Treatment Program and Professor of Pediatrics for the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences at Arkansas Children s Hospital. The Family Treatment Program provides treatment for families in which there has been sexual abuse. Dr. Worley is also Director of the Adolescent Sexual Adjustment Project, which provides outpatient assessment and treatment for adolescents who have committed illegal sexual behaviors. Dr. Worley is active on a number of state boards addressing child abuse issues, provides statewide training and consultation, and has several publications on child maltreatment. Adrian Sanders, B.A. is a probation officer and Sexual Abuse Management Team Coordinator for the 6 th Judicial District serving Pulaski and Perry Counties. 1
Sex Trafficking in Arkansas Thursday December 3 rd 2015 11:00am to 12:00pm 1.0 CEU Overview: Sex trafficking is a growing problem in the U.S. and many of its victims are in Arkansas. This training will explore where and how sex trafficking is happening in our state and how sex traffickers keep it hidden. Participants will learn what human trafficking is, common strategies of sex traffickers, and how we are working to alleviate the problem in Arkansas. Lorrie Barr is the State Law Enforcement Coordinator for the Arkansas Coalition Against Sexual Assault. She is responsible for providing training opportunities to law enforcement personnel, advocates, and other organizations. Training and resources are tailored for the needs of each association or agency. Ms. Barr is also responsible for collaborating with law enforcement and legal professionals to develop a benchbook that will serve as a resource on the history and development of laws criminalizing sexually violent behavior and provide a comprehensive understanding of current sexual offense laws in Arkansas. Ms. Barr has dedicated her career to advocating for social justice issues. Most recently, she worked at the Women s Foundation of Arkansas where she led the public policy committee and contributed to research on 1973/2013: A Then & Now Report on the Status of Women in Arkansas and The Economics of Educating Women in Arkansas. While at the University of Arkansas Public Policy Center she developed training programs on emerging public policy issues for the university s Cooperative Extension Service professionals.sn Ms. Barr is a graduate of the University of Central Arkansas where she received a BA in Mass Communications and has completed her coursework toward a MA in Journalism. 2
Sexuality Education for People with Autism Spectrum Disorders Thursday, December 3 rd 2015 1:30pm to 3:00pm Overview: Learning how to build social relationships, beginning with friendships and leading to intimate relationships, is a key developmental stage for young adults. For children with ASD, sexuality education is even more critical as social interaction and communication are core deficits (APA, 2000). Further impacting development in the area of sexuality education is that young people with ASD have fewer opportunities to learn from their peer groups. And let s face it- much of the information we learn about sexuality comes from our peers. Without being taught specific skills related to developing appropriate relationships, children with ASD may approach others in an inappropriate physical or verbal manner and misread subtle social cues or body language in others. Sexual development and curiosity is normal. Children with ASD deserve to understand intimate relationships and develop the skills necessary to engage in such relationships so they can become fully self- determined (Travers et al, 2014). The focus of this presentation is to build a rationale for the need for individualize sexuality education, discuss collaboration to meet the needs of children with ASD in terms of sexuality education, and present easy to use strategies to teach sexuality. The learning objectives for this session are: 1. Understand the research in Sexuality Education for People with ASD. 2. Understand the need for sexuality education across the Lifespan. 3. Develop collaboration strategies to use when teaching sexuality 4. Identify appropriate curricula for teaching sexuality. 5. Understand interventions for teaching sexuality. Peggy Schaefer Whitby, Ph.D., BCBA- D is an associate professor at the University of Arkansas and serves as the program coordinator for special education with an emphasis in autism and behavior analysis. Prior to coming to Fayetteville, she worked at UNLV as an assistant professor and directed the UNLV Center for Autism Spectrum Disorders. Her research interests are in the area of implementing evidence- based practices in the school setting. Her primary focus is on academic achievement and sexuality education. Dr. Schaefer Whitby serves as the CDC s Learn the Signs. Act Early Ambassador to the state of Arkansas. She currently works on several state and federally funded projects to help families access evidence based services in rural areas. Dr. Schaefer Whitby is an active member of the Council of Exceptional Children and the Division of Autism and Developmental Disabilities. She has contributed chapters to several DADD Prism Publications including Friendship 101 and a Guide to Teaching 3
Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Currently, Dr. Schaefer Whitby is co- authoring a position paper on Restraints and Seclusion for DADD. Additionally, Dr. Schaefer Whitby has multiple publications in peer- reviewed journals including Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, Journal of Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, Beyond Behavior, Intervention in School and Clinic, and Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities. Most importantly, Dr. Schaefer Whitby is passionate about the education of children with autism and developmental disabilities. She believes that school is the great equalizer as it provides access to evidence based services for all children. People with disabilities deserve access to education so that they can reach their highest potential and be inclusive members of society. Sex Offenders and the Legislative Process Thursday, December 3 rd 2015 3:30pm to 5:00pm Overview: This presentation will give an overview of recent legislation pertaining to sexual offenders and the presenters experience with the legislative process in general. J. Michael Wood, Ph.D. joined the Sex Offender Community Notification Assessment Program in January 2000 during the program s first months of operation. He participates in offender interviews, writes profile reports to law enforcement, trains staff, and conducts research for the program. He has collaborated with various law enforcement agencies, provided expert testimony to the courts, and worked on legislation related to sex offenders and sex offender management. He has received specialized training in research, assessment, and treatment of children, adolescents, and adults with sexual behavior problems through his affiliation with the University of Memphis and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, as well as while working with adult, male sex offenders incarcerated at the Federal Correctional Institute in Butner, North Carolina, the site of the original sexual offender treatment program for the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Dr. Wood is a licensed psychologist in Arkansas and a clinical and research member of the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers (ATSA). He is also a certified Law Enforcement Instructor by the Arkansas Commission on Law Enforcement Standards and Training He has presented about sexual offenders to professional audiences at both state and national conferences. He has conducted various research projects and co- authored an article on Arkansas Internet sex offenders that was published in Law and Human Behavior. 4
Sheri J. Flynn, MS, LSW: is currently the administrator of the Sex Offender Community Notification Assessment Program for the Arkansas Department of Correction and has with the program since September 1999. She has been an adjunct professor at the University of Arkansas Little Rock. She has worked for the Arkansas Department of Correction since June 1997. She developed the first program for intellectually challenged inmates for the Arkansas Department of Correction. Ms. Flynn worked for the Division of Children and Family Services from January 1985 until May 1997, where she specialized in the investigation of child sexual abuse. She has a Master s Degree in Criminal Justice, a Bachelor s Degree in Social Work and over 30 years experience working in the field of sex offender management. She was one of the first 100 people in the United States to be trained as a Child Sexual Abuse Intervention Specialist by the National Child Advocacy Center and the University of Alabama, Huntsville. She has been trained in the Reid Technique of Interviewing and Interrogation. She has training and experience in the investigation of Child Homicide. She has hundreds of hours of training in the realm of sexual abuse investigation and assessment. She has also participated in a number of research projects, is co- author of an article published in Law and Human Behavior and has other research projects in the works. Ms. Flynn has been a member of the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers (ATSA) since 2001. She became a Clinical Member of ATSA in 2010. She is also a certified Law Enforcement Instructor by the Arkansas Commission on Law Enforcement Standards and Training and is a sworn Correctional Police Officer. 5
What Works and What Doesn t in Sex Offender Treatment: The Principles of Effective Intervention 9:00am to 10:30am Overview: During the past two decades, numerous state, national, and international groups have developed "best practice" standards against which providers and others can evaluate their programs. This workshop will examine characteristics of effective sex offender treatment programs and noteworthy evaluation criteria being used by program standards groups in North America and abroad. Relevant research will be reviewed with a focus on how treatment providers and supervision staff can use these findings in their day- to- day work. Robert McGrath M.A. is in private practice and has over 30 years of clinical, consulting, and research experience in the field of sexual aggression. Bob was Clinical Director of the Vermont Department of Corrections integrated network of prison and community sex offender treatment programs from 1996 to 2015 Alcohol and sexual assault: The impairing effects of intoxication on bystander s ability to intervene 11:00am to 12:00pm Overview: Alcohol may be involved in more than half of all sexual assaults reported on college campuses. The majority of college sexual assaults also occur near or in the presence of a third party or bystander who could have the potential to intervene. However, the specific mechanisms by which alcohol contributes to risk for sexual assault is not well known. Alcohol intoxication may impair bystanders ability to appropriately intervene by affecting their ability to interpret a situation and decide how to effectively respond. Research addressing the effects of intoxication on risk for sexual assault will be reviewed, including results from a recent field- based study of the effects of intoxication on student s ability to interpret risky situations, focusing on the impairing effects of alcohol on potential bystanders in a naturalistic setting. Future directions for further understanding the effects of alcohol and integrating empirical results into prevention and treatment efforts will also be discussed. Alex Melkonian, M.A., Ana Bridges, PhD, Lindsay Ham, PhD Laboratory for Anxiety and Substance Abuse Research Department of Psychological Science University of Arkansas 6
Managing Sexual Thoughts and Urges 1:00pm to 2:30pm Overview: Deviant sexual interests, sexual preoccupation, and offense supportive attitudes are linked to an increased risk of sexual reoffending. This workshop will review environmental, cognitive, behavioral, and medical interventions to help individual who have committed sexual offenses learn to better manage offense related sexual thoughts and urges. Robert McGrath M.A. is in private practice and has over 30 years of clinical, consulting, and research experience in the field of sexual aggression. Bob was Clinical Director of the Vermont Department of Corrections integrated network of prison and community sex offender treatment programs from 1996 to 2015 Should We Allow Sexual Abusers to Have Contact with Children? Conducting Risk of Sexual Abuse of Children (ROSAC) Assessments Friday, December 4 th 2015 3:00pm to 4:30pm Child protective services, mental health, and corrections professionals are commonly asked to assess the risk an adult male sexual abuser poses to a particular child and under what circumstances, if any, the abuser might safely be allowed contact with the child. The Risk of Sexual Abuse of Children (ROSAC) is a 30- item a Structured Professional Judgment tool for conducting these types of risk of sexual harm assessments. The theory and research basis for the ROSAC will be reviewed briefly. The majority of the workshop will focus on using case examples to demonstrate how to score and use the instrument for making risk determinations and developing safety plans. 7