A - Trust Based Parenting

Dr. Purvis will provide a workshop featuring an in-depth exploration of factors related to sensory processing: signals from the child, ways to recognize and interpret the signals, and ways to intervene in parenting and supporting parents and kids

Presented by Dr. Karyn Purvis Ph.D

B - Healing Kids from Hard Places in a Full-service Abuse Prevention and Treatment Agency
This workshop will provide an historical perspective on society's responses to childhood trauma, identifying key factors in the area of prevention as well as treatment that continue into today's new theories and neurobiological understandings.

Presented by Dr. Walter Howard Smith, Jr. Ph.D

C - Honesty, Authenticity, Unconditional Love
This is a discourse on the importance of Honesty, Authenticity and Unconditional Love as the cornerstones for the application of Trauma-Informed Theory.

Presented by Sharon Sutton, MA

D - Trauma-Informed Care and Student School Success
This workshop will assist participants in identifying symptamology of trauma survivors in the school setting. Barriers to intervention for both school personnel and therapeutic providers will be discussed, as well as options for intervention in the school environment.

Presented by Dr. Christine White-Taylor and Kelly Ryan-Schmidt, LCSW

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Healing From Trauma - In Their Own Words

Friday, December 2, 2011  •  12:00 - 12:30PM
Emelia Jack
Originally from a Mayan Indian tribe in Coban, Guatemala, Emmy was adopted by a Pennsylvania family at the age of 9. Having left the only life she had known behind, Emmy went through multiple placements. Now 17, Emmy will tell her story of a history of abuse and how she is overcoming her trauma with the help of her forever family.

Saturday, December 3, 2011  •  10:45AM - 12:00PM
Diana Federici
Ms. Federici will share some of her life experiences from the abuse through healing and "how I got here!" She will take you through her roller coaster ride of treatments, therapists, modalities, safe places, journaling, art work, music, therapists, body work, group work, therapists, family support, safety techniques and...therapists! May you take with you bits of wisdom and ideas to utilize in your work with the children who need you so.  

Diana is an adult survivor of childhood sexual abuse and incest who has been dealing with repressed memories for 14 years. An independent artist, she has used jewelry and fabric design to express the evolution of her healing and bring awareness to sexual abuse. Ms. Federici is also a graduate of SUNY at Buffalo with a degree in Occupational Therapy. In addition to her private practice, she has worked with children and adults in a variety of health care settings including hospitals, long term care facilities, educational and residential treatment settings, and home care. In speaking to therapists, it is her hope that she impacts more and more of her peers.

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