Location: Wilmington University, New Castle, Deleware
Round 1 Sessions – 8:00 – 9:30 a.m.
Session 1-1: Profiling the Offenders of Child Sexual Exploitation – Dr. Ray Carr, Director of the Criminal Justice Institute at Wilmington University
Session 1-2: Empowering Yourself to Empower Others: Emotional Intelligence & Resilience Strategies for Helping Professionals – Dr. Shiloh Andrus, Behavioral Science Program Coordinator at Wilmington University
Session 1-3: CANCELLED How Social Media and Online Gaming Has Become the New Recruitment Center for Child Exploitation – Claudine Wiant, J.D., Programming Development Director at the Beau Biden Foundation for the Protection of Children
Session 1-4: The Risks in Foster Care – Tanya Johnson, Program Director at Pressley Ridge
Session 1-5: Empowering Educators: Understanding the Deeper Connection Between Schools and Human Trafficking – Brian Moore, Program Manager for School Climate at the Delaware Department of Education
Session 1-6: Immigration and Labor Trafficking – Seth Lupton, Managing Attorney at Lupton Law
Round 2 Sessions – 10:20 – 11:50 a.m.
Session 2-1: Transgender 101 – Dr. Ethan Levine, Research & Data Analyst at the Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking
Session 2-2: Delaware’s MDT Response to Juvenile Trafficking – Commissioner Loretta Young and Adrienne Owen, MDT Training and Policy Specialist for the Office of the Child Advocate
Session 2-3: Human Trafficking: Education for Nurses and Nurse Educators – Lisa Drews, M.S.N. Leaders Chair at Wilmington University
Session 2-4: Human Trafficking in the First State – Deputy Attorney General Caroline Brittingham and Michael Cooksey, the Investigation Coordinator for Crimes Against Children at the Office of the Child Advocate
Session 2-5: Change Your World: How Anyone, Anywhere Can Make a Difference – Lauren Foraker, internationally-certified Maxwell Leadership Team Member and traumatic brain injury survivor
Session 2-6: The Rise of RISE Delaware: A Case Study in Citizen Action – Dr. Lisa Diller, co-founder of RISE Delaware
Session 2-7: Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Investigating & Prosecuting Child Sex Trafficking – Deputy Attorney General Susan Bair Purcell and Chief County Prosecutor Abigail Rodgers
Session 2-8: Implicit and Explicit Trauma Memory: Understanding Behavioral Responses to Trauma – Dr. Lisa Adair, Chair of Wilmington University’s Clinical Mental Health Counseling Program
Round 3 Sessions – 12:50 – 2:20 p.m.
Session 3-1: “We Can’t Talk to You”: Navigating Services as a Transgender Survivor – Dr. Ethan Levine, Research & Data Analyst at the Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking
Session 3-2: The Need for Equal Protection of the Law for Delaware’s Farm & Domestic Workers – Commissioner Mary McDonough (Ret.) and Charito Calvachi-Mateyko
Session 3-3: Elder Abuse: Delaware’s Senior Protection Initiative – Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings and Chief Special Investigator Craig Weldon
Session 3-4: The Integration of Faith and Reason in Social Justice – Reverend Dr. Robin Weinstein
Session 3-5: Hope Documentary Viewing – Discussion facilitated by Lauren Arnold, MSW and Detective Mark Hogate, Diana Suchodolski, Jennifer Holmes and Amanda Garcia
Session 3-6: Transformational Goal Achieving: Pledge, Practice and Pleasure – Dr. Frank Ingraham, Adjunct Instructor at Wilmington University
Session 3-7: Unraveling Intergenerational Trauma: Building Resilience Towards Collective Well-being – Dr. Shiloh Andrus and Diana Sucholdolsky
Session 3-8: Children Missing from Foster Care Protocols – Dr. Kim Murphy, Child Welfare Program Specialist U.S. Department of Health and Human Services/Administration for Children and Families/Children’s Bureau