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DV Update - Domestic Violence Update
and Suicide Prevention and Assessment Strategies
Friday, November 6, 2009 - Thanks for Attending!

A one-day Continuing Education Conference, 2 sessions (participate in both, just the DV update, or just Suicide Prevention and Assessment Strategies)

Session 1 - DV Update:
Emberly Cross, J.D., MSW, Coordinating Attorney San Francisco Cooperative Restraining Order Clinic and Raylene Robinson, M.A., MFT.

Session 2 - Suicide Prevention and Assessment Strategies:
Raylene Robinson, M.A., MFT.

Domestic Violence Update- DV Update
4 hours BBS, BRN, (MCEP approved).
Continental breakfast provided
RCED 944S - Domestic Violence Update

Suicide Prevention and Assessment Strategies
4 hours BBS, BRN, (MCEP approved).
Afternoon snack provided
RCED 944Y - Suicide Prevention & Assessment

Attend both Domestic Violence Update and Suicide Prevention
8 hours BBS, BRN, (MCEP approved).
Continental breakfast, lunch and afternoon snack provided
RCED 944Z - DV Update & Suicide Prevention

Location:
Butte College Chico Center Room CHC 160
2320 Forest Ave
Chico, CA

For more enrollment information please click here

Who Should Attend?

Psychologists, marriage and family therapists, social workers, mediators and custody evaluators, nurses, physician, educators, law enforcement, and attorneys interested in the current laws and research in the field and requiring DV Update training.

DV Update Description:

The DV Update program meets the mandatory domestic violence update required for court-appointed evaluators and mediators.

Topics include the use of different types of restraining orders in domestic violence cases, new laws relating to domestic violence, mediators and custody evaluators, and new social science research regarding families experiencing domestic violence.

The DV Update will also include instruction in:

• Facts and statistics about domestic violence
• How to interview and screen survivors of domestic violence
• Assessing risk factors
• Safety planning with victims of domestic violence
• Resources and referrals in Butte County

Learning objectives:

• Understand how domestic violence intersects court and custody evaluation processes
• Know which California laws and rules apply in custody cases
• Learn about new DV laws
• Understand and integrate expectations of National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges in custody evaluations for families experiencing domestic violence
• Understand facts about domestic violence and abusive behaviors
• Increase awareness and knowledge about the prevalence of domestic violence
• Understand the role and responsibility of interviewing and screening survivors of domestic violence
• Learn how to assess risk in a domestic violence situation
• Learn how to assist a survivor in developing a safety plan
• Become knowledgeable about the various resources available to survivors of domestic violence

Suicide Prevention and Assessment Strategies Description:

Who should attend?

This hands-on workshop is designed for a wide variety of audience members including, marriage and family therapists, social workers, psychologists, mental health workers, case managers, guidance counselors, teachers, trauma specialists, physicians, psychiatric nurses, clergy, pastors, and pastoral counselors, treatment center workers and para-professionals.

The workshop will provide instruction in:

• Understanding agency, department and/or county policy and procedure regarding suicide prevention
• Statistics overview – within the United States and nationally
• Identifying the goals of suicidal people
• Awareness of common suicide beliefs
• Recognizing child/adolescent concepts of death
• Understanding differences: myths vs. facts
• Identifying suicide high risk periods and red flags
• Suicide prevention & intervention strategies

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the importance of gaining a knowledge of one's Agency, Department and/or County Policy & Procedure(s) re: Suicide Prevention
• Obtain and Overview Suicide Statistics Nationally within the United States as well as Worldwide (including: male vs. female; suicide rates & ethnicity, youth suicide rates statics; suicide statics among college students)
• Identifying the Goals Of Suicidal People
• Understanding Common Beliefs About Suicide (including: religion, culture, family history, and tunnel vision component)
• Reviewing Children/Adolescents View of Death
• Exploring Suicide Myths vs. Risk Factors
• Identifying Suicidal Facts related to: Mental Health Disorder; Substance abuse; History of previous attempts; symptom of Hopelessness; issues of bereavement recent significant loss; role of impulsive or aggressive behavior; influence of runaway behaviors; social isolation factors; and family history of Suicide and suicide behavior in males verses females.
• Gain an Understanding of Clients “At Risk” Suicidal Behaviors – High Risk Periods and “Red Flag” issues
• Become familiar with Prevention and Intervention Strategies ranging from assessment, understanding at risk threats, history of gestures and Therapeutic Intervention
• Utilizing Active Listening Skills to Identify and implementation as an intervention strategy in working with suicidal clients – In class activity to practice a specific technique in working with a suicidal person
• Be familiar with resources on suicide prevention and intervention
• Identify “What not to do”

Conference Agenda:

Presenters Bios:

Emberly C. Cross JD MSW , Coordinating Attorney
Cooperative Restraining Order Clinic
San Francisco CA

Emberly Cross has been the Coordinating Attorney at the Cooperative Restraining Order Clinic in San Francisco since 1996, helping domestic violence victims obtain restraining orders and child custody and support orders. She obtained her law degree and her Master's of Social Work degree from the University of Michigan. Prior to working at CROC, she was in private practice in family law in San Francisco.

Before practicing law, she was on staff at the University of Michigan's Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center in Ann Arbor, where she directed the sexual assault and dating violence crisis line and the sexual assault emergency response team on campus. She has served on the Board of Directors of W.O.M.A.N., Inc. in San Francisco, which provides a 24-hour crisis line and non-shelter based counseling to victims of domestic violence. She has volunteered with domestic violence and sexual assault crisis lines and emergency response teams in San Francisco and in Michigan

She is currently a member of the Advisory Committee of San Francisco SafeStart, a federal initiative to reduce the incidence and impact of violence on young children ages 0-6 and a member of the California Partnership to End Domestic Violence's Public Policy and Research Committee. She has been a co-chair of the Children Witnessing Domestic Violence subcommittee of the California Alliance Against Domestic Violence's public policy committee, and a co-chair of San Francisco's Domestic Violence Consortium. She routinely conducts trainings on restraining orders and legislative updates in the Bay Area and throughout California.

Raylene Robinson, MA, MFT
Marriage, Family & Child Therapist, Paradise, CA

Raylene Robinson has considerable experience with and has specialized in counseling children adolescents and their families or caregivers in relationship to a broad range of concerns that are impacting their lives. She has worked in a variety of therapeutic contexts including Mental Health Therapist, Child Protective Services Practitioner, K-12 grade Educational Counselor, Children's Grief Counselor, College Faculty member, Group Home administrator, and as a Supervisor of a Forensic Adolescent Mental Health Clinic. Raylene has specific experience in the areas of family separation, effects of abuse, school-related difficulties, social-relational difficulties, parenting issues and working with individuals affected by concerns about anxiety or depression. Raylene enjoys cognitive-behavioral therapeutic interventions to work with individuals, families and in group settings. Raylene also values and appreciates the work she has done or is currently doing to support children and families of ethnic minorities and/or those affected by socio-economic disadvantages.

Enrollment Information:

The conference is set up into two sessions, the DV Update and Suicide Prevention and Assessment Strategies. You can choose to attend the full day conference, just the DV update or just Suicide and Prevention Strategies. If you attend both sessions it will include lunch. We will also serve coffee, refreshments, and some light breakfast before the first session.

Phone Enrollment:
Please call our office, 530-898-6105

Purchase Orders:
We take purchase orders.

Purchase orders require the full name of the participant(s), the title and course number of the conference and the total amount.

Please complete a conference registration form for each participant, and make sure it is sent in with the PO.

FAX your PO with the completed registration form(s) to 530-898-4020 or mail to CSU, Chico Continuing Education, 400 West First Street, Chico, CA, 95929-0250.

Please note: that POs are not transferrable and that a new one will need to be submitted if there is a change in participants. In the event that a participant cannot attend the conference and is eligible for a refund, the University will issue the refund to the participant and not the issuing organization.

Location: Butte College Chico Center Room CHC 160, 2320 Forest Avenue, Chico,CA

Questions? Please give us a call, 530-898-6105.

Continuing Education
BBSE - BRN - MCEP
CSU, Chico Continuing Education is an approved continuing education provider for the Board of Behavioral Sciences Examiners (BBSE Provider PCE 799), the Board of Registered Nursing (BRN Provider 00656), and the California Psychological Association Accrediting Agency (MCEP Provider CAL-123).

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