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CONFERENCE CALENDAR
Click above (or see below) for information about our next upcoming ANNUAL NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE AWARENESS CONFERENCE.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
We have joined mothers together to form a network of support; sharing knowledge, experience, ideas, efforts, resources, strength, hope, and prayers. Individually, we often feel hopeless. Collectively, with the spirit of good to guide us, we can accomplish more and more. Through our associations, we have exchanged moral support, professional resource contacts, hosted and participated in educational conferences, reform movements for family violence issues, and fundraising ideas for legal fees. For more details, you can view a list of our past annual conferences and other past events.
MEETINGS
Currently, MOLC meetings are being held bi-monthly on Thursday evenings.
After the regular meeting, a new self-help Mothers Anonymous meeting is now meeting for support to mothers interested in participating.
Contact the Sacramento chapter for details.
The newly forming Sonoma County chapter held their first meeting in November 2000. Contact the Sonoma County chapter for more information.
CONFERENCES
The main event co-sponsored by Mothers of Lost Children and California Protective Parents Association is the annual Northern California Child Sexual Abuse Awareness Conference.
The conference is a NO-COST, no-registration, conference for members of the public, professionals in all aspects of child welfare and treatment, survivors, pro survivors, and protective parents. MC LE and CEU credits are offered.
It is well-attended each year, extremely informative, and an excellent networking resource. All are welcome.
The conference is held each year in early April. See below for details about the upcoming conference. For information on past conferences and events, see our Calendar History page.
You are also welcome to contact us to inquire for information personally.
CURRENT CALENDAR
SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE AWARENESS CONFERENCE
Co-sponsored by The Institute on Violence, Abuse and Trauma (IVAT) at Alliant International University Incest Survivors Speakers' Bureau and California Protective Parents Association
Saturday, April 30, 2011
9:30 am -5:00 pm
Location: Davis Senior Center in Davis, CA
636 A Street, Davis, CA 95616
Offered at NO-cost, NO-registration required.
Optional CE credit fee: $80 on-site or by pre-registration (6 CEU's)
- Topic: Trauma Model Therapy for Child Sexual Abuse
Dr. Colin A. Ross, MD, will train attendees on the inspired techniques used successfully in his programs for patients with dual/multi-diagnosis. Trauma/sexual abuse survivors often suffer from depression, anxiety, dissociation, somatization, borderline personality, amnesias, self injury, substance abuse, eating disorders, and more. Dr. Ross's methods are tested and effective across the board for all of these conditions.
Dr. Ross directs the Trauma Program at the Timberlawn Hospital in Dallas, Texas, and consults to Trauma Programs at the Forest View Hospital in Michigan, and the Del Amo Hospital in Torrance, California. He is the author of seven books on trauma and dissociation, has authored dozens of research articles, and has presented workshops all over the world, including in Australia and China. For more about Dr. Ross, go to www.rossinst.com,
- Subtopics of the workshop include:
- The Problem of Attachment to the Perpetrator in Child Abuse Victims
- Long Term Effects of Child Abuse
- A Trauma Model of Borderline Personality Disorder
- A Dissociative Subtype of Schizophrenia
- How to Choose a Trauma Therapist
- Childhood Trauma and Eating Disorders
- Rhonda Begos, an educator, musician, entertainer, professional speaker and advocate for children's and women's rights from Milwaukee, WI, will speak in the afternoon. She is a member of the popular, nationally known band, Streetlife, the official band of the Milwaukee Bucks.
- Lunchtime viewing of Rhonda Begos's
inspirational slide presentation
- Additional activities:
- networking activities
- survivor quilts on display
NOTE Recommended text:
The highly recommended optional textbook for this workshop, Trauma Model Therapy by Colin A. Ross, 2009, is a user-friendly 306 page paperback which contains assessment tools, instructions for scoring, much of the information that will be presented, and more. Available at Amazon.com and Manitou Communications for $24.95.
This workshop will be appropriate for therapists, survivors, friends, and relatives.
NorCal Services for Deaf & Hard of Hearing are providing Sign Language interpreters for the deaf and hard of hearing, so that all members of the Deaf Community will now be able to attend free of charge.
CEU's:
This conference is co-sponsored by The Institute on Violence, Abuse and Trauma (IVAT) at Alliant International University. IVAT is approved to offer continuing education to psychologists (by the American Psychological Association), counselors (by the National Board of Certified Counselors, #5659), marriage & family therapists and social workers (by the CA Board of Behavioral Sciences, PCE#33), nurses (by the California Board of Registered Nurses, #CEP13737), attorneys (by the State Bar of California, #11600), and alcohol and drug abuse counselors (by the California Association of Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Counselors, #1s-03-499-0112). CE credits approved by CA agencies are accepted in most states. For questions regarding continuing education, please contact Patricia Smith at psmith@alliant.edu.
Professionals will be able to earn up to 6 CEU's. Registration for CE credits is $80 on-site at 9:00 am, or you may pre-register by mailing in the registration form and include a check for $80 made payable to "CPPA" postmarked no later than April 20, 2011 to ISSB, P.O. Box 74366, Davis, CA 95617.
All others are welcome to attend as always, at NO-cost and NO-registration required. All who care to may attend anonymously, if they so choose.
Click here for a PDF copy of the conference flyer.
* DIRECTIONS to the Davis Senior Center: From I-80, take Richards Blvd exit in Davis, north under the railroad tunnel, left on First Street, right on B Street to second stop light, left on 5th Street, right on A Street. Senior Center is on the right before 7th Street.
If you want to be on the mailing list for next year's conference, please send your name, mailing address and email address to ISSB, P.O. Box 74366, Davis, CA 95617 or email cppa001@aol.com.
Click above to read about our past conference presentations.
May 9, 2010 MOTHERS DAY AT THE WHITE HOUSE
May 18-20, 2010 WA DC MARCH/RALLY
October 1, 2010 WA DC OCT/RALLY
Jan 7, 2011 MOLC AT THE BMCC
THE SAFE CHILD COALITION
The Safe Child Coalition goal is to keep all our children safe. We come from many different disciplines: battered women’s agencies, incest survivor groups, parent organizations, universities, medical facilities, community service groups, bikers, therapists professionals, business people, social workers, teachers, and you. Our goal is to ignite a movement to keep children safe from physical and sexual abuse. Our coalition grows daily. Please join us. Contact: cppa001@aol.com
FUTURE EVENTS
The next annual NORTHERN CALIFORNIA CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE AWARENESS CONFERENCE will be held in April. Check back for details or contact us for more information.
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