Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Teens with Developmental Disabilities Webinar 2/20/08

Dear Colleague:
We are excited to announce our upcoming Web training, Teens with
Developmental Disabilities: Victimization, Risk, and Intervention,
February 20, 2008, at 2:00 p.m. ET. The training is part of our
Web-based series on helping teen victims of crime, moderated by Mitru
Ciarlante, director of our Teen Victim Initiative. Karen Rogers, Ph.
D., a licensed clinical psychologist and expert on the assessment and
treatment of children and families exposed to trauma, will be the
featured presenter.
People with developmental disabilities experience higher rates of
victimization than their typically developing peers. Dr. Rogers will
address these disparities by reviewing the ecological risk factors
faced by youth with developmental disabilities and explaining the connection
between culture, developmental disabilities, and youth victimization.
She will also present a model for intervention.
Dr. Rogers serves as Program Area Leader for Project Heal, the trauma
treatment and training program at Children's Hospital Los Angeles
(CHLA) Mental Health Services at the University of Southern California
University Center for Excellence on Developmental Disabilities (USC
UCEDD). Her clinical specialty is assessment and treatment of children
and families exposed to trauma.
Registration is free, but spots are limited. We ask multiple
participants attending from the same location to register as one
person and view the presentation together.
To register or to access training materials, visit ncvc.webex.com.
For assistance, please contact Mira Krivoshey in the Teen Victim Initiative at 202-467-8747 or
mkrivoshey@ncvc.org.
We encourage you to register early because the response to our previous trainings has been overwhelming. You can
download the materials from past sessions at www.ncvc.org/tvp/main.aspx?dbID=DB_TeenTA151.
Through this Web training series, we explore topics online to help
victim assistance providers and allied professionals provide informed,
culturally competent, and developmentally appropriate responses to
teen victims and their families. We can provide these trainings at no cost
to you with the support of a grant awarded by the Office for Victims of
Crime, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice.
Please forward this e-mail announcement to anyone who may be
interested and include this information in your upcoming publications or on your
Web site.
Thank you.

Mary Lou Leary
Executive Director
National Center for Victims of Crime

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