Conferences

		Conference Outreach
		The Emancipation Project Participates in Professional Conferences
		Upcoming Conferences: San Diego, California / September 19-21, 2005 This conference is a unique forum for people from all disciplines and philosophies to gather together to exchange information and discuss differences and similarities in what we do and how we do it. The conference covers all aspects of family violence prevention, intervention, and research in the areas of child maltreatment, teen abuse, judicial issues, sexual assault, law enforcement, treatment of offenders, intimate partner violence, elder abuse, and more. Part 1: Regulating juvenile abductions and abusive confinement in private residential facilities Presenter: Thomas F. Coleman, Esq. Part 2: Rescuing juveniles from parent-funded abuse in private residential facilities Presenter: Thomas F. Coleman, Esq. Click here for link to conference website. Past Conferences: 10th Annual New York State Child Abuse Prevention Conference Albany, NY / April 11-13, 2005 Workshop: Abduction and Reprogramming of American Teens: The Need to Regulate Businesses That Abuse, Torture, and Kill Thomas F. Coleman, J.D., Executive Director, Emancipation Project; Nora J. Baladerian, Ph.D., Psychologist, Disability-Abuse and Personal Rights Project and the Emancipation Project In an effort to prevent child abuse, it is essential that information about so-called treatment centers for “troubled teens” becomes public and becomes common knowledge when these centers are, in fact, maltreating children. Presenters will describe the growing national problem of business profiting from the abduction, confinement, and reprogramming of so-called “troubled juveniles,” including their own story of saving a young girl from one of these “reprogramming centers.” Parents are deceived by marketing, and children are traumatized by abductors and abused at reprogramming facilities. If feasible, one or two young people who have survived these camps will talk about their experiences. Presenters will offer solutions which require cooperation of parents, child welfare agencies, law enforcement officials, advocacy groups, and legislators. Power Point Presentation will introduce the issues. Presenters will address and expand upon these issue areas. Questions and answers will follow each segment of the presentation. 15th National Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect April 18 - 23, 2005, Boston, Massachusetts The Children's Bureau of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services sponsors this biennial conference at which professionals and volunteers discuss a broad range of policy, research, program, and practice issues concerning the prevention, intervention, and treatment of child abuse and neglect. Roundtable discussions, poster and plenary sessions, and workshops bring together many disciplines and perspectives to foster new working relationships, exchange information on research, and review practice issues and model programs. Dr. Nora Baladerian, President of the Emancipation Project, is presenting at the conference. Thomas F. Coleman, Executive Director, is attending. Together they will distribute our new brochure: "Behind Closed Doors." The brochure focuses on the need for more creative and effective use of existing laws against child abuse and neglect. It also invites child abuse prevention professionals to work with the Emancipation Project to protect minors who are abducted and/or confined in private residential facilities. Fourth National Symposium on Victims of Federal Crime March 7–11, 2005, Atlanta, Georgia The Federal Symposium is designed to meet the training needs of new and experienced personnel from federal, military, and tribal justice systems and improve the way victims of federal crime are treated. Participants from the federal victim assistance field include: Federal law enforcement officers, Criminal investigators, Prosecutors, Correctional officers, Victim specialists/coordinators and Victim advocates, Military and consular officers, Mental health professionals, and others. Dr. Nora Baladerian, President of the Emancipation Project, is attending the conference and will distribute our new brochure to the 1,000 people in attendance. The brochure focuses on the various federal statutes which may be used to protect victims of the abduction and reprogramming industries and to prosecute offenders. Click here to access the brochure -- Forgotten Victims: Kids in Captivity -- which can be printed one side at a time and then folded so that you can share it with others. 10th NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE ABUSE OF CHILDREN AND ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES / MARCH 14-16, 2005 / RIVERSIDE CALIFORNIA Presenters will include national and international experts in the areas of abuse detection and reporting; abuse investigation (physicians, social workers, detectives, law enforcement), interviewing (forensic psychologists, forensic interviewers), prosecutors, police, judges; psychotherapy and supportive services (Victims Services, psychotherapists, disability advocates), and Researchers. Disability Services experts will provide the perspective of their services and their interaction with the criminal justice and protective services agencies. Sexual Assault & Rape Treatment Centers will be represented, as well as other post assault services providers. Audience members will include professionals in the fields of child abuse, children's services, child & adult protection services, disability related services (Regional Center Services) physicians, attorneys, social workers, psychologists, marriage and family therapists, certified counselors, trauma specialists, service administrators, special education professionals (teachers, teacher's aides, principals, school district personnel), police officers, paramedics, all first-responders to child abuse or dependent adult abuse. We will also provide special workshops by and for parents and other family members of individuals with disabilities who have experienced abuse, and individuals with disabilities who have experienced abuse. Thomas F. Coleman, Executive Director of the Emancipation Project, will attend this conference and share information with those in attendance about private residential facilities committing abuses against juveniles, many of whom have disabilities.
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