TCC

Digital evidence is often dry, highly technical, and less face it, potentially very boring to a trier of fact. Using computers to present information can be an effective presentation tool, but what happens when things inevitably go wrong. This lecture will discuss strategies you can quickly implement to more effectively present digital evidence and use digital presentation devices during your next court proceeding along with demonstrations of free or low cost tools you can use to increase interest in the evidence you are presenting.

This presentation addresses the common trademarks of the preferential child sexual predator and characteristics and behaviors that this person may have. The workshop will also address victim characteristics and behaviors that make the child more vulnerable. This training will identify the problem of child molestation and provide investigators with insight of what these children experience and how that knowledge can assist in better understanding the crime and thus providing a better investigation into the arrest and prosecution of the perpetrator along with providing important strategies about investigating the suspect and the crime scene are covered giving the investigator important tools needed for a successful prosecution.

These sessions will describe the changes in the brain and the chemical and genetic changes in the body of children exposed to trauma. Science describes the changes in every aspect of the brain. The chemical changes in the body and the brain impact the function of the child who then becomes the teenager and then the adult. The science that supports the process of how to address these changes with daily trauma informed care including in the home, school and work environments will be reviewed with specific recommendations for the entire lifespan of a trauma impacted person.

This is a case study co-presented by the case detective and the assigned prosecutor which details a violent attack on a 14 year old child on a Saturday morning in a quiet, suburban community by an unregistered Sex Offender from out of state. The case study walks through investigation and prosecution highlights as well as potential pitfalls. Updates to outdated departmental procedures are discussed for attendee benefit.
The prosecution involved other-act evidence that may not have been allowed without the outside-the-box thinking of the prosecutor and diligence of the case detective. This case has been presented at the Arizona Women's Initiative Network Conference in 2019, virtually at the Dallas DCAC Conference in 2021, and in-person and virtually at the 2022 Dallas DCAC Conference. Ratings for this case study were above the DCAC Conference averages both years. The presenters are from the Gilbert Police Department and the Maricopa County Attorney's Office in Arizona.

This session includes techniques forensic interviewers, child abuse investigators and legal professionals can use to evaluate the child’s interview based upon his or her statements, behaviors and emotions. While no single factor or characteristic is indicative of abuse, interviewers can utilize several factors within the interview itself to assess the reliability and credibility of a child’s report.
Such information may be used to explain the results of an interview in court, or may be used to guide the team members in establishing corroborative factors to support the child’s interview statements.

Participants will have an opportunity to review Oregon’s grassroots prevention project - “Protecting our Children: Advice From Child Molesters.” Initially developed by two veteran sex offender treatment providers, “PYC” has grown into a multi-state, multi-disciplinary child abuse prevention campaign. The project was designed to educate parents, youth service staff, educators, community volunteers and the faith community about child sexual abuse, offender behavior, risk management and more effective prevention strategies. Workshops challenge public misperceptions about children’s ability to protect themselves and promote the idea that all adults must be informed and take an active role in confronting offender behavior and promoting child safety. Information about grooming behavior, Internet crimes, victim advocacy, reporting, sexual behavior between children and talking to children about child sexual abuse are covered. Potential project benefits such as jury education and early intervention with potential offenders are expected. Classes are taught by child abuse detectives, child/victim advocates, prosecutors, probation/parole officers and sex offender treatment providers.

King County Juvenile Court CSEC Program implemented universal CSEC Screening using a validated CSEC screening tool (the CSE-IT) in Juvenile and Family Court Becca Programs in 2022. Kelly Mangiaracina, CSEC Policy and Program Manager, and Kris Bennet, CSEC Coordinator and Screener, will detail their efforts to implement this work and their preliminary screening results. This presentation will focus on the “how to” of universal screening, from staffing, to data collection, to next steps post-screen. They will discuss lessons learned in the first year of screening and describe the benefits and the drawbacks of implementing universal screening in a Juvenile Court setting.

General overview of the current DCYF Safety Framework. Review of where the material derived from and ongoing efforts to collaborate with our community and court partners to ensure safety framework is based on a standardized set of tools and guides rooted in evidence and research.Focus will be on why a global assessment serves families well and how the use of standardized tools decease bias and increase critical thinking around safety related to decision making. When we lean in with genuine curiosity we increase our ability to adequately assess and plan for safety related matters.
Will share some relevant research around safety frameworks across our country.
AAG will go over some lessons learned from TORT cases around assessing safety do’s and don’ts.

Behavioral health crises come in many forms, and most do not fit neatly into a categorical service box. No single entity or system owns full responsibility for crises, and a single entity or system is not, on its own, sufficiently leveraged to address the multi-factored complexities necessary for a healthy system. Current practice engages multiple stakeholders at many levels of leadership and various service lines and results in unclear communication and difficulty establishing a clear clinical/decision-making team. This negatively impacts patient/family experience, length of stay and degrades the ability of the clinical staff to establish an effective team process. Given the multifactorial determinants of psychiatric boarding in the ED, potential solutions will require a variety of hospital strategies, external community strategies, ideally in collaboration with one another. To address this Mary Bridge Children's serves as the backbone to a community collaborative called Kids Mental Health Pierce County (KMHPC).
Kids’ Mental Health Pierce County is a community collaborative for which Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital serves as the backbone organization. KMHPC was formed in response to the substantial increase in pediatric crisis patients in greater Pierce County, Washington. Comprised of over 100 community professionals, agencies and stakeholders, KMHPC provides community-based multidisciplinary team (MDT) meetings designed to meet the needs of youth and families experiencing complex behavioral health presentations. Each MDT lasts 60-90 minutes and additional meetings can be scheduled. The Washington State legislature recognized KMHPC and the MDTs as a best practice in response to the behavioral health epidemic and provided funding for replication across the state. The first three regions will launch in 2022 with Mary Bridge providing training and technical support. Youth boarding in emergency departments and those with developmental considerations are priority populations served.

The use of MDT's has supported the hospital and community partners with outpatient service navigation, care coordination, behavior management strategies, transitional/discharge planning, family engagement ideas and safety planning. This resource which has no financial costs to the hospital system connects patients and families with services and supports at the right time, level and as close to home as possible.

The benefits of developing a community coalition to support the behavioral health needs has direct impact on patient care by expanding resources outside of the healthcare system that are able to address the behavioral health needs; this can also impact patient length of stay and reduce risk of readmission by providing navigation and support upon discharge.

This effort also has a benefit on the community by providing the regional resource hub to streamline and coordinate behavioral health services and resources. KMHPC offers a robust website that serves as Pierce County's clearing house for comprehensive pediatric behavioral health information and resources to school-based behavioral health navigation.

This workshop will present strategies for moving beyond acknowledging the problem of disproportionality in child welfare system/court systems to using data to build evidence and engage judicial, legal, child welfare professionals, and other partners to work on strategies to reduce disparities. The workshop will include an interactive discussion centered on ways participants can utilize data to promote equity as a part of continuous quality improvement (CQI). The presenters will demonstrate specific examples that will help participants walk away with concrete ideas for steps they may take in their own work related to equity.
The workshop will demonstrate how to move from data to action: how to plan, put in place, and monitor the impact of interventions to address inequalities.

How do we create (and sustain!) safer and more affirming courts, agencies, and organizations for LGBTQIA+ youth? In part 4 of this series, participants will focus on developing their purpose, and identifying the principles and participants, as well as structural and practice changes necessary to create a safer and more affirming system. They will also develop strategies to overcome challenges.
The presenters will share lessons from the implementation of the Protocol for Safe & Affirming Care across Washington. This session is intended to provide an opportunity to apply the lessons learned in parts 1, 2, and 3 of From the Simple to the Systemic.

Meaningful, consistent family time visitation is critical to strengthening and preserving the family bond and achieving successful reunification in child dependency cases. HB 1194, Strengthening Parent-Child Visitation During Child Welfare Proceedings, was unanimously passed by the House and the Senate, and went into effect on July 25, 2021. HB 1194 made significant changes to the court’s role in ordering family time visitation with the goal of providing the maximum parent, child, and sibling contact possible, while keeping the child safe.
This presentation will review the purpose behind the changes HB 1194 made to RCW 13.34 statutes pertaining to family time visitation. Presenters will also discuss the successes and barriers that dependency courts and system partners have encountered in applying the new law, along with the work being done at the state level to support and evaluate implementation.