Hope, Presence and Attachment
BREAKING THE CYCLES DRIVING ALL FORMS OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING
PART ONE: DECEMBER 3, 2021, 9 AM - 4:30 PM
PART TWO: DECEMBER 8, 2021, 9 AM - 4:30 PM
LIVE SESSIONS HAVE CONCLUDED. PLEASE REGISTER BELOW TO VIEW RECORDED SESSIONS.Trauma does not discriminate. It affects individuals of all ages, developmental levels, and backgrounds. When a survivor of complex trauma, like labor or sex trafficking, demonstrates challenging behavior, those attempting to assist the victim can often fall into a cycle of frustration and power struggle, resulting in a lose/lose outcome. In this training, we will explore historical, cultural, and environmental factors, how they impact us across generations and drive the seemingly confusing actions of trafficking survivors. To unravel these complexities, we will turn to the ever-evolving world of neurobiology, which shows us more strikingly everyday how we are hardwired for connection. Replacing power struggles with brain-based interventions, we will help create the environment needed to improve cooperation, participation, and outcomes.
Participants will be introduced to the neurobiology of trauma as it relates to human trafficking, how this same neurobiology of connection is used to entrap and maintain a hold on victims, possible ways to break the trauma bond and promote healing. The components of successful trauma resolution and the top five resilience factors found in those who move beyond their trauma, especially those found in traffic victims who move beyond their experiences will be presented.
We will also explore how parallel process and secondary trauma impacts everyone working with complex trauma survivors and what can be done to lessen and address them. By looking at what research tells us and what our work experiences have shown us, we will develop strategies to assist in negotiating this work that is as important as it is challenging. Participants will leave more aware of the power of the work they do, and how to enhance connection, healing, resiliency and hope from their role in addressing human trafficking.
This is part-one of an advanced learning cohort around trauma-responsive care consisting of a series of trainings that will build successively on each training. Please join us!
Approved for Ohio CLE Replay Credit.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Identify the centrality of relationships in human growth and development and how the quality of relationships affects brain development and helps keep trafficking hidden.
Recognize the basic neurobiology behind the power of connection, how it is used by traffickers to entrap and maintain a hold on their victims and keep helping professionals and the public focused on what is wrong with victims.
Engage the neurobiology of connection to shift your focus to what has happened to victims and what have they done to survive allowing them to recognize the hidden signs of trafficking.
Explore cultural context and its impact physically, psychologically, behaviorally, as well as on keeping trafficking hidden.
Distinguish Mood Syntonic vs. Mood Dystonic Abuse; PTSD vs. Complex PTSD and Biologically Based Fear Responses
Recognize and explore ways of developing in trafficking survivors the five resilience factors found in people who overcome and do not recreate their traumatic experiences.
BIOS
Mary Vicario is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor Supervisor (LPCC-S) and a Certified Trauma Specialist with over 30 years’ experience working with trauma survivors of all ages and ability levels and training on trauma informed care nationally and internationally. She has been a People-to-People delegate to China and Mongolia with the American Counseling Association and guest lectured and participated in a conference on human trafficking in Germany. She holds a Certificate in Traumatic Studies from Bessel van der Kolk’s Trauma Center at the Justice Resource Institute and has also been honored with a CASA award for cooperative casework. As a former teacher, clinician, and clinical director and now as the founder of Finding Hope Consulting, LLC, Mary has many years’ experience working with trauma survivors, addictions, and training. Receiving ongoing training at international conferences and Harvard Medical School since 1992, she has been bringing home to Ohio the latest in neuroscience and trauma research to create cutting edge training and programming for individuals of all ages and ability levels and the systems that work with them. Ms. Vicario is a trainer and coach for the Ohio Child Welfare Training Program and co-authored the Foster Parents' Survival Guide, a textbook chapter in Counseling Children and Adolescents: Connecting Theory, Development and Diversity by Sondra Smith-Adcock and Catherine Tucker Eds through Sage Publishing, and other trauma informed articles and curricula. She has been an expert witness on abuse since 1989 and worked with Hamilton County Courts for eight years creating cross system care for the 300 most challenging youth in the county. Mary is a proud recipient of multiple grants to further develop and link trauma informed care across systems and communities in Ohio and is honored to provide Trauma Responsive Care Certification through the Tristate Trauma Network for anyone working with trauma survivors.
Dr. Veronica R. Barrios is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Science and Social Work at Miami University-Oxford, Ohio. Her research focuses on understanding and exposing the culture of nondisclosure of sexual violence. She integrates theory, research, and practice, to assist in increasing social accountability for continued sexual violence. Dr. Barrios works with survivors of sexual violence to inform and address family and social practices that silence survivors. She also develops training around sexual and interpersonal violence, trauma responsive approaches, and transformative interviewing skills.
T. Dean Swartz is a veteran of 35 years in the human services of field. His training approach is grounded in the mantras of "dignity and respect for all", "learning can be fun" and "it's a marathon, not a sprint". Dean has presented on the local, state, and national levels and has a comprehensive list of topics that he is passionate about. These include trauma-informed and trauma-responsive care, vicarious trauma, organizational trauma, developmental disabilities, mental illness, co-occurring illness, caregiving, community inclusion, person-centered planning, behavior, and crisis de-escalation and intervention. Dean has a M.Ed. in Special Education with a focus in Autism. Dean has a family of four challenging and amazing children and his wonderful wife, Lynn.
Marian Stuckey is a Licensed Independent Social Worker with Supervisory status with over 10 years of experience working in the mental health and public health fields. Additionally, Marian has a Master’s of Business Administration. Marian is passionate about working with diverse groups of people and has served many years in underserved communities working alongside and in partnership to support positive change. Marian’s career has focused on uplifting opportunities for healing and wellness with a special focus on Persons of Color including working on issues of racialized trauma, organizational and leadership development, grief, and general mental health support and coping. Marian has served in government, as a therapist, and a university lecturer. Most, recently Marian opened a private practice therapy business called MindShift Counseling and Consulting, LLC. Marian enjoys reading and spending time with her son.
This presentation was produced under grants 2020-VM-BX-0003 and 2020-VT-BX-0080 awarded to AO: Advocating Opportunity by the Office for Victims of Crime, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice. The opinions, findings, and conclusions expressed are those of the grantee and do not necessarily represent the official position of the U.S. Department of Justice.