12th Annual Psychological Trauma &

Juvenile Justice Conference

CONFERENCE AGENDA

7:30 to 8:15                Registration

8:15 to 8:30                Opening Remarks

8:30 to 10:00              Dr. Dipesh Navsaria, MPH, MSHS, PA, MS(LIS), MD - Relationships as Reason and Route: How Relational Health Offers Solutions Amidst a                                                   Pandemic and Beyond

10:00 to 10:30             Break

10:30 to 12:00            Trasie Adams Topple, Ph.D., LCSW - Circle of Security Interventions

12:00 to 1:00               Lunch: Provided

1:00 to 2:15                 Dr. Dipesh Navsaria, MPH, MSHS, PA, MS(LIS), MD - Families Forward with Fantastic Framing: How Framing Concepts Can Advance Your                                                    Message

2:15 to 2:45                 Break

2:45 to 4:00                 Trasie Adams Topple, Ph.D., LCSW - Attending to Attachment in the Early Childhood Education: The COSP Classroom Approach

7:30 to 8:15                   Registration

8:15 to 8:30                   Opening Remarks

8:30 to 10:00                 George Ake III, Ph.D. - Pause and Reflect: Applying Trauma-Informed Principals in Every Day Practice

10:00 to 10:30               Break

10:30 to 12:00               Kelly M. Clougher, Ph.D. - Indigenizing Healing: Native American Mental Health

12:00 to 1:00                 Lunch

1:00 to 2:15                  George Ake III, Ph.D. - Pause and Reflect continued: Conceptualizing Change in Trauma-Informed Systems           

2:15 to 2:45                  Break

2:45 to 4:00                  Kelly M. Clougher, Ph.D. - Reconciliation and Healing through Decolonization and Indigenization

 ABOUT THE PRESENTERS
*For additional information about speakers visit our website at www.traumainformedcareproject.org*

Dr. Dipesh Navsaria, MPH, MSHS, PA, MS(LIS), MD is a pediatrician working in the public interest. He blends the roles of physician, occasional children's librarian, educator, public health professional and child health advocate.  With graduate degrees in public health, children’s librarianship, physician assistant studies, and medicine, he brings a unique combination of interests and experience together.

Dr. Navsaria is an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and is director of the MD–MPH program there as well as the medical director of the physician assistant program. Clinically, he has practiced primary care pediatrics, with special interest in underserved populations.  He is the founding medical director of Reach Out and Read Wisconsin. Dr Navsaria is heavily involved in both training and in the practice of child health advocacy — writing and speaking publicly locally, regionally and nationally on early brain and child development, early literacy, and advocacy to a broad variety of audiences.  He also has extensive involvement with the American Academy of Pediatrics at the state and national levels.

Committed to understanding how basic science can translate into busy primary-care settings via population health concepts and policy initiatives, Dr Navsaria aims to educate the next generation of those who work with children and families in realizing how their professional roles include being involved in larger concepts of social policy and how they may affect the cognitive and socioemotional development of children for their future benefit.

Trasie Adams Topple, Ph.D., LCSW is a licensed clinical social worker and an infant and early childhood mental health consultant.  She has worked as a clinician, researcher, consultant, and university faculty. She began her clinical practice working with Spanish-speaking families in 2008 in New Mexico where she was first trained in Circle of Security Parenting (COSP). She later completed her doctorate in social work in 2018 in her home state at the University of Georgia.  During her studies, she completed the Infant-Parent Mental Health Postgraduate Certificate Program at the University of Massachusetts-Boston. Dr. Topple has received years of clinical supervision using COSP programming and her enthusiasm for the model led her to research the impact of attachment relationships in the classroom.  She currently works as a project consultant with COS International to further develop the COSP Classroom Approach, a professional development and coaching model for early childhood professionals. In addition, she delivers and provides supervision on the Approach with school districts and Head Start centers both in Georgia and across the United States.

Dr. Topple is the co-chair of the newly formed Georgia Association for Infant Mental Health (GA-AIMH).  She has given numerous lectures and presentations, regionally and nationally, concerning the impact of early caregiving environments for infants and toddlers, protective factors of caregiving relationships, and professional development for early childhood professionals.

George Ake III, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist with over 20 years of experience in the field of child trauma treatment. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University Medical Center and an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine. Dr. Ake is also the program director for the UCLA-Duke National Center for Child Traumatic Stress, the coordinating center for the SAMSHA-funded National Child Traumatic Stress Network. He serves as the Director of Training at the Center for Child & Family Health.

Dr. Ake provides trauma treatment services at CCFH and supervises many of the psychology postdoctoral fellows and interns from Duke and UNC who provide services in the mental health clinic. He has extensive experience in providing trauma focused mental health treatment to children and adults and is becoming more well known for his work in using implementation science to guide selection, onboarding, and sustaining evidence-based treatments typically used to target symptoms secondary to trauma exposure in children. Dr. Ake’s research and training interests currently focus on implementation science, interpersonal violence, and trauma-informed child welfare practice.

Kelly M. Clougher, Ph.D.  is a descent of the Odawa (Ottawa) Nation. Her biological grandma is Mary Sharlow, her grandparents are Robert and Birdie Picard, and her parents are Mark and Sandy Picard. She is the oldest child of four, and is a mother of four children. Kelly earned a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from Ball State University and has been practicing as a Psychologist at the University of Iowa’s University Counseling Service since August 2013. Currently, she is the Associate Director for Outreach Services and Embedded Programs and serves as the President of the University of Iowa’s Native American Council (NAC). Kelly grew up in Michigan, where her homelands are. And, although has no plans to move from Iowa soon, still identifies as a Michigander.