Speakers

Wendi Babst began her career with the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office in 1984, working as a civilian employee in the Records Unit. In 1988, she was promoted to Deputy Sheriff and was assigned to the Patrol division -- serving in a range of assignments from field training officer to public information officer. After a decade of service, she was promoted to Detective, working with the Major Crimes Team. In 2006, Babst was promoted to Sergeant, heading up the multidisciplinary Domestic Violence Enhanced Response Team (DVERT) and also leading the Cadet program and the Hostage Negotiation Team. She also leads a new tri-county Internet Crimes Against Children initiative. She is an instructor on topics that include verbal judo, law-enforcement ethics, criminal investigation, elder-abuse investigation and media relations. In 2002, Babst was honored by the Sheriff’s Office with a meritorious service award and in 2005, she was honored as the deputy of the year, and also with a distinguished service award from the Oregon Peace Officers Association.

Jan Chozen Bays, MD, is a pediatrician specializing in the evaluation of children for possible abuse and neglect. After graduating from Swarthmore College she received medical training at U.C. San Diego. For ten years she served as medical director of the Child Abuse Response and Assessment Center (CARES NW) at Legacy Children’s Hospital in Portland, Oregon -- where over 1,000 children and families are seen each year for concerns of abuse and neglect. She has written a number of articles for medical journals and also book chapters on aspects of child abuse including substance abuse and child abuse, child abuse by poisoning, and conditions mistaken for child abuse.

She serves as a consultant for the Regional Child Abuse Center at Emanuel Hospital and does frequent training for professionals on many aspects of child abuse as well as burn out and compassion fatigue.

Julie Brand holds a Master's degree in Counseling and Guidance and enjoyed a distinguished 25-year career as a school counselor. Newly retired, she now uses her unique perspective as both an experienced counselor and a resilient survivor of maternal incest to write and to speak about mother-daughter sexual abuse.

In 2006, she launched CAPER Consulting: Child Abuse Prevention, Education and Recovery.

In her book and workshops, Julie combines research data, professional expertise and her personal experiences to enlighten audiences about the existence of mother-daughter sexual abuse. Her goals are to empower child welfare professionals -- from first responders to therapists -- to recognize the dynamics of maternal incest, to intervene and to help victims become strong, healthy adults. Victims of mother-daughter sexual abuse can heal and become resilient survivors.

Sarah Buel has spent the past 31 years working with battered women, abused children, and juveniles within the legal system. Currently, Ms. Buel is a Clinical Professor at the University of Texas School of Law, having started, then co-directing their Domestic Violence Clinic. She also teaches “Domestic Violence and the Law,” criminal law, and torts courses. Ms. Buel is co-founder of the University of Texas Voices Against Violence program that has developed a system of comprehensive, coordinated services for victims of sexual assault, relationship violence, and stalking. She also co-founded the University of Texas Institute on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault that focuses on research, pedagogy, and direct services. She serves as the faculty supervisor for the Domestic Violence Survivor Support Network (DVSSN), a group of law and business students assisting abuse victims to achieve economic literacy and security. Professor Buel has served as Special Counsel for the Texas District and County Attorneys Association, providing domestic violence training, technical, and case assistance to prosecutors throughout Texas. For six years she was a prosecutor, most of that time with the Norfolk County District Attorney’s Office in Quincy, MA., helping to establish their award-winning domestic violence and juvenile programs. Previously, Ms. Buel served as a victim advocate, state policy coordinator, and legal aid paralegal.

As a domestic-violence survivor, Ms. Buel has been committed to improving the court and community response to abuse victims. She was a welfare mother for a short time before working full time in the day and going to school at night for seven years to obtain her undergraduate degree in 1987. She then graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1990, where she founded the Harvard Battered Women’s Advocacy Project, the Harvard Women in Prison Project, and the Harvard Children and Family Rights Project.

Ms. Buel has written extensively on family violence issues, having published 30 articles and many more training manuals and diverse publications. She is a member of the American Bar Association’s Commission on Domestic Violence, the Board of Directors of the Relief Nursery of Central Texas, and numerous other boards and commissions. She is also currently an adjunct professor at Harvard Medical School.

In 1991, Ms. Buel received the Boston Bar Association’s Public Service Award; in 1992, she received both the Mass. Bar Association’s Outstanding Young Lawyer’s Award and the American Bar Association’s Top Twenty Young Lawyer’s Award. She narrated the 1992 Academy Award winning documentary “Defending Our Lives,” and in 1996 was profiled by NBC as one of the five most inspiring women in America. In 1997, Ms. Buel was awarded the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists’ Public Service Award and in 1998, she was given The University of Texas Law Fellowships Public Service Award. In 1999, Ms. Buel was given the National Organization of Victim Assistance (NOVA) Allied Professional Award and was awarded the 2001 American Bar Association’s Fellows Award. In 2002, she received the Harvard Law School Gary Bellow Public Service Award and in 2003 she was given an Outstanding Teacher Award from Harvard Medical School, as well as being selected to take part in Leadership Texas. In 2004, she received both the Texas Young Lawyers Award for Service to the Public, for co-founding the Austin Young Lawyers Association & Volunteer Legal Services Domestic Violence Project; the City of New York Outstanding Achievement Award; National Women’s History Project Award; and the U.T. Law School Thurgood Marshall Society Distinguished Lawyer Award. In 2005, Professor Buel was given the Henry B. Gonzales Civil Rights Award by the Texas Civil Rights Project, and in 2007 was given both the Girl Scouts Woman of Distinction Award and the ABA Rule of Law Award for Pro Bono Service with the China Project. In 2008, Prof. Buel received the American Society of Victimology Award and the U.T. Chicano-Hispanic Law Students Spirit of Education Award.

She is most proud of her son, Jacey, who just graduated from law school and previously worked for 5 years with high-risk, violent teens in Boston schools.

Lawrence Jay Braunstein is a partner in the law firm of Braunstein & Zuckerman, Esqs, in White Plains, New York. Since 1985, he has specialized in child-custody litigation and litigation involving allegations of child sexual abuse, physical abuse and shaken baby in matrimonial, family and criminal cases. His practice includes the areas of matrimonial and family law and related civil and criminal litigation.

He regularly lectures as an invited speaker, both nationally and internationally, in the areas of child sexual abuse, physical abuse and shaken baby, child custody litigation, expert witness testimony, courtroom psychology, trial procedures, and on various other criminal, family and matrimonial law topics to judges, attorneys, medical and mental-health professionals, law-enforcement personnel (state and federal), prosecutors (state and federal), and child protection service personnel.
Since 1999 he has served on the faculty of the New York City Police Department Sex Crimes and Child Abuse Investigation Course. In 2004 he was the only defense attorney invited by the FBI to participate as a member of the working group to plan the International Online Child Sexual Victimization Symposium, and to present to both the working group and the Symposium. In 2008, he was a faculty member for a course entitled Expert Witness Testimony presented to the Behavioral Science Units of the FBI. He is presently an Adjunct Professor of Law at Hofstra University School of Law, Hempstead, New York. In 2007 and 2008 he was named as one of the “Top Attorneys in the New York Metro Area” as published in the New York Times Magazine’s "Super Lawyer" Section, named one of the top 25 “Super Lawyers” in the Westchester County, New York area.

He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers; Co-Chair of the New York State Bar Association, Family Law Section, Child Custody Committee; Vice-Chair of the Westchester County Bar Association Family Law Section; Co-Chair of the Westchester County Bar Association, Family Law Section, Interdisciplinary Committee on Mental Health and Family Law; and Past Legal Chair of the New York State Interdisciplinary Forum on Mental Health and Family Law. He is also a member of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC), a member of the APSAC Task Force on Videotaping of Forensic Interviews; and a member of the Expert Faculty of the International Society for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (ISPCAN). He serves on the Board of Editors of, and is a contributor to, the Journal of Child Custody, The Matrimonial Strategist and the Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment and Trauma.

Lieutenant Douglas J. Burig is a 14-year veteran of the Pennsylvania State Police (PSP). Currently, he serves as the Assistant Director of the Investigative and Operational Support Division in the Department’s Bureau of Forensic Services. At the time of the incident, Lieutenant Burig was assigned as a Sergeant in the Criminal Investigation Section at Troop J, Lancaster. His responsibilities included oversight of all Criminal Investigations, Forensic Services and Vice/Intelligence Operations in the Lancaster area. Lieutenant Burig is also a member of Pennsylvania’s Type 3 Incident Management Team. Prior to his current position, Lieutenant Burig served in numerous disciplines within the PSP including: Patrol, Criminal Investigations, Criminal Investigation Assessment and the Amber Alert Program. On October 2, 2006, Sergeant Burig was one of the first responders at the scene of the West Nickel Mines School, and was the on-scene incident commander at the time of the shootings.

Carol L. Chervenak, M.D. completed her medical education and family practice residency at University of Arizona, following an undergraduate degree in Pharmacy from the University of Washington.

Dr. Chervenak has served as the medical director of ABC House, the child victim assessment center for Linn and Benton counties since 1997.

Since that time, Dr. Chervenak has helped establish a medical protocol for assessing children found at methamphetamine lab sites; compiled (and lectured on) guidelines for substance abuse and breastfeeding; and directed appropriate assessments and testing of children exposed to various drug endangering environments.

She is on the Advisory Council for Child Abuse and Neglect; the Oregon Governor's Methamphetamine Task Force; and the Oregon Governor’s Sexual Assault Task Force.

Dr. Peter Collins is the Coordinator of the Forensic Psychiatry Unit, Behavioural Sciences and Analysis Services, Investigation and Support Bureau of the Ontario Provincial Police and serves as the Consultant Psychiatrist to the Integrated National Security Enforcement Team (INSET) of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Peter is also the Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist to the Profiling Unit of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. In 1997 Peter was elected a member of the International Criminal Investigative Analysis Fellowship In 2000 he was appointed a member of the INTERPOL Specialist Group on Crimes against Children. He is a psychiatrist, in the Canadian Navy (Reserve), at the rank of Lieutenant-Commander. Peter is an expert on violent crime and has worked with, and instructed, numerous criminal justice agencies in Canada, the United States, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Micronesia and Australia including the FBI, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Interpol and Europol.

Christine A. Courtois, Ph.D., is a psychologist specializing in the treatment of trauma and life transitions in her private practice in Washington, D.C. since 1981. From 1991 to 2007 she was a Clinical & Training Consultant (formerly Director and Cofounder) and had attending privileges for The CENTER: Posttraumatic Disorders Program at The Psychiatric Institute of Washington, Washington, D.C. She received her MA in 1973 and went on to complete her PhD in 1979 in the Department of Counseling and Personnel Services at the University of Maryland. She is an accomplished author on complex trauma and sexual abuse, has written for numerous medical publications and professional reports and has received numerous accommodations for her work in this area.

Christine A. Courtois, Ph.D., has extensive experience teaching continuing education workshops on various trauma-related topics at universities as a guest lecturer and through a variety of mental health organizations, locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally. She has had a variety of temporary and adjunctive appointments to university counseling, social services, psychology, and psychiatry departments at different universities.

Geraldine Crisci holds a Master's Degree in Social Work from the University of Connecticut. She specializes in the assessment and treatment of child sexual abuse and has developed protocols for trauma assessment, and the assessment of sexualized behavior in children. She provides clinical consultation to a variety of sexual-abuse treatment programs, children's mental-health centers, and treatment residences. She lectures in both the United States and Canada. She is an expert witness in criminal court in the areas of sexual abuse, disclosure process, investigative interviewing, and memory and suggestibility in young children. She co-authored the treatment manual "Paper Dolls and Paper Airplanes: Therapeutic Exercises for Sexually Traumatized Children," which is in its fifth printing.

Mike Duffey is a Special Agent with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. Mike is currently assigned to the Computer Crime Center in Tallahassee, Florida where he is responsible for statewide computer crime investigation including Internet crimes against children. Mike’s law-enforcement experience includes working for the Tallahassee Police Department and the Florida Department of Insurance. Mike is a graduated of Florida State University School of Criminology. Mike has completed his Microsoft Certified System Administrator (MCSA) course work. Mike’s current cases include network intrusion cases, "phishing" scams and unauthorized access to a network system. For the last eight years, Mike has been committed to conducting online child exploitation investigations.

In 1997, Detective Robert Farley created the Cook County Sheriff's Police Department Child Exploitation Unit in order to combat online Internet solicitation and sexual abuse of children. At that time, no other law-enforcement agency in the United States (or the world) had a unit working these specific types of crimes. He has conducted hundreds of training seminars on behalf of the U.S. Department of Justice, the FBI and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in 49 of the 50 states. As an international consultant for INTERPOL, he has also conducted training seminars in 23 different countries around the world.

Kenneth Feldman, MD is a general pediatrician who divides his time between half-time primary-care pediatrics and half-time child-abuse consultation and pediatric emergency-room and inpatient-care supervision at the Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical Center in Seattle, Washington. He is the Medical Director of the Children's Protection Program at the Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center in Seattle. Research interests have focused on childhood injuries, both unintentional and inflicted. Tap-water burn injuries have been an area of continuing interest.

Dr. Lori Frasier attended the University of Utah College of Medicine and completed a pediatric residency at the University of Washington. She was fellow at the Harborview Sexual Assault Center under Dr. Carole Jenny from 1988-90. Dr. Frasier was on faculty of the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Iowa from 1990-1995, establishing the sexual-abuse evaluation clinic there and participating in evaluations of physical abuse and neglect. From 1995-2002 she was on the faculty of the Department of Child Health at the University of Missouri-Columbia, Director of the Child Protection program there, and from 1994-2002 was the Medical Director of the Missouri SAFE-CARE Network -- a network of medical providers trained to provide medical evaluations to abused and neglected children. She is currently the Medical Director of the Medical Assessment Team at the Center for Safe and Healthy Families, Primary Children’s Medical Center, Salt Lake City, Utah, and a Professor in the Dept. of Pediatrics at the University of Utah School of Medicine. She has published many articles and chapters in the field of child abuse and has lectured locally and nationally. She is the immediate past Chairman of the Executive Committee for the Section on Child Abuse and Neglect of the American Academy of Pediatrics and on the board of Directors of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC). Dr. Frasier has been appointed to the American Board of Pediatrics, first sub board in Child Abuse Pediatrics.

Dr. Karen Gunson was born in Eugene and grew up in Bend. She graduated from Whitman College with a BA in Biology in 1976 and received a BS in Zoology from OSU in 1977. Upon graduated from OHSU in 1981, Dr. Gunson completed a Pathology residency at OHSU in 1985. That same year, she joined the State Medical Examiner's Office as a deputy state medical examiner and went on to become the State Medical Examiner in 1999. Dr. Gunson is board certified by the American Board of Pathology in Anatomic, Clinical and Forensic Pathology. She is a member of the National Association of Medical Examiners, and has served on both the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee. She has been a member of the Forensic Pathology Test Development Committee for the American Board of Pathology for five years.

INTERCEPT Task Force Detective Paul Farnstrom had been with the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office for the past 14 years. During that time, he has been assigned to many different units, including the Interagency Child Exploitation Prevention Team (INTERCEPT) Task Force. During his time assigned to that unit, he has been involved in various Internet crimes against children -- including chatting, P2P, child pornography and "traveler" cases.

Micah Persons has over 10 years of law-enforcement experience. Micah began his police career with the Portland Police Bureau, where he served as a patrol officer and as a narcotics investigator assigned to the Drugs and Vice Division. Micah now works for the Oregon Department of Justice as a Special Agent assigned to Internet Crimes Against Children Taskforce. Micah has been involved in hundreds of investigations involving the sexual exploitation of children via the Internet and provides Internet safety and investigative training throughout the state.

Ben Hicks retired after 30 years as a Special Agent with ICE and now works as a Special Agent for the Oregon Department of Justice. Ben is assigned to the Internet Crimes Against Children Taskforce and is the task force computer forensic examiner.

Detective Erin Schweitzer is a 13-year veteran of the Clackamas County Sheriffs Office currently assigned to the Interagency Child Exploitation Prevention Team (INTERCEPT) Task Force. Det. Schweitzer found her passion for crimes against children while she was assigned to CARES NW as the CARES Deputy for two-and-a-half years. Prior to being selected for INTERCEPT, Detective Schweitzer was assigned to the Sheriff's Office Child Abuse Team for seven years.

Detective Gary W. Wright is a 25-year veteran of law enforcement, and for the past nine years has been employed with the Washington County Sheriff’s Office. For the past six years, Det. Wright has been assigned to the child-abuse unit. In 2007, Detective Wright was assigned to the Interagency Child Exploitation Prevention Team (INTERCEPT), and currently investigates all aspects of child sexual exploitation over the Internet.

Jim Cole is a Senior Special Agent (SSA) assigned to a Child Sexual Exploitation Group with the Office of Investigations, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). SSA Cole brings 16 years of law-enforcement investigative experience and certification as a computer forensic examiner as the ICE representative to the INTERCEPT task force.

Leila Keltner, M.D., Ph.D., has served as the Medical Director for CARES Northwest in Portland, Oregon, the regional child abuse center at Emanuel Hospital since 1998. After receiving her Masters in Child Development from Oregon State University in 1978, she completed her post-graduate work at Case Western Reserve University in 1986, where she received her Ph.D. in Biometry and M.D. She has lectured extensively on child abuse and child sexual abuse and has written articles for medical publications. She has received numerous accommodations for her work in this field, and is currently active in several professional organizations for the welfare of children.

For a decade, Brian Killacky has been assigned to investigate Cold Case homicide-related investigations. He is a member of the Cook County State's Attorney's Office Cold Murder Unit -- which has investigated serial, spree and mass murder; child fatalities and missing-person homicides; and gang-related, domestic, sex-related and organized-crime homicides. As a Detective for the Chicago Police Department, Brian was assigned to investigate sexual exploitation of children for 10 years and violent crimes and homicide for eight years.

Shannon Kmetic graduated from University of Oregon law school in June of 1996. After passing the bar exam in September 1996, she started her career as a Deputy District Attorney in the Josephine County District Attorney’s Office. She worked in Josephine County as a prosecutor from September of 1996 until March of 1998. She began working as a Deputy District Attorney in the Clackamas County District Attorney’s Office in March of 1998. Currently, she is assigned to the domestic violence unit in the District Attorney’s office. She is also a member of the Domestic Violence Enhanced Response Team (DVERT). She participated in the planning and development of the DVERT program, and has trained hundreds of law-enforcement officers in Clackamas County about the investigation and prosecution of domestic-violence cases.

In January 2002, Alicia Kozakiewicz became the victim of an Internet luring. The predator transported her to another state and there, for four terrifying days, held her captive. Returning to school a year later, Alicia was soon highly involved in both academic and extracurricular activities and graduated with high honors. During these years, she came to realize that other children need not suffer her traumatic experiences. She joined her local Pittsburgh, PA Air Search and Rescue group, and created an Internet Safety Program, the AliciaProject, which she presented first in cooperation with the FBI Adopt-A-School program, the COPC Program of her University, and now independently, to schools and organizations.

Alicia has been honored to address a number of conferences, forums, and summits for both governmental and private organizations, lending her personal and unique insight of the subject. She has participated in Internet-safety films for the FBI, the Office of the Pa. Attorney General’s Operation Safe Surf, the Pennsylvania Center for Safe Schools, Enough Is Enough, and the Arts and Entertainment Biography Channel, among others, as well as being the subject of an award-winning Internet-safety documentary for PBS. Her story and insight have been featured as part of Internet-safety programs across the nation, and internationally in magazines including People and Cosmopolitan, in the hope of raising awareness.

Alicia was chosen to receive the 2007 Courage Award by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in recognition of these efforts.

Collaborating with four other young victims, Alicia has recently co-authored “You’re Not Alone,” an OJJDP publication whose goal is to empower other abductees.

Additionally, recognizing the need for effective Internet-safety legislation, Alicia testified before Congress in 2007, and has lobbied successfully for Virginia’s 2008 “Alicia’s Law” -- an initiative that she hopes to see instituted in all 50 states.
Now studying at a Pittsburgh University, Alicia is continuing the mission, majoring in Psychology with a concentration in Forensics. Her ultimate goal is to earn the title of Special Agent, and to join one of the FBI ICAC taskforces that were instrumental in her rescue.

"I'd like," she says," to ultimately become the person who rescues the child, and then helps to recover that child's soul."

LTC Jon D. Kurtz is a 25-year veteran of the Pennsylvania State Police (PSP). Currently, he serves as the Deputy Commissioner of Staff. At the time of this incident, LTC Kurtz was a Major assigned as the Area I Commander. His responsibilities included oversight of four of the Department’s 16 field commands. Area I is the largest of the PSP area commands, comprising nearly 1,100 personnel. During his career, LTC Kurtz has served in numerous positions in the various disciplines for which the PSP is responsible -- including patrol, criminal investigation, vice investigation, intelligence, and organized crime. On Oct. 2, 2006, LTC Kurtz responded to Bart Township, Lancaster County, PA to assume oversight of the police response to the West Nickel Mines School Shooting.

Ken Lanning is currently a consultant in the area of crimes against children. He was a Special Agent with the FBI for more than 30 years, and was assigned to the FBI Behavioral Science Unit at the FBI Academy for 20 of those years. He is a current member of the Advisory Board of the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers (ATSA). Mr. Lanning is the 1997 recipient of the FBI Director’s Annual Award for Special Achievement for his career accomplishments with missing and exploited children. He has lectured before thousands of criminal-justice professionals.

Dr. Antoinette Laskey is a forensic pediatrician at the Indiana University School of Medicine, Riley Hospital for Children and Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis, Indiana. Dr. Laskey specializes in research on child abuse and child fatalities. She is the co-director of the Family Violence Institute at IU School of Medicine -- a multi-disciplinary, campus-wide community collaboration project dedicated to the research, education, clinical services, and policy for all forms of family violence. Dr. Laskey is the chair of the Indiana Child Fatality Review Team. Dr. Laskey lectures on the evaluation and diagnosis of physical and sexual abuse and legislative advocacy to a wide variety of audiences -- including health-care professionals, law-enforcement officials, social workers, teachers, and child advocates.

John Meyers is Distinguished Professor and Scholar at the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento, California. John is the author or editor of eight books, including Myers on Evidence in Child, Domestic and Elder Abuse Cases (2005). He has written more than 100 articles on child abuse and neglect. John's writing has been cited by more than 100 courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court. John has given more than 400 presentations in the United States and around the world.

Anne Munch attended the University of Denver for her undergraduate and graduate studies and received a BA in psychology and sociology, and then her law degree. Following law school, Ms. Munch spent seven years as a prosecutor for the Denver District Attorney’s Office, including a rotation in the felony domestic violence and sexual assault unit. She also spent two years as the Chief Deputy District Attorney for the 7th Judicial District in Telluride, Colorado, and two years as the supervisor of the fast-track domestic violence unit in the Jefferson County DA’s Office in Golden, Colorado. In addition to her work as a prosecutor, Ms. Munch was the director of the San Miguel Resource Center, a domestic violence and sexual assault program the Telluride, Colorado. She also directed the Ending Violence Against Women Project, a statewide multi-disciplinary training and technical assistance project in Colorado for nine years. Currently, Ms. Munch is the owner of Anne Munch Consulting, Inc., and works full-time providing speaking, training and consulting in the area of sexual assault, domestic violence and stalking. She is a recognized subject matter expert in her field, and provides her services to local, national and military organizations all across the United States and in Europe. She is on the teaching faculty for the American Prosecutors Research Institute, the National Judicial Education Program, and the International Association of Chiefs of Police.

Chris Owen graduated from Willamette University College of Law in 1992, and has spent his entire career as a prosecutor. After law school, he joined the Coos County District Attorney’s Office where he focused on child abuse and juvenile dependency matters. He joined the Clackamas County DA’s Office in 1996, where he spent his first two years helping develop Clackamas County’s first domestic-violence prosecution program. After leaving the Domestic Violence Unit, his focus has been on child abuse and sexual assault prosecution. He is currently assigned to the person crimes unit, where, along with sexual assault and child abuse cases, he prosecutes robberies, felony assaults, gang-related crime and homicides. Chris teaches criminal law at Portland State University and also teaches trial advocacy at the National College of District Attorneys' National Advocacy Center.

Susan K. Reichert, MD, is a 1977 Oberlin College graduate, and she completed her medical training at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine in 1981. After her internship and residency in Pediatrics at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver, she practiced general pediatrics in Colorado, Utah and Pendleton, Oregon. Pursuing her interest in preventing, identifying and treating child maltreatment, she accepted a fellowship with the Kempe National Center and University of Colorado in Child Abuse and Neglect. She served on the pediatric faculty at those institutions for three years before she left to direct the child-abuse program at Children’s Hospital Oakland.

In 1996, preferring the Northwest lifestyle, she and her family joyfully moved to Central Oregon, where she had been recruited to be Medical Director at the KIDS Center in Bend. While directing the medical component of that child abuse center for six years, Dr. Reichert provided the medical foundation for its Regional Training and Consultation Center, serving eastern and central Oregon. She continued to lecture locally and nationally to a wide range of audiences. A member of the medical staff at St. Charles Medical Center in Bend, she has also been active with local and state-wide committees promoting skilled and therapeutic interventions for suspected child-abuse victims and their families.

For the past five years, Dr. Reichert has served as a consultant and trainer, addressing child-maltreatment issues with medical providers, social workers and law-enforcement officials, attorneys, therapists, educators and other professionals, as well as with lay audiences. She was lead editor of the most recent revision of Oregon Medical Guidelines for Evaluation of Sexual Abuse in Children and Adolescents. Teaching a course on Family Violence and Neglect in the Human Development and Family Sciences Department at Oregon State University Cascades Campus since 2005, Dr. Reichert has been very pleased to expose upper-level undergraduate students to an in-depth experience with these topics. She has always enjoyed working in local schools, both with the students and teachers. She has done so as a professional and has volunteered as a helping mom. Whenever possible, she also contributes to sideline care for youth sports. Dr. Susan Reichert currently practices integrative medicine for children and adults in her private office, Hands on Healthcare, in Bend, Oregon.

Linda T. (Lynn) Sanford, LICSW is a licensed independent social worker who began working with survivors of sexual assault in 1973 and with children who have sexual behavior problems in 1983.

In the past 20 years, she has served as Clinical Director for: an outpatient trauma clinic; a 40-bed staff-secure facility for teen boys convicted of crimes against people; a 16-bed long-term locked psychiatric unit for teen girls; and most recently, a day school and residential treatment center for 95 latency-age children with profound learning differences, mental illness or attachment issues.

She is the author of Strong at the Broken Places (1990, 2004) and The Silent Children (1980). Sanford is also co-author of Women and Self-Esteem (1984) and In Defense of Ourselves (1978).

As well as providing training and consultation on a national basis, she is a faculty member at the Simmons College Graduate School of Social Work.

In 2002, Sanford received the Massachusetts Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers Award for Outstanding Contribution to Social Work Practice.

Micah Smith is a Detective for the Linn County Sheriff's Office in Albany, Oregon. Detective Smith's assignment includes Internet Crimes Against Children investigations, computer forensics analysis of digital and electronic evidence, and other high-tech crimes investigations.

B.J. Spamer is a Forensic Case Specialist at the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC), where she works on cases involving long-term missing and unidentified deceased children, and manages the NCMEC DNA Registration Project from the Kansas Branch Office. Ms. Spamer earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Behavioral and Social Science from the University of Maryland and a Master’s Degree in Forensic Science from the George Washington University. She has worked in the NCMEC Forensic Assistance Unit for seven years and formerly worked as an Intelligence Analyst for the Kansas Bureau of Investigation and the Kansas City, Missouri Police Department.

Detective Kim Timeus has been employed by the Clackamas County Sheriff’s office since November 1983. She began her career working in records and then as a Community Service Officer prior to being hired as a Deputy Sheriff in 1986. She was promoted to Detective in 1995 and assigned to the Persons Crime Unit. She was one of the first Detectives assigned to the newly formed Child Abuse Team in 1998, and quickly recognized the strong connection between child abuse and domestic violence. She promoted this understanding within the department and in November 2000 Detective Timeus was assigned as the first Domestic Violence Detective at the Sheriff’s Office. Detective Timeus worked tirelessly with her co-workers and other disciplines towards the goal of forming an official multi-disciplinary domestic violence unit in Clackamas County, the Domestic Violence Enhanced Response Team (DVERT). In October 2002, funding was obtained to start DVERT and Detective Timeus has been assigned there since its inception.

Patti Toth works as the Child Abuse Program Manager for Washington State’s Criminal Justice Training Commission. Patti was a Washington State prosecutor, trying numerous child-abuse and sexual-assault cases. She then served as first Director of APRI’s National Center for Prosecution of Child Abuse, and later as a federal trial prosecutor in DOJ’s Child Exploitation Section. She trains throughout the U.S. and other countries, is active in APSAC (serving as 1994 President) and in ISPCAN. She manages APSAC’s national Child Forensic Interview Clinics and developed Washington State’s CPOD Guidelines for First Responders to Child Fatalities and Serious Physical Abuse.

John Wentworth is a Deputy District Attorney in Clackamas County, Oregon, where he supervises the juvenile and family-support units of the District Attorney’s Office. He earned his Bachelor's degrees from Oregon State University and his Doctorate of Jurisprudence from Lewis and Clark Law School. Wentworth began his career as a prosecutor in Coos County, Oregon in 1995, where he eventually specialized in the prosecution of child abuse and sexual assault. He was hired by the Clackamas County District Attorney’s Office in 1999. Wentworth prosecuted domestic violence in Clackamas County for six years, and has conducted numerous trainings in the dynamics, investigation and prosecution of domestic violence. Wentworth has been recognized by the Crime Victims Assistance Network for outstanding victim advocacy.

Craig Zablocki: A nationally known speaker and consultant, Craig has spoken to over 600,000 people internationally and in all 50 states. He was the first outside speaker to address the student body of Columbine High School after its tragedy. He has authored Improv 101: Unleash Your Creative Spirit and co-authored the book Humor Me, in addition to authoring many articles for major publications. His unscripted style has been compared to a hybrid of Robin Williams and Wayne Dyer. One participant in his sessions wrote: "We should harness his energy -- it could power a small city. His passion and commitment to making a difference is contagious!"