Kids First Center 20-Year Anniversary Price: $120
(Includes gourmet lunch)
Continuing Education Credits:
  • 6 CLE Credits, includes 1 Ethics Credit
  • 6 Guardian ad litem Credits, includes 1 Ethics Credit 
  • 6 CE hours Board of Psychology (PENDING) ​
Suggested Audience:
Attorneys, clinicians, educators, guardians ad litem, judges, school counselors, and interested professionals in the community. 
Harraseeket Inn
162 Main Street, Freeport, ME
(207) 865-9377

Directions:
From I-295 North or South, take exit 22.  If coming from North, take right off exit.  If coming from South, take left off exit.  Follow 1/2 mile to stop light; the Harraseeket Inn will be directly in front of you.
​FREE Parking around the back of Inn.

KIDS FIRST CENTER PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCE:
Children at Risk from Parental Conflict:
Education, Innovation & Intervention
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Harraseeket Inn, Freeport, Maine
Friday, October 19, 2018
8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.  ​
OVERVIEW​
 Join Kids First Center for a day of professional education about innovation and intervention using parent education models from Massachusetts and Virginia. These programs offer parents an alternative to conflictual litigation while encouraging them to communicate and negotiate in a positive manner. We welcome presenters from the bench, and from the clinical and research fields, as they illustrate how parent-focused and collaborative work can help parents internalize valuable co-parenting lessons using empathy and compassion, thus reducing the use of shame or blame in their co-parenting interactions.

The day will also address the ethics of providing services to conflicted families and the consequences of professional burn-out and stress on both the provider and the recipients. Based in a medical model, outcomes for professionals who experience secondary traumatic stress will be discussed. Examination of this topic will also include how, when left untreated, professional burnout and stress may directly harm the clients of those professionals, creating an ethical dilemma for the professional and the overall judicial system.


​PRESENTERS
(Click on photos for Presenter Bios)
Heather C. Forkey, MD
Assoc. Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Massachusetts Medical School
Hon. Richard A. Simons
First Justice of the Berkshire Division of the Probate and Family Court, Massachusetts
David S. Robinson, EdD.
Researcher and former Professor, Simmons College
Viola Vaughan-Eden, PhD, MJ, LCSW
Assoc. Professor and PhD Program Director with the Ethelyn R. Strong School of Social Work at Norfolk State University, Virginia

Thank you to our 2018 Conference Sponsors

ADVOCATE
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​PARTNERS​
SUPPORTERS
The Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital at Maine Medical Center

​Holmes Legal Group, LLC

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