ADEC is pleased to announce the following keynote presentations for the 2024 Conference.
Thursday, April 11, 2024 - 9:00 am CT / Houston Time Zone
Safe at Home, Safe at School: A Roadmap to Violence Prevention
Presenter: Jeff Temple, PhD
Description
Firearm injury and violence (FIV) is a public health epidemic. For the last two decades, unintentional injury, suicide, and homicide were the top 3 leading causes of death for adolescents and emerging adults. Firearms are implicated across these forms of mortality. We also know that involvement with firearms in adolescence (victim or perpetrator) is strongly predictive of FIV in adulthood. The consequences of FIV are many, affecting individuals, families, and society at large; resulting in a 5-year total economic burden of over $88 billion. Given that the risk for all forms of violence begin early in life, coupled with the associated pervasive costs of FIV, it is crucial that prevention efforts be developmentally informed, targeting an array of modifiable risk and protective factors specific to gender, race/ethnicity, life stage, and developmental transitions. We must do better and illuminate this public health crisis across the multiple layers of the social ecology, including individual, relational, community, and societal domains.
Learning Objectives:
- Describe the problem of firearm violence as it relates to death and injury.
- Identify shared risk and protective factors for multiple forms of violence that can be addressed in school settings, outpatient settings, and inpatient settings.
- Identify effective approaches to prevent multiple forms of violence.
Jeff Temple, PhD Dr. Temple is a professor, licensed psychologist, and the Associate Dean for Clinical Research at the School Behavioral Health Sciences at the University of Texas Health in Houston, where he also holds the Betty and Rose Pfefferbaum Chair in Child Mass Trauma and Resilience. As the Founding Director of the Center for Violence Prevention, his research focuses on the prevention of interpersonal and community violence. Dr. Temple has been funded through the National Institute of Justice, National Institutes of Health, and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He has over 250 scholarly publications in a variety of high-impact journals including JAMA, JAMA Pediatrics, The Lancet Child and Adolescent Health, Pediatrics, and the Journal of Adolescent Health. He recently co-edited a book on adolescent dating violence, co-chaired the Texas Task Force on Domestic Violence, serves on the Board of Directors for the Society for Prevention Research, and served on the Board of Directors of the Texas Psychological Association. Locally, he served for 7 years as the Vice President of the Galveston Independent School District Board of Trustees. His work has been featured on Forbes, CNN, New York Times, TIME Magazine, Washington Post, and even the satirical website, The Onion.
Friday, April 12, 2024 - 1:15 pm Central Time / Houston Time Zone
Ira Nerken International Speaker
The Invisibility Cloak of Grief for Black Survivors of Homicide Victims
Presenter: Tanya Sharpe, MSW, PhD
Description:
This presentation elucidates the structural disproportionate reality of homicide victimization for Black people by highlighting the root causes and consequences of experiencing chronic cumulative Black death. This presentation invites participants to engage in embracing a fundamental paradigm shift in the way we think, define, assess, and respond to death, dying and bereavement for Black survivors of homicide victims. This keynote is designed to not only inform but also inspire researchers, policymakers, practitioners, and students on pathways for understanding the ways we should support and provide services to Black survivors of homicide victims.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify attitudes and perspectives related to the experience of homicide for Black communities.
- Explore the deprivation of grief and bereavement as a result of homicide for Black communities.
- Explore the process of identifying and utilizing coping strategies for Black survivors of homicide victims.
- Share culturally responsive approaches to practice related to death education and the provision of services for professionals in the field of thanatology.
Tanya Sharpe, PhD joined the Factor-Inwentash Faculty in July 2018 after serving as an Associate Professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore School of Social Work for 11 years. She received her PhD in Social Work from Boston College located in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Sharpe is the founder and director of the Centre for Research & Innovation for Black Survivors of Homicide Victims (The CRIB), a multidisciplinary initiative designed to advance research, policy and practice for and with Black survivors of homicide victims throughout our global community.
Dr. Sharpe is a community-engaged researcher who is passionately committed to the development of culturally responsive approaches and sustainable opportunities allowing Black communities to thrive in the face of homicide violence. Her research examines sociocultural factors that influence the coping strategies of Black family members and friends of homicide victims.
She has developed culturally appropriate interventions and best practices designed to assist African-American survivors of homicide victims in the management of their grief and bereavement. Her comprehensive Model of Coping for African-American Survivors of Homicide Victims (MCAASHV) (Sharpe, 2015) has informed the development of a psychosocial educational intervention (Sharpe, Iwamoto, Massey & Michalopoulos, 2018), and a tool of measurement designed to assess the needs and coping strategies of African-American survivors of homicide victims.
Through interdisciplinary collaborations, Dr. Sharpe utilizes her track record of diverse community engagement to expand upon her seminal research findings by advancing our understanding and delivery of services to African, Caribbean and Black survivors of homicide victims throughout our global communities. Dr. Sharpe’s expertise in the post-homicide experiences of Black survivors of homicide victims has been influential to developing post homicide pedagogy within a broader Canadian context for Racialized communities. Specifically, her research has been successful in transforming the way service providers and policy makers are addressing the chronic and catastrophic experiences of homicide for Indigenous, African, Caribbean, Black (ACB), and Racialized communities with funding from Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and the Ontario Anti-Racism Directorate.
Dr. Sharpe’s expertise also includes: Mass Violence and Disaster Research; Qualitative Research Methods; Suicide Prevention and Education Research; and Community Organizing and Program Development.
Saturday, April 13, 2024 - 10:15 am Central Time / Houston Time Zone
Narrative Power: Finding Words for Living, Dying, Death and Bereavement
Presenter: Ted Bowman, MDiv
Description
When losses occur, words are sought…sometimes found…sometimes offered. Drawing on bibliotherapeutic and narrative therapy principles, perspectives and tools for narrative power will be presented, demonstrated, and discussed. Narrative is not about having people tell their stories. Narrative is interested in power – who has the power to speak stories into existence. Voices of grievers and the bereft, thereby, are heard and validated.
Using metaphor and related prompts, participants will be invited to consider using stories as prompts for words that foster grieving and healing.
Learning Objectives:
Define and describe potential uses of bibliotherapy for clinical practices
Describe the importance of metaphors in grief and bereavement care AND how metaphors will be addressed in future work
Create a plan for use of the session content
Ted Bowman, MDiv is an educator and consultant. He specializes in change and transition. For over 40 years, he has been a frequent trainer, consultant, and speaker with many groups throughout Minnesota, the United States, and other countries. Ted was an adjunct professor at the University of Minnesota (Family Education) 1981-2012; at the University of Saint Thomas (Social Work) 2006 until 2019; and 1989 to 1996 at United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities.
For his work he draws on bibliotherapeutic principles: stories evoke stories. Ted is an active member of the National Association for Poetry Therapy (NAPT), the Association for Death Education and Counseling (ADEC), and the Minnesota Coalition for Death Education and Support (MCDES.
Ted is the author of over 125 articles and chapters appearing in books, journals, newspapers, and magazines. His booklets, Loss of Dreams: A Special Kind of Grief, and Finding Hope When Dreams Have Shattered are widely used in grief care. He and Elizabeth Johnson co-edited The Wind Blows, the Ice Breaks, a volume of poems by MN poets addressing themes of loss and renewal. His newest book, Ambiguous Parables: Poem and Prose of Loss and Renewal, was published in November of 2021.
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