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Invited/Academic Talks
Canadian Association for Equality, Webinar, What Happens When Male Targets of Domestic Violence Seek Help?, June 8, 2020, watch the forum here.
Connecticut Shared Parenting Forum, Connecticut Legislative Office Building, Hartford, CT, Stepping Out of the Shadows: Men's Experiences with Partner Violence Victimization and Recent Efforts to Meet Their Needs, January, 2020, watch the forum here.
University of New Haven, School of Criminal Justice, I'm Sorry, but We Don't Help Men, November 2019
National Safe Haven Alliance Annual Conference, Desperate for Help: First Analysis of Callers to the National Safe Haven Alliance Helpline, Chicago, November 2019
Envision: Creating Paths of Resiliency for Underserved Domestic Violence Survivors, Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services, Male victims of partner violence: Abuse experiences, mental health, and help-seeking (with Denise Hines), October 2019
24th International San Diego Summit on Violence, Abuse & Trauma, San Diego, CA, The Prosecution of Fatal Child Maltreatment (with Kerry Lee), September 2019
23rd Annual Conference of the Society for Social Work Research, San Francisco, CA, The socio-demographic characteristics of children who die from medical neglect and their families: A comparative analysis, January 2019
National Safe Haven Alliance Annual Conference, Turning the tide on infant abandonment: Providing safe havens for children at risk of fatal child maltreatment, Austin, Texas, October 2018
23rd International San Diego Summit on Violence, Abuse & Trauma, San Diego, CA, Child welfare training and knowledge of risk factors for fatal child maltreatment (with Melinda Gushwa), September 2018.
international Family Violence/Crimes against Children Research Conference, Portsmouth, NH, How do children really die? An assessment of multiple sources of fatal child maltreatment (with Kerry Lee), July, 2018
International Family Violence/Crimes against Children Research Conference, Portsmouth, NH, It’s the boyfriends who are bad, right? A comparative analysis of the social correlates of children who die from maltreatment, their caretakers, and receipt of services (with Kerry Lee), July, 2018
Maine Government Oversight Committee, invited public comment on Maine’s Child Protection System: A Study of How the System Functioned in Two Cases of Child Death by Abuse in the Home, Augusta, Maine, May, 2018
Senate of Canada, Parenting Plans in the United States, Ottawa, May, 2018
Women’s Impact Network, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, The Darkest Tragedies of our Time: Children Who Die from Abuse or Neglect and What We’re Doing to Turn the Tide, Worcester, MA, April 2018
Leibniz Universität Hannover, Institut für Soziologie, Child Maltreatment Fatalities in the USA: Policy and Practice Responses, Invited speaker, Hannover, Germany, April, 2018
Handling Conflict Without Violence, “I’m sorry, but we don’t help men” Male partner violence victims’ experiences with shame and seeking help, Invited speaker, Frankfurt, Germany, April, 2018
Handling Conflict Without Violence, Murray A. Straus: Pioneer in the Field of Family Violence Research, Invited speaker, Frankfurt, Germany, April, 2018
Virginia Family and Children’s Trust Fund: The child welfare profession and fatal child maltreatment, Invited talk, Richmond, VA, June, 2017
Speaking at the Connecticut Legislative Office Building, Hartford, CT, January 2020
Emily with Denise Hines, ENVISION conference, Harrisonburg, VA 2019
Testifying at the Maine State House, 2018
Speaking at the Connecticut Legislative Office Building, Hartford, CT, January 2020
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