Welcome  8:45 am - 9:00 am

with DVS Conference Committee

Keynote Lecture  9:00 am - 10:00 am
The DV Legal Landscape in Utah: What Providers Need to Know
with Susan Griffith, Founding Director & Innovations Executive, Timpanogos Legal Center

Utah’s domestic violence response systems are evolving rapidly, and providers across disciplines need a shared understanding of the legal landscape survivors must navigate. In this opening keynote, Susan Griffith will draw on more than three decades of experience in family law, domestic violence advocacy, child protection, and clinical legal education to ground participants in the realities of Utah’s current legal systems and court processes.

This session will provide a practical overview of Utah-specific domestic violence law, recent legislative and policy updates, and the intersections between protective orders, custody, divorce, juvenile court, and criminal proceedings. Participants will explore how legal systems can both support and unintentionally increase risk for survivors, while strengthening their ability to provide survivor-centered, trauma-informed advocacy within their professional roles.

Designed for advocates, clinicians, attorneys, system partners, and community leaders, this keynote establishes the shared language and statewide expectations necessary to build safer, more coordinated systems for survivors and families across Utah. 

Objectives

• Identify key components of Utah’s domestic violence legal framework, including protective orders, custody considerations, criminal court processes, and distinctions between district and juvenile court systems.

• Recognize how legal system involvement may increase or reduce survivor risk and apply trauma-informed, survivor-centered approaches when supporting individuals navigating legal processes.

• Strengthen cross-disciplinary collaboration and communication by using shared legal language, clarifying professional roles and boundaries, and improving coordination between advocacy, clinical, and legal systems.

SAMHSA Principles: Safety, Trustworthiness & Transparency, Peer Support, Collaboration & Mutuality, Empowerment (Voice & Choice), Cultural, Historical, & Gender Issues

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Break  10:00 am - 10:15 am
Break time: get a drink, go potty, pet an animal, breathe.
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Workshop Session:  10:15 am -  12:00 pm
Applying Utah DV Law to our Practice
with Susan Griffith, Timpanogos Legal

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Lunch   12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Lunch: nourish and restore

Lunchtime Networking   12:30 pm - 1:00 pm
Join us for the last 30 minutes of lunch to get to know more providers in Utah who are doing similar work as you!
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Breakout Sessions-  1:00 pm - 2:30 pm

Holding All the Pieces: Mapping the Legal Systems Survivors Navigate
with Hayley Cousin, Executive Director

When a survivor of domestic violence reaches out for help, they may soon be facing multiple simultaneous legal cases—often with no one guiding them through how these systems connect, conflict, or fail to communicate with each other.

This session offers professionals a practical orientation to the legal systems that intersect with domestic violence cases in Utah. Participants will walk through the basics of criminal and civil protective orders, custody and family law, juvenile court proceedings, housing protections, and immigration cases, focusing on what survivors can expect and how you can help guide them through the process.

Throughout, we'll build shared language across disciplines so that advocates and clinicians can better recognize what survivors are navigating, ask informed questions, and make effective referrals. We'll also examine how fragmentation between systems can compound trauma and burden for survivors, and what coordinated, survivor-centered practice can look like in response.

This session reflects several of SAMHSA's principles of a trauma-informed approach, with a particular focus on the following:

-Empowerment, Voice, and Choice: Understanding the legal landscape is foundational to supporting survivors' informed decision-making about which systems to engage, when, and how. 

-Trustworthiness and Transparency: Providing accurate information and being honest about how different systems operate serves to build greater trust between provider and survivor.

Objectives

• Participants will be able to identify major legal systems that commonly intersect with domestic violence cases in Utah and describe the basic purpose and process of each.

• Participants will be able to explain how fragmentation or misalignment between legal systems can increase trauma, risk, or burden for survivors and their children.

• Participants will gain shared language to recognize what legal processes a survivor may be navigating, ask informed questions, and make appropriate referrals that support survivor empowerment, voice, and choice.

SAMHSA Principles: Trustworthiness & Transparency, Empowerment (Voice & Choice)

Aligning Court Expectations and DV Offender Treatment

with Amy Hernandez, Brielle McCourt

More information coming soon!

Objectives

SAMHSA Principles: Trustworthiness & Transparency, Empowerment (Voice & Choice)

Organizational Safety Planning: Leadership Strategies for Organizational Risk

with Rebekah Moses, Principal, GBV Consulting

Do you ever feel overwhelmed navigating risk while supporting staff, survivors, and the sustainability of your organization? If you answered “yes,” this is a judgement-free, learning space for you.  

Do you have strategies you’d like to share with peers about leadership and risk management? If you answered “yes,” this is also the space for you.

GBVC welcomes leaders to discuss concrete strategies for organizational safety planning and risk reduction. We will use scenarios and peer-engagement to explore how leaders can model holistic, trauma-informed, person-centered safety through re-grounding in the basics. These basics include flexible, living policies and practices that address:

· VAWA/FVPSA/VOCA confidentiality;

· unintentional risk from well-intended policies and practices;

· considerations for documentation;

· responses to official demands for information from system and partners (including mandated reporting, subpoenas, and court requests/orders); and

· opportunities in staff support structures and budgets to support resiliency and metabolize the trauma inherent in this work.

Whether you’ve got it all figured out, would like more support, or are somewhere in the middle, we welcome you to this conversation.

Objectives

• Identify 1 policy or practice that supports organizational safety planning

• Identify 1 policy or practice that unintentionally increases risk for organizational safety (Participants can identify this without disclosing in the learning space, unless they would like to)

• Identify 1 concrete step you can take to either (a) share policies or practices that support organizational safety planning with peers or (b) address policies and practices that unintentionally increase risk for organizational safety.

SAMHSA Principles: Safety, Trustworthiness & Transparency, Peer Support, Collaboration & Mutuality, Empowerment (Voice & Choice), Cultural, Historical, & Gender Issues

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Objectives

SAMHSA Principles: Safety, Trustworthiness & Transparency, Peer Support, Collaboration & Mutuality, Empowerment (Voice & Choice), Cultural, Historical, & Gender Issues

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Break  2:30 pm - 2:45 pm
Break time: get a drink, go potty, pet an animal, breathe.
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Breakout Sessions - 2:45 pm - 4:15 pm 

Lost in Translation: How System Misalignment Shapes Risk, Engagement, and Safety
with Ashlei Fraser, LCSW, LASUDC

Professionals responding to domestic violence often make decisions based on information shaped by systems they do not directly work within—particularly courts, probation, and treatment settings, where different frameworks guide how risk, compliance, and engagement are understood. When these systems “speak different languages,” the same behavior may be interpreted in conflicting ways, leading to gaps in communication, inconsistent responses, and unintended impacts on survivor safety, trust, and autonomy.

This session examines how system misalignment plays out in real domestic violence cases and how it shapes risk-related decision-making. Using applied case examples, participants will explore how factors such as instability, unmet needs, stigma, and system involvement influence engagement in ways that are often misinterpreted as resistance or noncompliance—particularly when context is not shared transparently across systems.

Grounded in a trauma-informed framework, this presentation emphasizes safety, transparency, and collaboration across disciplines. Participants will practice strategies to improve cross-system communication, build shared understanding of behavior, and support more consistent, equitable responses by integrating the RISC framework (respect, information, safety, and choice) as an applied tool in cross-system settings. The session centers survivor voice and choice while also strengthening accountability processes, with attention to how cultural, historical, and gender dynamics shape system involvement and outcomes.

Objectives

• Analyze how misalignment across legal, probation, and treatment systems leads to inconsistent interpretation of behavior and impacts survivor safety, trust, and autonomy in domestic violence cases.

• Explain how factors such as instability, unmet needs, stigma, and system involvement influence engagement and are often misinterpreted as resistance or noncompliance across systems.

• Apply trauma-informed and cross-system communication strategies, including the RISC framework (respect, information, safety, and choice), to improve coordination, consistency, and accountability in DV response systems.

SAMHSA Principles: Safety, Trustworthiness & Transparency, Peer Support, Collaboration & Mutuality, Empowerment (Voice & Choice), Cultural, Historical, & Gender Issues

No One Left Behind: Survivors, Pets, and Safety
with Kristina Pulsipher- Co-Executive Director/Co-Founder & Mindy Maude, Chief Mission Impact Officer

Pets are often a critical barrier for survivors seeking safety, as many domestic violence shelters cannot accommodate them. This workshop, presented by Ruff Haven Crisis Sheltering and the YWCA, explores practical, trauma-informed approaches to creating pet-inclusive services.

Participants will learn how the human animal bond impacts survivor decision-making and safety, and how pet-inclusive practices can improve access to shelter, engagement, and long-term outcomes. The session will highlight real-world models, including partnerships and community-based solutions, along with strategies for implementation such as policy development, risk assessment, and addressing liability concerns.

This workshop incorporates SAMHSA’s trauma-informed principles by prioritizing safety, trust, empowerment, and collaboration, while recognizing the diverse needs and experiences of survivors.

Attendees will leave with actionable tools and next steps to begin or expand pet-inclusive services within their organizations.

Objectives

• Participants will be able to identify how lack of pet-inclusive sheltering creates barriers to safety for survivors of domestic violence and impacts decision-making.

• Participants will be able to describe practical strategies and partnership models to implement pet-inclusive services within domestic violence programs.

• Participants will be able to apply trauma-informed principles to support survivors and their pets while maintaining safety, choice, and program feasibility.

SAMHSA Principles: Safety, Trustworthiness & Transparency, Empowerment (Voice & Choice), Cultural, Historical, & Gender Issues

The Clinician's Role Beyond Treatment: Navigating Family Court, Documentation, Advocacy and Systems Change
with Sybil Cummin, LPC, ACS

For clients impacted by coercive control and domestic violence, healing does not happen in a vacuum. Family court, child protection, custody evaluations, legislation, and other systems often have a profound impact on both survivor and child outcomes. Yet many clinicians receive little training on how these systems operate or how to effectively support clients when legal and systemic challenges become part of the therapeutic landscape.

This interactive workshop explores how therapists can expand their impact beyond treatment alone. Participants will gain practical knowledge about family court processes, documentation practices, responding to subpoenas, testifying in court, supporting protective parents, and reducing professional risk when working in high-conflict cases. We will also examine the role clinicians can play in advocacy efforts, legislative change, and improving systems that affect the families we serve.

Objectives

• Analyze how family court, child protection, and other systems influence the safety, wellbeing, and treatment outcomes of protective parents and children impacted by coercive control and domestic violence.

• Apply best practices for documentation, court involvement, subpoenas, and testimony that support client care while maintaining ethical boundaries and reducing professional risk.

• Identify opportunities for clinician advocacy, multidisciplinary collaboration, and legislative engagement that can improve system responses and outcomes for survivors and their children.

SAMHSA Principles: Safety, Empowerment (Voice & Choice), Cultural, Historical, & Gender Issues

When the System Isn’t "Safe": Supporting Survivors Who Decline Legal Pathways
with Corttany Brooks, People and Engagement Director & Brooke Robinson, Programs Director

Survivors of domestic violence are often encouraged to pursue legal remedies such as protective orders, divorce, custody modifications, or criminal charges. However, many survivors, based on lived experience, safety concerns, personal priorities, or for a variety of other reasons, choose not to engage, especially when it is their first time coming into contact with the legal system. This session explores how attorneys and advocates can ethically and effectively support survivors in these decisions while still promoting safety, autonomy, and long-term options.

Drawing from the work of Timpanogos Legal Center, this presentation will examine the role of trauma-informed legal counseling without representation. Attendees will learn how to provide meaningful guidance without directing outcomes, how to support safety planning outside of court processes, and how to document concerns in ways that preserve future legal remedies. The session will also address ethical considerations, including how to avoid replicating dynamics of power and control within attorney-client relationships.

Overall learning objective: Equip participants with practical tools to support survivor autonomy while providing legally sound, trauma-informed guidance.

Objectives

• Identify ethical and trauma-informed approaches to advising survivors who decline legal intervention.

• Develop strategies for safety planning and risk assessment outside of court-based remedies.

• Apply documentation and counseling techniques that preserve survivor autonomy while maintaining future legal options.

SAMHSA Principles: Safety, Trustworthiness & Transparency, Empowerment (Voice & Choice), Cultural, Historical, & Gender Issues

Navigating Engagement with Participants Without Reinforcing Harm or Collusion
with Kly Yu, Rachel Coffey

More information coming soon! 

Objectives

SAMHSA Principles: Safety, Trustworthiness & Transparency, Empowerment (Voice & Choice), Cultural, Historical, & Gender Issues
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Close of day 1! 

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Welcome  8:45 am - 9:00 am

with DVS Conference Committee

Keynote Lecture  9:00 am - 10:15 am
Child Related Relief Facilitation in Civil Protection Orders *This Keynote is Sponsored by Vela by Element 74*
with Darren Mitchell, JD, Fellow, NCJFCJ, Stephanie Senuta, Director Child Relief Expediter Program, Domestic Violence Division, Circuit Court of Cook County

This 90-minute session will consist of an engaging, 60-minute presentation by two national experts on domestic violence, mediation, protection orders, and enhancing safety for court-involved families. The Child Relief in Civil Protection Order Project demonstrates that a voluntary safety facilitation process addressing child-related relief can be protective, effective, and beneficial to families. Faculty will provide the history of the project's original implementation and incredible success in Cook County, which led the Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) to fund the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges to select sites from around the country to replicate the successful model in two other jurisdictions. This presentation will highlight the importance of the project’s guiding principles, developing and cultivating partnerships, and investing in successful collaboration.

Faculty will foster an engaging virtual environment by incorporating interactive elements such as chat, polls, and small-group discussion, alongside established adult learning approaches. 

The primary learning objective is to share this successful and innovative model with participants and celebrate that Utah is a leader, as one of only two jurisdictions in the country selected for this project funded by the Office on Violence Against Women. Participants will specifically increase their knowledge of how to enhance victim and child safety through tailored terms for child access and protective provisions, and what this looks like in the pilot sites in Utah. 

This project and presentation include and align with five of the six SAMSHA's key principles. 1) Safety; 2) Trustworthiness and Transparency; 4) Collaboration and Mutuality; 5) Empowerment and Choice; 6) Cultural, historical and Gender Issues. In fact, the project has a list of guiding principles and they are 1) Safety; 2) Enhance Well Being; 3) Voluntary - Choice; 4) Access; 5) Due Process; 6) Collaborate; 7) Informed Decision Making; 8) Accountable and Transparent! 

Objectives

• Participants will be able to recognize the project’s core guiding principles

• Participants will be able to describe key components of child-related relief facilitation  

• Participants will recognize their potential role in working with court-involved parties and identify opportunities for collaboration.  

SAMHSA Principles: Safety, Trustworthiness & Transparency, Collaboration & Mutuality, Empowerment (Voice & Choice)

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Break  10:15 am - 10:30 am
Break time: get a drink, go potty, pet an animal, breathe.
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Workshop Session:  10:30 am -  11:45 am
Child Related Relief Facilitation in Civil Protection Orders - Utah's Implementation
with Darren Mitchell, JD, Fellow, NCJFCJ, Stephanie Senuta, Director Child Relief Expediter Program, Domestic Violence Division, Circuit Court of Cook County

The last 30 minutes of the presentation will be Utah-specific. Participants will meet the new Utah Protective Order Program Facilitator, and the faculty will lead a discussion to provide participants with an overview of Utah’s implementation plan and the important work that is being done in Salt Lake City and Logan. During this segment, faculty will emphasize and describe the essential role that victim advocates play in the process.  

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Lunch   11:45 am - 12:45 pm
Lunch: nourish and restore

Lunchtime Networking   12:15 pm - 12:45 pm
Join us for the last 30 minutes of lunch to get to know more providers in Utah who are doing similar work as you!
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Breakout Sessions-  12:45 pm - 2:15 pm

Advancing Survivor Outcomes in Family Court and Custody Evaluations
with Dr. Jenny Johnson, Ed.D., Founder and Certified Domestic Violence Specialist

Survivors of domestic violence often face an uphill and complex battle once they enter family court, where custody evaluations can significantly shape outcomes for both parent and child. This workshop provides advocates and professionals with practical, trauma-informed strategies to better support survivors through this high-stakes process.

Participants will gain insight into how custody evaluators assess cases and what they look for during evidence review, home visits, and interviews. The session will focus on effective evidence organization, preparation for evaluator interactions, and strategies to help survivors present their experiences clearly and credibly. Guidance on preparing for testimony will also be addressed, with an emphasis on minimizing harm while maximizing clarity and impact.

By equipping professionals and advocates with concrete tools and a deeper understanding of the evaluation landscape, this workshop aims to strengthen advocacy efforts and improve outcomes for survivors and their children.

Objectives

• Understand how custody evaluators assess cases, including key decision points during evidence review, home visits, and interviews.

• Apply practical strategies to help survivors organize evidence, prepare for evaluator interactions, and communicate their experiences effectively.

• Develop approaches to support survivors in testimony preparation while minimizing re-traumatization and strengthening credibility in family court proceedings.

SAMHSA Principles: Safety, Trustworthiness & Transparency, Peer Support, Collaboration & Mutuality, Empowerment (Voice & Choice), Cultural, Historical, & Gender Issues

Whose Best Interest? Coercive Control and Post-separation abuse in family court and the hidden harm to children
with Dr. Kathryn J. Spearman, PhD, MSN, RN

Family courts are tasked with one of the important responsibilities for our children: deciding where children live, who makes decisions about their health care, and how they will be protected from harm. Yet mounting evidence reveals troubling patterns — courts frequently miss or ignore coercive control and IPV, with devastating consequences for children. Children’s suffering often remains invisible to the systems meant to protect them, sometimes with fatal consequences.

This workshop draws on a program of empirical research to present the science behind what courts are missing and what it costs children. Best interests of the child (BIC) standards should center children's needs, yet in practice these standards often prioritize parental rights and contact over child safety. Children are often rendered legally invisible and face ongoing harm when they should be protected. 

What does this mean for children's safety, health and development? Exposure to post-separation coercive control is associated with significantly higher odds of children’s special health care needs, mental health diagnoses, somatic symptoms, and stress-linked neurodevelopmental and inflammatory disorders, even after controlling for the socioeconomic vulnerability that so often accompanies separation/divorce and IPV for mothers and children. These adverse health consequences reflect the biological embedding of toxic stress driven by coercive control — chronic fear, unpredictability, and threat.

Coercive control is insidious precisely because it leaves no visible bruises. Yet family court professionals are routinely asked to assess child safety, health, and well-being without tools, training, frameworks, or statutory guidelines to adequately identify coercive control. This workshop will equip attendees with emerging science to recognize the hidden harms to children from post-separation coercive control, recognize how current BIC frameworks may inadvertently increase harm, and apply trauma-informed, evidence-based approaches to better serve family court involved children and survivors.

Objectives

• Identify how patterns of coercive control and post-separation abuse manifest in family court proceedings, and explain why child safety and health risks may exist even in the absence of physical violence

• Identify the toxic stress burden and health consequences for children exposed to IPV and coercive control

• Identify strategies to center child safety and health in family court cases involving child maltreatment, IPV, and coercive control

SAMHSA Principles: Safety, Trustworthiness & Transparency, Peer Support, Collaboration & Mutuality, Empowerment (Voice & Choice), Cultural, Historical, & Gender Issues

Beyond Compliance: Using Data to Drive Survivor-Centered Change and Systems Alignment
with Katie Allaway, Product Director, Vela by Element74

Domestic violence organizations are required to collect and maintain extensive data for federal, state, and community partners to demonstrate progress toward grant goals and objectives. Yet this information is far more than numbers on a report—it is the collective story of how organizations respond to harm, support survivors, and create change within their communities.

In this session, Katie Allaway, Product Director of Vela, will explore how organizations across the domestic violence and sexual assault movement can transform required data collection into a strategic tool for survivor-centered improvement, staff support, and systems change.

Participants will learn how to use data to better understand service trends, identify barriers survivors face when navigating courts and related systems, improve internal structures that support advocates, and strengthen collaboration with community partners. The session will also examine how data can illuminate misalignment across systems that may unintentionally increase burden, trauma, or risk for survivors and children.

Honoring the many advocates whose vision helped create Vela, this session will celebrate the movement’s shared innovation while addressing the ongoing tension between funder compliance requirements and meaningful, mission-driven practice.

Objectives

• Reframe mandated data collection as a tool for storytelling, accountability, and survivor-centered systems improvement.

• Identify patterns in service data that reveal barriers, inequities, and opportunities for organizational change.

• Explore ways to balance reporting obligations with values-driven, movement-based practice.

SAMHSA Principles: Trustworthiness & Transparency, Peer Support, Collaboration & Mutuality

Understanding Risk: What It Means for Domestic Violence Offender Response

with Michele Leslie, Psy.D.

Some of the most common questions asked when it comes to the domestic violence offender population relates to the idea of “risk,” including “how risky is this person,” “what is this person’s risk,” and “how will this person’s risk look in the future?” Where the response to questions such as these can become confusing are the result of different understandings of what risk means, looks like, is assessed, and how it is implemented throughout the criminal justice system. In this workshop, the world of “risk” as it relates to the domestic violence offender population will be explored, including discussion on the following:

- The overarching concept of “risk”

- Risk assessment

- How risk and risk assessment can be implemented with the domestic violence offender population throughout the criminal justice system to increase public safety

- Incorporating risk into collaboration across all spaces working with the domestic violence offender population

Through presentation and participant engagement, this workshop will provide the opportunity for attendees to increase both their understanding of and confidence in "risk" and how it can play a critical role in public safety. 

Objectives

• Participants will be able to discuss the concept of "risk" as it relates to the criminal justice population as a whole, as well as with the domestic violence offender population specifically. 

• Participants will gain an understanding of the role risk assessments play in effective evaluation, treatment, and management of offenders of domestic violence. 

• Participants will be able to incorporate risk and risk assessment as a puzzle piece in collaboration and increasing public safety. 

SAMHSA Principles: Safety, Trustworthiness & Transparency, Peer Support, Collaboration & Mutuality, Empowerment (Voice & Choice), Cultural, Historical, & Gender Issues

Safety Planning with Immigrants at Risk for Deportation

with Karla Arroyo, Director of Multicultural Counseling

Across the United States, Latino immigrants and other immigrant communities are navigating deportation fears, family separation concerns, and ongoing uncertainty. These realities significantly impact mental health, family stability, and children’s functioning in schools and communities. This presentation focuses on practical, trauma-informed strategies clinicians and advocates can use to support immigrant families.

This training introduces a structured framework to implement safety plans with Latino immigrant clients and families. In this context, safety planning extends beyond traditional crisis intervention. It includes collaborative preparation for potential detention or separation, identifying guardianship arrangements, organizing critical documents, establishing trusted community contacts, and clarifying family communication plans.

Participants will learn how to treat safety planning as an ongoing process rather than a one-time document. Under this framework of practice, each section of the safety plan is reviewed and completed over several meetings allowing clients to explore anticipatory grief, fear, anger, hypervigilance, and past trauma. Many immigrant families carry extensive histories of migration-related trauma, community violence, and systemic marginalization. Current deportation fears often reactivate earlier traumatic experiences. 

The training also addresses the complexity of working with clients who are experiencing active exposure to trauma.  Participants will explore the relational impacts of chronic fear and how these responses manifest in adults and children.

Cultural humility serves as a foundational principle throughout the presentation. Participants will engage in reflection around power, privilege, and systemic inequities while learning to center client voice, honor community strengths, and avoid deficit-based assumptions. The diversity within Latino communities is emphasized, reinforcing the need for individualized, contextually grounded intervention.

Objectives

• Analyze the ethical responsibilities in providing culturally responsive and trauma-informed care to Latino immigrant families within the current deportation climate, including application of professional ethical standards related to cultural competence, client dignity, self-determination, and social justice.

• Develop and implement a culturally grounded safety planning framework, demonstrating the ability to collaboratively process anticipatory trauma, intergenerational stress, and active fear while upholding ethical principles of informed consent, confidentiality, and client empowerment.

• Evaluate the role of mezzo-level advocacy as an ethical extension of culturally competent practice, identifying strategies for collaborating with schools, community organizations, and legal resources to reduce harm, support family stability, and address systemic barriers impacting immigrant clients.

SAMHSA Principles: Safety, Trustworthiness & Transparency, Empowerment (Voice & Choice), Cultural, Historical, & Gender Issues

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Break  2:15 pm - 2:30 pm
Break time: get a drink, go potty, pet an animal, breathe.
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Closing Panel Session - 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm 

What do we need from each other to keep survivors safe? What do survivors say they need from us?
with Amy Hernandez, Susan Griffith, Tiffany Perry

Survivors are often navigating multiple systems at the same time — advocacy, legal, clinical, child welfare, law enforcement, and the courts — and too often the burden of connecting those systems falls on them. This conversation brings together professionals from different disciplines to talk honestly about where our systems are aligned, where survivors are still falling through the cracks, and what it would look like to respond more collaboratively across Utah. Panelist will discuss what survivors say they need from providers, where misunderstandings or conflicting expectations can create additional harms, and how stronger communication ad coordination can improve safety and trust. This discussion is intended to be practical, reflective and grounded in the reality of the work– with a focus on building shared understanding and stronger partnerships moving forward.

SAMHSA Principles: Safety, Trustworthiness & Transparency, Peer Support, Collaboration & Mutuality, Empowerment (Voice & Choice), Cultural, Historical, & Gender Issues

Close of Conference -  4:30 pm  - 4:45 pm
We will see you March, 2027!
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