We’re Talkin Teens: Legal and Social Issues

Friday, November 13, 2009
10:00 AM – 4:45 PM
5.5 CLE

Hilton Akron/Fairlawn
3180 West Market St., Akron, OH 44333
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Questions: manovac@uakron.edu
Phone: 330-972-6363

Agenda:

9:30 -10:00      Registration

10:00 - 11:30   The Adolescent Experience: If We Could See it Through Their Eyes
(Susan Painter  MS, RN. University of Illinois, Chicago)

11:30 - 12:30   Lunch

12:30 - 1:30     Trafficking of Minors
(Celia Williamson, Ph D., University of Toledo)

1:30 – 3:00      GLBTQ Issues Within the Teen Population
(Henry Ng, MD, MetroHealth Medical Center)

3:00 – 3:15      Break

3:15 - 4:45       Teen Dating Violence and Adolescent Offenders
(Tim Boehnlein, Domestic Violence Center, Cleveland)

Sue Painter teaches in the University of Illinois at Chicago Department of Health Systems Science, as well as the Biobehavioral Health Department.  She is faculty in the Advanced Practice Forensic Nurse Certificate Program working with advanced practice nurses to increase awareness of forensic nursing issues in the medical community.  She has worked as a clinician for over 25 years as a Child/Adolescent specialist, spending time in crisis stabilization, consulting in psychiatric emergencies, and private practice.  Her areas of interest include chronic mental illness, child maltreatment, sexual assault, and substance abuse.

Dr. Williamson received her BA in Social Work from the University of Toledo, her Masters  in Social Work from Case Western Reserve University and her Ph.D. from Indiana University.  After learning about the abuses suffered by those who were victims of human trafficking, Dr. Williamson devoted the next 15 years toward learning, researching, and developing responses to appropriately address it.

Henry Ng, MD, is an internist and pediatrician at MetroHealth Medical Center. He completed his MD degree at Michigan State University College of Human Medicine in 2001, his residency and Chief Residency in Internal Medicine/Pediatrics at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine at MetroHealth Medical Center in 2006. He joined the Case faculty in 2006 and is currently an Assistant Professor. He is board certified in General Internal Medicine and General Pediatrics.

Timothy Boehnlein, M.A. has a Master’s Degree of Counseling Psychology from Cleveland State University.  He has over 14 years of experience in assessment of perpetrators of domestic violence, facilitating batterer intervention groups, counseling domestic violence and stalking offenders, and diagnostic assessments.  He is also experienced in operating and managing a supervised visitation center where children can visit with their non-custodial parent in a safe environment free of power and control, manipulation and coercion.  He developed the Batterer Treatment Program for the Domestic Violence Center in 1992 and is currently the Associate Director of the Domestic Violence Center in Cleveland, Ohio.