The registration form is attached. If you would like to attend the
conference, please fill out the registration form completely before emailing
to Dana Ratliffe-Walker at Dana.Ratliffe-Walker@... . For
questions about the conference, please call (434) 983-4200 ext. 4870.
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The Virginia Sex Offender Treatment Association presents
The 22nd Annual Training Conference on the Management and Treatment of Sex
Offenders
March 5 - 7, 2008
Charlottesville, VA
$120 Registration ($100 before Feb 21) covers tuition only

Sponsored by:
Center for Psychological Assessment and Therapeutics
The Virginia Department of Mental Health, Mental Retardation and Substance
Abuse Services (DMHMRSAS)
The Virginia Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers (VATSA)
The Virginia Department of Corrections (DOC)
ISecure, Inc.

The 22nd Annual VSOTA Training Conference will focus on interventions with
sex offenders in order to enhance public safety. Research suggests that
quality treatment programs will ultimately lead to a reduction in sexual
victimization. This conference is aimed at helping service providers improve
their skills in working with this difficult population. Our goal is NO MORE
VICTIMS.

Keynotes:
Assessing Psychopathy: Clinical and Forensic Applications of the Hare
Psychopathy Checklist-Revised
Robert Hare, Ph.D., & Adelle Forth, Ph.D.

Psychopathy, as measured by the Hare Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R),
has emerged as one of the most important clinical constructs in the criminal
justice system. Among other things, the PCL-R plays a central role in the
assessment of treatment options and in evaluations of risk for recidivism
and violence. The workshop will provide an overview of current research
with the PCL-R and its derivatives, the Psychopathy Checklist: Screening
Version (PCL: SV) and the Psychopathy Checklist: Youth Version (PCL: YV),
with particular emphasis on clinical and forensic implications and
applications. It will also provide participants with training on the use of
these instruments.

Realistic Approaches to Community Safety
Patricia Wetterling Founder, The Jacob Wetterling Foundation St. Joseph,
Minnesota

Jacob Wetterling Foundation maintains hope that through quality programming
and services provided to communities, adults can help protect children from
victimization by giving them positive identities and values, appropriate
boundaries and expectations, and the support they need to flourish.

Workshops:
. Prosecution and Victim Services
Detective Carl Brown, MPO Albemarle Police Department
Susan Painter Director of Victim Services, Albemarle Police Department
Jon Zug Assistant Commonwealth Attorney, Albemarle County
A team approach to successful prosecution while minimizing further
victimization.

. Treating the Whole Person: A Holistic View to Treating Adolescent
Sexual Abusers
Andrea Wiseman, Psy.D., C.S.O.T.P.Keystone Newport News
The session examines what a treatment program for adolescents should
incorporate in this day and time. It discusses the need to treat the whole
person and not just the sexual offending/abusive behaviors. The session will
examine a mind, body, spirit approach to treating the adolescent offender
and the importance of the therapeutic relationship.

. Static-99
Eric Madsen, M.A. Psychology Senior, Offender Management Services Virginia
Department of Corrections Richmond, Virginia
This workshop will introduce the scoring rules for the Static 99. A general
overview of scoring rules and sample case studies will be used to
demonstrate how to score this instrument. An overview of the interaction
between Virginia's Sexually Violent Predator Legislation and scores on the
Static-99 will also be explored.

. Current Trends in Sex Offender Treatment and Techniques
G. Rex Miller, Ph.D., CSOTP Center for Psychological Assessment and
Therapeutics Virginia Beach, Virginia
This workshop will discuss the history, research efficacy, and the current
trends of sex offender treatment. The first half of the workshop will focus
on the development of treatment efforts and the supporting research for the
etiology and development of treatment skills. The second half of the
workshop will consider current treatment techniques and the application of
those skills to sex offenders. Techniques for juveniles and adults will be
presented.

. Sex Offender Supervision Issues
Randi Lanzafama, M.Ed., CSOTP Sex Offender Program Manager, Community
Corrections Virginia Department of Corrections Richmond, Virginia
This workshop will offer a panel discussion of supervision challenges facing
community supervision. Attendance is limited to probation and parole
officers.

. What's Going On Out There? - A Snapshot of Treatment Around the
Commonwealth
Anya Moon, M.S. Psychology intern, former Sex Offender Contract Monitor for
Virginia Department of Corrections Ayer, Massachusetts
The basis of this workshop is a study that utilized ten clinicians who
provided sex offender treatment to probationers and parolees in the Virginia
Department of Corrections, as well as nine probation officers who also
completed interviews. The presentation will begin with a brief description
of research-supported sex offender treatment techniques, and then will move
into the study's results, which include findings from the interviews, plus
comparisons of techniques across providers. Discussion and participation
are strongly encouraged!

. Tracking Sexual Predators in the New Millenium
Russell E. McGuire Assistant Commonwealth Attorney Louisa County, Virginia
This presentation will provide information on Internet predators and address
the emergence of animated pornography.

. Moving Upstream: Working to Prevent Sexual Violence Before It Occurs
Rebecca K. Odor, MSW Director of Sexual and Domestic Violence Prevention
Virginia Department of Health Richmond, Virginia
This workshop will share some of the initiatives happening in Virginia to
address the primary prevention of sexual violence. Some of the programs and
materials to be shared are the Men of Strength Campaign, the Stop It Now!R
campaign to address child sexual abuse, the statutory rape campaign and some
of the local initiatives of sexual assault crisis centers in Virginia.

. Sex Offenders and Ethics
David D'Amora, M.S., LPC, CFC Director Center for the Treatment of Problem
Sexual Behavior Middletown, Connecticut
This presentation will address the ethical challenges associated with
providing treatment to a sex offending population.

. Risk Management : Going Beyond Relapse Prevention
Mario J.P. Dennis, Ph.D. Clinical Director, Virginia Center for Behavioral
Rehabilitation Burkeville, Virginia
This presentation will focus on the benefits of shifting from a singular
risk assessment approach to a more inclusive model that includes risk
management. Results from the Dynamic Supervision Project will be presented,
as well as an empirically-based model for identifying treatment needs of
adult offenders.

. Juvenile Sex Offenders: Applying a Unifying Treatment Matrix to
Evidence-Based Practice.
Steven Wolf, Ph.D, Director Office of SVP Services DMHMRSAS
Carolyn E. Harrington, LCSW, CSOTP SVP Program Specialist Office of SVP
Services DMHMRSAS
This workshop provides participants with a treatment matrix model for
organizing all of the techniques, groups, individual sessions, family
therapy, cycle, and relapse prevention/risk management tasks currently part
of "usual and accepted practice". Participants will learn how to articulate
the goals of treatment, develop measurable programmatic and implementing
objectives for treatment - useful in estimating treatment progress of
individual clients - and how to plug in new evidence-based practices as they
become available. This approach integrates elements of Transtheoretical
Models of Change, cognitive-behavioral, and risk management practices.

. Overview of the Virginia State Police Sex Offender Registry
Sergeant Robert Holland, B.S. Sergeant, Region 1 Supervisor Virginia State
Police Headquarters Richmond, Virginia
Using pertinent Web site information and informative video clips, this
workshop will review and discuss the origin of the sex offender registry,
the Adam Walsh Act and sex offender requirements, as well as the Virginia
State Police Sex Offender Investigative Unit, registerable offenses and sex
offender statistics. Other topics to be highlighted include partnerships
between the DOC and VSP, plus important code sections with relevance to sex
offender treatment professionals.