This important two-day summit focuses on providers and advocates working with children exposed to domestic abuse. Programming provided by experts in the field including our keynote presenters;

Jeffrey Edleson Ph.D., is a professor and the director of Research at the University of Minnesota School of Social Work and director of the Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse. He is one of the world's leading authorities on children exposed to domestic violence and has published a dozen books on domestic violence, groupwork, and program evaluation. Professor Edleson is the co-author, with the late Susan Schechter, of Effective Intervention in Domestic Violence and Child Maltreatment Cases: Guidelines for Policy and Practice (1999, co-authored with Susan Schechter, NCJFCJ). Better known as the "Greenbook", this best-practices guide has been the subject of six federally-funded and numerous other demonstration sites across the country. Professor Edleson has also conducted intervention research and provided technical assistance to domestic violence programs and research projects across North America as well as in several other countries including Germany, Israel, Cyprus, India, Australia, Korea and Singapore.

James Henderson MSW, CAC-R, provides trainings on probation practice with domesticviolence offenders for the Battered Women's Justice Project.  For several years, Jim was responsible for overseeing the policies and practices of Intensive Probation for Domestic Violence offenders in Ann Arbor, MI. He was assigned to the Washtenaw County Domestic Violence Unit as part of the OVW Judicial Oversight Demonstration Initiative from 1999 to 2005, and worked from a system perspective to enhance victims' safety and defendant accountability. He has worked as a provider of batterer intervention in the Detroit metropolitan area since 1995. Previously, he was the clinical director of Straight, Inc., a family-oriented substance abuse program for drug-using young people and their families.

Sarah M. Yanosy, LCSW, is the director of the Sanctuary Institute at the AndrusChildren's Center in Yonkers, NY.  She has been a clinical social worker for over15 years and has used the Sanctuary Model with her treatment team in that capacity.  She has collaborated with Dr. Sandra Bloom and colleagues to develop the curriculum for the Sanctuary Leadership Development Institute training, and has overseen the process for over 100 organizations across the United States and five other countries to implement the Sanctuary Model.  Her most recent publications include an article co-authored in the journal “Reclaiming Children and Youth”, a chapter co-authored in Loss, Hurt and Hope, and most recently, an article on applying trauma theory to your stressed organization in the “Alliance for Children and Families Magazine.”