Trauma-Informed Practices Through a Cultural, Historic, and Gendered Lens for Healthcare Professionals

with Dr. Jo Ann Janowski, Lived Experience Experts, Lenny Hayes, Elisia Lopez, and Dawn Schiller

This Webinar will describe the issue of human trafficking and the unique concepts of trauma-informed approaches from the perspectives of a diverse panel of lived experience experts. The panelists will breakdown what “trauma-informed approaches” look like through a historic, gendered, and cultural lens providing specific insight for healthcare providers to best support victims and survivors of human trafficking. This Webinar is relevant to all healthcare programs and professionals aiming to serve human trafficking victims and survivors, bringing the highest standard of care to patients and their families.

CERTIFIED NURSING CREDITS HAVE BEEN APPLIED FOR:

Learning Objectives:

Identify the six trauma-informed care principles through diverse cultural lenses
Better understand gender-based biases that inhibit a human trafficking survivor’s recovery
Understand a broader scope of trauma-informed approaches unique to a human trafficking survivor’s identity

This webinar was recorded on November 9th, 2022. The recording of this webinar can be seen below.

Speakers

Dr. Jo Ann Janoski

Published author, national and international speaker, trainer, consultant, and associate professor at Penn State University, the Eberly Campus

Dr. Jo Ann Jankoski

Dr. Jo Ann Jankoski’s academic journey started by graduating from California University of PA with both her BSW in Social Work and her Master of Science in clinical Mental Health. She continued her education by earning her second master’s degree from West Virginia University and completing her doctoral degree in Counselor Education and Supervision from Duquesne University. Dr. Jo is a published author, national and international speaker, trainer, consultant, and associate professor at Penn State University, the Eberly Campus, in the department of Human Development and Family Studies. She has earned many awards for her research and scholarship and the highest honor bestowed upon any faculty member at Penn State—the prestigious Eisenhower Award for Outstanding teaching. Dr. Jo is truly committed to serving others; she currently serves on several boards of directors; is the co-chair of the Fayette County Human Trafficking Taskforce, a Disaster Mental Health Specialist for the American Red Cross, and a member of the Fayette County Suicide Taskforce.

Lenny Hayes, MA

Owner and Operator, Tate Topa Consulting, LLC

Lenny Hayes, MA

Lenny Hayes, MA, is a citizen of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate of the northeast corner of South Dakota. Lenny is also owner and operator of Tate Topa Consulting, LLC and is currently in private practice specializing in Marriage Family Therapy. He has extensive training in mental and chemical health issues that impact the Two-Spirit/Native LGBTQ and Native community. Lenny has traveled nationally and locally training and presenting on the issues that impact both the Two-Spirit/Nativ LGBTQ individual and community. These issues include the Impact of Historical and Intergenerational Trauma on this population, violence of all forms, child welfare issues, and the Impact of Sexual Violence on Men and Boys which is a topic that is rarely discussed. Lenny is the former Missing and Murdered Two-Spirit Project Assistant for Sovereign Bodies Institute. Lenny is also a 2020 graduate of the Human Trafficking Leadership Academy Cohort 5.

Elisia Lopez-Mendiola, LCSW

Therapist at Healing Tides Counseling

Elisia Lopez-Mendiola, LCSW

Elisia Lopez-Mendiola, LCSW provides trauma-informed, human/person centered, and culturally appropriate care in every interaction she has. She has experience with a wide spectrum of challenges in life, including but not limited to trauma, mood disorders, anxiety, social injustice, and addictions. Lopez-Mendiola currently works full time with people who live with severe and persistent mental illness who suffer with the underlying feelings of shame, guilt, fear, and other barriers in life just like the rest of us. Lopez-Mendiola also serves as a mentor for those who are trying to rebuild their lives after trauma to empower those who want to take their power back. After earning her BSW at Concordia University, she pursued her Masters in Social Work from Portland State University.

“I bring a unique perspective because I have the lived experience in all that I specialize in. I also serve as clinical supervisor to a wonderful group of individuals who are working with a wide variety of youth who face challenges such as homelessness, LGBTQI+ life transitions, grief, survivorship of human trafficking, domestic violence, and systemic oppression.”

Areas of specialty include: Trauma and PTSD, Anxiety, Addictions, Anger management, Coping skills, Bipolar disorder, Grief, Domestic abuse and violence, Dual diagnosis, Life coaching, Life transitions, Peer Relations, Self esteem, Sexual abuse and addictions, Stress, Supervision, Women’s Issues.

Mental health: Impulse Control Disorders, Dissociative Disorders, Mood Disorders, Personality Disorders, Psychosis Disorders, and thinking disorders.

Types of therapy: ACT, Attachment based, clinical supervision, coaching, CBT, DBT, Emotionally Focused, Existential, Feminist, Humanistic, Multicultural, Narrative, Person Centered, Motivational Interviewing, Solution Focused Brief Therapy, and Trauma Focused. Works with adults 18+.

Dawn Schiller, M.A.

Training Director, Coalition to Abolish Slavery & Trafficking (CAST), LA County Project, Consultant, Speaker, Human Trafficking Survivor Leader

Dawn Schiller

Dawn Schiller is the Training Director, L.A. County Project for the Coalition to Abolish Slavery & Trafficking (CAST). She is an expert survivor-leader in the anti-trafficking, domestic violence and sexual assault movements. Abused and trafficked on the streets of Hollywood in her youth her subsequent years of struggle to survivorship, education and service to others offer valuable first-hand insight to community advocates. Today, she is a national speaker, educator, consultant and author.

Dawn earned her undergraduate degree summa cum laude in 2012 from Eastern Oregon University with honors in communication and gender studies. She received the “Women of Vision and Courage” award from EOU President’s Commission on the Status of Women. She is a Phi Kappa Phi Kathleen Greey Fellow and received a teaching fellowship from Oregon State University earning her Master of Arts in Women, Gender, & Sexuality in 2020. Dawn is a VISTO volunteer and regularly visits the girls in Los Angeles juvenile halls who struggle with substance abuse, sharing her experience, strength, hope, and recovery.

Dawn taught Women’s Studies and Activism at Oregon State University. Her academic presentations and trainings infuse lived experience on topics of anti-violence, anti-trafficking (Commercial Sexual Exploitation & Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children), trauma and trauma-informed care, teen/child abuse, the media, ally-ship, resilience, addiction, recovery and healing. Her memoir, “The Road Through Wonderland,” was published by Medallion Press.

Nationally, Dawn is a violence and human trafficking expert consultant with the U.S. Department of Justice Office for Victims of Crime, the Department of Health & Human Services Office on Trafficking in Persons (NHTTAC) and the U.S. Department of State’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons. She is a founding member of “Survivor 2 Survivor” (S2S) and member of the Coalition to Abolish Slavery & Trafficking’s (CAST) “Resilient Voices.”

Above all else, Dawn’s greatest joy is the privilege to be a parent to her talented daughter.

Dawn welcomes you to connect with her on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dawn-schiller-m-a-54586316/

Events

November 9, 2022 @ 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm