16th Hawai'i International Trauma Summit Preventing, Assessing And Treating Trauma Across The Lifespan

16th Hawai'i International Trauma Summit Preventing, Assessing And Treating Trauma Across The Lifespan is organized by Institute on Violence, Abuse and Trauma (IVAT) and will be held from Apr 23 - 26, 2019 at Hawaii Convention Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America.

Conference Description:
The 16th Hawai`i International Summit is a multidisciplinary gathering of professionals working together to tackle the major issues in fields dealing with violence, abuse, and trauma. International and local speakers come together to share their findings on causation, prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation at both the global level and at smaller, community-based levels.

?Summit attendees will have the opportunity to gain continuing education credits and meet professional licensure requirements. The Summit is also a great opportunity to network not only within your field, but also with professionals in other fields that may provide valuable insight into how theory and research is applied at the other end of the line.

Conference Goals:
• Bringing together local, regional, national and international leaders, researchers, practitioners, consumer-survivors, policy makers and advocates, as well as those working on the frontlines with children, adults, and families to network and learn from each other
• Strategies to promote peace in the home and communities around the world
• Multidisciplinary solutions to prevent family violence, child maltreatment, sexual violence, trauma and compassion fatigue
• Dissemination of promising and best practices in prevention and intervention
• Linking research, practice, advocacy and policy
• Promotion of prevention programs
• Spotlight on current research and programs involving substance abuse and violence
• Advanced clinical/treatment techniques
• Opportunities/techniques to re-fuel, re-energize, and apply self-care
• Share new interventions, techniques and approaches
• Strategies to promote social change and social justice to eliminate oppression
• Dissemination of practical application techniques

Conference Tracks:
• Adolescent Trauma/Youth Violence
• Adult/Elder/Family Trauma
• Child Trauma
• Criminal Justice & Legal Systems
• Healthcare System
• Intimate Partner Violence
• Prevention/Early Intervention
• Sex & Labor Trafficking
• Sexual Assault/Victimization
• Special Topics in Trauma
• Trauma in Military Personnel, Veterans & Their Families

Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.