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Internet is Not Forever: Using Technology to Remove Child Abuse Images Online - 5/28/19
Presenter- Lanae Holmes is the Director of Cases Services, Family Advocacy Services, National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC). She is a licensed clinical social worker in the District of Columbia and has been at NCMEC since 2007. Lanae is overseeing the team that provides clinical and emotional support to families of missing and sexually exploited children. She also manages the Safeguard Program for NCMEC staff exposed to child pornography content during their daily work. Lanae is a trainer and facilitator for numerous conferences, teaching the benefits of the Safeguard Program and addressing the therapeutic needs of missing and sexually exploited children and their families.
Kathryn Rifenbark is a Supervisor in the Child Victim Identification Program (CVIP) at the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) in Alexandria, Virginia. She has been with the Exploited Children Division since 2010, where she is responsible for daily operations, including managing a team of approximately twenty analysts. CVIP assists law enforcement and prosecution with child pornography cases across the country, as well as helps locate and identify unknown child victims featured in sexually abusive images. CVIP serves as the clearinghouse for identified victims within the United States and works closely with Interpol and its member countries.
Content - While the arrest of child sex offenders stops the hands-on abuse, unfortunately the online images and videos live on and the trauma continues. During the webinar, you will learn about new U.S. and North American initiatives and assistance available to victims of online child sexual abuse and exploitation, and the efforts to support them to become 'survivors'. Included in this presentation will be new research on who the victims and offenders are, the impact of the images and videos on survivors, ways survivors are finding their voices, and the new efforts to remove files from the internet. Some content is confidential and privileged to attendees only.
Constructing a Complete Continuum of Care:
Building upon our work last year securing ETG training to providers at our CACs, in conjunction with technical support following our ONtarget session on the Elevate curriculum. CACs are equipped with an expanding toolkit to meet the needs of Ohio’s youth both in terms of stage of exploitation (high-risk, grooming, ongoing exploitation, or survivor of exploitation) and point in continuum of treatment/recovery.
While continued outcomes data must be collected, CACs are encouraged to link at-risk and youth currently being groomed with My Life, My Choice developed by the Justice Resource Center to reduce vulnerability to grooming tactics commonly used by traffickers. ETG equipped CACs are able to provide psycho-educational individual or