A N AT I O N A L C O N V E R S AT I O N Saturday 15th – Sunday 16th October 2016
Trinidad Hilton And Conference Center
Protecting Children from the Harmful Effects of Pornography
A B O U T T H E A R C H D I O C E S A N F A M I LY L I F E COMMISSION
The Archdiocesan Family Life Commission [AFLC] is a division of the Roman Catholic Church of Trinidad & Tobago. The organization was established in 1980 by the late Archbishop Anthony Pantin with a mandate to develop, promote and coordinate marriage and family life programs for the Archdiocese of Port of Spain and by extension the nation of Trinidad & Tobago. The commission currently manages several family life programs which are delivered throughout the country. It also oversees 15 ministries in the Archdiocese of Port of Spain.
PROGRAMS 1. Common Sense Parenting (in association with Franciscan Institute for Personal and Family Development and sponsored by Republic Bank Limited) CSP is a practical, evidence based parenting program that provides logical strategies and easy-to-learn techniques to address issues of communication, discipline, decision making, relationships, self-control and school success. The CSP program was developed by the Franciscan Institute and an alliance was formed with the AFLC in 2009. In that time, the commission has trained 190 facilitators, delivered 260 programs and reached over 20,000 families of all religious denominations.
PROGRAMS 2. Parenting Bootcamp (sponsored by Republic Bank Limited) The aim of this Parenting Bootcamp is to equip parents and caregivers to effectively raise healthy families. This program is meant to facilitate adult reflection on parenting styles and responsibilities, and on the methods and practical measures which can be utilized to create healthy homes and foster a positive approach to parenting from conception to adolescence. It also seeks to bring to the forefront some of the challenges that parents face in current times such as stress, child abuse, neglect, fathering and fatherhood issues. The program consists of three sessions for parents/guardians, teachers and caregivers. 3. VIRTUS – Protecting God’s Children (in collaboration with the Catholic Commission for Social Justice) VIRTUS is a series of workshops which allows persons who work with children at Catholic institutions to participate in “Protecting God’s Children”, a program conceived and developed by the US-based National Catholic Risk Retention Group Inc., part of its VIRTUS
series. This program is aimed at turning every parish/school/ residential care facility into childsafe havens. Protecting God’s Children has a special focus on education and training of clergy, staff, teachers, volunteers, parents and other adults about the nature of child abuse, child sexual abuse and how adults can help prevent harm to children. 4. Counselling Services The Archdiocesan Family Life Commission (AFLC) Psychological Counselling Services (formerly Listening Heart Services) offers both Professional and Peer Counselling. Services are operational in throughout Trinidad and Tobago and are available to anyone in need of gaining insight and understanding into difficulties they may be experiencing. 5. Pathways in Marriage Pathways in Marriage is a marriageenrichment program based on the philosophies presented in the book ‘Passages of Marriage’. The authors, Dr. Frank and Mrs. Mary Alice Minirth, Drs. Brian & Deborah Newman and Dr. Robert & Mrs. Susan Hemfelt use five growth stages: Young Love (1-2 years); Realistic Years (3-10 years);
Comfortable Love (11-25 years); Renewing Love (26-35 years); Transcendent Love (36 years and beyond) and develops a series of tasks that lead to growth and vitality in marriage. 6. Television Program: Family Life – A Catholic Vision Family Life – A Catholic Vision deals with all matters related to the care and overall well-being of families. This hour-long program airs on Trinity TV every first Monday of the month from 8pm to 9pm. 7. Radio Program: 91.1FM Talk City In May 2016, Catholic Voices invited AFLC to utilize a morning slot on Talk City 91.1FM. The shows are broadcast from 11-12noon on Tuesdays, twice per month and address family life issues.
PROGRAM
S AT U R DAY 1 5T H O C TO B E R 2 0 1 6 8:00am – 9:00am
REGISTRATION
9:00am – 9:15am
Welcome
9:15am – 9:25am
Address
Anthony Harford Bishop Robert Llanos
9:30am – 10:00am
Pornography – The Public Health Crisis of the Digital Age
Mary Anne Layden, PhD
10:15am – 10:30am
Pornography and its Effects on the Sharon Cooper, MD Developing Brain FAAP
10:30am – 10:45am
Questions and Answers
10:45am – 11:00am
B R E A K (Coffee in Foyer)
11:10am – 11:40am 11:40am – 11:50pm 11:50am – 12:20pm
Brain Drain: Neurological Considerations of Pornography Addiction
Donald Hilton, MD
Questions and Answers Winning the Fight against Pornography in the US
Dawn Hawkins
12:20pm – 12:30pm
Questions and Answers
12:30pm – 1:30pm
L U N C H
1:30pm – 2:00pm 2:00pm – 2:15pm
Pornography: Its Psychological Dr. Dianne Douglas Effects on Children and the Family Questions and Answers
2:15pm – 2:45pm 2:45pm – 3:00pm 3:00pm – 3:30pm 3:30pm – 3:45pm 3:45pm – 4:20pm
Sexual Exploitation: Connecting the Dots in Real Life
Sunny Slaughter
Questions and Answers A Youthful Perspective on Change Clay Olsen Questions and Answers Pornography – Protecting our Children
Dr. Saran Looby, Representative, The Children’s Authority of Trinidad & Tobago
4:20pm – 4:30pm
Questions and Answers
4:30pm – 4:45pm
Closing Remarks
S U N DAY 1 6 T H O C TO B E R 2 0 1 6 9:00am – 9:15am
Welcome and Breakdown of Day II Schedule
Anthony Harford
9:15am – 9:45am
Twenty-First Century Popular Culture and Social Media Challenges to Caribbean Sexual Ethics
Dr. Anna Perkins
9:45am – 10:00am
Questions and Answers
10:00am 12:00pm
A.M. Breakout Sessions (Panel Discussions/Q&A Segment)
12:00pm – 1:00pm
L U N C H
1:00pm – 2:30pm
P.M. Breakout Sessions
2:30pm – 2:45pm
Closing Remarks
Bishop Robert Llanos
BREAKOUT SESSIONS 10:0011:00am
Responding to Pornography as a Public Health Crisis
Dr. Mary Anne Layden Dr. Donald Hilton
10:0011:00am
Protecting our Children: Real Solutions
Corporal Lioba Duncan Child Protection Unit, TTPS WPC Candy Saunders – Alfred CyberCrime Division, TTPS
11:00am12:00pm
Equipping Leaders: Developing and Enforcing Policies that Work
Sunny Slaughter Dawn Hawkins
11:00am12:00pm
Recovery and Healing: Perspectives from Those Who Have Struggled
Guest Speakers Dr. Saran Looby
1:00pm– 2:30pm
Sending the Right Message: Dr. Dianne Douglas Talking to Youth and Young Adults Dr. Anna Perkins Mr. Clay Olsen
1:00pm– 2:30pm
Documentary Presentation: Not Just Pictures with introduction and Q&A segments conducted by Executive Producer Dr. Sharon Cooper
Dr. Sharon Cooper
SPEAKER PROFILES
DR. DIANNE DOUGLAS Dr. Douglas is a Doctor of Clinical Psychology and a Community Psychologist. She completed her training in the U.S.A. at Wheaton College and Yale University. She is currently an Assistant Clinical Professor at Yale University School of Medicine in the Department of Psychiatry, Part-time lecturer in the Masters in Clinical Psychology programme of the Faculty of Medical Sciences at UWI, a regional consultant on the Expert Team of UN Women’s Partnership for Peace, Domestic Violence Intervention Programme, UNDP and UNAIDS and a Past President of the Trinidad and Tobago Association of Psychologists (TTAP). Dr. Douglas is committed to the psychological development of persons in Caribbean and enjoys using radio and television as a means of promoting the message of psychological health and wellbeing. Dr. Dianne Douglas is a member of TTAP, The American Association of Psychologists, (APA), Employee Assistance Professionals Association (EAPA), The American Association of Christian Counselors (AACC), and the founder and chair of the Trinidad and Tobago Association of Christian Counselors (TTACC).
SPEAKER PROFILES
DR. SHARON COOPER Sharon Cooper is a developmental and forensic pediatrician who evaluates and treats children who have been victims of all forms of abuse, though her primary area of expertise is that of sexual exploitation. Dr. Cooper holds faculty positions at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Department of Pediatrics and the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland. She is a consultant and Board member of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. She is also a member of the Expert Working Group on Children who Experience Violence in Cyberspace, of the Baltic Seas. She has lectured nationally and internationally, and has provided Congressional testimony in the United States, Russia, Manitoba Canada, and Italy on child sexual exploitation. She has spoken at the European Commission on a safer Internet and is the lead author of one of the most comprehensive text on child sexual exploitation. Dr. Cooper provides training to numerous national and international investigative agencies in the area of Internet and Communication Technology crimes against children. Dr. Cooper recently served as a Task Force member on the Defending Childhood-Children Exposed to Violence report, having been appointed by Attorney General Eric Holder. She actively evaluates victims of child abuse images and the commercial sexual exploitation and has been qualified as in expert witness in more than 300 court proceedings. She regularly provides training for multidisciplinary teams who work on child maltreatment cases and provides particular attention to all forms of sexual exploitation. She continues to provide medical care for children with disabilities and serves in several organizations which work towards the prevention of child maltreatment.
SPEAKER PROFILES
D R . D O N A L D H I LTO N Dr. Hilton is a neurosurgeon in San Antonio, Texas. He is a clinical associate professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center and serves as director of the spine fellowship at the medical school program, and is also director of neurosurgical training for the residency program at the Methodist Hospital rotation. He travels and speaks nationally and internationally, and has published book chapters and peer-reviewed journal articles, with special interest in minimally invasive spinal surgery and in neural mechanisms involving addiction. He is currently listed in Best Doctors in America, is a member of Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society, and is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons. He has recently authored and co-authored several papers on addiction in peer-reviewed journals. One published in 2011 in the Journal of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) which investigated the role of natural instinctive craving in addiction. In additional, other papers publishing in 2013 and 2014 in the journal Socioaffective Neuroscience and Psychology have explored the pornography addiction from the perspective of neural learning models. One is titled “Pornography Addiction: A Supranormal Stimulus Considered in the Context of Neuroplasticity,” and the other is a peer-reviewed rebuttal to the Steele et al. paper purportedly refuting the addiction mode; it is titled “High Desire, or ‘Merely’ an Addiction?”
SPEAKER PROFILES
DR. ANNA KASAFI PERKINS Anna Kasafi Perkins, PhD is a quality assurance and organizational ethics professional. She is currently the Senior Programme Officer, Quality Assurance Unit, The University of the West Indies. A Roman Catholic theologian/ethicist by training, she is a former Dean of Studies of St Michael’s Theological College, an affiliated institution of The University of the West Indies, Mona. Dr. Perkins holds degrees from The University of the West Indies, Mona/St Michael’s Seminary, Jamaica; Cambridge University, UK; and Boston College, USA. (In 2010, she completed the Certificate in University Teaching at UWI, Mona). She has wide ranging and eclectic research interests, including faith and political life, sex and sexuality, religion and popular culture (especially Dancehall), gender and the scriptures, quality assurance and enhancement, business and professional ethics. She is the author of Justice as Equality: Michael Manley’s Caribbean Vision of Justice (Peter Lang 2010), and contributor/co-editor for Justice and Peace in a Renewed Caribbean: Contemporary Catholic Reflections (Palgrave Macmillan 2012) and Quality in Higher Education in the Caribbean with UWI Press (2015). She has also written numerous articles and book chapters. Among the prestigious public lectures that Dr. Perkins has delivered are: the Grace Kennedy Foundation Lecture, “Is Moral Dis-ease Making Jamaica Ill? Re-engaging the Conversation” (March 2013); the Tolton Lecture at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago, “Carib-being and Theo-logy these days: The Unwitting Theological Enterprise of the Music of Tanya Stephens” (March 2010); and the Lewin Williams Lecture at the United Theological College of the West Indies, “Just Desert or Just Desserts? God and Suffering in these
perilous times” (November 2011). In May 2014 she delivered the Graduate Studies & Research Public Lecture at UWI entitled, “Dis-ease(d) About Morality? Thinking about Ethics in Jamaica Today”. She also delivered the Bethel Baptist Church’s 60th Anniversary Lecture in July 2015, entitled, “The Ethics of Ig-norance”. An important dimension of her service is the work she does as a mentor for Jamaica AIDS Support for Life and the Southern Regional Health Authority. She serves as a member of the Board for the Passport, Immigration and Citizenship Agency (PICA); the Caribbean Conference of Churches and the Archbishop Carter Foundation. Her forays into media have included host for the Breakfast Club and Under the Microscope (BESS 100 FM) and the Catholic Voice (LOVE 101). She is often called upon as a radio and television commentator on matters concerning faith and morals. An avid and eclectic reader, she is devouring several books at the same. She likes collecting turtle ornaments, singing tunelessly and hanging out from time to time with a cat named Negro. She can be found from time to time playing auntie with her three nieces and a nephew and engaging with the other young people in her life.
SPEAKER PROFILES
C L AY O L S E N Clay Olsen is a creative and passionate filmmaker, marketer, public speaker, author, and social entrepreneur. In 2008 he co-founded Fight the New Drug (fightthenewdrug.org), a youth activist movement dedicated to raising awareness on the harmful effects of pornography through science, facts, and personal accounts. Since then the organization has been featured on ABC Nightline, ABC News, CNN, Al Jazeera, USA Today, NPR, the Blaze, the Dr. Drew Show, and more. Clay has personally presented to hundreds of schools and tens of thousands of teens all over the country as well as tens of thousands of parents and adults on this subject. In February of 2013, he founded and lead the development of an online recovery program called Fortify (fortifyprogram.org), to help individuals, particularly youth, overcome their struggle with pornography that has already impacted over 25,000 users in over 100 countries.
SPEAKER PROFILES
DAW N H AW K I N S Dawn Hawkins is a passionate defender of human rights who has dedicated her life to fighting against societal harms that threaten the dignity of others. Her energy, creativity and mobilization skills have revived the anti-pornography movement. As Executive Director of National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCSE), Mrs. Hawkins has developed a national strategy uniting conservative women’s rights, child advocacy and religious groups, including a bipartisan political leadership, to work together raising awareness of the pandemic of harm from pornography. Her initiatives have led to sweeping policy changes of policies that foster exploitation for targets such as Google, Verizon and the Department of Defense. Through her leadership, NCSE has grown a network reaching hundreds of thousands of people all over the world. Mrs. Hawkins has appeared on many local and national television programs, including CNN, Good Morning America and Fox & Friends. She regularly authors articles and speaks around the country addressing the harms of pornography and all forms of sexual exploitation and what can be done to curb the growing public health crisis resulting from pornography.
SPEAKER PROFILES
S U N N Y S L AU G H T E R Sunny Slaughter is a federally certified instructor and consultant for the Department of Homeland Security/Federal Law Enforcement Training Center. She has also successfully completed the DHS Drug Task Force Supervisor Training Program and is a recognized member of ILEETA (International Law Enforcement and Educators Association). Ms. Slaughter holds multiple certifications from FEMA, including Incident Management, Operational Planning and Integrated Preparedness and is an alumna of the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the University of San Bernardino. In 2016, Slaughter was the recipient of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Global Impact Award for her work in human trafficking. She was a 2015 contender for the Small Business of the Year Award from the Birmingham Business Alliance and won the Alabama Black Achievers Entrepreneur of Year Award from Regions Financial Corporation and The Oliver Robinson Foundation. Also in 2015, Ms. Slaughter won the 2nd Annual UAB Community Health Engagement Institute’s award in the category of Professional Development/ Evidence Based Services Award for her poster presentation “Defining the Role of Minority Health: Response to Human Trafficking Victimization”, and she was a selected for Poster Presentation for the Charles Barkley Health Disparities Investigator Award at the University of Alabama at Birmingham 10th Annual Minority Health Disparities Research Symposium: “How Social Determinants of Health Contribute to Human Trafficking in African American Communities and how R.E.E.P (Recognize, Engage, Educate, Promote) Changes the Landscape”. In 2014 she received a national appointment to the United Human Rights Network’s ICERD (International Convention for the Elimination of all
forms of Racial Discrimination) task-force and was invited to visit the White House. In 2013 Slaughter received the Belle Hat Award from the Southern Christian Leadership Foundation from co-founder, actor and activist Harry Belafonte for her national efforts and work in human trafficking. She also was selected to serve as an Alabama Commissioner for the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference which held hearings on mass incarceration, social justice and human rights violations in nine states and produced the report “Bearing Witness: A Nation in Chains�. Slaughter has served as a Crime Analyst for local, statewide and national radio and media outlets; ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, CNN/ HLN AfterDark and Trinity Broadcast Network. She is also an established writer for local and national newspapers, magazines, international publications and she is a blogger.
SPEAKER PROFILES
D R . S A R A N LO O BY Dr. Saran Looby is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist who is dedicated to guiding children and adults to recovery and helping them lead healthier, more fulfilling lives. She received her doctoral training in ClinicalCommunity Psychology from the University of South Carolina in the USA. Thereafter, she obtained a license to practise Psychology from the state of South Carolina. Dr. Looby has extensive experience in assessment and therapy. She has worked for several years treating children, adolescents and adults in outpatient, inpatient and forensic settings and has conducted psycho-educational, psychological, diagnostic, disability, occupational and forensic evaluations. Dr Looby specializes in child protection and worked for several years at a child advocacy centre (assessment centre) where she conducted forensic interviews of children and led therapy with survivors of abuse. Dr. Looby also has extensive experience assessing and treating children and adolescents with emotional and behavioural problems. Since recently returning to Trinidad, Dr. Looby runs her private practice, Looby Wellness, where she conducts therapy, assessments, training, consultations and advocates for public mental health services. She is also a part-time lecturer at the UWI MSc programme in Clinical Psychology. Dr Looby is proud to serve as a consultant with the Children’s Authority where she advises staff on their clinical practice at the assessment centres, she supervises psychologists, and trains staff on child abuse, psychological assessments, secondary trauma, among other topics. Dr. Looby is a member of the Trinidad and Tobago Association of Psychologists (TTAP) and The American Association of Psychologists (APA).
SPEAKER PROFILES
M A RY A N N E L AY D E N Mary Anne Layden, PhD is a psychotherapist and Director of Education at the Center for Cognitive Therapy at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the Director of the Sexual Trauma and Psychopathology Program. She specializes in the treatment of sexual violence victims and perpetrators as well as sex addicts and those engaged in the sexual exploitation industry (pornography, stripping, prostitution and sex trafficking). She conducts research examining the connection between the sexual exploitation industry, sexual violence and sexual pathology. She has testified before the U. S. Congress on five occasions and spoken at one Congressional Briefing all focused on issues of sexual violence, sexual addiction, the sexual exploitation industry and the media. She has lectured extensively both in the US and abroad on Cognitive Therapy, childhood and adult sexual trauma, sexual addiction, and the sexual exploitation industry.
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