Program areas at The Melissa Institute for Violence Prevention and Treatment
May conference-the Institute's 27th anniversary annual conference was offered virtually. The title of The conference was "safety, mental health, and healing during uncertain times". Etiony aldarondo, ph.d., executive director of The Melissa Institute and renowned Violence Prevention scholar served as course director. Jim larson, ph.d., ncsp, donald meichenbaum, ph.d., debra peppler, ph.d., colleen cicchetti, ph.d., sherry hamby, ph.d., and ron slaby, ph.d. Were The lead faculty.
Innovations in Violence Prevention series was delivered online. The series included courses on it only takes a village: collaborating to build a trauma responsiove school designation by collen cicchetti, ph.d. and mashana smith, ph.d., culturally informed and flexible family based Treatment for adolescents by daniel santisteban, ph.d., who do domestic Violence survivors call when they don't call The police? : implications for developing network-oriented services for healing and safety by lisa goodman, ph.d., and impact of disasters on youth: building resilience in childrenand families by annette la greca, ph.d.