March 2014 – The Oneida County Professional Training Coalition, in partnership with Center for Family Life and Recovery, Inc., will host a training, entitled “Responding to the Challenges of Sexual Offenders in our Communities: A Recovery-Based Approach,” with presenter Stuart Joseph, LCSW-R, and Bonnie Zweifel, LMSW, on Friday, March 21, 2014 from 9:00A.M. – 4:00P.M. at the Radisson Hotel, 200 Genesee Street, Utica, New York 13501. Cost is $30.00 per person, includes morning coffee, set-up, lunch and program materials. Registration begins at 8:30A.M. This workshop will increase sensitivity to the factors that can promote or hinder recovery of sexual offenders & increase sensitivity to the factors that can increase or decrease community safety. (*) O.A.S.A.S. credit hours are pending (i.e., 5 hours, renewal only).
Stuart Joseph, LCSW-R, Clinical Services Director at Center for Family Life and Recovery, Inc. has provided assessment and treatment (i.e., individual, family and group) to individuals who have committed sexual abuse since 1985. He was a NYS Office of Mental Health SIST (Strict and Intensive Supervision and Treatment) Provider for Oneida and Herkimer County. He has been a Clinical Member of National ATSA since 1994; member of the NYS Alliance of Sex Offender Service providers since 1991; received the Outstanding Contribution for the Field of Probation and Alternatives to Incarceration Award from the New York State Division of Probation and Correctional Alternative in 1986 for developing a program for probationers who committed sexual offenses. Joseph also was a probation officer in Madison County for 9 years, with a specialized caseload of sexual offenders. Bonnie Zweifel, LMSW, Counselor at Center for Family Life and Recovery, Inc. has focused her career on dealing with issues of sexual abuse. She has served in various roles at the YWCA Rape Crisis Services from 1977–1989. Since 1989, she has provided assessment and treatment (i.e., individual, family and group) to individuals who have committed sexual abuse. She has provided counseling since 2011 at the Oneida County Child Advocacy Center for minor victims of sexual abuse. She was the keynote speaker at the NYS Coalition Against Sexual Abuse in 1989 & is a member of NYS Alliance of Sex Offender Service Providers. She received the Marilyn Etcheverry Award of Excellence in 2004; this award is given annually to an individual or program that has been identified as having done exemplary work in the field of evaluation and treatment of sex offenders.
Individuals encouraged to attend this workshop include: social workers, addiction treatment and/or prevention professionals, case managers, case workers, residential providers, parole and probation staff, marriage and family therapists, hospital staff and administrators, professionals who are confronted with situations involving sexual behaviors in young children and adults & others serving individuals with co-occurring psychiatric and substance use disorders.
For more information or to register for this workshop, contact Samantha Madderom, Prevention Specialist for CFLR, Inc., at (315) 768 – 2677 or smadderom@cflrinc.org. Pre-registration is required.
