Conference Agenda

 

7:00 a.m. - 8:00 a.m.  

REGISTRATION

 

8:15 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.  

GENERAL ASSEMBLY

WELCOME

 

SHERIFF LEROY D. BACA, ICAN Chairperson

Introduction of County of Los Angeles
Sheriff’s Department Color Guard

 

Deputy Sheriff Byron K. Ward

Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department

“National Anthem”

 

8:30 a.m. - 8:45 a.m.  

WELCOME AND INTRODUCTIONS

DEANNE TILTON DURFEE, Executive Director, Inter-Agency Council on Child Abuse and Neglect (ICAN)

 

8:45 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.  

Honorable Steve Cooley, District Attorney

 

Chief Charlie Beck, Los Angeles Police Department

 

Honorable Carmen Trutanich, Los Angeles City Attorney

 

Honorable Michael Nash, Presiding Judge, Juvenile Court

 

John Wagner, Director, California Department of Social Services

 

Donald Blevins, Chief Probation Officer

 

Patricia Ploehn, Director, Department of Children and Family Services

 

Marvin Southard, DSW, Director, Department of Mental Health

 

Michael P. Judge, Public Defender

 

Jonathan Fielding, M.D., Director, Department of Public Health

 

Lakshmanan Sathyavagiswaran, M.D.,
Chief Medical Examiner-Coroner, Department of Coroner

 

Darline Robles, Los Angeles County Office of Education

 

John Gundry, Los Angeles County

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Cathy Walsh, Conference Chairperson, ICAN

 

9:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.  

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

“Victims, Not Criminals: The Compliant Adolescent”

Catherine S. Connell, LCSW, FBI Child/Adolescent Forensic Interviewer

 

11:10 a.m. - 12:10 p.m.  

BREAKOUT SEMINARS
Studio I: Keeping Pace with the Changing World
Honorable Lois Haight, Presiding Judge, Contra Costa
County Juvenile Court

 

Studio II : Dreamer in the Fields: My Life as a Child Migrant Farm Worker
John Hill, Founder, Cell Phone Dads

 

Studio III : Is Snow White A Battered Woman?
Alyce LaViolette, M.S., MFT

 

Studio IV: An Inside Look At Child Fatality Review
Carol Berkowitz, M.D., Executive Vice Chair, Department of Pediatrics Harbor, UCLA Medical Center, MFT, Child Death Review Team Co-Chair


Pam Booth, Director of Area Operations, Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office, Child Death Review Team Co-Chair


Lakshmanan Sathyavagiswaran, M.D.,
Chief Medical Examiner-Coroner, Department of Coroner

 

12:15 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.  

LUNCHEON PROGRAM

 

WELCOME and GREETINGS

Kay Hoffman, President, ICAN Associates

 

FRANK VICENCIA CHAMPION FOR CHILDREN AWARD

 

LUNCHEON KEYNOTE

Mike Farrell, Actor, Producer, Author and Advocate

 

1:45 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.  

BREAK

 

2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.  

WORKSHOP PANELS—Session One (1)

 

3:45 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.  

WORKSHOP PANELS—Session One (2)