Intensive Session: Addressing the Needs of CSEC Survivors in Residential Settings (Jail, Juvenile Hall, and Group Care)
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SESSION INFO

Sunday, January 5, 2020
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Session Type: Intensive
Training will help probation and corrections supervise and provide trauma informed care to CSEC survivors while maintaining safety from recruiting, sexualized behaviors and aggression. Participants will be able to identify the complex needs of CSEC survivors under Probation and Correctional supervision. Participants will understand how trauma reactions and maladaptive coping to triggers may create unsafe environments for other survivors. Also, you will take away strategies to implement in their settings to provide greater safety for probationers and inmates with significant trauma.

SESSION PRESENTERS
Rebekah M Graham
Program Director, Sierra Sage Academy


Rebekah Graham is a Program Director at Sierra Sage Academy in Yerington, Nevada. She received her B.A in Criminal Justice (cum laude) and M.A. in Criminal Justice with distinction from California State University at Stanislaus before joining the San Joaquin County Probation Department as a Probation Officer. As a Probation Officer, Ms. Graham quickly rose through the ranks working with youth in foster care, launching a Mental Health Court, working with Juvenile Drug Court and truancy prevention before promoting to the role of Probation Supervisor over the foster care (placement) unit. After her thirteen-year career at San Joaquin County Probation, Ms. Graham joined Rite of Passage to start a residential treatment program for victims of trauma in 2015. In addition to her work as a program director, Ms. Graham is a Motivational Interviewing instructor and serves as a Commissioner on the Nevada State Juvenile Justice Oversight Commission.