Continuing Education Center

The rise of sexually explicit media (SEM) across digital platforms—spanning from traditional adult websites to social media and mainstream online spaces—has created significant challenges for parents, educators, and mental health professionals. Guiding youths through their media consumption in this rapidly evolving digital landscape requires innovative strategies and collaborative efforts.

Join us for a series of professional dialogues designed to address these pressing issues. Moderated by Seth Wescott and David Prescott, these discussions provide a supportive space for professionals to share insights, develop strategies, and enhance their ability to navigate the complexities of SEM’s impact on youths. Each session will begin with a focused exploration of a specific topic, evolving naturally into an engaging, attendee-driven conversation shaped by shared experiences and professional insights.

The rise of sexually explicit media (SEM) across digital platforms—spanning from traditional adult websites to social media and mainstream online spaces—has created significant challenges for parents, educators, and mental health professionals. Guiding youths through their media consumption in this rapidly evolving digital landscape requires innovative strategies and collaborative efforts.

Join us for a series of professional dialogues designed to address these pressing issues. Moderated by Seth Wescott and David Prescott, these discussions provide a supportive space for professionals to share insights, develop strategies, and enhance their ability to navigate the complexities of SEM’s impact on youths. Each session will begin with a focused exploration of a specific topic, evolving naturally into an engaging, attendee-driven conversation shaped by shared experiences and professional insights.

In this training, Ms. Pryor explores the ethical tensions that arise between treatment providers and the criminal justice system—each with their own goals and approaches. She discusses strategies for aligning therapeutic interventions with both legal requirements and ethical standards, and reviews relevant ethical codes to support effective and principled clinical decision-making.

ndividuals with marginalized sexual orientations and/or sexual identities (MOGI) encounter numerous interrelated challenges, including stigma, discrimination, and violence in social, educational, and professional environments; heightened risk of mental health issues due to social isolation and abuse; barriers to accessing vital health and support services; and rejection from families or communities, often resulting in homelessness and further marginalization. These challenges are compounded by cultural misunderstandings, intersecting forms of exclusion, and gaps in societal and institutional support. Addressing them requires a collective effort to advance inclusion, equity, and community acceptance for people of all MOGI, ensuring their dignity and rights are respected and upheld.

In response to these realities, we invite those supporting MOGI-diverse individuals and members of their communities to join us for this series of professional dialogues moderated by Jimmy Widdifield, Jr., and David Prescott. Created to foster meaningful and respectful conversations, these sessions provide a space for professionals to openly explore the challenges faced by individuals with diverse MOGIE. Through shared experiences, expert insights, and practical guidance, attendees will gain strategies to strengthen advocacy, promote inclusive practices, and build effective allyship—helping to foster environments where all people can live authentically and thrive.

In this Our Safe Haven, we invite you to join Robin Cooper and David Prescott to explore how personal and professional beliefs about sexuality influence our work, client relationships, and the broader field. Each session begins with a focused review of how sexuality beliefs influence professional practice, evolving naturally into an engaging, attendee-driven conversation shaped by shared experiences and professional insights: Session 01: Let’s Talk Shame Around Sexuality and Sex - Examine the role shame plays in client experiences and professional practice. Discuss ways to address shame while fostering healthy, supportive narratives in treatment.

In this webinar, Dr. Hanson invites us to rethink how we conceptualize risk and offers insights into the future of evidence-based assessment. He provides practical advice for early-career researchers and shares his vision for advancing approaches to the prevention of sexual abuse. Join us for this opportunity to engage with one of the field’s leading experts whose work continues to inform policy and practice in sexual abuse risk assessment and intervention.

Dr. Séan Foy developed this training to introduce participants to Solution-Focused Harm Reduction (SFHR) as a practical approach to working with people who use substances or display other high-risk behaviors. He explains the many synergies between solution-focused therapy and harm reduction, and describes how the two approaches are complementary and, when used in conjunction, create a novel way of approaching addiction work.

Despite decades of progress in evaluating and treating both adults and adolescents who have sexually abused, working with “emerging adults” can often be less clear. These clients are typically young men between the ages of 18 and 25—in some cases, it includes individuals in their late twenties—who are developmentally between adolescence and adulthood. They often do not “quite fit” into either category. This lack of fit is especially apparent in their living situation or placement logistics and the assessment tools and treatment modalities commonly used with this population. In many cases, clients who are now considered by the courts to be legally adults were adolescents when their abusive actions took place.

Dr. Waltrip and Dr. Leslie are both experts in evaluation and treatment, with experience across diverse practice settings in the United States. In this training, they focus on how professionals can best understand, assess, and treat emerging adults. This includes the similarities and differences they share with justice-involved adolescents and adults.

In these Our Safe Haven sessions, we invite you to join Steven Sawyer and David Prescott to explore the complexities of group intervention, from addressing denial and minimization to managing difficult group dynamics and safeguarding the wellbeing of clinicians. Each session begins with a focused theme, evolving naturally into an engaging, attendee-driven conversation shaped by shared experiences and professional insights.

Evaluations of adolescents with problematic sexual behaviors (PSB) often focus on future risk and recidivism, consistent with the Risk-Need-Responsivity (RNR) model. However, the low base rate of known sexual re-offense and moderate effect size of risk tools limit the accuracy of these assessments. Further, youths with PSB are still very much “works in progress.” Their abilities to anticipate consequences, solve problems effectively, and apply prosocial reasoning are still developing. Therefore, additional assessment methods may help professionals identify the most relevant risk factors and support the establishment of appropriate treatment goals.

In this training, Dr. Norbert Ralph presents a developmental model for adolescent assessment, emphasizing factors that disrupt normative, prosocial psychosexual development and highlighting treatable conditions that can reduce risk for repeating problem sexual behaviors.

Working in the field of sexual and social violence prevention is challenging, and navigating disabilities can make it even more complex. Whether the disability is visible or unseen, the realities of managing personal health, professional responsibilities, and social expectations can be both exhausting and, at times, isolating.

Led by Katie Gotch, a clinical professional with lived experience of disability, and David Prescott, a mental health practitioner in the field for four decades, these sessions offer a safe, non-judgmental space to connect, share, and build strategies that can make a meaningful impact on our day-to-day challenges. Each session begins with a focused exploration of a specific topic, evolving naturally into an engaging, attendee-driven conversation shaped by shared experiences and professional insights.

ndividuals with marginalized sexual orientations and/or sexual identities (MOGI) encounter numerous interrelated challenges, including stigma, discrimination, and violence in social, educational, and professional environments; heightened risk of mental health issues due to social isolation and abuse; barriers to accessing vital health and support services; and rejection from families or communities, often resulting in homelessness and further marginalization. These challenges are compounded by cultural misunderstandings, intersecting forms of exclusion, and gaps in societal and institutional support. Addressing them requires a collective effort to advance inclusion, equity, and community acceptance for people of all MOGI, ensuring their dignity and rights are respected and upheld.

In response to these realities, we invite those supporting MOGI-diverse individuals and members of their communities to join us for this series of professional dialogues moderated by Jimmy Widdifield, Jr., and David Prescott. Created to foster meaningful and respectful conversations, these sessions provide a space for professionals to openly explore the challenges faced by individuals with diverse MOGIE. Through shared experiences, expert insights, and practical guidance, attendees will gain strategies to strengthen advocacy, promote inclusive practices, and build effective allyship—helping to foster environments where all people can live authentically and thrive.

Working in the field of sexual and social violence prevention is challenging, and navigating disabilities can make it even more complex. Whether the disability is visible or unseen, the realities of managing personal health, professional responsibilities, and social expectations can be both exhausting and, at times, isolating.

Led by Katie Gotch, a clinical professional with lived experience of disability, and David Prescott, a mental health practitioner in the field for four decades, these sessions offer a safe, non-judgmental space to connect, share, and build strategies that can make a meaningful impact on our day-to-day challenges. Each session begins with a focused exploration of a specific topic, evolving naturally into an engaging, attendee-driven conversation shaped by shared experiences and professional insights.

In these Our Safe Haven sessions, we invite you to join Steven Sawyer and David Prescott to explore the complexities of group intervention, from addressing denial and minimization to managing difficult group dynamics and safeguarding the wellbeing of clinicians. Each session begins with a focused theme, evolving naturally into an engaging, attendee-driven conversation shaped by shared experiences and professional insights.

ndividuals with marginalized sexual orientations and/or sexual identities (MOGI) encounter numerous interrelated challenges, including stigma, discrimination, and violence in social, educational, and professional environments; heightened risk of mental health issues due to social isolation and abuse; barriers to accessing vital health and support services; and rejection from families or communities, often resulting in homelessness and further marginalization. These challenges are compounded by cultural misunderstandings, intersecting forms of exclusion, and gaps in societal and institutional support. Addressing them requires a collective effort to advance inclusion, equity, and community acceptance for people of all MOGI, ensuring their dignity and rights are respected and upheld.

In response to these realities, we invite those supporting MOGI-diverse individuals and members of their communities to join us for this series of professional dialogues moderated by Jimmy Widdifield, Jr., and David Prescott. Created to foster meaningful and respectful conversations, these sessions provide a space for professionals to openly explore the challenges faced by individuals with diverse MOGIE. Through shared experiences, expert insights, and practical guidance, attendees will gain strategies to strengthen advocacy, promote inclusive practices, and build effective allyship—helping to foster environments where all people can live authentically and thrive.

The Becoming Who I Want to Be workbooks for young men and women were designed for professionals working with youths with problematic behaviors toward others. Designed to be approachable and interactive, the workbooks engage clients whose adverse childhood experiences and problem behaviors have caused them to fall behind academically, socially, and emotionally. Based on the Good Lives Model (GLM), the workbook translates complex theory into practical strategies for treatment settings.

This training shows participants how to effectively integrate the workbooks into their therapeutic practice. Presenter and author David Prescott begins the training by reviewing the core principles of the GLM. He then offers ideas for how clinicians and counselors can use each section. Central to this training is its focus on dovetailing the GLM and these workbooks with Motivational Interviewing skills and the principles of Trauma-Informed Care, ensuring that intervention is not only effective but also client-centered and deeply supportive.