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Aimed at mental health clinicians, administrators, educators, pediatricians, child-welfare specialists and families, the conference will begin at 9 a.m. Thursday, continue throughout the day and resume at 9 a.m. Friday. Registration will take place at 8 a.m. both days in Foxwoods' Grand Pequot Ballroom.
Organizers planned for 420 people, and more than 350 had signed up as of last week, according to Claudia Smith, director of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribe's family health benefits program. More than 50 speakers will lead workshops on topics ranging from the neurobiology of trauma to clinical models for the treatment of traumatized children to the effects of witnessing gun violence.
What a great use of a casino, eh?
The problem, she said, has been passed from generation to generation in Indian Country and among other populations decimated by genocide. The violence begets violence. Victims, their voices often unheard, cope with the trauma by turning to alcohol or drugs.
”The circle,” Jones said, “never gets broken. … What we need is intervention - and education. Families can't fix what they don't understand.”
In what Jones, a three-term member of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Council, hopes will be the first of many such events, the tribe and the New Haven-based Clifford W. Beers Guidance Clinic are co-sponsoring “Healing the Generations: The First Annual Family Violence and Child Trauma Conference” this week at Foxwoods Resort Casino.
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