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Search Welcome Event Calendar Parental / Grandparent Alienation / Equal Shared Parenting Symposium more... Cart (0) PARENTAL / GRANDPARENT ALIENATION AND EQUAL SHARED PARENTING SYMPOSIUM Picture Picture Picture Family Access - Fighting for Children's Rights will be hosting this symposium with Steel Partners Foundation sponsoring this event on Saturday, October 5, 2019 in Frankfort, Kentucky. During this symposium, we will have presentations from 6 of the top experts in the world. We also will have a panel discussion on parental and grandparent alienation and another on equal shared parenting. There will be a question and answer session after each individual presentation. We chose Kentucky for this event because Kentucky, at this time, has the best equal shared parenting law in our country. We hope many who are alienated family members, child advocates, researchers, writers as well as mental health and legal professionals who deal with alienation will attend this symposium. It will be different, unique and exciting. For lunch at our symposium, you have the option to register below for the plate lunch being served in an adjoining meeting room or choose to go out near the hotel to one of the eateries. Deadline to register for the plate lunch is September 30, 2019. This is a firm deadline! We also will have a meet and greet on Friday, October 4, 2019 at 7 PM. This will give all that can attend this event an opportunity to meet the experts and other alienated family members and professionals. A buffet dinner will be served as well at 7:30 PM. Registration for this meet and greet is listed below. Deadline to register for the meet and greet is September 30, 2019. This must be a firm deadline! On Saturday evening after the symposium, we will have a Down Home Southern Buffet. This night will be a fun night of relaxation and a time to fellowship more before returning to our homes on Sunday. Deadline to register for this event is September 30, 2019. Our experts will still be with us at this event also. Make plans to join us! ​For those attending our events, you have the opportunity to submit 2 pictures each of your alienated children or grandchildren. We will be comprising a picture display to be shown on our projector screen all during the meet and greet on Friday evening and our Down Home Southern Buffet on Saturday evening a in honor of them. You may email the pics to familyaccessinnc@aol.com. Deadline for sending these pics is September 30, 2019. This must be a firm deadline! This event will be very special in many ways. Our goal is to make this a night as positive, uplifting, supportive and a time to unify closer during this event. I hope many of you can attend. Listed below is the links to register to attend the event. In registering early, you will save on the cost. We also are asking for those that wish to be sponsors to do so on the link below. In return, you will have a page to advertise your business or organization in our pamphlet booklet that will be given out at the symposium. We also will mention you as a sponsor here on our website page for the event. We also will have those that wish to sponsor a page for your alienated family member. You will have a page in our pamphlet booklet and a permanent spot on a page for these on our website. We ask that you keep this in good taste to honor them. Please have your final draft approved before purchasing your sponsorship by emailing the info to familyaccessinnc@aol.com. Deadlines for sponsors is September 15, 2019. A firm deadline must exist for these! More info on the sponsorships is listed below. We also will have vendor tables available for rent. This is a great opportunity for you to network your business or organization. Complete info on this is listed below with the vendor contract. Deadlines to register for vendor tables is September 15, 2019. This is a firm deadline! Co-Directors William Bernet, M. D. Steven Miller, M. D. Course Coordinator Elaine Cobb, Founder and President Family Access - Fighting for Children's Rights Monitor of Panel Discussions and Q & A ​Jill Egizii, Founder and President PAAO - USA Listed below is the links to register to attend the event. In registering early, you will save on the cost. We also are asking for those that wish to be sponsors to do so on the link below. In return, you will have a page to advertise your business or organization in our pamphlet booklet that will be given out at the symposium. We also will mention you as a sponsor here on our website page for the event. We also will have those that wish to sponsor a page for your alienated family member. You will have a page in our pamphlet booklet and a permanent spot on a page for these on our website. We ask that you keep this in good taste to honor them. Please have your final draft approved before purchasing your sponsorship by emailing the info to familyaccessinnc@aol.com. Deadlines for sponsors is September 15, 2019. A firm deadline must exist for these! More info on the sponsorships is listed below. We also will have vendor tables available for rent. This is a great opportunity for you to network your business or organization. Complete info on this is listed below with the vendor contract. Deadlines to register for vendor tables is September 15, 2019. This is a firm deadline! Co-Directors William Bernet, M. D. Steven Miller, M. D. Course Coordinator Elaine Cobb, Founder and President Family Access - Fighting for Children's Rights Monitor of Panel Discussions and Q & A ​Jill Egizii, Founder and President PAAO - USA​​​ Parental Alienation / Equal Shared Parenting Symposium (Professionals Pricing) $225.00 Shop Parental Alienation / Equal Shared Parenting Symposium (non professionals) $125.00 Shop Parental Alienation / Equal Shared Parenting Symposium - Sponsors Only $100.00 Shop Parental Alienation / Equal Shared Parenting Symposium - Vendor Tables $100.00 Shop Meet and Greet Buffet Dinner $40.00 Shop Symposium Luncheon $22.00 Shop Southern Style Buffet $25.00 Shop Picture Picture Picture 6 OF THE TOP EXPERTS WILL BE SPEAKING AT OUR SYMPOSIUM Picture LINDA GOTTLIEB, LMFT, LCSW - R Linda is a New York State Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Licensed Clinical Social Worker who is also a published author on family therapy and parental alienation. Linda has been frequently cited and referenced by other authors and experts in the field. Linda was trained by the world-renowned, highly respected child psychiatrist, Salvador Minuchin. After she completed her training at the Minuchin Center for the Family, Linda served on the Center’s faculty from 2003-2007 where she trained child psychiatrists, psychologists, and other mental health professionals who wished to learn the techniques of Dr. Minuchin’s structural family therapy. Linda’s professional services to 5000 children and their families in multiple settings and in multiple roles span 50 years. She began her work with 3000 adjudicated abused and/or neglected children in New York’s foster care system. Subsequent to this experience, Linda transitioned in 1994 into the mental health system at South Shore Child Guidance Center in Freeport, Long Island where she designed, implemented, and supervised a home-based crisis intervention program to prevent the psychiatric hospitalization of a child. Linda additionally accepted referrals and appointments from local family courts to provide family counseling and parent coordination services to parents who were engaged in adversarial custody conflicts. In 2003, Linda focused her practice almost exclusively on helping parents settle their custody conflicts in the best interests of their children. After writing her 2012 book on parental alienation, Linda further concentrated her clinical practice on the sub- specialty of parental alienation—a highly dysfunctional family dynamic that is accepted by overwhelming consensus within the scientific community to be a profound form of psychological child abuse. Based upon what Linda had learned from the clinical literature, from colleagues who are leading experts in the field of alienation, and from her extensive evidence-based practice with approximately 650 alienated children and with approximately 1000 children whose parents were undergoing separation/divorce but who did not experience alienation, Linda developed a specialized reunification intervention to treat unjustifiably severed/severely damaged parent-child relationships. The intervention had proven to be highly successful—even in cases in which the severed parent-child relationships exceeded 4 years. In 2015, Linda further refined her specialized reunification intervention, and it became the treatment protocol she now employs at Turning Points for Families, her 4-day intensive intervention to jump-start unjustified severed/severely damaged parent-child relationships. Linda further provides supervision in alienation and estrangement to custody evaluators, clinicians, forensic evaluators, and to other professionals who intervene in custody cases in which alienation is alleged. Linda also maintains a small practice testifying as an expert witness in family dynamics, alienation, estrangement, family therapy, and child abuse. Picture AMY J. L. BAKER, PhD Dr. Amy J.L. Baker has a PhD in Developmental Psychology from Teachers College of Columbia University. She is a nationally and internationally recognized expert in parental alienation and psychological maltreatment of children. She is the author or co-author of 8 books and over 115 articles. Some of her books are Adult children of parental alienation, surviving parental alienation, co-parenting with a toxic ex, and the high conflict custody battle. She has conducted trainings for legal and mental health professionals around the country. Picture REV. DR. JOHN KILLINGER Dr. John Killinger, noted author, minister, and professor, has pastored eight churches, including the First Congregational Church of Los Angeles and Marble Collegiate Church in New York City, and has taught at such major universities as Vanderbilt, Princeton, and Chicago. His wife Anne was the author of A Son Is a Son Till He Gets a Wife: How Toxic Daughters-in-Law Destroy Families, the book that spawned the alienated parents and grandparent movement in America. He himself has written more than 70 books, including three volumes of From Poppy with Love: Letters from a Grandfather to the Grandchildren He Isn’t Allowed to See. He has appeared on numerous radio and TV programs across the U.S., and served for many years as a special seminar leader for chaplains in all branches of the American Armed Forces. Picture JILL EGIZII, FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT PAAO - USA Jill Egizii of Leland Grove IL, is the President and founder of the Parental Alienation Awareness Organization USA. She has hosted a radio titled Family Matters with her co-host Judge Michele Lowrance on www. syndicatednews.net of which she is a co-owner. She also hosted a television show of the same name. She has appeared on Dr. Phil and The View discussing parental alienation. Jill sits on the board of The Weitzman Center in Chicago, The Divorce Expo and The International Support Network for Alienated Families, Leading Women for Shared Parenting and Women for Men.org. She is a founder of the group Leading Women for Shared Parenting. Jill was on the United Cerebral Palsy Board and Executive Committee for 28 years and is a strong voice for children and adults with disabilities. She is the author of the novel "The Look of Love" which deals with parental alienation and divorce. Jill also co-authored the workbook Parental Alienation 911 with Judge Michele Lowrance. She served on the Illinois Family Law Study Committee which was created to revise Illinois divorce laws. She is qualified in Illinois to testify as an expert in parental alienation. Most recently she founded WILD Canine Rescue in central Illinois and is dedicated to rescuing abused and abandoned dogs. Jill is an alienated mother of 4 children and continues to create awareness for parental alienation nationally and internationally. Coming early to our events? Here is a brochure on places to see and places to eat in Frankfort capital_visitor_2019.pdf Download File Picture STEVEN MILLER, M. D. Dr. Miller has degrees in both Psychology and Medicine from Brown University and did residency training at Brown University and Harvard Medical School. For more than 30 years he was on the teaching faculty at Harvard Medical School. He is board certified in both Internal Medicine and Emergency Medicine; in addition, he has many years of experience practicing Behavioral Medicine -- a specialty that focuses on the interface between medicine and psychology. That background is particularly relevant to child maltreatment, child protection, child alignment, parental alienation, pathological enmeshment, and related issues since those clinical conditions are very much related to behavior, including dysfunctional, pathological, and abusive behavior. Likewise, he has several decades of experience practicing Forensic Medicine. A popular speaker, he has directed several hundred continuing education courses for physicians and other clinicians and presented over one thousand lectures on clinical reasoning, clinical problem-solving, and clinical decision-making. An internationally-known expert on alienation and estrangement – and how to distinguish one from the other – he is also an experienced expert witness, litigation consultant, and trial strategist. Picture WILLIAM BERNET, M. D. William Bernet, M.D., a graduate of Holy Cross College, summa cum laude, and Harvard Medical School, is a professor emeritus at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. He is board certified in general psychiatry, child psychiatry, and forensic psychiatry. As an expert in forensic psychiatry, Dr. Bernet has testified about 300 times in 24 states. Dr. Bernet has written professional articles and book chapters on a variety of subjects, including: group and individ­ual therapy with children and adolescents; humor in psychother­apy; forensic child psychiatry; child maltreatment; true and false allegations of abuse; satanic ritual abuse; reincarnation; child custody and visitation; parental alienation; testimony regarding behavioral genomics; and risk management. In 2007, Dr. Bernet and Judge Don R. Ash published Children of Divorce: A Practical Guide for Parents, Therapists, Attorneys, and Judges. Dr. Bernet edited Parental Alienation, DSM-5, and ICD-11, which was published in 2010. Dr. Bernet and his colleagues edited Parental Alienation: The Handbook for Mental Health and Legal Professionals, which was published in 2013. He was the founder and first president of the Parental Alienation Study Group. Picture BRIAN LUDMER, B.COM, LLB Brian Ludmer is a Canadian attorney whose practice focuses on cases involving high conflict custody battles, denial of parenting time and parental alienation, as well as high net worth financial disputes. He is also a business and securities law attorney with over 32 years of experience. Brian is the Legal Column Editor and Writer for the bi-monthly newsletter of the Parental Alienation Study Group, an organization of professionals and others interested in the area with members world-wide. Brian is a frequent speaker for Family Access and is widely quoted in multiple media sources on family law issues. Brian has spoken at the first International Conference of the Parental Alienation Study Group in Washington in October 2017, for the Canadian PA Forum -a three-day conference – in 2009 and for PAAO, the Children’s Rights Council, the Canadian Equal Parenting Coalition and other organizations across Canada and the United States. Brian was also a featured speaker at the first Annual Conference of the European Association of PA Practitioners in London UK in August 2018. Brian has also been speaking to the Ontario Canada hospital network on PA Diagnosis and Therapy. Brian works as special counsel with US and Canadian attorneys and mental health professionals to assist targeted parents and grandparents. He has assisted in cases across Canada, the US.and overseas. Brian’s book: The High Conflict Custody Battle, which he co-wrote with Dr. Amy Baker and Dr. Michael Bone in 2015, is a resource that has been of assistance to countless families. Brian’s cases often involve custody disputes over parenting time. Brian’s cases have set important jurisprudence on the field of family law disputes, equal parenting and parental alienation. Brian has been an advocate for a rebuttable presumption of equal shared parenting as a solution to most high conflict parenting disputes. Brian is a co-founder of Lawyers for Shared Parenting, and an active member of several family rights organizations. He is the legal advisor to the Canadian Centre for Equality. In that capacity Brian drafted a detailed submission on a rebuttable presumption of equal shared parenting to the Justice Committee of the Canadian House of Commons and was an invited witness into its November 2018 hearings on Bill C-78, a current proposal to amend Canada’s Divorce laws. Brian anticipates making a similar presentation to the Canadian Senate when it considers the Bill in the Spring of 2019. Previously, Brian was the principal drafter of Bill C-560, a 2014 private members’ Bill introduced in the Canadian Federal Parliament to reform family law, which made it to second reading at the time. TOPICS FOR EACH EXPERT AT THE SYMPOSIUM Linda Gottlieb "The Power of Parents to Heal" Dr. William Bernet "False Information Regarding Parental Alienation and What to do About it" Dr. Amy Baker "Characteristics of Abused Children" Brian Ludmer "Equal Shared Parenting Initiatives and Children's Best Interests" Dr. Steven Miller "Characteristics of Alienated Children" Rev. Dr. John Killinger "Holding Onto Love Through the Dark Night of Alienation" ​ PANEL DISCUSSION ON PARENTAL ALIENATION Pamela Wright - Custody Resource Expert The Alliance for Single Parents Sandra Mcmullin MA, LPCC -S, NCC ​We Care Counseling, INC. ​ PANEL DISCUSSION ON EQUAL SHARED PARENTING Ky. Rep. Jason Petrie - Lead sponsor on Kentucky's Equal Shared Parenting Bill Phillip Hendrix M.A., M.B.A. - Founder of Colorado Coalition for Equal Parenting Covenant Counseling TIME: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2019 FROM 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM WHERE: FRANKFORT, KENTUCKY CAPITAL PLAZA HOTEL 405 Wilkinson Blvd. Frankfort, KY 40601 (502) 227-5100 Fax: (502)875-7147 ROOM RATES ARE $109 NIGHTLY You must call directly through the hotel using group code 3808 or Family Access Fighting for Children's Rights to receive the discount. ​(YOU MAY HAVE AS MANY AS 4 IN ONE ROOM FOR THE SAME PRICE) COMPLIMENTARY BREAKFAST AND COMPLIMENTARY PARKING PROVIDED FOR THOSE STAYING AT THE HOTEL. MEET AND GREET DINNER BUFFET WHERE: CAPITAL PLAZA HOTEL WHEN: 7 PM - UNTIL COST: $40 PLEASE REGISTER ABOVE ON THE LINK ​ REGARDING FLIGHTS, THERE ARE NO DIRECT FLIGHTS INTO FRANKFORT. YOU WILL CHOOSE EITHER LOUISVILLE OR LEXINGTON TO FLY IN TO. 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