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ABOUT THE KEYNOTE SPEAKERSTed HallAnchor – 11 Alive NewsTed Hall joined the 11 Alive News Team in January 2006. He co-anchors 11 Alive News at 11 p.m. weekdays with Brenda Wood and reports from the field during earlier newscasts. Prior to joining the 11 Alive News team, Ted worked at WBIR in Knoxville, TN for 17 years, co-anchoring the evening newscasts for the last five years. Hall joined WBIR-TV as weekend sports anchor in 1988 and in 1992 was promoted to co-anchor of Live at Five. In December, 2000, Ted began anchoring Action 10 News following the retirement of 23-year news anchor, Bill Williams. Ted was named East Tennessee’s favorite news anchor 12 times in a row. He is an award winning journalist, most recently winning an Edward R. Murrow Award for producing, writing, reporting and hosting the best news documentary. Ted began his career in broadcasting in 1983, working as a commercial producer, news and sportscaster and disc jockey at KNAB-AM/FM in Burlington, Colorado. The next stop for Ted came in 1984 when he moved to television broadcasting. He worked as an anchor, reporter, photographer and news/sports producer at KLOE-TV in Goodland, Kansas, the smallest TV station doing local newscasts in the United States. From KLOE-TV, Ted served as anchor/reporter/photographer at KWCH-TV in Wichita, Kansas and then as sports director at KTKA-TV in Topeka. Career highlights include reporting for CBS Network News during a multiple murder in Western Kansas, sports reporting for ESPN and serving as a reporter for NBC News Channel. Victor Vieth, J.D.American Prosecutors Research InstituteVictor Vieth graduated magna cum laude from Winona State University and earned his Juris Doctor from Hamline University School of Law. During law school, Mr. Vieth served as editor-in-chief of the law review and received the American Jurisprudence award for achievement in the study of Constitutional law. From 1988-1997, Mr. Vieth worked as a prosecutor in rural Minnesota where he gained national recognition for his work to address child abuse in small communities. He is a recipient of Distinguished Alumni Awards from both Hamline University School of Law and Winona State University. He has been named to the President’s Honor Roll of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children. The Young Lawyers Division of the American Bar Association named him one of “21 Young Lawyers Leading us Into the 21st Century.” Mr. Vieth is the author of numerous articles pertaining to issues of child abuse and domestic violence. He is also the author of Unto the Third Generation, a bold initiative that has as its goal the elimination of child abuse in the United States over the course of a century. In 1997, Mr. Vieth joined the staff of the National District Attorney’s Association’s (NDAA) National Center for Prosecution of Child Abuse. From 1997-1999, Mr. Vieth worked as a Senior Attorney with the National Center, providing technical assistance and training to prosecutors around the country. In 1998, Mr. Vieth launched Finding Words: Interviewing Children and Preparing for Court in Savannah, Georgia which taught the copyrighted RATAC protocol (developed by CornerHouse in Minneapolis, Minnesota). Over 400 applications were received for the 40 spaces for the course. As a result, Mr. Vieth created Half-A-Nation by 2010 where individual states could bring the Finding Words program to their state, learn to teach the program under the guidance of NDAA and CornerHouse, and then continue to teach the program locally to better reach more child protection professionals and more children. As of 2007, fifteen states have been certified to teach Finding Words, and two states are in the process of being certified. The program is on track to have half the nation certified in Finding Words by the end of the decade. In 1999, Mr. Vieth became Director of the National Center for the Prosecution of Child Abuse. In August 2003, NDAA appointed Mr. Vieth to serve as the first director of the National Child Protection Training Center (NCPTC) and the doors to NCPTC were opened on the campus of Winona State University. NCPTC handles training and technical assistance involving dependency, neglect and termination of parental rights matters involving child abuse, as well as development of curriculums to teach college students on how to investigate and handle child abuse cases. In 2004, NDAA appointed Mr. Vieth to serve as the Director of Child Abuse Programs and oversee both Centers. In 2005, NCPTC launched two civil child protection national conferences: ChildProtect is a 5-day trial advocacy course for civil child protection attorneys and will take 30 students through an intensive termination of parental rights trial; and When Child Abuse Hits Home is a multidisciplinary training for investigating and prosecuting dependency and termination matters. Mr. Vieth has trained professionals from all 50 states, two U.S. Territories, and 17 countries on numerous topics involving child abuse investigations, prosecutions, trial strategies, and prevention methods. Mr. Vieth has further given the keynote address on “Unto The Third Generation: A Call to End Child Abuse in the United States within 120 Years” across the nation; this revolutionary scholarly work has been delivered to over 10,000 child protection professionals in all 50 states and was published in the Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma in 2005 and in the Hamline Journal of Public Law and Policy in 2006. Mr. Vieth has published countless articles related to the investigation, prosecution and prevention of child abuse and neglect. THE PRESENTERSDetective Mike JohnsonJuvenile DivisionPlano Police Department Detective Mike Johnson is a native of San Antonio, Texas. He joined the Plano Police Department in September 1982 and is currently assigned to the Juvenile Division of the Plano Police Department. Detective Johnson is considered an ambassador for child advocacy. He is a founding member of the Collin County Children’s Advocacy Center, and in 1996 he was named the Center’s “Child Advocate of the Year”. In addition to serving on numerous national boards and task forces, including the National Network of Children’s Advocacy Centers, the Law Enforcement Subcommittee for several of APSAC’s National Colloquiums, and the Working Group for the establishment of the National Center on the Sexual Behavior of Youth (NCSBY), Johnson has been instrumental in helping shape Texas laws relating to child abuse. He has served on the Texas State Attorney General’s Sexual Offender Protocol Task Force and Senator Florence Shapiro’s Blue Ribbon committee to formulate the now instated “Ashley Laws.” A well-known national speaker, he is now taking his message to the international arena, having been a featured speaker at ISPCAN’s (International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect) International Congress in Durban, South Africa, the International Association of Chiefs of Police Child Protection Summit, and the Norwegian Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect in Oslo, Norway. Rachel LloydPresidentGirls Educational and Mentoring Services, Inc. Rachel Lloyd is the founder and executive director of Girls Educational and Mentoring Services, GEMS, the only non-profit agency in New York State serving sexually exploited young women, ages 12-21. As a survivor of sexual exploitation, Ms. Lloyd serves as an inspiration and role model to the young women that she serves and has developed a kitchen-table project into a nationally recognized agency leading the fight against the commercial sexual exploitation. Under Ms. Lloyd’s leadership, GEMS provides direct services to over 150 sexually exploited young women, preventive education and outreach to over 1,000 youth, and trains 1,500 youth-service professionals each year. GEMS has developed the first alternative to detention/incarceration programming for young women arrested for prostitution and provides weekly outreach to juvenile detention facilities throughout New York State. Ms. Lloyd was awarded the 2006 Reebok Human Rights Award, and has also won the Community Works Award, and the Union Square Award for her innovative work against commercial sexual exploitation. Ms. Lloyd graduated from Marymount Manhattan College, with a BA in Psychology and received her MA in Applied Urban Anthropology from The City College of New York. She is a nationally acclaimed speaker and provides workshops and seminars for many organizations including Covenant House, John Hopkins University, Human Rights International Alliance, Global Kids and Youth Advocates Program International. Rachel was recently featured on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 Degrees. Mary McCarthyLecturer, Director Social Work Education ConsortiumAssistant Dean for School Advancement University at Albany, State University of New York Mary L. McCarthy, Ph.D., LMSW is Director of the Social Work Education Consortium, a partnership between the NYS Association of Deans of Schools of Social Work, NYS Office of Children and Family Services, BSW programs in NYS, the 57 Commissioners of local Departments of Social Services and NYC’s Administration for Children’s Services. The Consortium is committed to developing a long term plan for the professionalization and stabilization of the child welfare workforce. The Consortium began in 1999 and now encompasses direct support for employees completing social work degrees, support for field placements, a new BSW scholarship program, and research and evaluation on factors that influence workforce retention in child welfare. Dr. McCarthy is co-author of 6 articles and has presented at state and national conferences on child welfare workforce issues. She is also co-Principal Investigator with Dr. Katharine Briar-Lawson for a federal Children’s Bureau Training Grant. Dr. McCarthy has been a faculty member at the University at Albany, School of Social Welfare since 1988. She worked in the child welfare field for 11 years both before and after receiving her MSW from the University at Albany in 1982. In 2003 Dr. McCarthy received her Ph.D. from Memorial University in Newfoundland Canada. Her dissertation topic focused on supervision in public child welfare systems. Dr. McCarthy is currently President of the New York State Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers. The Honorable Mary Margaret Oliver, J.D.Visiting ProfessorBarton Child Law and Policy Clinic Emory University A life-long resident of DeKalb County, Representative Mary Margaret Oliver is currently serving on the Governmental Affairs, Judiciary-Civil and Science & Technology Committees. Oliver has served in the Georgia General Assembly in both the House of Representatives (1987-1992) and the Senate (1993-1998). When Oliver was elected to the Senate, she was appointed to chair the Judiciary Committee during her freshman term, a rare legislative distinction. Her appointment was also of special significance because it marked the first time in 40 years a woman had been named to chair a standing Senate committee. Among her legislative accomplishments are authorship and passage of significant legislation for the protection of children and consumers, including Georgia's anti-stalking law and legislation to protect neighborhood activists from intimidation. She sponsored a package of child protection reform legislation, which cleared the way for police to work jointly with caseworkers in investigating child abuse complaints. It also required a judge's order before a child can be returned to a home where child abuse has occurred, and initiated significant reforms in the foster care system. Her numerous volunteer activities include the Board of the DeKalb Junior League, membership in the Decatur Rotary club and the Boards of Callanwolde and BOND Community Credit Union in Little Five Points. She attends Atlanta’s All Saints Episcopal Church, where she teaches Sunday school. She has volunteered with the Druid Hills Civic Association and opened her home for their Tour of Homes. She has been honored for her legislative work by the National Association of Independent Business, the Georgia Municipal Association, the Parents Support Network, the Georgia Psychological Association, the American Association of Retired People, and the American Academy of Pediatrics, and was named a Woman of Achievement by the Atlanta YWCA. Honors include the YWCA ("Woman of Achievement) and the Garden Club ("Legislator of the Year"). Oliver earned a BA from Vanderbilt University and a law degree from Emory University. She served as adjunct professor at Emory Law School and an assistant professor of law at the Boston College Law School. Oliver formerly worked as a hearing officer for the Secretary of State's Joint Examining Board, and the Georgia Department of Medical Assistance, and was appointed to preside as an associate magistrate in the DeKalb County Magistrate Court. She presently divides her time between her law practice in Decatur, Georgia, and the Barton Child Law and Policy Clinic at Emory University Law School, where she is a Visiting Professor. In addition, Oliver sponsored more than 30 pieces of business-oriented legislation, telecommunications reform, banking regulations, managed care legislation and worker's compensation reform. Ellen Williams, J.D.PresidentWilliams Consulting Group Ellen Williams, President of Williams Consulting Group, serves her clients both through her governmental affairs expertise and through personalized attention to each client’s individual needs. With ten years of legislative and legal experience in both the public and private sectors, Williams has been repeatedly recognized as an expert in policy issues by elected officials. She practiced law at Drew, Eckl & Farnham in the area of civil litigation. She is a member of the Children and the Courts Committee, Georgia State Bar Young Lawyers and is the immediate past chair and current member of the Office of the Child Advocate Advisory Committee. Ellen was recently appointed by Governor Sonny Perdue to the Georgia Advisory Council to the Office of Women’s Health. Ellen earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Alabama and a law degree from the University of Georgia.
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