Thursday, March 13, 2025
Keynote Speaker:
Dr. David Thornton
David Thornton is a forensic psychologist in private practice based in the state of Wisconsin in the USA. In this capacity, he has worked regularly in Iowa, and sporadically in other states such as Arizona, California, Missouri, Minnesota, New York, and Washington. Between 2001 and 2013 he worked as treatment director for a program providing clinical services for men assessed as presenting a high risk for sexual recidivism consequent on mental disorders. Between 2013 and 2016 he built up a research unit for this program before moving into private practice in 2016.
As a practitioner, he specializes in the assessment and treatment of men who present a risk for sexual and violent recidivism. As a researcher he has been involved in the development of statistical and psychological frameworks for assessing factors that contribute to different kinds of recidivism. This has led to the creation of statistical instruments like Static-99R, Static-2002R, and Risk Matrix 2000, as well as psychological models of risk like the SRA framework and the Theory of Dynamic Risk. He is currently involved in a project that seeks to improve measurement of protective factors and to develop better ways of incorporating a protective factor approach into treatment. He has published over 100 papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals. His work is widely cited by other researchers.
His Google Scholar profile is accessible at
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=LnzWJ64AAAAJ&hl=en
Friday, March 14, 2025
Keynote Speaker:
Dr. Tiffany Monford Dent
Dr. Monford is a licensed psychologist. She is the author of five books: Girls Got Issues: A Woman’s Guide to Self-discovery & Healing, You Got This! A Girl’s Guide to Growing Up, Black Girl: Unapologetically, and Reclaiming Me: Beginning My Journey to Overcoming Human Trafficking (free for therapists/agencies working with teen survivors of human trafficking). Her most recent workbook, Girl, Get Free: An Expressive Guide for Black College Women was just released in November 2023. She is also the co-author of two others works: Becoming Who I Want to Be: A Good Lives Workbook for Young Women and its accompanying Counselor’s Edition.
Dr. Monford has served on several national, state, and local boards/committees addressing sexual violence prevention/intervention as well as the emotional wellness of girls and women. Dr. Monford is the developer of two curricula geared towards work with Black women survivors of sexual assault: Sisters of Tamar Support Circle (SoTSC) and Sister Circle as well as the Culturally Informed Work with Black Women Survivors: Training & Self-inquiry Manual. Dr. Monford is the Owner of Monford Dent Consulting & Psychological Services, LLC. and the Co-Founder/Executive Director of Living At The Intersections, Inc. (LATI), a nonprofit organization whose mission is to intentionally provide space and education for and regarding Black girls/Emerging Adults and Black nonbinary youth; helping to create a world in which they can do more than exist. A world in which they can and truly LIVE and be seen as their authentic selves.
