Seminar Overview:
Many drugs are used to incapacitate a person, rendering them unable to protect themselves from sexual assault. Alcohol is most commonly used, and potentiates the effects of other drugs. This seminar will discuss the many drugs used, their effects, and the difficulties in identifying these drugs. Healthcare professionals, law enforcement, attorneys, social workers and counselors will learn from the experts how to improve their practice and investigation of sexual assault. Trinka Porrata, a national expert on trendy drugs of abuse, is the main speaker.
Areas Covered In The Seminar (Download the Agenda in PDF)
- Drugs Used Overview
- Substances & Evidence Collection
- Impact of DFSA
- Lessons Learned/Case Investigation
- DFSA and the Sexual Assault Response Team
This Seminar Is For
- Physicians
- Nurse Practitioners
- Physician Assistants
- Nurses
- Social Workers
- Advocates
- All professionals involved in the care of victims of violence
- Law enforcement personnel will enhance their knowledge of the dynamics of domestic violence and the types of evidence healthcare professionals can provide
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This continuing nursing education activity was approved by the Ohio Nurses Association, (OBN-001-91), an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
Approval valid through March 3, 2011
7.0 nursing contact hours
6.75 CE hours
Approved for Social Workers
and Counselor professionals
This course has been approved by the Supreme Court of Ohio Commission on Continuing Legal Education for 6.75 total CLE hours instruction
7.0 contact hours
Approved through Ohio Peace Officer Training Commission
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Ruth Downing, Owner of Forensic Health Consulting
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Trinka Porrata, Project GHB
Trinka has experience in journalism and law enforcement, with expertise in sexual assaults, child abuse and narcotics, especially the “trendy drugs of abuse” (those used at parties known as raves, in the club scene and as weapons of sexual assault). In 1973, she was in the first group of females to become field certified as LAPD officers. She spent eight years in patrol; worked sexual assaults in Rampart Division; worked citywide as a detective in the Juvenile Division, Abused Child Unit; spent five years in the administrative unit of LAPD’s Scientific Investigation Division; and then worked several years in Narcotics Division, retiring as a supervisor in “street” narcotics squads.
During the last 3 ½ years of 25 years with the LAPD, Porrata became a nationally recognized expert on the trendy drugs of abuse, flunitrazepam (Rohypnol or roofies), gamma hydroxy butyrate (GHB), MDMA (Ecstasy), ketamine (Special K) and LSD. Since retiring from the LAPD in 1999, Trinka has provided training, consultation and expert testimony on drug issues nationwide and internationally to thousands of individuals for agencies from local to federal. She has been interviewed worldwide about drug abuse and speaks to high school and college groups, parents, law enforcement, medical personnel, prosecutors and counselors.
She is president of Project GHB (www.projectghb.org), a nonprofit organization working on drug-facilitated sexual assault, drug abuse prevention and treatment issues regarding GHB and other drugs. She operates a GHB Addiction Helpline via the website, the only place in the world to give guidance to find treatment for addiction of this unusual drug.
She is the editor of the new edition of Law Tech’s Drug ID & Symptoms Guide and editor/author of “G’d Up 24/7” re GHB addiction, also by Law Tech, May 2007. |
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Donald Mac Neil
Donald Mac Neil is the chief criminalist at MEDTOX Laboratories, Inc. His company is a SAMHSA certified laboratory that provides a broad spectrum of scientific and criminalistics services to public safety and drug treatment organizations. MEDTOX is headquartered in St. Paul (MN); Mr. Mac Neil is based at their Los Angeles (CA) office. Mr. Mac Neil’s Drug Abuse Recognition (DAR) group of criminalists and criminal justice consultants are responsible for the oversight of MEDTOX’s large public safety drug testing and substance abuse management contracts. His office is comprised of 18 highly trained and experienced professionals who provide nationwide coverage for all of MEDTOX’s clients. In addition to the management of public safety contracts and clients, the DAR Group is responsible for the development and delivery of a wide array of advanced training courses designed for physicians, therapists, social workers, and law enforcement officers on topics relating to substance abuse disorders and mental health. These highly regarded courses are taught at locations throughout the United States and Canada and are designed to meet continuing education requirements that MEDTOX clients have to contend with.
Mr. Mac Neil possesses an undergraduate degree in biology; he attended Cal Poly at Pomona where he received his master’s degree in criminalistics. Mr. Mac Neil worked for the Glendale Police Department (CA) for 20 years before retiring at the rank of commander, chief of investigations and the department’s crime lab; he is a graduate of the P.O.S.T. Command College and the U.S.C. Delinquency Control Institute (DCI). The majority of his time at Glendale P.D. was spent working in various aspects of drug enforcement. From undercover buyer to regional drug task force commander, Mr. Mac Neil worked in nearly every assignment possible. Three times, Mr. Mac Neil was nominated or named California’s top narcotic officer. After his retirement from the police department, Mr. Mac Neil assumed the role of the Inspector General at the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. While at the MTA, Mac Neil led the wide-ranging criminal investigation of fraud involving the billion-dollar construction of the Red Line subway system. After a several year stint as faculty in the Dept. of Criminal Justice Studies at Cal State University Los Angeles (CSULA), Mr. Mac Neil joined MEDTOX Laboratories.
Mr. Mac Neil is a father of three adult children and he lives in Santa Clarita (CA). In his spare time, he coaches varsity football at Canyon H.S. (Santa Clarita) and teaches Homeland Security graduate level courses to in-service professionals through several private universities. Mr. Mac Neil writes and publishes a professional substance abuse newsletter and is a frequent guest of radio and television talk shows.
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Kimberly C. Kurek, JD
Kimberly is an Attorney at Law in private practice in Toledo Ohio. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Communication at Bowling Green State University in 1994 and her Juris Doctor from the University of Toledo in 1997. Kimberly is a member of the Toledo Bar Association, the Ohio State Bar Association and the Ohio Academy of Justice, as well as Trustee of the Toledo Women’s Bar Association. She is married with two daughters and one son. She is also a survivor of a drug facilitated sexual assault, and will share her story of the aftermath of trauma, and the difficulty holding the perpetrator accountable. |
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Bonnie Weis
Bonnie Weis has been a police officer at the City of Toledo Department of Safety for 24 years. The first 17 years she was assigned to the Field Operations Bureau as a patrol officer, with two 6-month assignments as an instructor in the police academy. She has spent the last 7 years in the detective bureau, 3 ½ years in the Burglary Unit and the last 3 ½ years in the Special Victims Unit, where she received specialized training. Bonnie has an Associate Degree of Applied Science in Criminal Justice from the University of Toledo.
Bonnie Weis will be discussing the lessons learned from being assigned Kim Kurek’s case and how Kim introduced Bonnie to training involving drug induced sexual assaults, and the need to train front line officers.
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