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ForwardThey Never Saw It Coming: Advocating Through Loss and Resilience
This year’s event will spotlight the alarming rise in violence, emotional turmoil, and abuse among adolescents—especially young girls. With a sharp increase in reported cases of date rape and other traumatic experiences, the conference will explore root causes and urgently needed strategies for prevention, education, and healing.
Purpose & Theme:
They Never Saw It Coming reflects the unimaginable reality faced by victims and families who never expected to be touched by violence—yet now stand as fierce advocates. The program will feature a series of courageous voices: survivors, legal experts, mental health professionals, and family members, each sharing deeply personal stories of abduction, coercion, and the resilience that followed. Their insights reveal the life-altering impact of trauma and the powerful ways advocacy can grow from grief.
Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of the program, the participant will be able to:
State red flags and warning flags of an unhealthy relationship.
Identify comprehensive awareness and prevention programs available in the community or in schools/universities.
State legal, psychological and medical support resources available to victims in the acute stages that of abusive trauma.
Faculty Disclosure:
All individuals in a position to control the content of this education activity have disclosed all financial relationships with any companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. All of the relevant financial relationships for the individuals listed below have been mitigated
Lawrence Fisher- book locker that published Memoir of a Milk Carton Kid.
No other members of the planning committee, speakers, presenters, authors, content reviewers and/or anyone else in a position to control the content of this education activity have relevant financial relationships with any companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
In support of improving patient care, the University of Pittsburgh is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
Physician (CME)
The University of Pittsburgh designates this live activity for a maximum of 5.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit[s]™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity
Nursing (CNE)
The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Nursing Education activity is 5.25 contact hours.
Social Work (ASWB)
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, the University of Pittsburgh is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. Social workers completing this course receive 5.25 general continuing education credits.
Other Healthcare Professionals: Other health care professionals will receive a certificate of attendance confirming the number of contact hours commensurate with the extent of participation in this activity.
Available Credit
- 5.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
- 5.25 ANCCUPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
- 5.25 ASWB
- 5.25 Attendance