Ritual Abuse Conference in January 2019
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INCEST SURVIVORS SPEAKERS BUREAU PROUDLY PRESENTS: Ritual Abuse and Mind Control: History and Scope
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Saturday, January 19, 2019
10:00 am to 5:00 pm
Multi-Purpose Room at
Lutheran Church of the Incarnation
1701 Russell Blvd, Davis CA 95616
Randy Noblitt PhD, former Air Force clinical psychologist and professor at Alliant International University in Los Angeles, who co-authored with Pamela Perskin Noblitt "Ritual Abuse in the Twenty-First Century: Psychological, Forensic, Social, and Political Considerations" (2008) and "Cult and Ritual Abuse: Narratives, Evidence, and Healing Approaches" (2014), will give a presentation on the history and scope of the global crimes of ritual abuse and mind control.
A panel of survivors will describe their firsthand experiences with this type of extreme abuse, which is happening not just back then and over there, but right here and right now, even in California.
Best practices in treatment and support for survivors of these crimes, and methods of prevention will be discussed.
This event is no cost.
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Our Mission:
By bearing witness to the sexual abuse crimes committed against us and our children, and/or speaking out as adult survivors, the Incest Survivors Speakers Bureau of California is a catalyst for change by:
- Bringing into focus the face of the child who still suffers sexual abuse,
- Carrying the message that all of us in society are damaged by this crime,
- Advocating for reform: partnering with supportive government, non-profit,
and corporate entities to achieve the common goal of protecting children from abuse,
- Serving as an information resource for our community,
- Encouraging and supporting other survivors,
- Facilitating our own healing, thus sending the message that healing is possible.
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Our Roots:
In 1993, several women in Yolo County, California, attended a workshop held in San Francisco at the Breaking the Silence/Breaking the Cycle conference on sexual abuse recovery. Speaker-playwright Libbe Halevy spoke about the need for survivors to become active in their communities by forming speakers bureaus to inform the public about the profound effects of incest.
A grassroots effort created the ISSB, whose members today speak publicly to raise awareness about the devastating emotional, physical, behavioral, medical, and societal aftereffects of child sex abuse.
From 1993-1994 we simply called ourselves The ISSB. From 1995-May 2009 we called ourselves ISSB of Yolo county. We began to have members in many other counties in California, so, finally, in May 2009, we changed our name to ISSB of California.
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ACEs Too High Presentation by Jane Stevens
Click the link above to view a google docs powerpoint presentation by Jane Stevens on April 28, 2012. Jane explained the CDC's ACE (Adverse Childhood Experiences) Studies, and how different communities are implementing ACE concepts to help children. The ACE studies prove that child sexual abuse as well as other types of traumatic childhood events prevent healthy development and have become a public health emergency.
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ISSB California Officers
Andrea Ransdell, Executive Director
and Founding Member
Treva Kelly, Legislative Director
| ISSB Advisory Board
Sandy Dubois, Founding Member
Abby Hamilton, Social Worker
and Founding Member
Marla Stuart, Founding Member
Kathy Dreyer, Founding Member
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Video of 2011 Conference might some day be Posted
Dr. Colin Ross and Rhonda Begos both gave permission for us to post video footage of the Seventeenth Annual Northern California Child Sexual Abuse Awareness Conference which took place
on April 30th, 2011, in Davis, CaliforniaTrauma Model therapy for Child Sexual Abuse
a full day workshop featuring Dr. Colin Ross, of the Ross Institute in Texas, http://www.rossinst.com/,
and Rhonda Begos of Rhonda Begos Speaks, http://www.rhondabegos.com
Volunteers are actually still working on this, and we will post the video and or audio, hopefully, sometime in the future.
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