Timeline

In 2023, the Institute celebrated the following milestones:

• We launched a new professional certification: The Fundamentals of Neurodiversity.
• We continued to stand at the forefront of  FSU’s Continuing Education Innovations with five professional certifications in our portfolio:
  • Trauma & Resilience Level 1
  • Human Trafficking Prevention
  • Fundamentals of Neurodiversity
  • College Student Wellbeing Trauma, & Resilience
  • Trauma & Resilience Level 2
• The success of our portfolio funded funded staff, innovative curriculum development, and student internships
• We enrolled 3,000 users across our 5 professional certifications.
• We have two Manuscripts Published:
  • “Increasing multidisciplinary professionals' capacity to support neurodiverse families” was published in the Wiley Journal Diversity and Inclusion Research.
  • "Well-being on Campus: Testing the Impact of a Web-based Intervention for Resilience on First-Year Students" was published in the Southern Communication Journal.
• We submitted three manuscripts:
  • We co-authored “An exploration of behavioral health emergencies and stigma in the Emergency Medical Services,” as well as “Testing a College Faculty/Staff Online Student Wellbeing, Trauma and Resilience Training,” both under consideration for publication.
  • We joined Kansas State University’s Divorce Education Assessment Collaborative and co-authored two poster presentations for the Annual Meeting of the National Council on Family Relations.Manuscript in progress: “Long Reaching Impacts of Childhood Trauma on the Efficacy of Divorce Education.”  
  • We joined Kansas State University’s Divorce Education Assessment Collaborative and co-authored two poster presentations for the Annual Meeting of the National Council on Family Relations.
  • Manuscript in progress: “Long Reaching Impacts of Childhood Trauma on the Efficacy of Divorce Education."
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• We received a new award to build a curriculum on Neurodiversity specifically for Child Welfare Workers, “Training to Harness & Integrate Neurodiversity Knowledge” (THINK) to launch in 2024
• In Fall 2023, we completed and launched a new Advanced Certification “Strategies for Addressing Family Violence and Enhancing Resilience” (SAFER)
• In total, we had 2,000+ parents completed our Successful Co-parenting After Divorce training, funded by the Vandermark Foundation
• We created and launched a new Advanced Stalking and Cyberstalking training for Florida judges, as a part of a federal grant originating from the Office on Violence Against women
• In Year 3 of this 5 year-award , we provided training and technical assistance to Florida’s Supervised Visitation Programs. These crucial programs provided 32,211 services across 1,764 cases with 7,366 client
• We co-established the new Trauma and Resilience Collaborative, a special project of the Provost, with the FSU Center for Prevention and Early Intervention Policy, training over 5,000 people in 2023. We were also part of the search committee to hire a new director for the organizational certification of trauma-aware agencies.
• The Institute was featured on The White House's 2023 U.S. National Plan to End Gender Based Violence featured IFVS’s National Toolkit on Officer-Involved Domestic
• We continued to serve on many state, national and community-based committees
• We conducted six trainings on trauma and resilience issues on the FSU campus.
• We employed and attentively mentored 14 graduate students at the CSW, providing new skills and knowledge development for each.

In 2021, the Institute celebrated the following milestones: 

• Launched Professional certification in College Student Wellbeing, Trauma, and Resilience
• Over 1,000,000 in contracts, grants, and professional certification income
• 3,500 New Users in 49 states and 8 countries in Co-parenting after divorce course
• Over 10,000 New Users of the FSU student resilience project
• Published 6 new scholarly articles
  • Oehme, K., O’Rourke, K., & Bradley, L. (2021). Online virtual supervised visitation during COVID-19 pandemic: One state’s experience. Family Court Review, 59, 131- 143. https://doi.org/10.1111/fcre.12555
  • Oehme, K., Ray, E. C., Perko, A., Bradley, L., Arpan, L., & Clark, J. (2021). An online studentresilience project responds to the pandemic. In J. Carello & P. A. Thompson (Eds.), Lessons from the pandemic: Trauma-informed approaches to college, crisis, change. Palgrave Macmillan. https://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9783030838485
  • Osteen, P. J., Oehme, K., Morris, R. C., Arcinegas, J., Frey, J. J., Woods, M., & Forsman, L. (2021). Suicide intervention training with law enforcement officers in suicide and lifethreatening behavior. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior. https://doi.org/10.1111/sltb.12763
  • McDonald, A., Prost, S. G., Plassmeyer, M., Oehme, K. (2021). The contribution of adverse childhood experiences to work-related stressors among law enforcement officers. Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice. https://doi.org/10.1093/police/paab047
  • Ray, E. C., Oehme, K., Perko, A., Arpan, L., Clark, J., & Bradley, L. (2021). Freshmen anxiety and COVID-19: Practical implications from an online intervention for supporting students affected by health inequities. Journal of American College Health, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1080/07448481.2019.1679818
  • Ray, E. C., Arpan, L., Oehme, K., Perko, A., & Clark, J. (2021). Helping students cope with adversity: The influence of a web-based intervention on students’ self-efficacy and intentions to use wellness-related resources. Journal of American College Health. https://doi.org/10.1080/07448481.2019.1679818
• Launched advanced Judicial Studies in Domestic Violence for Florida’s Judges
• Licensed our customized student resilience  project to StreamlinedU
• Trained a 1,000 Users in our professional development courses
• Provided technical assistance to 80 supervised visitation programs in Florida

In 2019, the Institute celebrated the following milestones: 

• The American Association of University Administrators awarded the FSU Resilience Project the 2019 John Blackburn award. This award is given to successful projects that address common problems in higher education. Karen Oehme will be accepting the award and giving a brief presentation on Resilience in June, 2019.
• After receiving national recognition and a GAP Commercialization Grant from FSU’s Office Of Research, The Institute developed a customizable version of the FSU Student Resilience Project for other universities to license. 
  • Worked with the Office of Commercialization and University Counsel to draft licensing agreements and contracts. These describe the responsibilities of FSU and our “early adopters” — those first institutions of higher learning who adapt our toolkit.
  • Provided dozens of universities across the U.S. webinar customized demonstrations of the toolkit capabilities.
• Partnered with the FSU College of Business to work with 120 FSU Seniors who created sample marketing plans for the toolkit.
• Conferences
  • Bradley, L. (presented 2019, May). Student Resilience, Belonging and Community. Presentation at National Consortium for Building Healthy Academic Communities, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. (National)
  • Bradley, L. (presented 2019, May). A Trauma-Informed Approach to Building College Students’ Resilience. Presentation at Annual Meeting, Reinvention Collaborative, University of Nebraska—Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska. (National)
  • Oehme, K., & Kaklamanos, K. (presented 2019, May). Building Student Resilience at Florida State. Presentation at Mental Health and Wellness Summit, ACC, Washington, D.C. (National)
  • Oehme, K. (presented 2019, June). The FSU Student Resilience Project. Presentation at Annual Meeting, American Association of University Administrators, Detroit, Michigan. (National)
  • Oehme, K. (presented 2019, June). Why Trauma & the Brain are Important in Supervised Visitation. Presentation at 28th Annual Supervised Visitation Network Conference, Supervised Visitation Network, New Orleans, LA. (International)
  • Perko, A. (presented 2019, March). A Trauma-Informed Approach to Building College Students’ Resilience. Presentation at Depression on College Campuses Conference, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. (National)
• Publications
  • Ferraro, A., Oehme, K., Waldick, I., & Stern, N. (in press). Improving court-mandated divorce education by recognizing the effects of parents’ childhood trauma. Pace Law Review.
  • Osteen, P. J., Oehme, K., Woods, M. N., Forsman, R. L., Morris, R. C., & Frey, J. J. (in press). Law enforcement officers’ knowledge, attitudes, self-efficacy, and use of suicide intervention behaviors. Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research
  • Perko, A., & Oehme, K. (2019). Officers’ childhood trauma histories: Understanding the impact, and opportunities for resilience. In Leonard Territo, & James D. Sewell (Eds.), Stress Management in Law Enforcement, 4th Edition. North Carolina: Carolina Academic Press.
  • Ray, E.C., Arpan, L., Oehme, K., Perko, A., & Clark, J. (2019). Testing restorative narratives in a college student resilience project. Innovative Higher Education, 44, 267-282. doi: 10.1007/s10755-019-9464-4
  • Ray, E.C., Arpan, L., Oehme, K., Perko, A., & Clark, J. (2019). Helping students cope with adversity: The influence of a web-based intervention on students’ self-efficacy and intentions to use wellness-related resources. The Journal of American College Health. doi: 10.1080/07448481.2019.1679818
  • Ray, E.C., Arpan, L., Oehme, K., Perko, A., & Clark, J. (in press). Examining the implementation of a universal approach to student resilience. Journal of Higher Education Management.
• The National Prevention Toolkit on Officer Involved Domestic Violence and Human Trafficking is a project of the Law Enforcement Families Partnership (LEFP). The toolkit is part of a broad-based effort to educate law enforcement officers and support healthy families and communities. The mission of the Law Enforcement Families Partnership is to reduce and prevent domestic violence committed by criminal justice personnel.
• The National Prevention Toolkit on Domestic Violence and Human Trafficking for Medical Professionals is a multi-disciplinary project of the Institute for Family Violence Studies. The training is a tool for medical professionals in healthcare settings. Medical professionals have access to online training modules and resources specifically designed for the healthcare community
• Understanding Domestic Violence as a Social Service Professional was an online course (available through Blackboard’s Open Education) that delivered essentials of what social service providers need to know to ensure domestic violence receive the necessary support and resources. 
• Director, Karen Oheme served as a member of both the Florida Statewide Domestic Violence Fatality Review Team and the Leon County Team
• The Director of Special projects served on the Circuit 2 Child Welfare Leadership Team. The purpose of this team was to inspire change in the lives of domestic violence survivors and their children.
• Every fall and spring semesters, the Institute hosted a journal club luncheon, which all College of Social Work students are invited to attend.
• Each semester, the Project Coordinator was invited to speak about the Institute in courses about family violence offered by various departments and at community events.
• The LGBTQ Family Life Project is a component of the Institute for Family Violence Studies. Faculty and students from FSU’s College of Law and College of Medicine also contribute to research and policy development. The project’s mission is to promote inclusion and equality for LGBTQ individuals and families through scholarly research and public policy advocacy.
• Since launching successful co-parenting after divorce in 2016, over 10,000 people have logged on to our successful Co-Parenting after Divorce Toolkit. This includes all 50 states and ten foreign countries.
  • We have licensed the videos from the project to courts in Florida and Washington, DC.
  • The toolkit was reapproved for another three years as a Florida Parent Education and Family Stabilization Course at the Florida Department of Children and Families.
  • The toolkit offers Continuing Education Units (CEUs) to lawyers, mental health professionals, and social workers.
  • Research data from the co-parenting project indicates that divorcing parents suffered high Adverse Childhood Experiences (a measure of childhood traumatic experiences that can lead to negative physical and mental outcomes).
  • In Fall 2019, a Pre-Training Module on Trauma and Resilience was added to the toolkit. This module was added so that parents 
    • learn the role of unresolved prior trauma in their lives, 
    • obtain resources, and 
    • protect themselves and their children from recurring trauma.
• The Institute launched a new online curriculum: A Professional Certification in Trauma and Resilience – Level One 
  • The curriculum enables professionals to develop the knowledge and skills they need to understand the impact of adult and child trauma, along with the keys to resilience. Participants learned crucial information to improve service delivery to clients, students, human services recipients, patients, and other members of the public.
  • This self-paced curriculum includes 20 hours of course content and ten chapters of research based readings, case scenarios, multi-media materials, assignments, and quizzes.
• Thousands of people from all 50 states and ten foreign countries have visited the site.
• In 2019 the Student Resilience Project:
  • Was the first of its kind to address Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and trauma
  • Included expertise on student success, student wellness, coping, mental health access and health equity
  • Was supported by the Provost and Philanthropic dollars
  • Received the American Association of University Administrators 2019 Black Burn Award for innovation
  • Launched new Registered Student Organization “Resilient Noles” 
  • New content added Summer 2019 on healthy relationships, graduate students, and international students. 
  • 25,000 people have viewed the Student Resilience Project, 30% of users are returned users.

In 2017, the Institute celebrated the following milestones: 

• Kirsten Castillo, MSW, gave a presentation on the effects of childhood trauma on children’s development at Brehon House- a maternity home for pregnant women experiencing homelessness.
• Morgan Lodes is hired as the new full-time project manager.
• The Successful Co-Parenting After Divorce toolkit is awarded a Prudential-Davis Productivity Award.
• The Institute completed work on the new and updated Training Manual for Supervised Visitation Providers.
• In 2017, as part of the LGBTQ Family Life Project, the Institute team developed a dataset of high school student attitudes about violence against transgender individuals. We used content analysis on a national set of online U.S. student newspapers.
• The Institute added new components to the National Prevention Toolkit based on our data analysis. The new additions include information on how officers identify the primary aggressor, resources for police chaplains, the issue of couples counseling in domestic violence cases, and evidence that the toolkit training works.
• As part of our Family Violence Journal Club, we had guest speaker, Mark Stern from Slate Magazine, to discuss issues related to the current climate around the LGBTQ+ community.
• Karen Oehme presented at the 26^th Annual Supervised Visitation Network Conference in San Antonio, Texas, on the Moral Foundation Theory and Promoting Supervised Visitation Services.
• Director, Karen Oehme, and Dr. Anthony Ferraro traveled to Tokyo in August. They met with faculty from Tokyo International University to discuss a Japanese version of the Successful Co-Parenting After Divorce Toolkit.
• The Institute began development of a new training manual for supervised visitation providers on the issue of child sexual abuse.
• The Florida Office of the Attorney General awarded the Institute a $25,000 grant in 2017 to develop a new human trafficking component for EMS professionals on The National Toolkit on Domestic Violence for Medical Professionals.
• The recent article accepted by Stanford Law & Policy Review, The Judicial and Generational Dispute over Transgender Rights, has garnered special recognition from research networks. The Women’s & Gender Research Network (WGSRN), a research network of the Social Science Research Network (SSRN), selected this article to be included in the launch of WGSRN as part of the Women & Law eJournal.
• Karen Oehme along with other members of the Leon County Domestic Violence Fatality Review Team was awarded the 2017 Community Service Award by the local domestic violence and sexual violence center, Refuge House.
• In 2017, we published the following:
  • Harrison, S., Oehme, K., Maselli, E., Blackenship, L., & Onifade, E. (2017). Domestic Violence Screening: A National Hotline Survey. Family & Intimate Partner Violence Quarterly, 9(4), 7-19.
  • Karen Oehme (2017): Florida State University’s Institute for Family Violence Studies, Journal of Evidence-Informed Social Work, DOI: 10.1080/23761407.2017.1403404
  • Oehme, K., Ferraro, A. J., Stern, N., Panisch, L. S., & Lucier-Greer, M. (2017). Trauma-Informed Co-Parenting: How a Shift in Compulsory Divorce Education to Reflect New Brain Development Research Can Promote Both Parents’ and Children’s Best Interests. University of Hawaii Law Review, 39(37), 1-10.
  • Stern, M., Oehme, K., Stern, N., Urbach, E., Simonsen, E., & Garcia, A. (in press). The Judicial and Generational Dispute over Transgender Rights. Stanford Law & Policy Review, 32 pages.

In 2015, the Institute celebrated the following milestones: 

• Thallia Malespin, MSW is hired as the new full time Project Manager.
• The Institute signed a new 3-year contract with the Department of Children and Families to fund the Clearinghouse on Supervised Visitation.
• The Institute welcomed former Dean of the FSU College of Social Work, Nick Mazza, Ph.D., to the Community Advisory Board.
• The Institute began development of a new and updated training manual for supervised visitation providers. The manual will include 14 chapters relevant to supervised visitation.
• Joining campus initiatives, the Institute has become a member of the Coordinated Community Response Team to address prevention efforts for power-based personal violence.
• The Institute created a new focus on female law enforcement officers as part of the LEFP and produced “A Guide for Campus Law Enforcement Agencies: How to Recruit Female Officers.”
• As part of the Women in Law Enforcement Project, The Institute has collaborated with Chief of FSUPD, David Perry, to create a recruitment video for female law enforcement officers at FSU.
• The Institute launches the interdisciplinary “Successful Co-Parenting After Divorce” Toolkit project with a $250,000 gift from the Vandermark Foundation. The College of Communication and Information and the College of Education are our partners.
• The “Successful Co-Parenting After Divorce” Toolkit was approved for continuing legal education credits, continuing education units for mental health professionals, and has also been approved as a parent education and family stabilization course in Florida.
• The Institute partnered with the Office of Distance Learning to produce a Blackboard Training that would be available for free to all service providers. The training is titled “Understanding Domestic Violence as a Social Services Professional and provides continuing education units for mental health professionals in the state of Florida.
• In 2015, Director Karen Oehme published the following: Donnelly, E., Valentine, C., & Oehme, K. (2015). Law enforcement officers and employee assistance programs. Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies & Management, 38(2), pp. 206 – 220. Oehme, K., Stern, N., & Mennicke, A. (2015). A deficiency in addressing campus sexual assault: The lack of women law enforcement officers. Harvard Journal of Law & Gender, 38, 401.
• Karen Oehme presented at the 24^th Annual Supervised Visitation Network Conference in Clearwater, FL to discuss the six protective factors to strengthen vulnerable families.
• Karen Oehme presented at the End Violence Against Women International Conference on Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence, and Campus Responses in New Orleans, LA to discuss officer-involved domestic violence.

In 2013, the Institute celebrated the following milestones: 

• The Verizon Foundation supports the online Toolkit “Screening for Domestic Violence: A Training for Medical Professionals” with a $90,000 grant.
• The Institute develops Florida State University’s Health Relationships Toolkit with a grant from Guy and Delores Spearman.
• The Institute began producing child welfare E-Books on the protective factors that sustain healthy families.
• The Institute hosts a visiting scholar, Agnes Muhongerwa, from Rwanda.
• The Institute’s Director Karen Oehme presents on Screening for Domestic Violence by Medical Professionals at the 18th Annual International Conference on Violence, Abuse, and Trauma.

In 2011, the Institute celebrated the following milestones: 

• Karen Oehme is named a Florida State University “Distinguished University Scholar.”
• The Institute launches a new project, entitled “Financial Literacy and Community Sustainability.”
• The Law Enforcement Families Partnership is awarded another Prudential-Davis Productivity Award.
• The Verizon Foundation renews its support with an additional $50,000 grant.
• The Institute launches the Family Violence Journal Club within the College of Social Work and sponsors several community events to raise awareness about domestic violence.

In 2009, the Institute celebrated the following milestones: 

• Online Training – Officer-Involved Domestic Violence: A Prevention Curriculum, goes live. By 2011, over 25,000 criminal justice officers take at least one module of the Florida domestic violence curriculum.

In 2007, the Institute celebrated the following milestones: 

• Published the Institute’s first social work journal article: “Characteristics of supervised visitation programs serving child maltreatment and other cases.” Brief Treatment and Crisis Intervention.
• The Clearinghouse received the Supervised Visitation Network’s Judith Wallach President’s Award from the Supervised Visitation network for Outstanding Service and Contribution to the Supervised Visitation Network.
• Dr. Crook retires; Karen Oehme is named Institute Director.

In 2005, the Institute celebrated the following milestones: 

• Created Referrals to “Supervised Visitation Programs: A Manual for Judges” in manual and online versions. This is only the second on-line judge’s manual approved by the State Courts Administrator for continuing judicial education credit in FL.
• Established an online data collection system for Florida’s supervised visitation programs.
• Conducted a Pilot Program evaluation of supervised visitation services.

In 2003, the Institute celebrated the following milestones: 

• Published “Sexual Abuse Referrals to Supervised Visitation”
• Sponsored the Tallahassee Domestic Violence Coordinating Council.
• Created new online tutorial funded by the US Dept of Justice, Office of Violence Against Women – “The Intersection of Domestic Violence and Child Maltreatment”

In 2001, the Institute celebrated the following milestones: 

• Published the first of many law review articles on supervised visitation
• Converted all DV training manuals to online tutorials available free of charge worldwide.

In 1998, the Institute celebrated the following milestones: 

• Opened The Clearinghouse on Supervised Visitation, the flagship program of the Institute, directed by Karen Oehme, J.D.

In 1997, the Institute celebrated the following milestones: 

• Davis Productivity Award given to Dr. Sharon Maxwell and Karen Oehme for outstanding service to taxpaying citizens