Course Overview:
Dental staff are often the 1st health-care professionals to treat accident trauma but also in identifying traumatic injuries resulting from victim abuse & domestic violence, therefore should be considered a key "first responder" in early recognition, and capable of providing immediate referrals and safety protocols to victims of abuse in Dufferin County.
It is important for all agencies within a community to:
- understand & respect what each does individually in addressing their response to abuse;
- work as a (MDT) multi-disciplinary TEAM - together, for the benefit of the victim / family to prevent future trauma;
- have every community agency in Dufferin County work together for the benefit of all concerned in an atmosphere of service above self.
Course Objectives:
- Understanding Dufferin County's social services roles, responsibilities and mandates on dealing with suspected abuse;
- Review types of abuse on victims of all ages (child, spousal/partner, senior) that are easily viewable by any health-care professional & first responder;
- How & why local social services must work together as a multi-disciplinary team (MDT) for the primary benefit of all victims of abuse, domestic violence & human trafficking.
Speaker Biography:
Dr. Frank Stechey is a 1971 graduate from Toronto's Faculty of Dentistry. He had a general practice in Hamilton and been a clinical restorative instructor at Toronto's Faculty of Dentistry & George Brown College; a past president of the Hamilton Academy of Dentistry and Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario (RCDSO); an NDEB (National Dental Examining Board) examiner for international dentists seeking Canadian licensure; a lecturer to health-care and law enforcement professionals throughout North America; and recognized as a Fellow in eight international professional organizations.
His 45+ years of forensic training & experience plus as a Court expert witness has covered civil & criminal cases of: mass disaster response; product liability; homicides; domestic violence and partner, spousal, senior - and especially child abuse. He served as a forensic dental consultant at Hamilton's McMaster University & Medical Centre's Children's Hospital and several North American municipal, provincial / state, national and international Police Services and Children's Aid Societies.
Dr. Stechey is a Board member on Rotary International's Rotarian Action Group for Family Safety expanding worldwide, the need for abusive traumatic injury recognition and its prevention in family & domestic violence cases through a multi-disciplinary community project that provides service above self for victims of all ages and for the benefit of every community.
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