CSEC, CSAM, & The Judicial System

Please join the Plymouth County Children's Advocacy Center as they present a one-of-a-kind, two-day, training series on CSEC & CSAM.

Learn from a wide variety of experts in the field who will present on both the experience and the law.

Our presenters come to us with experience from The U.S. Advisory Council on Human Trafficking, National Human Trafficking Training and Technical Assistance Center, Office for Victims of Crime, and many more.

Our presenters include, but are not limited to:

• Steven Procopio, ACSW, LICSW
• Judge Robert Lung
• Suleman Masood
• Dr. Rachel Niemiec
• Dr. Abigail M. Judge
• Russell G. Wilson

*Each presenter has a biography (included below) for your reading*

Russell G Wilson

Russell G. Wilson is an academic, researcher, trainer, motivational speaker, and lover of life. Russell refuses to be defined by the sexual abuse and trauma he experienced as a child, but rather embraces those experiences as a lens by which to view the world, a place he sees filled with hope, opportunity and possibility. A nationally recognized speaker, Russell can motivate and inspire any audience with his story of resiliency, forgiveness, and passion for life while challenging others to embrace the present instead of being defined by the past.
Russell has trained thousands of people - including federal government officials, local government officials, law enforcement, health care providers, non-profit audiences, parents and teens.

THE HONORABLE, JUDGE ROBERT LUNG

Judge Robert Lung currently presides over a Domestic Relations docket in the 18th Judicial District of Colorado. Judge Lung also provides presentations nationally and internationally on issues such as human trafficking, childhood trauma and resiliency. Judge Lung previously served as the Judicial Representative and the Vice-Chair on the Colorado Human Trafficking Council and the Chair of the U.S. Advisory Council on Human Trafficking. Judge Lung currently serves on the National Advisory Committee on the Sex Trafficking of Children and Youth in the United States. Judge Lung also provides consultation to the Department of Justice, the Administration for Children and Families, the State Department and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC). In his “free time” Judge Lung works on writing his first book, a biography about hope and resiliency, and he endeavors to keep up with his two adopted sons in hiking and downhill mountain biking.

The Honorable Robert Lung - NoCo Human Trafficking Symposium

Suleman Masood

Suleman Masood is a subject matter expert on domestic labor trafficking and male victimization. Since 2013, his advocacy experience allowed him to work with state and federal government agencies and non-profit organizations. Mr. Masood’s expertise includes collaborating with victim service providers and task forces to advocate for ways to improve the quality of services for trafficking survivors. This work emphasizes the need to build partnerships with survivors and to ensure that strategies and implementation are created with a survivor-informed approach. Mr. Masood’s partnerships with service providers and first responders include serving as a senior program specialist on behalf of the Office for Victims of Crime and working as a consultant for various law enforcement agencies across the United States. In 2017, Mr. Masood was credited with coining the phrase “survivor-informed,” which was adopted and by the United States Department of Health and Human Services; a term now integrated throughout the anti-trafficking field. In 2022, Mr. Masood wrote, produced, and narrated a one-of-a-kind visual on labor trafficking with the New Jersey Coalition Against Human Trafficking. Mr. Masood graduated magna cum laude with a degree in Criminology/Victimology from Fresno State University and currently attends the University of the District of Columbia – David A. Clarke School of Law, where he aspires to create meaningful change within the criminal justice system.

Biographic Information for Members of the United States Advisory Council on Human Trafficking - United States Department of State

Dr. Rachel Niemiec

Dr. Niemiec is a board-certified Family Nurse Practitioner, currently being part of the training team at My Life My Choice, in Boston. Prior, she was a Pediatric Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner for the Massachusetts DPH, working within Children's Advocacy Centers as part of a multi-disciplinary response to child sexual abuse and exploitation.

In addition to being part of the Massachusetts SANE Program for over 8 years, she has almost two decades of experience working with and advocating for survivors of domestic and sexual violence.

As a survivor of the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC), she is committed to using her lived and professional experience to help service providers respond compassionately to victims/survivors as they navigate our complex systems.

Leadership (safeexitinitiative.org)

Steven Procopio, ACSW, LICSW

Steven Procopio is a licensed independent clinical social worker who is a trainer, consultant and therapist for males with complex trauma. His expertise is in the area of childhood sexual abuse, sexual assault, human trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation. He is the founder of the first free standing program to serve commercially sexually exploited, boys, adolescent males and trans youth in the United States.

His present professional work is with boys, adolescent males and men with a history of trauma, with a focus on sexual victimization. Steven is a trainer and consultant for the Office of Victims of Crime Human Trafficking Center, and the National Human Trafficking Training and Technical Assistance Center. He is a member of the United Nations Global Human Trafficking Task Force representing the needs of male victims internationally. Steven has taught and presented on the issues of male victimization nationally and internationally, consulting with various groups on the effects of male childhood sexual abuse and commercial sexual exploitation. He also works with non-profit groups on program development.

Steven has recently worked with Unitas North America on a prevention and education curriculum of commercial sexual exploitation to be administered in the New York City public school system. Steven has also served on the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Task Force on Human Trafficking.

Steven has worked with executive directors of AIDS service organizations on the design, implementation and evaluation of case management system for DPH-funded programs in Massachusetts, developing coordinated services based on a continuum of care. Steven’s experiences in youth services included work as an adolescent therapist and as a director of a youth shelter for runaway/homeless youth.

Steven is a graduate of the University of Connecticut School of Social Work.

Steven Procopio, ACSW, LICSW – A voice for sexually exploited males – childhood sexual abuse to commercial sexual exploitation/human trafficking. (stevenlprocopio.com)

Dr. Abigail Judge

Dr. Judge holds a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In addition to clinical work with adults, Dr. Judge obtained specialized clinical training in the treatment of children and adolescents in graduate school, where she was awarded a fellowship in child psychology from the American Psychological Association for her doctoral research on early onset psychotic disorders. Her writing has been published in peer reviewed journals and book chapters, she has edited two books, and she is frequently invited to educate and consult at the local, regional and national level.

It is Dr. Judge’s experience that clinicians can most effectively intervene with adults when child psychology is also understood, and that expertise in adult psychology greatly enhances clinical work with children and adolescents. Accordingly, Dr. Judge has specialized in therapy with children and adults at all levels of her training. She fulfilled her predoctoral clinical psychology internship in child and adult psychotherapy and assessment at the Cambridge Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Dr. Judge then completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in forensic evaluation at the Children and the Law Program at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Harvard Medical School. This specialization led to Dr. Judge’s expertise in trauma, high conflict divorce, adolescent court involvement and commercial sexual exploitation and domestic sex trafficking. Dr. Judge was awarded a two-year Fellowship in Bioethics at Harvard Medical School (2020–2022) in order to integrate feminist bioethical theories on autonomy within clinical operations of Boston HEAT.

In addition to clinical practice, Dr. Judge is a part-time Instructor at Harvard Medical School, supervising and educating trainees, faculty and staff about commercial sexual exploitation and sex trafficking. She is an invited member of local and national task forces dedicated to this problem and she educates and consults to academic, healthcare, social services, law enforcement, and hotel audiences on improving the multidisciplinary response to commercial sexual exploitation. Dr. Judge’s scholarship and clinical work has been supported by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, the Office of the Attorney General of Massachusetts, and the Imago Dei Fund.

Dr. Judge is a licensed psychologist and Health Service Provider in the state of Massachusetts (MA License #9224) and a member of the National Register of Health Service Psychologists.

In addition to being a therapist, Amy is a mother, a wife, and a dog lover who also enjoys great live music and spending time near the ocean.

About | Dr. Abigail M. Judge (abigailjudge.com)

Event Venue

Plymouth Memorial Hall, 83 Court Street, Plymouth, United States