The 2025 Office of Victim Services (OVS) Conference has 3 webinar offerings, which will lead up to the main event! This is the first webinar.

Webinars are free of charge, and open to all OVS-funded advocates and allied professionals. You do not need to be registered for the OVS Conference to attend these free events. Registration for each webinar is required.

Speaker: Andrew Campbell, CEO, Campbell Research & Consulting

Based on the presenter’s recently published book (Taking Back What Abuse Took: A Public Health Based Approach to Healing from Abuse) and ongoing research in this area, this presentation will focus on critical concepts for empowering victims of abuse to heal the deep emotional wounds created by abusive trauma. Key concepts include: the reality that one cannot heal from abuse until one is safe from abuse, healing as a process, the need for support and encouragement, eliminating other unhealthy behaviors that may have attached themselves during the abuse, the specific roles various victim-serving disciplines can play in the healing process, repairing self-worth, and restoring hope. Working to heal from abusive trauma better ensures the pain of one’s past does not continue to take from the good of one’s today.

As a result of this session, attendees will be able to: list the long term psychological effects of abuse victimization, identify harmful behaviors (coping mechanisms) that can attach themselves during abuse victimization. describe key public health based concepts for empowering survivors to heal from abuse.