Total Credits: 1.5 including 0.0 Ethics CLE, 1.5 CLE
Exposure to trauma while prosecuting violent crimes, and particularly child exploitation offenses, is inevitable, and can substantially affect those who work in the field. This presentation explores the ways that such vicarious, or secondary, trauma, reveals itself, as well as ways it can be mitigated and managed.
| Wellness in the Trenches - Handouts (10.8 MB) | 53 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Carin Duryee is an Assistant United States Attorney and Project Safe Childhood Coordinator in the District of Arizona, in Tucson. She has worked as an AUSA in the Criminal Division in the District of Arizona since 1998, and has dedicated the majority of her career to the prosecution of child exploitation/child pornography cases, focusing almost exclusively on the investigation and prosecution of online child exploitation cases since 2001. Since 2008, Ms. Duryee has served as the Project Safe Childhood Coordinator for the District, prosecuting numerous child exploitation offenses, coordinating multi-agency participation in such investigations, and regularly providing training to law enforcement and prosecutors in the field, both nationally and internationally. AUSA Duryee also is a member of the Project Safe Childhood Peer Support Team, which helps address prosecutor wellness in the field
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