Comments from Workshops and Presentations (Thank you for your kind words!)

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Karen Duncan just spoke to my graduate class on Families, Cultures, and Theories. We've been studying how to prevent and intervene with families, and the subtopic has been serial killers and child sexual predators. Karen was fantastic, helping students to understand the broad range of demographics among predators and the underlying causes for their behavior. She'll be a great asset for social workers in child welfare, but also for health, mental health, families,and schools.

Lorraine

Celebrating the Transformative Power of Family Today!
Lorraine C. Blackman, PhD, LCSW, CFLE
Indiana University, School of Social Work
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902 W. New York St.
Indianapolis, IN 46202
Office: (317) 274-6713
Fax: (317) 291-4523
African American Family Life Education Institute, LLC
www.aafle.org

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Karen Duncan's presentation was the highlight of the sessions at the American Counseling Association Conference in Atlanta. Karen is a dynamic and engaging speaker, and her message is so important. Her experience, creativity, and no-nonsense approach to helping women and their children impressed me. Karen helps to demystify the treatment of sexual abuse, which encourages women to heal in an environment where they can remove the shroud of shame and secrecy, and step into the light of recovery. I am comforted to know that there are experts like Karen Duncan on the front line of this silenced pandemic. I am excited to learn that she is generous with her knowledge and dedicated to the quality training of other professionals. In terms of her life dedication to preventing, battling, and healing the deep wounds of sexual abuse, Karen impacts me as being worthy of the following quote by Sarah Pound, "When you were born, God said, 'Yes!'"

Kelly W. Grey, MA, Ed, LPC
Assistant Director
UNC Charlotte, Disability Services
Tel.: 704 687-2132 (V/TTY)

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Karen,
I was extremely pleased in your session and I believe that the information you have shared needs to be put out there. I have directed fellow counselors to your sites. Please let me know the logistics of coming to San Antonio so that I can disperse this information to the Chair of our department and the Director of the Doctoral program. Again, thanks for all your hard work. I had an invigorating time!

Sincerely,
Jen Alamia, MA
UTSA Doctoral Student

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Thanks so much! I really enjoyed your presentation. Your expertise and knowledge was very apparent. Thanks for sharing your experience.

Jerri Pedro

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Thank you, thank you, and thank you! I thoroughly enjoyed your presentation at the conference the other day. I currently work with homeless men who have a number of PTSD issues through early sexual abuse and also some war veterans. This fall I will be switching gears and working with men and women at Ridgeview, a local private mental health hospital. I am sure that I will be able to apply your presentation very quickly. I love your passion for the work we do!

Michael Brubaker, MDiv, CACII
Atlanta, Georgia

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Your presentation was great and very informative especially combined with your wonderful personality. I am sure you have helped a lot of people by just being yourself. I am at TWU working on a master's degree in Counseling and Development. My BA is in Child Development. I have done a lot of volunteer work with Child Protective Services and the Texas Youth Commission. I was interested in your presentation because I have seen a lot of young people who have been sexually abused.

Thanks Again,
Janice Southard

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I really liked your presentation. It opened up so many possibilities and clarified some things regarding sexual trauma and substance abuse. On another level it also confirmed some of my beliefs so that is so good to help me stand firm and keep trying to do the right thing in delivering effective care to my clients.

Thank you,
Tammy Conrad

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I certainly enjoyed your presentation. You are a great presenter! Not boring at all! Thank you for the information.

Brenda Edwards

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I have been telling everyone that your two sessions were the best that I went to at the ACA conference. I am finishing up my graduate degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and I have been thinking about what to do my thesis on...and your presentations got me thinking about doing something on sexual abuse. Currently I am doing my internship at an adolescent day treatment program where I would say 99% of the clients have been victims of sexual abuse, and as you said, I will be continually working with clients who have a history of sexual abuse, so this topic is certainly relevant.

Thanks again! I learned a lot from you...if you were closer to Wisconsin, I would probably be knocking at your door for an internship placement!

Emily Berge

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I've just heard one of the most wonderful conference speakers ever (and you know I've heard a lot of great ones over the years) that I hope we might explore bringing to Kentucky for one of our upcoming conferences. Her name is Karen Duncan, M.A., LSW, LMFT and her website is www.healing4women.com. She has published numerous articles and has a major new book titled Healing from The Trauma of Childhood Sexual Abuse: The Journey for Women. This woman is truly compelling -- I really cannot say enough in praise of her expertise, depth and style. Hope maybe you two can talk some time soon and you will see what I mean for yourself.

Fred Schloemer
Louisville, Kentucky

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Karen,

I was lucky enough to be in the audience of your session on the impact of childhood sexual abuse and mothering at the ACA conference in Georgia. I found you to be the most impressive speaker at the conference.

Laurie Kirkpatrick
Assistant Dean of Student Services
Director of Counseling Services

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Dear Karen,
Thank you so very much for this valuable information. The workshop was wonderful.

Elois Sims, LCSW

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Karen,

I really enjoyed your presentation. You did a great job. I purchased your book afterwards and look forward to reading it! I work with sexual assault survivors and found what you presented to be very helpful.

Thanks again,
Amy Morgan


Karen,

Your prevention education program "The Right To Be Safe: Adult Education to Prevent Child Sexual Abuse" is very well done. It is extremely clear, poignant and easily used. Thank you very much for your work.

Carol R. Heffer, LCMHC, Vermont


Karen,

I was at the Prevent Child Abuse Conference and heard you speak on Safe Family Reunification. I was very impressed with your knowledge.

Amy Nieman
Harmony House Program

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"Very effective, enjoyed learning more about healthy boundaries and the interaction between presenter and audience was great."

"Great!! Exactly what has come up for me (relationships and boundaries)."

"Karen's workshop on preventing revictimization is very good. She should be asked to come back again and again! Good information and a good presenter with a passion for her work!"

"Preventing revictimization was so informative. I was not at the workshop as a professional rather I was there for my own healing so it helps that your honesty about your own personal experience makes the maternal tangible for me as well - I can protect my children!"

"Absolutely excellent!! Great presentation style, very commanding delivery. Certainly could relate to any audience."

"Very informative!! Most of all I enjoyed your passion for your work!! People like you are so refreshing - so often you hear of burnout, I like to see the energy you have in your presentations! Thank you."

"Overall Karen Duncan was very informative and passionate about the subject matter. Thank you!"

"Thank you Karen. I currently have three clients with profound childhood sexual abuse histories."

"I loved your comments about a living legacy through our children!"

"I loved the training, it was simple, easy to understand and practical. So informative with many real life examples."

"Thank you for your skills, gifts and passion regarding this advocacy. The training was informative, practical, relevant and based on experience. The best training I have attended."

"Ms. Duncan was an excellent speaker."

"Very valuable information, Ms. Duncan was very passionate about the material which made the message easier to receive."

"One of the best workshops I have attended."