Dolores Subia BigFoot, PhD - is an enrolled member of the Caddo Nation of Oklahoma and is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. Dr. BigFoot directs the Indian Country Child Trauma Center that is part of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network. As a doctoral-level counseling psychologist she provides consultation, training, and technical assistance to tribal, state, and federal agencies on child maltreatment, child trauma, and cultural issues. Dr. BigFoot is recognized for her efforts to bring traditional and spiritual practices and beliefs into the formal teaching and instruction of American Indian people as well as the professionals working with Indigenous populations.  She directs Project Making Medicine, a national clinical training program build on the cultural adaptations of evidence based interventions titled the Honoring Children Series.  Dr. BigFoot developed an American Indian parent training program which builds on the strengths of Indian parents, families, and communities to parent children. She co-authored, “Helping Indian Parents Discipline their Children,” and the IHS/BIA Handbook on Child Protection. In addition to those publications, she developed for the OVC/DOJ the cross cultural training manual, “Upon the Back of a Turtle” and the OVC Monograph Series for Indian Country.  She provides clinical services in treatment of adolescent sex offenders and Parent Child Interaction Therapy.

Susan R. Schmidt, PhD – a psychologist, is an Assistant Professor at the Center on Child Abuse and Neglect. Her clinical and research interests include interventions for trauma-exposed children, treatment outcome and program effectiveness, and treatment of adolescents with inappropriate or illegal sexual behavior. She currently directs the Child Trauma Services Program, an assessment, treatment, and research program for children exposed to domestic violence and their non-offending caregivers.