November 17, 2026 @ 8:45 am – 2:30 pm
Registration: 8:15 – 8:45 am
Conference: 8:45 am – 2:30 pm
Attend In Person or Via Zoom
Minuteman High School
758 Marrett Rd.
Lexington, MA 02421
To receive PDPs, participants must attend this conference and the conference, Child Exploitation and Human Trafficiking, on December 1, 2026 (Registration opening soon). Participants need to register for each conference individually. Members can participate in-person, virtually or by viewing the recording.
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About the Speakers
Ted E. Docks (he/him) serves as the Special Agent in Charge (SAC) of the FBI Boston Division, overseeing operations across Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island. He previously led the Criminal Division at the Los Angeles Field Office and has held numerous leadership, operational, and investigative roles since joining the FBI in 2005. His assignments have included counterintelligence work in Louisville, leading the Joint Terrorism Task Force in Michigan, and serving as Supervisory Special Agent in the Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate at FBI Headquarters, where he earned the National Intelligence Exceptional Achievement Medal.
Mr. Docks has also served as Supervisory Senior Resident Agent in Michigan, Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the Houston Field Office, and inspector in the Inspection Division at FBI Headquarters. Before joining the Bureau, he worked in finance and sales and earned both a bachelor’s degree in business administration and a master’s in finance and accounting from Morehead State University, where he was also a basketball student-athlete.
James Barrett, Ph.D., (he/him) is the Director Clinical Support at the Cambridge Police Department and an Assistant Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry (part-time) at Harvard Medical School. He also is an associate with the Health Equity Research Lab at Cambridge Health Alliance. Dr. Barrett is the recipient of the Academic Council Award for Excellence, the HMS Eleanor and Miles Shore Fellowship, the HMS Leston L. Havens Teaching Award and the Gold Standard in School Safety Award. He is a member of the FBI’s Mass Bay Threat Assessment Team, and a National Institute of Justice LEADS Scholar. His research has been published in JAMA Network Open, Psychology, Public Policy and the Law, Psychological Services, Police Chief Magazine, Adolescent Psychiatry, Journal of Applied Juvenile Justice Services, and Translational Issues in Psychological Science.
Emma Cardeli, Ph.D., (she/her) is the Clinical Director of the Massachusetts Area Prevention Program at Boston Children’s Hospital and an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Cardeli is the lead developer of the T-SAM, a clinically useful risk assessment and management tool that can be used by mental health professionals to guide therapeutic intervention for youth and adults at risk of targeted violence. She is also leading two federal grant initiatives focused on building mental health professionals’ capacity to identify and respond to risk for escalation to violence. In partnership with colleagues at BCH, Dr. Cardeli provides training and consultation in trauma-informed care and trauma-focused treatment across the globe, with a focus on building organizations’ capacity to provide specialized services in a manner that’s congruent with community needs and norms. Her research focuses on understanding multi-systemic factors contributing to violence perpetration and identifying effective methodologies for strengthening healthcare systems to meet the needs of underserved populations.
Brian LeBlanc (he/him) is Supervisory Special Agent, FBI Boston, assigned to the Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) in the Boston Division, with a prior assignment to the JTTF in Miami, Florida. Since joining the FBI in 2007, SA LeBlanc has specialized in complex counterterrorism investigations, as well as in the mitigation of terrorism threats as a WMD specialist and bomb technician. SA LeBlanc has led counterterrorism investigations domestically and internationally throughout South America, the Caribbean and Africa. SA LeBlanc has also served as the FBI counterterrorism specialist assigned to U.S. Special Operations Command (SOC) in Afghanistan as well as a long-term assignment to the FBI Legal Attaché Office at the U.S. Embassy Nairobi, Kenya. Prior to joining the FBI, SA LeBlanc served seven years as a municipal police officer and six years in the U.S. Marine Corps. SA LeBlanc holds a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Arts in Criminal Justice from the University of Massachusetts and a Graduate Certificate in Terrorism Analysis from the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism at the University of Maryland.
Ashley Murray, Ph.D., (she/her) obtained her doctorate degree in clinical forensic psychology at Simon Fraser University, where her research and clinical work focused on violence risk assessment and psychopathic personality disorder. She completed a predoctoral internship at the Federal Correctional Complex in Butner, North Carolina, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in forensic psychology at UMass Chan Medical School. She currently works as a designated forensic evaluator for the state of Massachusetts, and is the Director of the UMass Chan Forensic Psychology Fellowship, where she also serves as a Forensic Mental Health Supervisor. She is an assistant professor in the department of psychiatry at UMass Chan Medical School, and has conducted many trainings across the state for the trial courts, DMH, DYS, and UMass Chan Medical School, on topics of violence risk assessment, psychopathic personality disorder assessment, competency to stand trial, ethical practice, and the intersection of mental illness and the criminal justice system.
Membership Information
Most MPY webinars are available ONLY to current staff from member districts and organizations. Public school memberships include police and fire personnel. Former and retired employees and members of committees, including but not limited to, PTO/PTA, PAC, School Improvement Councils, Health Councils, Drug/Alcohol Councils, and school volunteers, are not considered MPY members.
PDPs and CEUs
MPY is an approved Professional Development Provider through the Massachusetts Department of Elementary & Secondary Education (Provider No. F20180079). Professional Development Points (PDPs) are offered for most MPY professional development webinars. PDPs are issued in 10 hour increments, per DESE requirements.
Continuing Education Units (CEUs) are available for clinical staff through the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) and the Massachusetts Mental Health Counselors Association, Inc. (MaMHCA). The NASW and the MaMHCA approve each event individually. CEUs may be given in hourly increments.
To receive PDPs and CEUs, participants must pass the quiz. The PDP quiz will be made available only to participants who have registered for and attended both conferences.
Event Cancellation Policy
If you are unable to attend a MPY webinar you must cancel, through Bonnie Mullen at bonnie@mpyinc.org, one business day before the webinar.
For MPY hybrid conferences, the date in-person registration closes will be posted on MPY’s website. Virtual conference registration will close one business day before the hybrid conference. You cannot cancel or switch your registration from in-person to virtual after in-person registration closes. Please email Bonnie Mullen at bonnie@mpyinc.org with any questions regarding registration.
Registration: 8:15 – 8:45 am
Conference: 8:45 am – 2:30 pm