Pamela J. Miller is a clinical social worker and an attorney. Miller has been with the Child Maltreatment Policy Resource Center since 2019. She is a highly trained trauma specialist and has led the Center’s multi-year Intrafamilial Child Torture (ICT) initiative since its inception. This includes co-authoring the Center’s policy white papers and case studies on ICT, writing and publishing articles, conducting trainings for professionals in multiple disciplines, speaking at conferences and events, preparing amicus briefs, and serving as counsel for amici American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children in state supreme court cases involving child torture. Professionals from 83 countries have downloaded her papers and attended her trainings. Miller has also served as an expert and author on topics related to mandated reporting of child abuse, child abuse law, and children’s asylum claims.
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Miller has published in Children and Youth Services Review, with Prof. Franne Sippel, EdD and colleagues, on their scientific experiment that measured the impact of retaliation against mandated reporters of child abuse.
Miller has published in the NASW journal Social Work, with her theoretical critique on agency in vulnerable families. Available through the National Institute of Health and Oxford University Press.
Miller has published with Prof. Frank Vandervort, JD of the University of Michigan College of Law, and Prof Katherine Piper, PhD, JD, MEd of St. John’s University College of Law, on legal practice in dependency court. See:
“The Role of the Child’s Attorney…” and “Children’s Presence in Court…”
Miller has published with Lisa A. Fontes, PhD, of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, on Coercive Control in Intrafamilial Child Torture, in Psychology Today and Alliance for HOPE International.
This article received over 10k reads in the first 90 days.
Miller has published with Victor Vieth, JD, MA, of the Zero Abuse Project, on holistic care, including Spiritual Care, for child torture survivors. Paper here.
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Mofe Koya, Professional Assistant
Ms. Koya is the Professional Assistant to Pamela J. Miller, JD, MSW, LISW-S. She assists with communications, case management, and workflow analyses. She received her Bachelor of Arts from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University and is currently a graduate student at the University of Cincinnati College of Law, where she is an Ohio Innocence Project Fellow.
She is a 2028 Juris Doctor Candidate.