Join fellow professionals and experts for a day of presentations and workshops about preventing child abuse and working with victims.
McMahon Ryan Child Advocacy Center holds the Stand Against Child Abuse Conference every fall. This conference is intended for school personnel, prosecutors, law enforcement, probation officers, child protective/child welfare personnel, mental health professionals, medical providers and other professionals working with children.
Our 2026 Stand Against Child Abuse Conference will take place on Wednesday, September 30th at the Marriott in Downtown Syracuse– more information coming soon
Our 2026 Keynote Speaker:
Kevin Mulcahy
Survivor of Child Sexual Abuse & Assistant U.S. Attorney in Detroit
Kevin is a survivor of child sexual abuse. He works as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Detroit. Throughout his career, Kevin has prosecuted a variety of cases, including offenses involving firearms, drugs, bank robberies, threats, terrorism, and a wide variety of other federal prosecutions. But most of his caseload focuses on child exploitation crimes, including production of child pornography cases, traveler cases, and other significant crimes against children prosecutions. Kevin has been a prosecutor since 2002, all on the federal level, with the first 3 1/2 years as an AUSA in San Diego, and the rest in Detroit. Kevin obtained his undergraduate degree in Statistics and American Culture from the University of Michigan and his JD from Santa Clara School of Law, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Santa Clara Law Review. He has 3 kids, 2 cats, and a very nice wife.
Past Keynote Speakers
Christina Meredith (2025)
Abuse & Homelessness Survivor, Youth Advocate & Author of CinderGirl
Erin Merryn (2024)
Survivor, Creator of Erin’s Law; mandating children be taught personal body safety in schools.
Carlotta Taylor (2023)
Award Winning Child Advocate, Author, Inspirational Speaker and Trainer
LaTasha C Watts (2022)
Survivor, Author, Advocate
Antwone Fisher (2019)
Survivor, Screenwriter, poet, lecturer and author of Finding Fish: A Memoir
Derek Clark (2018)
Survivor and author of Disable the Label, Never Limit Your Life, and the I Will Never Give Up book series
Sasha Joseph Neulinger (2017)
Survivor, filmmaker, and Founder of Voices for the Kids
