Jimmy Widdifield, Jr., MA, is a Licensed Professional Counselor and an experienced training and technical assistance (TTA) provider in child maltreatment, trauma, and adversity. He is the owner of Journey Waypoint, PLLC, which provides TTA to multi- and interdisciplinary professionals. He is also the Project Director for Grant Training and Resources at the National Children’s Advocacy Center that focuses on enhancing professional development and the multidisciplinary coordinated response to child maltreatment.

Mr. Widdifield has experience with planning and providing a range of TTA, nationally and internationally, with an emphasis on children and adolescents with problematic sexual behavior (PSB), child maltreatment, and youth with marginalized sexual orientations and/or identities. He formerly was the TTA Director for the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center (OUHSC) Problematic Sexual Behavior TTA Program and the National Center on the Sexual Behavior of Youth. In addition to providing clinical training, Mr. Widdifield assisted with initial assessment of training needs; participated in the design of training plans to facilitate implementation of evidence-based treatments for PSB including engagement of stakeholders. He also worked as a Program Manager at the Oklahoma Commission on Children and Youth where he provided administrative services and TTA to over 35 Oklahoma multidisciplinary teams that were not affiliated with Children’s Advocacy Centers for accreditation purposes. Further, he managed a Children’s Justice Act grant that sponsored local and statewide professional trainings on multi- and interdisciplinary issues in child maltreatment.

For more than 20 years Mr. Widdifield provided evidence-based clinical assessment and treatment of children ages 3-12 with an emphasis on those with PSB and adolescents with illegal sexual behaviors, recipient children, and their families. Throughout his career, Mr. Widdifield has provided training on the assessment and treatment of children and adolescents. He has co-authored group and family modality treatment manuals and, also, book chapters on clinical services for children with PSB.

Mr. Widdifield is a member of the Association of Professionals Solving the Abuse of Children and an Organizational Affiliate with the National Child Traumatic Stress Network. He is a graduate of the Interdisciplinary Training Program (ITP) in Child Abuse and Neglect at the OUHSC.