The program will include a mix of well-known and promising researchers, program developers,master clinicians, policy makers, consumers, and service providers. Attendees will then engage in a discussion about: how rigorous evaluation can help understand implementation fidelity and long-term impact; how leadership can use research to understand statewide system change initiatives when research findings are complicated; how program and research teams can partner on CQI to understand implementation; and how nuanced lessons learned can inform future initiatives. FFPSAs initiatives to increase the number of children who can remain safely at home with their families are a perfect synergy with FCT. Anthony is passionate about teaching and conducts research, develops training modules /curricula, and facilitates training. Join us on Saturday, March 4, 2023, and spend the day with other parents, caregivers, grandparents, foster parents, teachers, and more at the CARE Parenting Conference. All families can use wraparound and be more successful in ensuring permanency for children and youth. The impact of the trauma lasts years and even through generations. Presenters: Dimple Patel & Emily Hajjar & Linda Sagor, Massachusetts Department of Children and Families, Boston, MA, A6 Building and Implementing a Family First CQI Framework: Accomplishments and Lessons Learned. We will provide insights on how these assessments are incorporating a diversity, equity, and inclusion lens and centering youth. Presenters: Kristine Piescher & Traci LaLiberte & Amy Dorman, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, Thursday, April 27 However, early adolescence (ages 10-14 years old) is the second-most critical attachment period with specific and unique needs relative to lasting permanency post-placement. This presentation will give participants information to: help improve policies and practice in child welfare by providing tools to engage fathers in their childrens lives; strengthen and preserve families by restoring fathers to family life; and reduce the need for foster care and adoptive homes by including the father and his extended family as a placement resource. The Center on Child Wellbeing and Trauma is on a mission to increase the ability of Massachusetts organizations to be trauma responsive and anti-racist. Participants will leave with: the ability to recognize strengths inherent to families involved in kinship care; approaches caregivers can use to utilize their strengths; and strategies and approaches professionals can implement to support caregivers in utilizing their strengths. Parenting Conference 2023 Dates: February 17-18, 2023 6:00-8:30pm | 9:00am-Noon Cost: $25/Person Join us February 17th & 18th at our West Dodge campus for Lifegate's 2023 Parenting Conference. Presenters: Tim Wood & Laura Boyd, Family Centered Treatment Foundation, Norman, OK; Patti Hibbs, Arkansas Division of Children and Family Services, Little Rock, AR; Karen Hallenbeck, Public Consulting Group, Troy, NY, E11 Building and Integrating Benefits Coordination into a Kinship Navigator Program. Presenters will show how to meaningfully engage people with lived expertise, provide examples of working with university and community partners to develop leadership certifications and promote healing, and outline how DC is using the social-ecological model as a framework for system vision setting, implementation, and evaluation. Participants will partake in a group activity in which they will identify their position on issues regarding father-involvement. This presentation will expound the program development and implementation of a new and unique trauma-informed wraparound Therapeutic Foster Care program in Alberta, Canada for youth aged 13-17. The good news: by understanding how our brains work in the context of change, we can start deliberately and consistently creating new pathways to move us in the right direction. The Volunteer Leadership Conference 2023 will take place virtually on February 4, 2023 from 9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. (Pacific). Wraparound services are holistic, culturally relevant, and logistically convenient for families and include the whole family. Presenters will share the SWON model and discuss some of the lessons the Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Association has learned in representing families across nine Atlanta schools. The Sacramento County Cultural Broker (SCCB) Program is specifically designed to address issues of African American disparities and disproportionality in the child welfare system by providing culturally responsive advocacy and liaison services for families referred to and/or involved with the child welfare system. Presenters: Grey Hilliard-Koshinsky, New England Association of Child Welfare Commissioners and Directors, Boston, MA; Youth Advocate (TBC), New England Youth Coalition, Boston, MA, B8 Sustainably Funded: Medicaid Waivers and Wraparound Success. Preventive Legal Advocacy (PLA) is part of the continuum of high-quality legal advocacy that seeks to strengthen and support family well-being by addressing upstream civil legal issues that often lead to unnecessary child welfare involvement. The presenters will describe the program model and the practice approaches that have been found to be most effective when engaging with families on substance misuse and addiction, mental and physical health needs, parenting in recovery, child and family safety, reunification and permanency, and strengthening positive family dynamics. Housing is a basic need for everyone. Presenters: James Worthy & Eugene Schneeberg , National Responsible Fatherhood Clearinghouse, Reston, VA, G6 Rewiring for Collaboration: Leveraging Neuroscience and Change Management to Build Trust, Teams, and Better Partnerships. In an effort to demonstrate the connection between cultural resilience and the prevention of child maltreatment in tribal communities, the Center for Native Child and Family Resilience will present information on the collaborative efforts of five community projects focused on the prevention and intervention of child maltreatment. In this session, attendees will learn: key program components of effective family and youth partnership models; best practices for engaging youth and families from individuals with lived expertise; and successful strategies to address disproportionality, promote equity, cultural humility, and strong racial, cultural, and ethnic identity with family and youth partnership. Next, the presenters will examine the roles and importance of fathers in their childrens lives. Discussion will include the supporting theoretical concepts related to the supervisory role and related skills and competencies. Workshops E Workshops will focus on effective strategies and practices that strengthen families; cross-system partnerships; innovative approaches to service delivery; bolstering the child welfare workforce; strategies for supporting families impacted by mental health, and more. Presenters: Karen Poteet & Arnold Eby, National Foster Parent Association, Hagerstown, MD; Cheryl Fisher, Centene Corporation, Houston, TX, D13 Serving Youth Who Are LGBTQIA, Birth to Twenty. The Trauma CARE Model provides a relational approach in service of families affected by early adverse experiences (and substance use disorder). Exhibiting affords you the chance to gain crucial insights into the needs of the population you serve, by connecting directly with current and potential clients, or popping into the occasional conference workshop to hear about the hot topics affecting the field. Marginalization can leave a person feeling lost and disconnected from who they are, struggling with mattering or feeling a sense of dignity and worth. Since much of our well-being is associated with social and economic factors, it is reasonable to focus our efforts on addressing the negative impacts of Social Determinants of Health, or the conditions in the environment that impact our ability to live, laugh, love, learn, and labor. Presenters: Angelique Day, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; Phoenix Santiago, New England Association of Child Welfare Commissioners and Directors, East Hartford, CT; Tawanna Brown, National Youth Engagement Advisory Council, South Orange, NJ, Thursday, April 27 2023 Summit Overview Get ready for the exclusive conference on family & community engagement to support educators, administrators, parent coordinators, and family-facing practitioners. Meet and learn from parenting researchers, practitioners, policy makers, etc., and contribute to a global effort to improve access for all families to effective parenting support. The co-presenters are young advocates with foster care experience, who helped develop the proposal with support from the Annie E. Casey Foundation. This workshop will provide concrete tools for developing vicarious resilience and recognizing compassion satisfaction. These losses, and the feelings that accompany them, are especially acute among children who are LGBTQ+. The workshop will provide participants with the language and understanding of diverse SOGIE; examples of policy and protocols for safe identification; how to ask questions to safely identify youth who are LGBTQ+; and family finding and chosen family strategies and tools to create and ensure permanency through youth centered meetings that can be implemented in child welfare practice. This session invites public and private sectors of child welfare and related systems to consider strategies for applying an equity lens when developing and implementing Plans of Safe Care. Explore our Advertising Opportunities(on 2nd tab of this section) to maximize your brand exposure! Services alone do not equal safety for families. Presenters: Rachel Parrett & Keith Luebcke & Ashley Kaelin, Indiana Department of Child Services, Indianapolis, IN, F4 Going Beyond the Rhetoric of Family Engagement. By registering as an exhibitor, you are committing to bringing a prize for the raffle. The presenters for this workshop have deep and broad experiences working in, and alongside, community residents and families as part of a broader strategy for family support. Presenters: Deborah Day, NC Division of Social Services, Raleigh, NC; Kelly Kirk, NC Child Welfare Family Advisory Council, Hamlet, NC; Jeanne Preisler, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, H9 CRISIS: Connection to Recovery through Intervention, Support, and Initiating Services through 9-1-1. We are experts in translating the science of early childhood development into real impact. Pay by credit card or select Bill Me to receive an invoice. The training will focus on several areas that require leadership consideration pre-implementation of a DEI program such as political climate, data, leadership commitment, and, most importantly, will aid the leader with assessing their personal values and biases which might impact their efforts. We will acknowledge the importance of applying an equitable level of diligent efforts to search for and engage with paternal and maternal sides of families. JtoZ offers four rapid response, community services to strengthen families capacity to protect their children, expand support networks, and prevent entry to care so children remain safe within their family/culture/community. In this workshop, the presenters will describe the research activities that were used to understand the short- and long- term impact of these grants, highlighting the wide range of data collection methods used to measure dosage, fidelity, client, and workforce perspectives, and short-term, long-term, and CFSR outcomes. The ability to leverage relationships with public, private, and nonprofit partners is critical to achieving true systems change. We will then provide an in-depth explanation of the new Casey Life Skills assessment and how it was developed in partnership with youth and other stakeholders in the child welfare system. TA providers, select grantee representatives, and a person with lived expertise will share their journeys through strategies being developed and implemented, the authentic inclusion of people with lived expertise, and use of continuous quality improvement. Presenters: Sharon Kollar & Michelle Clinch, National Child Welfare Workforce Institute, Portland, OR, C4 Field Insights Applied to a Toolkit to Enhance Identification of Children with Prenatal Substance Exposures. Campbell ranks fourth in the Big South at limiting opponent scoring, allowing 67.6 points while holding opponents to 46.0% shooting. 10:50 am 12:05 pm, H1 Learning to Thrive Together: Tools for Co-Learning and Co-Assessing Life Skills with Youth. Additionally, we will examine opportunities to include parents in non-custodial roles at various points throughout the service episode. Internationally, he has presented at the Renmin (the Peoples) University of China in Beijing, the New Zealand Ministry of Children and Family Services and the International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect in Durban, South Africa. This workshop will examine the innovative design and comprehensive integration of benefits coordination throughout the OhioKAN Kinship and Adoption Navigator program. This session will highlight the Kentucky Department of Community Based Services (DCBS) experience measuring and monitoring the initial and ongoing implementation of its Family First Prevention Services plan. The primary focus of Family Centered Treatment (FCT) for over 30 years has been to find simple, practical, and holistic solutions for families faced with disruption due to external and/or internal stressors, circumstances, or forced removal of children from the home due to delinquent behaviors from youth or harmful behaviors from parents. Dr. Velzquez is co-author of CWLAs supervision curriculum, Supervision to Advance Success and Excellence. This workshop will explore the power of rhythm as a tool for healing and regulation, especially regarding the trauma response. The QIC-EY is charged with advancing child welfare programs and practice to ensure that they are authentically engaging and empowering children and youth, especially in relation to permanency decisions. Depending upon your health care specialty and/or area of interest, lecture . Building Relationships with the Media and Understanding What Makes News. The theme of the 2023 I-CEPS is. Lastly, we will provide strategies on youth participation and other 21st century learning strategies. During this workshop, we will outline critical analysis strategies for attendees to utilize on their own tools, including equity-focused review criteria and recommendations for improvement. In recent years, he has been providing consultation services on a variety of issues such as supportivesupervision, staff development, racial equity, and cultural humility. April 21-23, 2023. Please see our schedule below for speakers and topics. This public health approach re-balances power, credits multiple types of data, and centers learning. This interactive workshop will highlight new resources and best practices for successfully engaging, recruiting, and serving fathers. Childcare is offered for both sessions and is per family, regardless of number of children. Other professional positions have included former Broadcast Director at the nationally syndicated Joan Rivers Show, and Media and Public Relations Manager for the United Way of Southeastern Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Participants will evaluate strategies for an effective statewide implementation of a CSoC based on a wraparound model; identify factors that enhance sustainability of a Medicaid wraparound program as a childrens behavioral health specialty program; and discuss the utilization of Child and Adolescent Strengths and Needs to meet waiver requirements and monitor outcomes. This presentation will detail the effective collaboration between Connecticuts Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, the Department of Children and Families, and private non-profits in creating a continuum of care to support women who are pregnant or parenting and struggling with substance use disorders. FREE How to Be a Positive Parent Email Mini-Course. The Keeping Families Together approach supports transformation and partnership across child welfare and housing systems, providing a framework to align affordable housing with wraparound services that significantly improve family unification, housing stability, strengths, and quality of life. We will explore how the Keeping Families Together Training Academy, co-created with consultants with lived expertise, has successfully guided planning and implementation in local sites. Take advantage of the Early Bird Discount from January 1-31, 2022 of $30 ($10 off conference). As a result of his dedication, Anthony has received numerous awards recognizing his work with fathers and families. Presenters: Kim Magoon, Public Consulting Group LLC, South Portland, ME; Liam Shaw, Edmund N. Ervin Pediatric Center, Augusta, ME; Pat McKenzie, Kennebec Behavioral Health, Augusta, ME, E14 Collaborating to Support Early Childhood Education Participation for Children in Foster Care. The presenters will highlight dynamic approaches to mobilizing community partners to invest in a tailored health engagement model that: increases the utilization of medical and mental health services; links families to essential resources where families live, work, and socialize; stabilizes families vulnerable to child welfare intervention; supports families at high risk for adverse health outcomes; and advances evidence-based public policies across institutions which empower the holistic well-being of families who are Black. These tools will assist leaders to host initial conversations internally, as well as with the community and implementation team, and to develop a plan. Presenters: Samantha Steinmetz, Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Amber Robinson, OhioKAN Kinship & Adoption Navigator Program, Cleveland, OH, E12 Experts in the Field: How Alumni of Foster Care are Changing the Face of Case Management. Gary is also involved with a team of participants updating the California Child Welfare Core Practice Model to ensure that the literature, resources, and tools reflect Race, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion more specifically. Presenters: Elizabeth Wynter, Selfless Love Foundation, Tallahassee, FL; Marisa Gerstein Pineau, FrameWorks Institute, Washington, DC; Natalie Clark, Utah Department of Health and Human Services, Salt Lake City, UT, A4 Motivational Interviewing During Times of Crisis: Shifting from Blame to Change. Substance use disorders are prevalent in families involved in the child welfare system. So how can child welfare agencies and staff know whether their tools advance equity? After this workshop, attendees will be able to: explain the six brains and how they impede change; discuss six steps to rewiring change into our organizations; understand the art of strategic communication to accelerate acceptance; and apply a change management toolkit in their organizations to ensure a solid foundation and continuous alignment. Each of the four regions below will have their own Congress access windows to the event platform. During the presentation, attendees will learn about the Kinnections Programs goals and practice model, the evaluation design, research questions, and challenges facilitators encountered in implementation and evaluation thus far. Mark your calendars and watch for exciting updates soon! Licensed qualified clinicians carry out law enforcement and clinical liaison duties while playing an active role in bridging community partnerships. Presenters: Stephanie Glickman & Tim Wood & Lindsey Morgan, Family Centered Treatment Foundation, Charlotte, NC, H5 Equitable Solutions to Keep Children Safe in Their Homes and Support Families. We are all connected, and rhythm is a thread that holds us and the world together. Presenters: Julia Pearson & Susan Glatki, Plummer Youth Promise, Salem, MA; Jaime Caron, Massachusetts Department of Children and Families, Northampton, MA, C8 Journey to Zero: Community Partnerships to Strengthen Families and Prevent Entry to Care. This presentation will provide an overview of the impact of an enhanced Kinship Navigator program on kinship caregivers and the children in their care. Parents as Teachers 2023 International Conference Heads south to the Big Easy - New Orleans, Louisiana. Please request communicative accommodations in languages other than English via the registration form or by email to anne.clarkson@wisc.edu, and remember to leave a phone number where we can reach you. For questions, or more information, please contact Teresa Sandner at tsandner@careofsem.com. Presenters: Valentina Laprade & Rachel Cooper & Jessica Beaupre, Childrens Friend, Providence, RI, E5 Keeping Families Together: Uniting Child Welfare, Supportive Housing, and Families to Advance Change. Volunteer registration opens on Sunday, January 8th. In this workshop we will present key learnings from University of Minnesota research, centering the voices and experiences of families (foster and biological), child welfare workers, ECE providers, and state agency staff. Join us for the International Congress on Evidence-based Parenting Support (I-CEPS), a ground-breaking global initiative to advance research, policy, and practice in the field of parenting and family intervention. This presentation provides information about the field coach program, its inception, and its benefits. Copyright 2023 Care of Southeastern Michigan. In 2018, five organizations were awarded federal grants to Strengthen Child Welfare Systems through collaborative efforts to improve permanency outcomes for children involved in the child welfare system. This presentation highlights the importance of coordinated community responses to address issues of children exposed to DV and the critical role child welfare practitioners play in intervention. Panelists, including project team members, individuals with lived expertise, and child welfare professionals, will describe key contributions and share insights regarding the toolkit, which is aimed at improving outcomes and preserving families of origin. Presenters: Ashley Krumbach & Lauren Zylla-Whetstone, Indiana Department of Child Services, Indianapolis, IN, A5 Collaborative Approaches to Supporting and Affirming Children and Youth Who Are LGBTQIA+ and in Child Welfare. Presenters: Julie Murphy, James Bell Associates, Portland, OR; Alicia Summers, National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, Reno, NV; Monica Faulkner, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX; Heather Allan, Kempe Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Child Abuse & Neglect, Aurora, CO, F9 It Takes a Village: Using a Wraparound Paradigm for Healing, Reunification, and Permanency. Dr. Crumbley has provided expert testimony on kinship care to the U.S. Senate, U.S. House of Representatives and the United Nations. SCECHs have been approved. Presenters: Alvin Thomas, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; Qiana Cryer-Coupet, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA; Justin Harty, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, H8 North Carolina Family Leadership Model: Building Meaningful, Authentic Collaboration with Families. Or are they? This qualitative research centered around the experiences of state and private agency leaders as they planned and began the implementation of the new law. Presenters: Kim Bishop & Elizabeth Bullock, National Center on Substance Abuse and Child Welfare, Lake Forest, CA, F8 Research in Muddy Waters: Using Research to Advance System Change When Findings Are Nuanced. Imagine a Child Well-Being System wherein 90% of children remain with their biological families. As always, its important to us that we build a sponsorship package that suits the unique goals of our sponsors. Room reservations must be made directly with the hotel. Gary Taylor is a retired child welfare director from Orange County, CA, where he installed and successfully oversaw the Racial Disparity and Disproportionality project which began within the Social Services Agency and spread to multiple county agencies. Presenters will describe how a local Department of Family Services created a coordinated community response to children experiencing DV, the best practices it utilizes, and the importance of strong relationships between child welfare and DV agencies. Or, you can try finding it by using the search form below. Presenters: Michelle Bradach & Tasha Schaff, Oregon Department of Human Services, Burns, OR, C6 Transforming a Child Welfare System into a Child and Family Well-Being System. Supervising for Excellence and Success with Dr. Jorge Velzquez. You can register to help here. This interactive workshop will provide participants with opportunities to engage in thoughtful discussions around diverse sexual orientations and gender identity expressions (SOGIE); participate in exercises to improve skills; develop strategies to support youth who are LGBTQ+ and in foster care; understand how current practices and policies can limit youths permanency outcomes; and hear from youth with lived experience. Elementary and older children will be at Anchorage Grace Church (Grace Christian School). Presenters will discuss the implications of these findings and share lessons learned. This presentation will present data surrounding the importance of making school-based mental health services more readily available to academic communities. This session will highlight a system, community, and family partnership effort to transform the primary prevention system in Northern Kentucky into a comprehensive child and family well-being system. The Autism Parenting Summit will explore the parenting journey and cover topics like self-care, anxiety, mental health, food selectivity, education, transitions, sensory solutions, speech and communication skills, social skills, sensory issues, plus so much more. Presenters: Brittany Vera & Kevin Ochs, Fairfax County Division of Children, Youth, and Families, Fairfax, VA, D6 Reconsidering Resilience: Applying Safety Science to Improve Child Welfare. Western Carolina University (WCU) will host the 55th North American Power Symposium (NAPS 2023). Presenters: Erin Ingoldsby, James Bell Associates, Arlington, VA; Sharon Newburg-Rinn; Childrens Bureau, ACF, HHS, Washington, DC; Jacquelyn Bertrand, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA; LaToya Whitfield, Proof Alliance, Minneapolis, MN; Nancy Young, Children and Family Futures, Lake Forest, CA, C5 Collaborative Intervention within Rural Tribal Communities. Presenters: Carolyn Flynn, The Center for Great Expectations, Somerset, NJ; Davetta Ford & Erica Fischer-Kaslander, New Jersey Safe Babies Court Team, Wayne, NJ, D5 Filling in the Cracks: Building a Coordinated Community Response to Children Experiencing Domestic Violence. IAHE Home Educators 2023 Online Convention Parenting & Homeschool Conference at Chapel Rock .
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