Using wraparound services both as preventative and reunification interventions can reduce child welfare involvement and out-of-home placements while strengthening family skills, empowerment, and independence. She has worked with CWLA as a Media and Public Relations Consultant in developing understanding of media relations. Resilient Communities shifts the responsibility for primary prevention away from individual responsibility and towards shared strategies, and helps communities raise awareness of and leverage their existing strengths to increase collective capacity to support families and enhance child well-being. We will explore how organizations can secure funding from a variety of entities, create a diversified partnership landscape, utilize best practices for service delivery, and implement trauma-informed training into the school-based mental health model. 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. This collaboration allows us to foster effective responses to individuals in crisis while mitigating gaps in equitable service delivery, one 9-1-1 call at a time. 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 workshop will share the journey of a county child welfare agency toward incorporating youth voices into its programs and policies, and the challenges, successes, and lessons learned along the way. Currently Ms. Jackson is a Media and Public Relations Consultant at The Biz Whiz. 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. You can register for the event here on Jan 22nd. Presenter: Adrienne Miller, Heartland for Children, Bartow, FL, F13 Achieving Permanency for Youth Who Are LGBTQ+ and in Foster Care: Strategies for Child Welfare Professionals. Presenters: Rosalyn Alber, Washington Department of Social and Health Services, Lacey, WA; Geene Delaplane, Washington Department of Children, Youth and Families, Olympia, WA; Angelique Day, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, Thursday, April 27 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. Child welfare professionals support families and make positive daily impacts, but child welfare work is often only visible to community members when tragedy occurs. Friday evening session $15 and Saturday morning session $20. 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. Tom Brady of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers is pictured walking through the tunnel prior to the game against the Dallas Cowboys at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida on January 16, 2023. The presenters will share research-based, practical strategies for engaging youth from the areas of authentic co-design, positive youth development, and trauma-informed care. Licensed qualified clinicians carry out law enforcement and clinical liaison duties while playing an active role in bridging community partnerships. Perhaps you can return back to the homepage and see if you can find what you are looking for. This presentation will cover Massachusetts Department of Children and Families comprehensive approach to strengthening policies, programs, and services that protect, support, and affirm children and youth served by the Department who are LGBTQIA+. Presenters: Audrey Smolkin & Melinda Kneeland, Center on Child Wellbeing & Trauma, Worcester, MA; Melissa Threadgill, Office of the Child Advocate, Boston, MA, F12 Early-Adolescent Attachment: The Second-Most Critical Attachment Period and an Opportunity for Permanency. Presenters will share the essential components of the enhanced model and will provide an overview of both quantitative and qualitative outcomes that children and caregivers in the pilot sites experienced. Presenters: Emilie Cook, Barton Child Law & Policy Center, Atlanta, GA; Ayanna Jones-Lightsy, Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Association, Atlanta, GA. CWLAs post-conference Training Institute is a two-day event, designed to enhance the knowledge and skills of workers, supervisors, managers, and directors, leading to a more strengths-based, prevention-focused system of care. This training is designed for Executive and Mid-Level Management leading Health and Human Service non-profit or government agencies who may be considering launching a Race Equity program within their organizations, or for leaders who are considering re-launching DEI programming which may have stalled. 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. This session will demonstrate how the Arkansas Division of Children & Family Services (DCFS), Public Consulting Group (PCG), and the Family Centered Treatment Foundation (FCTF) communicate and share information to improve programming, assist local providers to improve service delivery, help caseworkers adhere to prevention policy requirements (FFPSA), and measure the extent to which families achieve positive results. We can't wait to gather in person with you again! A map of the area, driving directions, and ground transportation options are available atHyatt Regency Capitol Hill. Please make requests for reasonable accommodations to ensure equal access to this conference as early as possible but by January 13, 2023. Presenters: Rachel Konrad & David Marquez & Amy Thompson, Casey Family Programs, Austin, TX, E7 Trauma-Informed Support for Employee Recruitment and Retention. Pay by credit card or select Bill Me to receive an invoice. The Community Connections Youth Project (CCYP) and its staff work with youth who are currently or formerly in foster care, ages 17-26. I had this traumatic birth experience that shattered my mental health for a while. This presentation will demonstrate how the SCCB model can reduce entry rates, increase kinship placements, and reduce length of time in care. 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 know that parenting is difficult, and that difficulty is amplified by the complexity of the culture in which we are raising our children. WCU was selected through a competitive bidding process by the 52nd NAPS Steering Committee during their virtual meeting hosted by Arizona State University. Promising practices for engaging youth will be discussed so attendees may apply lessons learned in their own work. 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. Participants will create a plan to include client choice and voice in treatment planning and develop a template for measurement-informed care at their agencies. This workshop provides an overview of a graphic and conceptual model that guides the Catalyst Centers approach to uplifting youth-centered care. June 25-28, 2023. For more information about our amazing speakers, please visit ourProgram Page, Congress date: 6-8 June 2023Online at your local time, Abstract submissions closing date extended to: 23 December 2022, Abstract acceptance advised: 17 February 2023, International Developmental Paediatrics Association, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, The International Congress on Evidence-based Parenting Support is an initiative of the Parenting and Family Research Alliance (PAFRA), Parenting and Family Research Alliance (PAFRA), 2022 by Parenting and Family Research Alliance, 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. Click through on speaker names for bios and presentation details. 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. Our presentation will examine this issue from all sides hearing from youth with lived experience, reviewing the research on youth engagement and framing, and learning about innovative approaches that are being tested in the field. This workshop centers attention on fathers who are too often overlooked in research and stereotyped by child and family professionals including fathers who are Black, young, dont reside with the family, have been incarcerated, or have low incomes and elevates an appreciation of less visible fatherhood roles. 2:20 pm 3:35 pm, E4 Supports for Families Affected by Substance Misuse: The Project Connect Model. Sitemap 2023 Summit Overview Get ready for the exclusive conference on family & community engagement to support educators, administrators, parent coordinators, and family-facing practitioners. This network of 60 cross-sector partners evolved into an effective, equity driven, one-stop health program that connects families who are Black with healthcare providers who understand the significance of culture in providing healthcare, while adapting to meet family needs within their respective community context, and demonstrating commitment to timely, quality, and responsive care. 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. The page you are looking for no longer exists. We will seek to gain a deeper understanding of what school-based mental health can and should look like, specifically addressing post-pandemic effects on children. Improving employee recruitment and retention is challenging in the current environment. Click here to read our terms of use and privacy policy. 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 workshop will examine the innovative design and comprehensive integration of benefits coordination throughout the OhioKAN Kinship and Adoption Navigator program. Presenters: Paul DiLorenzo, CWLA, Bala Cynwyd, PA; Pebbles Edelman, Partnership for Strong Families, Gainesville, FL; Jada Hunter, Family Support Services, Jacksonville, FL, F5 Using an Equity Lens to Improve Child Welfare Decision Making Tools. These losses, and the feelings that accompany them, are especially acute among children who are LGBTQ+. Stanford Sierra Youth & Families Chief of Equity and Partnership and Strategic Initiative Officer will discuss how the organization developed and expanded its Family Youth Partnership Team from a team of 3 to a nationally recognized program model with over 30 professionals partnering with youth and families in county child welfare systems. 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. Anthony is passionate about teaching and conducts research, develops training modules /curricula, and facilitates training. Marginalization can leave a person feeling lost and disconnected from who they are, struggling with mattering or feeling a sense of dignity and worth. The Texas Permanency Outcomes Project (TXPOP) develops sustainable best practices for child welfare agencies across Texas to keep children connected to their families of birth, regardless of their permanency outcome. 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. 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. Wednesday, April 26 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. 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. Plenary Session & Lunch, 5:30 pm 6:30 pm From Discussing to Doing with Gary Taylor. Aga Khan University and University of Toronto, Parenting and Family Research Alliance (PAFRA). This understanding will help caseworkers better approach the needs of Tribal Families. Youth who have been in foster care, and families in the process of adoption, reunification and prevention, face even more barriers to securing stable and adequate housing. Human Services is facing an unprecedented capacity crisis in which there is not only more work than can be kept up with, but also an all-time high vacancy rate for people to do the work. Presenters will discuss the implications of these findings and share lessons learned. Strengthening the Frontline Through the Caseworker Field Coach Program. Participants will view clips of the training modules and engage in interactive activities from the material. Model: A Relational Approach for Parents in Recovery. 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. Opening Plenary & Lunch, 12:30 pm 2:00 pm The presenters represent three key partners and perspectives on implementation: the Oregon Child Welfare System, the KEEP model development team, and Oregons resource families. Additionally, this presentation will highlight that when child welfare works alongside community, stronger safety nets are built, there is an increase in the engagement of fathers, and linkages to culturally responsive services can take place. Through case-based learning and reflective activities, participants will gain tools to support caregiving relationships that promote normative development of children living between biological and foster/kinship homes. Presenters: Katie Bennett, Oregon Social Learning Center Developments, Inc., Eugene, OR; Catherine Lewis-Anthony, Oregon Department of Human Services, Child Welfare, Salem, OR; LaShaun Brooks, Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, B3 Effective Engagement and Service Delivery to Fathers Involved with Child Welfare Agencies. For questions, or more information, please contact Teresa Sandner at tsandner@careofsem.com. We focus on how team-based practices and perspectives such as building psychological safety, mindful organizing, and workplace connectedness can help to build resilience at the system level. The closest airport to the conference is Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA). Insight will be shared related to what makes a story newsworthy, as well as tips for establishing a press release protocol, mastering the art of messaging, and effective story telling. Cant be with us in person, but have a message for conference attendees? Supervising for Excellence and Success focuses on essential practice elements and functions of supervision. This presentation will focus on providing a landscape analysis of all Independent Life Skill assessments that are currently being used nationally. These tools are part of systemic structures that can advance equity or perpetuate disparities for families that have been historically underserved by child welfare agencies. Through discussion, storytelling, and engaging, reflective activities, participants will explore the process of creating a culture of safety and nurturance, the role of parallel process and co-regulation, and will develop a menu of evidence-based dyadic interventions that can be implemented by both front line and clinical staff. Together, we are partnering to align policy, improve practice, and secure needed funding to achieve our shared goals. Campbell ranks fourth in the Big South at limiting opponent scoring, allowing 67.6 points while holding opponents to 46.0% shooting. Facilitated discussion with legal and social work practitioners will focus on issue spotting, family-finding tools, and countering practices that create and perpetuate disparity in outcomes in the child welfare system. The conference is held annually at a university in the United States or Canada. Following the presentation, attendees will have an opportunity to work collaboratively to identify opportunities for preventive legal advocacy in their own communities. Registration is for admission to the entire conference including both days. Presenter: Angela Lytle, JusticeWorks Colorado, Denver, CO, G4 SOUL Family: A Youth-Led Proposal to Expand Permanency Options for Teens in Foster Care. Anthony is a member of a national fatherhood network that shares resources and ideas to improve fathers and families outcomes. Child welfare, in particular, has seen increased complexity in casework, an increase in requirements for compliance, and excessive turnover rates never seen before. 13200 E 14th Pl, Aurora, CO 80011 Parent Possible Home Visiting Conference 2023 OVERVIEW The Parent Possible Home Visiting Conference brings together home visiting professionals for two days of informative and engaging workshops specifically created for those in the field of early childhood home visiting. We will be back in person on April 17th and 18th at the Renaissance Denver Central Park Hotel. Social service professionals are often affected by vicarious trauma, with differential impacts related to their personal histories, roles at work, and other factors. A Life Skills Blog Exclusively For Parents. This is an excellent ABA conference for family members! 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. Instead, it requires concerted, collective efforts among all stakeholders to build family support and community-based child protection systems. Having spent close to 20 years providing Child Protective Services, he is recognized by the State of Connecticut as an expert witness for Superior Court for Juvenile Matters. This interactive workshop will highlight new resources and best practices for successfully engaging, recruiting, and serving fathers. The presenters will discuss the outcomes data and impact on benefits support with families engaged in kinship care, and will provide guidance to kinship navigator programs specifically, and family-serving programs broadly, about how and why to integrate benefits coordination support. This workshop will offer simple and easily accessible activities that not only help ourselves and those we serve get regulated or back in balance, but also help facilitate healing and connection. After one year, over one-third of service providers decided not to renew contracts. For more information about becoming a sponsor, contact Andrew atabrown@careofsem.com,or download the sponsorship proposal: CARE 2023 Sponsorship Information. We will also share findings from research on re-framing youth who are transition aged, discuss how the insight gained from this research led to the creation of Foster Youth Voice Month, and will share perspectives on the importance of the voices of youth. Yes! *Required material, Building Blocks for Effective Co-Parenting: Companion Workbook is available to purchase online through the CWLA Bookstore and will be waiting for you at conference registration! We will share strategies for partnerships between state agencies and an EBP that improves services without overburdening an already overburdened workforce, as well as approaches for establishing a bilateral flow of data between an EBP and state agency leadership to enhance service delivery by both organizations. This accessible, evidence-based training is available free of charge 24/7, 365 days a year, thanks to a unique partnership between an MCO and a caregiver-led organization. Children with such exposures in the child welfare system are often not identified and there are missed opportunities to provide supportive care. Dr. Velzquez retired from the United States Air Force after 21 years of honorable service in July 2022. April 21-23, 2023. This model, which can be described as a journey with youth at the center, includes a focus on identity, relational supports, contextual considerations, and phases for supporting youth connection and growth. Our annual conference allows you to deepen relationships with existing clients, and feature products and services they may not have realized you offer. Participants will leave with a strengthened capacity to: These exclusive training sessions afford attendees the opportunity to work closely with experts in the field. Wraparound services are holistic, culturally relevant, and logistically convenient for families and include the whole family. Or, you can try finding it by using the search form below. Moreover, fatherhood research has centered White, married, heterosexual fathers to the detriment of the diversity of fatherhood experiences and the contexts of fathers who are marginalized, their families, and communities. 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. Workshops E Room availability and special rates are guaranteed only until April 3, 2023, or until the space is filled. The old adage of we just need more people is no longer feasible and, in most cases, no longer rings true. Ambiguous loss is a feeling of grief or distress combined with confusion about the lost person or relationship, and is a normal aspect of adoption and foster care placement. This workshop will present results from a qualitative study in which 18 youth with lived expertise were asked about the best methods for recruiting, engaging, supporting, and retaining youth in child welfare monitoring efforts, such as the Child and Family Services Reviews. Or are they? The model is a comprehensive & systematic approach to helping families overcome individual and relational trauma to promote stable foster care placements and reunification. . After the conference, your hours will be submitted and a MiRegistry certificate emailed. Support from and a caring relationship with frontline workers can provide transformative experiences that can help persons and families reconceptualize who they are and reconnect to a sense of mattering, dignity, and worth. Presenters: Maia Hyary & Susannah Moore & BrookeAnn Maroney & Logan Burge & Katelyn Franke, JBS International, Inc, Westminster, CO; Elliot Hinkle, Unicorn Solutions LLC, Portland, OR, H11 Ambiguous Loss and Child Welfare: Particularly for Youth Who Are LGBTQ+. Registration is open. Improving knowledge transferThe I-CEPS 2023 aims to provide a global opportunity for enhancing knowledge transfer in the field of parenting. Presenters: Janese Evans, Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Melissa Sommer & Angela Anderson, Brighton Center, Newport, KY, Friday, April 28 Click through on speaker names for bios and presentation details. The parent/practitioner co-facilitators will discuss the vital role of parents as partners and provide practical guidance and resources on assessing program readiness to engage in parent/practitioner collaboration while also exploring the roles and benefits of parent leaders in programs and community activities. This presentation will compare current thinking about Unconditional Care and Wraparound services. If there are multiple sessions held concurrently in different time zone tracks, you are welcome to attend any session. FFPSAs initiatives to increase the number of children who can remain safely at home with their families are a perfect synergy with FCT. This presentation will focus on parent leadership as a strength-based approach grounded in the belief that parents are the most knowledgeable about their families and communities. We understand that families become separated for a variety of reasons and this training provides an opportunity to: recognize reasons why some relationships end; learn how these actions can impact childrens identity and self-esteem; and offer strength-based, solution-focused, strategies and techniques to create consistency and support for all involved parties. The parties active collaboration demonstrates how the trauma-focused program supports family resiliency and improves family well-being. FREE How to Be a Positive Parent Email Mini-Course. Connect with your County Extension Office , Find an Extension employee in our staff directory , Get the latest news and updates on Extension's work around the state, Feedback, questions or accessibility issues: info@extension.wisc.edu | 2023 The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System Privacy Policy | Non-Discrimination Policy | Discrimination and Harassment Complaints | Disability Accommodation Requests | Civil Rights. 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. He holds a Bachelors in criminal justice, a Master of Public Administration, and a Doctor of Business Administration. This workshop details an innovative, community-based initiative, originally established to thwart the disproportionate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic among families across the African Diaspora. Wraparound services help families build teams of resources and collaborators, and develop efficacy and success in managing their own lives. Formally, she served as Producer/Director at KYW-TV, now known as CBS-3 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The target audience includes trainers, frontline workers, supervisors, managers, and administrators; professionals with all levels of experience are invited to attend. Parent and Family Engagement Conference December 4 - 7, 2023 | New Orleans, Louisiana NHSA's annual Parent and Family Engagement Conference is the only national event that focuses on how Head Start parents, families, and staff can best partner to promote both family engagement and children's development. Our agency is currently exploring how we partner with divisions across the Department of Family Services to enhance service delivery to all men, not just fathers, who need or seek social services. This model outlines the core components for trauma-responsive care for parent-child systems and includes the core components of a replicable framework, applicable across a full continuum of care. Panelists will review and discuss forms of immigration relief, including SIJS, U and T nonimmigrant status, VAWA, and asylum; the implications of specific forms for both children and their families; and related effects on permanency and reunification. 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: Kristine Piescher & Traci LaLiberte & Amy Dorman, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, Thursday, April 27 Participating Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) Officers are certified in specialized first response crisis intervention to increase their knowledge and enhance their communication and de-escalation skills. Presenters: Ashley Foster, United Services Inc., Dayville, CT; Jose Diaz, Plainfield Police Department, Plainfield, CT, H10 Promising Practices to Strengthen Engagement with Youth with Lived Experience. Participants will be introduced to information, strategies, and tools important to developing successful models of parent leadership and parent/practitioner collaboration at state, local, and program levels. Through this presentation, we will explain the development of the Indiana Safe Systems program during the outbreak of COVID-19, and detail the evolutionary process of Safety Science with the investment of a psychologically safe environment after a critical incident occurs. Presenters: Joanie Rogers & Sara Smith & Teri Armistead, Missouri Department of Social Services, Jefferson City, MO, Wednesday, April 26 This workshop will share equitable solutions to better support families identified through Child Safety Forward, a four-year, federal demonstration initiative to develop multidisciplinary strategies and responses to address serious or near-death injuries as a result of child abuse or neglect and to reduce the number of child fatalities. Due to the strong commitment of the NFPA Board of Directors, and with the support of Centene, the NFPA Training Institute was launched in 2020 to provide quality educational and training workshops/webinars to parents seeking help in parenting. This qualitative research centered around the experiences of state and private agency leaders as they planned and began the implementation of the new law. Dr. Jorge Velzquez has more than 22 years of experience working in child welfare and human services management with federal, state, and non-profit agencies. We will recommend trauma-informed and culturally humble strategies for practitioners to engage with children and families early on in the case management process and make appropriate referrals for legal services. 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. Evaluators and DCFS implementation support managers will describe how reductions in capacity varied by location, highlight reasons providers discontinued contracts, and identify strategies to support providers including changes in financing, referral, and client engagement processes. Learn how a culture of shared learning contributed to the success of youth advocacy efforts in the New England states. Nursery and PreK children will be hosted at Cornerstone Church. Payment in full is due with registration. Wayfinder Family Services, in partnership with Child Trends, will present on the evaluation of the Wayfinder Kinnections Kinship Navigation Program (funded by the Administration for Children and Families) with the goal of attaining a rating as a promising practice by the Title IV-E Prevention Services Clearinghouse. Use the School Directory to find your school's contact information. This site contains affiliate links. FFT in Foster Care is a family-focused and trauma-informed treatment model specifically designed to be used in the foster care system. This presentation will explore how the field coach program benefits caseworkers individually, and agencies as a whole, via individual sessions in the field with the field coach, self-assessment exercises, coaching questions, group work, and more. Participants will learn about DCBS accomplishments and lessons learned building an infrastructure to collect the evidence needed to fuel a continuous quality improvement (CQI) process that engages a broad array of stakeholders in solution-finding. Helping families build support networks is essential to creating stability and safety for families. Members-Only Pre-Conference Event, 11:45 am 1:15 pm The cost is $20 per family. This workshop will explore the critical role early childhood educators play in setting the foundation to safely explore gender through the creation of gender-neutral programs, and discuss how our residential services meet the needs of the LGTBQIA community within a congregate care setting. This presentation will discuss partnerships between police departments and community based behavioral health centers to promote safety for individuals in crisis, their families, police officers, and communities as a whole. Parents as Teachers 2023 International Conference Heads south to the Big Easy - New Orleans, Louisiana. Action circles will be a crucial first step in developing the networks required to collectively advocate for policy change and improved parenting services. The workshop will include information about initial efforts to stand up the CME, including capacity building strategies and roadblocks experienced. Exhibited with CWLA before? The Raising Wisconsin's Children Conference is a free, online conference for parents and caregivers of children providing supportive, practical parenting and child development information. TXPOP refocuses practice, strengthens the workforce, and transforms how systems treat families within foster care. Presenters: Deborah Goodman & Sharon Cabrera, Childrens Aid Society of Toronto, ON; Zohra Rahman, YouthLink, Toronto, ON, C9 A Journey with Youth at the Center: An Approach to Caring for Youth. Arkansas DCFS is implementing Family Centered Treatment (FCT) across the state as one of its in-home parent-skill-building FFPSA programs. This session will describe an enabling macro-level policy context for prevention, provide examples of states engaged in policy change via a learning community to further primary prevention through ECS, and explore an evidence-based policymaking tool (State Options to Increase Access to ECS as a Child Welfare Prevention Strategy) that can be used to assess the policy context in their own states. The 20th Biennial EARLI Conference is hosted by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and the University of Macedonia, Greece. 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. Note: If the conference is sold out, registration at the door may not be available. The Volunteer Leadership Conference 2023 is an opportunity for alumni volunteer leaders to virtually come together across the globe and network and learn about best practices while providing ways to better the volunteer experience among leaders. Global missionBe a part of the global community. 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. We want families to be abundant, healthy relationships with stability and hope! Dr. Crumbley has authored two books: Relatives Raising Children: An Overview of Kinship Care, along with co-author Robert Little, and Transracial Adoptions and Foster Care. Pre-Conference Workshop: January 18, 2023 8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. Includes breakfast & lunch: $150: $175: $125: $150: Conference: January 18 - 20, 2023 Includes Opening Session & welcome reception at 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, breakfast & lunch on Thursday and Friday: $350: $425: $225: $275: Pre-Conference Training and Conference: January 18 . The demand for collaboration forces us to simultaneously shift the way we think and work internally, while aligning across partner organizations to ensure that we define and meet our common goals. 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. Parents who adopt children with special needs may feel ambiguous loss related to what the child could have been had certain things not happened (fetal alcohol syndrome, exposure to in utero drugs, etc.). Presenters: Latonya Adjei-Tabi & Teri Kook, National Center on Substance Abuse and Child Welfare, Lake Forest, CA, Thursday, April 27 Successful family engagement supports a comprehensive assessment of parental protective capacities vital for safety planning. Since KEEP expanded statewide in 2019, the program has enrolled more than 2,500 families from every Oregon county. Exhibit Hall Dates & Times(subject to change without notice), Questions? Please see our schedule below for speakers and topics. CWLA will feature workshops from community partners who focus on child and family well-being through childcare, Head Start, housing and other services, as well as from frontline staff and youth and parents with lived expertise. Lastly, we will provide strategies on youth participation and other 21st century learning strategies. Participants are encouraged to present results and ideas on state-of-the-art research in learning and instruction, specifically around the topic "Education as a Hope in Uncertain Times". This session will delineate actionable strategies for partners who acknowledge the presence of disproportionality and disparities throughout their systems and want to mitigate the effects of those disparities. Presenter: Kelli McKnight, Options Counseling and Family Services, Eugene, OR, E8 Designing an Effective and Sustainable Family & Youth Partnership Model. This workshop will explore the power of rhythm as a tool for healing and regulation, especially regarding the trauma response. Please enter name (s) you would like on your nametag (s). 3:10 pm 4:25 pm, B2 Adapting an Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) to Meet the Diverse Needs of Youth in Oregons Child Welfare System: the KEEP Model. The last event held in the exhibit hall will include a raffle of prizes, given away at each exhibitors booth. IN: 03-24-2023: 03-25-2023: 2023 MPE Conference and Curriculum Fair We are looking forward to our Homeschool Conference on March 31 - April 1, 2023, at the KCI Expo Center. ECE participation of children in foster care remains low, despite federal efforts to prioritize enrollment. For more information, contact your school. Teacher email addresses may be found on our school website . Presenters: Sharon Davis, Connecticut Department of Children and Families, Hartford, CT; Olivia Wilks & Krista Thomas, Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago, Minneapolis, MN, D8 Primary Prevention to Reduce the Negative Impacts of Social Determinants of Health in Child Welfare. 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. Website Design by FWD, "CARE helped me to find a huge part of who I am. As always, the conference will be an opportunity to engage with your practice and policy colleagues from around the country, with events designed to encourage connection across systems, sectors, and state lines. Illinois DCFS developed a Family First plan to prevent foster care placement by increasing the availability of evidence-based mental health and therapeutic parenting interventions. This presentation will showcase how collaboration amongst various entities can assist in the prevention of homelessness and demonstrate how agencies can access resources to develop housing and related supportive services in their areas. A 2021 OnePoll survey of . As a group, we will peruse needs from CPS, schools, police departments, and non-profit orgs that are currently in the system. 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. Step 2: Name tags. Building Blocks for Effective Co-Parenting and The 4 As Approach to Promoting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusionwith Marcus Stallworth, LMSW. All rights reserved. Drawing from DC Child and Family Services Agencys experiences over the past two years as a Thriving Families, Safer Children (TFSC) Round 2 Jurisdiction, this presentation provides an empirical guide for how to get started and move to action to transform a child welfare system into a child and family well-being system. Depending upon your health care specialty and/or area of interest, lecture . Ms. Jackson has 30 years of experience in the media profession (major broadcast television markets) and has served in numerous positions. Exhibitors receive an over 30% discount on conference program advertising (as detailed below), Reserve program ad space by March 10, 2023. Presenters: Jessica Funk & Anthony LaBellarte, FosterAdopt Connect, Springfield, MO, E13 A Partnership to Expand Evidence-Based, Trauma-Informed Systems in Rural Central Maine. I love everything that I do with them, and I cant wait to have a career where I get to do that sort of thing every day. The first I-CEPS digital event will be held over three days: Tuesday 6 Thursday 8 June, 2023. Presenter: Brittney Walters, CHRIS 180, Atlanta, GA. Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice systems across our nation are being challenged to alter how families are responded to, both before they are referred as a result of suspected abuse or neglect, and throughout their experience with the system. The workshop will focus on specific, common-sense approaches to community organizing and family engagement as a component of education, support, and prevention. We illustrate how an Implementation Support Team is a meta strategy for building public-private partnerships with providers and enhancing EBI implementation. The learning objectives are to: identify the strengths of families involved in kinship care and advantages to children residing in these families, when unable to remain with their families of birth; and describe how caregivers can use these strengths to provide safety, well-being, and permanency for the children in their care. On each day of the Congress these will be your access times: The Congress will provide an exceptional opportunity to learn about the latest research and innovations, acquire new tools to adopt the latest practices, connect with peers, and plan post Congress collaboration. All families can use wraparound and be more successful in ensuring permanency for children and youth. That is the reason that I want to be a social worker.". Building Relationships with the Media and Understanding What Makes News with Beverly Jackson. 907-349-8442 Anchorage, AlaskaCopyright 2020 Cornerstone Church, Cornerstone Church, 10431 Brayton Drive, Anchorage, AK, 99507, United States. Critical incident reviews, through the lens of safety science, allow participants a safe space to be part of the solution for organizational system change. We will concentrate on the four following areas: Awareness, Acknowledgement, Action, and Accountability. In 2022, the Administration for Children and Families updated the federal child welfare policy manual to allow states flexibility to more narrowly define under what circumstances they pursue child support collection for child welfare involved families. These new practices and strategies come from the National Responsible Fatherhood Clearinghouse, which is a federally funded resource under the US Department of Health & Human Services that focuses on serving fathers, families, and practitioners. The Central Maine Youth Trauma Initiative (CMYTI) is leading the charge to create a sustainable continuum of behavioral healthcare for children from birth to 18. Presenters: Stephen Budde & Christy Cashman, Juvenile Protective Association, Chicago, IL; David Ansong & Sarah Hammond, University of North Carolina School of Social Work, Chapel Hill, NC; Stacy Craft, Illinois Department of Children and Family Services, IL; Jennifer Marett, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, F7 Engagement and Safety Decision-Making in Substance Use Disorder Cases. Elementary and older children will be at Anchorage Grace Church (Grace Christian School). This dialogue is crucial; policymakers need to learn more about the pivotal issues affecting the children and families we serve. 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. 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. Presenters: Jasilyn Morgan & Sheryl Brissett Chapman & Ralph Belk & Krystal Holland, National Center for Children and Families, Bethesda, MD. CWLAs Conference is a valuable opportunity to strengthen your brand awareness while connecting with leaders in the child- and family-serving sector. The initiative is funded by the Department of Justice, Office for Victims of Crime, and Social Current serves as the national technical assistance provider to sites in California, Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, and Michigan. Presenters: Tom Sexton & Marta Anderson, FFT Partners, New York, NY; Nicole McKelvey-Walsh, Connecticut Department of Children and Families, Hartford, CT, D12 A Training Lifeline for Caregivers: A Collaboration between Centene and the National Foster Parent Association. Presenters: Oriane Eriksen & Stephanie Pegues & Bennie Herron & Mercedes Alonzo, Fairfax County Department of Family Services, Fairfax, VA, B4 Enabling Policy Context to Prevent Child Welfare Involvement Through Economic & Concrete Supports. For three days, child- and family-serving professionals, families, and community representatives will gather to explore effective ways of deepening their relationships and engaging in more effective collaboration. Contact CWLA2023@cwla.org for assistance. Supervising for Excellence and Success with Dr. Jorge Velzquez. Copyright 2020 - CWLA | All Rights Reserved |, purchase online through the CWLA Bookstore, Identify and utilize the strengths of kinship families to provide safety, well-being, and permanency for the children in their care, Move from DEI discussion to DEI implementation, Offer strength-based, solution-focused strategies for families that are co-parenting, Support professional engagement, partnership, and team building through supervision techniques, Promote diversity, equity, and inclusion through awareness, acknowledgement, action, and accountability, 8 x 10 space with standard booth drapery, A complimentary registration for one exhibit staffer with access to all conference sessions, workshops, and meals, Registrant mailing list for pre-conference marketing (one-time use), Post-conference attendee list for follow-up outreach (one-time use), Dedicated exhibit hall times and functions, A 30% discount on conference program advertising, Optional add-ons: tote bag inserts and program ads. In this conference we have amazing speakers who will cover topics such as discipline, being a mom, being a dad, grandparents raising grandchildren, technology, raising teens, talking with your kids about sex, and much, much more. Presenters: Natalie Crawford Cox, The Family Centre of Northern Alberta, Edmonton, AB; Meredith Greig, The Family Centre of Northern Alberta, Edmonton, AB, B6 CQI, Data, and Authentic Inclusion: A Five-Year Journey to Improve Permanency Outcomes. The Cornerstone Parenting Conference is an effort to equip parents to disciple their children through some specific challenges. For more than four decades, ISTE has been recognized as one of the world's most influential education conferences. The Roots of Rhythm, Regulation, and Connection. master clinicians, policy makers, consumers, and service providers. Join us for a highly interactive workshop where we will discuss the impacts of improved communication, how to frame the narrative to collectively move towards an aspirational worldview, and pro tips on crafting and sharing your messages. Based on the principle nothing about us without us, the North Carolina Family Leadership Model is a framework to help organizations improve services and strengthen families. Imagine a Child Well-Being System wherein 90% of children remain with their biological families. 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. Practice elements critical to supporting professional engagement, partnership, and team building in supervision will be highlighted to align with research and best practices. Presenters: Meg Dygert, APHSA, Washington, DC; Kati Mapa, CWLA, Washington, DC, G2 School-Based Mental Health: The Why, The How, and The Best Practices. Ongoing social impactPost-Congress action circles will be established to take learnings and commitments from the Congress and translate them into local learning collaboratives and research projects. 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. Each of the four regions below will have their own Congress access windows to the event platform. Learn new skills and resources that will help you and the children in your life! Our exhibit hall, and the events held there, offer you the chance to share your organizations unique value proposition with hundreds of CEOs, administrators, workers, researchers, advocates, and caregivers. Pay by credit card or select Bill Me to receive an invoice. Presenters: Michael Cull & Elizabeth Riley, Center for Innovation in Population Health, Lexington, KY, D7 Installing a Community Pathway to Family First Prevention Services: Initial Implementation Strategies. Our objectives in this presentation are to share new approaches to addressing serious injuries and fatalities from maltreatment and to introduce new strategies for reframing childhood adversity as a public, preventable, and solvable issue. Interested in promoting your products and services in the conference program? Marcus Stallworth serves as CWLAs Director of Training and Implementation, which has provided him the opportunity to assist child welfare agencies across the US and internationally with implementation strategies to achieve positive outcomes for children and families. The model uses an independent third party to mediate a child-centered approach to permanency planning and ensures parents drive the development of plans for their childs future empowering and preserving families. Presenter: Rick Dencer, Kinnect Ohio, Cleveland, OH, C14 Applying an Equity Lens to Collaborative Practice when Implementing Plans of Safe Care. To maximise the potential for knowledge-sharing, networking and global impact the I-CEPS program will deliver a range of high-quality activities across four live time zones. 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