Presenter: Rick Dencer, Kinnect Ohio, Cleveland, OH, C14 Applying an Equity Lens to Collaborative Practice when Implementing Plans of Safe Care. Learning objectives include: the primacy of Unconditional Care in the provision of services for families with children and adolescents with unique emotional needs; the importance of Family Voice and Choice in the provision of these services; examples of non-Wraparound Unconditional Care programs. Aga Khan University and University of Toronto, Parenting and Family Research Alliance (PAFRA). 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. Although much progress has been made with the acknowledgment, acceptance, and (when needed) mental health treatment of youth who are LGBTQIA, there remain many misconceptions and deficits for this population. In this workshop, we will: define a relationship-based model that supports evidence-based therapeutic interventions for recognizing and responding to trauma-related behaviors in children with attachment disruption; practice techniques to reduce stigma related to parents involved in the child welfare system and increase participation by all caretakers in family team meetings and court appearances; and review educational materials to decrease stigma and increase understanding of trauma for families and family court judges. This presentation will focus on how these collaborative services can reduce child removal and increase parent/child bonding, all while mothers receive the treatment they need to parent safely. Action circles will be a crucial first step in developing the networks required to collectively advocate for policy change and improved parenting services. Some notable sessions are: The Supremacy of Jesus in the Home Discipling as a Single Parent You can reserve by phone at 1-800-233-1234 (reference group code: G-CWL3) or online at Hyatt Reservations. 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. Building Relationships with the Media and Understanding What Makes News. In many cases, the absence of a father contributes to increased risk of child maltreatment. To achieve this, caregivers (foster and kinship) must become a part of that support network for the family. Please be sure to make your reservation under our conference group block to ensure waiver of the destination fee charged at this hotel. The old adage of we just need more people is no longer feasible and, in most cases, no longer rings true. Mengshin Lin, Deseret News Members In this workshop, we will discuss the results of a recent study on early adolescent attachment, which resulted in new information for the field, why this should be a new area of focus, and what factors child welfare professionals should consider when making permanency decisions for this population. The discussion will be interactive with an opportunity for participants to interact and share their experiences. To understand a system is to look towards those who make the structure operate. 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. Volunteer registration opens on Sunday, January 8th. We can't wait to gather in person with you again! Click here to read our terms of use and privacy policy. We teach, learn, lead and serve, connecting people with the University of Wisconsin, and engaging with them in transforming lives and communities. DCFS contracted evaluator, PCG, works closely with DCFS, FCT providers, and the FCT Foundation to ensure the program is implemented to fidelity, from both the agency and Foundations perspectives. Attendees are encouraged to attend the workshop with a multidisciplinary colleague from their jurisdiction. Presenters: Ira Lourie, San Mar Family and Community Services, Hagerstown, MD; Karl Dennis, Karl W. Dennis & Associates, Michigan City, IN; Sue Smith, Georgia Parent Support Network, Atlanta, GA, C13 Leaning into the Engagement of Fathers. 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. 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. 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. 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. Premium Exhibit Fees (high-traffic space). April 17th & 18th 2023 PEAK Parent Center is excited to announce the dates for the 2023 Conference on Inclusive Education! Reception in Exhibit Hall, 12:25 pm 1:55 pm Kinship care can provide a safe, stable, and loving alternative for children who are unable to remain safely at home. Leading providers of brain based learning education conferences and professional development for teachers. 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. Terms 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. The theme of the 2023 I-CEPS is promoting well-being and health globally through effective parenting support. 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: 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. Attendees will be introduced to Standing with Our Neighbors (SWON), an Atlanta school-based preventive legal advocacy program. TheFREE Online Positive Parenting Conferenceis coming back for the 7th year on May 18, 2023! 907-349-8442 Anchorage, AlaskaCopyright 2020 Cornerstone Church, Cornerstone Church, 10431 Brayton Drive, Anchorage, AK, 99507, United States. Presenter: Gary Pate, Centene, Chicago, IL, D9 Resilient Communities: Shifting from Individual Responsibility to Shared Strategies. Presenters: Leah Lindstrom Rhea, Corporation for Supportive Housing, Minneapolis, MN; Kim Prinsen, Lutheran Social Services of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN; Amiyoko Shabazz, Consultant, Los Angeles, CA; LaRae Cantley, Social Justice Activist, Los Angeles, CA; Kelly Keenan, Catholic Charities of Eastern Washington, Spokane, WA, E6 Supporting the Migrant Child: Pursuing Immigration Relief and Strengthening Families. This workshop will present a comparative case study of how evidence-based practice requirements have affected the Family First Prevention Services Act implementation in Nebraska and Colorado. These strategies range from legal representation, coaching models, increasing worker retention, family-centered practice models, and focusing on permanency from day one. For questions, or more information, please contact Teresa Sandner at tsandner@careofsem.com. This presentation will look at sustaining wraparound through Medicaid waivers, quality measurement, and a drive to outcomes that matter. Strengthening the Frontline Through the Caseworker Field Coach Program. CLICK HERE to register for the 2023 Parenting Conference, * Taking Your Power Back: Principled Parenting for Principled Children, * Protecting Our Children and Teens from Poor Body Image, * Developing Meaningful Connections to Enhance Child Well-Being, * Prevention of Alcohol-Exposed Pregnancies: Focusing Our Attention on the Elephant in the Room, * Divorced or Separated: Co-Parenting Together, * Understanding Behavior from the Inside Out, * Supporting Youth: Empowering Conversations about Consent & Sexual Violence. What parents need to know about FSY conferences in 2023 Key dates, registration information and 5 things to do now to prepare for FSY 2023 By Sydney Walker 7 Dec 2022, 10:47 AM PST A counselor of a For the Strength of Youth conference takes notes during a session at BYU in Provo, Utah, on Friday, June 3, 2022. The objectives of the session are to learn how to replicate NCs Model in ones own community, increase knowledge of family engagement strategies at the individual, peer, and system levels, and review tools to support implementation. 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. This qualitative research centered around the experiences of state and private agency leaders as they planned and began the implementation of the new law. Interested in promoting your products and services in the conference program? Childcare is offered for both sessions and is per family, regardless of number of children. Check out ourTake-One Exhibiting(on 3rd tab of this section) to share your message with conference attendees. 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. The proposed SOUL Family permanency option would create a circle of adults who provide support, opportunity, unity, and legal relationships for youth aged 16 and older as they move from foster care to adulthood. This training will provide an overview of the history and culture of African Americans with a focus on recognizing cultural mistrust, issues faced, and perceptions of Black males. Workshops E Helping families build support networks is essential to creating stability and safety for families. 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. ECE participation of children in foster care remains low, despite federal efforts to prioritize enrollment. Western Carolina University (WCU) will host the 55th North American Power Symposium (NAPS 2023). The target audience includes trainers, frontline workers, supervisors, managers, and administrators; professionals with all levels of experience are invited to attend. 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 For children placed in foster care, this type of loss tends to happen over and over again, and is incredibly hard to process. Depending upon your health care specialty and/or area of interest, lecture . The North Carolina Division of Social Services (NCDSS) has developed a trauma-informed, innovative approach to engage persons with lived experience in the development, implementation, and evaluation of state child welfare programs, policies, and plans. Formally, she served as Producer/Director at KYW-TV, now known as CBS-3 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. By supporting CARE of Southeastern Michigan, youre helping people directly address substance abuse and other issues in their lives and communitieseffectively and through proven strategies. This is an excellent ABA conference for family members! CEUs and SCECHs for professionals are pending. Mark your calendars and watch for exciting updates soon! directly prior to the parent conference dates. The Cornerstone Parenting Conference is on Friday, March 3rd from 6-8pm and Saturday, March 4th from 9:30am-4pm. Pictures are either Creative Commons licensed or through Fotolia. 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. Presenters will provide examples of collaborative ways to strengthen the response to families experiencing DV to ensure that the safety of adult survivors is connected to the safety of child survivors using a trauma-informed approach. The Congress aims to bring the evidence-based parenting support community together, inspire innovation and collective action, and empower parents and families around the world to benefit the next generation. The presenters represent three key partners and perspectives on implementation: the Oregon Child Welfare System, the KEEP model development team, and Oregons resource families. Domestic violence (DV) cases in the child welfare system can be complex and challenging. This presentation will compare current thinking about Unconditional Care and Wraparound services. According to relational personhood, ones personhood is constructed and maintained in a social environment, rooted in relationships with others. We want to get to know you so we have live events. In this workshop, we will review the outcomes that have been measured: increased child safety (decreased re-opening rate post-closure); improved child stability (prevented entry to care); advanced child permanency (90% remained with family/kin); child kept within their community/culture (85%); cost savings analysis (year 2 data found JtoZ cost $4.3M and saved $40M). This interactive presentation offers a new framework for working with children ages 0-3 who are involved in the child welfare system. Please see our schedule below for speakers and topics. The presenters will also reflect on lessons learned related to optimizing positive child and family outcomes. Teacher email addresses may be found on our school website . 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. A Life Skills Blog Exclusively For Parents. This presentation will focus on effective engagement and service delivery to fathers. Presenters will share lessons learned and facilitate discussion on ways agencies can partner with people with lived expertise in meaningful and respectful ways to produce systems change. 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. The presenters will share why incorporating youth voice is important and the impact on youth as well as on child welfare practices and policies. 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. Following the presentation, attendees will have an opportunity to work collaboratively to identify opportunities for preventive legal advocacy in their own communities. Cathy and Todd host their annual Zen Parenting Conference in Chicago with today's most sought-after thought leaders. 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. 2023 Summit Overview Get ready for the exclusive conference on family & community engagement to support educators, administrators, parent coordinators, and family-facing practitioners. Presenter: Donna Marie Lucero, All Faiths Childrens Advocacy Center, Albuquerque, NM, G13 Kinnections Project: on the Road to Becoming an Evidence-Based Practice. 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. Anthony spent several years as a full-time trainer, developing or co-authoring training modules on fatherhood, professionalism, cultural competency, trauma, working with adolescents, family-centered assessment, and human trafficking. The impact of the trauma lasts years and even through generations. The discussion will include guidance in working with the media by creating strategic partnerships. 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. 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. The principles of safety science challenge us to understand resilience as a property of the system, as opposed to the individual. 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. 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