Payment in full is due with registration. We can tap into that gift, first by being reminded that it is there everywhere and then by engaging in simple activities that are rhythmic and patterned as a form of regulation and connection. Presenters: Kim Pearson & Tiffany Glass, Sacramento County Department of Child, Family and Adult Services, Sacramento, CA; LaDonna Lee, Better Life Childrens Services, Sacramento, CA, A9 Show Me Solutions: Thinking Outside the Box During the Capacity Crisis. 907-349-8442 Anchorage, AlaskaCopyright 2020 Cornerstone Church, Cornerstone Church, 10431 Brayton Drive, Anchorage, AK, 99507, United States. Copyright 2023 Care of Southeastern Michigan. No class for elementary, middle, and high school students. Presenter: Gary Pate, Centene, Chicago, IL, D9 Resilient Communities: Shifting from Individual Responsibility to Shared Strategies. 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. True collaboration allows space for everyones voice to be heard. 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. Global missionBe a part of the global community. 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. Presenters: Connie Chung, Foster America, Los Angeles, CA; Sandy Barba, San Mateo County Human Services Agency, Belmont, CA; Anjru Jaezon, California Youth Connection, Burlingame, CA; John Fong, San Mateo County Human Services Agency, Belmont, CA, F11 Trauma, Race, and Resilience: Promoting Child Well-being Policies, Programs, and Practices. IAHE Home Educators 2023 Online Convention Parenting & Homeschool Conference at Chapel Rock . The Raising Wisconsins Children Conference is a free, online conference for parents and caregivers of children providing supportive, practical parenting and child development information. Inherent Strengths in Kinship Families: Training for Kinship Caregivers and Professionalswith Dr. Joseph Crumbley. Lastly, we will provide strategies on youth participation and other 21st century learning strategies. Safety science is a multidisciplinary field of research and practice concerned with creating and sustaining safety in high-risk industries where professionals make high-impact decisions, like child welfare. Diverse representationIn line with the key theme, global representation of disciplines, ethnicities, geographic regions, and resource settings is central to the makeup of the Congress committee membership, program content, and post-congress activities. 10:55 am 12:10 pm, D4 SBCT meets START: An Adapted Relational Model for Children 0-3 in the Child Welfare System. 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. Trainings will be held on Friday, April 28 from 2:30pm 5:30pm* and on Saturday, April 29 from 9:30am 12:30pm. As a result, equity was created across the system so that all youth needing CRCF services, regardless of foster care status, receive the same newly adopted quality standards of care and treatment. Housing is a basic need for everyone. 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. 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. Examples of primary prevention will be discussed, and participants will have the opportunity to create an example of a policy and/or program that could be implemented. Click through on speaker names for bios and presentation details. Marginalization can leave a person feeling lost and disconnected from who they are, struggling with mattering or feeling a sense of dignity and worth. 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. Attendees will be encouraged to apply workshop learnings to their own work and policy environments. 2023. 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. 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. Presenters: Yolanda Green-Rogers, Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Jennifer Thornhill, Kentucky Department for Community Based Services, Frankfort, KY; Tiffany Mullis, Kentucky Department of Community Based Services, Independence, KY, A7 The Trauma C.A.R.E. Perhaps you can return back to the homepage and see if you can find what you are looking for. FFT in Foster Care is a family-focused and trauma-informed treatment model specifically designed to be used in the foster care system. Children thrive when surrounded by a community of caring people who work together to always place them at the center. 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. 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: 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. For information, contact CARE of Southeastern Michigan Recipient Rights Advisor, 31900 Utica Road, Fraser, MI 48026, 586.541.2273 or State Recipient Rights Coordinator, P.O. The theme of the 2023 I-CEPS ispromoting well-being and health globally through effective parenting support. Explore our Advertising Opportunities(on 2nd tab of this section) to maximize your brand exposure! 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. One Hope United has taken a unique approach to meeting the needs of the students in our early learning program through the youth and young adults in our congregate care programs. 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. 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. Cornerstone Church believes that the most effective discipleship strategy for children is to equip and encourage parents to disciple their own children. After one year, over one-third of service providers decided not to renew contracts. 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. Website Design by FWD, "CARE helped me to find a huge part of who I am. 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. Framework, this session will provide context and key takeaways to assist leaders in their FFPSA planning process. Since KEEP expanded statewide in 2019, the program has enrolled more than 2,500 families from every Oregon county. From Discussing to Doing with Gary Taylor. 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. Participants will learn to collaborate with front line staff and executives, acknowledge staffs expertise of what works best within their systems, how to meet staff with compassion, and how to provide the space for individuals to advocate for their needs. OCFS will describe the steps taken towards statewide implementation of these new standards and how they were incorporated into state policy. Workshops E 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. 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. 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. 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. The virtual platform will hold a range of networking events and host ongoing communication via direct message and video call, dedicated discussion forums, and an internal social media feed with a linked Twitter hashtag. 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. 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. The presenters will also reflect on lessons learned related to optimizing positive child and family outcomes. Parent / Teacher Conferences Monday, November 21, 2022 to Tuesday, November 22, 2022 Add to Calendar More event details Parent / Teacher Conferences are on Nov. 21 and Nov. 22. Additionally, we will examine opportunities to include parents in non-custodial roles at various points throughout the service episode. 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: Joseph Walker & Sonja Ulrich, Center for Native Child and Family Resilience, Olympia, WA, G8 Innovative Ways to Restructure the Child Welfare System. This workshop will emphasize the connection between cultural resilience factors and cultural strengths over an array of community-based strategies. Supervising for Excellence and Success focuses on essential practice elements and functions of supervision. We will demonstrate how the model amplifies and lifts up the need for equity in services for families that are African American including in the prevention of foster care entries. 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. Child welfare, in particular, has seen increased complexity in casework, an increase in requirements for compliance, and excessive turnover rates never seen before. In this workshop, we will examine: how poverty impacts the basic needs of those served and how addressing this in a meaningful and sustainable way alters futures; the opportunities afforded by Family First to impact prevention, early intervention, and sustainability; and perspectives gained from unlikely partnerships and flexible/creative models of systems of care. Presenters: Ebony Chambers McClinton & Terrell Thomas, Stanford Sierra Youth and Families, Sacramento, CA, E9 The Practice of Mattering: Honoring the Dignity and Worth of Persons and Families in Marginalized Status. 9:20 am 10:35 am, C3 Using Effective Communication to Advance Systems Transformation and Build Partnerships. Presenters: Rachel Konrad & David Marquez & Amy Thompson, Casey Family Programs, Austin, TX, E7 Trauma-Informed Support for Employee Recruitment and Retention. In this workshop, participants will learn about personhood and the person-centered approach, identifying strategies they can utilize to create experiences of mattering for persons and families in marginalized status. 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. Depending upon your health care specialty and/or area of interest, lecture . Registration is for admission to the entire conference including both days. Maximize your exposure! Practice elements critical to supporting professional engagement, partnership, and team building in supervision will be highlighted to align with research and best practices. Attendees can expect to learn about best practices around service delivery in non-traditional settings as well as how implementing training and support opportunities for school staff can help create more trauma-informed school environments. 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. All sessions will be closed captioned and available with live Spanish interpretation. 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. Presenters: Barbara Ann Dunn & Syralja Griffin, Magellan Health of Louisiana, Shreveport, LA, B9 The Impact of Enhanced Kinship Navigation on Caregivers and their Children. 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. 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 are excited to host a two day Parenting Conference at Concord that will focus on equipping and resourcing parents of preschoolers to teenagers to raise Biblical families in the 865 community. This is a problem because one entity cannot solve all of a communitys issues. Presenters will discuss the implications of these findings and share lessons learned. 1:35 pm 2:50 pm, A2 From Federal Law to State Policy: Delivering on the Promise of Qualified Residential Treatment Program Standards. The workshop will focus on specific, common-sense approaches to community organizing and family engagement as a component of education, support, and prevention. Respecting youth with lived experience and regarding them as experts is a critical step toward improved child and family outcomes. All families can use wraparound and be more successful in ensuring permanency for children and youth. Members-Only Pre-Conference Event, 11:45 am 1:15 pm In this workshop, youll hear Missouris initiative to approach the work differently, find capacity in unlikely areas, and, ultimately, serve citizens in a more holistic, comprehensive way through process re-design. 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. We will discuss strategies for identification of additional engagement opportunities for the paternal side of the family as well as opportunities to involve them in support and solutions. 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. 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. Presenter: Teresa DeCrescenzo, Fork In The Road, Inc., Los Angeles, CA, H12 Preventive Legal Advocacy: Family-Focused Advocacy to Reduce Child Welfare Involvement. 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 . Participants will learn how the Center accessed the time and expertise of cultural experts to guide program development, refinement, and evaluation using Indigenous Ways of Knowing as the framework for collaboration and relationship building. Federal, state and local funding has been provided through Macomb Community Mental Health/Office of Substance Abuse and other funding sources to support project costs. 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. 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. The foundation of the program is an Indigenous practice framework developed with Elders in ceremony. JAN 06, 2023 Parent/Teacher Conferences will be held on Thursday, January 19 from 3:30 PM - 7:00 PM and on Friday, January 20 from 7:30 AM - 11:30 AM. They also speak at conferences around Chicagoland and beyond to promote self-awareness, connection, and compassion. Kinship care can provide a safe, stable, and loving alternative for children who are unable to remain safely at home. An EEO/AA employer, University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of Extension provides equal opportunities in employment and programming, including Title VI, Title IX, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act requirements. The Sheraton NY Times Square, New York, NY or Virtually via Zoom . 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. We are experts in translating the science of early childhood development into real impact. All the staff in our program are alumni of foster care or have lived experience that a youth in care would have experienced. His specific professional experiences include the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement, the Child Welfare League of America, as well as child welfare agencies of Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, and Massachusetts. Or, you can try finding it by using the search form below. Facilitator: Marcus Stallworth, LMSW, CWLA Director of Training and Implementation. 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". 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. 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: 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. Use the School Directory to find your school's contact information. 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. The QIC-EY is expected to change the mindsets of child welfare professionals and court personnel in 6-8 pilot sites, leading youth to be recognized as competent, knowledgeable parties who deserve input and decision-making power about their lives. The theme of the 2023 I-CEPS is. 9:30 am 11:20 am Improving knowledge transferThe I-CEPS 2023 aims to provide a global opportunity for enhancing knowledge transfer in the field of parenting. We will concentrate on the four following areas: Awareness, Acknowledgement, Action, and Accountability. 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. Registration is open. directly prior to the parent conference dates. These strategies range from legal representation, coaching models, increasing worker retention, family-centered practice models, and focusing on permanency from day one. 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. Model: A Relational Approach for Parents in Recovery. Informed by an empirical evaluation, this workshop will describe an intensive, home based program model that works with families who are high-risk, affected by parental substance misuse, and involved in the child welfare system. We address unique issues involved in care and protection, guardianship, and termination of parental rights proceedings. Many of these core principles can be applied to all familiesincluding birth, kin, foster, and adoptive. CWLA helps facilitate this exchange, by preparing conference attendees with fact sheets and talking points to maximize the impact of their conversations. As always, its important to us that we build a sponsorship package that suits the unique goals of our sponsors. Instead, it requires concerted, collective efforts among all stakeholders to build family support and community-based child protection systems. Speaking Engagements. The program will include a mix of well-known and promising researchers, program developers,master clinicians, policy makers, consumers, and service providers. Building Relationships with the Media and Understanding What Makes News with Beverly Jackson. These supportive workforce practices can be created and maintained to attract committed social service staff and retain the excellent employees on your teams. Exhibitors receive an over 30% discount on conference program advertising (as detailed below), Reserve program ad space by March 10, 2023. Cant be with us in person? Join CWLA and the American Public Human Services Association (APHSA) to learn more about this important opportunity for child support engagement services and child welfare agencies to collaboratively create a system that better serves whole families and promotes family well-being and stability. Using CWLAs guiding principles, this conference will highlight successful strategies for bridging the divide between public and private sectors of child welfare and related systems and the families and communities they serve. Sign up for the latest news and updates from CARE. Ken Ham Answers In Genesis Zan Tyler BJU Press and Homeworks by Precept Ginny Yurich 1000 Hours Outside Dr. Roger Smith Parenting with Influence - - - Chapel Rock Christian Church 2020 N Girls School Rd Indianapolis, IN 46214 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. Key components of Chapin Halls prevention services measurement framework will be shared, and participants will have an opportunity to explore where they are on their own prevention services CQI journey. Presenters: Melissa Webster & Kenneth Shackleford & Juliana Harms, One Hope United, Chicago, IL, D14 Authentic Child and Youth Engagement in Program Development: How to Practice What We Preach. 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. Both books were published by the Child Welfare League of America. As a result of his dedication, Anthony has received numerous awards recognizing his work with fathers and families. Presenters: Brenda Keller, Texas Alliance of Child and Family Services, Austin, TX; Samantha Zuniga Thompson, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, G9 Children Uniting Communities: Using Technology to Protect Our Most Vulnerable.
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