Presenters: Shannon Deinhart & Sheila Corrigan & Heather Jamison, Kinnect, Cleveland, OH, Friday, April 28 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. Through lecture and discussion, participants will identify how efforts to adequately provide for Back males can be linked to the fight for larger social justice goals for themselves and their communities. 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. 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. 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. 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. CWLAs National Conference, held steps from Capitol Hill, offers a valuable opportunity for agencies to connect directly with their members of Congress. April 21-23, 2023. The old adage of we just need more people is no longer feasible and, in most cases, no longer rings true. Cant be with us in person? A 2021 OnePoll survey of . 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. Strengthening the Frontline Through the Caseworker Field Coach Program. This presentation will give participants information to: help improve policies and practice in child welfare by providing tools to engage fathers in their childrens lives; strengthen and preserve families by restoring fathers to family life; and reduce the need for foster care and adoptive homes by including the father and his extended family as a placement resource. 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. The Autism Parenting Summit has been created to help you on your parenting journey, with expert speakers covering topics ranging from behavior solutions, speech & communication, social skills, sensory solutions, transition to adulthood, picky eating, executive functions & motor skills, education, dealing with transitions, mental health . Dr. Crumbley has provided expert testimony on kinship care to the U.S. Senate, U.S. House of Representatives and the United Nations. *From Discussing to Doing will run until 6:00 pm, Inherent Strengths in Kinship Families: Training for Kinship Caregivers and Professionals. This session explores the importance of understanding how stigma and language affect engagement and safety decision making for families. Cornerstone Church believes that the most effective discipleship strategy for children is to equip and encourage parents to disciple their own children. Sitemap We are excited to announce that the Parents as Teachers 2023 International Conference is headed south to the Big New Orleans home to round-the-clock nightlife activities, vibrant live-music scene, and spicy cuisine reflecting its history as a melting pot of French, African and . 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. Model: A Relational Approach for Parents in Recovery. The Community Connections Youth Project (CCYP) and its staff work with youth who are currently or formerly in foster care, ages 17-26. 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. Presenters will show you how CarePortal works as we input a need for a family in distress. Presenter: Rick Dencer, Kinnect Ohio, Cleveland, OH, C14 Applying an Equity Lens to Collaborative Practice when Implementing Plans of Safe Care. This presentation will focus on providing a landscape analysis of all Independent Life Skill assessments that are currently being used nationally. and online learning, parents and educators have noticed a drop in social skills and prosocial behavior in children. 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+. As a result of his dedication, Anthony has received numerous awards recognizing his work with fathers and families. This presentation will detail the effective collaboration between Connecticuts Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, the Department of Children and Families, and private non-profits in creating a continuum of care to support women who are pregnant or parenting and struggling with substance use disorders. Presenters: Rachel Parrett & Keith Luebcke & Ashley Kaelin, Indiana Department of Child Services, Indianapolis, IN, F4 Going Beyond the Rhetoric of Family Engagement. True collaboration allows space for everyones voice to be heard. 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. Presenters: Christine Theriault & Todd Landry; Maine Office of Child and Family Services; Augusta; ME, A3 Foster Youth Voice Month: Framing Futures. Past exhibitors who have experienced success at our conference include software companies, publishers, insurance brokers, banks, trainers, accreditors, member and non-member agencies, and other organizations with a message for child- and family-serving professionals. The Cornerstone Parenting Conference is an effort to equip parents to disciple their children through some specific challenges. 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. Presenters: Rachel Konrad & David Marquez & Amy Thompson, Casey Family Programs, Austin, TX, E7 Trauma-Informed Support for Employee Recruitment and Retention. This workshop will introduce attendees to the principals that drive PLA while exploring positive outcomes associated with existing PLA programs working to address social determinants of health through zealous legal representation. 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. 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. 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. For more information, contact your school. Lets face it, evidence-based family therapy models are complex and difficult to implement, particularly on a large scale. Wednesday, April 26 Participants attending this session will develop a greater understanding of how to effectively engage fathers in their work, why fatherhood/male involvement is so important to children, and how the National Responsible Clearinghouse can help with local/regional fatherhood programs. 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. From Discussing to Doing with Gary Taylor. Presenters: Cornelle Jenkins & Kelsie Tatum Martinez, California Alliance of Child and Family Services/Catalyst Center, Camarillo, CA; James Freeman, Training Grounds LLC, Simi Valley, CA, C10 Housing Youth & Families Who Have Been Involved with Foster Care and Child Welfare. The first I-CEPS digital event will be held over three days: Tuesday 6 Thursday 8 June, 2023. Participants will partake in a group activity in which they will identify their position on issues regarding father-involvement. Movements through the continuum include residential substance abuse treatment (with children residing at program), step down residential programs, and community-based scatter-sited housing services. 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 workshop will provide participants with the language and understanding of diverse SOGIE; examples of policy and protocols for safe identification; how to ask questions to safely identify youth who are LGBTQ+; and family finding and chosen family strategies and tools to create and ensure permanency through youth centered meetings that can be implemented in child welfare practice. The Cornerstone Parenting Conference is an effort to equip parents to disciple their children through some specific challenges. Collaboration between traditional child welfare partners (i.e., Department of Children and Families and Guardian ad Litem) as well as housing partners (i.e., local public housing authorities, Homeless Trust), and other local partners, can reduce instances of homelessness. This qualitative research centered around the experiences of state and private agency leaders as they planned and began the implementation of the new law. Join us for this impactful hybrid event to support your goals for equitable family engagement in your school or district. In this workshop, the presenters will describe the research activities that were used to understand the short- and long- term impact of these grants, highlighting the wide range of data collection methods used to measure dosage, fidelity, client, and workforce perspectives, and short-term, long-term, and CFSR outcomes. The earlier that innovative interventions and services can be offered to families, the more capacity they will have to respond in ways that are conducive to healing and growth. Presenters: Kim Magoon, Public Consulting Group LLC, South Portland, ME; Liam Shaw, Edmund N. Ervin Pediatric Center, Augusta, ME; Pat McKenzie, Kennebec Behavioral Health, Augusta, ME, E14 Collaborating to Support Early Childhood Education Participation for Children in Foster Care. Our annual conference allows you to deepen relationships with existing clients, and feature products and services they may not have realized you offer. 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. SCECHs have been approved. All the staff in our program are alumni of foster care or have lived experience that a youth in care would have experienced. 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 will describe how a local Department of Family Services created a coordinated community response to children experiencing DV, the best practices it utilizes, and the importance of strong relationships between child welfare and DV agencies. Presenters: Jennifer Kennedy, The Center for Great Expectations, Somerset, NJ; Emily Bosk, Rutgers University School of Social Work, New Brunswick, NJ; Jennifer Unger & Carolyn Flynn, The Center for Great Expectations, Somerset, NJ, A8 Navigating the Child Welfare System and the Critical Need for Culturally Responsive Service. Workshops A Presenters: Kristine Piescher & Traci LaLiberte & Amy Dorman, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, Thursday, April 27 The workshop will include information about initial efforts to stand up the CME, including capacity building strategies and roadblocks experienced. 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. 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. Anthony is a member of a national fatherhood network that shares resources and ideas to improve fathers and families outcomes. June 25-28, 2023. 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. 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. The 2023 Cornerstone Parenting Conference will host a variety of sessions that are suitable for parents of all ages of children. TXPOP refocuses practice, strengthens the workforce, and transforms how systems treat families within foster care. According to relational personhood, ones personhood is constructed and maintained in a social environment, rooted in relationships with others. The purpose of this training is to provide an engaging, informative framework that highlights the importance of effective co-parenting. FFT in Foster Care is a family-focused and trauma-informed treatment model specifically designed to be used in the foster care system. 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 Raising Wisconsins Children Conference is a free, online conference for parents and caregivers of children providing supportive, practical parenting and child development information. Feedback, questions or accessibility issues: 2023 The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. The presenters represent three key partners and perspectives on implementation: the Oregon Child Welfare System, the KEEP model development team, and Oregons resource families. Attendees will be introduced to Standing with Our Neighbors (SWON), an Atlanta school-based preventive legal advocacy program. In this workshop, participants will be introduced to the application of safety science in child welfare and how to incorporate concepts of this approach into critical incident reviews. 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. 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. The CWLA 2023 National Conference, Stronger Together: Uniting to Advance Change, will be held April 26-28, 2023, at the Hyatt Regency Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Presenters: Aakanksha Sinha, Casey Family Programs, Seattle, WA; Connie Chung, Foster America, Los Angeles, CA; Teresa Vollert, Edgewood Center for Children and Families, Millbrae, CA, H2 How to Build Effective Partnerships for Advancing Systems Change Agendas. 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. 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 conference is held annually at a university in the United States or Canada. Improving employee recruitment and retention is challenging in the current environment. Utilizing the Exploration, Preparation, Implementation, and Sustainment (E.P.I.S.) The page you are looking for no longer exists. Interested in promoting your products and services in the conference program? Presenters will show how to meaningfully engage people with lived expertise, provide examples of working with university and community partners to develop leadership certifications and promote healing, and outline how DC is using the social-ecological model as a framework for system vision setting, implementation, and evaluation. 2023 Summit Overview Get ready for the exclusive conference on family & community engagement to support educators, administrators, parent coordinators, and family-facing practitioners. 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.). Children thrive when surrounded by a community of caring people who work together to always place them at the center. The cost is $20 per family. 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