parenting conferences 2023

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 model is a comprehensive & systematic approach to helping families overcome individual and relational trauma to promote stable foster care placements and reunification. We know there are high emotional, physical, fiscal, and social consequences with out-of-home placements. Room availability and special rates are guaranteed only until April 3, 2023, or until the space is filled. Improving knowledge transferThe I-CEPS 2023 aims to provide a global opportunity for enhancing knowledge transfer in the field of parenting. Facilitator: Gary Taylor, CWLA Senior Fellow, Building Blocks for Effective Co-Parenting*. 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. 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. Child welfare professionals support families and make positive daily impacts, but child welfare work is often only visible to community members when tragedy occurs. Dr. Crumbley has online kinship care training courses produced by Northwest Media Inc., the Annie E. Casey Foundation and the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy and Practice. Presenters: Yasmin Grewal-Kok, Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Meg Dygert , The American Public Human Services Association, Arlington, VA, B5 Foster Care Done Differently: Shifting from Support to Supervision within an Indigenous Framework. 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. 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. Formally, she served as Producer/Director at KYW-TV, now known as CBS-3 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This understanding will help caseworkers better approach the needs of Tribal Families. Recipients of substance use services have rights protected by state and federal law and promulgated rules. This presentation will demonstrate how the SCCB model can reduce entry rates, increase kinship placements, and reduce length of time in care. We will also introduce how we pioneered a project to find solutions towards building connectedness and embedding safe environments for the purpose of improving child welfare outcomes within local offices. Presenters: Gianfranco Patuzzo, Citrus Family Care Network, Miami, FL; Carlos Laso, Miami Dade County Homeless Trust, Miami, FL; Jason Ruiz, Hialeah Housing Authority, Miami, FL, C11 Going Upstream: Cultural Networking with a Community to Serve the Health Needs of Families Who Are Black. 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. Nursery and PreK children will be hosted at Cornerstone Church. Safety science informs a safety culture, or how an organizations values, attitudes, and behaviors support safe, effective, reliable care. 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). Contact CWLA2023@cwla.org for assistance. Wraparound services are holistic, culturally relevant, and logistically convenient for families and include the whole family. We address unique issues involved in care and protection, guardianship, and termination of parental rights proceedings. 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. Other professional positions have included former Broadcast Director at the nationally syndicated Joan Rivers Show, and Media and Public Relations Manager for the United Way of Southeastern Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Presenters will offer their expertise and recommendations for moving forward. We will concentrate on the four following areas: Awareness, Acknowledgement, Action, and Accountability. The closest airport to the conference is Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA). All sessions will be closed captioned and available with live Spanish interpretation. Our Permanency Mediation model, developed in collaboration with the Juvenile Court and the Department of Children and Families, uses the principles of mediation and permanency interventions as alternatives to contested court proceedings for children in foster 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 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: Barbara Ann Dunn & Syralja Griffin, Magellan Health of Louisiana, Shreveport, LA, B9 The Impact of Enhanced Kinship Navigation on Caregivers and their Children. Presenters: Jaymie Lorthridge, Kaye Implementation & Evaluation, Atlanta, GA; Todd Holder, Action 4 Child Protection, Jarales, NM, F6 Addressing Critical Challenges Providers Face in Implementing Sustainable Evidence Based Intervention (EBI) Programs in Family First. 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. Unfortunately, the interventions of child welfare agencies have mostly been ineffective at strengthening family protective factors due to the lack of ongoing father inclusion efforts, and limited access to gender responsive support services. Presenters: Jasmine Nutt, Wayfinder Family Services, Sacramento, CA; Berenice Rushovich, Child Trends, Bethesda, MD, G14 Child and Family Well-Being System Development: The Centrality of Community Leadership. Participants will view clips of the training modules and engage in interactive activities from the material. The Orange County Social Services Agency observed improved outcomes and more equitable services for children in care, such as a reduced number of children entering care, improved time to reunification, less residential placements, and more children placed in long term relative care. The theme of the 2023 I-CEPS ispromoting well-being and health globally through effective parenting support. Presenter: Gary Pate, Centene, Chicago, IL, D9 Resilient Communities: Shifting from Individual Responsibility to Shared Strategies. 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. Building Relationships with the Media and Understanding What Makes News. Workshops E Presenters: Joseph Walker & Sonja Ulrich, Center for Native Child and Family Resilience, Olympia, WA, G8 Innovative Ways to Restructure the Child Welfare System. The program will include a mix of well-known and promising researchers, program developers,master clinicians, policy makers, consumers, and service providers. Presenters: Kathleen Savino & Alison Friar, The Connection, Middletown, CT; Rebecca Peterson, Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, Middletown, CT, G12 Attuned to the Rhythm! The Cornerstone Parenting Conference is an effort to equip parents to disciple their children through some specific challenges. 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. 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: Kristine Piescher & Traci LaLiberte & Amy Dorman, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, Thursday, April 27 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. Attendees will be invited to reflect on opportunities to enhance Kinship Navigator programs in their own communities. 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. Facilitator: Dr. Jorge Velzquez, Wilmington University, Delaware, The 4 As Approach to Promoting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. 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. Presenters will share information about FCTs expansion across the nation with an increasing focus on reunification and preservation and an additional pilot of FCT-Recovery, which focuses on incorporating substance treatment best practices. Presenters will show you how CarePortal works as we input a need for a family in distress. 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. 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. The bad news: our brains are hardwired to avoid change and the vulnerability that comes with building trust. This presentation provides information about the field coach program, its inception, and its benefits. Connecting people with the University of Wisconsin. 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. These supervisory functions (Leading, Planning, Organizing, Teaching, Supporting, and Evaluating) will be explored in discussion of literature, use of self-assessment tools, informative handouts, group exercises, and role play based on case and situational examples. FFPSAs initiatives to increase the number of children who can remain safely at home with their families are a perfect synergy with FCT. After the conference, your hours will be submitted and a MiRegistry certificate emailed. Interested in promoting your products and services in the conference program? TXPOP has a variety of tools and strategies to help with the collaboration between caregivers and families. Plenary Session & Lunch, 5:30 pm 6:30 pm We want families to be abundant, healthy relationships with stability and hope! 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. By attending this workshop, attendees will learn about potential barriers and facilitators to ECE participation for children in foster care and the benefits and challenges of cross-systems collaboration, using Minnesota as a case study. 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. 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. All the staff in our program are alumni of foster care or have lived experience that a youth in care would have experienced. Attendees will then engage in a discussion about: how rigorous evaluation can help understand implementation fidelity and long-term impact; how leadership can use research to understand statewide system change initiatives when research findings are complicated; how program and research teams can partner on CQI to understand implementation; and how nuanced lessons learned can inform future initiatives. We will acknowledge the importance of applying an equitable level of diligent efforts to search for and engage with paternal and maternal sides of families. You can reserve by phone at 1-800-233-1234 (reference group code: G-CWL3) or online at Hyatt Reservations. Discover time-tested, research-backed, practical ideas for raising healthy, resilient, confident kids and becoming a more peaceful, capable, and effective parent! Join our Facebook event page for the latest u. KS: 03-31-2023: 04-01-2023 The Raising Wisconsins Children Conference is a free, online conference for parents and caregivers of children providing supportive, practical parenting and child development information. CWLA helps facilitate this exchange, by preparing conference attendees with fact sheets and talking points to maximize the impact of their conversations. 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. Kinship care can provide a safe, stable, and loving alternative for children who are unable to remain safely at home. The old adage of we just need more people is no longer feasible and, in most cases, no longer rings true. In a safety culture, organizations seek to promote learning, even after poor outcomes, using a non-punitive, systems-focused approach that emphasizes shared accountability and leads to actionable change. 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. Presenter: Donna Marie Lucero, All Faiths Childrens Advocacy Center, Albuquerque, NM, G13 Kinnections Project: on the Road to Becoming an Evidence-Based Practice. This presentation will explore both legal and social work strategies to securing permanency for children who are immigrants including children who are unaccompanied and youth at risk of aging out. This workshop will examine the innovative design and comprehensive integration of benefits coordination throughout the OhioKAN Kinship and Adoption Navigator program. The National Foster Parent Association (NFPA) recognizes that well-trained, respected and appropriately supported families (foster, kinship, and adoptive) achieve greater success with the children entrusted into their care. The Capacity Building Center for States was contracted to provide implementation technical assistance to the Strengthening Child Welfare Systems. 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. The Volunteer Leadership Conference 2023 will take place virtually on February 4, 2023 from 9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. (Pacific). Wraparound services help families build teams of resources and collaborators, and develop efficacy and success in managing their own lives. Join us on Saturday, March 4, 2023, and spend the day with other parents, caregivers, grandparents, foster parents, teachers, and more at the CARE Parenting Conference. This presentation will present data surrounding the importance of making school-based mental health services more readily available to academic communities. Questions? 9:30 am 11:20 am Our work unites parents, families, social workers, attorneys, and service providers in a non-adversarial process to resolve case related issues and concerns. 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. He has spearheaded several initiatives to promote the engagement of Fathers, identify the dangers of social media, and raise the awareness for equity and inclusion. I had this traumatic birth experience that shattered my mental health for a while. Rhythm is deep within our human capacity and is an incredible biological gift. This dialogue is crucial; policymakers need to learn more about the pivotal issues affecting the children and families we serve. 2:20 pm 3:35 pm, E4 Supports for Families Affected by Substance Misuse: The Project Connect Model. Moreover, achieving housing stability can prevent reentry into the system. 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. Closing Plenary & Lunch. 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. 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 illustrate how an Implementation Support Team is a meta strategy for building public-private partnerships with providers and enhancing EBI implementation. Framework, this session will provide context and key takeaways to assist leaders in their FFPSA planning process. Keynote speakers and other live events will be held on Zoom. 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. The Fighting Camels are 4-4 on their home court. As a result, workers and supervisors rely on decision-making tools to guide safety and case planning. 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. Presenter: Charity Carmody, Northeastern University, Anchorage, AK, G11 Creating Systems that Empower Women and Families. The . 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. 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. Volunteer registration opens on Sunday, January 8th. So how can child welfare agencies and staff know whether their tools advance equity? Action circles will be a crucial first step in developing the networks required to collectively advocate for policy change and improved parenting services. 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. Participants will learn about how this evidence-informed, community-led process looks in South Dakota, and leave with concrete ideas for how to build upon existing leadership capabilities and social networks to engage all sectors in meaningful child abuse prevention within their own communities. The overall objective is to provide the support needed to move leaders from discussing to doing. 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. Since much of our well-being is associated with social and economic factors, it is reasonable to focus our efforts on addressing the negative impacts of Social Determinants of Health, or the conditions in the environment that impact our ability to live, laugh, love, learn, and labor. This workshop was designed in response to the many agency leaders who struggle with what it means to actually engage with families. This presentation will focus on providing a landscape analysis of all Independent Life Skill assessments that are currently being used nationally. Attendees will be introduced to Standing with Our Neighbors (SWON), an Atlanta school-based preventive legal advocacy program. 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. We know that parenting is difficult, and that difficulty is amplified by the complexity of the culture in which we are raising our children. The first I-CEPS digital event will be held over three days: Tuesday 6 Thursday 8 June, 2023. Presenters will then recognize barriers to father-involvement, followed by offering strategies to overcome these barriers and support fathers with their children. April 21-23, 2023. Registrations will open in December and we look forward to welcoming you to this truly global online event. We will describe what these approaches look like in action, challenges and successes in planning and implementation, and how to intentionally work with parents to address challenges related to accessing housing resources. Use the School Directory to find your school's contact information. 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. For more information about becoming a sponsor, contact Andrew atabrown@careofsem.com,or download the sponsorship proposal: CARE 2023 Sponsorship Information. The project aims to co-create a robust primary prevention system focused on child and family well-being in partnership with families, communities, and system representatives. Supervising for Excellence and Success with Dr. Jorge Velzquez. Cant be with us in person, but have a message for conference attendees? The purpose of this training is to provide an engaging, informative framework that highlights the importance of effective co-parenting. Early bird registration through December 31, 2022 is $30 per person. The presentation will also focus on the Public Child Welfare Sector and the importance of cultural competency when working with Tribal 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.

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