For additional information, please visitMARKETING OPPORTUNITIES or peruse specific event details for specialized offerings. 400 New Jersey Avenue NW. Payment in full is due with registration. The conference was held on August 1-3, 2016 at the Hyatt Regency, Orange County, California. 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. Room reservations must be made directly with the hotel. We understand that families become separated for a variety of reasons and this training provides an opportunity to: recognize reasons why some relationships end; learn how these actions can impact childrens identity and self-esteem; and offer strength-based, solution-focused, strategies and techniques to create consistency and support for all involved parties. 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. Presenters: Audrey Smolkin & Melinda Kneeland, Center on Child Wellbeing & Trauma, Worcester, MA; Melissa Threadgill, Office of the Child Advocate, Boston, MA, F12 Early-Adolescent Attachment: The Second-Most Critical Attachment Period and an Opportunity for Permanency. Presenters: Carolyn Abdullah & MaryJo Alimena Caruso & Elizabeth Reddick, FRIENDS National Center for CBCAP, Washington, DC, H4 The Necessity of Collaboration: How Systemic Partnerships Overcome Barriers for FFPSA Service Implementation. Presenters: Stephen Budde & Christy Cashman, Juvenile Protective Association, Chicago, IL; David Ansong & Sarah Hammond, University of North Carolina School of Social Work, Chapel Hill, NC; Stacy Craft, Illinois Department of Children and Family Services, IL; Jennifer Marett, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, F7 Engagement and Safety Decision-Making in Substance Use Disorder Cases. Payment in full is due withregistration. The ever-increasing need for foster This model involves family and youth partners in service delivery, fosters a safe and supportive learning environment, and holds the state accountable for ongoing, meaningful, and authentic stakeholder engagement. Presenters: Christine Theriault & Todd Landry; Maine Office of Child and Family Services; Augusta; ME, A3 Foster Youth Voice Month: Framing Futures. WebThe Division of Child Welfare Licensing receives and processes complaints for child caring institutions, child placing agencies, and juvenile court operated facilities. The 4 As Approach to Promoting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusionwith Marcus Stallworth, LMSW & Deborah Wilson Gadsden, LSW, MSW, MHS. 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. 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. Web0009 4021/2008/0208011-20 $3.00 Child W elfare League of America 11 Disproportionality in Child Welfare Disproportionate placement of children of color has been a long-standing issue. The organization's primary objective is to "Make Children a National Priority. 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. For 70 years, CWLAs Standards have played a unique national role in shaping quality child welfare practice. Presenters: Julie Collins, CWLA, Washington, DC; Alycia Blackwell, Fairfax County Department of Family Services, Fairfax, VA; Terrell Thomas, Stanford Sierra Youth & Families, Sacramento, CA; Bacall Hinks, Wellsprings Child and Family Counseling, Salt Lake City, UT, D2 Rural Substance Use Prevention: Keeping Families at Home. Participants will view clips of the training modules and engage in interactive activities from the material. The conference was held from April 9-13, 2019 at the Hyatt Regency Capitol Hill, Washington, DC. 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. Youth who have been in foster care, and families in the process of adoption, reunification and prevention, face even more barriers to securing stable and adequate housing. 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. Presenters will offer their expertise and recommendations for moving forward. The medication specific informed consent forms developed by ACS will be shared. The old adage of we just need more people is no longer feasible and, in most cases, no longer rings true. What is needed is cross-system coordination and implementation between HUD Presenter: Charity Carmody, Northeastern University, Anchorage, AK, G11 Creating Systems that Empower Women and Families. FRIENDS Online Learning Center. Building Blocks for Effective Co-Parenting with Marcus Stallworth, LMSW. Supporting youth who experience some of the most significant unmet needs in our systems requires making authentic connections, addressing systemic barriers, and shifting our beliefs about what is possible. 1 Adapted from the Child Welfare League of America Statement on Optimal Child Welfare Service Presenters: Shannon Deinhart & Sheila Corrigan & Heather Jamison, Kinnect, Cleveland, OH. The summit was held on April 18-20, 2016 at the Hilton Garden Inn Washington, DC/U.S. 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. Supervising for Excellence and Success with Dr. Jorge Velzquez. The Child Welfare League of America described a vision for the United States in which every child is healthy and safe and develops to his or her full capacity. 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. Workshops focused 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. We will end the presentation by reiterating the importance of implementing a team of individuals willing to provide support to staff through an evidence-based curriculum during an unfortunate event. Our impact is felt worldwide. Lesbian and gay youth issues: A youth workers perspective . Discussion will include the supporting theoretical concepts related to the supervisory role and related skills and competencies. Helping families build support networks is essential to creating stability and safety for families. Both books were published by the Child Welfare League of America. 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. Advancing Racial Justice, Equity, and Inclusion for Children and Families brought together policy, research, and practice professionals from child- and family-serving systems, as well as youth, caregivers, and community partners, to advance more effective services and supports for children and families that improve outcomes and address racial inequities that persist, both within child welfare and within society at large. The Virtual Summit was held online from October 6 8, 2020. Presenters: Grey Hilliard-Koshinsky, New England Association of Child Welfare Commissioners and Directors, Boston, MA; Youth Advocate (TBC), New England Youth Coalition, Boston, MA, B8 Sustainably Funded: Medicaid Waivers and Wraparound Success. This workshop will examine the innovative design and comprehensive integration of benefits coordination throughout the OhioKAN Kinship and Adoption Navigator program. 5,6. WebSUMMARY. Web727 15th Street, NW, Suite 1200 Washington, DC 20005 Phone: 202-688-4200 Email: cwla@cwla.org Our expertise, leadership and innovation on policies, programs, and practices help improve the lives of millions of children across the country. Opening Plenary & Lunch, 3:10 pm 4:25 pm 6mo. WebTell a Friend. Increasingly, however, kinship care is an arrangement that operates within the formal child welfare system. WebDepartmental Specialist 13 - BCCHPS Child Welfare Clinical Specialist. 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. 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. Presenters: Maia Hyary & Susannah Moore & BrookeAnn Maroney & Logan Burge & Katelyn Franke, JBS International, Inc, Westminster, CO; Elliot Hinkle, Unicorn Solutions LLC, Portland, OR, H11 Skill Building for Professionals Who Work with Children and Families Where Child Sex Abuse is an Issue. This workshop centers attention on fathers who are too often overlooked in research and stereotyped by child and family professionals including fathers who are Black, young, dont reside with the family, have been incarcerated, or have low incomes and elevates an appreciation of less visible fatherhood roles. Presenters: Latonya Adjei-Tabi & Teri Kook, National Center on Substance Abuse and Child Welfare, Lake Forest, CA, Thursday, April 27 This workshop will offer simple and easily accessible activities that not only help ourselves and those we serve get regulated or back in balance, but also help facilitate healing and connection. The Child Welfare League of America recommends that workplaces should consider gradually assigning cases, offering comprehensive training and supporting workers, including peer mentoring and mental health services. CWLA members receive exclusive benefits and participate in a national network that advances best practices and improves outcomes for children, youth, and families. The co-presenters are young advocates with foster care experience, who helped develop the proposal with support from the Annie E. Casey Foundation. This workshop will provide concrete tools for developing vicarious resilience and recognizing compassion satisfaction. The workshop will include information about initial efforts to stand up the CME, including capacity building strategies and roadblocks experienced. We will cover topics such as coping with vicarious trauma, engaging and building rapport with our clients, how to avoid trauma dumping, what lived experience means and how that transfers to the work we do. WebChild Welfare League of America (CWLA) La CWLA es una asociacin de casi 1.200 agencias pblicas y sin fines de lucro que cada ao ayudan a ms de 3,5 millones de nios abusados y abandonados y a sus familias por medio de una amplia gama de servicios. Webfamily-focused, child-centered, and community-based. This understanding will help caseworkers better approach the needs of Tribal Families. 9:15 am 10:30 am, G1 Reimagining the Role of Child Support for Families with Child Welfare Involvement. As a result of his dedication, Anthony has received numerous awards recognizing his work with fathers and families. The complex issues associated with barriers to treatment entry for parents who are involved with child welfare has not been well explored. OCFS will describe the steps taken towards statewide implementation of these new standards and how they were incorporated into state policy. Become A CWLA Member. 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. Angela holds a Doctor of Occupational Therapy degree from Ohio State University. social triage. Presenters will show you how CarePortal works as we input a need for a family in distress. ADVOCACY CENTER. Embedding the voices of youth with lived experience in the child welfare system is an adaptive challenge that requires a paradigm shift in the hearts and minds of professionals; we must value youth as organizational assets. Child welfare professionals support families and make positive daily impacts, but child welfare work is often only visible to community members when tragedy occurs. The two established sources for supervisory ratio standards, the Child Welfare League of America and the Council on Accreditation, both identify the best practice standard for supervisor-supervisee ratios in child and family services to be 1:5. This includes understanding cultural parenting practices, how the parents were parented, and even understanding the Tribe specific Historical Trauma. 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. 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. 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. In addition, the session will also feature a discussion of the role of the Childrens Advocacy Center network as a critical partner for the US child welfare system. Exhibited with CWLA before? These grantees were awarded funds in 2018, through the Childrens Bureau, to implement strategies that demonstrate an impact on permanency outcomes related to the Child and Family Services Reviews process over a five-year period. 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. Marginalization can leave a person feeling lost and disconnected from who they are, struggling with mattering or feeling a sense of dignity and worth. WebHigh caseloads and excessive workload make it difficult for child welfare workers to serve families effectively, which leads to increased staff turnover as well as decreases in quality delivery of services. WebIt includes the reauthorization of the two Title IV-B programs: Child Welfare Services (Title IV-B part 1) and Promoting Safe and Stable Families (Title IV-B part 2). It was founded in 1921 as a federation of approximately 70 service-providing organizations. Our expertise, leadership and innovation on policies, programs, and practices help improve the lives of millions of children across the country. WebThe Child Welfare League of America (CWLA) is the oldest child welfare organization in the United States. To address these issues, the New York City Administration for Childrens Services (ACS) has developed time limited standardized informed consent forms specific for use in child welfare. The workshop will focus on specific, common-sense approaches to community organizing and family engagement as a component of education, support, and prevention. WebCongress found state child welfare and private agency policies that commonly (Hollinger, 1998; see also Child Welfare League of America [2007] for analysis and discussion of this issue). 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. 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. 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. This conference featured evidence-informed/based programs and practices, and related policies and tools that lead to successful implementation of practices, services and programs, resulting in improved outcomes for children, youth and familiesand that are most likely to generate positive attention in the public policy context. Utilizing the Exploration, Preparation, Implementation, and Sustainment (E.P.I.S.) 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. WebThe Child Welfare League of America (CWLA) affirms that lesbian, gay, and bisexual parents are as well suited to raise children as their heterosexual counterparts. The purpose is to create a resource that can assist families that are separating, training specialists, community providers, court mediation staff, and others in learning how to work together with the common goal of putting the needs of the children first. Accessing Substance Abuse Treatment: Issues for Parents Involved with Child Welfare Services Anna Rockhill, Beth L. Green, and Linda Newton-Curtis. Please be sure to make your reservation under our conference group block to ensure waiver of the destination fee charged at this hotel. The presenters will provide meaningful action steps agencies can take to incorporate the SOEs into new and existing strategies to support employee wellness, professional development, and community partnerships to promote workforce wellness and positive outcomes for families connected to child welfare agencies. This training will provide an overview of a new video training series. Mallon, G.P. Lastly, we will provide strategies on youth participation and other 21st century learning strategies. 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). In recent years it has become common to use 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. Presenters will highlight successful approaches for data collection, policy development, and increasing partnership and collaboration with advocates and those with lived expertise. We are all connected, and rhythm is a thread that holds us and the world together. This years conference was held onApril 27-29, 2015at theCrystal Gateway Marriott, Arlington, VA. As kinship care continues to be a primary and valuable option for children who cannot live with their parents, emphasis on kinship care policy, practice, and research is necessary to continue to enhance services and supports for kinship caregivers and families. Presenter: Marcus Stallworth, CWLA, Washington DC, E3 Creating a Kin-First Agency Culture Requires a Kin-First Court Culture. 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. 400 New Jersey Avenue NW. Licensed qualified clinicians carry out law enforcement and clinical liaison duties while playing an active role in bridging community partnerships. Presenters will discuss the implications of these findings and share lessons learned. (2000). Preventive Legal Advocacy (PLA) is part of the continuum of high-quality legal advocacy that seeks to strengthen and support family well-being by addressing upstream civil legal issues that often lead to unnecessary child welfare involvement. Contact: CWLA2023@cwla.org. This presentation will provide an overview of the impact of an enhanced Kinship Navigator program on kinship caregivers and the children in their care. Capitol. By registering as an exhibitor, you are committing to bringing a prize for the raffle. When done properly, effective co-parenting can aid and assist in the overall growth and healthy development of children. 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. WebView jobs available on Child Welfare League of America.

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