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2008 Western Region Training Conference
Proposal Submission Introduction
Deadline: 5 p.m. (ET) on October 12, 2007
Call for Papers
The Western Region is proud to announce the 2008 Training
Conference in Portland, Oregon. The conference will be housed at
the Hilton Portland and Executive Tower Hotel, located in the
heart of Portland's financial and entertainment districts.
It takes Courage and Compassion to Serve Children and Families, the
theme for the training conference, promises to provide attendees with a
greater understanding of how to be a more effective caregiver, direct service
worker, advocate, or administrator serving America's at-risk children and
families. The stresses, challenges,
and complexities of providing
high-quality, compassionate care
are always present. What skills,
mindset, and perspective are
necessary to prevent compassion
fatigue and remain motivated
and energized? This conference
will present the latest research
findings, novel approaches, and
key skills needed to thrive as a
professional in the child-welfare
field. To this end we hope to
motivate human service workers,
managers, administrators,
foster/adoptive and kinship caregivers,
educators, advocates,
community leaders, policymakers,
lawyers, judges, court staff, mental health professionals, health advocates,
volunteers, and public and private providers to rise to the challenge
to develop innovative service-delivery systems and collaborate to put the
needs of children and families first when designing new programs.
We invite you to submit a workshop proposal for the conference and
to share the importance of this conference with your colleagues and
peers. Come prepared to share your passion, learn new interventions, and
get rejuvenated! The conference will focus on working in multiple systems
(child welfare, mental health, health, education, juvenile justice);
helping children move from foster care to work; achieving permanence;
incorporating mental health as well as substance use and abuse treatment
in work with children and families; advocacy and how it impacts practice;
workforce issues, including how to reduce worker stress; the relationship
between personal gratification and agency loyalty; building a career in
social services; building passion for the work frontline workers do; and
working with children and families of incarcerated parents.
Conference Subject Areas Include:
- Cultural competence
- Youth development and services
- Evidenced-based and promising practice
- Executive leadership, middle management leadership, and supervision
- Self-care as a child welfare worker/resiliency in the workforce
- Outcomes management
- Use and impact of technology in child welfare
- Advocacy at state, local, and community levels
Selection Criteria
In addition to the specific focus area requirements, proposals will be rated
on the following: relevance to the conference theme and target audience,
engaging format, innovation, style, clarity, originality, ability to be replicated,
cultural competence, and inclusion of toolkit for participants.
We encourage anyone involved in the arts (artists, performers,
dancers, and writers) who work with children and families to also submit
proposals. You may choose to present your material in the form of a
poster or publication.
Guidelines for Submission
- Your workshop proposal must include the following
components to be considered:
- 25-30 word workshop description with workshop title,
- an abstract of your workshop, and
- a brief biographical summary for each presenter (4 presenters maximum).
For More Information
If you have questions about this process, or are unable to submit your materials electronically,
please contact Cheryl Gully, CWLA Western Region Director,
155 North Occidental Blvd., Los Angeles,
CA 90026, by phone at 213/383-1574, or e-mail cgully@cwla.org.
For information regarding program advertising or
exhibiting at the conference, please contact Karen Dunn at 703/412-2416 or e-mail advertising@cwla.org. For information regarding sponsorships at the conference and inclusion
in the program brochure, contact Deborah Cumbo at 703/412-2412 or email
dcumbo@cwla.org.
Please Note
- Workshops may be 1.5 hours or 3 hours long.
- Selected presenters must agree in writing to conduct their presentations,
regardless of the number of attendees preregistered. Presenters also agree to
provide CWLA with an electronic copy of any handout materials (for inclusion
on a CD for conference registrants) and to bring paper copies of any handouts
to their presentations in a quantity sufficient for their workshop participants.
- Presenters at CWLA conferences are expected to register for the conference
and to pay for their own expenses. The daily attendance fee is
waived for presenters only for the day of their presentations (meal tickets
are not included, but may be purchased on site).
- CWLA may publish part or all of the proceedings of this conference. By
presenting at the conference, you agree that CWLA has the right to include
your presentation in a future publication or on its website, should it decide
to do so. You are not precluded from publishing your material elsewhere,
nor is CWLA obligated to include it in any book, monograph, or other
communication that may arise from this conference.
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