Workshop Session A
 A1 Creating a Trauma-Informed
Child Welfare System: Using
Best Practices to Improve
Outcomes for Children and
Families-Part I
This workshop is the first in a two-part series focusing on best
practices for addressing trauma in the child welfare system.
Child welfare and mental health systems often fail to recognize
the full range of a child's traumatic experiences or the impact
of these experiences on the child's thoughts, feelings, and behavior.
In this first session, presenters will provide information
documenting that emotional trauma can be a driving force in
child behavior and have a dramatic impact on their experience
of the child welfare system and their outcomes. Presenters will
define a trauma-informed system and will outline nine essential
elements of a trauma-informed child welfare system.
Presenters: Lisa Conradi, Project Manager, Chadwick Center for
Children and Families, San Diego, CA; and Carly Dierkhising,
Research Associate, National Center for Child Traumatic Stress,
Los Angeles, CA
A2 Is Your Agency Structured For
Success? Organizational Responses
to Child Neglect
Examine what is known about successful
interventions in chronic neglect,
identify the organizational barriers
to implementing effective practice, and
consider strategies to realign service
delivery to meet family needs. A case
example encourages public and private
participants to apply evidence-based
principles and organizational concepts
to their own agencies.
Presenters: Wendy Whiting Blome, Associate Professor, Catholic
University of America School of Social Service, Washington, DC;
and Sue D. Steib, Senior Consultant, Systems Improvement, Casey
Family Programs, Jackson, LA
A3 Helping Grandfamilies: Supportive
Policies & Programs for Kinship Families
Join us for a review of current policies and supportive programs
to help kinship families. An overview of pending and newly
enacted federal legislation in addition to implementation
strategies will be provided. Participants will obtain information
about model services to children being raised by grandparents
or other relatives and learn how to access resource materials to
help enhance their own programs.
Presenters: Jaia Peterson Lent, Deputy Executive Director, Generations
United, Washington, DC; and Ken Bryson, Director, National Center
on Grandfamilies, Washington, DC
A4 Early Childhood Partnership
for Homeless Preschoolers
Quality early childhood education and care for homeless
preschoolers and their siblings were undertaken in a collaboration
comprised of eight county funders and providers. The
Early Childhood Partnership provides a family-centered, comprehensive,
integrated case management approach thanks to
funding from three different entities. Learn how it happened!
Presenters: Thomas Papin, Director, Department of Children's
Services, Hillsborough County Department of Children's Services,
Tampa, FL; Rebecca Robbins, Manager, Administrative Service
Organization, Children's Board of Hillsborough County, Tampa, FL;
Luanne J. Panacek, CEO, Children's Board of Hillsborough County,
Tampa, FL; and Louis Finney, Director, Hillsborough County, Head
Start/Early Head Start Grantee, Tampa, FL
A5 Cultural Competence with
Distressed Communities
Explore cultural competence in a mental health and community
agency setting. Workshop participants will learn about
issues facing diverse populations with particular emphasis on
the needs of African American clients. Participants will examine
issues that impede therapeutic success from a strengthsbased
perspective.
Presenter: Juanita Benton, Family Psychologist, Minneapolis, MN
A6 Strategies, Support, and Success
for Transitioning Foster Youth
Are you concerned about the many transitioning foster youth
without housing, living wage employment, family or community,
and access or support for higher education? Come learn
about California's Family to Family strategy for transition-aged
foster youth, Connected by 25 (CC25I). Hear how California
counties can use CC25I to build a comprehensive continuum of
supports and services, and learn about the outcomes framework
in Web-based ETO software, which is key to self-evaluation and
improving transition outcomes.
Presenter: James Anderson, Project Manager and Lyssa Trujillo, Youth Alumni Technical Assistant, California Connected
by 25 Initiative-Annie E. Casey Foundation, San Jose, CA
A7 Interactive Technology and You
You've heard about blogs, podcasts, and social networking,
but do you use these tools to foster the mission of your
organization? Participants will leave this workshop with a
better understanding of how properly applied Web 2.0 tools
can help organizations, children, and families working within
the foster care system.
Presenters: Alexandra Buczek,
Manager, Online Marketing and
Emerging Media, National
Adoption Center, Philadelphia,
PA; and Christine Jacobs, Director,
Regional Operations, National
Adoption Center, Philadelphia, PA
A8 Public-Private
Partnerships:
Teen Adoptions
A public-private partnership
can improve outcomes for
waiting teens. This workshop
presents successful models and
reports outcomes resulting from
a 25-year partnership. Focus is
on the use of specialized adoption
services to achieve Protect
Ohio outcomes. Participants
begin to think outside the box
with regard to how private
and public agencies can partner to achieve permanency, learn
techniques to promote outcomes, explore common issues, and
develop a framework for avoiding problems.
Presenters: Kathy Franz, Associate Director, Northeast Ohio
Adoption Services, Warren, OH; and Penny Ray, Division Manager
of Children's Services, Portage County Department of Job & Family
Services, Ravenna, OH
 A9 Reinventing Residential Treatment:
National Trends
Come and examine the national
trends related to transforming
residential treatment from a single
stand-alone service to evidencebased,
outcomes-driven services
within a continuum of services
for youth.
Presenter: Jeffrey Bormaster, Senior
Director, Special Projects, CWLA,
Palm Springs, CA
 A10 Developing an Organizational
Culture that Nurtures Leaders
Creating an environment that nurtures
leaders involves a challenge of
connecting approaches. This session
will discuss the strategies and structures
needed to reach this goal; what
CEOs need to embrace this priority;
and how your management team can
successfully connect with community
resources. This workshop will continue
into the next session as B10.
Facilitators: Edward Kelley, CEO, RFK
Children's Action Corp, Boston, MA;
Christine James-Brown, President & CEO,
CWLA, Arlington, VA; and James Phills Jr.,
Director of Stanford University Center for
Social Innovation, Stanford, CA (invited)
A11 Data: More than a Four-Letter Word
This workshop provides information on maximizing program
success using the National Data Analysis System. In addition
to a demonstration of features, there will be an opportunity to
assist the NDAS team in charting the course of NDAS' future.
Presenter: Connie Hayek, Director, NDAS, CWLA, Arlington, VA
A12 The Legislative Future of Home
Visiting Programs and the
Education Begins at Home Act:
A Family Strengths-Based Approach
Annual data indicates that 40% of
the nearly 900,000 children found to
be abused and neglected never receive
follow-up services. In some instances,
home visitation could help to address
this need. Home visitation services
have been effective in stabilizing
at-risk families by having nurses, professionals,
or other trained members
of the community conduct regular
visits for prenatal care, positive parenting
practices, enhanced school
readiness, or increased self-sufficiency. Home visiting legislation
was most recently introduced in last year's 110th Congress,
and both the House and Senate bills have bipartisan support.
Capitol Hill staff and home visitation advocates will discuss the
advantages of this program during this workshop.
Presenters: YaMinco Varner, Government Affairs Associate, CWLA,
Arlington, VA; and program experts and Congressional staff TBA
A13 Crisis Centers as a Prevention Tool
How do you keep youth out of the system? This workshop
explores the services, legislation, and attitude needed to offer family-
friendly services that effectively intervene in crisis situations.
Crisis centers across Wyoming offer families the opportunity
to receive help without any strings, hidden agendas, or formal
agency involvement.
Presenters: Sharon Weber, Director, Cathedral Home for Children,
Laramie, WY; Sabrina Ochoa, Coordinator, Laramie Youth Crisis
Center, Laramie, WY; Dan Wilde, Deputy Director, Wyoming
Department of Family Services, Cheyenne, WY
 A14 Substance Abuse and Child
Welfare: An Overview of the
Issues and Models of Reform
This session will provide information on national trends and
current efforts in providing services to families affected by
substance use disorders who are involved in the child welfare
system and family courts. The presenter will review common
barriers and strategies for linking court, treatment, and child
welfare and will introduce different models of collaborating.
Collaboration that integrates evidence-based practices within
substance abuse treatment, child welfare, and the courts can lead
to positive outcomes for families. Information on systems level
policy and practice models developed also will be discussed.
Presenters: Nancy K. Young, Director, National Center on Substance
Abuse and Child Welfare, Irvine, CA
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