Workshop Session B
 B1 Creating a Trauma-Informed
Child Welfare System: Using Best
Practices to Improve Outcomes for
Children and Families-Part II
This second workshop in a two-part series will shift to the
practice level. Presenters will share in-depth information from
the NCTSN Child Welfare Training Toolkit. Child welfare and
mental health agencies will learn about practical approaches
to make their work more trauma-sensitive and how to lessen
the risk of system-induced secondary trauma by serving as a
protective and stress-reducing buffer for children. The session
will focus on how the Toolkit has been used nationally along
with other assessment and intervention tools for creating a
trauma-informed child welfare system while highlighting information
on culturally and developmentally appropriate practices.
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
B2 Effective Diversion: Reducing
Placement in Out-of-Home Care
Consider the specific strategies that have assisted the urban area of
Hillsborough County in Tampa, Florida, reduce out-of-home care
by over 44% since the implementation of a community approach
to successfully serve families in their own homes. Outcomes
shared will include programmatic and financial impact.
Presenters: Beth Barrett, Program Administrator, Tampa YMCA, Tampa,
FL; Jeff Rainey, CEO, and Karen Maziarz, CFO, Hillsborough Kids,
Inc., Tampa, FL; and the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Department
B3 Building a Rural-Competent
Workforce Through Partnership
A partnership between CWLA,
its National Advisory Committee
on Rural Social Services, and the
University of California at Davis has
resulted in the provision of training
in rural cultural competence for child
welfare workers, while continuing
to improve standards for practice.
Presenters: Kathleen Belanger,
Assistant Professor, Stephen F. Austin
State University, Nacogdoches, TX;
Brian Brandt, Director, Mountain Plains
Region, CWLA, Denver, CO; and Susan Brooks, Program Director,
Center for Human Services, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA
B4 Technology in Child Welfare:
Improving Outcomes
Driven to better serve the children of Ontario, the Ontario
Association of Children's Aid Societies is implementing a
single integrated child welfare system in three member
societies. The system will improve case tracking and service
delivery in an environment of legislative transformation
where improved permanency outcomes for children, a
broader range of response options, implementation of alternative
dispute resolution in the court system, and greater
accountability are expectations. This presentation examines
how OACAS used technology to improve processes and, in
turn, improved outcomes for children, youth, and families.
Presenters: Jeanette Lewis, Executive Director, Ontario
Association of Children's Aid Societies, Toronto, Canada; and
Ronan Rooney, CTO and Cofounder, Curam Software, Herndon, VA
B5 Disproportionality: The Role of Family
& Youth Involvement in Decision-Making
This session addresses the issue of disproportionality in Texas,
focusing on the greatest disparities that exist for African American
youth and families. This workshop concentrates on family and
youth involvement in reducing or eliminating disproportionality
and addresses Casey Family Program's 2020 Strategy for
reducing the number of children in foster care.
Presenters: Joyce James, Assistant Commissioner for Child Protective
Services, Texas Department of Family and Protective Services,
Austin, TX; Carolyne Rodriguez, Senior Director, Texas Strategic
Consulting, Casey Family Programs, Austin, TX; and Sheila Craig,
State Disproportionality Manager, Child Protective Services, Texas
Department of Family and Protective Services, Austin, TX
B6 Findings and Implications for
Fiscal and Kinship Care Reform:
The 2008 Casey Child Welfare Survey
This workshop will report the findings and implications for
policymakers from a national survey about states' child welfare
financing and kinship care policies. All 50 states and Washington,
DC, responded to the survey that was cofunded by the Annie
E. Casey Foundation and Casey Family Programs.
Presenters: Rob Geen, Vice President for Public Policy, Kerry
DeVooght, Research Analyst, and Tiffany Allen, Research Analyst,
Child Trends, Washington, DC
B7 Post-Secondary Success for
Foster Care Alumni
Explore the multiple supports needed to assist foster care
alumni to succeed in post-secondary education, using the
Indiana Guardian Scholars as a model of practice excellence.
Student services, public and private partnerships, collaboration
between a four-year university and a two-year community
college, sustainability efforts, and marketing will be covered.
Presenter: Alishea Hawkins, Guardian Scholars Program
Coordinator, Ball State University, Muncie, IN
B8 E-Learning: An Effective Tool for Staff
Development and Retention
There is a workforce crisis in behavioral health and human service
agencies. This workshop explores effective methods of staff
development and retention for both non-licensed direct care
staff and professional staff using E-Learning.
Presenter: Leslie Mariner, VP Business Development, Essential
Learning, San Diego, CA
 B9 Opening Doors and Reconnecting
Youth with their Values, Families,
and Communities
California AB 1453 mandates that residentially based services
be short-term and facilitate connection with caregivers and
community. Children need to feel safe, healthy, and permanently
connected with their families, not saved from them. This
presentation is based on this philosophy, with initial outcomes
and lessons learned.
Presenters: Daren Dickson, Director, Adolescent Residential Services,
Seneca Center, Concord, CA; and Sarah Chance, Researcher, Seneca
Center, San Leandro, CA
 B10 Building Our Future: Identifying,
Developing, and Empowering
Organizational Leadership
Explore the role of leadership development in long-term succession
planning. The Family Intervention Services Leadership
Institute was created to ensure the growth and development of
organizational leadership by implementing strategies that build
a pool of talented leaders grounded in nonprofit management,
family support values, and strong leadership competencies.
Presenters: Jeanne Warnock, President/CEO, and Maureen Braun
Scalera, Director, Family Intervention Services, South Orange NJ;
Ingrid Vaca-Bullaro, Assistant County Director, Family Intervention
Services, Rockaway, NJ; and Lori R. Maloney, Executive Vice
President, JANUS Solutions, Hopewell, NJ
B11 Preserving Native Families:
A Collaborative Prevention and
Intervention Model
This workshop presents a prevention/intervention pilot program
to preserve Tlingit and Haida families. Disproportionality
of Native Alaskan Children in foster care is the highest in the
nation. Through establishing cross-program relationships and
early risk detection by required self-assessment of TANF families,
the CCTHITA Child Welfare Agency has implemented
culturally competent family-specific intervention services to
keep families intact.
Presenters: Le Florindo, Deputy Director, Central Council Tribal
Family Youth Services, Juneau, AK; and Mary Iannone-Smith,
President, Face to Face Integrated Technologies, Lago Vista, TX
B12 Effective Ways for Choosing Evidence-
Based Prevention Programs and Practice
Come hear about an exciting new
tool created to help promote your
thoughtful selection, implementation,
and evaluation of child abuse
and neglect prevention programs,
services, and activities to better
support and serve families in their
communities. Examples of what
communities have been doing to
adapt evidence-based programs to
meet the needs of different cultural
groups will be highlighted.
Presenter: Julie Collins, Project Director for the FRIENDS National
Resource Center for Child Abuse Prevention, CWLA, Arlington, VA
B13 Wired for Success:
Starting Early Makes Sense
This presentation will provide an overview of neuro-scientific
research about early brain development and highlight strategies
to 'wire' young brains effectively for attention, bonding, and
communication. Research shows that the experiences a child
has on a regular basis can allow the brain to develop to its
potential—whatever the individual heredity might be. Dr. Jill
Stamm will synthesize this research into easy-to-understand
terms and participants will learn how a child's brain grows and
how it wires up for success. The workshop will help participants
see young children differently than in the past and realize
the power that every child care provider or caregiver has to
impact healthy early brain development. Participants will learn
about the impact of neglect and abuse on the developing brain
and be able to use the information in their communities.
Presenter: Jill Stamm, Cofounder and Director, New Directions
Institute for Infant Brain Development, and Associate Clinical
Professor, Arizona State, Phoenix, AZ
B14 Engaging Parents in Substance Abuse
Treatment: The Role of Recovery Specialists
This workshop will highlight strategies for engaging parents
in substance abuse services, regaining custody, and assuming
parenting roles. The presenter will outline issues and suggest
recommendations for areas of policy and practice: strategies
for engaging parents in substance abuse treatment and child
welfare services; programmatic and collaborative structures of
substance abuse specialist programs; and evaluation outcomes
of substance abuse specialist programs.
Presenter: Sanford Robinson, Consultant, National Center on
Substance Abuse and Child Welfare, Irvine, CA
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