Workshop Session C
C1 Facilitating a Strength-Based Culture
This workshop prepares participants to initiate, facilitate, and
maintain a strength-based culture within a school and residential
environment.
Presenter: Neal Sternberg, Executive Administrator, Victor
Treatment Centers, North Valley Schools, Whitmore, CA
 C2 Sustaining a Competent
Workforce Through Agency-
University Partnership
A unique model of professional development is explored as one
key to recruiting and retaining a competent workforce, including
successes and challenges of mingling education and training and
lessons learned from evaluation. This agency-university partnership
offers workers the opportunity to earn graduate-level credit
while fulfilling agency professional development requirements.
Presenters: Pamela Weeks, Associate Professor, University of Kentucky,
Lexington, KY; Steve Fox, Director of Learning Development,
University Training Consortium, Eastern Kentucky University,
Richmond, KY; Bibhuti Sar, Assistant Professor, Social Work,
University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY; and Suzie Cashwell,
Associate Professor, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY
C3 Interagency Collaboration, Family
Engagement: Critical Elements in
Child Welfare Systems of Care
Lessons learned from the Improving Child Welfare Outcomes
Through Systems of Care demonstration initiative will be
presented, with a special focus on two critical elements of the
Systems of Care framework: interagency collaboration and family
engagement. Presenters will share their experiences moving
beyond paper agreements to the work of change.
Presenters: Nicole Bossard, TA Team Leader, ICF International,
Fairfax, VA; Nigel Nathaniel, Project Director, NYC Administration
for Children's Services, Brooklyn, NY; and Helen Spence, SOC
Outreach Coordinator, Dauphin County Children and Youth,
Harrisburg, PA
C4 Attachment-Based Early Intervention
for Foster and Adopted Children
The innovative CHERISH program combines infant mental
health services with a traditional neuro-developmental early
intervention program for foster children. It provides reparative
and preventative interventions for infants and toddlers addressing
their traumatic experiences and developmental impacts.
The presenter will discuss attachment and early childhood
development in light of maltreatment.
Presenter: Kristie Baber, Lead Clinical Social Worker, Kindering
Center, Bellevue, WA
C5 Innovations in Family Visitation
This session will present an innovative program designed to
increase family visitation with the ultimate goal of expediting
permanency for children in custody. The session will include
a description of the Family Place program, the formation of
community partnerships, and preliminary findings from an
ongoing evaluation.
Presenters: Linda Lopez, Director of Program Services, and Tracey
Reichert Schimpff, Director of Child Welfare Services, The Salvation Army, Syracuse, NY; Jennifer Propp, Assistant Professor, Syracuse
University, Syracuse, NY; Karen M. Reid, DSS Liaison, Onondaga
County Department of Social Services, Syracuse, NY
C6 Bringing Back the Dads:
Engaging Non-Custodial Fathers
This session will discuss the importance of
fathers in child welfare proceedings, give an
overview of the current state of father involvement,
and look at an ongoing research
project on this issue. Participants will learn
practical legal, social work, and policy strategies
for better engaging nonresident fathers
in child welfare cases.
Presenters: Jessica Kendall, Assistant Staff
Director, American Bar Association Center
on Children and the Law, Washington, DC;
Karen Jenkins, Director of Public Child
Welfare Initiatives, American Humane,
Englewood, CO; and Ron J. Clark, Director,
Community-Based Programming, National
Fatherhood Initiative, Gaithersburg, MD
C7 Racial Disparities in the Child Welfare
System: Using Research to Guide
Disparity Reduction Efforts
Research on two approaches for
reducing overrepresentation indicates
the effectiveness of practice and
systems changes, resulting in more
culturally competent services. The
research provides outcome measure,
community and individual perspectives
on the issues, and potential solutions
for the widespread disproportionality
plaguing the child welfare
system today.
Presenters: Brad Richardson, Research Director, University of
Iowa, Iowa City, IA; Julia Rembert, Clinical Faculty, University
of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa; and Dennette Derezotes, Executive
Director, Race Matters Consortium, Chicago, IL
C8 Elements of an Effective PQI Plan
What are the elements of a quality improvement plan? This
workshop will provide an overview of the Council on Accreditation's
8th Edition Performance and Quality Improvement
(PQI) standards, using a model PQI plan as a framework for
the discussion. The workshop will also address the use of stakeholders;
management and operational performance; planning;
and the Improvement Cycle.
Presenter: Joseph Frisino, Technical Assistance Consultant, Council
on Accreditation, New York, NY
 C9 Caring for Children Who
Have Experienced Trauma: A
Curriculum for Resource Parents
A training curriculum that provides resource parents with
essential information about how they can effectively help
children who have experienced traumatic stress will be
presented, along with practice opportunities
to develop skills and strategies. The
National Child Traumatic Stress Network,
with the support of SAMHSA, developed
the curriculum.
Presenters: Patricia Van Horn, Associate
Clinical Professor, University of California, San
Francisco, San Francisco, CA; Richard Kagan,
Director of Psychological Services, Parsons
Center, Albany, NY; and Susan H. Badeau,
Director of Systems Analysis, Casey Family
Programs, Philadelphia, PA
C10 Community Connected
Practice in Child Welfare
This workshop will explore the planning
process and outcomes of joining mandates and resources of
the formal child protection system with informal networks
that exist in every community.
Presenters: Pamela Whitney, Consultant, Whitney Consulting,
Arlington, MA; Carolyn Burns, Executive Director, Berkshire
Children & Families, Pittsfield, MA; and Kathleen Hardie, Executive
Director, Valuing Our Children, Athol, MA
C11 Beyond the Moratorium and
Extension: What's Next for the
Medicaid Regulations and SCHIP
The past administration proposed a
series of Medicaid regulations that
would have greatly restricted access to
needed health services for several vulnerable
populations, including children
and youth in the foster care system.
Congress, with much support from
organizations including CWLA and
advocates, passed a moratorium on
both the Medicaid rehab and TCM
rules. With a new administration and
a new Congress, what is next for these
rules? Will they be reevaluated or is a legislative solution needed?
This workshop will also explore the future of the State Children's
Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), as it is up for reauthorization
in 2009, and other bills that would improve the physical
and mental well-being of children and youth in foster care.
Presenter: Laura Weidner, Government Affairs Associate, CWLA,
Arlington, VA; and additional speakers and Congressional staff TBA
C12 The New Administration: White House
Conference, Reforms Enacted in 2008,
and Possible Legislation in 2009
In 2008 Congress enacted significant changes in child welfare and
legislation was advanced to hold a White House Conference on
Children and Youth. The new President will face many challenging
domestic priorities and the 111th Congress will likely continue to
show increased interest in child welfare issues. How will these two
factors come together in 2009? What is in store in policy areas such
as child welfare financing, health needs of children in care, youth
aging out, and the overrepresentation of children of color in the
system? What impact will bills passed in the last Congress have on
this one? Is there a White House Conference on Children and
Youth in the future? Participants will hear from Capitol Hill staff
and Washington insiders of these and other issues.
Presenters: John Sciamanna, Codirector, Government Affairs,
CWLA, Arlington, VA; and experts on child welfare, financing,
legislation, and Congressional staff TBA
C13 States Working Together to Tackle the
Biggest Barriers to Indian Child Welfare
Practice Excellence:
Tools and Support
State Indian Child Welfare managers,
together with CWLA and ICW practice
experts, are working together to
improve state Indian Child Welfare
practice and improve outcomes for
Native children being served by state
and private agencies and the courts.
This workshop will showcase these
efforts and share tools being developed
to establish national standards
of practice and to concretely address the thorniest areas of noncompliance
with the Indian Child Welfare Act.
Presenters: Mary McNevins, Indian Child Welfare Manager, Oregon
DHS, Children, Adults and Families Division, Salem, OR; Kathy
Deserly, Indian Child Welfare Consultant, Helena, MT; and another
State Indian Child Welfare Manager to be announced. Moderater:
John George, Senior Consultant, CWLA, Bellingham, WA
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