Workshop Session D
 D1 When Times Are Tight: Ideas for
Rewarding Staff at Low Cost
This interactive workshop explores the current challenges
between the diminishing financial resources to do all we want
to do for our employees versus how nonprofits can be creative
in providing "soft" benefits that staff can appreciate.
Presenter: Frank Crawford, Executive Director/CEO, Youth Homes,
Inc., Charlotte, NC
D2 Measurable Goals—
Measuring Healing
Improve the opportunity for children to heal by changing the
treatment focus from purely behavioral goals to goals that
demonstrate emotional healing. Programs can increase their
viability by demonstrating valid outcomes. The presenters will
guide the audience in designing and implementing behavioral
goals that measure emotional healing.
Presenters: Faye Hall, Outpatient Therapist, Diakon Family Life
Services, Glen Rock, PA; and Jeffrey L. Merkert, Family Based
Therapist, Philhaven, Dover, PA
D3 Protecting Attachment When
Parents Are Incarcerated
A community's effort to embed a half-century of research on
the importance of attachment to children's mental health in
the philosophy and practice of its County
Jail is presented in this workshop.
Presenters: Claire Walker, Executive Director,
Pittsburgh Child Guidance Foundation,
Pittsburgh, PA; Ramon C. Rustin, Director,
Allegheny County Bureau of Corrections,
Pittsburgh, PA; and Bonnie McNally-Brown,
President, Child Family & Community Inc.,
Pittsburgh, PA
 D4 Examination of a
Linked Residential
Continuum of Care
Historically, services for children have
been fragmented. This workshop describes
a residential continuum of care for children
that is linked by a consistent model
of care. Evaluation data about movement
of children through the continuum, outcomes, and six-month
follow-up data are also presented.
Presenters: Patrick Tyler, Clinical Director, Jonathan Huefner,
Research Scientist, and Nick Juliano, Director of Business
Development, Boys Town, Boys Town, NE
D5 Cultural Competence to Better Serve
LGBTQ Youth
The distinct challenges faced by LGBTQ youth in the child
welfare system are explored in this session. Participants will
learn about the factors that contribute to the overrepresentation
of LGBTQ in the child welfare system and the best practices
that guide culturally competent work with them. Participants
will also review recently created antidiscrimination laws and
policies that protect LGBTQ youth in out-of-home care.
Presenter: Flor Bermudez, Staff Attorney, Lambda Legal, New
York, NY
D6 Benchmark TFC:
Review of a National Benchmark
Project in Treatment Foster Care
This workshop will review an ongoing national benchmarking
effort that collects data on a uniform set of domains with treatment
foster care and traditional foster care programs. This
project spans a three-year period representing 40 foster care
programs and 21 states, the largest national benchmarking
effort in foster care to date.
Presenter: Lynn M. Castrianno, Benchmark TFC Project Director,
Omaha, NE
D7 Staff Retention: Training Leaders in
Evidence-Based Practice
Supervision Skills
Today's emerging and existing leaders of nonprofits can directly
improve staff retention by utilizing evidence-based practices for
training and supervising an agency's staff. This workshop will
introduce leaders to the evidence and a model of supervisory
practice that will increase staff morale, staff productivity, and
staff retention.
Presenter: Jeffrey Bormaster, Consultant, CWLA, Palm Springs, CA
D8 Wendy's Wonderful Kids:
Early Results from a National
Campaign for Older Child Adoption
This workshop will introduce participants to the Wendy's
Wonderful Kids program—an innovative and intensive
child-focused model for achieving older child adoption, now
operating in all 50 states, Washington, DC, and Canada.
Early results from a rigorous evaluation of the program will
be presented.
Presenters: Rob Geen, Vice President for Public Policy, Child Trends,
Washington, DC; and Rita Soronen, Executive Director, Dave
Thomas Foundation for Adoption, Dublin, OH
 D9 Born Broken in a Broken World:
Fetal Alcohol Neurodevelopmental
Delay, Child Abuse, and the Future
of Children in Foster Care
It is estimated that up to 70% of children in foster care have
had fetal alcohol exposure. This workshop describes the history
and current understanding of fetal alcohol neurodevelopmental
delay and its effects upon cognitive and psychosocial
development, including interventions to decrease the risk of
foster care placement.
Presenter: Douglas Waite, Medical Director, The Children's Village,
Dobbs Ferry, NY
D10 Emerging Trends in the Treatment of
Childhood Schizophrenia
This session will feature the exciting work of the successful
2008–2009 Gralnick Award recipient for their exemplary work
in research on and treatment of children and adolescents with
schizophrenia.
Presenter: TBA.
D11 Mentoring Children of Prisoners:
Caregiver's Choice
This workshop will introduce a new voucher initiative designed
to expand mentoring opportunities for children of incarcerated
parents. This initiative is funded by the U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services and administered by MENTOR.
It enables caregivers to select approved providers in their community,
where the vouchers can be redeemed for up to $1,000
to support a mentoring relationship. Caregiver and mentoring
program provider application procedures and eligibility requirements
will be explained during the session.
Presenters: Janet Forbush, Project Director, Mentor/National
Mentoring Partnership, Alexandria, VA; and W. Wilson S. Goode,
Director, Amachi, Philadelphia, PA
D12 Strategies for School Success
for Children in Residential Care
Examine one residential program's efforts to improve school
attendance and behavior. Presenters will review the strategies
used to increase children's academic success and the data
demonstrating highly successful outcomes.
Presenters: Marlene Bloom, Assessment and Education Services
Manager, and Todd Boulanger, Program Operations and Residential
Director, The Children's Home, Tampa, FL
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