Workshop Session E and Public/Private Forum
E1 From Client to Professional:
Parent Advocates' Secret to Success
Explore the compelling and effective work that CFR Parent
Advocates perform with parents involved with the child welfare
system. Parent Advocates are individuals whose life experience
enables them to inspire and motivate parents while they plan
for their children's futures by improving their own.
Presenters: Jill Cohen, Social Work Supervisor, Robin Lyde, Parent
Advocate, and Maura Keating, Litigation Supervisor, The Center for
Family Representation, Inc., New York, NY
E2 Developing Caregiver Competencies:
Learning Anytime, Anywhere
Learn about the resources developed through an innovative,
federally funded grant to employ distance-learning technology
to increase foster parents' access to high-quality training.
Participants will become familiar with the project that uses
distance-learning technologies to allow foster parents to take advantage
of asynchronous instruction to build skills, meet continuing
education requirements for relicensure, or complete a professional
development sequence in a specialized area. This session will feature
a demonstration of how one of nine modules of the Foster PRIDE
Core Curriculum can be accessed and used via the Internet,
CD-ROM, and video, with accompanying written resources.
Presenter: Michael Polowy, Professional Development Specialist,
Governors State University/CWLA, Amherst, NY
E3 Major Improvement for Kids and
Families in Nebraska
This workshop will explore a significant change in service
provision in Nebraska, its impact on families, and the lessons
learned from the first six months.
Presenters: Judy Kay, Chief Operating Officer, and Lisa Blunt,
Director of Therapy and Support, Child Saving Institute, Omaha,
NE; Katie McLeese Stephenson, Chief Operating Officer, and Marti
Beard, Director of Service Delivery, Cedars, Lincoln, NE; and Todd
Reckling, Policy Section Administrator, Child and Family Services,
Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services, Lincoln, NE
E4 Expanding Horizons: Cultural
Competence Across Borders
The need to be culturally aware and competent while working
across international borders will be highlighted in this session.
The focus will be on child welfare issues that include a transnational
or international component.
Presenters: Julie Gilbert-Rosicky, Executive Director, ISS-USA,
Baltimore, MD; and Felicity Sackville Northcott, Director, The
Arthur C. Helton Institute, Baltimore, MD
 E5 Transforming Troubled Children into
Tomorrow's Heroes: Application of
an Evidence-Supported Trauma
Therapy in Child Welfare
Therapists can apply principles of resilience along with the
metaphor of the hero's journey to engage children, families, and
practitioners to use components of evidence-supported therapies
in child welfare agencies. This approach is illustrated with Real
Life Heroes, an attachment-centered treatment model for traumatic
stress and the "Essential Elements for a Trauma-Informed
Child Welfare System" outlined by the Child Welfare Workgroup
of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network.
Presenter: Richard Kagan, Director of Psychological Services,
Parsons Child and Family Center, Albany, NY
E6 Impact of Co-occurring Developmental
and Emotional Disorders on Children
and Youth
This presentation will focus on effective strategies for financing
and providing services for children and youth with co-occurring
developmental disabilities and emotional disorders, with the
goal of attaining needed services and preventing institutionalization
through community services system integration. Along
with effective strategies for financing and service and system
integration, a brief overview will highlight current challenges,
new Medicaid options, strategies for achieving needed infrastructure
changes, and recommendations for closing gaps in
services. Participants will have the opportunity to identify their
state's current system coordination challenges and develop recommended
action steps. At least 45 minutes of the session will
be used to develop a “take away” action plan.
Presenters: Ron Hendler, Technical Director, Division of Advocacy
& Special Initiatives, Disabled & Elderly Health Programs Group,
CMS-Center for Medicaid & State Operations, Baltimore, MD;
Eileen Elias, Senior Policy Advisor for Mental Health & Disability, JBS
International, Inc., North Bethesda, MD; and Diane M. Jacobstein,
Research Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Clinical Psychologist/Senior
Policy Associate, National TA Center for Children's Mental Health,
Georgetown University, Washington, DC
E7 Development of a Comprehensive
Worker Safety Program
Worker safety is a critical issue in child welfare today. This
workshop will provide a framework for developing a comprehensive
worker safety program. While emphasizing worker
safety, this workshop also provides tools for developing facility
safety and risk management programs.
Presenter: Deb Downing, Assistant Director, Montgomery County
Department of Job and Family Services, Dayton, OH
 E8 Wall Street to Main Street:
An Economic Crisis in
Child Welfare
Executive Leaders of today and tomorrow will want to participate
in this public-private forum. The discussion will focus
on strategic issues to be addressed in the context of the economic
crisis. Topics for discussion will include collaboration
on an advocacy agenda, implementation of the Fostering
Healthy Connections legislation, use of technology to advance
practice, and addressing the challenges of disproportionality.
The session will continue after the closing luncheon, for
CWLA members only.
Facilitator: Christine James-Brown, President & CEO, CWLA
Presenters: Patricia Wilson, Commissioner, KY; Marketa Gautreau,
Assistant Commissioner, LA; and other leaders TBA.
 E9 Protecting America's Future
Through Family-Based Treatment
This workshop will discuss the positive outcomes of familybased
treatments and integration of children's services. Learn
how using the evidence-based curriculum Celebrating Families!
fosters the development of addiction-free individuals and families,
and get a hands-on experience of how the Real Care Baby
II is used for parenting education and child abuse prevention.
Presenters: Bakahia Madison, Clinical Director, and Diane
Mariani, Program Manager of Women and Children's Services,
Haymarket Center, Chicago, IL
 E10 Implementing Trauma-Informed
System Change
As agencies and states move to become more trauma-informed,
a key area to be addressed is the secondary trauma that staff
at all levels of the agency experience. The workforce crisis is
showing that something different needs to be done to effectively
address the impact of secondary trauma. This session
will highlight what is being done by state child welfare agencies
across the country as well as an exciting new approach
being piloted in NYC ACS in partnership with Mount Sinai
as part of their NCTSN grant, which has had positive impact
on their workforce.
Presenter: Julie Collins, Director, Practice Excellence, CWLA,
Arlington, VA; and other presenters TBA.
E11 Examining the New Juvenile
Justice Legislation
Proposed legislation in the Senate
would reauthorize the Juvenile Justice
Delinquency and Prevention Act
(JJDPA), which has provided states
and localities with federal standards
and supports for improving juvenile
justice and delinquency prevention
practices and contributed to safeguards
for youth, families, and communities
for more than 30 years.
This workshop will address the history
and current statutory language
regarding systems integration, status offenders, and other major
provisions to provide context for our nation's current approach
to intervening on behalf of these youth in the juvenile justice
system. Participants will consider major elements in the bill,
its implications for young people, and the deinstitutionalization
of status offenders core requirement. Presenters will discuss
characteristics of the population; provide practices and programs
that effectively serve the needs of youth and their families;
and challenge participants to contribute to innovative
thinking for child welfare and juvenile justice partnerships—public and private—to ensure commitment to practice and policy approaches informed by evidence of positive outcomes
on behalf of this population.
Presenters: John A. Tuell, Director, Child Welfare-Juvenile Justice
Systems Integration Initiative, and Tim Briceland-Betts, Codirector
of Government Affairs, CWLA, Arlington, VA
More information on the Mini-Summits
Public/Private Forum
Wall Street to Main Street:
An Economic Crisis in Child Welfare
CWLA is pleased to convene
a public-private
forum that will provide
an opportunity for a
"both sides of the aisle"
discussion regarding the
challenges and strategic
issues to be addressed in
the child welfare community during this economic
crisis. A facilitated panel comprised of
leaders from state, county, and private nonprofit
child welfare agencies and associations
will kick-off an open discussion in a secure
environment on how best to collaborate on
messaging, advocacy, and better outcomes.
The forum will begin during Workshop
Session E and continue after the closing luncheon,
from 2:30 - 5:00 p.m. The post-luncheon
session is exclusively for CWLA members.
Facilitator: Christine James-Brown, President
and CEO, CWLA
Presenters: Marketa Gautreau, Assistant Commissioner, LA;
Patricia Wilson, Commissioner, KY; and other leaders TBA.
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