The PowerPoints and handouts below were submitted by presenters at CWLA’s 2023 National Conference. These materials will be available to conference attendees until the end of May. After that time, they will be accessible to CWLA members on our members-only website.
If you do not see materials for a particular session, it is because they were not submitted.
Pre-Conference Members-Only Session
A2 – From Federal Law to State Policy: Delivering on the Promise of Qualified Residential Treatment Program Standards
A6 – Building and Implementing a Family First CQI Framework: Accomplishments and Lessons Learned
A7 – The Trauma C.A.R.E. Model: A Relational Approach for Parents in Recovery
A8 – Navigating the Child Welfare System and the Critical Need for Culturally Responsive Service
A9 – Show Me Solutions: Thinking Outside the Box During the Capacity Crisis
A10 – Protecting the Indian Child Welfare Act at the State Level
B2 – Adapting an Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) to Meet the Diverse Needs of Youth in Oregon’s Child Welfare System: the KEEP Model
B4 – Enabling Policy Context to Prevent Child Welfare Involvement Through Economic & Concrete Supports
B5 – Foster Care Done Differently: Shifting from Support to Supervision within an Indigenous Framework
B7 – Promoting a Culture of Shared Learning: New England Regional Advocacy Creates Systemic Change
B9 – The Impact of Enhanced Kinship Navigation on Caregivers and their Children
C3 – Using Effective Communication to Advance Systems Transformation and Build Partnerships
C6 – Transforming a Child Welfare System into a Child and Family Well-Being System
C7 – Empowering and Preserving Families Across Systems with Permanency Mediation
C8 – Journey to Zero: Community Partnerships to Strengthen Families and Prevent Entry to Care
C9 – A Journey with Youth at the Center: An Approach to Caring for Youth
C12 – Unconditional Care vs. Wraparound
C13 – Leaning into the Engagement of Fathers
C14 – Applying an Equity Lens to Collaborative Practice when Implementing Plans of Safe Care
D4 – SBCT meets START: An Adapted Relational Model for Children 0-3 in the Child Welfare System
D5 – Filling in the Cracks: Building a Coordinated Community Response to Children Experiencing Domestic Violence
D7 – Installing a Community Pathway to Family First Prevention Services: Initial Implementation Strategies
D8 – Primary Prevention to Reduce the Negative Impacts of Social Determinants of Health in Child Welfare
D14 – Authentic Child and Youth Engagement in Program Development: How to Practice What We Preach
E1 – Forming and Sustaining Meaningful Partnerships Between Researchers, Funders, and Lived Experience Experts in 21st Century Child Welfare Research
E3 – Creating a Kin-First Agency Culture Requires a Kin-First Court Culture
E5 – Keeping Families Together: Uniting Child Welfare, Supportive Housing, and Families to Advance Change
E6 – Supporting the Migrant Child: Pursuing Immigration Relief and Strengthening Families
E7 – Trauma-Informed Support for Employee Recruitment and Retention
E10 – Private Collaboration to Implement Evidence-Based Programming
E11 – Building and Integrating Benefits Coordination into a Kinship Navigator Program
E12 – Experts in the Field: How Alumni of Foster Care are Changing the Face of Case Management
E13 – A Partnership to Expand Evidence-Based, Trauma-Informed Systems in Rural Central Maine
E14 – Collaborating to Support Early Childhood Education Participation for Children in Foster Care
F3 – Connectedness in Child Welfare: Building a Strategic Infrastructure to Better Serve our Families
F4 – Going Beyond the Rhetoric of Family Engagement
F7 – Engagement and Safety Decision-Making in Substance Use Disorder Cases
F9 – It Takes a Village: Using a Wraparound Paradigm for Healing, Reunification, and Permanency
F12 – Early-Adolescent Attachment: The Second-Most Critical Attachment Period and an Opportunity for Permanency
F14 – Fundamentals in Addressing the Needs of Children and Youth with Challenging Emotions and Behavior within their Communities
G2 – School-Based Mental Health: The Why, The How, and The Best Practices
G3 – Whatever It Takes: Prevention Power
G4 – SOUL Family: A Youth-Led Proposal to Expand Permanency Options for Teens in Foster Care
G7 – The Link Between Cultural Resilience and the Prevention of Child Maltreatment in Tribal Communities
G10 – Understanding the Hurdles in Implementing the Family First Prevention Services Act: A Case Study
G11 – Creating Systems that Empower Women and Families
G13 – Kinnections Project: on the Road to Becoming an Evidence-Based Practice
G14 – Child and Family Well-Being System Development: The Centrality of Community Leadership
H3 – Building the Table Together: Engaging Parents as Collaborative Partners
H4 – The Necessity of Collaboration: How Systemic Partnerships Overcome Barriers for FFPSA Service Implementation
H8 – North Carolina Family Leadership Model: Building Meaningful, Authentic Collaboration with Families
H10 – Promising Practices to Strengthen Engagement with Youth with Lived Experience
H12 – Preventive Legal Advocacy: Family-Focused Advocacy to Reduce Child Welfare Involvement
H13 – How Child Welfare and Head Start Systems Can Work Together to Better Serve Families