The PowerPoints and handouts below were submitted by presenters at CWLA’s 2023 National Conference.
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