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C7 What About Dad??

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How are fathers treated in your agency? Child welfare and juvenile probation are required to work with parents of children to create a safe environment for their children. Often; the work is done with the mother; and the efforts to engage the father fade away or are simply less. Does your agency do that? Are the children and youth you work with getting the benefit of their fathers? Is there an unspoken bias to prioritize moms? Hear from dads who have been in the system and are now working hard to make sure agencies are attuned to the needs of fathers. Go dads!

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Author: Resource Center for Family-Focused Practice

C8 Child and Family Teaming: Engagement and Partnership with Transitional-Aged Youth

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The workshop, intended for child welfare, probation, education, and providers and staff who work with Transitional-Aged Youth (TAY), will provide information about the need for engaging TAY through Child and Family Teams (CFTs). The specificity and uniqueness of needs in this population will be presented, and participants will develop an awareness of integrated strategies and resources for authentic engagement in the lives of these youth within a CFT framework. The workshop will provide an opportunity for participants to ask questions and share strategies for effective partnerships between TAY and CFTs.

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Author: Resource Center for Family-Focused Practice

C9 Through the Lens of Wraparound: An-Early Childhood Approach

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The purpose of this workshop is to orient participants to the key principles in Wraparound blended with recommended best practice guidelines for serving the early childhood birth to six populations. Participants will gain an understanding of some key areas of differences when evaluating and serving the early childhood population in Wraparound. Participants will be given an overview of trauma informed practices within the Early Childhood Wraparound Model of care. Participants will walk away with an understanding of recommended competencies for working with the birth to six populations as outlined by the California Center for Infant-Toddler Mental Health. Participants will be oriented to resources available within the 0-6 system of care.

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Author: Resource Center for Family-Focused Practice

Keynote Building a Legacy of Wellness: Creating Resilience Through Relationships in the 21st Century

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As the healthcare system evolves to meet the changing demands of an increasingly diverse nation; creating an equally prepared system of services that address these needs has become a top priority for all service providers. Dr. Isaiah Pickens will discuss the challenges for families of navigating within and across systems and the promise of integrating a relationship-based framework to meet their needs; while providing evidence-based care. This keynote address will inspire service providers to use relationships for building resilience in both their clients and themselves.

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Author: Resource Center for Family-Focused Practice

Plenary Different Responsibilities... Common Vision

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It has been said that “teamwork makes the dream work,”and our dream is for every child and family to succeed. For this to happen, we must create a common vision that encourages partnerships. This plenary session will highlight the importance of developing and sustaining partnerships. Children and families need a great team to succeed. Great teams may have different responsibilities, but they have a common vision.

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Author: Resource Center for Family-Focused Practice

Closing The Healing Heartbeat

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As a traditional Native American consultant and spiritual teacher; Mr. Redhouse will use the traditional “Circle of Life” to explain how we can maintain personal balance that will create harmony in our community. Within that circle of life there are four directions representing the four aspects of our human life and the seasons of energy that can create completeness. In our journey around our circle; we will experience transitions in our chronological age; relationships and careers that will teach us about ourselves. Having healthy beginnings will set the foundation for how all of our seasons will continue to progress peacefully in our lifetime. The one constant “heartbeat” that allows us to flow through each life transition smoothly is called love. From the time of our birth; relationships will be the constant tools that will teach us about who we are and how we can interact with others and experience harmony. In modern society we have experienced division; conflict; fear and confusion because we have strayed from the simplicity of this heartbeat called love; that unites; heals and guides us to our truth.

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Author: Resource Center for Family-Focused Practice

A13 Functional Family Therapy (FFT) in Los Angeles County Probation

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FFT is a short-term evidence-based intervention that focuses on the strengths in the family; community; school and neighborhood. The goal of FF T is to reduce criminal offending and out-of-home placements. Probation has trained two teams to administer FF T. They have been formally trained and receive ongoing training and assistance to ensure that they are providing this evidence-based service with fidelity. Come learn how this was done and how you can use FFT.

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Author: Resource Center for Family-Focused Practice

A14 Continuum of Care Reform: A County’s Experience Building Partnerships and Child and Family Team Meetings; Part 1

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This workshop will provide information on collaboration efforts between public agencies and community partners to effectively implement the Continuum of Care Reform (CCR) initiative. It will discuss the collaborative relationships among Child Welfare Services; Mental Health; Probation; TulareWORKS; Tulare County Office of Education and Parenting Network (parent partners). The workshop will also discuss the implementation of Child and Family Team (CFT) meetings in Tulare County that started with a pilot program in 2016.

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Author: Resource Center for Family-Focused Practice

A15 Introduction to Resource Family Approval

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In 2017; California implemented the Resource Family Approval (RFA) Program. RFA is a unified; family friendly and child-centered process created to replace the existing multiple processes for licensing foster family homes and approving relatives and non-relative extended family members as foster-care providers; as well as approving families for legal guardianship or adoption. The RFA Program eliminates duplication; coordinates approval standards and provides a comprehensive assessment of all families; to expedite permanency for children and youth served by the Child Welfare and Juvenile Probation Departments. This training aims to orient participants to the RFA Program and explore ways participants can support families and youth impacted by RFA through their professional roles.

Material Type: Lecture Notes

Author: Resource Center for Family-Focused Practice

B3 The Path Back to You: Working with Families Who Have Experienced Domestic Violence

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This session will focus on increasing the knowledge base and awareness for working with families who have experienced domestic violence. The goal of the session is to provide a basic level of understanding on how to work with families who have experienced or are experiencing domestic violence. Attendees will leave with a greater awareness; skill set and practical tools to aid them in serving families who have experienced domestic violence.

Material Type: Lecture Notes

Author: Resource Center for Family-Focused Practice

B4 Providing Social Emotional and Behavioral Support for Young People in the Community

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Casa Pacifica’s Community-based services in Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties provide a wide range of social; emotional and behavioral support for youth ages 2-22 years in various community settings; including schools; homes and group homes. Learn specific interventions to use in the various phases of treatment: rapport-building/assessment phase; implementation phase; and transition and fade-out phase. Participants will leave with interventions they can use immediately with youth of all ages in all stages of treatment.

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Author: Resource Center for Family-Focused Practice

B5 Creating a Relational Foundation that Supports the Application of Best Practices: What’s Neuroscience; Reflection and Engagement Got To Do With It?; Part 2

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Engagement is a word commonly used to describe a practice that should be used by all who serve youth and families. Engaging staff at all levels of an organization is just as critical. But what does that look like? How do we engage others and create the relational foundation essential to support the application of best practices? In this workshop; participants will learn the role neuroscience plays in how we engage others; they will understand how to create an environment that encourages reflection and supports dialogue that identifies barriers to engagement; and they will leave with tools and strategies that they can apply immediately to create meaningful conversations within the organization and with families.

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Author: Resource Center for Family-Focused Practice

B6 The Facilitation Process: The Good; The Bad and The Ugly

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This workshop will teach advanced; effective techniques for facilitating an effective CFT (Child and Family Team) meeting. The distinct stages of facilitation will be discussed; as well as how to recognize what stage the team is in. Common pitfalls and best practice standards of facilitation will be outlined. A live facilitation with stop-action explanation will be presented.

Material Type: Lecture Notes

Author: Resource Center for Family-Focused Practice

B7 More Than Race; The Endless Journey Toward Cultural Competency and Humility; Part 2

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In this three-hour workshop; we will begin the conversation about cultural competency; privilege; oppression and humility. This course focuses on personal; and often unquestioned; beliefs and experiences in an attempt to enhance learning about cultural competence; increase humility in working with others and begin to be more open to examining the world from various perspectives. We will discuss entering into situations with humility; willing to learn from others; and being open and honest with ourselves about our own identities; privileges; oppression and growth opportunities.

Material Type: Lecture Notes

Author: Resource Center for Family-Focused Practice

B9 Powerful Practices: Improving School Climate and Changing Children’s Future Through the CA Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning (CSEFEL) Teaching Pyramid Framework

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The CA CSEFEL Teaching Pyramid’s tiered approach—promoting healthy social-emotional skills; preventing challenging behaviors and intervening for problematic behaviors—transforms early childhood classroom climates by focusing on social-emotional development and building the skills of the adults in the child’s life; while supporting children with specific promotion and prevention strategies. This strategy is being taught across California and connects to school-wide Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports. There is also a strong emphasis on partnerships with families; and the approach directly supports several of the protective factors from Strengthening Families.

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Author: Resource Center for Family-Focused Practice

B10 Assessing and Improving Outcomes: A Crosswalk of the California Well-Being Project and Child and Family Services Review (CFSR) in California

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While interventions and outcomes can feel like opposite ends of the Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) spectrum; they are more closely related then most realize. This workshop will help participants link the daily work of interventions with the larger task of improving outcomes. Participants will gain a basic knowledge of the California Well-Being Project (which includes the interventions of Wraparound and Safety Organized Practice) as well as the California Case Review process.

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Author: Resource Center for Family-Focused Practice

B11 Partnering to Transform Foster Care Through the Quality Parenting Initiative (QPI); Part 1

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Come learn about California’s QPI effort to transform foster care by re-orienting system practice and policy to meet the core developmental needs of children and youth through prioritizing excellent; loving parenting. Although child development; brain and trauma research have definitively established excellent parenting as a foundational element to support healthy child and youth development and well-being; systems have often undermined; rather than supported; effective parenting. Approximately 70 jurisdictions in 10 states; including 26 counties in California; have joined the QPI movement. Families; youth; agency leaders and staff; judicial partners and community agencies are working in partnership to make the practice; culture and policy changes necessary to prioritize relationships and ensure the healthy development of children and youth in child welfare.

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Author: Resource Center for Family-Focused Practice

B12 Integrating Transformational Collaborative Outcomes Management (TCOM) into the Child and Family Team Process; Part 2

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Learn how TCOM can be effectively integrated into the Wraparound process to promote success. Training will demonstrate how to use Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths (CANS) on multiple levels: increasing team collaboration and communication in the context of the Child and Family Team (CFT); engaging in team treatment planning; enhancing oversight and supervision; and monitoring outcomes for families. Leave with tools for utilizing TCOM within the Wraparound context and a success story of how TCOM integration has had a positive impact on outcomes reporting.

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Author: Resource Center for Family-Focused Practice

B13 Increasing Cultural Proficiency in Understanding Commercially Sexually Exploited Children (CSEC)

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Engaging with Wraparound team members around CSEC in a way that demonstrates respect for the values; preferences; beliefs; culture and identity of bilingual/bicultural Spanish-speaking families is a critical part of collaboration and integrating the Wraparound principle of Cultural Competency. This workshop focuses on strategies for understanding and sharing introductory CSEC information with team members with a bicultural lens. Attendees will participate in a CSEC 101 training and be equipped with the information and materials to engage with others around this important topic. This workshop will be provided in English.

Material Type: Lecture Notes

Author: Resource Center for Family-Focused Practice

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