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B14 Continuum of Care Reform: A County’s Experience Building Partnerships and Child and Family Team Meetings; Part 2

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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.

Material Type: Lecture Notes

Author: Resource Center for Family-Focused Practice

B15 Selecting and Implementing Evidence-Based Practices for Children; Youth and Parents

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The CEBC (www.cebc4cw.org) is an online dissemination tool containing over 380 intervention and prevention programs with varying levels of supporting research evidence. The CEBC can be used by child and family-serving systems and organizations to identify new practices for implementation; however; knowledge alone of available practices is not sufficient for selecting the right one. The CEBC has created a guide to help child- and family-serving agencies think critically through the selection and implementation process. This workshop will walk participants through the process of how to assess agency needs; determine whether changes to the agency are needed and successfully select a new program to best meet the needs of the children and families being served.

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Author: Resource Center for Family-Focused Practice

B16 Babies and Toddlers in the Child Welfare System are Important and Why They Need You to Know That

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Babies need love. Babies in child welfare also need you to know how their start in life has impacted them. This workshop will provide an overview of the significance children under five in child welfare have. They have unique and specific needs; including basic developmental expectations. Learn about the importance of early relationships and the impact of trauma/child maltreatment on the developing brain.

Material Type: Lecture Notes

Author: Resource Center for Family-Focused Practice

C10 Wraparound Services and Adult Youth: Implementing Services for Youth 18 and Older

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This session will cover aspects of providing Wraparound services to youth over the age of 18; by exploring unique aspects of collaboration with this age group and their community partners. Participants will also learn to help family members accept the change in a youth’s status and their role in supporting the youth. Finally; we will discuss maintaining engagement with adult youth and defining the roles of all Wraparound team members in the treatment process.

Material Type: Lecture Notes

Author: Resource Center for Family-Focused Practice

C11 Partnering to Transform Foster Care Through the Quality Parenting Initiative (QPI); Part 2

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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.

Material Type: Lecture Notes

Author: Resource Center for Family-Focused Practice

C12 The Power Struggle is Real: Mending the Relationship and Eliminating the Argument to Teach our Kids the Power of Choice

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This workshop will focus on real and effective strategies when working with defiant teenage youth. So often we seek to quickly throw out labels that hinder our ability to establish a trusting working relationship. Learn to connect with tough youth by using an authentic approach and effective collaboration strategies in the Wraparound process.

Material Type: Lecture Notes

Author: Resource Center for Family-Focused Practice

C13 Aumentar la Competencia Cultural en el Entrenamiento de ESCNNA Increasing Cultural Proficiency in Understanding Commercially Sexually Exploited Children (CSEC)

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Engaging with Wraparound team members on the topic of Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC) in a way that demonstrates respect for the values; preferences; beliefs; culture and identity of bilingual/bicultural families is a critical part of collaborating and integrating the Wraparound principle of Cultural Competency. This workshop focuses on strategies for sharing introductory CSEC information with team members in Spanish and with a bicultural lens. Attendees will participate in a CSEC 101 training provided in Spanish and be equipped with the information and materials (written in Spanish) to engage with others around this important topic. Participar con los miembros del equipo de Servicios Integrales sobre el tema de ESCNN A de una manera que demuestre respecto por los valores; preferencia; creencias; cultura e identidad de las familias bilingües/biculturales; es una parte fundamental de la colaboración de los Services Integrales sobre el Entendimiento Cultural. Este curso se enfoca en estrategias para proporcionar información introductoria de ESCNN A a los miembros del equipo en español y estarán equipados con la información y materiales para acoplar y compartir esta información a otros.

Material Type: Lecture Notes

Author: Resource Center for Family-Focused Practice

C14 Recognizing the Need to Heal: Compassion Fatigue and How It Relates to the Empathic Worker

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As professionals in the helping field; we are encouraged to carry hope for our families with an empathetic heart without being educated about the cost of caring. This training will define Compassion Fatigue and compare its symptoms to burnout. It will encourage participants to take a holistic look at stressors in their life and examine how those stressors impact the empathic hearts.

Material Type: Lecture Notes

Author: Resource Center for Family-Focused Practice

C15 Selecting and Implementing Evidence-Based Practices for Children; Youth and Parents (Repeat Session)

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The CEBC (www.cebc4cw.org) is an online dissemination tool containing over 380 intervention and prevention programs with varying levels of supporting research evidence. The CEBC can be used by child and family-serving systems and organizations to identify new practices for implementation; however; knowledge alone of available practices is not sufficient for selecting the right one. The CEBC has created a guide to help child- and family-serving agencies think critically through the selection and implementation process. This workshop will walk participants through the process of how to assess agency needs; determine whether changes to the agency are needed and successfully select a new program to best meet the needs of the children and families being served.

Material Type: Lecture Notes

Author: Resource Center for Family-Focused Practice

C16 Team Building for Every Team

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In this active workshop you will participate in and learn to facilitate several team-building exercises that could be used with many types of groups; large or small; with clients and families or with your own staff. A skillful facilitator makes use of team building tasks to examine relationships in a much more effective way than just talking about them. We will learn activities for breaking the ice in early stages as well as for pushing a team through challenges and finally saying goodbye in a meaningful way.

Material Type: Lecture Notes

Author: Resource Center for Family-Focused Practice

D1 Building Systems of Care: An Advanced Approach to Cross-System Collaboration and Transformation

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This presentation explores the Systems of Care approach as a national cross-system effort to transform the delivery of services and supports for children; adolescents and young adults. Implementation factors; effective strategies and recommendations for expanding the approach are discussed. How to develop cross-system collaborative structures at multiple levels will also be covered.

Material Type: Lecture Notes

Author: Resource Center for Family-Focused Practice

D4 Prioritizing When Everything is a Crisis!

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Solution-orientated Child and Family Team Meetings: This workshop will focus on prioritizing crisis from a solutions perspective. When the family feels there is no hope for their situation; how do you as their team assist the family in changing their perspective on their situation; when you cannot change the situations they are facing? We will focus on the process that the team follows to support the family in times of crisis.

Material Type: Lecture Notes

Author: Resource Center for Family-Focused Practice

D5 Got People Problems? How to Resolve Conflict and Improve Relationships; and How We Respond; Reflect and Respect: A look at Culture through “Hello; Help; Healing and Hope;” Part 1

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This workshop will help participants understand the dynamics of conflict and learn strategies to respond effectively and confidently. We will look at how culture can help in planning; using preferred methods for meeting needs. Family Voice and Choice can be realized when we successfully interact and think in ways that show respect for diversity in communication; outlook and preference; to name a few. Join us as we unpack an understanding of culture and how being Culturally Responsive; Reflective and Respectful can be a great planning tool for meeting needs through the phases “Hello; Help; Heal and Hope.” Through a process of self-reflection; the principle of culture and its impact on the Wraparound process will be reinforced.

Material Type: Lecture Notes

Author: Resource Center for Family-Focused Practice

D6 Interagency Partnership and Practice: Building Shared Leadership in Pursuit of Foster Care Reforms and Child and Family Teaming

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California’s Foster Care and related reforms mandate that public agencies build or enhance shared leadership and decision-making processes. While many counties have begun to collaborate in this effort; there is a continuum of integration which; if pursued; will sustain and support long-term shared outcomes; return financial investments; and empower youth and family service recipients in unique and value-added ways. This workshop will give attendees an opportunity to both understand the elements of successful inter-agency management and begin to strategize their own partnerships.

Material Type: Lecture Notes

Author: Resource Center for Family-Focused Practice

D7 Wraparound in the Educational Setting

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This workshop will present various options to implementing Wraparound practice and principles for schools; with education as the system initiating the need for Wraparound for children and families. The workshop will cover two educational service delivery models and funding streams: Educationally Related Mental Health Services (ERMH S) and School-based Wraparound. The ERMH S Wraparound Program provides an alternative to out-of-home placement for children who have not been able to access their education with less-intensive interventions. The workshop will cover School-based Wraparound Programs focused on addressing familial needs that impede children’s ability to access their education.

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Author: Resource Center for Family-Focused Practice

D8 Commercial Sexually Exploited Children (CSEC) 101: Identification and Intervention Tools

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The focus of this workshop is to provide general information on Human Trafficking and Commercially Sexually Exploited Youth; to explain how Yolo County is responding to the issue; and to provide tools to identify and understand how working with victims of trafficking requires a different approach.

Material Type: Lecture Notes

Author: Resource Center for Family-Focused Practice

D9 Sex Talk: Guiding Healthy Discussions About Sexuality

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Sex is a fundamental part of human existence. So why are we so terrible at talking about it? If you’d like to have an impact on teen pregnancy; STDs; sexual exploitation; sexual harassment; sexual abuse; healthy relationships and many other areas; then you need to be able to talk about sex. This workshop will examine why we struggle so much to talk about sex and provide tips on facilitating healthy conversations.

Material Type: Lecture Notes

Author: Resource Center for Family-Focused Practice

D10 More Than Race; The Endless Journey Toward Cultural Competency and Humility; Part 1 (Repeat session)

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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

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