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D11 Motivational Interviewing for the Child Welfare Worker; Part 1

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Motivational Interviewing (MI) is an evidence-based conversational method that helps promote behavior change in youth and adults. MI is used in diverse behavioral health and primary care settings to engage clients in change; and providers are finding important applications for this powerful approach. The child welfare system has found MI useful for engaging in change conversations; and MI is has been effective in working with pre-teens; adolescents; emerging adults and adults in the child welfare system. MI can be used in a number of child welfare settings; including differential response teams; schools; criminal justice environments; foster/kinship care; behavioral health centers and others. In this workshop; the central motivational interviewing concepts will be reviewed; and participants will have opportunities to practice discrete and powerful interventions that demonstrate important concepts of the model.

Material Type: Lecture Notes

Author: Resource Center for Family-Focused Practice

D12 Implementing Intensive Services Foster Care with ISFC

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The Family Care Network (FCNI) will be presenting this workshop on implementing ISFC; particularly for agencies who did not provide ITFC. This session will include a brief review of key elements of the new ISFC Welfare and Institution statutes and the process of updating your agency Program Statement. Based on 30 years of experience delivering Therapeutic Foster Care—and ITFC since the mid 90s—the FCNI webinar will share best practices and lessons learned. Discussion will also include: staffing; core service delivery; interagency partnerships and collaboration; integrating Wraparound; EPSDT and Community Resources; and ISFC as a base for the new TFC program.

Material Type: Lecture Notes

Author: Resource Center for Family-Focused Practice

D13 The Three Cs: CFT; CANS and Case Plans

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The Child and Family Team (CFT); Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths (CANS) assessment tool; and case plans are interconnected and inextricably linked. All three processes must adhere to fidelity and timeline requirements; which are intended to significantly improve the care experience for each and every family involved in the foster care system. Understanding these important processes and connections under the context of the Integrated Core Practice Model help build a strengths-based and outcomes-focused environment for families to help them reach and attain their goals. This workshop will provide information around policy guidance and best practices to support quality case-planning.

Material Type: Lecture Notes

Author: Resource Center for Family-Focused Practice

D14 Team Collaboration and Sustainability: Probation in Rural Counties Working With An Outside Wraparound Agency and Making It Successful; Part 1

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Integrating the goals of probation into one sustainable; achievable Wraparound plan can be a challenge; especially in rural counties. Learn how one county and its Wraparound provider overcame obstacles to achieve success with limited resources and how you can make it happen; too.

Material Type: Lecture Notes

Author: Resource Center for Family-Focused Practice

D15 “Hidden Treasures:” Community Wraparound with Former Gang Members Mentoring the Next Generation

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The key to transformation is in families and communities. At weekly gatherings; this group now teaches people how to “Wraparound” each other and keep kids out of a gang culture that can be generational. Former gang members now work alongside the probation department; law enforcement; churches; schools; universities and a multitude of nonprofit organizations to intervene and educate others.

Material Type: Lecture Notes

Author: Resource Center for Family-Focused Practice

D16 Intergenerational Trauma and Its Impact on African American and/or Black Families

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The Engagement Phase in Wraparound serves as the foundation for all other work that occurs in treatment. This is why it is incredibly important to build a successful rapport with youth and families during this time. Having an understanding of the cultural needs of a family will encourage open and honest communication with the team; yielding successful treatment outcomes. This workshop will focus on contextualizing behavioral; relational and ecological needs of African American and/or black families by highlighting the unique history of this population and integrating this knowledge into the Wraparound process.

Material Type: Lecture Notes

Author: Resource Center for Family-Focused Practice

E3 RED Teams for Child Safety: Review; Evaluate and Direct

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Please attend this workshop to learn more about the integration of Review; Evaluate; Direct (RED) teams into your practice. RED teams provide a platform for an internal group decision-making process that expands the ability of the organization to engage in advanced critical thinking to match an accepted report of child maltreatment with a selected child protective service response. RED teams involve the intake social worker; supervisor; other staff and community partners in the process of determining the appropriate level and time frame of a response to reports of child abuse and neglect. CDSS has issued a draft All County Letter *due to be finalized spring 2018* recommending the use of RED teams as a child welfare best practice.

Material Type: Lecture Notes

Author: Resource Center for Family-Focused Practice

E5 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 2

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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

E6 Wraparound with Probation: A Collaborative Approach

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In Alameda County; out of 235 youth who received Wraparound services between July 2012 and April 2017; 210 (89%) have no new sustained offenses within six months of their release from probation. Lincoln’s Project Permanence Wraparound Program in collaboration with Alameda County Behavioral Health and Alameda County Probation have designed a program to successfully empower youth and their families so that children can get off and stay off Probation. Please join our panel including a provider; behavioral health and probation as we share our program; collaboration and family stories.

Material Type: Lecture Notes

Author: Resource Center for Family-Focused Practice

E8 Parent Partner Advisory Committee: A Mutual Commitment to Supporting Families

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Parent partners; also known as peer and family partners; are lauded by families across the state as being the key people able to engage and support parents as they navigate systems; personal emotions and prejudice. Parent partners are not new to California; but their growing role calls for more collaboration and support than ever before. The Parent Partner Advisory Committee is a unique group of Parent partners; from a variety of disciplines and practices; who are meeting this need. The committee provides feedback on state initiatives; suggests parent involvement strategies and reviews curricula to ensure parents’ voices are included. We are honored to be called upon at policy-level decision points to provide feedback. The committee is also a place to share ideas and receive support from peers. Come join us and hear how you can be involved!

Material Type: Lecture Notes

Author: Resource Center for Family-Focused Practice

E9 Advocating for Social Justice as a Care Provider

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As care providers; we attempt to help children and families; but what is our role when we identify societal injustice standing in the way of family success? Discrimination of all types; both overt and subtle; can be a major obstacle for our families; as well as ourselves. This workshop will examine our ability to facilitate positive societal change within our work as well as support families in overcoming the effects of social injustice.

Material Type: Lecture Notes

Author: Resource Center for Family-Focused Practice

E10 More Than Race; The Endless Journey Toward Cultural Competency and Humility; Part 2 (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

E11 Motivational Interviewing for the Child Welfare Worker; Part 2

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Motivational Interviewing (MI) is an evidence-based conversational method that helps promote behavior change in youth and adults. MI is used in diverse behavioral health and primary care settings to engage clients in change; and providers are finding important applications for this powerful approach. The child welfare system has found MI useful for engaging in change conversations; and MI is has been effective in working with pre-teens; adolescents; emerging adults and adults in the child welfare system. MI can be used in a number of child welfare settings; including differential response teams; schools; criminal justice environments; foster/kinship care; behavioral health centers and others. In this workshop; the central motivational interviewing concepts will be reviewed; and participants will have opportunities to practice discrete and powerful interventions that demonstrate important concepts of the model.

Material Type: Lecture Notes

Author: Resource Center for Family-Focused Practice

E12 Maximizing Continuum of Care Reform (CCR) and Therapeutic Foster Care (TFC) Effectiveness with Wraparound

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San Luis Obispo County has maintained one of the most effective public/private Wraparound programs in California for nearly 20 years. Based on this experience; the workshop will provide a framework for integrating Wraparound with the new CCR Level Of Care (LOC) system; Intensive Services Foster Care (ISFC); as well as Therapeutic Family Care (TFC) to achieve maximum benefit for children; youth and the families working with them. Participants will learn how to enhance program outcomes through Wraparound; including increased services and supports; augmented staffing; augmented Resource Parent compensation; and by integrating community-based resources. Additionally; this presentation will discuss using Wraparound to provide an enhanced level of services and supports to children and youth placed with relative and NREFM families.

Material Type: Lecture Notes

Author: Resource Center for Family-Focused Practice

E13 Cheetahs and Antelope in the Workplace: Wellness Lessons from Evolutionary Neurobiology

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This session focuses on current research; theory and best practices for health and wellness programming and interventions in the workplace setting. Examples include planning; design and implementation of wellness programming; environmental and policy change; evaluation and reporting; communication; management; and culture change. The workshop also includes a case study of a Wraparound program implementing best practices that significantly decreased perceived stress and burnout.

Material Type: Lecture Notes

Author: Resource Center for Family-Focused Practice

E14 Team Collaboration and Sustainability: Probation in Rural Counties Working With An Outside Wraparound Agency and Making It Successful; Part 2

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Integrating the goals of probation into one sustainable; achievable Wraparound plan can be a challenge; especially in rural counties. Learn how one county and its Wraparound provider overcame obstacles to achieve success with limited resources and how you can make it happen; too.

Material Type: Lecture Notes

Author: Resource Center for Family-Focused Practice

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