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A1 Using Trauma-Informed Principles to Infuse Self-Care in Schools

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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.

Material Type: Lecture Notes

Author: Resource Center for Family-Focused Practice

A2 Presumptive Transfer? But I’m Already Here!

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Effective July 1; 2017; when a child or youth in foster care is placed outside his or her county of jurisdiction; the responsibility to provide; arrange and pay for specialty mental health services changes. Presumptive transfer sounds like a complicated government administrative process because it is. This workshop will provide an explanation of what this process is; who is affected by it and how it can be managed effectively.

Material Type: Lecture Notes

Author: Resource Center for Family-Focused Practice

A4 Aligning Teaming Models to Achieve Best Practice: CFT; SOP and TDM

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In 2018; the landscape of services for children and families being served in California Child Welfare Services has continued to evolve. One recent evolution is the use of Child and Family Teams as a vehicle for team planning. Child and Family Teaming (CFT) must integrate practices; services and supports for children; youth; non-minor dependents (NM Ds) and families in care. Two of the major practices to integrate with the CFT mandate include Safety Organized Practice (SOP) and Team Decision-Making (TDM) meetings. SOP is a collaborative practice approach that emphasizes the importance of teamwork in child welfare; and TDM is a facilitated team meeting structure to address placement issues for children involved or potentially involved in foster care. This workshop will focus on the promising practices and art of integrating SOP and TDM into a CFT process. Participants will leave with increased capacity to create one teaming process that meets the needs of the child; youth; NM D; parent; family agency and community.

Material Type: Lecture Notes

Author: Resource Center for Family-Focused Practice

A5 Creating a Relational Foundation that Supports the Application of Best Practices: What’s Neuroscience; Reflection and Engagement Got To Do With It?; Part 1

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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.

Material Type: Lecture Notes

Author: Resource Center for Family-Focused Practice

A6 Are Your Strengths Leading You to Achieving Your Best Outcomes with Ease?

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Plan to attend this highly interactive workshop if you have been wondering how to propel yourself forward and achieve your goals and objectives by aligning the outcomes you desire with your greatest natural talents and strengths. Discover what Gallup; Inc. has done with critical thinking to support us in learning to tap into who we already are to maximize our productivity! Be willing to practice some basic coaching skills with colleagues in this session. If you are experiencing a transition in your life (professionally or personally); leave this session inspired to take your next steps--moving into action toward making that significant difference you desire to make in the lives of the people we serve!

Material Type: Lecture Notes

Author: Resource Center for Family-Focused Practice

A7 More Than Race; The Endless Journey Toward Cultural Competency and Humility; Part 1

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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

A8 Therapeutic Foster Care (TFC) Training Resource Toolkit

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In December 2011; the State of California entered into a settlement agreement of the class action lawsuit Katie A v. Bonta. Therapeutic Foster Care (TFC) is one of the Specialty Mental Health Services that became available as a result of this settlement. This workshop will provide background as to how California’s TFC service model; TFC parent training topics and learning objectives evolved. Presenters will walk participants through the TFC Training Resource Toolkit; which was created to provide information and resources to assist TFC agencies to develop a TFC parent training program.

Material Type: Lecture Notes

Author: Resource Center for Family-Focused Practice

A9 Continuum of Care Reform – Short-Term Residential Therapeutic Programs (STRTPs)

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The purpose of this workshop is to provide an overview of the STRTPs versus group homes; per the enactment of the Continuum of Care Reform (CCR). The CCR’s mission is to improve outcomes for foster children through a decreased dependence on congregate care and an increased reliance on loving; nurturing families. The overview will cover the shift away from congregate care and the formation of STRTPs and how they fit into California’s foster care system.

Material Type: Lecture Notes

Author: Resource Center for Family-Focused Practice

A10 The New Home-Based Family Care Rate Structure and the Level of Care Protocol: What is it?

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The Level of Care (LOC) Matrix protocol updates the decades-old method of determining a rate based on a child’s age. The new protocol is designed to match the daily care and supervision needs of a child or youth based on level of intensity and the abilities of the resource family; which translates to a rate. Come hear the basics; updates and how some counties and providers are implementing the new protocol.

Material Type: Lecture Notes

Author: Resource Center for Family-Focused Practice

A11 Introduction to the Juvenile Justice System – Probation 101

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The role of juvenile probation is to reduce recidivism; to maintain and return youth as law-abiding members of the community. Probation officers are tasked with balancing responsibilities of community safety; youth safety and rehabilitation and treatment. This is an opportunity to gain an understanding of the role and responsibilities of probation officers; the juvenile court process and services provided to youth.

Material Type: Lecture Notes

Author: Resource Center for Family-Focused Practice

A12 Integrating Transformational Collaborative Outcomes Management (TCOM) into the Child and Family Team Process; Part 1

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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.

Material Type: Lecture Notes

Author: Resource Center for Family-Focused Practice

B1 Wraparound and CANS: Integrating the Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths (CANS) Assessment into the Phases and Activities of Wraparound

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The use of the CANS across child servings systems is growing and intersecting with supports and services; such as Wraparound; for youth and their families across the country. A system-level framework for Wraparound and CANS are well documented; but there is very little information about methods for integration of the two at the practice level and within an organizational structure. This presentation will explore aspects of CANS and Wraparound integration and report on specific strategies for integrating CANS data with the phases of Wraparound. Specific tools for integration will be shared.

Material Type: Lecture Notes

Author: Resource Center for Family-Focused Practice

B2 Presumptive Transfer? But I’m Already Here! (Repeat Session)

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Effective July 1; 2017; when a child or youth in foster care is placed outside his or her county of jurisdiction; the responsibility to provide; arrange and pay for specialty mental health services changes. Presumptive transfer sounds like a complicated government administrative process because it is. This workshop will provide an explanation of what this process is; who is affected by it and how it can be managed effectively.

Material Type: Lecture Notes

Author: Resource Center for Family-Focused Practice

C1 Facilitating for Results

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This workshop will focus on proactive techniques and skills to help ensure facilitators are able to recognize and obtain the results they are looking for in every meeting. Participants will learn how to manage and drive the results of meetings before they even begin. They will also get an opportunity to reflect on their own values; which may/may not impact their approach with their team and families. Facilitators will have a chance to reflect and recognize the type of facilitator they are and the need to be flexible depending on the results they want for a meeting. We will focus on facilitators in Wraparound and what it means to be outcome-based; by going over types of meeting goals. All of these goals are “results;” and we will help participants recognize when they are getting these results and how we see them in the Wraparound process.

Material Type: Lecture Notes

Author: Resource Center for Family-Focused Practice

C2 The Invisible Community: HIV/AIDS Epidemic and Its Disproportionate Impact on African Americans

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African Americans have been disproportionately affected by H V/AIDS since the epidemic’s beginning; and that disparity has deepened over time. African Americans account for more new HIV infections; people estimated to be living with HIV disease; and HIV-related deaths than any other racial/ethnic group in the U.S. The epidemic has also had a disproportionate impact on African American women; youth and gay and bisexual men; and its impact varies across the country. As a Wraparound provider in LA county; it is common to work with families affected by HIV.

Material Type: Lecture Notes

Author: Resource Center for Family-Focused Practice

C3 Creating Systems Change: Building Adoption Competency in Child Welfare and Mental Health

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Child-welfare professionals and mental health therapists serving children and families who are achieving permanency through adoption/guardianship often have a limited understanding of the complex issues that complicate or contribute to common mental health problems. These include trauma; grief; loss; identity and many others. This presentation will highlight the need for adoption mental health competency training for child-welfare and mental-health professionals; and it will present the National Adoption Competency Mental Health Training Initiative’s (NTI) efforts to create systems change to better address the mental health needs of children who have achieved permanency through adoption or guardianship. NTI has piloted a state-of-the-art; evidence-informed; web-based training initiative. This presentation will discuss the pilot (which includes California); core competencies of the curriculum; initial evaluation findings; and challenges and successes of implementing a web-based curriculum in our pilot sites.

Material Type: Lecture Notes

Author: Resource Center for Family-Focused Practice

C4 Got Individualized?: Creating and Implementing Out-of-the-Box Tools In Wraparound

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Are you ready to take your Wraparound interactions to a higher level? Participants will tap into their creative sides and explore new and fun ways to turn everyday items into meaningful tools. Each role will gain practical application of new ideas and tools from development to implementation. Participants will leave with the ability to break the ice on difficult conversations as well as make their interactions more meaningful and fun.

Material Type: Lecture Notes

Author: Resource Center for Family-Focused Practice

C5 Toward True Integration: Building Alignment between Public-Private Leaders to Support Successful Programs

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The importance of teaming and collaboration to achieve successful outcomes exists at all staffing levels of a Wraparound program; not just among those who work directly with children and families. This workshop focuses on strategies that supervisors; managers and administrators can use to support their programs in becoming more aligned with their partner agencies. Participants will engage in an assessment of program alignment; learn strategies for strengthening alignment and leave with action steps for moving their program toward true integration.

Material Type: Lecture Notes

Author: Resource Center for Family-Focused Practice

C6 Wraparound and Resiliency Interventions for Sexual Exploitation (RISE): A Look at the Successful Collaboration of Care for Sexually Exploited Youth in Santa Barbara County

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The importance of teaming and collaboration to achieve successful outcomes exists at all staffing levels of a Wraparound program; not just among those who work directly with children and families. This workshop focuses on strategies that supervisors; managers and administrators can use to support their programs in becoming more aligned with their partner agencies. Participants will engage in an assessment of program alignment; learn strategies for strengthening alignment and leave with action steps for moving their program toward true integration.

Material Type: Lecture Notes

Author: Resource Center for Family-Focused Practice

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