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Innovative presentations and in-depth workshops address data-driven policy, system design and implementation, and well-researched approaches that are highly relevant to experts and leaders, including youth and families, in the field of children’s services from communities across the nation.
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Conference sessions focus on ten topic areas that are critical components of effective delivery systems for children, youth, young adults, and families. Presentations address the system of care core values of community-based, family-driven, youth-driven, and culturally and linguistically responsive designs, models, services, and approaches. Presenters and attendees are experts and leaders in the field of children’s services including parents, youth, young adults, policymakers, clinicians, researchers, and evaluators from communities across the nation.
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Culturally and Linguistically Responsive and Competent Care ▾
- Asking About SOGIE: Key Findings from a Foster Care System-Wide Data Collection Intervention
- Behavioral Health Service and Support for Reservation, Urban, and Frontier Native American Youth
- Best Practices and Strategies: Providing Affirming Care To Transgender and Non-Binary Individuals
- Creating Equity-Focused Educational Programs
- Disrupting Demographics: Challenging and Re-Thinking Restrictive and Binary Demographic Categories
- Expanding Family Finding for Youth with Diverse Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Findings from the Youth Acceptance Project and What We Have Learned About Family Progress
- Lessons Learned from Michigan’s Efforts to Collect SOGIE Data
- Partnering with Cultural Advisors to Adapt an Early Childhood Evidenced Based Parenting Curriculum
- Step by Step Guide to Assist Organizations in Developing a Health Equity Plan
- The Adopted Life: Conversations About Race, Adoption & Identity
- The Importance of Family Acceptance for Young People with Diverse SOGIE
- Uncovering and Addressing Implicit Bias in Child Welfare Organizations
Family Engagement, Leadership, Organizational Development and Advocacy ▾
- 200 Years of Family Separation - But You Can Trust Us Now
- Children Are Not For Sale: A Collaborative Response to Support Victims of Human Trafficking
- From Caregiver in Crisis to Program Director: One Parent’s Wraparound Journey
- Implementing Peer Leadership in Developing a Strategic Peer Community of Practice
- Local Care Teams Pull It All Together!
- Oklahoma Family WAVE (We Achieve Victories Everyday): How to Make Waves with Family Involvement
- Building an Interconnected School Based System of Care, Together: The MYalliance Journey and Toolkit
Health Integration, Design, Financing, and Practice ▾
- Care Coordination Requires More Than Consensus and Commitment
- The Evolving Landscape of Behavioral Health Technology: Innovations, Applications, and Outcomes
- Which To Choose? Untangling the Overlap of Care Coordination, Case Management, and Similar Practice
- Opportunities for States Through the Family First Prevention Services Act
- Customizing Pay for Performance Strategies for Children's Behavioral Health
- Innovative Strategies for Partnerships with Juvenile Justice and the Courts
Measurement, Outcomes, and Quality Improvement ▾
- Community Strategies to Better Understand and Address Youth Homelessness from Youth REACH MD
- Developing Post-Residential Discharge Measurement Capacity
- End-User Perspectives on Technology Supporting Measurement, Outcomes, and Quality Assurance
- Ensuring that Data Drives Quality: Examples from Wraparound with Intensive Services (WISe) in Washington
- Improving Outcomes for Children Child Welfare Reform and the Total Quality Management Framework
- Learning, Innovating, and Improving together: A Framework for Co-Creative, Evidence-Building Change
- Leveraging Evaluation: Measuring Community Impact and Data Driven Quality Improvement
- Measuring Implementation of Behavioral Health Services at the State, System, and Program Levels
- School-Based Mental Health: Tracking and Enhancing Program Outcomes to Promote Student Success
- State of the Art Virtual Coaching Platform: Enhancing Innovative Workforce Development
- System of Care Practice Review (SOCPR): Perspectives from Program, Community, and State
- Tracking Organizational Culture and Climate – A Roadmap to “Fitted” EBP Selection and Implementation
- Using Data for Equity: Creating and Expanding Capacity for Data-Driven Decision Making
Strategic Communications and Social Marketing ▾
- #pawsforsoc: Incorporating Therapy Dogs into a Social Marketing Campaign
- Case Study: Framing Strategies to Build Public Understanding of Child Well-Being in Jacksonville
- Social Marketing and Sustainability: Creative Ways to Generate Stakeholders
System Design, Financing, and Value-Based Purchasing Approaches ▾
- Breakthrough: A Community Working Together for Youth
- Bringing Pieces Together: A County-Level System of Care, its partners & Finance Management Structure
- Building and Sustaining a Countywide System of Care
- Calricaraq System of Care: Empowering Alaska Native Communities to Heal Using Their Own Traditions
Treatment, Services, Supports, Early Intervention, and Prevention Approaches ▾
- Caught Up - An Exploration of Teen Sex Trafficking Within A Hip Hop Drama
- TransAgency Transdisciplinary Model: Tools To Adapt for the Opioid Crisis in Early Childhood Today
- Beyond Co-Occurring Disorders: Conceptualization Tools; Youth with Multiple-Occurring Difficulties
- Breaking the Cycle of Addiction: Successful Strategies to Support Youth Affected by the Opioid Crisis
- Building Healthy Futures for LGBTQI2-S Children & Youth
- Creating Cultures of Healing: School-Focused Trauma Awareness Training of Trainers
- From Dogman to Jackie Robinson; Engaging Hard-To-Reach Children & Parents with the Heroes Quest
- Implementation of Data Directed Treatment Planning Within Trauma Integrative-Treatment Foster Care
- Implementation that Works: Moving Parent Child Interaction Therapy Into the Community
- Implementing and Sustaining Comprehensive Frameworks to Provide School-Based Health Supports
- Improving Transition-Age Youth Outcomes: Quality Implementation, Capacity-Building & Sustainability
- Integrating Youth, Young Adults, and First Episode Psychosis Services into the System of Care
- Making Change Stick: Bolder Policies that Enhance the Lives of Young Adults
- Many Ways Home: An Overview of Host Home Models for Addressing Youth Homelessness
- Multisystemic Therapy: Proven Results For Youth, Families, and Their Community
- PAX Tools Workshop: Supporting Multisystem Youth Using Prevention Strategies for Self-Regulation
- Peer Support within Pennsylvania: The High Fidelity Wraparound Planning Process
- Prevention and Intervention Strategies to Achieve Outcomes for Special Populations
- Priming Brains to Learn: Neuroscience-Based Opportunities to Strengthen Executive Function Skills
- Reducing Homelessness for Children and Youth with Disabilities Using the SOAR Model
- Results of a Trauma-Sensitive Training Program for School Based Professionals
- Successful Implementation and Scaling of High-Fidelity Wraparound; Florida's Statewide Approach
- The BISSness of School Based Mental Health Partnerships: Doing It Your Way
- The Mental Health Block Grant Ten Percent Set Aside Study: Building Effective Teams
- The Use of Trial Home Visits as a Means of Preventing Foster Care Reentries
- Translating Evidence to Support Transitions: Improving Outcomes for Youth with Emotional Disorders
- True Community Collaboration – Schools as the Fiduciary Agent of a Systems of Care Grant
- Use of Digital Technology for Youth Behavioral Health Outcomes: iKinnect for Conduct Problems
- What Could Be – Bolder Approaches for Brighter Young Adult Futures
- What Do You Do When the Toy Bag Has to Stay at Home?
- Youth- and Family-Led Permanency: Transforming Residential Interventions in Texas
- Effectively Integrating the CANS into Wraparound
Youth Engagement, Leadership, Organizational Development, and Advocacy ▾
- Creating a Career Ladder for Youth Leaders in the System of Care
- Healthy Transition-Peer Model
- Innovative Ways to Engage Youth and Young Adults in a Drop-In Center
- Journey
- RESIST! The Urge to Tell Youth What to Do: Advanced Skills for Youth-Driven Practice
- Surviving to Thriving
- Youth Engagement & Retention: Making It FUN & With Meaningful Intention
Workforce Development, Management, and Leadership ▾
- Creating an Oasis: How to Create and Maintain a Climate that Supports Wraparound Implementation
- Creating Musical Playlists to Improve Wellbeing and Performance: Using the Science
- Developing Child Welfare Culture/Climate to Decrease the Impact of STS and Decrease Turn-over
- Disseminating Evidence-based Practices: The Pivotal Role of University-Affiliated Intermediaries
- Identifying Elements of Effective Youth Programs: A Cross-Agency and Cross-Cutting Approach
- inSIGHT: Understanding and Mitigating Implicit Racial Bias in Child Protection
- Intentional Cultivation of a Pathway to Effective and Efficient Leadership Practice
- Mobile First: How Technology Can Help (or Harm) Delivery of Care
- Oklahoma: Supporting Embedded Care Coordinators for Child Welfare Involved Children Youth/Families
- Oklahoma: Supporting Wraparound Providers Statewide Using Technology and Building Cohorts
- On Becoming Nurtured Heart Approach® Warriors to Change Organizational Culture
- Organizational & Systematic Change: How to Make Wraparound Powerful for Youth and Families Involved
- Supporting Growth of the Parent Peer Support Workforce: Standards in Training and Implementation
- Ubuntu! Organizational Leadership Transformation