The 21st National Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect (NCCAN) offers an exceptional opportunity for those committed to achieving better outcomes for children and families to connect and learn.  Unique in its scope and diversity, the 21st NCCAN will bring together practitioners, researchers, policy makers, parents, and volunteers from a wide variety of disciplines who come to gain new knowledge and understanding build new skills, and re-energize for the always challenging work ahead.

Who: Parents and Teens ages 14-18 years’ old who identify as
Lesbian, Gay, Transgender or Questioning
What: Safe space for young people to explore their identify.
Focus on finding/creating/exploring safe and fun social events
Groups will last 8 weeks; Individualized therapy as follow-up
Offered.
When:
Teens-Thursdays, May 2nd-June 20th, 2019 at 4 PM & 6 PM

Parents- Saturdays May May 4th-June 29, 2019 at 2 pm

“Footsteps to the Future”

**Over 14 CEU’s Available**

In the tradition of building and sharing expertise, the Annual Foster Care Conference will address a wide variety of problems facing foster care specialists, foster parents and various social service professionals who desire to enhance their skills in order to create the best foster home environment.

The National IV-E Roundtable for Child Welfare Training and Education is a yearly gathering of representatives from public and tribal child welfare agencies and their university partners. Our goal is to share our resources to build a strong child welfare workforce through training and education.

Established in 2005,” One Child, Many Hands” brings cutting edge practice, policy and research to practitioners, policy-makers, and administrators across the various fields and disciplines who work in the child welfare field. The conference features compelling keynote addresses, plenary panels on critical and emerging topics, networking luncheons, and breakout sessions. Located on Penn’s campus, OCMH promotes collaboration and interdisciplinary learning.

APSAC’s 26th Colloquium will bring high-quality learning opportunities to child maltreatment researchers and practitioners across experience levels and professions. Sessions will be designated as beginning, intermediate, or advanced level content.

Join us June 25-27, 2019, to grow in your understanding of adoption principles and root yourself within the adoption community. The National Adoption Conference gives adoption professionals an opportunity to branch out of their comfort zone as they meet other professionals and explore challenging, innovative adoption concepts. Our inspiring keynotes and breakout sessions feature speakers from across the adoption triad and all fields of adoption and are geared towards adoption professionals.

Join us in Las Vegas next summer for this four-day educational event that covers a wide variety of foster care and adoption topics—to meet the diverse needs and levels of experience of adoptive and foster parents, child welfare professionals, and people who were adopted or in foster care.

Join more than 700 child welfare professionals at the only international conference on family focused treatment services. Workshops are designed for advanced-level professionals who implement treatment family care models and interventions in family settings, including treatment foster, kinship, bio or adoptive families.

This conference will feature amazing presentations on current and cutting edge topics that will inspire, provoke, and precipitate discussions about issues facing the juvenile and family court system.  Plenary sessions highlighted by topic specific training tracks on family law, juvenile justice, child welfare, and family violence; as well as tracks featuring practical and innovative solutions are just the beginning of the educational offerings of the NCJFCJ’s 82nd Annual Conference.

Join colleagues from the prevention, home visiting, research, academic, child welfare, and public policy fields, among others, at the 2019 Prevent Child Abuse America National Conference: Moving Upstream. This informative conference will discuss the cutting-edge research, innovative program practices, and impactful public awareness and policy strategies that help move child abuse and neglect prevention upstream.