Internationally recognized, the Crimes Against Children Conference is the premier conference of its kind, providing practical and interactive instruction to those fighting crimes against children and helping children heal. There were more than 6,900 professionals from around the world in attendance in 2020!

The conference is presented annually by the Dallas Children’s Advocacy Center. The conference is conducted to provide training to those employed by government or nonprofit agencies in the fields of law enforcement, child protective services, social work, children’s advocacy, therapy, and medicine who work directly with child victims of crime.

The holidays may be the most wonderful time of the year for some, but for traumatized kids and their families, the holidays can be incredibly challenging. Join Harmony Family Center for this info packed webinar focusing on why the holiday season may be so difficult and leaving caregivers with a new understanding of problem behaviors and solid strategies for a more peaceful holiday season.

Price: 15.00 USD

Certificates will only be generated in the names of registered individuals attending the live webinar event.

The training—featuring a clinical expert, parents who can suggest successful strategies, and individuals who live with FASD—will highlight solutions for parents and professionals related to these disorders that are 10 times more common in foster care than they are in the general population.

Even if you don’t know you are working with or parenting a child with an FASD, you may well be.

Attendees can participate live or listen to a recorded version of workshops, or a combination of the two. Recordings will be available through January 31, 2022.

Talking about suicide is hard, and it’s even harder to think about having to do this with your own child. Research and practice show that opening up lines of communication between parents and children can help reduce the likelihood that a child will attempt suicide. Offering concrete, real life supports – especially nurturing relationships – reduce that likelihood even more.

Sadly, suicide is on the rise across all age groups and races in our country. A therapist and mother will discuss why some children may be more at risk to attempt suicide than others and the signs to look for. Then, they will give some practical tips for how to plan for the conversation, what to say and not to say, and how to build in supports for your child. They will also talk about what to do in a crisis situation and what to expect when professionals are called upon for help.

Free!

Anyone who is related by birth to a child placed in adoption or foster care is invited to attend.

Group members will be able to connect, listen and share their experiences of adoption, both private and through the child welfare system. Space will also be provided for participants to explore and share experiences around open adoptions, closed adoptions, recent reunions, same-race adoption, transracial adoption, termination of parental rights, and other topics as decided by the group.

Please remember that this group is for birth/first parents and anyone related by birth to a child placed in adoption or foster care.  This group is not for adoptive parents.

We are living in challenging times. There is a fierce sense of urgency and demand for institutions to make bold changes to better serve all children and families, especially those who are Black, Brown, and Indigenous. Child welfare is not exempt from these calls for change. As professionals and volunteers working in a high-stakes field, we have learned from the events of this past year that we can and must do business differently. We need to find bold ways to make the type of changes required to reach the vision of CWLA’s National Blueprint for Excellence in Child Welfare (National Blueprint) “that all children will grow up safely, in families who are loving, with everything they need to flourish–and with connections to their culture, ethnicity, race, and language.”