“Ending Gender Based, Family and Community Violence”

The SSWR Annual Conference offers a scientific program that reflects a broad range of research interests, from workshops on the latest quantitative and qualitative research methodologies to symposia featuring studies in child welfare, aging, mental health, welfare reform, substance abuse, and HIV/AIDS. Over 500 symposia, workshop, roundtable, paper and poster presentations. Research methods workshops designed to enhance methods expertise and grant-writing skills and special sessions on research priorities and capacity building that target cutting-edge topics vital to contemporary social work research. Pre-conference programs and a networking reception especially for doctoral students.

This vital and important educational opportunity is  for judges, probation officers, detention facility employees, and other stakeholders in the juvenile justice system. This conference will explore gaps in services, discover new and improved practices, share cutting edge research, and motivate participants to explore positive case outcomes for youth involved in the delinquency system.

The 35th International Symposium on Child Abuse offers more than 160 workshops. The tracks are designed with specific fields in mind, including Administration, Child Protective Services, Forensic Interviewing, Human Trafficking/Sexual Exploitation, Law Enforcement, Medical, Mental Health/Treatment, Prevention, Prosecution/Legal, Secondary Traumatic Stress, Victim Advocacy and Youth-Serving Organization.

The 8th annual Strengthening Families Summit will focus not only on protective factors, but also on positive experiences which result in healthy outcomes for children and their families. We will explore the HOPE framework detailed in the “Balancing Adverse Childhood Experiences with HOPE*” report (*Health Outcomes of Positive Experience).

Advancing Excellence in Practice & Policy:  Meeting the Challenge of the Family First Prevention Services Act

The uniqueness of the CWLA National Conference is that it provides an opportunity for people from every state; public and private providers from child welfare and other fields of service; corporations, advocates, educators, caregivers, and youth to come together and share learning based on our common vision of a better future for all children.

REASONS TO ATTEND:

• Experience exceptional learning
• Hear outstanding speakers and presentations
• Meet your Members of Congress
• Make YOUR voice heard – Promote child welfare policy priorities
• Network with colleagues and peers
• Advance excellence in child and family services
• Share ideas and wisdom on strengthening families
• Learn about successful prevention and intervention programs
• Visit attractions in our nation’s capital

The Conference is designed to train, engage, and provide opportunities for networking and dialogue among child law professionals who practice in a variety of areas. This year, the Conference will also provide a specific track for legal professionals interested in learning more about how to implement the Family First Prevention Services Act in practice.

The audience will include attorneys who represent parents in the child welfare system, managers of parent attorney offices, parents, social workers, parent partners, judges, CIP Directors, court administrators, law professors, policy makers, administrators of state-wide/county/tribal systems, law students, and other stakeholders in the child welfare system.

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.

“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.

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.