Hidden Danger:  Keeping Kids Safe on the Internet

This day-long skill building event will focus on expanding professional knowledge of the dangers to which children are exposed when using internet technology.  New Jersey Task Force on Child Abuse and Neglect Co-Chair, Dr. Martin A. Finkel and DCF Commissioner Designate, Christine Norbut Beyer will provide opening remarks to begin the day’s events.

Dr. David Finkelhor, Ph.D., Director of Crimes Against Children Research Center, Professor of Sociology, and University Professor at the University of New Hampshire will be giving a keynote address on Internet Sexual Soliciting and Sexting. He will also speak later in the day on Sextortion.

Other expert speakers will cover:

• Internet Safety and Social Media: How We Can Keep Our Children Safer Online
• Cyber Bullying

The early childhood field is evolving – every day there are NEW things to learn, NEW people to meet, NEW perspectives to consider, NEW opportunities to discover. ZERO TO THREE’s Annual Conference 2018 is your destination for professional and personal growth. With a vast array of outstanding speakers and sessions, this exceptional event will expand your horizons and raise your expectations.

October is new territory for ZERO TO THREE. Explore it with us in 2018!

The National Caregivers Conference is renowned for its national level speakers, workshops and exhibitors who address both individual and national issues facing the caregiver community. The 2018 National Caregivers Conference, “Health, Technology, and the Family Caregiver,” will bring innovative solutions to the increasing demand on family caregivers across the nation while showcasing exciting projects that use technology to improve the health and quality of life of caregivers and their loved ones.

Join experts and professionals from across the nation to learn practical ways you and your agency can create sustainable changes and leverage your resources to tackle sex trafficking from all angles.

Are you eager to reach beyond your jurisdiction’s boundaries?

Are you ready to learn and share knowledge, strategies, solutions, and innovations that impact child welfare and human service systems?

Then this is an event that you don’t want to miss! The Kempe Center’s International Conference on Innovations in Family Engagement will ready you to develop your organizational capacity, cultivate leadership for change management, and equip you with ideas, insights, trends, and best practices to forward your agency’s mission in new ways.

Formations: Thinking Kinship through Adoption, sponsored by the Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture

ASAC 2018 Call for Proposals

Topics of interest include:

•  Studies of the economies, ethics, or aesthetics of intimacy;
• Studies of how race, gender, sexuality, and class shape kinship formations;
•  Critical analyses of adoption narratives, histories, discourses, and life experiences;
• Studies of literary, cinematic, dramatic, musical, visual, dance, popular culture, or performance art
  representations of kinship formations;
• Studies of the impacts of increasing global mobility and migration and refugee crises on kinship
  formations; and
• Studies of the production of new forms of kinship in social media and other digital and online
  locations.

The exceptional learning experiences at the NAEHCY Annual Conference are made possible by the innovative and unique sessions submitted by professionals like you. Don’t miss your opportunity to provide yourself and your peers education that supports your career and organization.

2018 Theme — Creating the Healthiest Nation: Health Equity Now

Creating health equity is a guiding priority and core value of APHA. By health equity, we mean everyone has the opportunity to attain their highest level of health. Health equity is a health, economic, human rights and social justice issue that calls for fairness. Health equity addresses inclusion along multiple dimensions, including race, ethnicity, class, sexual orientation and disability.

How do we achieve health equity? We value all people equally. We optimize the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, learn and age. We work with other sectors to address the factors that influence health, including employment, housing, education, health care, public safety and food access.

To become the healthiest nation, we must eliminate health disparities and dismantle the systems and structures that prevent individuals and communities from reaching their full potential.

“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.