FREE!

Target Audience: All MDT disciplines and partner agencies welcome to attend

*CE credits provided by Rutgers University Behavioral Health Care.

Dates: September 14, October 12, November 16, December 7, 2022

*This registration applies to all 4 dates*

* Participants must attend all 4 training dates in order to receive a certificate of attendance

*Please inform us if you are unable to attend, nydia@njcainc.org or victoria@njcainc.org

Building Protective Factors through Family Resource Centers

During this five-part webinar series, you’ll learn more about the 21st-century research agenda for child welfare and gain insights from influential speakers along the way.

During this five-part webinar series, you’ll learn more about the 21st-century research agenda for child welfare and gain insights from influential speakers along the way.

The Annie E. Casey Foundation, Casey Family Programs and the William T. Grant Foundation are leading an initiative, along with many partners, to identify research gaps related to community-based family support, child protective services, out-of-home care, and post-permanency services. The initiative is now working to conduct research, rooted in equity and co-designed by people with lived experience, to address these gaps and answer key questions, as well as increase the use of this research in decision making. Learn more about the 21st-Century Child Welfare Research Agenda online.  

Could you foster a child?

There are many children in need of a nurturing family.  Do you have questions about becoming a foster parent and want to learn more from the comfort of your home? We are hosting webinars and Q&A sessions for prospective foster parents on Zoom.

The ZERO TO THREE LEARN Institute creates an in-person experience for professionals from diverse backgrounds and roles to work together to tackle the most pressing issues facing the early childhood education and infant and early childhood mental health sectors.

Learning to Listen: Conversations for Change returns this Fall with new conversations featuring inspiring leaders working on the frontlines of current and emerging issues for children and families. The free series kicks off on Wednesday, September 28, and continues until December with three exhilarating conversations.

The lived experiences of child protective services (CPS)–involved parents is rarely considered from a social justice perspective. Parents and children endure the oversight of the child welfare system in myriad ways, and these experiences usually vary based on race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status. This article explores how CPS interactions affect family dynamics and well-being and how family members view their experiences with CPS, including their sense of autonomy and empowerment

Covid-19 highlighted the marginalization and devaluation of older lives in a spectacularly global illustration of disenfranchisement and devaluation. In the early days of the pandemic, one could frequently hear policymakers, politicians, health professionals and others minimize the risks associated with Covid-19 since “only old people were dying.” Research has shown that as a result of the pandemic, older adults have experienced disproportionate economic harm and isolation, as well as an increase in exploitation and abuse. With baby boomers moving into older age, the courts will necessarily experience an increase in cases that involve abuse. Join us for this one-day virtual conference to explore the state of elder abuse since the pandemic, to highlight areas of critical import to the courts serving older adults, and to learn of promising practices that increase court efficiency and effectiveness while better serving older adult survivors of abuse in later life. This workshop will include several keynotes, including a panel discussion with leaders in law enforcement, the courts and the community. Two opportunities for problem solving judicial workshops in criminal and civil cases will be offered.

There are many children in need of a nurturing family.  Do you have questions about becoming a foster parent and want to learn more from the comfort of your home? We are hosting webinars and Q&A sessions for prospective foster parents on Zoom.

There are many children in need of a nurturing family.  Do you have questions about becoming a foster parent and want to learn more from the comfort of your home? We are hosting webinars and Q&A sessions for prospective foster parents on Zoom.

FREE!

This supportive group for first/birth parents will take place as a Zoom call.

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 who are related by birth to a child placed in adoption or foster care.  This group is not for adoptive parents.

Creating Change is the nation’s foremost political, leadership, and skills-building conference for the LGBTQ movement. We are building a future where everyone is free to be themselves in every aspect of their lives. Today, despite all the progress we have made to end discrimination, millions of LGBTQ people face barriers in every aspect of their lives: in housing, employment, healthcare, retirement, and basic human rights. These barriers must go. Through Creating Change and other advocacy programs, the Task Force is training and mobilizing thousands of activists across the nation to deliver a world where you can be you.

Stronger Together: Uniting to Advance Change

This conference will highlight successful strategies for bridging the divide between public and private sectors of child welfare and related systems and the families and communities they serve. For 3 days, child-and family serving professionals, families, and community representatives will gather to explore effective ways of deepening their relationships and engaging in more effective collaboration.