FREE!

Parenting a child with a history that includes loss and trauma requires parents to have a bigger parenting toolbox. This parenting webinar and group will focus on ways to add effective tools to support children from hard places. Come learn and share with others as we build our toolbox and let others borrow as needed.

The Strategies for Parenting a Child with a History of Loss and Trauma Series will be held via Zoom on Tuesdays (June 14th, June 21st, June 28th, July 12th, July 19th, August 2nd) from 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm EST. The series will lead off with a webinar and then subsequent parent support group meetings.

This event is free thanks to funding from the Jockey Being Family Foundation!

The theme for this summer’s NDACAN Summer Training Series is the power of linking administrative data in research on child welfare. Sessions include data management workshops, linking across NDACAN data products and linking NDACAN data to external data products, and applied analysis workshops that leverage linking possibilities.

The theme for this summer’s NDACAN Summer Training Series is the power of linking administrative data in research on child welfare. Sessions include data management workshops, linking across NDACAN data products and linking NDACAN data to external data products, and applied analysis workshops that leverage linking possibilities.

• The first 600 registrations are FREE each month thanks to Jockey Being Family and Jockey International.
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• 30 days of extended access is included in your registration.
• Certificates of Attendance and Continuing Education Credits are available.

Did you know? Around 90% of caretakers with family members who have special needs/disabilities admit retirement planning is not their main priority. Rather caring for their loved ones with special needs is their number one focus. In fact, 70% of caregivers, and those with guardianship, who are trying to save are extremely concerned about providing their loved one proper supports (The American College of Financial Services)

There are often so many worries through-out life, especially to support our family members. It is important to prepare for the future, while the future is still unfolding.

Opeeka is proud to host this session where attendees will learn how to plan for each important stage of life. This includes:

• Protecting government benefit eligibility

• Understanding simple but important parts of your will

• Funding special needs trusts and ABLE accounts

• Writing a letter of intent

Gain peace of mind for the difficult question of “What will happen when I’m gone?” by knowing step-by-step how to provide quality of life and a lifetime of care.

Join more than 700 child welfare professionals at the only international conference on family focused treatment services. The primary objective of the Conference is to equip professionals with the skills and knowledge they need to deliver high quality family focused treatment services and interventions to children and families that are served both inside and outside of the formal child welfare system.

This conference is designed for a wide range of disciplines and is open to all those interested in the improvement of the juvenile justice system. Plenary sessions highlighted by topic-specific training tracks on family law, juvenile justice, child welfare, and family violence; as well as sessions highlighting innovative solutions and self-care are just the beginning of the educational offerings of the NCJFCJ’s 85th Annual Conference.

Save the Date for the 2022 Conference!

If you have been touched by adoption or foster care, this is the conference you will want to attend!

Mark your calendars: July 19-22, 2022, for the next, virtual North American Council on Adoptable Children (NACAC) conference.

Join us 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.

The theme for this summer’s NDACAN Summer Training Series is the power of linking administrative data in research on child welfare. Sessions include data management workshops, linking across NDACAN data products and linking NDACAN data to external data products, and applied analysis workshops that leverage linking possibilities.

The 2022 National Conference on Ending Homelessness will bring together service providers, system leaders, advocates, people with lived experience of homelessness, and others to learn from each other, discuss best practices, and share new innovations in the field.

Free!

Monthly virtual support calls will provide a safe space for adoptive parents of color to connect and share their experiences.

This is a group intended to meet the needs of people of color who have built their families through domestic adoption, kinship adoption, international adoption, foster care, same race and transracial/interracial adoption.   This is a free event.  This programming is for adoptive parents of color. Please be respectful of their space.

Participants will have the opportunity to explore topics such as experiences understanding loss and connection, birth/first families and connection, how to talk about difficult conversations, schools and adoption, and other topics of interest to the group.

REGISTRATION CLOSES at 11:59 pm July 25th

The theme for this summer’s NDACAN Summer Training Series is the power of linking administrative data in research on child welfare. Sessions include data management workshops, linking across NDACAN data products and linking NDACAN data to external data products, and applied analysis workshops that leverage linking possibilities.

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.

The theme for this summer’s NDACAN Summer Training Series is the power of linking administrative data in research on child welfare. Sessions include data management workshops, linking across NDACAN data products and linking NDACAN data to external data products, and applied analysis workshops that leverage linking possibilities.

Research shows that children of color experience worse outcomes at every level of child welfare practices. This includes more reports, screen-ins, investigations, substantiations, and recommendations for removal than their counterparts. This can be especially true for LGBTQ+ youth of color. Using an intersectional lens, this webinar will explore strategies for achieving racial equity within agencies.

The theme for this summer’s NDACAN Summer Training Series is the power of linking administrative data in research on child welfare. Sessions include data management workshops, linking across NDACAN data products and linking NDACAN data to external data products, and applied analysis workshops that leverage linking possibilities.

Many of us may be familiar with the acronym, “LGBTQ+”, but which communities are represented by the “+”? This webinar will explore some of the diverse identities that are included in the “+” like the spectrums of asexuality, two-spirit identities within Indigenous cultures, and the intersex community.

The Economic Mobility and Well-Being conference brings together three affinity groups of the American Public Human Services Association (APHSA) – American Association of SNAP Directors (AASD), National Association for Program Information and Performance Measurement (NAPIPM), and National Association of TANF Administrators (NASTA).

“Bridging Theory to Practice: Learning & Unlearning to Drive Effective Advocacy”

The annual conference is an opportunity for us to bring together professionals from child welfare and other intersecting fields and further the goals in NACC’s strategic plan through the exchange of ideas, information, and collective efforts. Most conference attendees are attorneys (representing children, parents, and agencies) and judges who work in child welfare court systems.

The three-day training defines domestic violence and abuse identifies contributing factors and provides ways to overcome the effects of abuse and much more. This program offers hope and healing to individuals caught in the cycle of abuse and violence.