Join us for an engaging and informative live & interactive session where Aging Life Care Managers® come together to share their knowledge and best practices.

• Julie Rose Paladin Life Care
• Jessica Young Ferretto Young Care Management Consulting
• Joanne S. McCarty Independent You

This discussion is part of a series of discussions leading up to the Aging Life Care Association® Mid-Atlantic Chapter Conference. The Conference will be held November 3-4, 2024

The National Federation of Families is the nationwide advocacy organization with families as its sole focus, playing an important role in helping parents, caregivers, and families of children—of any age—whose lives are impacted by mental health and substance use challenges. This important work is supported largely by generous sponsors, supporters, and donors like you who contribute to our cause. Additionally, the National Federation of Families (NFF) provides the only National Certification for Family Peer Specialists™ (CFPS). 

FREE!

Join us for a free webinar to learn about effective approaches for implementing your child welfare system’s Diligent Recruitment Plan. Hear specific tips and strategies for creating an implementation plan that will help guide your work, including ideas for prioritizing and sequencing your efforts and ways to connect your diligent recruitment efforts to other relevant priorities and initiatives in your child welfare system.

Learning objectives

• Have actionable approaches for implementing your Diligent Recruitment Plan
• Recognize the value of connecting your Diligent Recruitment Plan implementation to other priorities in your system
• Learn about how other child welfare systems approach implementing diligent recruitment strategies and activities
• Understand the value of tracking progress and measuring impact as part of your implementation efforts
• Identify ways to engage people with lived experience in Diligent Recruitment Plan implementation

Who should join?

While this webinar is open to all audiences, it is designed to be an advanced level webinar for public (state, county, tribal, territorial) child welfare administrators and managers responsible for diligent recruitment development and implementation.

The webinar may also be of interest to private agencies and nonprofit organizations that partner with child welfare systems on these areas of work.

Self-compassion has become a popular term these days. But what does that mean? Self-compassion is an essential trait that caregivers must learn to practice to sustain themselves through the long, challenging job of parenting. Understand that being kind to yourself is not selfish but rather a gift you need to give yourself to prevent compassion fatigue.

Recovery is a process, and FTCs are a time-limited acute intervention in a family’s life. FTCs must blend aftercare planning into its program design to best support parents and their children after case closure. Aftercare plans, also known as “continuing care plans,” can provide parents with structure, accountability, and needed ongoing services to both parents and children after child welfare, treatment services, and the FTC no longer remain a central part of their lives. This Practice Academy shares the “do’s and don’ts” of aftercare planning, highlights innovative approaches to continuing care, and offers strategies and examples that FTC teams use to support sustained family recovery.   

11th Annual Alcohol, Tobacco, & Other Drugs (ATOD) Conference

Registration Fee: $70

Breakfast and Lunch Included

Registration: 8:00 AM – 8:45 AM

Virtual Parent Educational Trainings Tailored for Adoptive, Foster and Kinship Families

Join us, quarterly, for topics created just for AGAPE families. Once you register for one – you will receive monthly reminders for all trainings in the series. Trainings are also recorded, so you may access any ones missed or requiring review in the AFFCNY.Network.

This event is part of the Adoptive and Foster Family Coalition of New York’s Anti-Racism and Social Justice Initiative.

The Families Learning Conference is for passionate people looking for innovative learning strategies and resources to support families in reaching their academic and economic goals. Attendees will discover practices and ideas to create equitable and relevant family learning experiences; gain access to a national network of family-facing professionals, researchers, policymakers, and funders; and find inspiration and renewed energy for their work.

$25.00 Includes continental breakfast & Lunch (CEUs will be available based on confirmation of event approval.)

The Annual Conference brings together educators, counselors, nurses, social workers, psychologists, physicians, mental health leaders, policymakers, practitioners, researchers, family members, advocates, and other partners in the school mental health field to share the latest research and best practices. The conference emphasizes a shared school-family-community agenda to promote mental health, prevent issues, and provide interventions for students and families as part of a multi-tiered system of support. 

$210.00

$210.00

The theme of the 24th NCCAN is Doing Things Differently: Believing in Communities, reflecting our belief that communities hold the answers in addressing challenges and promoting family wellbeing. The CB strongly encourages proposals that address work being done in communities and include speakers with lived experience in child welfare.

Call for Papers 24TH NCCAN CALL FOR PROPOSALS | 24th National Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect | Whova

Innovative sessions will focus on developing ideas-to-action strategies that provide opportunities to exchange ideas and learn what works from community members and peers. The conference will also offer plenaries, workshops, posters, and exhibits, that highlight Children’s Bureau priority areas. So, mark your calendars now—additional information is coming soon. We look forward to seeing you there.

This conference will gather the brightest minds in child welfare and allied fields to share innovative and sustainable solutions that strengthen child and family outcomes.