This training provides an overview of suicidal ideation (SI), self-injurious behaviors (SIB), and practical intervention strategies grounded in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). Participants will explore the differences between active and passive suicidal ideation, review current statistics and trends, and examine the functions and underlying science of self-injurious behaviors, as well as common warning signs and protective factors. The training will also introduce core DBT concepts, including mindfulness, distress tolerance, and harm reduction approaches, while teaching practical skills to help manage safety concerns. In addition, participants will learn strategies for attending to safety in therapy, differentiating between active and passive safety concerns during assessment, and collaboratively creating effective safety plans. The session will also highlight clinical tools including Behavior Chain Analysis and Skills Implementation Plans through examples and practical application, with additional resources provided to support ongoing clinical work.

Building Resilient Communities for Children is a conference for all adults who care for, work with and love children and seek strategies for building resilience in children and in the many communities that serve children.

This 5-track conference will be virtual and held live, with the option to access session recordings until November 2, 2026.

Fall Open Enrollment is the time of year when you can change your Medicare coverage but knowing where to start can be tough. During this Medicare Minute, you’ll learn strategies to choose the coverage that best fits your needs for 2027.

About P2E

Our Passport to Education (P2E) Conference is your free one-stop shop for academic and employment resources for adolescents with a history in care and their supportive adults

P2E Workshops

Workshops include information and materials on the federal and state financial aid process for postsecondary education, employment skill building, and specific resources available to help youth in the next phases of their lives. Workshops specific to program staff and supportive adults will also be provided.

About KinCon

Our Annual Kinship Conference is for us to come together to celebrate our NJ Kinship Caregivers during National Kinship Care Month.

KinCon Workshops

Workshops for caregivers include education and materials on the realities, successes, and challenges of being a kinship caregiver as well as gaining tools and techniques to aid during challenges when they arise. Caregivers will have multiple opportunities to connect with direct resource providers for kinship care and network with other caregivers throughout the state.

FREE!

Educational Advocacy is a key component of a post permanency program yet is not always offered or is fragmented from program design. Without the right support, school can quickly become a major source of stress for both the child and the family. Come listen to states providing high-quality programming in this area to consider how to expand your programming with this powerful service.

In this free support call first/birth parents 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.

Registration Fees:

1. Non-members: $235
2. FFTA Members: $195

What if you could measure transformational impact in 2 minutes and use it to win more grants, retain donors, and prove lasting change? The answer is hope measurement. And it’s not what you think.

This is the science of hope; a validated construct backed by 2,000+ studies showing hope is the single best predictor of wellbeing. Hope is measurable, teachable, and proven to predict employment, health, and education outcomes that funders care about most.

More than 5 million Americans are caring for an aging parent or loved one from another city, state, or even country.

Coordinating doctors’ appointments, monitoring safety, managing finances, and responding to a crisis is hard enough up close — from hundreds of miles away, it can feel impossible.

This is a free event open to adults of color who were adopted or are former foster youth. Space will be provided for participants to explore and share experiences around international adoption, foster care, transracial/interracial adoption, search and reunion, birth/first family and other topics of interest to the group.

Free!

One of the hardest questions families face is knowing when it’s time to bring in additional care. The decision often comes with uncertainty, guilt or fear of “waiting too long.” At the same time, professionals play a key role in recognizing the warning signs and helping families make timely, informed choices that support safety, recovery, and quality of life.

Rather than waiting for a crisis, professionals can help families see the value of introducing care earlier—whether during hospital discharge, after rehab, or when day-to-day challenges begin to impact health and independence. By identifying risk factors such as medication non-adherence, mobility concerns, or missed follow-ups, professionals can guide families toward care options that prevent readmissions, reduce stress, and promote peace of mind at home.

Join Pact’s Executive Director and fellow adoptive parent, Beth Hall, to find community and talk about transracial adoption, race and identity issues that may be coming up for you or members of your family. The focus for these calls is transracial adoption. These free calls are open only to current members of Pact. If you have not purchased a Pact membership (or your membership is not current) you can join at pactadopt.org.

R.A.C.E. training session 2 will explain what eugenics is and how it is related to racism in the mental health field. This session will identify which psychological testing supported racist policies and practices, as well as identified areas in which social workers participated in racist programs. This session will also describe the significance of the Doll Experiments. Our speakers will also address how racist theories emanating from the mental health field impacted Indigenous people and people of Asian descent.

Continuing Education Credits will be offered for this event.

$40 (Live webinar + recording)

Fall Open Enrollment, also called the Annual Election Period, takes place from October 15 to December 7 and is the time of year when people with Medicare can make changes to their coverage options. Knowing how to navigate coverage options will help you or your clients make the most informed decisions during Fall Open Enrollment.

Experts from the Medicare Rights Center will discuss the following topics:

• Changes beneficiaries can make during Fall Open Enrollment
• Strategies for making coverage decisions
• Medicare marketing rules
• Important Medicare reminders

The Urgency of Now – Ending Isolation by Creating Effective Community Ecosystems

Free, monthly  virtual support calls provide a safe space for BIPOC adoptive, foster and kinship parents of BIPOC teens and young adults.

Join Raquel Vivanco, Director of the Adoptive Parents of Color Collaborative (APCC) and fellow adoptive parent, to find community and talk about parenting adopted and foster teens and young adults of color, including challenges, and helpful strategies. We will discuss how relationships shift as our young ones grow in their journey and how we can support ourselves and our loved ones.

This call is for people of color who are parenting adopted/foster teens and young adults of color.  Please be respectful of their space.

Solutions That Sustain: Cultivating Community, Advancing Practice

Our annual conferences bring together professionals from child welfare law and intersecting fields and further NACC’s mission by exchanging ideas, information, and collective efforts.  The theme of this year’s conference is Solutions That Sustain: Cultivating Community, Advancing Practice.

This year’s theme invites child welfare professionals to move beyond identifying problems and toward uplifting and co-creating systems and practices that work. Sustainable practice equips professionals to serve effectively and resiliently amid ongoing challenges, while sustainable community builds collaboration, mentorship, and shared purpose.

The conference will explore how to cultivate communities of practice that empower clients and colleagues, bridge gaps across disciplines and jurisdictions, and inspire compassionate, lasting solutions for children and families.