The Conference is designed to train, engage, and provide opportunities for networking and dialogue among child law professionals who practice in a variety of areas. This year, the Conference will also provide a specific track for legal professionals interested in learning more about how to implement … [Read more...]

The audience will include attorneys who represent parents in the child welfare system, managers of parent attorney offices, parents, social workers, parent partners, judges, CIP Directors, court administrators, law professors, policy makers, administrators of state-wide/county/tribal systems, law … [Read more...]

Join us in Las Vegas next summer 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. … [Read more...]

The National IV-E Roundtable for Child Welfare Training and Education is a yearly gathering of representatives from public and tribal child welfare agencies and their university partners. Our goal is to share our resources to build a strong child welfare workforce through training and education. … [Read more...]

The 8th annual Strengthening Families Summit will focus not only on protective factors, but also on positive experiences which result in healthy outcomes for children and their families. We will explore the HOPE framework detailed in the “Balancing Adverse Childhood Experiences with HOPE*” report … [Read more...]

Join us June 25-27, 2019, to grow in your understanding of adoption principles and root yourself within the adoption community. The National Adoption Conference gives adoption professionals an opportunity to branch out of their comfort zone as they meet other professionals and explore challenging, … [Read more...]

This conference will feature amazing presentations on current and cutting edge topics that will inspire, provoke, and precipitate discussions about issues facing the juvenile and family court system.  Plenary sessions highlighted by topic specific training tracks on family law, juvenile justice, … [Read more...]

This vital and important educational opportunity is  for judges, probation officers, detention facility employees, and other stakeholders in the juvenile justice system. This conference will explore gaps in services, discover new and improved practices, share cutting edge research, and motivate … [Read more...]

"Footsteps to the Future" **Over 14 CEU's Available** In the tradition of building and sharing expertise, the Annual Foster Care Conference will address a wide variety of problems facing foster care specialists, foster parents and various social service professionals who desire to enhance … [Read more...]

Advancing Excellence in Practice & Policy:  Meeting the Challenge of the Family First Prevention Services Act The uniqueness of the CWLA National Conference is that it provides an opportunity for people from every state; public and private providers from child welfare and other fields of … [Read more...]