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2010 Workshop Presentations
Child Welfare, Mental Health, Juvenile Justice, Domestic Violence, Schools, Self Care, Kinship Care, Fatherhood, Developmental Disabilities, Health, Program Evaluation/Program Development
Working with and Identifying Strengths within Families of Color
Presented by Sharon McKinley
In the past, social work practice focused on a deficit or problem-based model of interacting with families. Current practice emphasizes a strength-based model of working with families that facilitates engagement and promotes positive outcomes. By promoting protective factors, positive attributes that strengthen all families, child welfare professionals can better ensure the well-being of children and families. This workshop will focus on how child welfare workers can use a family strengthening approach with African American families and other families of color. Using the Protective Factors model we will look at the strengths within families of color, particularly African American families, and discuss ways to use protective factors to identify family strengths, and engage families in case planning that will result in better outcomes, including a reduction in the number of African American families in the child welfare system.
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K-Start: Transforming the System and Achieving Results for Families
Presented by Vince Geremia & Tina M. Willauer
Parental substance abuse is a major contributor to the increase in child maltreatment and out-of-home placement. If Child Welfare is to achieve optimal outcomes for children and families, we must transform
the systems of care to address the co-occurrence of child maltreatment and substance abuse. K-START (Kentucky Sobriety Treatment and Recovery Teams) is an innovative model for parents with substance use
disorders and who abuse and neglect their children, combining a unique method of timely, intensive, and coordinated service delivery for families. This workshop will explore the evidence-informed rationale
for K-START, provide an overview of the model, and describe the specific change agents of K-START.
Family Worker Safety: A Fact of Life
Presented
by Sgt. Bill Davis
Often our professions take us from the safety and security of our offices and homes. Sgt. Bill Davis, a 38-year police veteran, presents some common sense ideas and a few defensive tactics to help us
maintain a higher level of awareness and safety while working to keep others safe. Sgt. Davis will discuss ways for us to keep ourselves safe in our homes, vehicles, and ways to keep from being victimized
from identity theft. He also discusses the crime of sexual assault and provides profiles of the three types of rapists, thus enabling the audience to have a better understanding of a possible attacker.
Keeping Children Safe in Families Affected by Substance Abuse/Alcohol
Presented by Milton Ayala
The workshop will highlight the impact substance abuse has on child safety and parental protective capacities while re-enforcing learning the caseworker has acquired on child safety and case management. The
workshop will explore substance abuse threats and the protective measures that could control the threats.
Participants will be given a Protective Measure Chart that will provide some interventions when dealing with families affected by substance abuse. Participants will be exposed to some best practices to use
in casework and monitoring of the substance abuse affected family and will be presented with some tools to utilize engaging substance abuse affected families. The key learning from the workshop: abstinence,
treatment, and a lifestyle of recovery is a proven way to increase protective capacities and thus ensure child safety.
Saving Families - One Child at a Time: Harris County Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative (JDAI)
Presented by Nancy Baird
In September 2007, Harris County was selected to participate in the Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative (JDAI), a national program of the Annie E. Casey Foundation. The goal of this initiative is to
implement reform strategies to safely reduce reliance on secure detention while at the same time reduce juvenile crime and keep communities safe. JDAI is being replicated in over 80 jurisdictions across the
United States. Harris County's Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative (JDAI) has made great progress during the last two years to make the juvenile justice system more just and effective in
rehabilitating youthful offenders, curtailing juvenile crime, and ultimately helping families. Over 250 stakeholders from throughout Harris County are actively involved and the results are dramatic.
The Impact of Stigma on Bahamian Families: An Ecological and Indigenous Interactive Change Process Model
Presented by
Darlene Rolle-Cargill
A recent study that examined the role of social and economic risk factors in the lives of persons living and working with HIV/AIDS in the Bahamas has illuminated the devastation that was occurring in
families as a result of the stigma attached to the disease. The results have led to the development of an Ecological Indigenous Interactive Change Process Model that places PLWHAS at the center of the
healing process, thus fostering self-empowerment and self-determination. It also promotes family reunification and an indigenous approach to treatment that is consistent with the ecological approach to
social work practice and pedagogy.
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Diverse Families with Substance Abuse: Using Best Practices to Build on Family Strengths
Presented by Susan P. Robbins
This workshop will explore myths and facts about substance abuse and its impact on individual and family functioning in diverse families. It will cover basic concepts about how the most commonly abused drugs work in the brain and body, the differences between use, abuse, dependence, and addiction, and current knowledge about best practices and effective substance abuse treatment that build on family strengths.
Family Engagement
Presented by Ellen Letts
Why are engagement skills so important to our work with children and families?
How do you teach engagement to others? Come join us for a facilitated discussion
on engagement where participants will have the
unique opportunity to share openly their ideas and perspectives about engagement
and to learn simple techniques to teach others the "how" to engagement. The voices
of our parents, children, and youth will
guide our discussion and aid in the learning experience.
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Sex and the Law
Presented by Sgt. Bill Davis
Texas citizens are held accountable for their actions from their 10th birthday until they die. Therefore, this program discusses the accountability of students and adults involving various criminal laws
dealing with sexual encounters, including underage sex, alcohol, drugs, teen dating violence, and the new teen rave, Sex-ting. This program helps your district adhere to the 2007 Texas legislative
mandate to address the issues of teen violence in our society. Sgt. Davis also promotes sexual abstinence. Half of the presentation is dedicated to civil law, dealing with pregnancy, paternity suits, child
support, and rights of the mother, father, and child.
Secondary Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention: Kentucky's Research Outcomes
Presented by Vince Geremia &
Ruth A. Huebner
This session will focus on a comprehensive evaluation of Kentucky's statewide Family Preservation Program. This multi-faceted evaluation completed over a one-year period, included: cost-benefit analysis,
customer surveys, focus group inquiry, and SACWIS/FPP service comparative data analysis. The study demonstrated clear reduction in Out-of-Home-Care entry, expedited reunification for children and families,
promotion of family well-being, as well as more effective use of service funding.
Substance Exposed Newborns: Removal, Family Preservation, or Case Closure?
Presented by Milton Ayala
The audience will be introduced to some of the basic processes Texas CPS uses in conducting an investigation of an allegation of a substance exposed newborn. The audience will be given rudimentary
information about dispositional findings and the implementation of protective measures. The audience will be informed about some of the resources CPS uses in the community to allow the bonding of the mother
and infant and thus preserve the family unit. The audience will also be given information about the federal laws mandating reporting of substance exposed newborns and how a child welfare agency should
provide service planning for both the mother and infant. The audience will be given DFPS releasable data involving substance exposed newborns in Texas. Drugs have an impact on child development and future
episodes of child abuse and/ or neglect. Substance use by a pregnant mother. including alcohol usage, can pose serious harm or substantial risk of immediate harm to the newborn; as well as any other children in the home.
Mindfulness Meditation: Adapting an Ancient Wisdom Tradition to Empower Families and to Promote Worker Wellness
Presented by Betsy Wisner &
Catherine Hawkins
Meditation, derived from ancient wisdom traditions, has gained wide recognition in the U.S. as a practical tool, supported by empirical research, for enhancing stress-management and self-care, increasing
focus and concentration, and improving interpersonal relationships. Mindfulness meditation refers to a specific technique for achieving an empathetic, present moment, non-judgmental state of awareness. This
workshop explores the mindfulness meditation literature and its applicability to promoting strengths and empowering families and promoting worker wellness. Participants will learn a simple meditation
technique and will be offered guidance in using meditation as a valuable resource in their personal and professional lives.
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Understanding the Effects of Mental Illness on the Family
Presented by Diana Kern
With the prevalence of mental illness in parents and caregivers engaged in the protective services system, CPS workers need to be familiar with the characteristics and challenges surrounding mental illness.
This workshop will familiarize you with the various mental illnesses, their symptoms, the obstacles persons face in functioning appropriately and the dynamics created within the family when a mental illness
is present. With this knowledge, you will learn how to better measure a parent's protective capacities and make careful and thoughtful decisions regarding the safety of the children in the home.
Bullies in Schools in Relationship to Family Domestic Violence
Presented by Sgt. Bill Davis
School districts are being held liable every day because they did too much, or too little, concerning bullies and school violence issues. Sgt. Bill Davis, a 38-year police veteran, discusses issues from a
U.S. Dept. of Justice study and intertwines these school issues with domestic violence and sexual incidents. Bullies and their profiles, victims and their profiles, how a zero-tolerance policy is
counter-productive, and questions your school district should be answering, will be discussed in this session.
Using Literacy to Build Community Between Families, Teachers, and Schools
Presented by Leigh Van Horn
In this interactive workshop, participants will learn about a family literacy project that is changing the power structures between parents and teachers. Through collaborative family literacy events, we have begun to link families and schools and engage in reading, writing, thinking, talking, listening, and visually representing our thoughts about books and about being together. Participants will learn how to plan, what to read, and why what you do after the reading makes the difference! Handouts will include annotated book lists with response ideas.
Parental Child Safety Placements: Strategies for Working with Relatives and Fictive Kin Voluntary Caregivers
Presented by Cory Jones
A workshop that highlights both the benefits and challenges of parental child safety placement--the workshop will explore the ways in which relatives and fictive kin face unique challenges as voluntary caregivers of children who are not in the conservatorship of DFPS, and particularly the ways they can be engaged and supported to make the experience more successful for children.
The Foster Care - Homeless Connection: A Struggle for Stability
Presented by Jeanne Stamp
Highly mobile children, homeless or in foster care, lose their homes, rooms, possessions, family, friends, schools, community, and sense of security and belonging. They suffer from grief and loss, with issues from poor mental and physical health four times that of children living in stable families. While their home lives may be chaotic, there is a lot that can be done through school stability to assist these children. There are now laws that address children’s rights to remain in their original schools even though they are changing residences through homelessness or foster placement. Schools can do much to provide a safe stable refuge where children can regain some of their lost sense of security and belonging.
Spirituality and Diversity: Promoting Family and Community Strength
Presented by
Catherine Hawkins & Betsy Wisner
There is a growing scholarly literature on spirituality as a valuable component of child welfare practice despite some controversy over best practices. This content can be presented through a highly humanistic, strengths-based, and empowerment perspective that encompasses the universal desire for love, hope, growth, dignity, worth, and meaning. Effective social work intervention in this “spirit” can be built on family and community strengths while respecting individual and cultural differences. It is the understanding of the link between spiritual wisdom and effective practice that can lead to transformation of both the practitioner and the families that we serve.
The Ten Principles of Wraparound
Presented by Pam Schaffer &
Barbara Sewell
Wraparound is a philosophy that is expressed in the way that we approach, engage and work with families to meet their needs when living with high-need children and youth. Adhering to the underlying principles of Wraparound becomes a touchstone for our practice and ensures that decisions and services created with families remain true to the underlying principles.
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Moving Families off of the Island and into the Village
Presented by Tammy Foster & Barbara Sewell
Natural Support Systems for Families. We’ve all heard it takes a village to raise a child, but who is this village? With the stress of being separated from extended family members and the day-to-day worries of work and life, how can we find community? This workshop will help participants define what natural support systems are, identify natural supports families have in place, communicate with families to discover supports needed and link families to those culturally appropriate supports in their community.
My Life in Foster Care “Why I Needed Family Preservation”
Presented by Cedric S. McKenzie
Mr. McKenzie will tell his story about his life in foster care. He has written She Never Answered. Cedric’s narrative is a real life roadmap for both young people and adults tied to the foster care system. This workshop explains how family preservation could have saved his family.
Can Parents of The Parents Help Children of the Children?
Presented by Robert Hughes &
Tracy Leissner
Interactive dialog to facilitate family reconstruction; interdisciplinary collaboration: legal, social services, counselors! Ask for help when conflict arises, resurrect the joint conference, include non-parties in conversations, listen for children’s perspectives, depersonalize conflict, neutralize hostility, change judgment to empathy, meet more than once, resurrect communication, transform relationships. Mediation empowers families to transcend conflict; mediation is safe, private, flexible, creative…Mediation creates better results. Co-mediation team discusses a model for mediating family conflict that addresses family dysfunction, substance abuse and mental health issues with intergenerational intervention and participation. Participants learn strategies to improve communication: reflect, reframe, summarize; participants acquire skills to neutralize language; participants recognize opportunities to empower families.
Supporting Families After a Death
Presented by Corrine Walijarvi
Drawing upon research with bereaved families, this workshop will provide insight into the diverse reactions that different families, and different members of the same family, may have following a death. The workshop will focus on a discussion of factors that can contribute to progress in the grief journey and will identify a variety of ways that service providers can help grieving families. The workshop will include a brief presentation, discussions, and activities oriented toward helping clinicians and service providers respond in a supportive manner to grieving clients.
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The Missing Link: Fathers in the Welfare System
Presented by Kenneth Thompson
If a child's well-being is related to their father's involvement, then why are so few fathers involved in the child welfare system? Fathers play a critical role in the development and growth of their children. However, far too frequently, in the child welfare system we have found that fathers are a missing component in their child's life. Is it easier to work with a single mother or is the system focused on just the mother? Join us as we explore methods to actively engage fathers in the delivery of services to the FAMILY!
Safety Intervention: Are They Really Protective? Strategies to Determine if a Child is Safe
Presented by Jenny Hinson
Determining if a parent or caregiver is protective is one of the most challenging decisions child welfare workers must make. Protective Capacities are the determining factor regarding child safety and influence the decision to intervene in a family’s life. Furthermore, identifying deficiencies in this area guides case planning for families involved in the child welfare system. This workshop provides strategies for child welfare workers to utilize when assessing for child safety, when developing case plans, and when making placement decisions.
Supervision Tune-Up
Presented by Kathryn Sibley
As a supervisor, you are putting your name on cases left and right from the decisions your caseworkers are making daily to the overall progress on a case at closure. This workshop will focus on helping supervisors review different aspects of setting expectations, working with a family-centered focus, assessing child safety and working one-on-one with staff. By the end of the workshop, you will be able to help guide your staff towards informed case decisions and bring back tools to assist you in the supervision process.
Systems of Care (SOC) 101: Improving Outcome for Families Using SOC Principles
Presented by Randy Joiner,
Rebecca Johansson, & Larry Brown
This workshop will address the System of Care principles utilized in the wraparound process in the Systems of Hope initiative. Studies throughout grant sites like Systems of Hope continue to indicate that providing services that include family voice in decision making, considering the importance of language and culture, and listening to the voice of youth improve outcomes. System of Care principles will be discussed and evaluation results will be shared with participants in an effort to encourage their use with any populations served. This interactive presentation will explore organizational change and provide practical approaches that each participant can plan for their own personal, professional and organizational succession.
Balancing the Family with Mental Health
Presented by Ada Gomez
This presentation will include information on how families can empower themselves to handle the issues surrounding mental health while providing a safe environment for their children. We'll review how to identify mental health issues and appropriately refer a child/adult to be assessed, how to be mindful of barriers, stigmas, and challenges faced while working with families with mental health issues, how to appropriately assess progress, how to identify and establish a support system, how to utilize family team meetings and community resources, and how to empower the family to succeed. By the end of the workshop, you will be able to see how families who have mental health issues are able to successful parent with the support of family and community resources.
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My Baby’s Having a Baby: Now as a family what do we do?
Presented by Amy Blakeney
This 1 ½ hour workshop provides practical guidance in working with families with a pregnant teen. We will review how best to support families from the first “I’m pregnant” to “it’s 3:00 am and I have to get up to go to work and you have to go to school...deal with it!” We will talk about communication building, both with the teen and the father of the baby, and how best to support the pregnant teen without rescuing them.
Safety Intervention: Untying the Safety Knot
Presented by Lori Lewis-Conerly
Do you ever find yourself talking about “safety” but calling it “risk”? Join us for an informative and educational workshop focused on untying the safety and risk knot and clarifying the notion that “safety is controlled, not risk”. We will also explore new strategies on how to connect the process of getting to know our families with the caseworker’s ability to accurately assess child safety. We will review a child welfare case to determine how well we really know the family and if what we know is sufficient to determine child safety. Safety Intervention Pt. 2 will allow you to apply your knowledge from this workshop to further explore the parent’s protective capacities and determine if the child is really safe.
My Family My Life My Support: A Transitioning Youth Perspective
Presented by Matthew Vetter
Mr. Vetter will tell his story about his life in foster care and the tribulations he endured after aging out of the system. As a child Mr. Vetter was subjected to abuse from the age of 2 until he was removed from his home at age 9. After sustaining the trauma of being a child who did not receive the unalienable comfort and support due to him as he went through over 20 placements, he has worked tirelessly for the rights and welfare of other foster care children. His story will help workers focus on what can be done to assist youth and families during their trials.
A Transition Model for Youth Aging Out of Care and Former Foster Youth
Presented by Joel Levine & Deborah K. Green & Marshall McGhee
The typical young person aging out of foster care in Houston will have been in the system for more than 5-and–a-half years and will have moved more than 8 times to different foster homes, group facilities, shelters, or residential treatment centers. These youth lack the traditional family and social supports to successfully transition to adulthood. Youth exiting the foster care system are twice as likely as their peers to drop out high school; suffer from unemployment rates as high as 50%; experience high rates of homelessness; and are at great risk of arrest and incarceration. The social and economic costs are too extreme to ignore. Learn how the youth and young adults exiting foster care and former foster youth in the Houston region are beating the odds through an innovative collaboration between higher education, workforce, and state and local governmental entities.
Supporting Families with the Reality of Disproportionality: An Agency and Community Perspective
Presented by Sheila Craig & Joyce James
Disproportionality is the overrepresentation of a particular race or cultural group in a program or system. Over the last 6 years Texas CPS has undertaken a series of reform efforts to reduce Disproportionality, including the creation of Community Advisory Committees statewide. These committees are unique in that they have created collaborative partnerships between CPS, communities, families and other systems whose goal is to address our collective accountability in eliminating disproportionality. This workshop will include a panel of CPS staff and Community Leaders to discuss efforts from these equally important perspectives and respond to questions from participants.
Coaching as a Skill Set for Family Practice and Supervision
Presented by Rebecca Hegar
Coaching, an approach to helping staff and organizations develop their potential, recently has gained traction in the fields of health care, education, and business. Less application of coaching concepts has been made in child and family services. However, coaching is one of the core implementation strategies of the newly established National Implementation Research Network, funded by the U.S. Children’s Bureau to provide technical assistance to state and tribal child welfare programs. The presenter, who is working with the Mountains & Plains Child Welfare Implementation Center based at UT-Arlington, applies principles and skills of coaching to both practice and supervision.
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Statewide Parent Collaboration Group Video
Presented by DeShaun Ealoms
At this workshop participants will be shown the recent addition and revision of the statewide Parent Collaboration Group video, which highlights the importance of parent participation and collaboration/partnership with caseworkers in child welfare cases. Parents will be available for Q&A after showing of the video. The video is 53 minutes long.
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Working with New Immigrant Families: Important Legal and Social Issues
Presented by Dawn McCarty
Participants that attend this presentation will: 1) deepen their understanding of the special social and legal challenges faced by new immigrant families, 2) become aware of the status of services available to immigrant families, both documented and undocumented, 3) develop an awareness of the trends and conditions for migrant families worldwide, and 4) understand and evaluate the merits of proposed immigration reform policies from a family strengths perspective.
Voice from Male Victims and Survivors of Partner Abuse: Ways to Strengthen Couple Relationships
Presented by Monit Cheung & Venus Tsui
In 2010 we surveyed 80 male victims/survivors in partner abuse and found more barriers than facilitators in abused men’s help-seeking process. Male victims’ avoidance from help-seeking is related to types of services and helpers, abuse experiences, age, employment status, marital status, number of children, and men’s tendency of minimizing problems. Abused men don’t feel comfortable requesting services because men are always portrayed as perpetrators in domestic violence. Based on anonymous input from 26 respondents, a composite narrative presents the voice of abused men for a better understanding in relationship building and a gender sensitive attitude in social and legal service delivery.
Family Preservation 101 – How to implement a Family Preservation Program
Presented by Deborah Lewis
Learn how to implement a successful family preservation program. This workshop is not just for the novice worker but helpful ideas for the experienced worker will be provided as well. Participants will be provided with ideas on how to develop a mission statement, write personal disclosures, program descriptions, search for evidence based practice curriculum, and resources that they can utilize in developing their own Family Preservation Program. Power Point presentations used in groups, client files, a Family Preservation brochure she designed, a bio-psychosocial assessment, progress notes, progress reports, consents, etc. will be shared. Each participant will leave with a folder with some of these examples along with a CD with all documents. This workshop is guaranteed to be informative and immediately beneficial!
Life after the Hospital: Working with Families to Meet Ongoing Medical
Needs in Child Abuse Investigation and Care
Presented by Lisa Creamer
Many children who are victims of child maltreatment have a need for ongoing medical evaluation and treatment as a result of their abuse or neglect; how do we as a system ensure these children receive the care and treatment they need? This session will discuss how CPS, foster care and the medical community can work together to guarantee no children fall through the cracks. Discussion of real life cases will facilitate participant’s ability to recognize the importance of adequate medical follow-up for forensic and medical purposes.
Finding and Using the Strengths in Families
Presented by John Ronnau
Every family has strengths; even in those families in which children must be removed for a short time (or even long term) in order to insure their safety and well-being. The focus of this workshop is to provide a framework and tools for finding and using the
strengths of families. One premise of this workshop is that the best place
for children to grow and thrive is in their families. Another underlying premise
is that the concept of “family” must be defined in a very inclusive manner
that respects and values the tremendous diversity of families throughout the
world. Respect, understanding, knowledge and valuing cultural diversity is
a must.
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Transracial Families Created Through Adoption
Presented by Lucy McLaughlin & Cherry Steinwender
The workshop will use the DVD “Living on the Fault Line, Where Race And Family Meet” (www.onthefaultline.com). This important film explores the intersection where family love meets racial injustice in the experience of “transracial” families created through adoption. An honest and open-hearted look at race in America, the film profiles nine Vermont “transracial” families, revealing the complex and emotional story of institutional inequities and racial stereotyping intruding into the haven of family and community. It is hailed as “an excellent tool place to begin examining the issues of race and white privilege”.
Understanding Child Development as a Key Element of Assessing Family Strengths
Presented by Susan Henney
How can knowledge of child development be used by social workers to assess and
plan services for children and families? Familiarity with normal child development
assists in assessing risk, identifying needed services, communicating with other
professionals, writing accurate case notes, and talking with parents about their
children. Enhancing knowledge of child development will enable participants to
provide practical, developmentally appropriate services to the children and families
with whom they work. This workshop can also provide a framework around which
participants can build their own child development training's at their place
of work.
Round II Results: Implications for Family Centered Practice
Presented by Ray Worsham
For more than twenty years family centered theory and practice has been taught
in most University and agency training programs for child welfare workers and
supervisors. At the end of the first decade of the CFSR effort, what do the outcomes
of the two reviews and agency efforts through their Program Improvement Plans,
suggest regarding the impact and implementation of Family Centered Practices
at the casework level? In this facilitated workshop participants will have an
opportunity to review the available results for Round II informed by PIP efforts
and discuss Family Centered Practice in light of these outcomes. With a brief
review of current initiatives in Family Centered Practice, participants will
have an opportunity to explore the implications for casework service in anticipation
of Round III.
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Cultural Competence: A Celebration of Family Strengths and Best Practice
Presented by Barbara Chandler
This presentation will provide an overview of the necessity to have workers who not only engage but embrace family strengths that are often the foundation of cultural competence and best practice when working with diverse populations.
Custodial Grandparents: Their Role in Keeping Families Together
Presented by Barbara Chandler
This presentation provides an overview of issues and challenges regarding custodial grandparents. This is not about interventions with grandparents or grandchildren or legal mechanisms. This is the first in a series of workshops that will concentrate on various aspects of grandparents in the custodial role.
Conscience Development & Discipline
Presented by Susan Rogers
Children are not born with a conscience, it is learned. We will talk about the stages of conscience development, according to age and maturity. Each participant will then evaluate his or her children to ascertain their conscience level. Since many children have not been taught to understand the effects of their behavior on others or regress in conscience development as they approach adolescence, the group will then learn which form of discipline is most effective with each level of conscience development.
Self-Soothing
Presented by Susan Rogers
Many times we allow ourselves to look at medication first rather than helping the child learn how to sooth themselves. Self-soothing is not only good for the families we work with but for us as well. Come learn how to help cut your frustration in half so that you have more to give not only the families you work with but yourself as well.
Lying and Stealing
Presented by Susan Rogers
Stealing and lying began in the Garden of Eden and continues today. The challenge of lying and stealing in families is addressed in this workshop from a practical view: What do children need, Types of liars and thieves, Motives for lying and stealing, Responding to lying and stealing, Discipline plans, Empathy Questions and LYING and STEALING GUIDELINES.
Introduction to Strength Based Family Support Supervision
Presented by Bonnie Mikelson
This is an introduction to the Family Support Supervisor Certification Training, "Strengthening Family Support through Supervision". Supervision is a separate and essential practice requiring skill development and training. Focus will be on one key aspect of supervisory practice: providing reflective strength based supervision. We will consider ways that supervisors may supervise their workers from a collaborative, strengths based model that parallels the strength based interventions their workers do with families. Participants will learn about reflective supervision, view a demonstration of traditional vs reflective supervision, and practice strength based supervisory interventions.
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Families and Human Trafficking
Presented by Robert Sanborn & Mandi Kimball
The Human Trafficking Workshop will provide participants with a greater understanding of the crime of human trafficking. They will learn what trafficking is and how it impacts Houston and the State of Texas. In addition, participants will be exposed to ways to identify trafficking situations and discover behavioral signs of which to beware to prevent girls and boys from becoming victims. Finally, CHILDREN AT RISK will also cover state and federal trafficking laws which have been enacted and how people can fight this particular crime in their community.
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