Calendar

Nov
6
Wed
High-Quality Legal Representation in Cases Involving Infants and Toddlers – Session Two: Understanding the Harm in Infant and Toddler Cases
Nov 6 @ 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm
High-Quality Legal Representation in Cases Involving Infants and Toddlers - Session Two: Understanding the Harm in Infant and Toddler Cases

NACC is pleased to announce our new and expanded Infants & Toddlers series. This comprehensive four-session series is tailored for attorneys for the agency, children, or parents, as well as judges and social workers in infant and toddler cases.

Dive deep into the nuances of providing high-quality legal representation in cases involving our youngest and most vulnerable clients. From compassionate advocacy and understanding the unique harms faced by infants and toddlers to navigating the removal decision and fostering collaboration for families, each session is designed to equip you with the specialized knowledge and skills needed to effectively advocate for these young individuals.

Don’t miss this opportunity to enhance your practice and make a meaningful impact in the lives of infants and toddlers. Register now to secure your spot in this essential series. All registrants also receive electronic access to last year’s recordings and materials from the High-Quality Legal Representation for Infants and Toddlers Training Series.

Session Two: Understanding the Harm in Infant and Toddler Cases

  • Developmental Considerations in Cases of Suspected Maltreatment: Physical Injury, Sexual Abuse, Medical
  • Poverty vs Neglect in Cases Involving Infants and Toddlers
  • Intimate Partner Violence in Homes with Infants amd Toddlers
  • Infant and Toddler Substance Exposure Cases
  • Expert Witnesses in Infant and Toddler Cases

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Nov
7
Thu
Bringing Your Diligent Recruitment Plan to life: Developing a Meaningful Implementation Plan
Nov 7 @ 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm
Bringing Your Diligent Recruitment Plan to life: Developing a Meaningful Implementation Plan

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

  • Actionable approaches for implementing your diligent recruitment plan
  • The value of connecting your diligent recruitment plan implementation to other priorities in your system
  • How other child welfare systems approach implementing diligent recruitment strategies and activities
  • The value of tracking progress and measuring impact as part of your implementation efforts
  • Ways to engage people with lived experience in diligent recruitment plan implementation

Presenters

Alicia Groh
Consultant
National Center for Diligent Recruitment

Margarita Assink
National child welfare advisor
National Center for Diligent Recruitment

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Equipping Systems to Support American Indian and Alaska Native Families Affected by Substance Use
Nov 7 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Equipping Systems to Support American Indian and Alaska Native Families Affected by Substance Use

This webinar is tailored for systems that serve American Indian and Alaskan Native (AI/AN) families affected by substance use. It provides specific strategies and tools to equip the workforce to deliver culturally appropriate services for AI/AN families. Attendees will

  • Receive information on the history of policies and practices that separated AI/AN families
  • Learn about legislation, such as the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), developed in response to the policies and practices
  • Gain access to newly developed tools focused on improving outcomes for AI/AN families affected by substance use

Join the webinar to receive the newly published NCSACW resource The Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) Active Efforts Support Toolkit (IAST)

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Nov
8
Fri
TBRI® Empowering Principles Module 1: Empowering
Nov 8 @ 9:00 pm – 12:00 am
TBRI® Empowering Principles Module 1: Empowering

Parenting is challenging, particularly when you are parenting a child from a hard place. TBRI ® Empowering Principles will provide an in-depth look at ways to empower your children by meeting their unique physical needs and creating an environment in which they can succeed. This session includes information on sensory processing and practical tools and skills to help children regulate their emotions and behaviors. This multi-disciplinary training is designed to give caregivers, volunteers, and professionals who serve children and families the knowledge and practical skills they need to bring hope and healing.

This multi-disciplinary training is designed to give caregivers, volunteers, and professionals who serve children and families the knowledge and practical skills they need to bring hope and healing. This live, online training has 4 video-conferencing modules, giving participants the opportunity learn in an interactive environment.

Please Note: Participants must attend TBRI Introduction and Overview prior to attending this training.

Module 1: Empowering
Learning objectives:
1. Understanding regarding how to help teach children self-regulation through internal (physiological) and external (environmental) strategies
2. Understanding the importance of felt safety and how it enables learning and growth in children
3. Understanding the effects of dehydration and fluctuations in blood glucose and how to proactively avoid such fluctuations.
4. Mindset shift surrounding the question, “What is the need behind this behavior?”
5. Understanding regarding the functions of the external and internal senses
6. Understanding how trauma has affected the sensory systems of children and how these deficits are often mistaken as willful misbehavior.

Module 2: Empowering
Learning objectives:
1. Watching empowering principles put into practice in behavioral episodes
2. Recognizing the importance of felt safety, connection, and setting the behavioral bar appropriately in relationship with a child’s ability to self-regulate.
3. Understanding the need for support during transitions for children who have experienced trauma and how to implement those needed supports.
4. Understanding the progression from external regulation to self-regulation and how to mentor children’s capacity to self-regulate.

REGISTER HERE

Nov
12
Tue
Conversations on Race, Equity, and Inclusion Training Series: Session 4 – Intersectionality: A Rationale for Cultural Humility
Nov 12 @ 1:30 pm – Nov 14 @ 2:00 pm
Conversations on Race, Equity, and Inclusion Training Series: Session 4 – Intersectionality: A Rationale for Cultural Humility

The civil rights movement of the 1950s and 60s prompted educators and health and human services professionals to develop cultural competence. The belief was, if the mostly white practitioners increased their knowledge of diverse racial and ethnic groups’ values and customs, they could improve the delivery of services to diverse populations. While cultural competence was a step in the right direction, it inadvertently reinforced and created stereotypes about cultural practices and experiences that fell short of achieving its goal of supporting culturally sensitive service delivery.

 

In this two-part training session, participants will learn the importance of cultural humility: suspending cultural assumptions and, instead, embracing individuals’ personal definitions and expressions of culture. Participants will explore cultural humility by defining their own personal culture using a myriad of identity factors (e.g., skin color, ethnicity, age, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, and ability) and determining whether those identity factors place them in privileged or marginalized groups, or both. They will learn how the intersections of various identity factors create a unique cultural experience for every individual and how these intersections result in systemic power differentials and complex experiences of oppression. Finally, they will apply their cultural identity to the framework of the Cage of Oppression and, using the example of lookism, evaluate how existing power structures impact their lives and the lives of those they serve. By recognizing the societal effects of intersectionality, participants will be challenged to incorporate cultural humility in their personal and professional interactions.

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Nov
13
Wed
When Parents & Schools Disagree
Nov 13 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
When Parents & Schools Disagree

This training session will delve into Louisiana’s Special Education dispute resolution options and what to do when you disagree with the school regarding your child’s special education services. We will discuss:

  • Frequently used acronyms
  • Different informal and formal dispute resolutions options offered by the Louisiana Department of Education
  • How to request a dispute resolution option.

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Nov
14
Thu
Preventing the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Adolescent Girls: Facilitating the My Life My Choice Curriculum
Nov 14 @ 10:00 am – Nov 15 @ 4:00 pm
Preventing the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Adolescent Girls: Facilitating the My Life My Choice Curriculum

Become a Certified Facilitator for the My Life My Choice Prevention Curriculum, an evaluated and nationally‐acclaimed exploitation prevention curriculum aimed at changing adolescent girls’ perceptions of the commercial sex industry, building self-esteem and personal empowerment. Participants learn to run psycho-educational groups with vulnerable girls in a variety of settings to prevent exploitation and/or re-victimization. It is the first comprehensive, survivor-led curriculum in the US and has been used in 36 states. It is both gender specific and gender responsive.

Participants will:

  • Understand the research behind the My Life My Choice Curriculum

  • Learn how to use the Curriculum to run psycho-educational groups with vulnerable girls in a variety of settings to prevent exploitation and/or re-victimization

  • Learn best practices for facilitating a prevention group and explore potential challenges

  • Practice facilitation skills and receive feedback in small and large group settings

  • Receive a copy of the My Life My Choice Curriculum and membership to our prevention-focused Online Community

REGISTER HERE

Nov
15
Fri
TBRI® Empowering Principles Module 2: Empowering
Nov 15 @ 9:00 pm – 12:00 am
TBRI® Empowering Principles Module 2: Empowering

Parenting is challenging, particularly when you are parenting a child from a hard place. TBRI ® Empowering Principles will provide an in-depth look at ways to empower your children by meeting their unique physical needs and creating an environment in which they can succeed. This session includes information on sensory processing and practical tools and skills to help children regulate their emotions and behaviors. This multi-disciplinary training is designed to give caregivers, volunteers, and professionals who serve children and families the knowledge and practical skills they need to bring hope and healing.

This multi-disciplinary training is designed to give caregivers, volunteers, and professionals who serve children and families the knowledge and practical skills they need to bring hope and healing. This live, online training has 4 video-conferencing modules, giving participants the opportunity learn in an interactive environment.

Please Note: Participants must attend TBRI Introduction and Overview prior to attending this training.

Module 1: Empowering
Learning objectives:
1. Understanding regarding how to help teach children self-regulation through internal (physiological) and external (environmental) strategies
2. Understanding the importance of felt safety and how it enables learning and growth in children
3. Understanding the effects of dehydration and fluctuations in blood glucose and how to proactively avoid such fluctuations.
4. Mindset shift surrounding the question, “What is the need behind this behavior?”
5. Understanding regarding the functions of the external and internal senses
6. Understanding how trauma has affected the sensory systems of children and how these deficits are often mistaken as willful misbehavior.

Module 2: Empowering
Learning objectives:
1. Watching empowering principles put into practice in behavioral episodes
2. Recognizing the importance of felt safety, connection, and setting the behavioral bar appropriately in relationship with a child’s ability to self-regulate.
3. Understanding the need for support during transitions for children who have experienced trauma and how to implement those needed supports.
4. Understanding the progression from external regulation to self-regulation and how to mentor children’s capacity to self-regulate.

REGISTER HERE

Nov
18
Mon
The Color of Surveillance: Surveillance / Resistance @ Georgetown University Law Center
Nov 18 @ 9:00 am – 5:30 pm
The Color of Surveillance: Surveillance / Resistance @ Georgetown University Law Center
The 2024 Color of Surveillance conference will be co-hosted by the Center on Privacy & Technology, the UCLA Center on Race & Digital Justice and the Distributed AI Research Institute, and will take place at the Georgetown University Law Center campus in Washington D.C. on November 18. This year, we’ll look at the intersection of surveillance and resistance, explore how technologies of surveillance have long been resisted, how surveillance has been employed as a strategy of resistance, and changing interpretations of resistance in an age of ubiquitous surveillance.

More program and speaker information can be found at: www.colorofsurveillance.org. In-person attendees will be asked to test on-site for COVID and wear a mask. Contact privacy@georgetown.edu with any questions.

REGISTER HERE

Nov
20
Wed
High-Quality Legal Representation in Cases Involving Infants and Toddlers – Session Four: Collaboration for Families with Infants and Toddlers
Nov 20 @ 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm
High-Quality Legal Representation in Cases Involving Infants and Toddlers - Session Four: Collaboration for Families with Infants and Toddlers

NACC is pleased to announce our new and expanded Infants & Toddlers series. This comprehensive four-session series is tailored for attorneys for the agency, children, or parents, as well as judges and social workers in infant and toddler cases.

Dive deep into the nuances of providing high-quality legal representation in cases involving our youngest and most vulnerable clients. From compassionate advocacy and understanding the unique harms faced by infants and toddlers to navigating the removal decision and fostering collaboration for families, each session is designed to equip you with the specialized knowledge and skills needed to effectively advocate for these young individuals.

Don’t miss this opportunity to enhance your practice and make a meaningful impact in the lives of infants and toddlers. Register now to secure your spot in this essential series. All registrants also receive electronic access to last year’s recordings and materials from the High-Quality Legal Representation for Infants and Toddlers Training Series.

Session Four: Collaboration for Families with Infants and Toddlers

  • Case Plan Advocacy
  • Placement Advocacy
  • Family Time Advocacy
  • Well-Being Advocacy
  • Collaboration with Resource Families
  • Family Treatment Court Models

REGISTER HERE