Click on a title to jump to its description Wednesday, March 23 8:30-9:00 AM Welcome and Introductions Dave McDowell, Shahla Craggs 9:00-10:15 AM Opening Keynote: “Some Questions Are Almost Too Tough to Answer” Paul DiLorenzo 10:15-10:30 AM Break 10:30 AM-12:00 PM Morning Workshop Sessions Nuts and Bolts of CQI: Part 1 Lily Alpert, Wendy Wiegmann CQI and the Workforce Anita Barbee Data Visualization: 101 and Best Practices Ann Emery Culturally Responsive Evaluation (CRE) Wanda Casillas Creating a Culture of Continuous Learning: The Role of the Leader Dave McDowell, Alison Book How We're Reimagining Child Welfare for Justice in Travis County, Texas Nicole Garay, Honorable Judge Aurora Martinez Jones, Michael Martinez, Eloise Sepeda, Jennifer Rich 12:00-1:00 PM Lunch Break 1:00-2:15 PM Keynote Presentation: DEI and State Efforts Greg Rose, Marcela Ruiz 2:15-2:30 PM Break 2:30-4:00 PM Afternoon Workshop Sessions Data Visualization: A Deep Dive on How Data Visualization and Graphic Design Can Be Applied to Reports Ann Emery Data Sources: How and When to Use Them Bill James, Wendy Wiegmann Recommendations from a Data Workgroup to Measure Substance Use as a Complicating Factor in Child Welfare Involvement Daniel Webster, Charles Robbins, Howard Himes A Frontier County Experience: Qualitative Data Mining, Continuous Quality Improvement and Excel Dashboard Creation Willie Green, Ph.D., MSUS, GIS Transformative Power of Coaching to Support a Culture of CQI Improvement Naveen Sangwan, Alma Duarte, Tracy Bowers Racial Equity Lens and CQI in Practice Amber Joiner-Hill Making the Most of Online Monitoring System (OMS) Reports CDSS, Deborah Bresnick Thursday, March 24 8:30-9:00 AM Welcome Susan Brooks 9:00-10:00 AM Keynote Presentation: Early Lessons Learned in Moving Child Welfare Upstream Kaela Byers, Ph.D., M.S.W., Jared Barton, Ph.D., M.S.W., Family First Prevention Services, Kansas 10:00-10:15 AM Break 10:15-1:45 AM Morning Workshop Sessions Nuts and Bolts of CQI, Part 2 Wendy Wiegmann, Lily Alpert How the Kansas Family First Initiative Brings Together Data for CQI Jared Barton, Kaela Byers Family Matters! How a Focus on Family Can Expedite Permanency and Improve Well-Being, and How to Engage Staff in Advancing this Work through CQI and Creating a Culture of Best Practitioners Nicole Garay, Amy Zimmermann, Matt Claps Mapping Community Indicators and the Opportunities They Present Kirk O'Brien, Catherine Roller White, Dana Blackwell, Katie Fidrych, Rachel Vaca-Lubischer, Bill Stanton From Detection-Correction to Prevention: High-Quality Service Delivery in a Multi-EBP Environment Khush Cooper Creative Ways to Connect the Dots: County Strategies for Finding and Utilizing Substance Use Data Najeeb Kamil, Casey Coneway, Lillian Chang Nuts and Bolts of CQI, Part 2 Wendy Wiegmann, Lily Alpert 11:45 AM-12:45 PM Lunch Break 12:45-1:45 PM Keynote Presentation: How to Create a More Efficient and Data-Driven Environment for Human Services - Allegheny County Erin Dalton 1:45-2:00 PM Break 2:00-3:30 PM Afternoon Workshop Sessions Deeper Dive with Allegany County Erin Dalton Using Geographic Data to Explore the Community Context for Racial Disparities Wendy Wiegmann RADD Data at the Heart: Building a Data Literacy Learning Program Patricia Willers, Jacquelyn Alvarez Alameda County's Equity and Inclusion Fellowship: Deconstructing Structural Racism in Child Welfare Lamont Thomas, Greyson Coyopa Wright, Marya Wright, Brittany Walker Pettigrew DEI and the Workforce Anita Barbee Tools, Tools, Tools: What Are Fidelity Tools and Why Do We Need Them? Julia Hernandez, David Plassman, Andreanna Riley, Wuijai Golly, Tami McCalip Continuous Quality Improvement in Social Services (CalWORKs Outcomes and Accountability Review – Cal-OAR) Shannon Rohall, Tyler Green, Joseph Sapp Making the Most of Online Monitoring System (OMS) Reports CDSS, Deborah Bresnick 3:30-4:00 PM Closing Session
