10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Morning Breakout Workshops
CCR: A Look Back and a Look Forward Through an ICPM Lens
Alicia Bernstein, Emily Small, Hitesh Bussie
Using the ICPM Leadership traits as a frame, the presenters will provide a review of the current data around what has changed since CCR, what is the same and what our analysis has identified (e.g., gap analysis). CCR will provide a general gap analysis, and while using ICPM as a guide and a frame, discuss where can we go from here.
Mindful Community Connections-Referrals
Chenee Robinson, Shanece Okoro Duncan
Mindful Community Connections-Referrals is a beginner’s guide for “Getting to Know Your Service Providers.” This workshop encompasses helpful strategies for child welfare workers, community-based program leaders, case managers and others to learn ways to refer clients effectively and efficiently to mental health/community-based intervention services. Emphasizing the ICPM’s focus on “Transitions”, attendees will learn basic steps to consider when referring individuals and families to community-based services and become more aware of barriers/challenges clients face when accessing referred services.
Stress and Coping During COVID
Kimberly Porter, LCSW
This workshop will provide an overview of trauma, ACES and tips to practice with a trauma-informed lens.
Flawless Facilitation in the Telehealth World
Laura McClarin
In this interactive and dynamic workshop, participants will learn and experience firsthand essential tools and skills for facilitating effective meetings, whether for families, community partners, service providers, staff and/or a combination thereof. The workshop will illustrate through examples, small group activities and large group activities, four essential tools for effective facilitation. Participants will discuss real life application of these tools as well as strategize any challenges that may arise.
Understanding Early Childhood Mental Health Needs in the Context of Relationships
Mike Sherman
This workshop provides a foundational understanding of the important relational factors during prenatal and perinatal periods in healthy neurological development. We will discuss research on the impact of nurturing and attuned early relationships on healthy life-long functioning. We will also learn the impact of childhood adversity (ACEs) and the trans-generational transmission of toxic stress in order to increase access to care, address medical necessity and view Birth-to-5 consumers through a dynamic relational perspective.
Contagion Prevention Against Toxic Practices While Re-inspiring the Working Dead
Misty Kerrigan, Dawne Shaw
On average, there is a two-year burnout rate in our field. This leads to staff turnover, or worse, toxic staff who contaminate the work culture. When staff experience burnout it effects all aspects of their life and those around them, including the populations they serve. However, burnout, vicarious trauma and a toxic staff can all be alleviated. Join us for some skills and tools to prevent, intervene and counteract the contagions impacting our work culture.
Reeling It In: Getting Back to Fidelity
Rebekah Cox
Drift happens. In the deep sea of Wraparound and CFT practice, it’s easy to float along, feeling that we are making progress, but without checking our guiding compass, how will we know we are on course? Even small navigation errors can have a big impact on our final destination. Get refreshed. Get rejuvenated. Get back on course.
San Diego County HHSA Behavioral Health Services / Child Welfare Services - Holding the CANS conversation in the Child and Family Team Meeting
Shelly Paule, Eileen Quinn-O’Malley
San Diego County Behavioral Health and Child Welfare Services have collaboratively implemented CANS to best support transparency and meet the needs of the children and families we serve. CANS supports families to actively participate in the development and monitoring of their plan within child family team meetings. Roll out, successes and barriers will be discussed.
An Interactive Introduction to Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) Tapping
Suzanne Alfandari
EFT has been shown to help reduce stress, symptoms of anxiety, depression, physical and emotional pain and post-traumatic stress symptoms. EFT Tapping is a technique that is easy to learn and implement, and can reduce stress for each team member, increasing collaboration and creativity.
Bridging the Gap: Integrating Services to Support Positive Change
Robert Edmisten
Often, youth and families must navigate a complex path of services, court requirements and probation supervision, feeling left out of their own treatment planning. The Sacramento County Probation Department and Stanford Youth Solutions collaborated to create an innovative service delivery structure that integrates Probation culture, Court orders and the family's voice with an array of individualized services. Staff from both agencies work together to manage cases from assessment of risk/needs to identification of targeted interventions through discharge, ensuring the youth's needs are met and families are kept together.
The Facilitation Game Show: Advancing Skills for the Team Planning Processes in CFTM and Other Teaming Models
Jarred Vermillion
“Team think” is one of the most powerful tools that may be leveraged in supporting the lives of children, parents and families. This workshop will focus on the skills and knowledge a team facilitator must have to move a team from introduction to innovation.
Applying Principles of Innovation and Collaboration to Wraparound Work
Lauren Crutsinger, Briana Downey
This workshop explores 1) ways a standard Wraparound model can be creatively flexed to meet individual county needs, and 2) logistical considerations that promote integrated inter-agency collaboration. Information about an innovative “Expedited Wraparound” partnership between Sonoma County and Seneca Family of Agencies, which provides brief but intensive stabilization services for youth coming to or leaving the county shelter will be presented, and lessons learned from this collaboration will be shared.
Resilience: A Pandemic Necessity
Beth Cohen, Ph.D.
National workforce data has revealed increased anxiety, trauma, isolation, sleep difficulty, depressed mood and irritability over the course of this pandemic. As COVID-19 changes the way we live and function, the need to forge and/or maintain resilience has become essential. Building resilience allows us to address problems in the most adaptive manner, even when they cannot be solved. This vital skill can assist us in facing, overcoming and even becoming personally strengthened by pandemic challenges.
The best way to mitigate the emotional damage of the pandemic is to learn resilience strategies, interventions and skills to build up our social and psychological immunity. This resilience-skills education and training will teach you how to manage significant stressors and protect yourself from the ever-present emotional threat of COVID-19.
The Impact of Microaggressions and Racialized Attitudes: Racism Among Groups of Color
Dr. Jamille Harrell-Sims
In today’s negative racial climate, exacerbated by the current political ideology, there is much discussion on racial hatred, but no discussion on anti-black racism perpetuated by other groups of color. We cannot ignore or hide behind the fact that although there are people from all walks of life that acknowledge and speak against racial hatred, there are also many who promote it: knowingly or unknowingly. The purpose of this workshop is to:
- Explore, evaluate and discuss anti-black racism and colorism as a practice among other groups who are considered people of color.
- Discuss the history, terms, and language used to hand down these antiblack practices.
- Re-evaluate our beliefs, how we see the world and what profoundly influences racialized attitudes regarding colorism
- Engage in a healing circle: An open dialogue of proposed reconciliation and understanding regarding complacency.
This discussion will be a hard pill to swallow for many. However, in order to make a true attempt at reconciliation, all avenues must be covered. The proposed outcome is self-awareness, research, and an awareness of how racism has permeated the world and the self through cultural practices, cultural appropriation and media narratives.
1:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m. Afternoon Breakout Workshops
Resiliency Interventions for Queer Youth of Color
Alicia Guajardo
Utilizing auto-ethnography and personal experience, this workshop explores trauma informed approaches to working with LGBTQ youth from the lens of a transgender former foster youth. Through a woman of color feminist approach, we will unpack intersectionality in relation to queer youth while learning risk factors and resiliency interventions that incorporate brain-based strategies effective in supporting youth.
Mastering Financial Wellness: Personal Finance Skills for You and Your Clients
Heidi Glunz
Mastering Financial Wellness will teach you the skills you need to manage your money so that you can own your life. The foundation of mastering personal finance is having a budget AND a budgeting system. This workshop walks you through setting up your first budget, the steps needed to maintain it every month and tips on teaching these skills to others. This workshop also discusses the importance of Giving, Saving and Spending with intention.
Collaborating to Support Pregnant and Parenting Women with Substance Use Disorders and Infants with Prenatal Substance Exposure
Ashay Shah, Katie Ryan
This workshop will highlight family-centered, collaborative approaches to serving pregnant and parenting women with substance use disorders and infants with prenatal substance exposure, improving health and well-being outcomes for children and parents and helping families remain together safely. Key practice strategies include pre- and post- birth screening and assessment, family engagement and prevention and systems of care services coordinated through Plans of Safe Care.
Exhausted? Integrating Self-Care into Daily Life
Jaime Velazquez
Some may balk at the idea of self-care and embrace the hustle culture, while others believe in weekly pedicures and massages. But what IS self-care, really? Why is it important to our well-being and health? The goal of this workshop is to provide realistic ways for people to care for themselves so that they remain healthy while they care for others in their professional and personal lives.
A Continuum of Care for Young Children in the San Diego County Child Welfare Services
Julie McCormack, Meghan Lukasik
This workshop will review the system of care for children from birth to six years of age who are involved with Child Welfare Services in San Diego County. Key areas of focus for this system are including all the caregivers in a child's life in services and maximizing participation by all service providers.
Promotion, Prevention, Intervention- An Innovative Approach to Strengthening Families
Laura Counts, Jamie Olivas
The Child Development Institute (CDI) has seen the impact of early trauma and lack of resources on the development of young children. Discover how early trauma research informed CDI’s development of a unique 3-prong service model (Promotion, Prevention, Intervention), which provides all families the opportunities needed to recover from adversity, heal from trauma and get stronger. Learn how to support protective factors in your daily work and help move families towards greater resilience and joy.
The CFT Meeting Facilitation Program: CCR, CFT's and a Collective Partnership in San Diego County
Laura McClarin
With representatives from Probation, Child Welfare, Behavioral Health Services and a nonprofit, participants will learn about a pilot program in San Diego that conducts CFT meetings. Participants will expand their knowledge of CCR, Katie A and the Core Practice Model while learning how to increase family voice and choice throughout the Child and Family Team (CFT) meeting process.
Effectively Engaging California's Parents/Caregivers
Lucy Morse Roberts
This workshop will offer participants tools and techniques for effectively and respectfully engaging with parents from culturally diverse communities. Participants will have an opportunity to reflect on the information presented and create their own engagement strategies. The workshop will also include a simple trauma/healing informed matrix that can be adapted to any work setting and programming. Feedback loops and accountability practices will also be addressed.
Advancing California's Trauma-Informed Systems: Implementation and Practice Partnership in Child Welfare
Melissa Bernstein, Al Killen-Harvey
Through a partnership between the Chadwick Center at Rady Children's Hospital, San Diego and California's Department of Social Services and Office of Child Abuse and Prevention, the Advancing California's Trauma-Informed Systems (ACTS) initiative was developed to create collaborative partnerships with child welfare leaders to enhance ongoing trauma-informed system change. In this session, we offer an evidence-informed model for development of a trauma-informed system change, highlighting examples from six child welfare counties across California.
Being in the Child Welfare System: A Youth Perspective
Nick Ryan, Shaquenta McDonald
The instructors, including a youth advocate with lived experience in the juvenile justice and child welfare systems, share perspectives to support youth-guided, family-driven, culturally relevant, trauma-informed and permanency-focused Short Term Residential Therapeutic Programs (STRTP) using the principles of the Integrated Core Practice Model (ICPM).
A System of Care in California: Integrated Core Practice Model and Multi-Tiered System of Support as Complimentary Frameworks
Renzo Bernales, Richard Knecht
California has 65 thousand foster youth attending school, many of whom will underperform academically, be suspended more than peers or not graduate. California’s Departments of Education and Human Services Agency are breaking new ground toward an integrated System of Care, and implementation initiatives provide county partners unique tools to connect school and health systems. This workshop highlights the imperative of—and recent progress toward—a fully aligned and integrated continuum of services for foster youth.
Impact of Poverty on Brain Development and the Effectiveness of Telehealth in Low Income Populations
Pablo Velez, Sara Torten
Low socioeconomic status has been linked to structural changes in the brain with poorer neurocognitive functions. Learn about the effects of poverty on the developing brain, and what factors mediate the relationship between poverty and brain structure. Take away strategies that can be used in early intervention to support the development of children living in poverty.
Wraparound 2020: Large, Medium and Small Counties - What's Working and Some Things to Consider About the Future of California Wraparound
Jarred Vermillion
In 2018 Wraparound celebrated 20 years of practice in California. From San Diego to Humboldt, from small to medium to large counties, Wraparound is a practice used far and wide to support the complexity of children, families and systems across the state. This workshop will review and discuss the state of California Wraparound, its strengths and needs.
Incorporating Family Finding and Engagement into Wraparound Services
Lauren Crutsinger, Ariana Ibarra
This workshop explores practical tips for incorporating Family Finding and Engagement practices and principles into Wraparound services for maximal permanency outcomes. Methods to be examined include unique tools for identifying natural supports, culturally appropriate techniques for engagement, approaches for problem-solving and practices for sustainability. Presenters will describe ways that permanency specialists embedded in their Wraparound family teams have led to consistent positive results.