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October 5, 2023 at 2pm EST

Strengthening Cultural Responsiveness in Intergenerational Programs​​​​​​​

October 11, 2023 at 2pm EST

Final Rule: Separate licensing or approval standards for relative or kinship foster family homes

October 11, 2023 at 2:30pm EST

NPRM: Safe and appropriate placements that support LGBTQI+ children

October 11, 2023 at 3pm EST

Kin-Specific Foster Home Licensure: Overview of New Federal Rule & Release of Recommended Standards

Join us as we unveil the first draft of these new model standards!

• Learn what the new kin-specific approval standards include, and how they were developed

• Hear from multiple leaders about the benefits they expect to see from Title IV-E agencies adopting these new standards

• Learn where to start developing a kin-specific licensing process in your agency

• Bring your questions for a live Q&A session

October 16-17, 2023

Social Current’s SPARK 2023 Conference

This confrence will be held in Bethesda, MD. More details to come!

September 28, 2023 at 2:00pm EST

Empowering Youth: Finding Points of Connection

This webinar will highlight the importance of permanency for teens in foster care and help adoption professionals know how to empower youth and work with them in finding connections and achieving permanency. Participants will hear from fellow professionals as well as young adults who were adopted as teens.

September 26, 2023 at 12:00pm EST

Webinar: Supporting Immigrant Children and Youth in Foster Care: Best Practices

The National Foster Care Youth & Alumni Policy Council and the Center on Immigration and Child Welfare (CICW) invite you to a webinar to discuss best practices for supporting immigrant youth in foster care!

Learn about the Council’s Supporting Immigrant Youth & Children in Foster Care priority, and hear from the CICW about tools practitioners can use to address common barriers faced in supporting immigrant youth in foster care and best practices that can be implemented to overcome them.

Council Members will illustrate just how imperative lived experience leadership is at every level - from learning from young people across the nation to creating policy priorities, while the CICW will highlight resources and best practices and recent research on child welfare models for serving immigrant youth in foster care.

September 26, 2023 at 12:00pm EST

Lessons from the Field in Reducing Child Abuse through Community-Based Collaboration

Learn about what it takes to address child abuse fatalities through a collaborative, community-based approach. For nearly four years, five different sites located across the country have been working to advance child and family well-being systems and shared responsibility in their communities.

Through Child Safety Forward, a demonstration initiative funded by the U.S. Department of Justice, Office for Victims of Crime, the five sites and Social Current as the initiative’s technical assistance provider, have been applying, testing, and evaluating different strategies. Now in their fourth year, the sites will discuss their successes and lessons learned.

They will share a new model for doing things differently to better support families, keep children safe in their homes, and implement a public health approach that is proactive rather than reactive.

September 20, 2023 at 2pm EST

Moving beyond child poverty to promote family economic well-being

Join us on Wednesday, September 20, 2023 at 2:00pm ET as Child Trends, Poverty Solutions, and other leaders unpack a decades-long decline in child poverty, and more recent shifts that followed COVID-19 aid, to probe how well common poverty indicators have captured changes in child and family well-being. After discussing the implications for policy and policy discourse, a panel of voices representing research, advocacy, direct service, philanthropy, and human services will share what it takes to build a social safety net focused on economic well-being rather than poverty, including sharing their own efforts.​​​​​​​

September 14, 2023 at 1:00pm EST

Making Moments Matter: Transforming Child Welfare One Moment at a Time

Through the voices of lived experts, participants will learn how intentionally engaging children and youth can lead to improved results. Participants will hear why authentic child and youth engagement is a key element for successful child welfare systems and learn practical information that anyone can use to make moments matter. Judge Darrell Missey, Director of the Children's Division of the Missouri Department of Social Services, will discuss the role child welfare leaders have in creating an environment that prioritizes child and youth engagement. Participants will gain an overview of the Quality Improvement Center on Engaging Youth in Finding Permanency (QIC-EY) and the tools that are available to help child welfare professionals authentically engage children and youth.

All participants who attend and complete the survey following the presentation will be emailed a certificate of attendance for 1.5 hours.

September 12, 2023 at 2:00pm EST

Improving Your Results in Kin-Finding and Placement

Join us for a preview and initial roll-out of the Kin-Finding Toolkit, featuring promising practices that have been helping child welfare agencies across the country increase their kin placement rates. Every practice comes with the necessary real-world tools, such as sample policy language and forms. Take away new strategies and resources to adapt for your own system or organization. The 20+ practices include:

• Using an expansive definition of kin
• Using heart maps
• Making plans to keep youth connected to all their supportive adults
• Asking kin you find for more kin
• Requiring higher-level approval for non-kin placements

Learn more about opportunities to receive implementation support, and to share your own kin-finding innovations.

August 15, 2023 at 3pm ET

Kinship Assessment Tool

Learn how to use the new Kinship Assessment tool developed by the ABA Center on Children and the Law and Generations United, in partnership with Casey Family Programs. This tool was created to help child welfare agencies assess their current efforts and identify opportunities to become a Kin-First agency. ​​​​

August 10-12 & September 20-22 2023

NACC 46th National Child Welfare Law Conference 

The National Association of Counsel for Children invites you to join us onsite and/or online for our 46^th National Child Welfare Law Conference.  This year’s theme is From Learning to Action: Shared Accountability for Disrupting Harm and Promoting Healing - see the newly released conference program here.  Conference faculty represent 27 states/territories and include 37 lived experience experts. NACC offers a dual conference format: onsite August 10-12 at the Hyatt Regency Minneapolis, and online September 20-22 with a brand-new agenda!  Both events will be live, and all Minneapolis attendees can also access the online conference.  In Minneapolis, NACC will also host pre-conference Red Book Training, Children’s Law Office Convening, Child Welfare Law Career Fair, and an 80’s Dance Party and Paisley Park tour. Early Registration rates for the Minneapolis Dual Conference end June 30, and early rates for the online-only end August 31.  

July 27, 2023 at 1pm EST

Building Bridges of Connection

We’re back by popular demand in 2023 with another conversation on growing relationships between caregivers and bio families. Hear from families who build these relationships every day, with suggestions on how you too can create these connections to benefit the children in your family.

This event is sponsored by the National Foster Parent Association (NFPA). “Connection” was a key focal point of the group’s recent Education Conference.

July 26-28, 2023

Generations United's 23rd Global Intergenerational Conference

GU's 23rd Global Intergenerational Confrence will take place July 26-28, 2023 in Washington, DC. The conference will take place at the Hilton Washington DC National Mall The Wharf.

Stay tuned for additional updates!

July 17th, 2023 at 2:00 pm ET

Whether you’re a large nonprofit organization, a government agency, or a small community nonprofit, you need to demonstrate the success of your kinship program to funders and other stakeholders. Showing success requires a strategic approach and an understanding of general principles that support effective data collection and evaluation. This is equally important for programs in the early stages of demonstrating program success and those planning formal evaluations. Join us for a webinar led by two experts who are helping kinship programs across the country build evidence of success. 

We will highlight key considerations for getting started or reaffirming your current strategy for building evidence. Join us to explore the foundational principles and strategies to demonstrate success, including:

• Developing a Theory of Change and Logic Model that drive your strategy
• Partnering for data collection
• Forming data-sharing agreements with the right stakeholders
• Understanding tribal considerations in partnering on data collection and sharing
• Navigating Institutional Review Boards reviews
• Using your strategy to demonstrate success
• Planning ahead for a formal evaluation
• Accessing tips and resources if submitting to the California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare or the Title IV-E Prevention Services Clearinghouse

July 12th, 2023 at 2pm EST

LGBTQI+ youth are overrepresented in the foster care system all over this country. They experience higher rates of suicidality and higher numbers of placements, they report more negative experiences within the child welfare system compared to their peers, and they experience higher rates of homelessness. In particular, LGBTQI+ youth of color see the most negative outcomes. Many attorneys and judges currently consider LGBTQI+ advocacy and education to be a specialty or niche; in reality, considering the disparate outcomes these youth experience, it is of utmost importance that we educate ourselves to better support these youth and, in particular, the ways we can work to positively impact and alter their experiences while in the child welfare system. This webinar will discuss the disparities LGBTQI+ youth face in the child welfare system, various legal advocacy panelists have engaged in on behalf of LGBTQI+ youth and youth of color in these systems, and share LGBTQI+ community resources aimed at better supporting children and families. 

July 10th-13th, 2023

Family Focused Treatment Association's 37th Annual Conference

FFTA has convened for our Annual Conference, bringing together leaders, practitioners, and partners in the sector to leverage our collective knowledge and share proven solutions for advancing wellness for all families and communities. Our Annual Conference provides a setting to equip individuals and organizations that support families and communities with the resources needed to be most effective. 

The confrence is being held in Columbus, OH

June 29, 2023 at 1:30pm ET

Supporting Family-Centered Reunification:
Learning from the QIC-R Implementation Sites

This final National Reunification Month webinar will highlight the Quality Improvement Center for Family-Centered Reunification (QIC-R) implementation sites in Ohio, Kentucky, Montana, and New York. These sites are implementing and evaluating interventions that will improve services for families and decrease the timeframe of reunification for families involved in child welfare. 

June 28, 2023 at 12:00pm ET

Medicaid and CHIP Continuous Enrollment Unwinding: What to Know and How to Prepare, A Partner Education Monthly Series

This monthly webinar series will provide stakeholders with information to prepare for the Medicaid and CHIP continuous enrollment unwinding.

June 20 & 22, 2023 at 1:00pm ET

The Power of Relationships in Advancing Child and Family Well-Being: Lessons from Rural Communities

CWLA invites urban and rural providers to join us for a special virtual summit that will share strategies for community collaboration. Many rural child- and family-serving agencies have innovative approaches to partnering with community-based organizations to bring holistic services to families. This summit will provide an opportunity for urban providers to hear directly from national rural leaders about methods for working with local organizations, outside of child welfare, and how these lessons can be applied to their own communities. Each day will end with a dialogue session for shared learning with peers.

June 13, 2023 at 2pm ET

Identifying and Engaging Untapped Partners to Support Kinship Families

Working with previously untapped community partners helps kinship-serving agencies to better empower and sustain kinship families. Learn from a panel representing national organizations – including Family Resource Centers – that have local programming in communities across the country.  They will share how and why they began supporting kinship families and provide you with strategies for approaching untapped collaborators and working with them in your communities.  

By expanding your partnerships, you can reach a wider array of kinship families and offer them additional services, while your new partners learn more about kinship families and expand their service reach too.  It’s a win-win! 

June 8, 2023 at 1pm ET

NACC June Webinar--Closing Time: The Grand Finale

Closing arguments are a critical part of your advocacy for your client in a family regulation trial. Giving a powerful closing feels great and can be a lot of fun! You create a roadmap for the factfinder to arrive at your desired outcome with your argument. Your client is almost certainly living in poverty, powerless against this behemoth of a system, and likely a member of another marginalized group. Closing arguments are a way to tell your client’s story in the most authentic way and honor their experience. This session will provide guidance on how and when to write your closing most effectively, how to make your delivery as powerful as possible, and demonstrate these skills in action.

June 8, 2023 at 1pm ET

9th Annual BPNN Virtual Convening Supporting Families at the Front End of the Child Welfare System

Join us for the Children’s Trust Fund Alliance’s 2023 Birth Parent National Network (BPNN) Virtual Convening on Thursday, June 8, from 10:00 AM - 12:30 PM PT to hear first-hand the powerful results when a participatory research project incorporates a partnership approach between funders, researchers, parents and youth. The Annie E. Casey Foundation, Stand Together and the Aviv Foundation funded this project to understand more about the front end of the child welfare system and the impact of child abuse investigations and case planning on children and families. While the child welfare system has the potential to use the investigations process as an opportunity to connect struggling families to needed supports, the existing system too often treats families struggling with poverty and other issues as subjects under investigation rather than as caregivers in need of support.

This convening offers you a rare opportunity to hear how 10 BPNN parent partners with lived experience with the child welfare system interviewed 100 parents to learn more about their experiences when they were investigated for allegations of child abuse and neglect. You will also hear about the findings from the 31 interviews conducted by Think of Us with youth whose families experienced an investigation. The goal was to better understand how the system works and its impact on families and to begin to explore how to make improvements to be more supportive of the families involved. This interactive event will include thought provoking discussion and will highlight findings gathered from parents, youth and other stakeholders about their experiences with the investigations process.

June 7, 2023 at 1:30pm ET

What Child Welfare Agencies Can Do to Support Reunification: Parent Partnerships and Reunification Practices

The relationship between resource/foster caregivers and parents whose children are in foster care can be one of the most impactful connections to supporting reunification. Resource caregivers play a critical role in supporting family time and maintaining children’s connections to family. What is the role of Child Welfare agencies in supporting this connection? Please join us as we explore this role and offer concrete ways Child Welfare agencies can be a partner in supporting reunification through this relationship and other practices.

Oregon Department of Human Services and Georgia Department of Human Services will offer tips not only from the agency’s perspective but also from the perspective of parents and resource caregivers in partnership with Rise, a parent-led NYC-based advocacy organization. Participants will hear personal perspectives from parents who have been impacted by the child welfare system and will leave with practical tips for how agencies can support families in achieving reunification from the moment a child is placed into care.

May 25, 2023 12pm PT

Exploring a World of Sovereignty and Inclusion - Part 1

 Join us for our next Birth Parent National Network (BPNN) webinar on Thursday May 25th 12:00 pm–1:30 pm pt •1:00 pm–2:30 pm mt •2:00–3:30 pm ct • 3:00–4:30 pm et where you will have the opportunity to walk alongside Michael Huesca and Shana King, presenters and BPNN members, as they discuss the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA). They will share examples of how ICWA makes a difference in helping families to remain strong and supported. It will be a great opportunity to learn about the historical background of ICWA, terminology, and how to implement this important learning into your work and your local communities. We hope you will walk away with new information, tools and resources and a greater understanding of inclusion and equity​​​​​​​

May 24, 2023 12-1pm EST

Family First Act Expert Panel

Panel discussion on the five years of the Family First Prevention Services Act hosted by Chapin Hall and moderated by Chapin Hall Senior Policy Fellow, Clare Anderson. Featured panelists include Commissioner Rebecca Jones Gaston, Commissioner of the Administration of Children, Youth, and Families, Andrew Russo, Co-Founder and Director of the National Family Support Network, and Jaia Lent, Deputy Executive Director of Generations United.

May 24, 2023 10am-11:30am PST

Parents as Teachers & the Family First Prevention Services Act

The Parents as Teachers (PAT) evidence-based home visiting model is rated as a well—supported model in the Title IV-E Prevention Services Clearinghouse. The PAT model aligns with the goals of the Family First Prevention Services Act by incorporating strengths-based practices that focus on all members of the family. This presentation will introduce the PAT model so that stakeholders can determine if this model will best serve the needs of families using funding appropriated by the Family First Services Prevention Act.

Participants will:

• Increase understanding of the PAT model
• Identify the next steps to implementing Parents as Teachers services to benefit families in your community

Who should attend: County Prevention Teams and cross-sector partners, including staff of child welfare agencies, behavioral health agencies, probation, Child Abuse Prevention Councils, community-based service providers, family resource centers, Offices of Education, tribal partners, and parents/youth leaders with lived experience

May 11-12, 2023

2nd National Conference on Interdisciplinary Parent Representation

The ABA Center on Children and the Law, the National Alliance for Parent Representation, and the Colorado Office of Respondent Parents’ Counsel will host the 2^nd National Conference on Interdisciplinary Parent Representation in Denver, CO on May 11-12, 2023.

May 10, 2023 at 2:00pm-3:30pm EST

Collaboration Strategies for Tribes, or Non-Native Service Providers Working with Tribes, to Support Kinship/Grandfamilies

Dr. Terry Cross will provide a brief review of collaboration: what it is, why to collaborate, and how it can be successfully accomplished. He will focus on specific strategies for tribal programs wishing to engage in collaborative services. In addition, Dr. Cross will address how government or private organizations can best prepare for collaboration with tribes. An example of collaboration principles designed to ensure equitable and respectful collaborative work will be presented. Explore what this example teaches us about cross-cultural and cross-jurisdiction collaboration and discover key concepts. Learn about several building blocks for preparing for collaborative ventures and discuss several issues to consider when developing, implementing, managing, or evaluating collaborative efforts.

This webinar will help you:

• Be able to discuss why grandfamilies and relative care providers can benefit from collaborative approaches among tribes, or between tribes and non-Native government or private service providers
• Become familiar with principles that support successful cross-cultural and cross-jurisdiction collaboration
• Be able to explore and weigh several issues when planning a collaboration among or with tribes.

May 10, 2023 at 2:00pm EST

Birth and Foster Parent Partnerships Partnerships and Protective Factors Supporting Parental Resilience

Learn how parents and caregivers can collaborate to strengthen and support families in difficult times. Working together, families have more resources to be strong and resilient and to provide children and youth with the love and connections they need for healthy development. Using strategies from the BFPP tools and guided by the protective factor, Parental Resilience, we will discuss how practical and thoughtful steps such as responding quickly to crisis, using empathy, validating strengths, and providing timely supports can help parents become strong and resilient. These positive relationships can serve as a powerful foundation to connect parents with their own values and strengths and to help families thrive. Seeing their parents and caregivers using protective factors in their own lives can help children and youth learn to build on their own strengths and draw on their own resilience in challenging times.

May 10, 2023 at 1:00pm EST

National Foster Care Month

This event will focus on youth and family mental health and well-being in line with the 2023 National Foster Care Month theme, “Strengthening Minds. Uplifting Families.”

Participants will hear about some of the challenges child welfare workers face in addressing youth and family mental health and learn innovative strategies to support the mental health needs of children and youth in care.

Don’t Miss This Opportunity To:

• Increase your awareness around the needs of caseworkers, youth, and families in addressing mental health and well-being
  
  
• Learn about strategies and tools that can be used in practice to support the mental health needs of children, youth, and families
                            
• Identify ways to collaborate with mental health professionals and people with lived experience

May 2, 2023 at 1:00pm EST

Racial Justice in Education: Intersection of Systems Involvement and Children with Disabilities

Part 2: Over and Underrepresentation of Children of Color in Child Welfare, Special Education, School Discipline, and Adultification of Black Girls

In the second installment of this two-part series, attendees will explore the: (1) over-representation of children of color and children with disabilities in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems; (2) the over- and under-representation of children of color and children in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems in special education; and (3) the over-representation of children of color and systems-involved youth in school discipline. Attendees will receive tips and tools to help effectively counter racial bias in special education testing. The adultification of black girls will also be explored including discussion of the phenomenon from a clinical perspective as well as from the lived experience of a prior systems-involved youth. 

April 25, 2023

Working Together to Support Relative and Kinship Families Caring for School-Aged Children

Navigating the educational system can be complicated and frustrating. As social workers, school personnel, and relative caregivers can explain, setting up a child for educational success during difficult times presents challenges as well as opportunities for collaboration and responsive communication that supports the child and family. Panelists will share their experiences working alongside relative and kinship families, including family strengths, barriers families face when navigating education systems, and the active efforts tribal nations and urban Indian organizations are doing to support relative and kinship families in caring for school-aged children. Attendees will have the opportunity to ask panelists questions about their first-hand experience serving Native children and their relative and kinship families. The panelists have experiences assisting relative and kinship families across different systems, such as education and child welfare. This webinar is hosted by the Grandfamilies & Kinship Support Network’s partner, the National Indian Child Welfare Association (NICWA).

April 11 – 13 & 18 - 20, 2023

23rd National Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect. Virtual 23rd NCCAN.

​​​​​​​The 23rd National Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect (NCCAN) will be held virtually over six days in April 2023. Our virtual conference venue will offer both live and recorded sessions, posters, and a variety of special features, making the 23rd NCCAN not only an event but a destination for learning, engaging, and accessing diverse resources to help the field move from the challenge to the change. We look forward to seeing you there! Additional information is coming soon.

March 21, 2023 at 1:00pm-2:00pm EST

Navigating Family Dynamics: A Native Youth Perspective

This webinar discussion will be framed with the relational worldview model, an Indigenous model that looks at well-being as a balance between the four quadrants—environment, mind, body, and spirit. Panelists will discuss navigating changes in relationships with their relatives from their experience living in a grandfamily/kinship family. Panelists will discuss things that helped bring them balance and what support they needed from those around them.

March 15, 2023 at 2:30pm-4:00 pm EST

Sharing the Caring: Family Resource Centers & Health Care Partnerships.
How can Family Resource Centers support the medical field in addressing adverse childhood experiences (ACES), health equity, social determinants ofhealth, and toxic stress? This webinar will focus on Family Resource Centers (FRCs) connected with medical providers, local clinics, tribal health
departments, and health care systems. It will highlight examples of mutually beneficial relationships and effective partnerships in Alabama, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. 

March 14, 2023 at 2:00pm-3:00pm EST

The Unique Dynamics of Shared/Co-Parenting in Kinship Families

Learn shared/co-parenting strategies that provide well-being, safety, and stability for children in kinship families, including how to:

1. Identify the strengths and benefits of shared parenting for the child, caregivers and birth parents in kinship families
2. Formulate pre-requisites and criteria for assessing whether or not shared/co-parenting is feasible and in the best interest of the child and kinship family  
3. Develop strategies to elicit “buy-in” from caregivers and birth parents to engage in shared/co-parenting
4. Identify the barriers and approaches for minimizing the challenges for shared parenting
5. Provide caregivers the dialogues, guidelines and roles for birth parents that promotes and maintains shared/co- parenting

March 8, 2023 at 2:30pm EST

Uncovering America's Best Kept Secret: Family Resource Centers and Family Resource Center Networks

What are Family Resource Centers (FRCs) and how are they networked around the country?. What does research show about the positive outcomes FRCs have achieved for children and families? Why are so many public and private funders at the state, city, county, and community levels choosing to invest in FRCs? 

March 1-3, 2023

NACC Race Equity Virtual Training Series

The goals of this virtual training series is to:

• Connect bold and progressive ideas, concepts, and theories around race and racism to practical and concrete skills and takeaways that can be incorporated into daily practice, in and outside of court.

  
  

• Deliver concrete tips to check for and interrupt individual, attorney, judicial, and systemic bias, practice through a culturally humble and antiracist lens, and improve outcomes for youth, parents, and families who are disproportionately impacted by systems involvement.

  
  

• Advance and continue the conversation around race and racism in child welfare.

March 1, 2023 at 9am-11am ET

FFPSA Fifth Year Anniversary Celebration!

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra invites you join him at HHS to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Family First Prevention Services Act (Family First) being signed into law.

We will celebrate how you have helped to move Family First prevention services forward; hear inspiring stories about the impact that this critically important law has had on children, youth, and families; and hear from child welfare leaders about their visions for the future of prevention services. 

February 9, 2023 at 2pm EST

4C for Cherokee Children Cultural Connection Webinar

As tribal child welfare professionals, you know the trauma that children experience in the foster care system. Best practice alone cannot alleviate the impact of being removed from the homes they know and caregivers they love. To help process the trauma, grief, and loss due to this separation, the Cherokee Nation has implemented an innovative program for Cherokee children in foster care.

Join the Center for Tribes on February 9, 2023 at 2:00 PM ET/1 CT/12 MT/11 PT/10 AT, to learn about 4C-  Cherokee Children Cultural Connection, an exciting initiative that provides alternative methods for children to process trauma, expand their cultural knowledge, and connect their spirits for improved mental and physical health.

Hear from Bette Nelson, Director of 4C, and Lou Stretch, Senior Director of Indian Child Welfare at Cherokee Nation, as they share how they made their vision for child-centered services a reality in the Cherokee tribal child welfare system.

February 8, 2023 at 3-4pm EST

How Do We Advance Our Collective Responsibility to All Families?

In the last few years there has been growing recognition that families live in many different formations, and that policies and systems built around simplistic notions of what a family looks like will leave out many caregivers and children. That can mean adoptive, foster, LGBTQ+, single-parent, kinship families, unmarried couples, and more.

Caregivers and families of all kinds contribute greatly to the health and well-being of our children, our communities and our economy. So, as a nation, what will it take to understand that no matter what our families look like, our health and wellbeing are connected? What will it take to recognize the collective responsibility that our institutions have in ensuring that all families have the opportunity to thrive?

Register to join us for a live learning event on February 8 at 3pm ET on how best to recognize our interdependence and build a shared prosperity with children and families. Jennifer Ng’andu, managing director-program, at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation will host the discussion. She will be joined by Donna Butts, executive director of Generations United, Jordan Budd, executive director of COLAGE, and Fran Gladney, a parent leader and member of RWJF’s Family Advisory Committee.

Feb 1, 2023

NACC seeks abstracts for its 46th National Child Welfare Law Conference

The annual confrence is an opporutunity for us to bring together professionals from child welfare law and intersecting fields and further NACC's mission through the exchange of ideas, information, and collective efforts. The conference will be in-person at the Minneapolis Hyatt Regency in August and online in September.  NACC seeks abstract submissions from presenters willing to present in-person, online, or in both formats. The theme of this year's conference is From Learning to Action: Shared Accountability for Disrupting Harm and Promoting Healing. The conference theme recognizes that all system actors have a shared responsibility to promote family integrity, center the voices and experiences of individuals with lived expertise, engage in authentic partnerships, and actively work towards equity and justice. NACC seeks abstract submissions that translate bold, innovative ideas into action and convey concrete tips and skills for all attorneys and professionals to integrate into their daily practice.