for Organizational Improvement
A service of the Children's Bureau, US Department of Health and Human Services
- Teleconference Program • What Are Teleconferences? • Past programs • Teleconferences and Webinars Sponsored by Other Organizations
Click here to listen to the recording of the previous Peer-to-Peer calls.
Below are descriptions of our summer/fall 2008 teleconferences. To register on-line, click here. If you need assistance or have questions, email us at helpkids@usm.maine.edu or call 1-800 HELPKID (435-7543). We strongly encourage participants to register in advance and to review handout material on this webpage prior to the session.
All teleconferences are held at: 2:30 pm Eastern • 1:30 pm Central • 12:30 pm Mountain • 11:30 am Pacific • 10:30 am Alaska • 8:30 am Hawaii
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2008 Summer/Fall Teleconferences/Webinars
New! Webinar Option!
Some sessions will offer an option for you to log into a website to watch a live PowerPoint presentation while listening via telephone. Watch for details of how to access that feature in the confirmation email you will receive from Help Kids (helpkids@usm.maine.edu) approximately one week prior to the session(s) for which you registered!
Away from your computer during the session? No worries! You can still call in and join us. All visual materials will be posted to our website for those of you who are unable to watch the live PowerPoint presentation!
- August 28: Building Healthy Relationships for Child Protection
- October 23: Bringing Prevention to the Table: Strategies for Improving Outcomes
- November 13: Addressing Disproportionality and Disparity in Child Welfare Systems - Postponed
- December 4: Recruitment and Retention of a Qualified Workforce Lessons Learned
August 28: Building Healthy Relationships for Child Protection
The strengthening of marriage and family relationships is a critical strategy for the prevention of child maltreatment. This teleconference will focus on several research based approaches to building healthy marriage and family formation services within the child welfare network. Presenters will discuss competency based curricula developed specifically for child welfare that focuses on supporting healthy marriages, share evaluation results including the impact of that training on child welfare practice, and introduce an integrated training plan and training reinforcement tools that agencies can use to increase the knowledge and skills of child welfare workers and foster/adoptive parents on this topic, engage community partners, and disseminate marriage and family information and services through public awareness campaigns.
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Representatives from University of Louisville, Forest Institute, Syracuse University, Denver University & SUNY Albany TBA
Teleconference Evaluation Form
Audio Files: Listen as MP3 (20.2 MB)
Handouts
- Agenda and Contact Information
To help participants follow along, the following handouts have been labeled to correspond to the Roman Numerals on the agenda
- II Policy Context
- III Needs Assessment
- IV-A Healthy Relationship SKills Curriculum
- IV-B Cultural Diversity Curriculum
- IV-C Fatherhood Curriculum - 1
- IV-C Fatherhood Curriculum - 2
- IV-C Fatherhood Curriculum - 3
- IV-C Fatherhood Curriculum - 4
- IV-C Fatherhood Curriculum - 5
- IV-D special populations curriculum
- IV-E casework skills curriculum
- V-A Implementation Strategies
- VI Research
- VII Dissemination-Forest Conference
- SUPPLEMENT-Forest ModulesLinks
- Thriving Couples Thriving Kids (http://www.thrivingcouplesthrivingkids.syr.edu/index.asp)
- Child Welfare Training Grant (http://cwtg.ozarksmarriagematters.org)
October 23: Bringing Prevention to the Table: Strategies for Improving Outcomes
Co-sponsored by the FRIENDS National Resource Center for Community-based Child Abuse Prevention
Does your agency have adequate services in place to strengthen families and prevent child abuse and neglect? If this is an area you are working on in your Child and Family Services Review (CFSR) and Program Improvement Plan (PIP), come and find out about the federal grants in every state for community based child abuse prevention (CBCAP), and how these grant programs can be useful to child welfare agencies. Presenters will discuss how you can work with your CBCAP agency to enhance your array of services and achieve better overall success in keeping children safe.
- Julie Collins, Child Welfare League Project Director for the FRIENDS Resource Center
- Ralph McQuarter, Minnesota Department of Human Services, Community Partnerships Division
Teleconference Evaluation Form
Handouts
- Coming soon!
November 13: Addressing Disproportionality and Disparity in Child Welfare Systems
Unfortunately, this call has been postponed due to scheduling conflicts.
December 4: Recruitment and Retention of a Qualified Workforce Lessons Learned
Part 3 in the series "Recruitment and Retention of a Qualified Workforce"
Is your agency challenged to recruit and retain a highly qualified workforce? Join us for this look at what has been learned about effective recruitment and retention strategies. This session, held soon after the five year grant period closes, will highlight the lessons learned from the eight Recruitment and Retention projects funded by the Children’s Bureau. Representatives from three of the projects will describe their work and the results of the evaluations they have undertaken. These include tracking changes in the perception of the work environment, longitudinal data on workers and workforce retention and turnover data. During discussion times, other grantees and agencies on the line can share their own “lessons learned”.
- Miriam Landsman, University of Iowa and Iowa Agency Representative TBA
- Gary Anderson, Michigan State University and Michigan Agency Representative TBA
- Mary McCarthy, State University of New York (SUNY) and Albany Agency Representative TBA
Teleconference Evaluation Form
Handouts
- Coming soon!
Background Materials
- Audio recording of Part 1 in the series (04/29/2008)
- Audio recording of Part 2 in the series (05/20/2008)
