Healthy Families America Intensive Learning Session

• Kathleen Strader and national Healthy Families America Team
• Room: 102 ABC

This day-long Healthy Families America (HFA) pre-conference session, designed specifically for staff from affiliated sites, as well as multi-site-system and state-level team members, will focus on national trends and simplifying model practices that can present challenges. Discover strategies for implementing HFA even more successfully and to fidelity. Learn from special guest presenters and connect with colleagues from throughout the HFA network. The session will culminate “The Year of CHEERS” with great fanfare and conclude with a celebration of everyone in attendance.

• Leslie Crutchfield
• Rev. Darrell L. Armstrong

How Change Happens

Movements matter—today as much as ever. Yet some changes take hold, while others don’t. Take tobacco. Just a couple of decades ago, people smoked pretty much everywhere in the US; now the harmful habit’s been dramatically reduced. How did so many abandon this highly addictive behavior? Just as most Americans stopped smoking, they started stockpiling guns. Gun laws today are more lenient than ever, and now firearms are everywhere—legally owned, easily purchased, and openly carried in most states—despite the efforts of gun safety advocates. In this same timeframe, LGBT advocates have made marriage equality the new law of the land. How did US society get to a place in the 21st century where it celebrates gay weddings, bans smoking in most places, and allows openly carried pistols and freely stockpiled assault weapons? The answers are not what you might think.

How Change Happens author Leslie Crutchfield will reveal in this session the leadership approaches, campaign strategies, and ground-level tactics used in a range of modern change campaigns. Based on several years of research with a team of 21 staff, students, and faculty at Georgetown University’s Business for Impact team, she unearthed six key factors that explain why winning movements triumph. She will explore how changemakers in the audience can apply these best practices to advance the causes they care about.

Following the plenary, the Rev. Darrell Armstrong will facilitate a “fireside chat” with Ms. Crutchfield, interviewing her about her recent book and tying in themes from her lecture and writings into his grassroots work in communities with neighborhood revitalization and family stabilization.

Stress, Trauma, and the Trauma-Informed Approach

• Claire Louge
• 101 A

How does stress negatively impact your life? This workshop will delve into the body’s natural response to stress and use this as a lens for understanding the impact of trauma on human thinking and behavior. During this morning session, you’ll learn simple stress-reduction techniques you can use anywhere and learn tips on how to apply the trauma-informed approach to your life and work. 

The Generational Cycle: How Parenting Shapes Attachment and Attachment Shapes Parenting

• Craig Platt
• Room: 101 A

This workshop will explore the intergenerational transfer of secure and insecure attachment patterns and the impact that early parental attachment can have on adults' own parenting—in ways that often perpetuate the same attachment styles in their own children.

Enhancing Reflective Supervision through Mindfulness and Self-Compassion

• Jenn Reed
• Room: 101 B

This workshop will contextualize efforts by Healthy Families Massachusetts to integrate reflection, peer support, and mindfulness into the work of direct-service supervisors. Focusing on attunement and self-compassion, this session will engage attendees with shared mindful practices, group discussion, and live polling.

Risks of Harm for Children and in Domestically Violent Homes: A Unique Community Partnership to Inform Prevention 

• Andrew Campbell
• Co-presenters: Sandy Runkle and Stephanie Shene
• Room: 101 D

This workshop describes risks of physical and emotional harm for children and pets in domestically violent homes. Participants will learn of a unique community partnership that utilizes law enforcement data sources to identify prevalence, seasonality, and overlapping spatial distributions of domestic violence, child abuse, and pet abuse incidents from multiple communities.

Preventing Child Abuse and Neglect and Promoting Healthy Development: Lessons from the Essentials for Childhood Initiative

• Phyllis Ottley
• Room: 102 A

The CDC funds state health departments to leverage multisector partners and implement comprehensive child abuse and neglect (CAN) primary prevention strategies. This presentation will describe the various approaches states use to address CAN and support sustainable system changes and share successes, challenges, and lessons learned from the previous funding cycle.

Joint Presentation: The Perception and Understanding of Child Sexual Abuse and Other Forms of Child Maltreatment

• Amanda Haboush Deloye
• Room: 102 B

A 2015 poll by the Nevada Institute for Children’s Research & Policy gauged the perceptions of adults throughout the state about a variety of issues impacting children and families. This presentation will provide a brief overview of social norms, survey results, and the process for determining how to effectively leverage the results toward program implementation.

Joint Presentation: Understanding the Role of Social Norms in Preventing and Responding to Violence against Children in Uganda

• Timothy Opobo
• Co-presenter: Grace Namakoye
• Room: 102 B

Social norms embedded in most African societies can often be responsible for driving, perpetuating, and sustaining child abuse. This session will examine the role of social norms in preventing and responding to child abuse to make schools and communities safer for children.

Exposure to ACEs and Family Resilience: A Comparison of Race and Ethnic Differences Using National Data

• Paul Lanier
• Co-presenter: Quinton Smith
• Room: 102 C

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) research has improved our understanding of adversity as a social determinant of health. In this workshop, national survey data is used to examine whether family resilience offsets exposure to ACEs among racial and ethnic minority children.

Joint Presentation: The New Crisis Nursery Model: A Two-Generation Approach to Address Child Welfare Priorities

• Annette Iwamoto
• Room: 102 D

This presentation will highlight the important role of two-generation programming in Providence House’s Crisis Nursery approach and its impact on preventing child abuse and neglect, keeping families together by reducing foster care placement, and addressing social determinants of health.

Joint Presentation: The Keeping Families Together Initiative: Preliminary Findings and Plans for Ongoing Evaluation

• Joseph Mienko 
• Co-presenters: Michaele Lansing and Jason Wallin
• Room: 102 D

This presentation will explore preliminary findings and plans for an expanded evaluation of Keeping Families Together (KFT), an initiative aimed at preventing child maltreatment and child welfare system involvement in families with children in Oregon, and Healthy Families Oregon, the cornerstone of the KFT model.

Joint Presentation: Can We Prevent Child Abuse by Reducing Household Food Insecurity?

• Jesse Helton
• Room: 102 E

This presentation will introduce empirical evidence, including findings from multiple quantitative and qualitative datasets, that food insecurity has a direct and independent link to child abuse and neglect, irrespective of other risk factors stemming from parental mental health or socioeconomic risks.

Joint Presentation: Strength and Synergy: Creative Integration of Family Economic Empowerment Tools

• Maria Yolanda Parra
• Co-presenters: Sarah Oo, Fadumo Hirsi, and Marcia Burgos
• Room: 102 E

This presentation will demonstrate how the integration of Economic Mobility Pathways tools into the Healthy Families America model has strengthened family growth and is helping to mitigate the chronic stress that poverty, Adverse Childhood Experiences, and social determinants of health has on families from the Massachusetts General Hospital Chelsea HealthCare Center.

Joint Presentation: Reducing the Number of Children Entering Foster Care: Effects of State Earned Income Tax Credits

• Whitney L. Rostad
• Co-presenters: Katie A. Ports, Shichao Tang, and Joanne Klevens
• Room: 102 E

Children living in poverty are overrepresented in foster care. This presentation will consider how strengthening socioeconomic policies and economic supports, such the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), may improve parents’ ability to meet children’s needs and reduce foster care entries.

Trauma Informed Systems in Indian Country

• Ashley Trautman
• Co-presenters: Laura Guay and Lauren Kelso
• Room: 103 A

This presentation will detail efforts to support trauma-informed systems in tribal communities and lessons learned from implementation. Presenters will share examples of processes used, including implementation of trauma-informed organizational assessments in various settings, delivery of community based trauma-informed trainings and review of policy/tribal code.

My Life, My Choice: Preventing the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Adolescent Girls

• Patty Mojta
• Co-presenter: Audrey Morrissey
• Room: 103 B

Targeted strategies can be implemented to decrease the likelihood that commercial sexual exploitation, and the trauma associated with it, will be part of a young girl’s trajectory. Participants in this workshop will learn about the My Life My Choice Prevention Solution Model and its statewide replication by the PCA New Jersey chapter.

More Than Therapy: The Link between Adverse Childhood Experiences, Social Support, and Therapeutic Services

• Aislinn Conrad 
• Co-presenters: Megan Ronnenberg, Armeda Wojciak, and Elizabeth Menninga
• Room: 101 C

To investigate the relationship between caregiver adverse childhood experiences, social support, and child mental health services, interviews were conduct with 13 caregivers of young children receiving outpatient mental health services. This presentation will offer thematic analysis that reveals the integral role of therapeutic providers in families’ networks of social support.

Improving Child Maltreatment, Foster Care Entry, and Permanency Outcomes Using Community Action Teams: A Case Study in Cook County, Illinois

• Jennifer M. Geiger
• Co-presenter: Jasmine Kennedy
• Room: 101 C

This presentation will detail a case study of community-based action teams in Cook County, Illinois, and discuss strategies for supporting and empowering communities to identify concerns and develop solutions to prevent child maltreatment, reduce foster care entry, and improve outcomes related to racial disproportionality and permanency.

Aiming to Eliminate Health Disparities and Enhancing Home Visiting Service Delivery

• Lillian Hampton-Giles
• Co-presenter: Annie Nagy
• Room: 101 C

Implementing an Integrated, Systems-Based Prevention Approach to Engage and Empower Sacramento Families

• Victoria Hartman
• Co-presenters: Nicole Mendoza and Derek Slama
• Room: 101 C

Children thrive when families are supported. Families thrive when agencies utilize a streamlined service delivery model that focuses on family strengths and building community resilience. This presentation will demonstrate how organizations can use a multidisciplinary, systems approach to create a powerful, strengths-based recipe that prevents child abuse while engaging and empowering communities.

Home Visiting Effects on Breastfeeding and Bed-sharing: A Randomized Field Trial

• Joshua P. Mersky
• Co-presenters: Colleen E. Janczewski, Chienti P. Lee, and Tajammal Yasin
• Room: 101 C

This presentation will focus on a study that used data from a randomized field trial to examine the impact of breastfeeding and bed-sharing on two home visiting programs. Results confirmed that home visiting promoted breastfeeding, though the findings for bed-sharing were mixed. Implications for home visitors' communication with pregnant women and new mothers will be discussed.

Building an Early Learning Community: What Does It Take?     

• Cailin O'Connor
• Room: 101 C

What does it take to build a strong system that supports healthy development and early learning for all children and their families? This presentation will look at how the Early Learning Community Action Guide, developed by communities, for communities, can help local leaders take action to ensure all children thrive.

The Allegheny County Health Department developed a plan that identifies, addresses, and aims to eliminate health disparities in the community. This presentation will focus on how the plan supports the workforce to deliver culturally and linguistically responsive home visiting services and enhances the service experience through improved health literacy, communications, and interactions with families.

A Preliminary Study of an Educational Intervention to Increase Postpartum Medical Visit Attendance in Home Visited Mothers

• Briana Shannon
• Room: 101 C

The MIECHV-supported Healthy Families America program in New Hampshire provides an opportunity to engage vulnerable women who may otherwise not attend postpartum medical visits. This presentation will highlight a research study exploring the feasibility and acceptability of implementing educational interventions to increase postpartum medical visit attendance in home visited mothers.

Utilizing High Reliability Principles to Create a Culture of Protection and Healing          

• Melanie Takinen
• Room: 101 C

All Catholic dioceses in the United States have implemented policies and procedures to address the sexual abuse of minors, seek reconciliation with survivors, provide healing and outreach, and prevent future abuse. In this presentation, learn how Diocesan leaders are implementing culture change and high reliability principles to create safer environments for children and adults.

Practice, Policy, and Research Panel Closed Session partially sponsored by Florida State University College of Social Work           

• Prevent Child Abuse America, Doris Duke Fellows, and National Conference of State Legislatures
• Room: 101 A

Racial Wealth Gap Learning Simulation

• Marlysa Gamblin
• Room: 1021 B

The interactive Racial Wealth Gap Learning Simulation helps people understand how federal policies create structural inequalities and exacerbate poverty in communities of color. This presentation will raise awareness of structural inequality and suggest policies that undo and/or reduce disparities.

The Business Case for Prevention

• Sandra Alexander
• Co-presenters: Vicky Roper and Jade Woodard
• Room: 101 C

In this session, Prevent Child Abuse America chapter directors from Kansas and Colorado will share how their states are engaging the private sector through the Essentials for Childhood Framework to make a business case for employer investment in family friendly workplace polices.

Trauma Survivors Are Warriors!           

• Elizabeth Jimenez-Vasquez
• Room: 101 D

What does it mean to be a trauma survivor? This workshop will begin to explore and address this complicated question, focusing on the strength and resiliency of trauma survivors. Participants will have an opportunity to discuss challenges working with survivors and gain practical strategies for minimizing re-traumatization of survivors.

How Human-Centered Design Led to Mobility Mentoring as a Solution to Housing and Home Management Challenges in Our Child Welfare Programs 

• Jennifer Winkler           
• Co-presenters: Luke Waldo and Allie Tollaksen
• Room: 102 A

This presentation will highlight Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin’s design thinking process, which collaboratively prototypes and pilots practice changes to address service and resource deficits in the support of acquiring, maintaining, and sustaining a healthy and stable home. It will also showcase the identification, adaptation, and implementation of the Mobility Mentoring model.

Project90         

• Cate Jordan
• Room: 102 B

Preventing child abuse and neglect starts with helping families meet their basic needs first. This presentation will introduce Project90, which measures housing, income and employment, transportation, health, safety, and support on a Likert scale from in-crisis to thriving, and its 90% success rate helping vulnerable populations become self-sufficient and stable in 90 days.

Supervision Is NOT a Dark Art: Achieving Supervision Mastery  

• Nickey Stamey 
• Co-presenter: Mark Ownbey
• Room: 102 C

Healthy Families America model services cannot be delivered with fidelity unless staff are well-prepared and well-supported, a particular challenge when staff and programmatic difficulties arise. This presentation will outline how supervision that develops staff knowledge and skill and provides responsive and reflective support is achievable and sustainable.

Partnering with Parents to Screen for Intimate Partner Violence           

• Sarah Baig
• Room: 102 D

One in three women and men experience abuse by an intimate partner in their lifetime. In this workshop, participants will experience a live simulation activity that increases empathy for victims and survivors, and skills will be developed for having effective conversations about relationships when fulfilling the MIECHV requirement of screening for intimate partner violence.

Raising Public Awareness through Discussions of Human Dignity and Childhood: Connecting with Our Families and Our Past!   

• Lucien X. Lombardo
• Room: 102 E

Through facilitated discussion and exploration, this workshop will help participants discover various contexts in which human dignity is experienced in childhood and ways of reconciling their own childhood experiences with their adult lives and their relationships to children in their lives.

Moving Upstream toward Trauma-Responsive Prevention and Intervention in Child Welfare    

• Joshua P. Mersky         
• Co-presenters: James Topitzes, Kate C. Bennett, and Leah Cerwin
• Room: 103 A

This symposium will describe the Trauma and Recovery Project, a new initiative in southeastern Wisconsin that aims to help children and families gain equitable access to evidence-based, trauma-responsive services in the child welfare system.

A 50-Year History of Home Visitation in the US: Where to Now?

• Richard D. Krugman
• Room: 103 B

This workshop will review the past, present, and future of home visitation as a strategy for the prevention of child abuse and neglect. Particular attention will be given to lessons learned and opportunities for making home visitation a basic health benefit available to all families in the US.

Verizon Foundation “The Big 3 in Home Visiting” Lecture Series Kickoff

Restoring Nurture: Staying Present for Our Clients

• Plenary Speaker: Pradeep Gidwani
• Co-presenters: Casey Keene and Carla Worley Saunders
• Room: Ballroom CD

As the significance and spread of the understanding from Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) continues, family-support programs such as Healthy Families America adapts new practices and approaches to address the challenges families face. Dr. Pradeep Gidwani will review where we have come from and where we need to go. Addressing interpersonal violence (IPV), mental health, and substance abuse requires a multi-level response, and Dr. Gidwani will provide a framework of “Restoring Nurture” to align efforts from the level of family support specialists working with parents and children to the level of programs and organizations to large systems and policy work. To dive deeper into this subject, Dr. Gidwani will engage Carla Saunders and Casey Keene in a “fireside chat,” exploring the framework through Dr. Saunders’s work in the opioid epidemic and Ms. Keene’s work in furthering the IPV prevention movement.

Home Visitation of Infants with NAS: The Challenge Is the Opportunity

• Carla Worley Saunders

• Room: 101 A

Infants who have been diagnosed with Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS) present unique challenges post-discharge. This session will unpack the opioid crisis, substance use disorder, intrauterine drug exposure, neonatal abstinence syndrome, and the opportunities to not only mitigate risk but improve outcomes for children, families, and communities.

Racial Wealth Gap Learning Simulation

• Marlysa Gamblin
• Room: 101 B

The interactive Racial Wealth Gap Learning Simulation helps people understand how federal policies create structural inequalities and exacerbate poverty in communities of color. This presentation will raise awareness of structural inequality and suggest policies that undo and/or reduce disparities.

Let's Talk about How to Talk about ACEs

• Lynn Davey
• Room: 101 C

If we hope to improve public understanding of and support for solutions to Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), it is critical that public awareness initiatives rely on evidence-based messaging strategies. This workshop will provide the knowledge and tools needed to deploy messaging strategies that work.

A Model for State-Led Implementation Support to Lead Agencies of Evidence-Based Home Visiting within Multi-site Systems

• Rosanna M. Batista      
• Co-presenter: Steven Pascal
• Room: 101 D

This session will demonstrate how implementation teams can provide quality assurance and improvement oversight support to implementing agency coordinators and managers through on-site technical assistance, data collection and analysis, uniform policies based on Best Practice Standards, and extensive model-specific and topic trainings.

Learning as an Organization: Data-Driven Quality Improvement Efforts in the Great Lakes Region

• Annette Iwamoto
• Co-presenters: Julia Heany, Alyce Hernandez, Tom Hinds, Jenny Bisonette, Mary Tribble, and Rob Reid
• Room: 102 A

This interactive workshop will emphasize the collaborative use of data to facilitate organizational learning, goal measurement, and quality improvement, presenting high-level perspectives from state leaders as well as boots-on-the-ground perspectives from local program managers, in home visitation and child welfare.

American Academy of Pediatrics Policy Statement on Corporal Punishment      

• Robert Sege
• Room: 102 B

Children need effective discipline to grow up healthy. The new policy statement from the American Academy of Pediatrics strongly recommends against spanking or harsh verbal punishment. This presentation will examine public reaction to the statement, which has been largely favorable, suggesting a change in cultural norms.

Family First: Engaging State Lawmakers in Reforming Child Welfare Systems   

• Miranda Lynch 
• Co-presenter: Nina Williams Mbengue
• Room: 102 C

With passage of the Family First Prevention Services Act, state lawmakers are grappling with new federal requirements and funding changes in child welfare systems. This presentation will detail major provisions of the law, provide an overview of legislative activity in 2019, and reveal state legislators’ perspectives on their role in planning, implementation, and oversight.

Joint Presentation: Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Panel

• Jessi Corcoran  
• Co-presenter: Mary Kleman
• Room: 102 D

A public health approach to preventing child sexual abuse is gaining momentum, and it is pivotal that service providers understand the principles of this approach. This workshop will provide an overview of foundational prevention concepts and discuss strategies for integration.

Joint Presentation: Preventing Sexual Violence: A Community-Driven Approach

• Amanda Haboush Deloye
• Room: 102 D

Millions of people in the United States are impacted by sexual violence, both through immediate harm and long-term health effects. The results from a secondary data analysis and urban and rural focus groups will be discussed in this presentation, along with strategies needed to help create strong communities.

Joint Presentation: Making the Case for Early Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Education: The Healthy Relationships Project 2018 Formal Evaluation

• Beth Hoffman
• Room: 102 D

This workshop will focus on the evaluation of Prevent Child Abuse Vermont's child sexual abuse prevention curricula (Care for Kids, We Care Elementary, and SAFE-T) and its efficacy in reducing unhealthy behaviors while promoting healthy behaviors in children aged 3–14 through developmentally targeted, comprehensive, and trauma-informed approaches to child sexual abuse prevention efforts.

Using the Spectrum of Prevention to Address Substance Use in Families

• Jade Woodard 
• Co-presenter: Anne Auld
• Room: 102 E

In this session, participants will explore one state affiliate’s approach to using the Prevention Institute’s Spectrum of Prevention to prevent child maltreatment related to substance use. Through discussion and a facilitated activities, participants will be equipped with strategies to use in their own prevention efforts.

Trauma Transformation Initiative: Healing Hearts and Improving Childhood Outcomes

• Gina Hernandez
• Co-presenter: Jessica Nugent
• Room: 103 A

The Trauma Transformation Initiative (TTI) transforms childcare centers (and other organizational systems) into nurturing, calm, trauma-informed environments that promote healing and resilience for children and their families. Participants in this session will learn about TTI and its initially promising results and how they may be able to replicate it in their own state systems.

Making the Case for Trauma-Responsive Home Visiting

• Jeffrey Langlieb
• Co-presenters: Joshua Mersky and James Topitzes
• Room: 103 B

Emerging evidence suggests that trauma has intergenerational implications, and that a caregiver’s trauma can undermine the well-being of her/his offspring. This symposium will focus on an initiative in Racine County, Wisconsin, that has used a public health framework to develop a trauma-responsive home visiting system.

Supervisor Overload    

• Lynn H. Kosanovich
• Room: 101 A

So much falls on the shoulders of Healthy Families America supervisors. How do you support your staff, manage all the data and reporting, and avoid burnout yourself? This workshop may not provide all the answers, but it will be a place to explore challenges and identify strategies to address them.

Precision Home Visiting: What’s the Big Idea?  

• Jon Korfmacher
• Co-presenter: Matthew Poes
• Room: 101 B

Precision home visiting research studies what works, for whom, and in what contexts to achieve positive home visiting outcomes. This workshop will introduce key elements of this approach and provide easy-to-understand examples of pragmatic precision research designs that focus on identifying successful aspects of home visiting services.  

Embracing an Asset-based Approach to Supporting Families Experiencing Domestic Violence

• Casey Keene
• Room: 101 C

Drawing on lessons learned from the Adult Children Exposed to Domestic Violence (ACE-DV) Leadership Forum, this session will offer strategies and tools for those who wish to provide growth-based services to families experiencing domestic violence. Participants will explore strategies for building their own capacity for resilience and inspiring hope in others.

Raising Awareness alongside the Continuum of Child Welfare

• Katie Facchinello          
• Co-presenters: Kendra Dunn and Ramonna Robinson
• Room: 101 D

Colorado has successfully blended multiple revenue streams and messages to support public awareness efforts along the entire child welfare spectrum, as well as promote primary prevention. In this workshop, learn how to develop a sustained and measurable public awareness campaign rooted in evidenced-based communications.

Joint Presentation: Resisting Myths and Reducing Shame: Understanding the Impact of Rape Culture on the Prevalence of Sexual Assault within the African American Community

• Carmel P. Browne
• Room: 102 A

One of the biggest barriers faced by African American female rape survivors who choose to disclose their abuse is a hostile environment and a tendency towards justification, particularly when the alleged offender happens to be a man of influence. This workshop will explore those barriers and provide strategies for service providers.

Joint Presentation: “I Didn’t Know Where To Go”: A Review of Stop It Now!’s Sexual Abuse Prevention Helpline

• Jenny Coleman
• Room: 102 A

Approximately 75,000 people use Stop It Now!’s website monthly, of which about 150 contact the organization’s confidential helpline with questions about child sexual abuse. This presentation will share analysis and insights from these personal interactions, highlighting the importance of reaching families who will not report and the actions adults will take to protect kids.

No Hit Zones: An Innovative Approach to Child Physical Abuse Prevention        

• Julia Fleckman 
• Co-presenter: Stacie LeBlanc
• Room: 102 B

No Hit Zones (NHZ) are a multi-tiered strategic approach to child abuse prevention. This symposium will include presentations on the benefits and challenges of NHZ implementation, training resources available to implement NHZ within an organization or community, and preliminary results from a NHZ evaluation at Children’s Hospital of New Orleans.

Separation, Grief, and Loss: An Inconspicuous but Powerful Life Force

• Kate Whitaker

• Room: 102 C

Healthy Family America’s trauma-informed approach emphasizes how trauma affects parents’ perceptions, as well as impacts staff. Current practice, however, does not specifically reference the power of separation, grief, and loss on relationships. This workshop will explore what separation means to an infant, its impact on attachment relationships, and how these patterns manifest themselves throughout life.

Health Outcomes of Positive Experience Workshop      

• Robert Sege
• Room: 102 D

Experience shapes child development, especially during periods of rapid growth, including infancy and adolescence. HOPE (Health Outcomes of Positive Experience) identifies early life experiences that can break the link between ACEs and poor health. This workshop will explore the practical implications of HOPE, from intake to programming and evaluation.

Joint Presentation: Coming Together to Promote Healthy child development: Evaluation of a community coalition

• Tiffany Burkhardt
• Co-presenters: Lee Ann Huang, Colleen Schlecht, and Erin Carreon
• Room: 102 E

The Altgeld-Riverdale Early Learning Coalition, located in a high-poverty community in southeastern Chicago, is a collaborative of organizations working to ensure service coordination and explore new ways to support healthy development for children from birth to age 8. This presentation will reveal findings from a four-year mixed-methods evaluation of the Coalition.

Joint Presentation: Engaging in Advocacy and Policy for Prevention     

• Jamie Mauhay 
• Co-presenter: Sheila Boxley
• Room: 102 E

In this presentation, learn about the Child Abuse Prevention Center’s efforts in California to advocate for children and families, increase public awareness of family strengthening organizations and child abuse prevention, and partner with other organizations to create a unified policy voice of child abuse prevention organizations.

Joint Presentation: Minnesota's Parent Support Outreach Program: A Statewide Child Maltreatment Prevention and Early Intervention Program

• Charlotte McDonald
• Room: 102 E

Minnesota's Parent Support Outreach Program is an early intervention program providing voluntary support for families at risk of child maltreatment. Referrals come through screened child maltreatment reports and community or self-referrals. This presentation will focus on policy and ideologies that served more than 3,000 families and nearly 7,000 at-risk children in 2018.

Predict-Align-Prevent: Place-Based Predictive Analytics in Child Welfare           

• Dyann Daley
• Room: 103 A

By taking a place-based approach to prevention across multiple jurisdictions nationally, the Predict-Align-Prevent program aims to help communities and governments uncover, evaluate, and replicate effective prevention initiatives. In this presentation, learn how Predict-Align-Prevent seeks a combination(s) of programs, services, and infrastructure that reliably prevents child maltreatment and related fatalities across jurisdictions.

Connections Matter: A Prevention Response to Adverse Childhood Experiences

• Liz Cox 
• Co-presenter: Lucy Holms
• Room: 103 B

Connections Matter is a community initiative and curriculum that explores how brain development, relationship building, and resilience in children are connected. This workshop will combine activities and small and large-group discussions to illustrate how to build positive relationships and resilience within a community.

Replacing the Parent Survey: A Sneak Peek      

• Lynn H. Kosanovich      
• Co-presenters: Kathryn Harding and Elizabeth Jimenez-Vasquez
• Room: 101 A

Discover how more than 25 years of learning from the parent survey is informing a new tool being developed by the Healthy Families America national team to replace it. This presentation will examine the validation research project currently in progress with a focus on risk and protective factors.

Mind Matters: Healing Trauma in Our Care of Self and Others

• Carolyn Curtis
• Room: 101 B

Home visitors are the most wonderful caring people. In this workshop, research-based neuroscience methods shown to be effective in overcoming adverse and traumatic childhood experiences will be explored and practiced.

An Overview of the Standards of Quality for Family Strengthening and Support

• Samantha Florey
• Room: 101 C

This presentation will examine how the Standards of Quality for Family Strengthening and Support, designed for a multitude of stakeholders, including public departments, foundations, community-based organizations, and families, integrate and operationalize the Principles of Family Support Practice with the Strengthening Families framework and its research-based, evidence-informed 5 Protective Factors.

Ending Abuse within Sport: How the US Center for SafeSport is Championing Athlete Well-Being

• Dan Mills
• Room: 101 D

This session will offer an overview of the US Center for SafeSport’s mission and function; show how to identify athlete abuse and misconduct; and share data-driven prevention strategies to highlight the center’s commitment to provide training and best-practice policies to all athletes.

Cultural Considerations for Trauma-Informed Care: Working with American Indian/Alaska Native Populations

• Maegan Rides at The Door        
• Co-presenter: Ashley Trautman
• Room: 102 A

Recommendations for infusing cultural humility into trauma-informed practice when working with American Indian/Alaska Native individuals, families, and communities will be presented, using the 10 implementation domains of trauma-informed practice outlined in the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s Concept of Trauma and Guidance for a Trauma-Informed Approach. 

Empowering Professionals and Families through the Smart Choices Safe Kids Campaign 

• Anne Auld
• Co-presenter: Jade Woodard
• Room: 102 B

Created by Illuminate Colorado, the Conversation Guide for Professionals on Substance Use, Children, and Families enables professionals to have more productive and comfortable conversations with families about substance use. In this presentation, learn how to discuss safe storage and safe caregiving and techniques for incorporating the protective factors into conversations around substance use.

Restoring Nurture Framework

• Pradeep Gidwanni
• Room: 102 C    

Building on Dr. Gidwanni’s Tuesday plenary session, this breakout session will explore more deeply the framework of Restoring Nurture for serving families who are experiencing pain and suffering. This session will focus on being present with strong emotions and connect to tools in the Health Families America model.

Joint Presentation: Developing a Statewide Child Maltreatment Prevention Needs Assessment

• Abby Patterson
• Co-presenter: Julie Gibbons
• Room: 102 D

This presentation will outline the methodology and outcomes of a statewide child maltreatment prevention needs assessment, including how and what data was gathered, as well as how data can be used to make programmatic decisions and create a strategic plan, and provide an opportunity to brainstorm applications for other needs assessments and planning processes.

Joint Presentation: Prevention is Local: A Roadmap to Child Maltreatment Prevention in One North Carolina Community

• Melea Rose-Waters
• Co-presenter: Sharon Hirsch
• Room: 102 D

The Strengths in Overcoming Adversity thru Resiliency (SOAR) community child abuse prevention plan has become a model for communities across North Carolina. This workshop will look at the conditions, processes, and outcomes related to collaboration and implementation of a child abuse prevention plan and present concrete, actionable tools that can be adapted for collective impact initiatives.

Joint Presentation: Strengthening Communities to Prevent Child Maltreatment: Lessons from Colorado’s New State Framework and Community Planning Process

• Vani Tangella
• Co-presenters: Kendra Dunn, Maegan Lokteff, and Sarah Prendergast
• Room: 102 D

State and local partnerships can be powerful forces in ameliorating the risks for child maltreatment by strengthening communities and supporting families. This session will showcase tools that can guide prevention planning among partners at the state and local levels to create a more integrated plan to prevent child maltreatment.

Joint Presentation: Broward AWARE! Community and Statewide Partnerships to Protect Children

• Andrew Leone
• Co-presenter: Chris Lolley
• Room: 102 E

This presentation will demonstrate how the Broward AWARE! Protecting Our Children campaign, which engages community members where they live, work, play, and worship, among other places, has provided valuable information, resources, and success stories that help children grow in safe, nurturing environments into responsible, productive adults.

Joint Presentation: Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation Framework for Family Visiting in Rhode Island

• Sara Remington
• Co-presenter: Susan Dickstein
• Room: 102 E

This presentation will describe Rhode Island’s process in creating the framework for reflective practice/supervision and infant mental health training and support, progress of framework implementation, and lessons learned so far. It will also include the perspective of a Healthy Families America supervisor/program manager.

Painless Parenting

• Stacie LeBlanc
• Room: 103 A

This interactive workshop will equip family and youth-serving practitioners with the tools to raise parents’ awareness about the harms of hitting and the benefits of alternative parenting strategies. Gain the tools and confidence to efficiently communicate the harmful side effects of physical punishment to parents and caretakers from diverse backgrounds in a non-judgmental manner.

Getting All Our ducks in a Row: Coherence and Clarity in Program Design         

• Lauren Supplee
• Co-presenter: Matthew Poes
• Room: 103 B

To achieve positive outcomes for families, a program’s logic model must be coherent—all activities should be logical and consistent with the outcome—and staff must clearly understand the connections between activities and results. This session will demonstrate why coherence and clarity are important in program development.

Conference Exclusive: EVICTED Mobile Workshop (additional fee required, limited space)         

• Sarah Leavitt
• Off-Site at the University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee

This mobile workshop (with transportation provided) to the EVICTED exhibition, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book of the same title by Matthew Desmond, will include an exclusive tour of the show, as well as a conversation afterward with curator Sarah Leavitt, PhD, of the National Building Museum, in Washington, DC.

Cheers for CHEERS!

• Tracie Lansing  
• Co-presenter: Christa Austin
• Room: 101 A

A major focus of Healthy Families America (HFA) CHEERS (Cues, Holding, Expression, Empathy, Rhythm & Reciprocity, and Smiles) observational framework is to create and support healthy relationships and attachment with parents and children. This workshop will share concrete examples, highlights, and tips from HFA national office staff and a “Year of CHEERS” contest.

All Kids Count

• Joseph Battistelli
• Room: 101 B

The 2020 Census will attempt to count every person in the US, impacting everything from $800 billion in federal funding to community planning and classroom size. In 2010 more than 2 million young children were not counted. In this presentation, learn how to ensure all young children are represented in the upcoming count.

Prioritizing Primary Prevention: Stopping Sexual Abuse before It Starts

• Julia Strehlow
• Co-presenters: Laura Daily and Karina Gil
• Room: 101 C

Chicago Children’s Advocacy Center (ChicagoCAC) has prioritized primary prevention efforts at many of the city’s child-serving intuitions over the past five years. This presentation will highlight ChicagoCAC’s research-informed prevention programming for adults and provide an overview of ongoing efforts to impact sexual abuse prevention policy and child-serving systems.

Minnesota's Experience Implementing the Self-healing Communities Model

• Emily Clary       
• Co-presenters: Linsey McMurrin and Lisa Deputie
• Room: 101 D

Communities around the country are implementing local efforts that seek to reduce the prevalence of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs). Minnesota was an early adopter of the ACE Interface approach and the Self-Healing Communities Model. Presenters will offer their stories as a jumping off point for conversation and shared learning with other states.

SIBLINGS: Bullying, Betrayal, and Bonding across the Life Span 

• SuEllen Fried
• Room: 102 A

Sibling bullying, a violent family relationship, is a serious social problem that’s being ignored. Until recently, peer bullying was accepted as a social norm, and the level of sibling cruelty and estrangement continues to be denied. Collected data and anecdotal material across the life span will be fully revealed in this workshop.

Joint Presentation: Trends in Confirmed Versus Possible Shaken Baby Syndrome Incidences among Children Hospitalized for Maltreatment      

• Aislinn Conrad 
• Co-presenter: Megan Ronnenberg
• Room: 102 B

Shaken baby syndrome (SBS) leads to blindness and death among infants, yet little is known about national trends. In this presentation, learn how examined rates of confirmed and possible SBS diagnoses, using 1998–2014 data from the National Inpatient Sample, led to findings that confirmed SBS is decreasing while possible SBS is increasing over time.

Joint Presentation: Capacity Building Success for the Shaken Baby Association

• Susan Kainz
• Co-presenter: Shirley Wehmeier
• Room: 102 B

The Shaken Baby Association systematically began incorporating capacity-building elements, such as identifying a communications strategy, improving volunteer board recruitment, leadership succession planning, updating program technology, and tracking measurement outcomes. This presentation will demonstrate how this strategy permits Shaken Baby Association to effectively deliver its mission and meet Wisconsin’s Act 165 law on preventative education.

Building Brain Architecture: It's Group Work!   

• Roger Sherman
• Room: 102 C

The Brain Architecture Game, developed by the Harvard Center on the Developing Child, is great for showing how both positive and negative experiences impact brain development. Participants in this workshop will learn about brain development and how they can use the game in different settings.

Joint Presentation: Multidisciplinary Guideline Development: A Collaborative Approach to CAPTA’s Plans of Safe Care Requirement

• Jillian Adams
• Co-presenter: Matt Holtman
• Room: 102 D

This presentation will explore one state’s collaborative approach to implementing CAPTA’s Plans of Safe Care requirement for substance-exposed newborns and their families. Participants will examine the lessons and challenges of multidisciplinary guideline development, and, through a facilitated activity, apply takeaways to their own multidisciplinary collaboration efforts.

Joint Presentation: Innovations in Child Abuse Prevention Utilizing ECHO CAN to Create Virtual Communities of Learning and Guided Practice  

• Kathryn Wells
• Room: 102 D

Addressing the complex issue of child abuse and neglect prevention requires innovation in sharing promising evidence-based practices, a challenge for professionals separated by distance. This session will provide an overview of Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes Child Abuse and Neglect (ECHO CAN), a program that utilizes a hub-and-spoke model to support knowledge-sharing networks.

Joint Presentation: Using Predictive Analytic to Prevent Child Maltreatment: Applying Ethical Frameworks for Algorithmic Transparency

• Paul Lanier
• Room: 102 E

Prevention of fatal infant maltreatment is a top public health priority. The Commission to Eliminate Child Abuse and Neglect Fatalities focused recommendations on the use of data for prevention. This presentation will describe current Birth Match implementation and apply ethical frameworks for predictive analytics and algorithmic transparency for maltreatment prevention.

Joint Presentation: Machine Learning and Child Welfare: The Intersection of Data, Equity, and Values

• Jesse Russell
• Room: 102 E

This presentation will explore how machine learning in child welfare raises issues of racial equity (data tainted by structural racism), predictive accuracy, and usefulness for system improvement efforts. Examine both the potential and limitations of a data approach and when normative values might have to take the lead.

Let the Movement Begin

• Rene Howitt
• Co-presenter: Teresa Olsen
• Room: 103 A

This presentation will focus on the need in this country to make parenting and child development education a priority in all high schools, reaching all students. Learn how and why all child advocates must ignite this movement.

Joint Presentation: Triple P America

• Rebecca Ruffner
• Co-presenter: Sara van Driel
• Room: 103 B

In this session, learn how PCA Arizona leveraged private and public funding to build a strong network of Triple P practitioners. Evidence of the benefits for families will be shared through pre and post- evaluation findings.

Joint Presentation: Positive Parenting Program (Triple P) as a Population Approach to Reducing Child Maltreatment

• Marshall Tyson
• Co-presenters: Sharon Hirsch and Kristin O'Connor
• Room: 103 B

Positive Parenting Program (Triple P) is a multi-tiered system of evidence-based parenting interventions intended to reduce child abuse and neglect. The North Carolina Divisions of Public Health and Social Services have joined other public/private and local partners to develop a statewide infrastructure to implement Triple P and create safe, stable, and nurturing environments for children.

Moving Upstream to a Public Health Approach to CAN Prevention

• Melissa Merrick

• Co-presenter: Jerry Milner
• Room: Ballroom CD

Children thrive when they are raised in safe, stable, nurturing relationships and environments. All too often, however, children experience trauma and adversity that place them at risk for negative life and health outcomes. Our collective response to the issues of trauma and adversity has largely focused on reactionary measures to intervene “after-the-fact,” instead of focusing on “upstream” efforts that prevent early adversity such as child abuse and neglect from occurring in the first place. In this keynote, Dr. Melissa Merrick will examine the opportunities that lie ahead for integrating an equity lens to public health frameworks that prevent child abuse and neglect. Prior to joining Prevent Child Abuse America, Dr. Merrick was the lead scientist on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) portfolio and served as a subject matter expert on the prevention of child abuse and neglect. 

Following the plenary, Dr. Merrick will be joined by Children’s Bureau Associate Commissioner Dr. Jerry Milner for a “fireside chat,” during which they will describe and discuss the US Health and Human Services shared vision for child abuse prevention: “creating the conditions for strong, thriving families and communities where children are free from harm.” Such a vision is only realized if we prioritize a primary prevention approach to early adversity. When this vision is realized, we can set all children on a trajectory for lifelong health, well-being, and prosperity.

Conference Exclusive: EVICTED Mobile Workshop (additional fee required, limited space)         

• Sarah Leavitt
• Off-Site at the University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee

This mobile workshop (with transportation provided) to the EVICTED exhibition, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book of the same title by Matthew Desmond, will include an exclusive tour of the show, as well as a conversation afterward with curator Sarah Leavitt, PhD, of the National Building Museum, in Washington, DC.

Cultural Humility

• Cynthia Muhar 
• Co-presenter: Dion Racks
• Room: 101 A

What does it mean to be culturally humble and why is it important to both professional roles and personal lives? In this workshop, presenters will explore the definition of cultural humility, its tenets, and basic strategies to apply them daily.

Engaging Dads

• Michael Ramos
• Room: 101 B

Research indicates an involved, responsible father significantly benefits a child’s social, emotional, academic, and financial well-being. Yet some family support practitioners focus solely on mother and baby. This workshop will explore attitudes and behaviors that prevent best practice with fathers, discuss benefits of engaging fathers, and reveal strategies to connect men with their families.

Uncovering America's Best-Kept Secret: Family Resource Centers and Family Support and Strengthening Networks

• Andrew Russo
• Room: 101 C

More than 3,000 Family Resource Centers in 29 states utilize strengths-based, multi-generational, family-centered approaches to impact more than 2 million people annually. Yet this valuable work remains largely unrecognized. In this presentation, learn about the history and evolution of Family Resource Centers and how they are networked at the local, state, and national levels.

Child Fatality Review: Maximizing Prevention Impact   

• Sandra Alexander
• Co-presenter: Angie Boy
• Room: 101 D

This workshop will review the child fatality review process and how child death data can inform policy change. Participants will discuss case examples and suggest prevention recommendations. Strategies in the CDC’s Technical Package for Preventing Child Abuse and Neglect will also be reviewed as possibilities for increasing prevention impact.

Plugged In: Pornography, Technology, and Children

• Natanya Vanderlaan
• Room: 102 A

Children are now growing up in a world saturated by sexual imagery, internet access, and, frequently, pornography. Designed specifically for teachers and care givers of infant through 12-year-old children, this workshop will analyze the potential impacts of illicit content on healthy sexual development and summarize potential healthy responses to the viewing of pornography by children.

Joint Presentation: Endo-pheno-what? Defining and Translating Science on Neurophysiological Functioning into Practice and Policy

• Steven J. Holochwost
• Room: 102 B

Research conducted over the past 20 years has addressed how maltreatment ‘gets under the skin’ to disrupt neurophysiological function. This session will provide an overview of definitions and the research documenting the association between maltreatment and the neurophysiological systems that comprise the endophenotype, and explore the implications of this research for practice and policy.

Joint Presentation: Change in Mind: Cutting-Edge Research on the Development of Organizational and Community Capacity to Create Innovative Programs Increasing the Resilience of Children and Families Exposed to ACEs

• Jennifer A. Jones          
• Co-presenter: Meg Hargreaves, Gabriel McGaughey, and John Till
• Room: 102 B

This symposium will show how the Change in Mind Initiative helped its sites develop their organizational and community capacity to develop, test, and implement innovative, evidence-based ACEs prevention programs and how to use quasi-experimental research designs and developmental evaluation methods to test, refine, and improve the impact of these programs.

Using Videotape Review with Families to Promote Early Relationships

• Kate Rosenblum
• Co-presenter: Kate Whitaker
• Room: 102 C

Videotaping parent-child interactions offers rich opportunities to support nurturing and attachment.  This workshop will share how to introduce videotaping to parents to increase their comfort level with the practice, as well as discuss methods for supporting parental sensitivity. Implications for using videotape technology with the CHEERS observational framework will be shared.

Powerful Prevention Partners: Children's Trust Funds and PCA Chapters

• Teresa Rafael   
• Co-presenters: Kendra Dunn, Jade Woodard, Natalie Towns, and Julia Neighbors
• Room: 102 D

Children's Trust Funds (CTF) and PCA chapters can be strong prevention partners. In this presentation, hear from CTF and PCA leaders in Colorado and Georgia about their work and learn how to connect with the CTF in your state. Also, learn about resources available from the National Alliance of Children's Trust and Prevention Funds.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Division of Violence Prevention Closed Session

• CDC Officials and Prevent Child Abuse America Chapter Network
• Room: 102 E

Practitioners as Researchers: How to Conduct or Partner on Evaluating Your Program

• Mark Ownbey
• Co-presenter: Kathryn Harding
• Room: 103 A

Local Healthy Families America (HFA) sites should consider conducting or participating in research to add to the evidence base of the model and enhance continuous quality improvement efforts. This presentation will demystify the research process, explore how programs can conduct research effectively with available resources, and describe how to publish results.

Caregiver Engagement and Leadership Development in Pediatric Practice to Mitigate Social Determinants of Health: A Mixed-methods Examination of Multiple Stakeholder Perspectives

• Angeline K. Spain
• Co-presenter: Kaela Byers
• Room: 103 B

Caregiver integration into pediatric healthcare decision-making is a critical component of the shift to medical home prevention services for infants. Degree and scope of integration is contingent upon a variety of contextual factors. Perspectives on the facilitators, barriers, and possibilities of pediatric staff and caregivers of infants receiving care will be examined in this presentation.

Joint Presentation: Building a Strong Team

• Danita Roberts 
• Co-presenters: Cristina Massey
• Room: 101 A

This workshop will describe the stages of team development and how the presenters supported their own team through this process. Tools and ideas will be provided to utilize for hiring, boosting team morale, and staff development. Additionally, problem-solving skills will be shared to help teams emerge stronger after a conflict.

Joint Presentation: Leadership through Purpose

• Julie A. Woodbury
• Co-presenter: Melissa Eyers
• Room: 101 A

This session will explore what it means for leaders to bring purpose and energy to their role, including how to develop and communicate a clear vision, employee engagement strategies, and the parallel process of client and employee education, as well as how to engage staff in exploring their purpose, internal motivation, and self-regulation skills.

Partnering to Serve Pregnant and Parenting Youth in Foster Care         

• Amy Dworsky
• Co-presenters: Elissa Gitlow, Jaime Russell, and Andrea Chua
• Room: 101 B

This presentation will focus on an Illinois pilot program that connected pregnant and parenting youth in foster care with Healthy Families Illinois home visiting providers. Findings from a mixed-methods evaluation of that program will be shared, and their implications for cross-systems collaboration will be discussed.

Opportunities for Home Visiting in the Implementation of Family First Prevention Services Act (FFPSA)

• Karen Howard

• Co-presenter(s)’ name(s)
• Room: 101 C

With the enactment of Family First Prevention Services Act (FFPSA), states have a historic opportunity to invest greater resources into more comprehensive prevention strategies that reduce child maltreatment and keep children and families together safely, including home visiting. This session will explore opportunities the home visiting field has to partner with advocates and practitioners in child welfare, public health, and juvenile justice, among others, to effectively create systems and services that meet the needs of the whole child and family. 

Taking Action to Address Child Separation at the U.S. Border

• Melissa Merrick
• Co-presenters: Sharon Hirsch, Teresa Rafael, Marissa Morabito, and Sophie Phillips
• Room:  101 D

The separation of children from their parents does not just affect those living in border-states.  Everyone has a role to play in stopping the unnecessary removal of children from their families.   In this interactive session, panelists will share their successes and challenges in addressing child separation through various mediums and actions.

Beyond the Training: Supporting the Transfer of Learning into Practice

• Meg Manning  
• Co-presenter: Lee MacKinnon
• Room: 102 A

What does it take to support the integration of material learned in training into the work home visitors do with families? By looking at the Healthy Families Massachusetts training program, this session will focus on identifying and exploring the essential components that support the transfer of learning from training into practice.

Innovative Practices at the State Level: Developing a Child Well-Being Data Dashboard

• Nicole Sillaman
• Co-presenters: Jane Dockery and Carol Murray
• Room: 102 B

The challenge with distributing CAN prevention funding is there’s never enough money—methods such as per-capita funding leave small communities underfunded, and insufficient funding makes it hard to implement evidence-based programming. In this presentation, learn how Ohio is doing something new in response to these challenges.

Maintaining Your Workforce through Protector Factors and Self-care Strategies

• Tracy Small
• Co-presenter: Mary Towers
• Room: 102 C

People often do not have enough time to exercise self-care. Staff burnout transcends all professions, especially in the field of home visiting. In this session, administrators and leadership staff will learn how to fulfill their needs first to ensure a robust and sustainable workforce. 

Joint Presentation: Moving Strengthening Families Forward in Alabama

• Sallye R. Longshore
• Co-presenter: Bailey McKell Waller
• Room: 102 D

In this presentation, the Alabama Department of Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention, the Alabama state chapter of Prevent Child Abuse America and a member of the National Alliance of Children’s Trust and Prevention Fund, will share strategies to ignite a statewide movement on the Strengthening Families protective factors framework.

Joint Presentation: Moving from knowledge to action: Changing practice to build protective factors

• Cailin O'Connor
• Room: 102 D

Even people who know and love the Strengthening Families protective factors sometimes need fresh ideas for integrating them in day-to-day work. This interactive session will examine small but significant changes to practice that can help families build protective factors.

Facilitating Change: Understanding the Change Process           

• Elizabeth Jimenez-Vasquez
• Room: 102 E

This workshop explores the complexity of the change process and discusses factors that influence this process, specifically, trauma, culture, and individual make-up. Participants will examine this process using Prochaska and Diclemente’s Stages of Change model and will learn key strategies for motivating and facilitating change.

Directing the Focus Upstream: Child Abuse Prevention With A Trauma-Informed Approach

• Ann Leinfeld Grove
• Room: 103 A

SaintA will celebrate its 170th anniversary in 2020, and its evolution continues, with an intentional pivot towards prevention and early intervention services. Utilizing its research-based model of trauma informed care, SaintA’s focus has expanded from individual care to community well-being.

The HFA Advantage: Changing Lives through Interconnection

• Tracie Lansing  
• Co-presenters: Amy Faugas and Jenn Reed
• Room: 103 B

Designed for those interested in Healthy Families America (HFA), or for current staff who want to learn more about the HFA approach, this session will explore the model’s building blocks: relationships, attachment, and the parallel process. Participants will discover how these foundational concepts positively impact families and staff and deliver the desired outcomes.