MIECHV: What's on the Horizon for FY23-27

• Lynn Tiede
• Room: Paca

In 2022, the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting program was reauthorized by Congress with important changes and an increase in funding. Dig into the new law and its implications for Healthy Families America and other home visiting programs. 

Multi-Site Systems Moving Your Evaluation Forward

• Juanita Arnold, Kathryn Harding, Karen Guskin, Shayna Cooper
• Room: Johnson A-B

Wondering where to go next with your evaluation?  Mind spinning on the difference between research, evaluation, and CQI?  All CA staff are invited to hear about the requirements & varied approaches to the Evaluation functional area.  Talk with colleagues about how to move your evaluation forward.

Continuing the Conversation: Media's Role in Shaping Narratives About Abuse and Neglect

• David Goldblum, Paul Blavin, Siena Oberman, Raven Magwood Goodson, Harold Green III and co-moderated by Mika Jain and Tito Olowu.
• Room: Key Ballroom 1-2

Media and entertainment leave impressions on us all. Let's discuss the current public mindset about abuse and neglect, how that affects the work you do, and how to ensure those with lived experience and those who do this work have a say in the narrative. Mika Jain, PCA America CSO, and Tito Olowu moderate.

Positive Childhood Experiences & Intergenerational Trauma: A Scoping Review

• Patricia Drenth
• Room: Carroll A-B

This session will present the results of a scoping review on positive childhood experiences (PCEs) and their impact on intergenerational trauma. This includes the literature on the protective effects of PCEs as they relate to ACEs and intergenerational trauma transmission of families. (20 minute session)

Moving Upstream: Ohio's Family Success Network

• Eric Gonzalez, Deborah Moon, & Jeesoo Jeon
• Room: Carroll A-B

Ohio Children's  Trust Fund has been piloting the Family Success Network (FSN) as a primary prevention strategy to build protective factors and prevent child maltreatment. Presenters will provide a program overview along with preliminary findings from the process and outcome evaluations. (20 minute session)   

Designing Antiracist Systems Transformation

• Christopher Rudd
• Room: Key Ballroom 3-4

This session will focus on designing systems, organizations, and experiences to be antiracist. We will explore the mindsets and principles of antiracist design as participants identify ways to utilize each in their own practice. 

Creating Community Study Circles using a popular education model to engage families in neighborhoods

• Julia Jean Francois, Jenyfer Castillo-Gutierrez, Jasmine Calixto
• Room: Tubman A-B

In this interactive workshop, co-leaders Jenyfer Castillo-Gutierrez and Jasmine Calixto and Julia Jean-Francois will provide an introduction to the Community Study Circle methodology and provide hands-on instruction on how to identify participants and create content for a Community Study Circle project.  

Trauma Migratorio y el rol del Especialista de Apoyo Familiar en HFA (Spanish Session)

• Sarai Perez, Yomaira Molina, Lenny Rivota, Diana Sanchez
• Room: Latrobe

This session will be facilitated in Spanish. The topic will support staff in HFA sites and systems working with Spanish speaking families.

Chaning the Paradigm: CSA is Preventable, not Inevitable

• Elizabeth J. Letourneau
• Room: Ruth

This NIH-funded project identified how the public views child sexual abuse (as unpreventable) created and tested specific communication strategies for providers and other experts to use that will help achieve a shared understanding of CSA as preventable.

Preventing Child Abuse Through Parenting Education in High School

• Stephanie Starr
• Room: Carroll A-B

ParenTeach trains high school educators to deliver ParentABLE, a Parenting Education/Caregiver unit to their students; helping them develop a foundational understanding of positive parenting/caregiving practices that prevent child abuse.

Partnering with social media influencers: A journey to prevent ACEs

• Tammy Hurley, Christine Koh, CDR Kinzie Lee
• Room: Johnson A-B

The AAP and CDC partnered with social media influencers to explore how influencers can impact attitudes and behaviors around ACEs. Learn about their work, how they collaborated with partners such as pediatricians and community-based organizations to move the message, what worked, and what didn’t.

Justice, Liberation, and Belonging is Prevention!

• Corey Best
• Room: Key Ballroom A-B

This experience is fueled by the assumption that participants will have the capacity to nurture freedom dreams and come together to embrace what we are called to do in our “aftertimes.” Each generation has a legacy of healers, organizers and ancestors that have paved a way to ensure that our collective humanity is actualized. We will welcome participants with…”Kasserian Ingera?” We will hold the weight of the charges that hold change, listen, reflect, notice, pause, engage in truth-telling.  Together, we will grapple with ways to infuse “family integrity” and abolitionist thinking into the work of cultivating approaches, practices and behaviors that embody what we know prevention needs to mean for families—justice. We invite you to embrace JUSTICE as an acknowledgement of one’s humanness. Proactively pursuing healing systematic harm, while repairing fractured relationships from the past, equity of voice and personhood. As you enter this container, we ask that you consider removing “what we can’t do” from your vocabulary. We also ask that you remove the “What abouts?” from your memory. To challenge us to be BIG in our quest to think culturally versus strategically, we will walk you through a nuanced way of understanding what the principled struggle for “justice doing” looks like in public. We invite you to dream accountability and bravery as we embrace an immersive container that aims for impact over outcome.

Collaboration between Healthy Families Massachusetts and the Medical Legal Partnership of Boston

• Jessica Goldberg, Steven Pascal
• Room: Latrobe

We will present  findings from an evaluation of this unique partnership between HFM and the MLPB program. In this model, an appointed MLPB attorney works with home visitors to enable them to better identify and respond to families’ legal risks before they evolve into full-blown crises. (20 minute session)

Breaking Down Barriers – The Impact of Housing Stipends on Family Health and Stability

• Ross Hackett, Krystle Lofton
• Room: Latrobe

In this session, we will present the impact of introducing a supplementary housing stipend program for participants engaged in Home Visiting that improved program engagement, birth and family outcomes, and reduced stressors for participating families. (20 minute session)

Department of Defense, Family Advocacy Program Prevention Program/New Parent Support Home Visitation

• Shannon Best
• Room: Ruth

This workshop will address the Department of Defense, Family Advocacy Program mission, policies and prevention programs which are designed to promote resiliency & healthy relationships; prevent child abuse/neglect & domestic abuse; & discuss New Parent Support Program Home Visitation. 

Relational Health's Impact on Preventing Child Abuse and Neglect

• Kellie Hans Reid
• Room: Tubman A-B

Relationships and social connections are important protective factors families have that can help keep children healthy and safe from abuse and neglect. By focusing our attention and resources on the underlying causes of child abuse, we have the ability to protect children's long-term health.

Taking the Fear Out of the CHEERS Check-In

• Kerrie Green
• Room: Key Ballroom 3-4

This session will support Supervisors and Direct Service Staff from HFA Sites. The CHEERS Check-In Tool helps you support Parent-Child Relationships. We’ll cover how to talk about it with families, what to do with scoring, and how to use the CCI as a tool for planning your visits.

Supporting LGBTQ+ Youth in this Moment of Crisis

• Ted Lewis
• Room: Paca

2023 saw a record number of anti-LGBTQ+ bills, with the majority targeting LGBTQ+ youth. Utilizing HRC’s National Youth Survey Data, this workshop will highlight what youth-serving professionals can do at this moment to affirm and support LGBTQ+ young people and their families. 

A Multi-Level Approach in Supporting Families and Preventing Child Abuse and Neglect

• Rachelle Soden, Erica Hunter, Adrianne Ralston
• Room: Paca

Kansas has implemented a multi-level approach that supports families and aims to reduce unnecessary child abuse/neglect reports. This strategy encourages all individuals who interact with families to take a step beyond mandated reporting and empowers them to be effective supporters of families.

Elevating Home Visiting Voices for Collective Impacts

• Cynthia Zagar, Patricia Drenth, Alyce Hernandez
• Room: Key Ballroom 3-4

Healthy Families Michigan Central Administration engaged local site staff in providing input around 6 important content areas: QA and TA, Policies, Evaluation, QA Plan, Training, and Equity. Participants were actively engaged and invested in the process and outcomes, which led to changed practices. 

Baby Steps: Making the Most of the Accreditation Process

• Jennifer Fiechtner, Rudi Roberson
• Room: Latrobe

We will discuss navigating HFA accreditation from a site’s perspective. We will share our effective strategies to get ready, blending HFA’s tools and ones we developed and discuss how direct service staff, supervisors, and program managers made the most of this challenging and exciting process. 

Creating Team Commitments using Popular Education

• Karin Tauscher, Jessica Lamoreau
• Room: Tubman A-B

Team members from Four Rivers Healthy Families Oregon will guide workshop participants through a series of interactive activities based on Popular Education methodology, which  they have used in their own program, to create Team Commitments in a way that is engaging, inclusive, and fun. 

How to Use Storytelling for Digital Advocacy

• Elayna Fernandez
• Room: Key Ballroom 1-2

Attention spans are getting shorter and online audiences get bombarded with information all day long. In order to capture their interest in your advocacy and awareness campaigns, you must harness the power of storytelling in your content.

Let's Talk About Neglect!

• Janna Estep Jordan
• Room: Carroll A-B

This workshop will review a multiprong approach to develop a statewide action plan to move neglect prevention upstream across all levels of society. Using frameworks, social norms science and the strength of the PCA- America network, various strategies used to accomplish this goal will be discussed.

PCA America Chapter Network Child Maltreatment Prevention Presentations (Group 2)

• Karly Zucker, Meghan Hays Davis, Kayce Singletary
• Johnson A-B

Using research and innovation in child maltreatment prevention, chapters will present on projects they have completed utilizing discretionary grant funds. Focus is father's mental health, mitigating harm to prenatally exposed newborns, a poverty simulation, and services through intermediary support.

Parent Linking Program: Protective Factors and Photovoice Findings

• Jen Romero
• Room: Ruth

Participants will learn about PCA-NJ's Parent Linking Program which provides services to expectant and parenting teens. The workshop will identify strategic approaches for increasing family strengths through research findings from a 2022 photovoice study that mapped onto the five protective factors.

Slowing Down the Revolving Door

• Michele Powell
• Room: Johnson A-B

This workshop will present innovative strategies on how organizations can integrate equity into their recruitment, onboarding, and engagement processes. Using equity as a driving force will not only attract and retain quality staff, but will  ultimately translate into better services for families.

Supporting Breastfeeding in Incarcerated Women

• Tina Lavy
• Room: Carroll A-B

A summary of correctional & community-based support alternatives for incarcerated women. Several case situations of breastfeeding incarcerated mothers will be presented as well as current & proposed legislation. What the options are for infants & incarcerated breastfeeding mothers will be discussed. (20 minute session)

Connecting Mothers in Voluntary Programs to Promote Child Wellbeing to Reproductive Healthcare

• Grace Hubel, Bett Williams
• Room: Carroll A-B

This presentation will describe insights from a study exploring the influences of adverse childhood experiences and parenting stress on mother's responses to advertisements for reproductive health services. (20 minute session)

Building Prevention Partners through Inclusivv Conversations

• Jenn Graham, Jennifer Stein
• Room: Ruth

We will discuss how GA has used an innovative approach to increasing public awareness & community involvement in the prevention of child abuse and neglect. Through this interactive workshop, participants will engage in an Inclusivv Conversation and learn how we use this tool to promote engagement.  

Addressing Childhood Adversity in Violence Prevention Programs

• Angie S. Guinn, Phyllis Ottley, Aaliyah Belk, Adebukola Adegbite
• Room: Key Ballroom 1-2

The goal of this group discussion is to present the CDC’s violence prevention programs focused on ACEs prevention and how PCA chapters can get involved. At the conclusion of the presentations, the presenters will moderate a discussion among attendees. 

Creando Acuerdos de Equipo Usando Educacion Popular (Spanish session)

• Vitalina Rodriguez, Theresa Martinez, Cristy Brown
• Room: Tubman A-B

Team members from Four Rivers Healthy Families Oregon will guide workshop participants through a series of interactive activities based on Popular Education methodology, which they have used in their own program, to create Team Commitments in a way that is engaging, inclusive, and fun.

Supervisor CoP Live

• Cristina Massey, Danita T. Roberts, Christa Austin
• Room: Key Ballroom 3-4

For almost two years, Supervisors across the HFA network have met monthly to build skills and learn from each other.  This session is an opportunity to come together as a Community in person and continue our collective work.

Creating Workplace Environments that Support Working Parents

• Vicky Roper, Sophia Ringering, MPH
• Room: Paca

How can employers support the prevention of ACEs? A Kanas coalition responds by engaging communities to support family-friendly policy & practice. An ongoing campaign supports businesses in creating conditions that not only strengthen families, but increase recruitment, retention & productivity.  

Prevention as a Path for Supporting Families

• Edi Winkle, Samantha Florey, Natalie Towns
• Room: Ruth

Join FRIENDS National Center for Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention to learn about resources for prevention that use evidence to support families. In addition, learn about the Prevention Mindset Institute that brings prevention to the front and lessons learned as a result of that shift.   

Not Your Average Parenting Group

• Joan Holtz, Toni Miner
• Room: Latrobe

Circle of Parents in Recovery is an evidence-informed model that works to strengthen families, prevent child maltreatment, and support recovery.  Hear from a facilitator with lived experience about the importance of prosocial peer networks and how these groups were developed in Colorado.  

Using BACW's Race Equity Strategy Areas to Effect Systemwide Change

• Keith D. Bostick
• Room: Key Ballroom 3-4

BACW is committed to supporting systems and institutions in building accountable leaders. Child welfare practice must be transformed to reduce and eliminate racial inequities for Black/African American children, youth, and families. This transformation will improve outcomes for all populations. 

Team Development and Maintenance in the Virtual Space

• Cynthia Zagar, Kim Harris, Brandi Alexander-Bayes
• Room: Carroll A-B

Let's talk about virtual and hybrid work spaces! Healthy Families Michigan's Central Administration was designed to be a virtual workspace from its inception and regularly incorporates research proven management and team building practices into its culture. We will talk about common applicability. 

CHEERS Check In Tool:  Improving Completions by Creating Confidence

• Alyson Jacobson 
• Room: Johnson A-B

Showcases materials developed for a CQI project that support partnering with parents on the CHEERS Check in Tool. 

Promoting Well-Being in Communities Through Prevention

• Valerie Frost, Mary Carpenter
• Room: Paca

This presentation focuses on statewide prevention efforts in Kentucky to create conditions for healthy communities and eliminate unnecessary family separation. Participants will gain knowledge on how to partner with and engage communities in being proactive toward strengthening and wellbeing. 

Promoting a Culture of Health:  Introducing the RWJ Foundation's Systems for Action Health Equity 

• Darrell Armstrong
• Room: Key Ballroom 1-2

With Tufts Medical Center, Rev. Armstrong was awarded a $100K planning grant to address health disparities and access barriers in Trenton, NJ. This workshop will share the community-based investment promoting the well-being of families & the communities in which they live, work, play, & pray. 

Healing Relationships Between Teens and Parents

• Vicky Kelly 
• Room: Tubman A-B

The Connect Parent Group Program helps strengthen, repair, and rebuild relationships between parents and their teens. This attachment-focused and trauma-informed group provides skill building to help parents resolve conflict, improve communication, and strengthen the bonds during adolescence

FROG Scale: Beyond the Conversation Starters

• Laura Shoaf
• Room: Key Ballroom 3-4

In this interactive workshop, we'll consider ways to deepen your FROG conversations and to explore the domains of the FROG Scale in a way that is sensitive and responsive to each family's unique situation. 

HELP: The Importance of Research Partnerships in Addressing Substance Use Risk in Home Visiting

• Veronica Ford, Eva Szmutko
• Room: Latrobe

PCA-NJ and Partnership to End Addiction partnered on HELP and HELP 2.0. We seek to explain the significance of our research partnership and discuss the digital screening tool developed to ease participants’ disclosure of substance using behavior and introduce supportive, brief intervention options. (20 minute session)

Mitigating bias in child abuse evaluations

• Kelsey Julian
• Room: Latrobe

This presentation will discuss current research related to racial/ethnic bias in child abuse evaluations and how evidence-based tools can reduce this disparity by guiding clinicians and other direct care staff toward equitable decision-making regarding physical abuse evaluations. (20 minute session)

Building A Community-Based Prevention Approach

• Jennifer Stein, Karly Zucker, Travis Singley, Vicky Roper
• Room: Johnson A-B

Access to concrete supports is a critical protective factor in promoting the health and well-being of children and families. This workshop will examine two PCA chapters who implemented a community based prevention model, integrating technology to address the holistic needs of children and families.

Siblings Bullying, Betrayal, and Bonding

• SuEllen Fried
• Room: Key Ballroom 1-2

Evaluation of the effects of child sexual abuse (CSA) prevention policies on adult perpetrated CSA

• Claire E. Helpingstine, Bart Klika, Melissa T. Merrick, Catherine Murphy, Aby Rivera
• Room: Paca 

The session will provide an overview of an evaluation on the effects of United States child sexual abuse prevention (CSAP) policies, describe the development and role of a Research-Practice-Policy-Partnership in this work, and present CSAP policy findings for a select number of states. 

Impacting policy around child fatalities: Lessons learned from Child Safety Forward Indiana

• E. Susana Mariscal, Bryan Victor, Jamie Smith
• Room: Ruth

Child Safety Forward Indiana (CSF) is one of five demonstration sites aimed to reduce child abuse and neglect fatalities. Providing data-informed recommendations, solutions to barriers, and seizing opportunities allowed us to impact policy on child fatalities review teams and SUID investigations.

“All learning comes to us through relationships that mean something to us” - Mr. Rogers: Integration

• Ellen Walsh, Miriah de Matos
• Room: Carroll A-B

Professionals sometimes feel a disconnect between the core elements of the HFA model and their curriculum. There is tension between reflective relationship-building strategies and prescriptive, educational papers. We'll explore opportunities to integrate/operationalize an IMH approach holistically.

Trauma-Informed Approaches in Home Visiting: NEAR@Home

• Elaine Duensing, Karen Williams
• Room: Tubman A-B

Participants will gain knowledge of trauma-informed practice within the field of home visiting, with a spotlight on NEAR@Home.  NEAR@Home is an intensive training program for home visitors that is rooted in trauma science and is based in trauma-informed principles.

Sports and Victimization: Statistics, Responses and Efforts at Prevention

• Angelo Giardino
• Room: Key Ballroom 3-4

Over 50% of US children participate on sports teams. Despite the developmental benefits of athletics, children are at risk for several forms of victimization, e.g., peer abuse, maltreatment, and overuse injuries. Emerging data help characterize the risk, response systems, and prevention efforts. 

Layering Prevention: How to build non-traditional partnership across organizations

• Laura Crave
• Room: Carroll A-B

Learn how a child sexual abuse primary prevention program – Awareness to Action – formed a collective impact workgroup with the Wisconsin Department of Corrections & Prevent Child Abuse Wisconsin by discovering a shared purpose despite representing diverse missions and approaches. (20 minute session)

Examining Corporal Punishment in Schools: State Policies and Practices

• Esaa Samarah, Lisa Schelbe, Bart Klika
• Room: Carroll A-B

The use of corporal punishment in schools persists in many parts of the United States despite evidence of its harmful effects. This presentation examines the state policies banning corporal punishment in public schools and the disproportionalities of the use of corporal punishment. (20 minute session)

Colaboración entre PR-MIECHVP y Capítulo P.R. AAP: Apoyando a las Familias Vulnerables (Spanish session)

• Mariana Padilla
• Room: Latrobe

This presentation will share the achievements by the collaboration between the Puerto Rico Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program (PR-MIECHVP), locally known as Familias Saludables Puerto Rico (FSPR), and the American Academy of Pediatrics, Puerto Rico Chapter (PR-AAP Chapter). 

Direct service providers working with sexually exploited youth: Experiences from two countries

• Claire Helpingstine
• Room: Ruth

Experiences of individuals working with youth who have been subjected to commercial sexual exploitation are explored. Experiences between direct service providers in India and the United States will be compared. Barriers and facilitators to service provision and career longevity will be discussed.

Moving from Foundational to High Quality: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

• Jennifer Johnson
• Room: Paca

In current times we have all heard the "DEI" acronym. Alot of programs incorporate a portion of DEI in their training. We would like to provide a common definition, and then work through concrete examples on how to move your program into a High quality program versus just foundational. 

HFA Reflective Strategies of Explore and Wonder Myths: Understanding the Why behind Explore and Wond

• Christa Austin
• Room: Key Ballroom 1-2

Identify the common myths associated with implementing Explore and Wonder and understand why it's important to share information with parents to support them in nuturing ways and to mutually wonder about the intent of the baby's behavior. Come checkout the myths and have fun exploring! 

Strengthening Caregiver Bonds with Musical Routines & Rituals

• Kelly Green 
• Room: Tubman A-B

Singing and moving to a beat with an infant helps form trusting bonds between baby and caregiver, strengthening a primal neurological connection to belonging to a tribe or family.  In this session, we will review simple routines and rituals that can support parents and caregivers.

Partnering with Media for Social Norms Change

• Jacqueline Johnson, Nathan Fink
• Room: Johnson A-B

In this session we will examine how non-profits and creative media partners can create impactful marketing leveraging grant funds. This partnership can produce effective communications that portray authentic parent voices› and destigmatize the use of resources that strengthen the family unit.