Gearing up for successful prevention solutions
GOVERNOR’S CONFERENCE November 1-3 Topeka #GovConf2017 A chapter of Prevent Child Abuse America
Department for Children and Families
OVERVIEW WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 1 8:00AM – 9:00AM REGISTRATION & CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
9:00AM – 4:30 P.M. PRE-CONFERENCE INSTITUTES clock hours: 6.0 (NOON – 1:30PM) Lunch on your own
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 2 7:30AM – 8:30AM REGISTRATION & CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
1:30PM – 3:00PM WORKSHOP SET 2 clock hours: 1.5
8:15AM – 10:00AM KEYNOTE ADDRESS clock hours: 1.5
3:00PM – 3:30PM
BREAK
3:30PM – 5:00PM WORKSHOP SET 3 clock hours: 1.5
10:00AM – 10:30AM BREAK 10:30AM – NOON WORKSHOP SET 1 clock hours: 1.5
5:00PM – 6:00PM ADOPTION RECEPTION EMERALD IV/V
12:00PM – 1:30PM AWARDS LUNCHEON & CEREMONY
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 3 7:30AM – 8:30AM REGISTRATION & CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
10:30AM – NOON WORKSHOP SET 4 clock hours: 1.5
8:15AM – 10:00AM KEYNOTE clock hours: 1.5
12:30PM – 2:00PM SCREENING: RESILIENCE
PROGRAM KEY REGISTRATION
INSTITUTES
WORKSHOPS (Th)
WORKSHOPS (F)
KEYNOTES
CEREMONIES
TABLE OF CONTENTS
WELCOME
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CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
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PLANNING FORM
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GET CONNECTED
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FEATURED SPEAKERS
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PROGRAM INFO & HIGHLIGHTS
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SPONSORS & EXHIBITORS
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CONFERENCE PROGRAM
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WELCOME TO
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Welcome to the 41st Annual Governor’s Conference for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect. We’re honored that you have chosen this comprehensive forum to advance your professional expertise. Your dedication and work with children, youth and families helps prevent child abuse and neglect, supports quality child care and ensures the safety of children is the highest importance. It is your commitment to this important work that truly makes a difference for our future and creates the foundation for a vibrant Kansas. Over the next few days, gear up to strengthen your skills and take advantage of the opportunities offered at this event. And GO! forth and be inspired to become a more successful leader in social services.
Best Wishes,
Kansas Children’s Service League & Your 2017 Governor’s Conference Planning Committee
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2017 CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
CHILDREN’S ALLIANCE OF KANSAS Krystal Boxum-Loomis DCCCA Chrissy Mayer FAMILIES TOGETHER, INC. Lesli Girard KANSAS BAR ASSOCIATION/KANSAS ASSOCIATION OF COUNSEL FOR CHILDREN Kellie Hogan KANSAS CASA Samantha King KANSAS CHILDREN’S SERVICE LEAGUE Dona Booe Gail Cozadd Kelly Hayes Pamela Noble Vicky Roper Deena Williams KANSAS DEPARTMENT FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES Susan Gile Lynnea Kaufman KANSAS DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & ENVIRONMENT Cristi Cain
KANSAS FOSTER & ADOPTIVE FAMILY ASSOCIATION Julie Lane KANSAS STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Kent Reed KVC KANSAS Shannon Leslie NEK-CAP Anna Lundergard OFFICE OF JUDICIAL ADMINISTRATION Lana Walsh PREVENT CHILD ABUSE AMERICA BOARD SuEllen Fried SAINT FRANCIS COMMUNITY SERVICES Christy Sanders STORMONT VAIL HEALTH CARE Joy Thomas SUNFLOWER HOUSE Bev Turner WASHBURN UNIVERSITY Bassima Schbley
Kansas Children’s Service League wishes to acknowledge the Prevention and Protection Services division of the Kansas Department for Children and Families for their support of this conference. Funding for this conference was provided in part by a grant from the Children’s Justice Act administered by the Prevention and Protection Services division of the Kansas Department for Children and Families. #GovConf2017
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HOTEL MAP
MANER CONFERENCE CENTER
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PLANNING FORM WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 1 INSTITUTES 1-6 9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
N-1 Trauma-Informed Supervision: Principles & Tools for Supervisors N-2 Empowering Kansas Families: Strategies & Skills to Address Domestic Violence in Child Welfare
N-3 Human Trafficking: Legal & Policy Issues N-4 DSM-5 Attachment, Assessment & Diagnosis N-5 Mindfulness: A Resource for Family Services & Providers N-6 Drug Trends, Paraphernalia & Signs of Use/Abuse
Institute choice
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 2 WORKSHOP SESSION 1 10:30 a.m. - Noon
1-1 Handle With Care 1-2 Foxhole Buddies: The Impact of Family Violence on Sibling Groups 1-3 Utilizing an Implementation Science Framework to Move from Trauma Informed to Trauma Practice 1-4 Breastfeeding's Impact on Mental Health 1-5 Making Progress on Daunting Challenges
1-6 Active Shooter Response Options Training 1-7 Gaining a New Perspective: An Experiential Child Welfare Simulation 1-8 Beyond the Basics: Best Practices in Adoption Recruitment 1-9 Rethinking Discipline
Workshop choice WORKSHOP SESSION 2 1:30 - 3 p.m.
2-1 When We All Work Together: The Positive Impact on Families When Partners Work Collectively 2-2 Home Visitation & Domestic Violence: Enhancing Safety & Support for Children & Families 2-3 DCF Implementation of the Comprehensive Addiction & Recovery Act 2-4 Ethics in the Electronic Age, Part 1 2-5 Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs): Kansas Research & Social Norms
2-6 Keeping Kids Safe Online: A Discussion with the Experts 2-7 Becoming the Best Place to Work: Creating an Engaged & Motivated Work Team 2-8 Be a Detective! Uncover the Roots of Challenging Behaviors (TBRIÂŽ overview) 2-9 Brain Development: What Every Professional Needs to Know
Workshop choice WORKSHOP SESSION 3 3:30 - 5 p.m.
3-1 Trauma Sensitive Yoga 3-2 Kansas Youth Advisory Council: The Voice of Youth Utilizing Transition from Foster Care into Adulthood 3-3 Responding vs Reacting: Helping Students Understand the Importance of Self-Regulation Begins with You 3-4 Ethics in the Electronic Age, Part 2 3-5 Healthy Life Choices Project: Giving Children & Families the Tools They Need to Succeed
3-6 Safe Sleep Solutions: Thinking Outside the Box 3-7 Kansas Implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) 3-8 Exploring Elements of a Successful Adoption 3-9 Using Brain Mapping to Understand & Promote Healthy Development in Children
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FRIDAY NOVEMBER 3 WORKSHOP SESSION 4 10:30 a.m. - Noon
4-1 Improving Outcomes for Children & Youth Exposed to Domestic Violence; Empowered Families Kansas Project 4-2 Keeping Professionals Healthy: PTSD, Compassion Fatigue & Burnout 4-3 Home, Safe Home 4-4 From Engagement to Empowerment: How Kansas Parent Leaders are Finding Their Voice
4-5 Safe Haven 4-6 Bikers Against Child Abuse 4-7 Active Awareness 4-8 Being a No Matter What Family: Adoption Over the Long Haul 4-9 No One Wants to Be a Bad Parent: An Overview of Secure Attachment
Workshop choice SCREENING 12:30 - 2 p.m.
Resilience, The Biology of Stress & The Science of Hope (follow up to Paper Tigers)
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WIRELESS ACCESS The 2017 Governor's Conference provides complementary Wi-Fi to attendees throughout the conference.
MOBILE APP We've gone mobile! Join us on the KS Governor's Conference 2017 app where you can track your schedule, access materials, receive real-time updates, network with other attendees, post photos, share what you've learned and more.
1. Connect to the Wi-Fi network, "Sunflower" or "Maner Conference." 2. Enter password topek2017 when prompted.
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FEATURED SPEAKERS KEYNOTE ADDRESS: GEORGE DAVIS, MD
KEYNOTE: CORDELIA ANDERSON, MA
A NEW MODEL FOR DELINQUENCY: BRAIN DEVELOPMENT & THE CONSEQUENCES OF MALTREATMENT
THE IMPACT OF PORNOGRAPHY ON CHILDREN & YOUTH
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 2
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 3
8:15 - 10 A.M.
Early childhood experience largely lays the foundation, for course and outcome of subsequent human development, greatly influencing lasting and fundamental traits such as mental health, resilience, empathy and cognition. In particular, the quality of the earliest caretaking is the first and single greatest support for a child’s developing brain. Child maltreatment of all kinds, on the other hand, places a child at increased risk for aggression, drug use and antisocial behaviors. The most telling but not the only example of this is the role that maltreatment plays in the development of delinquency. The prevention of maltreatment, along with the management and care of children and adolescents who have already suffered it, constitutes the greatest task of social and psychological services for children. This presentation outlines the role that early childhood experience plays in subsequent development and the principles of early and later interventions. Dr. Davis is a ChildTrauma Academy Fellow and Director of Psychiatry at the New Mexico Department for Children, Youth and Families. His primary areas of interest and expertise are delinquency as an outcome of early neglect and abuse; extreme behavioural disorders in young children; psychopharmacology and systems of care for severely disabled and underserved populations.
8:15 - 10 A.M.
This session defines pornography and child pornography in ways that differentiate both from the general category of ‘sexually explicit materials.’ This training highlights numerous studies that show the impact of pornography on children, youth and culture. It outlines ways the impact has escalated with changing content and through the reach of technology. Several different strategies to combat the harm are also identified. The training answers why addressing pornography is important in efforts to prevent child sexual abuse and exploitation as well as all sexual violence. It explains various ways pornography and the pornified culture hurt sexual and relational health, rather than helping. For over 40 years, Anderson has worked to prevent harm and promote healthy development. In 1992, she founded Sensibilities Prevention Consultation based in Minneapolis where she works with a wide variety of organizations. Anderson has counseled sex offenders, survivors, prostituted women and families of missing and murdered children and conducted over 2,500 presentations internationally.
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PROGRAM
INFO & HIGHLIGHTS Kansas Children’s Service League, along with the planning committee organizations and sponsors of this year’s conference, are pleased to welcome you to our conference. The program content and structure has been developed to accommodate the diverse needs of professionals who provide services to children and have a strong commitment to the prevention of child abuse and neglect. We hope you find the conference professionally beneficial and personally satisfying.
CONFERENCE OBJECTIVES 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
To provide information about exemplary models of prevention and intervention services for children and families. To provide a networking opportunity for Kansans interested in the welfare of children. To recognize individuals and organizations who have provided outstanding services to children. To publicize the needs of children and families and the opportunities to meet those needs. To provide certifiable training opportunities for individuals who work professionally providing services for the benefit of children and families.
LOCATIONS
CELL PHONES
The keynote presentations and Awards Luncheon will be held in the Sunflower Ballroom. Workshop locations will be offered in a variety of rooms in the Maner Conference Center and the Capitol Plaza Hotel.
Please be considerate of others! During the sessions, please turn your cell phones to silent mode or off. If you must talk or text, please excuse yourself from the session; doing so will minimize distractions in this learning environment.
Room assignments are determined by expected attendance figures for each workshop and to accommodate presenter requests. The workshops you chose on your registration forms are indicated on the schedule in your packet. You may feel free to make alternate choices, however space may be limited. We ask that you abide by the room capacity limits for your safety and out of respect to the presenters. For specific room assignments, see the Conference Program section. NAMETAGS Your nametag can be found in your information packet. During the conference, we ask that you wear your nametag to be easily recognizable. Please leave the plastic sleeve from your nametag at the registration table before you leave; it will be recycled and used at next year’s conference.
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LUNCH On Thursday, lunch is available. Pre-registration is required and is indicated on your nametag. If you did not register for lunch on your conference registration but would like to join us at the Awards Luncheon, please let the staff at the registration table know by Thursday, November 2 at 10:30 a.m. EXHIBITORS Agency and vendor exhibits are located in the Sunflower Ballroom. Please take time to visit the exhibit areas. We will be holding a drawing with prizes donated by exhibitors. The drawing entry boxes are located at the information booth and the registration area. Participants must sign up prior to 10:30 a.m. Thursday morning. Winners will be announced at the Awards Luncheon on Thursday. Participants must be present at the luncheon to win these prizes.
CEU INSTRUCTIONS Social Workers; Psychologists; Marriage and Family Therapists; Counselors; and Professional Alcohol/Drug Counselors: Behavioral Sciences Regulatory Board (BSRB) no longer pre-approves continuing education programs. Each professional is responsible for maintaining his or her own records of attendance at the various conference activities. Those who plan to use conference participation for Continuing Education Unit (CEU) credit must sign in (license number must be included) at the CEU registration table each day of the conference. This registration is for purposes of accountability by the conference planners in the event that BSRB audits any participants. A certificate suitable for CEU verification is in the conference packet and is for use for all breakout sessions of the conference. The workshop monitor must validate the certificate before you leave each workshop. Separate certificates will be given out at the end of the keynote sessions. Those seeking CEU credit from BSRB should keep copies of their conference programs or use other means to record the workshop topic, speaker(s), etc. for each activity attended in order to complete the necessary paperwork for license renewal. Nursing: The Kansas State Nurses Association does not pre-approve the Governor’s Conference. If you are seeking CNE credit and need additional session information, please contact Pamela Noble, pnoble@ kcsl.org. Law Enforcement: Use the certificate provided in your packet to report the number of hours of workshops/activities attended. In-service credit hours up to 15.0 are available for the conference. Contact hours available are Wednesday PreConference Institutes 6.0 hours; Thursday 6.0; and Friday 3.0. Separate certificates will also be available at the conclusion of all keynote sessions.
Physicians: Physicians may self-designate this conference for Category II credits if they feel that the conference meets the definitions of CME and fulfills the ethical requirements for Category II. Attorneys: Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credit was requested for the following session: N-3 Human Trafficking-Legal and Policy Issues. Attorneys attending this session must return a signed affidavit (handed out by the moderator following the session) to the registration table or the moderator. The conference coordinator will forward them to the CLE Commission. CLE credit for additional workshops may be available via individual application to the CLE Commission. The commission will consider any workshop for guardians ad litem (GAL). Lawyers should review the workshop/institute description with an administrative judge and self-submit an application for GAL/CLE. Affidavits are not provided for guardians ad litem this year. Any questions should be directed to the CLE Commission at (785) 357-6510. CERTIFICATES OF ATTENDANCE Included in your conference packet is a certificate of attendance. Certificates for both keynote presentations will be handed out at the close of each session. EVALUATIONS Your input regarding this conference is highly valued and will assist in the planning of next year’s conference. After each session, take a few moments to fill out the evaluation form and leave it with the workshop moderator. For keynote speakers, please leave completed evaluations on tables for staff to retrieve. An overall conference evaluation will be available online at the end of conference. You will receive an email with instructions on how to fill out.
DISCLAIMER: The views and products presented at this conference are not necessarily approved or endorsed by the conference staff, committee agencies or sponsors.
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SPONSORS SPECIAL THANKS TO THE FOLLOWING ORGANIZATIONS FOR THEIR SUPPORT OF THE 2017 GOVERNOR'S CONFERENCE & SPONSORING:
Department for Children and Families
THE KEYNOTE SPEAKERS & OVERALL CONFERENCE FUNDING
THE CONFERENCE TOTE BAGS
Workshop 2-7 Becoming the Best Place to Work: Creating an Engaged & Motivated Work Team; Workshop 3-9 Using Brain Mapping to Understand & Promote Healthy Development in Children
Institute N-6 Drug Trends, Paraphernalia & Signs of Use/Abuse
Institute N-1 Trauma-Informed Supervision: Principles & Tools for Supervisors Institute N-2 Empowering Kansas Families: Strategies & Skills to Address Domestic Violence in Child Welfare The Office of Judicial Administration, Supreme Court Task Force on Permanency Planning & Kansas Attorney General's Office
Institute N-3 Human Trafficking-Legal & Policy Issues
The Networking Break Workshop 3-5 Healthy Life Choices Project: Giving Children & Families the Tools They Need to Succeed Workshop 4-6 Bikers Against Child Abuse
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EXHIBITORS ADOPT KANSAS KIDS AdoptKansasKids @AdoptKSKids adoptkskids.org
KVC KANSAS kvckansas @KVCkids kansas.kvc.org
CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTERS OF KANSAS cackansas kscac.org
MID AMERICA REGION OF NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS marscna.net
CHILDREN’S ALLIANCE OF KANSAS childallyks @ChildAlly childally.org
SAINT FRANCIS COMMUNITY SERVICES
KANSAS CHILDREN’S SERVICE LEAGUE: COMMUNITY RESOURCE LIBRARY MyKCSL @KCSL kcsl.org/crl_home.aspx
SEQUEL OF KANSAS sequelyouthservices.com
DCCCA DCCCA dccca.org
@dccca_tta
EMBERHOPE, INC EmberHopeinc @EmberHopeinc emberhope.org
SaintFrancisCommunityServices
st-francis.org
@SaintFrancisCS
WICHITA CHILDREN’S HOME wichitachildrenshome @WichitaChildren wch.org WSU COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT INSTITUTE wsucei @wsuEngagement communityengagementinstitute.org
KANSAS ACTION FOR CHILDREN ksaction @KansasAction kac.org KANSAS CASA ASSOCIATION KansasCASA @CASAkansas kansascasa.org
EXHIBITORS & ORGANIZATIONS HAVE GRACIOUSLY DONATED PRIZES TO GIVE AWAY AT THE AWARDS LUNCHEON.
KANSAS COALITION AGAINST SEXUAL AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE KCSDV @kcsdv kcsdv.org
TO PARTICIPATE IN THE DRAWING, YOU MUST:
KANSAS INFANT DEATH AND SIDS NETWORK, INC. KIDSNetworkKS @KIDSNetworkKS kidsks.org
Winners will be selected by random drawing and announced at the Awards Luncheon.
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WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 1 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
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INSTITUTE/ROOM
PRESENTERS
N-1 Trauma-Informed Supervision: Principles & Tools for Supervisors SHAWNEE B/C
Teresa Strausz, LMSW, MSOD, & Joyce McEwen Crane, Ph.D, PCC, Wichita State University
N-2 Empowering Kansas Families: Strategies & Skills to Address Domestic Violence in Child Welfare RIVER
Kristina Scott, LMSW, Carolyn Coiner, BS, & Bre Kirkhart, BSW, Kansas Coalition Against Sexual & Domestic Violence
N-3 Human Trafficking: Legal & Policy Issues EMERALD IV/V
Judge John Romero, National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges; Pat Colloton, J.D., & Marty Snyder, J.D., Office of Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt; Kathy Armstrong, J.D., Kansas Dept. for Children and Family
N-4 DSM-5 Attachment, Assessment & Diagnosis SHAWNEE A
Todd Frye, PhD, LCPC, LCMFT, NCC, Mid-America Nazarene University
N-5 Mindfulness: A Resource for Family Services & Providers HOMESTEAD
Keenan Poore, LMFT, Horizons Mental Health; Mikyla Young-Bayless, LMFT, RYT-200, Axiom Counseling
N-6 Drug Trends, Paraphernalia & Signs of Use/Abuse PIONEER
Jeff Collier, State Coordinator, Kansas Drug Evaluation and Classification/ Standardized Field Sobriety Testing Programs
DESCRIPTION Employee health and resilience are important factors in achieving positive client outcomes. Learn ways to incorporate trauma-informed supervision into your organization to increase resiliency and positively impact staff retention, secondary traumatic stress/burnout and effective client services.
This institute will provide participants the strategies necessary to effectively address domestic violence in child welfare cases. Participants will be provided tools to assess batterer dangerousness, parenting capacity as well as, child and adult victim safety. Case planning strategies that promote victim safety and perpetrator accountability will also be provided. This session is geared especially to those who work in the field of child welfare.
This six hour CLE approved training regarding human trafficking will provide a broad spectrum of legal and policy issues that are presented when a child is subjected to an act of human trafficking. These victims are all children in need of care and their identification, rescue and recovery rely on all facets of the legal system working together. The morning session includes insights from a nationally recognized judicial expert about handling child trafficking victims, a summary of relevant and recently amended KS laws on human trafficking and a summary of DCF updated programs, policies and processes aimed at responding to runaway and trafficked children. The afternoon session includes panel discussions by foster care providers who handle trafficking victims and law enforcement officers who handle missing and runaway children and concludes with a discussion of ethical issues presented in a variety of trafficking situations. Panelists include Ed Klumpp, Sheriffs, Police Chiefs & Peace Officers Associations; Senior Special Agent Angie Jones, KBI; Det. Derrick Wilczek, Overland Park PD; Debbie Kennedy, Wichita Children’s Home; Vickie McArthur, St. Francis Community Services; Kelly Young, KVC Kansas.
This presentation will introduce participants to the major tenants of attachment theory and how a variety of diagnosis within the DSM-5 can be better understood within an attachment lens. We will also look at common attachment related disorders, causes of attachment disorders and treatment. A recorded video session will be used to demonstrate a common approach to working with adults with attachment issues. As the practice of mindfulness has gained recognition within the public, its beneficial effects for healing trauma and promoting healthy development have been validated in multiple studies. This institute will present a basic understanding of mindfulness and selected mind-body skills as effective resources for both consumer and provider within family services and mental health systems. This will be experiential and educational. This session is intended to acquaint the audience with a basic knowledge of the different categories of drugs that impair along with some highlighted observable signs and symptoms. New drugs and trends will also be reviewed,along with a discussion of paraphernalia, which is commonly associated with the various drugs of abuse. The intended takeaway from this session is for the audience to be able to detect possible drug use when interacting with clients. This will not make the audience drug experts but should provide some basic knowledge from which to document observations and possibly contact #GovConf2017 15 additional authorities.
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THURSDAY NOVEMBER 2 8:15 a.m. to 10 a.m. SUNFLOWER BALLROOM K-1 A New Model for Delinquency: Brain Development & the Consequences of Maltreatment George Davis, MD, Fellow-The ChildTrauma Academy, Director of Psychiatry, New Mexico Department for Children, Youth and Families
10:30 a.m. to Noon HOMESTEAD 1-1 Handle With Care
Andrea Darr, RBA, West Virginia Center for Children’s Justice; Chad Napier, Appalachia High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area
This workshop offers innovative best practices to help mitigate the negative effects experienced by children’s exposure to trauma and highlights a promising initiative, "Handle With Care," between schools, law enforcement and treatment providers. “Handle With Care” provides the school with a 'heads up' when a child has been identified by law enforcement at the scene of a traumatic event. Schools are responding with interventions to help mitigate the trauma and mental health providers are co-locating at the school to provide services. This program promote safe and supportive homes, schools and communities that protect children and help traumatized children heal and thrive.
SHAWNEE B/C 1-2 Foxhole Buddies: The Impact of Family Violence on Sibling Groups
Debbie Kennedy, MSN APRN-CNS, & Erin Teeter, LBSW, Wichita Children’s Home
Siblings raised in abusive, violent homes adapt to their personal 'war zone' and become Foxhole Buddies. The impact of family violence and further trauma to young siblings caused by separation in foster care will be explored in a framework of PTSD and offer strategies for better addressing their unique needs.
BISON 1-3 Utilizing an Implementation Science Framework to Move from Trauma Informed to Trauma Practice
Pamela Cornwell, LCMFT, & Vickie McArthur, LCMFT, Saint Francis Community Services; Linda Bass, Ph.D, LCMFT, KVC Kansas; Brenda Woods, LMSW, KS Dept. for Children and Families
This interactive workshop will provide an example of a statewide initiative that
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is implementing trauma assessments for foster/adoptive children in Kansas. This partnership between DCF, KVC, Saint Francis Community Services and KU will demonstrate how an implementation to science framework was used prepare, train and implement a trauma intervention.
WHEAT 1-4 Breastfeeding’s Impact on Mental Health Brenda Bandy, BS, Kansas Breastfeeding Coalition
Breastfeeding can break the cycle of child abuse and neglect. There is a growing body of evidence that the act of breastfeeding helps mothers to parent in a way that can overcome past abuse and helps to improve children’s mental health in the process.
RIVER 1-5 Making Progress On Daunting Challenges
Ed O’Malley, BA, Kansas Leadership Center
What does the exercise of leadership look like to each of us as individuals when we try to make progress on the things we care about the most? O’Malley, President and CEO of the Kansas Leadership Center, will guide an interactive dialogue regarding how to navigate the challenges and complexities of adaptive leadership and introduce the audience to the KLC leadership framework and competencies.
PIONEER 1-6 Active Shooter Response Options Training Deputy Robert Hephner, Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Department
This presentation provides strategies, guidance and a proven plan for surviving an active shooter event. Topics include the history and prevalence of active shooter events, civilian response options, law enforcement response and considerations when dealing with an active threat. The intent of this comprehensive training program is to assist public safety and emergency management professionals in their efforts to educate citizens on response options for active shooter situations. The goal of the course is to develop the participant’s basic knowledge and understanding to a proficient level enabling the participant to immediately make a decision when faced with an active threat.
EMERALD II 1-7 Gaining a New Perspective: An Experiential Child Welfare Simulation
Lacy Abercrombie, LMSW, Jayne Fry, LMFT, & Christy Sanders, LMSW, Saint Francis Community Services
The goal of this experiential training is to help participants gain an understanding of what it is like for a family to navigate the child welfare system. Through a simulation, participants’ perspectives, thinking, problem solving skills, beliefs and attitudes are challenged. Changes in paradigms or behaviors subsequently develop within participants.
EMERALD IV/V 1-8 Beyond the Basics: Best Practices in Adoption Recruitment Melissa Schmidt, LMSW, & Corey Lada, BS, Kansas Children’s Service League
Professional photos and strong narratives are important pieces to creating a public profile that will compel families to want to learn more about children in Kansas who are in need of a 'no matter what' family. Recruitment efforts can also be stressful and triggering for these same children. This workshop will provide an overview of national best practices in recruitment standards as well as the Adopt Kansas Kids program. Participants will learn different strategies for 'unpacking the no' that many youth and teens use to reject permanency recruitment. We will also discuss ways to prepare children for recruitment and achieve buy-in. Participants will learn new approaches to gathering positive information needed to create strong narratives and find families for the children they serve.
SHAWNEE A 1-9 Rethinking Discipline Deana Jones, LSCSW, IMH-E III
Rethinking disciple is a workshop based around No Drama Discipline and the work of Daniel Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson.
1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. BISON 2-1 When We All Work Together: The Positive Impact on Families When Partners Work Collectively Nina Shaw-Woody, LMSW, Kansas Family Advisory Network
a family separation. Participants will also hear two birth family experiences. With the assistance of a panel consisting of concrete supporters and community partners of the birth families, participants will hear successful reintegration stories when everyone worked together.
WHEAT 2-2 Home Visitation & Domestic Violence: Enhancing Safety & Support for Children & Families Shelly Newman, BS, Kansas Coalition Against Sexual & Domestic Violence
This workshop will provide participants the strategies and skills necessary to effectively address domestic violence while working with families through home visitation programs. Each participant will receive a flip book designed to help guide home visitors through the difficult discussion of domestic violence. This workshop will also provide information about how domestic violence affects the health and safety of victims through reproductive coercion, best practice strategies for engaging batterers as parents, domestic violence screening, referrals and enhancing safety.
HOMESTEAD 2-3 DCF Implementation of the Comprehensive Addiction & Recovery Act Susan Gile, LBSW, & Lynnea Kaufman, LBSW, Kansas Dept. for Children and Families
This presentation will discuss DCF's implementation of the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (CARA); provide an overview of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act prior to the amendments of CARA legislation; and learn how CARA has changed state’s responsibilities to address the problem of opioid addiction and the effects of substance abuse on infants, children and families with the intent of early identification and intervention to support families affected by opioid use disorders. The discussion will explore how a plan of safe care provides a method of identifying the needs of the infant and family and the services to meet those needs. Participants will learn to recognize how a plan of safe care is different from a safety plan and is a long-term plan, which can continue with community service providers beyond DCF involvement.
SHAWNEE A 2-4 Ethics in the Electronic Age, Part 1 Don Kurtz, Ph.D, LMSW, Kansas State University
This presentation offers a practical exploration of ethical issues associated with modern technology and professional practice in social work, human services and other helping professions. The program identifies important professional and individual values that frequently generate ethical tensions in service delivery in the electronic age and reviews emerging standards for appropriate use of technology. The training also explores important emerging ethical principles related to utilization of email, social networking and other social media with particular emphasis placed on riskmanagement.
RIVER 2-5 Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs): Kansas Research & Social Norms Ghazala Perveen, MBBS, PhD, MPH, Kansas Department of Health and Environment; Tara Gregory, PhD, Wichita State University
During this session, the Kansas Department of Health and Environment will share its new 2014/2015 Kansas Adverse Childhood Experiences data. Then, Wichita State University will share the results of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Social Norms Survey for Kansas and compare state results to national estimates. These two presentations regarding Kansas data will provide insight into the prevalence of ACEs, the association between ACEs and selected mental health/chronic disease conditions and the attitudes of Kansans that may help or hurt efforts to address ACEs.
EMERALD II 2-6 Keeping Kids Safe Online: A Discussion with the Experts
Sara Boatright, BA, Sunflower House; Angie Jones, Senior Special Agent, Kansas Bureau of Investigation
Online (electronic) safety is a constantly changing and highly dangerous issue that children face today. Topics will include current online/technology dangers, perpetrator characteristics, reporting process, safety tips and tools and the latest sexting laws. Bring your questions, concerns and challenges, as this presentation will be an interactive format.
In this interactive workshop, participants will have the opportunity to briefly encounter
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SHAWNEE B/C 2-7 Becoming the Best Place to Work: Creating an Engaged & Motivated Work Team
3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Lynn Ayers, BS, & Ruthi Thompson, MA, Small Voices, Lincoln, NE
HOMESTEAD 3-1 Trauma Sensitive Yoga
This presentation will provide practical strategies and best practice standards for creating a culture where employees are engaged and motivated to work hard. The Lincoln Child Advocacy Center won a Best Places to Work award in 2016, which was based on input from all employees and city-wide stakeholders. There are many innovative practices and techniques that have been incorporated into their everyday programming to achieve success that may help other centers.
Deanne Dinkel, LBSW; Jane Meschberger, LMSW
Trauma Sensitive Yoga will be discussed as a modality for those who have experienced trauma in their lives. As living beings, we are all impacted by stress and trauma. The components of a Trauma Sensitive Yoga class and how it can be used to treat trauma without outcomes will be covered. A short self-care Trauma Sensitive Yoga session will be offered in the presentation. Participants will be comfortable in their conference attire for this practice.
EMERALD IV/V 2-8 Be a Detective! Uncover the Roots of Challenging Behaviors (TBRI® overview)
BISON 3-2 Kansas Youth Advisory Council: The Voice of Youth Utilizing Transition from Foster Care into Adulthood
Bethany Roberts, LMSW, & Michelle Warner, LMSW, Kansas Children’s Service League
Children from hard places have learned defensive strategies to avoid (not connect), to defend (not cooperate) and to harm (not heal). These methods often translate into behaviors such as lying, stealing and manipulating others. Traditional parenting methods are often ineffective and leave both families and workers frustrated and overwhelmed. Trust Based Relational Interventions (TBRI®) helps give both families and workers insight into these behaviors, as well as give children strategies for self-regulation and skills for getting their needs met. Though certainly not a 'magic bullet,' this high-investment parenting approach creates an environment that is child-centered, helps create connections, teaches cooperation and encourages healing.
PIONEER 2-9 Brain Development: What Every Professional Needs to Know
Rick Gaskill, Ed.D., L.C.P., Sumner Mental Health Center
This presentation covers six basic principles of brain development. Each principle contributes to the understanding of the sequence and process in childhood brain development. The successful completion of each of these developmental processes is predictive of the child’s physical, behavioral, emotional and cognitive development lasting well into adulthood. Further, this knowledge equips the parent, teacher or therapist to promote health development of children and design helpful intervention strategies.
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KYAC Officers
Who better to explain and help others understand what youth really need when transitioning out of care than the youth themselves? Panel members from the KYAC will share what they and other youth need to successfully transition to adulthood. In addition, panel members will give an honest account about experiences they had with child welfare services in Kansas and share tasks as identified on their workplan.
SHAWNEE B/C 3-3 Responding vs Reacting: Helping Students Understand the Importance of Self-Regulation Begins with You
Cindy Blasi, LMSW, & Brenna Brownlee, BS, USD 260, Derby Public Schools
In this session, the presenters will discuss their journey to become a trauma-informed school and how teaching students the process of self-regulation is the premise of it all. After watching Paper Tigers, Derby Hills staff reached out to Jim Sporleder, the trauma sensitive leader spotlighted in the film. With Sporleder’s help, Derby Hills became one of four schools nationwide to pilot his approach. The most important element they discovered in implementing a trauma-informed school was selfregulation. Interventions and best practices to address self-regulation for both students and educators will be shared in this presentation.
SHAWNEE A 3-4 Ethics in the Electronic Age, Part 2 Don Kurtz, Ph.D, LMSW, Kansas State University
This presentation offers a practical exploration of ethical issues associated
with modern technology and professional practice in social work, human services and other helping professions. The program identifies important professional and individual values that frequently generate ethical tensions in service delivery in the electronic age and reviews emerging standards for appropriate use of technology. The training also explores important emerging ethical principles related to utilization of email, social networking and other social media with particular emphasis placed on riskmanagement.
EMERALD II 3-5 Healthy Life Choices Project: Giving Children & Families the Tools They Need to Succeed Aly Romero, LMSW, Children’s Alliance of Kansas; Nina Shaw-Woody, LMSW, Kansas Family Advisory Network
This workshop will provide you with helpful resources and tangible skills to effectively and collaboratively engage youth in healthy decision making. Learn how you can use Healthy Life Choices Project (HLCP) curriculum free of charge within your own practice and agency to help the youth and families you serve.
RIVER 3-6 Safe Sleep Solutions: Thinking Outside the Box Christy Schunn, LSCSW, KIDS Network
This session will discuss sleep-related infant death, national and state data trends and the barriers to implementing safe sleep recommendations. Participants will explore the American Academy of Pediatrics safe sleep guidelines and implementation strategies to reduce sleep-related deaths within settings such as hospitals, child care, foster care, family preservation, health clinics and the wider community.
WHEAT 3-7 Kansas Implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)
Brenda Woods, LMSW, KS Dept. for Children and Families
There are several key provisions in the new Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) federal regulations important to children in foster care including clarification on the obligations related to transportation of children in foster care to maintain educational stability and immediate enrollment of a child in foster care. These regulations went into effect January 30, 2017, however, the provisions relating to school stability went into effect on December 10, 2016. Kansas is fully implementing the Act in
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EMERALD IV/V 3-8 Exploring Elements of a Successful Adoption
Michelle Warner, LMSW, & Melinda Kline, LSCSW, Kansas Children’s Service League
Though there is not one surefire formula to create a successful adoption, there are elements of practice which can be utilized in an effort to make the process go smoother and create a lasting family bond. This session will explore preparing a family by helping a potential adoptive family understand the basics of infant/ child attachment and examine their own attachment style. From there, participants will utilize this attachment lens in combination with the Prediction Path to better understand what is needed to make a smooth transition for a child into an adoptive home. Finally, a brief overview of the TBRIÂŽ Connection principles will be introduced as concrete methods for adoptive families to create attachment and bonds with children who come from hard places. As part of this, participants will have firsthand experience of being a part of a nurture group, which is one method of building bonds and promoting healing for a child who has experienced trauma.
PIONEER 3-9 Using Brain Mapping to Understand & Promote Healthy Development in Children
Rick Gaskill, Ed.D., L.C.P., Sumner Mental Health Center
Understanding brain development and brain function can assist adults in supporting children’s growth and development. This same information, in turn, offers helpful concepts in the development of remedial activities for children suffering the ill effects of social and emotional trauma. This presentation will use case histories to develop a conceptual brain map of the child. This map in turn will be used to identify functional problems and conceptualize supportive activities to promote remedial development.
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FRIDAY NOVEMBER 3 8:15 a.m. to 10 a.m. SUNFLOWER BALLROOM K-2 The Impact of Pornography on Children and Youth Cordelia Anderson, MA, Sensibilities Prevention Services
10:30 a.m. to Noon SHAWNEE B/C 4-1 Improving Outcomes for Children & Youth Exposed to Domestic Violence; Kansas Coalition Against Sexual & Domestic Violence Empowered Families Kansas Project
Kristina Scott, LMSW, Carolyn Coiner, BS, & Bre Kirkhart, BSW, Kansas Coalition Against Sexual & Domestic Violence
The Kansas Coalition Against Sexual & Domestic Violence is building evidence and resiliency based approaches to improving outcomes for children, youth and nonabusing parents experiencing domestic violence. Based on a three component foundation, the Empowered Families Kansas project focuses on specialized youth advocacy mentorship, enhancement and expansion of children and youth services and creating collaborations between domestic violence programs and the child welfare system.
SHAWNEE A 4-2 Keeping Professionals Healthy: PTSD, Compassion Fatigue and Burnout
Cordelia Anderson, MA, Sensibilities Prevention Services
Trauma work can be traumatizing; it can also be an organizational hazard. Compassion fatigue and burnout impact those doing trauma work and others simply trying to balance the demands of life with the strains from work. This session includes information on keeping professionals healthy and addresses both individual and organizational issues.
WHEAT 4-3 Home, Safe Home
Cherie Sage, MS, Safe Kids Kansas
In this session, we will discuss new trends in childhood and adolescent injuries. From distracted pedestrians and concussions to e-cigarettes and button batteries, children today are exposed to new risks based upon innovations we see in technology and
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consumer products. The good news is we have a better understanding of the effects of injuries and how to best prevent them.
BISON 4-4 From Engagement to Empowerment: How Kansas Parent Leaders are Finding Their Voice (Panel Discussion)
B J Gore, MS, Mary Hess, MA, & Ana Rodriquez, Kansas Children’s Service League Parent leadership occurs when parents
actively, creatively and resourcefully contribute to promote and develop the well-being of their families and their communities. This session will describe the Kansas Parent Leadership model and utilize Kansas parent leaders to share their stories of stepping into leadership positions within their families, their communities and at a state and national level.
HOMESTEAD 4-5 Safe Haven
Anne Biswell, BA, Mother & Child Health Coalition; Lori Cull-Deshmukh, LMSW, Children’s Mercy Hospital
Safe Haven for Newborns laws provide a legal option to birth parents who are not ready to raise a child and feel their only option is to abandon the baby. Relinquishing a newborn to someone on duty at a Safe Haven location ensures the baby is left in a safe place with those who can provide the immediate care needed for their safety and well-being and protects the parent from prosecution for abandonment. All states have Safe Haven laws that allow parents to surrender newborns, but few mothers who abandon or kill their babies know that. Missouri’s Safe Haven law has been on the books since 2002 and Kansas passed Safe Haven legislation in 2006, but sadly, not many citizens know about these life-saving laws. This session will share the history, struggles, challenges and successes of the Kansas City Metro Safe Haven for Newborns Coalition.
RIVER 4-6 Bikers Against Child Abuse Larry Freeman
Bikers Against Child Abuse (BACA) exists with the intent to create a safer environment for abused children. We exist as a body of bikers to empower children not to feel afraid of the world in which they live. We stand ready to lend support to our wounded friends by involving them with an established, united organization. We work in conjunction with local and state officials
NOTES who are already in place to protect children. We desire to send a clear message to all involved with the abused child that this child is part of our organization, and that we are prepared to lend our physical and emotional support to them by affiliation and our physical presence. We stand at the ready to shield these children from further abuse. We do not condone the use of violence or physical force in any manner, however, if circumstances arise such that we are the only obstacle preventing a child from further abuse, we stand ready to be that obstacle.
EMERALD II 4-7 Active Awareness
Ben Aber, Focus Counter Violence-Topeka
This workshop will teach participants about the world of violence and how to handle it. The main thrust behind an Active Awareness workshop is to learn to defend oneself through forethought, observation and knowledge, rather than just physical strength and technique. The workshop is interactive, thought-provoking and fun. Participants should wear comfortable clothing as this workshop will include physical demonstrations.
EMERALD IV/V 4-8 Being a No Matter What Family: Adoption Over the Long Haul Bethany Roberts, LMSW, Kansas Children’s Service League; Kay Heikes, LMSW, TBRI® Practitioner
was really asking from you. The Circle of Security® Parenting™ program is based on decades of research and current neuroscience about how secure parentchild relationships can be supported and strengthened. You will gain a new and simple way to view, experience and practice secure attachment between a child and caregiver starting at birth.
12:30 p.m. to 2 p.m. EMERALD III/IV/V 5-1 Resilience, The Biology of Stress & The Science of Hope MOVIE SCREENING & FOLLOW UP DISCUSSION As the new documentary Resilience reveals, toxic stress can trigger hormones that wreak havoc on the brains and bodies of children putting them at a greater risk for disease, homelessness, prison time and early death. While the broader impacts of poverty worsen the risk, no segment of society is immune. Resilience, however, also chronicles the dawn of a movement that is determined to fight back. Trailblazers in pediatrics, education and social welfare are using cutting-edge science and fieldtested therapies to protect children from the insidious effects of toxic stress—and the dark legacy of a childhood that no child would choose.
Adoption day is the end of a long road and the beginning of an even longer one. This workshop will explore the challenges and opportunities that 'no matter what' families have as they raise children adopted from hard places. Participants will review key strategies for helping kids heal, learn to give care and receive care, be autonomous, and get their most important needs met. This workshop will explore the importance of hearing the voice of adopted children and youth and helping safely maintain the connections that are meaningful to them.
PIONEER 4-9 No One Wants to Be a Bad Parent: An Overview of Secure Attachment Betsy Scott-Teigen, LSCSW, & Shana Gorton, LMSW, Elizabeth Layton Center
At times, all caregivers feel lost about what a child might need. We are all searching in many directions to find support and knowledge that will make parenting easier. Imagine what it might feel like if you were able to make sense of what your child
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Kansas Department for Children and Families
Our Mission: To protect children, promote healthy families and encourage personal responsibility
www.dcf.ks.gov @DCFKansas
Department for Children and Families
KansasDCF
1-888-369-4777 DCF Kansas
PREVENTING CHILD ABUSE
STRENGTHENING FAMILIES
EMPOWERING PARENTS AND YOUTH
CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION MONTH ACTIVITIES: Organization and coordination of state and local events, distribution of pinwheels and other prevention materials, and a month-long media campaign to raise awareness during Child Abuse Prevention Month in April. DARKNESS TO LIGHT: Child sexual abuse prevention program targeted at adults working with youth. EARLY HEAD START: Weekly home visitation supporting parents with children’s health, safety and development, while helping new and expectant parents adjust. ESSENTIALS FOR CHILDHOOD: A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention project which involves coordination of a coalition of 40 agencies across the state who collaborate to create safe, stable and nurturing relationships and environments to prevent and mitigate adverse childhood experiences. HEALTHY FAMILIES: Intensive, in-home parenting support for new parents of 0 to 3 year olds overburdened by such risk factors as unemployment, lack of parenting skills and family history of abuse and neglect. PERIOD OF PURPLE CRYING®: Evidenced-based prevention program offered by the National Center on Shaken Baby Syndrome. KCSL coordinates the effort to bring this program to communities across the state.
ADOPTION EXCHANGE/Adopt Kansas Kids: Creating awareness and providing information to adoptive families about children needing an adoptive home. COMMUNITY RESOURCE LIBRARY: Wide variety of child and family-related information offered to prevention of child abuse affiliates, professionals and parents at no charge. INFANT ADOPTION/From Heart to Home: Supports and services to birth parent(s) choosing adoption for their infant. Preparing adoptive homes for matching with birth parents. KANSAS POST ADOPTION RESOURCE CENTER: Support services and information for families who have adopted children from foster care. MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES: Short-term therapeutic interventions for children and families. PARENT HELPLINE 1-800-CHILDREN: Anonymous, statewide, free, information, referral and phone counseling service available anytime, anyday to parents, relatives, caregivers, professionals and youth. STRONG AND STABLE FAMILIES: Quarterly retreats with a focus on providing quality marriage/relationship building education for kinship, foster care, pre-adoptive and adoptive families.
FATHERHOOD: Conscious Fathering classes for new dads, Fatherhood Summits, Fatherhood Community Advisory Councils, Fatherhood Networking groups, agency Father-Friendly Checklists and Fatherhood Cafes. HEAD START: Comprehensive early childhood learning and development program for 3 and 4 year olds including children with disabilities from incomeeligible families. JUVENILE INTAKE & ASSESSMENT: Providing youth with social, emotional, and safety assessments and placement for children and youth presented by law enforcement who have determined them at risk for abuse/neglect, juvenile offenses, or out-of-control behavior including truancy and runaways. PARENT LEADERSHIP: Development of leadership skills and empowerment through facilitation of support groups, involvement in Boards, advisory councils, conference presentations, parent cafes, parent/practitioner partnership trainings and advocacy activities. PARENTS HELPING PARENTS Support Groups: Statewide network of parent, grandparent and kinship-care support facilitated by trained volunteers who are parent leaders in the state.
877-530-5275 • kcsl.org
A chapter of Prevent Child Abuse America