Program Guide
| Wednesday, May 30th | |
| 7:30 am – 8:30 am | Registration & Continental Breakfast |
| 8:30 am – 10:30 am | Welcome and Opening Keynote Address The Power of One Marilyn Benoit, MD, Past President of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry |
| 10:30 am – 10:45 am | Coffee Break/ View Exhibits |
| 10:45 am – 12:15 pm | Workshop Session A |
A1 |
Community Collaboration in Action: Interdisciplinary Problem Solving to Improve the Health and Well-being of Low Income Children This session discusses combining the expertise of hospital professionals and attorneys to provide multidisciplinary, coordinated services and educational programs to address the multiple determinants of children’s health. Sylvia Caley, JD, MBA, RN, Health Law Partnership (HeLP) and HeLP Legal Services Clinic at Georgia State University College of Law, Atlanta, GA Lisa Bliss, JD, HeLP Legal Services Clinic at Georgia State University College of Law, Atlanta, GA |
| A2 |
Strategies for Effective Testimony: The Professional in the Courtroom Professionals who work in the child welfare system are often called on to testify in court - a most unfamiliar and often uncomfortable experience for most non-lawyers. This session will help prepare you for testifying in court effectively. Cindy W. Christian, MD, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Endowed Chair in Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect; Co-director, Safe Place: The Center for Child Protection and Health, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Alan M. Lerner, Esq., Practice Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School |
| A3 | Better Results: Combining Engagement Skills and Structured Assessment Tools Participants in this workshop will gain ideas and skills regarding the best way to combine formal assessment tools with engagement skills for improved results when working with families in the child welfare system. Clare Anderson, Center for the Study of Social Policy, Washington, DC Raelene Freitag, MSW, PhD, Director, Children’s Research Center, Madison, WI |
| A4 | Project IMPACT: Empowering Parents with Cognitive Disabilities This presentation will describe Project IMPACT, an intensive parent training program for parents with cognitive disabilities who have been reported for maltreatment. Trupti Rao, PsyD, Westchester Institute for Human Development, Valhalla, NY |
| A5 |
The Murder of a Child: What Can a Community Do? This workshop will provide participants with an insight into the saddest child abuse cases, homicides, and to assist communities in identifying victims at highest risk. Lisa C. Smith, Professor, Brooklyn Law School, Brooklyn, NY Ama Dwimoh, Executive Assistant District Attorney, Kings County District Attorney’s Office, Brooklyn, NY |
| A6 | HIV/AIDS and Substitute Care This session provides information about HIV risk, testing and treatment options for children and youth, and resources providing training about HIV to local agencies. Jill Foster, MD, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA Theresa Parrino, LCSW, St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children, Philadelphia, PA Roberta Laguerre, MD, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA |
| 12:30 pm – 2:15 pm | Luncheon with Guest Speaker Beyond the Headlines: Film as a Medium to Promote Thought and Discussion Amy Berg, Academy Award-nominated Filmmaker of Deliver Us From Evil Location: Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts |
| 2:15 pm – 2:30 pm | View Exhibits |
| 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm | Workshop Session B |
| B1 |
Lifetime Support in Guardianship Cases: An Experiment in Social Work and Law In this interactive workshop, lawyers and social workers will engage participants in the development of a community-based, collaborative infrastructure for the provision of lifelong support to families who seek to attain permanency status through guardianship. Nancy Cook, JD, Roger Williams University School of Law, Providence, RI James Gannaway, Director, Casey Family Services, Providence, RI |
| B2 | Investigative Interviewing with Children Involved in Abuse Cases This presentation will explore non-suggestive, non-traumatizing interviewing of children, while teaching participants how to get the information that they need in a sensitive manner without interfering with the official investigation. Jacqueline Block Goldstein, LSW, Program Director/Forensic Interview Specialist, Philadelphia Children’s Alliance |
| B3 | Identifying Immigrant Families Involved with Child Welfare Systems: Findings from Texas This study describes the involvement of children of immigrants in the Texas child welfare system, identifies issues unique to this population, and proposes policy solutions. Tracy Vericker, The Urban Institute, Washington, DC |
| B4 | Using the Keys to Interactive Parenting Scale (KIPS) to Improve Family Services and Outcomes This presentation demonstrates how KIPS, a practical, reliable, and valid observational parenting assessment, can be used to guide family services, aid supervision, and enhance program evaluation. Marilee Comfort, PhD, MPH, Comfort Consults, LLC, Cheyney, PA Maria Frontera, LSW, Health Federation of Philadelphia Phil Gordon, PhD, Comfort Consults, LLC, Cheyney, PA |
| B5 | It IS Our Job: Developing and Advocating for Evidence-Based Mental Health Treatment This session features a discussion of evidence-based mental health treatment models for abused and neglected children, and the need for collaboration among professionals to ensure effective mental health treatment. Meredith L. Schalick, JD, MS, CARES Institute, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey Amy Hoch, PsyD, CARES Institute, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey |
| B6 | Empowering Youth in Permanency Decision Making This presentation describes the methodology and evolution of an innovative, youth-focused matching event for teens in foster care waiting for permanency. Christine Jacobs, National Adoption Center and Adoption Center of Delaware Valley Ginger Smith, National Adoption Center and Adoption Center of Delaware Valley |
| 7:00 pm | Special Evening Event Documentary Film Festival, Awards Ceremony, and Reception with Amy Berg and the Winning Filmmakers Location: Zellerbach Theater at the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts |
| Thursday, May 31st | |
| 8:00 am – 8:30 am | Continental Breakfast/ View Exhibits |
| 8:30 am – 10:15 am | Plenary Panel Secondary Trauma of First Responders to Violence Against Children Moderated by Charles Figley, PhD, Editor of Traumatology; Fulbright Fellow and Professor; Director, Florida State University Traumatology Institute, College of Social Work, Tallahassee, FL Panelists:
Working with abused children takes its toll on professionals. Those who strive to help and care for child abuse victims often suffer trauma themselves. This important session will explore Secondary Trauma and offer an opportunity to heal the helpers. Secondary Trauma expert Charles Figley will moderate a critical and moving panel discussion among first responders to violence against children from a variety of disciplines and settings. |
| 10:15 am – 10:30 am | Coffee Break/ View Exhibits |
| 10:30 am – 12:00 pm | Workshop Session C |
| C1 | Reducing Transfers of Foster Children in Family Foster Care Through On-Site Mental Health Interventions A successful New York City pilot that effectively reduced transfers/re-placements of children in family foster care by placing mental health clinicians on-site at two foster care agencies. Carmen Collado, Director of Public Policy & Legislative Affairs, Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services, New York, NY Jackie McKeon, Health Services Director, Good Shepherd Services, New York, NY MaryEllen McLaughlin, Assistant Executive Director, Good Shepherd Services, New York, NY |
| C2 |
Issues, Policies, and Procedures When Dealing with Immigrant Children This session teaches immigration law basics, focusing on overcoming challenges facing unaccompanied/undocumented children who can qualify for legal status in order to remain in the United States. Fernando Chang-Muy, JD, University of Pennsylvania School of Law |
| C3 | Halting and Healing the Harm to Helpers: Caring for Those Who Help the Child Victims This workshop will address the indicators of work-related trauma (vicarious, secondary traumatic stress) that is a direct result of helping traumatized children and the steps that should be taken in addressing psychosocial and emotional harm to primary responders through institutional, interpersonal, and self support to promote resiliency. Charles Figley, PhD, Editor of Traumatology; Fulbright Fellow and Professor; Director, Florida State University Traumatology Institute, College of Social Work, Tallahassee, FL |
| C4 | Transcending the Clinic Walls: Engaging Pediatricians as Child Advocates Based on the findings from the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Residency Advocacy Program, this session will present practical suggestions for engaging practicing pediatricians to support child welfare advocacy activities. M. Christine Kenty, PhD, Support Center for Child Advocates, Philadelphia, PA Jonathan Pletcher, MD, Lehigh Valley Hospital Jill Aulenti, MSEd, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia |
| C5 | The Crooked Paths Children Walk: Invisible Markers for Bad Outcomes This presentation summarizes recent findings from a child welfare sample regarding the impact of antecedent factors on youth with sexually inappropriate/aggressive behaviors. Robert Prentky, PhD, Justice Resource Institute, Bridgewater, MA |
| C6 | A Comprehensive Approach to SIDS Risk Reduction and Safe Sleep in Large Low-Income, Urban Population An interdisciplinary education and crib distribution program to reduce SIDS deaths, prevent child abuse and neglect and provide for the basic needs of Philadelphia residents. Ilisa Stalberg, Director of Health and Safety Programs, Maternity Care Coalition, Philadelphia, PA Mariana Kuperman, Program Manager, Maternity Care Coalition, Philadelphia, PA |
| 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm | Lunch on your own |
| 1:45 pm – 2:45 pm | Mini-Plenary Health of Children in the Child Welfare System, Diagnosis: Abysmal Paula Kienberger Jaudes, MD, FAAP, President and CEO, La Rabida Children’s Hospital, Chicago, IL; Medical Director, Illinois Department of Children and Family Services |
| 2:45 pm – 3:00 pm | Break/View Exhibits |
| 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm | Workshop Session D |
| D1 | The Upper Room: A Higher Perspective on Serving Older Youth in Foster Care Panel presentation of youth and staff from Lutheran Children & Family Service’s Upper Room Program for teens in foster care. An alternative approach to “life skills.” Panel of Foster Care Youth from The Upper Room Laura Collins, Jason Oliver, Daniel Stedjan, and Kristen Zabor, Foster Care Social Workers, Co-founders and Co-facilitators of The Upper Room, Lutheran Children and Family Service, Philadelphia, PA |
| D2 | A Population Based Study of the Timing of Social Risks and Their Impact on Early Education Well-Being This population-based study examines the complex relationship of three social risks to one another and their impact on children’s early educational well-being. Staci Perlman, MSW, University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy & Practice John W. Fantuzzo, PhD, Diana Riklis Professor, University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education |
| D3 | Whipped Enough: African American Children This workshop will examine the origin of physical punishment of children within the African American community and examine the issues related to race, culture, and parenting. The effects of physical punishment will be revisited, and results of a survey will be shared regarding styles and perception of African American parents. Vivian M. Drayton, MSW, LSW, ACSW, Executive Director, Supportive Child Adult Network, Inc. Pearl Wright, MA, MAC, Director of Clinical Operations, Supportive Child Adult Network, Inc. |
| D4 | Medical Neglect of Children with Special Health Needs—Rx: Keep the Focus on the Child Medical neglect is the most frustrating and difficult to understand of all types of maltreatment. The session will delineate the types of medical neglect and provide suggestions for advocacy. Paula Kienberger Jaudes, MD, FAAP, President and CEO, La Rabida Children’s Hospital, Chicago, IL; Medical Director, Illinois Department of Children and Family Services |
| D5 |
Successful Collaboration Between Law, Social Work, and Education Professionals This presentation explores the tools necessary for successful multidisciplinary collaborations and demonstrates the success for abused and neglected children that is possible with such collaboration. Jerry Foxhoven, JD, Director, Middleton Center for Children’s Rights, Drake University Law School, Des Moines, Iowa |
| D6 | Family Therapy, Systems Work, and Child Abuse This workshop will focus on the use of a family therapy/systems approach to working with families where there has been identified abuse. A model for assessment of family functioning, structural family therapy techniques for intervention, and managing the entire system will be discussed. Joseph McBride, MSW, LCSW, ACSW, Adjunct Faculty, University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy & Practice; Child & Family Therapist, Private Practice; Former Chief Social Worker and Director of Social Work Training, Philadelphia Child Guidance Center Steven Simms, PhD, Family Therapist and Licensed Psychologist; Senior Faculty Member, Philadelphia Child and Family Therapy Training Center |
| Friday, June 1st | |
| 8:30 am – 9:00 am | Continental Breakfast/ View Exhibits |
| 9:00 am – 10:30 am | Workshop Session E |
| E1 |
Child Safety Decision Making Following Out-of-Home Placement and Intervention:
Achieving a Collaborative Social Work and Judicial Perspective (Part 1) - must also register for F1 Child welfare agency and judicial collaboration is vital to sound reunification decision-making. This workshop examines the latest research from both social work and judicial perspectives. Barry Salovitz, MSW, Child Welfare Institute, Chicago, IL Judge Kathleen A. Kearney, Child Welfare Institute, Chicago, IL |
| E2 | Therapeutic Jurisprudence: The Family Drug Court Model (Part 1) - must also register for F2 This presentation will introduce the family drug court model and its use of collaborative, multidisciplinary interventions in child maltreatment cases, including a children’s treatment program. Lisa Street, MSW, LCSW, Greene County, Missouri Juvenile Court, St. Louis, MO Ron Keys, MEd, Greene County, Missouri Children’s Division, St. Louis, MO Marie Peoples, MA, CSACII, Carol Jones Recovery Center for Women, St. Louis, MO |
| E3 | Strengthening Families: How to Tell a Story Every child and family has a story to tell. How, when, where, and why are important variables to telling one’s story. This presentation will focus on the importance of a family systems approach to telling one’s story. Rev. Darrell L. Armstrong, Pastor, Shiloh Baptist Church, Trenton, NJ; Director, Division of (Child Abuse) Prevention and Community Partnerships, NJ Department of Children and Families |
| E4 | The Medical Evaluation of the Sexually Abused Child This session is designed to familiarize attendees with the medical evaluation for sexual abuse, including the ideal timing of the exam, significant findings, and why the physical exam of sexually abused children is often normal. Laura K. Brennan, MD, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia |
| E5 | Fifty Year Perspective on Federal Initiatives in Child Abuse This session traces the changes in Federal Child Welfare Policy from 1957 to 2007 and examines the implications of policy changes for child welfare practice and the organization and function of state and county child welfare agencies and organizations. Richard J. Gelles, PhD, Dean, School of Social Policy & Practice, Joanne and Raymond Welsh Chair of Child Welfare and Family Violence, University of Pennsylvania |
| E6 |
Traumatic Stress and Prenatal Alcohol Exposure: Implications for Interdisciplinary Practice in Child Welfare This presentation offers medical, psychological, and legal perspectives on multiplying effects of fetal alcohol exposure and complex traumatic experience on interdisciplinary child welfare practice. Frank E. Vandervort, JD, Clinical Assistant Professor of Law, Child Advocacy Law Clinic, University of Michigan Jim Henry, PhD, Professor, Western Michigan University School of Social Work, Southwest Michigan Children’s Trauma Assessment Center Mark Sloan, DO, Southwest Michigan Children’s Trauma Assessment Center |
| 10:30 am – 10:45 am | Coffee Break/ View Exhibits |
| 10:45 am – 12:15 pm | Workshop Session F |
| F1 |
Child Safety Decision Making Following Out-of-Home Placement and Intervention: Achieving a Collaborative Social Work and Judicial Perspective (Part 2) - must also register for E1 Child welfare agency and judicial collaboration is vital to sound reunification decision-making. This workshop examines the latest research from both social work and judicial perspectives. Barry Salovitz, MSW, Child Welfare Institute, Chicago, IL Judge Kathleen A. Kearney, Child Welfare Institute, Chicago, IL |
| F2 | Therapeutic Jurisprudence: The Family Drug Court Model (Part 2) - must also register for E2 This presentation will introduce the family drug court model and its use of collaborative, multidisciplinary interventions in child maltreatment cases, including a children’s treatment program. Lisa Street, MSW, LCSW, Greene County, Missouri Juvenile Court, St. Louis, MO Ron Keys, MEd, Greene County, Missouri Children’s Division, St. Louis, MO Marie Peoples, MA, CSACII, Carol Jones Recovery Center for Women, St. Louis, MO |
| F3 |
Foster Care and Adoption Among Lesbians and Gay Men This presentation includes numbers and demographic characteristics of lesbian and gay fostering and adoptive parents as well as policy analysis of the issue. M.V. Lee Badgett, JD, Williams Institute, UCLA School of Law, Los Angeles, CA Kate Chambers, Urban Institute, Washington, DC |
| F4 | State and Local Efforts to Reduce Disproportionality of Children of Color in the Child Welfare System Over the last three decades there has been a recognition that children of color are over represented in the child welfare system. For the last five years concerted efforts have been made to address this issue. This workshop will explore some of the theories of change, current efforts, and promising practices that are being tested to impact both disproportionality and disparate outcomes. Carol Wilson Spigner, DSW, Kenneth L. M. Pray Professor, University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy & Practice |
| F5 | Placement Experience, Services and Outcomes for Children in Out-of-Home Care As the focus of child welfare practice has shifted toward permanency and well-being for children in out-of-home care, the key practice and policy questions have involved how well child welfare systems are doing in achieving these goals. An expert panel of health and social policy researchers will present emerging data on permanency outcomes for children, access to mental health services, and the impact of placement experience on early childhood outcomes. David Rubin, MD, MSCE, Director of Research and Policy for Safe Place: Center for Child Protection and Health, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Ramesh Raghavan, MD, PhD, George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Washington University, St. Louis, MO Richard P. Barth, PhD, Dean, University of Maryland School of Social Work |
| F6 | The Healing Starts Here: Integrating Medical and Mental Health Diagnostic and Treatment Services Using case examples, this presentation will demonstrate that a multidisciplinary approach to diagnosis and treatment of child abuse and neglect, as well as collaboration amongst the spectrum of professionals in the child welfare system, creates better outcomes for children and families. Cindy DeLago, MD, CARES Institute, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey Alissa Glickman, PhD, Psychologist for the CARES Institute at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey |
| 12:30 pm – 2:30 pm | Closing Luncheon with Keynote Speaker Healing Our Systems to Heal Our Children David Sanders, PhD, Executive Vice President of Systems Improvement, Casey Family Services Location: Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts |
Workshops marked with a offer Law CLE credits. Click here for more information about Continuing Education Credits at the One Child, Many Hands conference.
Workshop tracksAdoption and Permanency Planning Community Partnerships Cultural Competence and Diversity Early Childhood Foster Care Legal and Judicial Issues Medical and Health Topics Mental/Behavioral Health Sexual Abuse Skill Development and Strategies Policy Issues Youth and Adolescents |