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Workshops B
Monday, August 1
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm

B1 – Partnering with Courts to Better Address Substance Use in Dependency and Neglect Cases
Partnering with courts to improve the way dependency cases with substance use are handled can be challenging at the state and local levels. This session will provide attendees with an opportunity to share with colleagues and build an understanding of: court programs and multi-disciplinary approaches that better address substance use, including a new initiative known as the Dependency and Neglect System Reform Program; effectively engaging key judicial leaders to better address substance use; and strategies for building partnerships with the Court Improvement Program and Problem Solving Court Program to better address substance use.
Presenter(s): Sarah Felsen, Colorado Judicial Department & Colorado Department of Human Services, Denver, CO; Gretchen Russo, Colorado Department of Human Services,Denver, CO; William DeLisio and Brenidy Rice, Colorado Judicial Department, Denver, CO

B2 – The Mommies Program: A Gender-Responsive Program for Pregnant and Parenting Women with Substance Use Disorders
The Mommies Program is an inter-professional, multi-agency, collaborative partnership between Texas state health department, county hospital system and the local mental health authority. Key components of the Mommies Program include medication assisted treatment, mental health services, primary care, family and individual counseling, as well as education focused on childbirth and parenting, trauma recovery, and life skills. All services are offered in one centralized location with transportation and childcare provided. More than 1,000 families have been served by this program since 2007. As a result, infant hospital length of stay for neonatal abstinence syndrome has decreased by 33%.
Presenter(s): Lisa Cleveland, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX; Briseida (Bee) Courtois, The Center for Health Care Services, San Antonio, TX; Lisa Ramirez, Texas Department of State Health Services, Austin, TX; Susan M. Douglass (Ret.), University Health System (Ret.), San Antonio, TX

B3 – The Connecticut Family Stability Project:  Financing a Service for Families Impacted by Substance Use
In a challenging fiscal climate, Connecticut strategized to implement a Social Impact Bond/Pay for Success financing mechanism to address the unmet needs of families who are impacted by substance use and involved in the child welfare system by delivering Family Based Recovery, a promising intervention designed to eliminate parental substance use and promote parent-child attachment with children aged 0-6.  This workshop offers step by step guidance and concrete strategies on how to implement this new and innovative funding vehicle to deliver and rigorously evaluate a promising practice.
Presenter(s): Mary Painter and Elizabeth Duryea, Connecticut Department of Children & Families, Hartford, CT; Gloria Gong, Harvard University Social Impact Bond Lab, Cambridge, MA; Casey Littlefield Social Finance, Boston, MA; and Karen Hanson, Yale Child Study Center, New Haven, CT

B4 – A Team Approach to Trauma-Informed Care with Substance Use, Abuse and Addiction
This training examines substance use, abuse and treatment from a collaborative team approach.  Presenters will engage participants to explore the following concepts: the relationships between trauma and substance abuse; understanding roads to recovery and enhancing protective factors;  substance use and abuse as it relates to our brains, exploring the neurological relationship of addiction. Presenters will also discuss how to utilize a collaborative approach to helping  youth in care obtain community treatment and collaborative care.
Presenter(s): Stan Waddell, Cenpatico, Lubbock, TX

B5 – Increasing Family Treatment Drug Courts Outomces: Development of an Pre-Dependency Drug Court and Enhanced Family Services
The Early Intervention Family Drug Court (EIFDC) is Sacramento County’s innovative approach to intervene with intensive Child Welfare, alcohol and other drug and Court services before removal of a child from the home becomes necessary. Children in Focus (CIF) is an enhancement to EIFDC services designed to re-establish positive parent/ child interaction and to improve family functioning – issues that are not frequently addressed by Family Treatment Drug Courts. Collectively, these programs target pre-dependency families to support parental and overall family functioning and aim to keep families intact so more intensive interventions are unnecessary.
Presenter(s): Barbara Oleachea, Sacramento County Child Protective Services, Sacramento, CA; Sharon Di Pirro-Beard, Sacramento County Alcohol and Drug Services, Sacramento, CA; and Dara Nix, Children and Family Futures, Lake Forest, CA

B6 – Implementing, Evaluating and Sustaining a Parent Mentor Program:  Lessons Learned
This workshop provides an overview of the Mentor Parent Program of Dependency Advocacy Center, and describes the structure, findings, and impact of a successful university-community partnership designed to evaluate the Mentor Parent Program.  Presenters will outline core elements of the pioneering Mentor Parent Program, which has been successful in quickly and effectively engaging parents who are grappling with drug addiction and attempting to reunify with their children in Santa Clara County’s family drug court, Dependency Wellness Court.  Mentor Parenting models are considered a promising practice, and data from the local evaluation affirm the utility of the Mentor model as a factor for increasing reunification.
Presenter(s):  Laurie Drabble, San Jose State University School of Social Work, San Jose, CA; and Hilary Kushins and Dave Shuster, Dependency Advocacy Center, San Jose, CA

B7 – From Script to Choices- Empowering Children Impacted by Familial Addiction
From Script to Choices offers an opportunity to learn about the impact of familial trauma on children being raised in addictive families.  Dr. Claudia Black, an internationally recognized presenter and clinician, will share her expertise in working with children and families for the past forty years.  This workshop will also offer an opportunity to learn about an innovative mentoring and support program for children and teens who have been impacted by the addiction of a family member.
Presenter(s): Claudia Black, Claudia Black Young Adult Center at The Meadows, Bainbridge Island, WA; Danielle Lowe, Shields For Families Inc., Compton, CA; and Brian J. Maus, The Moyer Foundation, Philadelphia, PA

B8 – Even With a Substance Abuse History, Fathers Play a Key Role in the Lives of Their Children
This workshop introduces Project Fatherhood, an innovative, theoretically sound, evidence-informed model of practice to reduce risks to children by engaging fathers in their care and development with a special focus on substance abuse.  Participants will learn: 1) to identify and overcome individual and systemic barriers that prevent father-child engagement; 2) methods of ensuring fathers are included in child welfare systems, 3) the long term effects father involvement has on a child, and 4) strategies to create and/or replicate the program in diverse communities: substance abuse, military/veteran, LGBT, foster care, Children of Incarcerated Parents and homeless families.
Presenter(s): Alan-Michael Graves and Anthony Young, Children’s Institutue, Inc., Los Angeles, CA

Workshops C
Monday, August 1
3:45 pm – 5:15 pm

C1 – Children Affected by Substance Abuse (CASA): A Cross-Sector, Community Collaboration Model
Children Affected by Substance Abuse (CASA) is an evidence-informed, multi-sector, community partnership  model underpinned by 10 service principles and developed for child welfare involved children and families where parental substance use is the reason for service. This multi-pronged service delivery model (class and web-training, case consultations and collaborative case assessments) is described along with evaluation findings related to whether there was improved service outcomes. The evaluation methods included a review 2014 cases over 15 months, a comparative standardized  review of cases, and worker feedback. The evidence-informed rationale for using a community partnership mode is discussed along with suggested implications for practice.
Presenter(s): Deborah Goodma and Carolyn Ussher, Children’s Aid Society of Toronto, Toronto, ON

C2 – Impact from Infancy:  Shaping a Coordinated Child Welfare System Response for Maltreated Children Birth to Five
Children from birth to five years of age in the child welfare and court systems have unique needs that must be addressed to ensure their safety and promote permanency and well-being.  Impact from Infancy is a model for promoting early childhood best practices to the child welfare community such as trauma informed interventions for parents, substance abuse treatment integrated with parenting support, and attachment focused treatment and services for parents and children.
Presenter(s): Carrie Strovers, Project Harmony, Omaha, NE; and Hon. Douglas F. Johnson, Separate Juvenile Court of Douglas County, Omaha, NE

C3 – Implementing Evidence-Based Practices Across Systems and Settings to Enhance Services for Substance-Abuse Effected Families: Process, Outcomes, and Cost Savings
This workshop describes two evidence-based implementations for prevention of child maltreatment and children’s behavioral health problems in families affected with substance abuse: Strengthening Families Program and Celebrating Families. Included will be the history, content, implementation, research outcomes and cost benefits. Each implementation was undertaken with different populations, and both will be presented.  One implementation uses a low cost, innovative SFP 7-17 DVD video technology to deliver SFP; the other uses a family drug court service model.  Both implementations have important implications for stakeholders seeking to enhance outcomes for substance abuse affected families through the use of evidence based programming.
Presenter(s): Jody Brook and Margaret Lloyd, University of Kansas School of Social Welfare, Overland Park, KS; Karol L. Kumpfer, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and Jaynie Brown, Strengthening Families Foundation, Salt Lake City, UT

C5 – Project Connect: Keeping Children Safe by Strengthening Substance Affected Families
This workshop will describe an intensive, home based practice model that works with high-risk families who are affected by parental substance abuse and involved in the child welfare system. The presenters will describe the program model and practice approaches that have been found most effective when working with diverse families on addiction, mental and physical health needs, parenting, domestic violence and child permanency and well-being. The workshop will also focus on engaging systems, communities and the family in order to influence positive outcomes for children and their families.
Presenter(s): Valentina Laprade and Alycia Zagaglia, Children’s Friend, Providence, RI

C6 – Family-Based Recovery: An Innovative In-Home Substance Abuse Treatment Model for Families with Young Children
Family-based in-home treatment can effectively meet the needs of mothers and fathers struggling with the dual challenges of substance abuse recovery and parenting infants and toddlers.  This presentation describes one program, Family-Based Recovery (FBR), which integrates substance abuse treatment for parents and infant mental health intervention with the goal of preventing child maltreatment and family disruption.  Outcome data suggest that FBR is a promising model.  Program design, implementation, and results are provided.  In addition, the presentation will focus on lessons learned and enhancements to the model over its eight years.
Presenter(s): Karen E. Hanson and Dale H. Saul, Yale Child Study Center, New Haven, CT; and Jeffrey J. Vanderploeg, J.P. Behavioral Health Consulting, West Hartford, CT

C7 – Kinship Navigation Services: Diverting Youth Affected by Substance Abuse from Child Welfare to Kinship Care
This workshop will be co-facilitated by the Director and Evaluator of the Arizona Kinship Support Services.  The presenters will review how kinship navigation services are utilized by kinship caregivers caring for children affected by family substance abuse. These children are involved with the Arizona Department of Child Safety (DCS) or were placed in kinship care informally. Presenters will discuss cost savings to DCS by diverting older youth from foster/congregate care and keeping them in stable kinship care. Attendees will learn how they can apply this kinship navigation model and cost savings methodology to their own programs.
Presenter(s): Julie Treinen and Candy Espino, Arizona’s Children Association, Tucson, AZ; and Michele Schmidt, LeCroy & Milligan Associates, Tucson, AZ

C8 – Recovering Families: A Tool for Parents in Recovery and Their Children
“Recovering Families” is a workbook designed to help parents in recovery balance the demands of both recovery and children, prevent relapse and understand the impact of addiction and recovery on children. It incorporates twelve-step philosophy and slogans with research-supported parent education materials.  This workshop will examine the development of the program and how it is being used across Pennsylvania. Attendees will receive sample pages and participate in sample activities from the workbook.
Presenter(s): Beth Bitler, Pennsylvania Family Support Alliance, Harrisburg, PA

C9 – Successful Substance Abuse and Therapeutic Program Elements for Young Children and Their Families in Child Welfare: The Sobriety Treatment and Recovery Teams Program
This workshop will provide a national perspective on young children’s involvement in child welfare, including for family substance abuse, and the landscape of programs designed to meet their needs. The Sobriety Treatment and Recovery Teams (START) model, an evidence-supported CPS intervention for substance use and child maltreatment, will be highlighted. START strategies will be described, as well as implementation lessons learned and outcomes in a rural Appalachian county with high poverty, nonmedical prescription drug use, and child maltreatment. Despite a limited infrastructure at baseline, children served by START had lower recurrence and re-entry rates compared with a matched control group.
Presenter(s): Martin T. Hall, Kent School of Social Work, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY; Lynn R. Posze, Tina M. Willauer, Jeanelle S. Sears, and Ruth A. Huebner (Ret.), Kentucky Department for Community Based Services, Louisville, KY; and Erin Maher, Casey Family Programs, Seattle, WA

C10 – An Intensive Case Management Approach for Addressing Co-Occurring Substance Abuse and Trauma Exposure among Urban Native Families
This workshop session explores the evidence documenting the link between trauma exposure and substance abuse in Native families involved with child welfare, and describes an Intensive Case Management (ICM) approach that is comprehensive, culturally responsive, and flexible. Trauma in Native families may involve not only adult experiences of loss and violence, but also childhood abuse, historical trauma, and inter-generational transmission. Case practice, outcomes, and case examples from an urban Native family service agency’s ICM model are presented, with suggestions for modifications for non-Native agencies and case workers.
Presenter(s): Nancy Lucero and Marian Bussey, Butler Institute for Families, Graduate School of Social Work, University of Denver, Denver, CO

C11 – Substance Exposed Infants: New Strategies for Preparing Resource Parents Through Integration of Online Learning and In-person Group Sessions
The health and medical needs of substance exposed infants can be perplexing and serious. Providing accurate and timely information to caregivers that sheds light on this complex subject and provides useful strategies for parenting this population as well as valuable tips for working with the professional team is of utmost importance. This workshop demonstrates how the preparation of caregivers (foster, adoptive, and kinship) to work with infants who have been substance exposed can be strengthened through the integration of self-pace, interactive, online learning and in-person sessions.  A major benefit is increasing the quality and standardization of training through online courses that feature innovative, cost-effective strategies with proven effective techniques, interactive vignettes, and examples from the field. Strategies for integrating the online content with in-person sessions that focus on skill building and mutual assessment of caregivers’ ability, resources, and willingness to care for this population will be presented. Demonstrations will focus on substance exposed infants.
Presenter(s): Lee White, Northwest Media and FosterParentCollege.com, Eugene, OR; Donna D. Petras, CWLA, Lincolnshire, IL; and Eileen Mayers Pasztor, California State University, Long Beach and CWLA, Manhattan Beach, CA

Workshops D
Tuesday, August 2
8:30am – 10:00am

D1 – Making It Work Without a Family Drug Court: Connecticut’s Approach to Parental Substance Abuse in the Child Welfare System
Connecticut’s child welfare, substance abuse and judicial systems collaborated to develop the Recovery Specialist Voluntary Program (RSVP) as an alternative to family drug court. Presenters will show how inter-agency collaboration, interoperability, information-sharing, and use of data for program development and performance monitoring has effectuated systemic changes in policy and practice to deliver an effective recovery-oriented program for parents whose children have been removed by the court due to caregivers’ substance abuse. Presenters will discuss collaboration efforts, factors affecting development of RSVP, system changes, program participants, parental and child welfare outcomes, as well as the challenges of conducting a cost evaluation.
Presenter(s): Jane A. Ungemack, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, CT; Christine Lau, Connecticut Department of Children and Families, Farmington, CT; Janet M. Storey, Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, Hartfoprd, CT;  Samuel Moy, Advanced Behavioral Health, Middletown, CT; Kathryn Parr, University of Connecticut School of Social Work, Hartford, CT; and Bernadette Conway, State of Connecticut Judicial Branch, New Haven, CT

D2 – Cross-System Strategies for Engaging and Retaining Families Involved in the Child Welfare System and Affected by Substance Use Disorders
Regional Partnership Grant (RPG) recipients have implemented a variety of cross-system strategies in order to engage and retain clients, address cross-system communication, and successfully implement family-centered treatment.  This workshop will share lessons learned along the way and identify specific strategies that worked within a cross-system team. This workshop features two RPG recipients – Summit County Children Services and Helen Ross McNabb Center.  Both grantees faced implementation challenges and through strategies targeting both clients and staff, as well as partners, they have improved implementation and influenced positive outcomes for parents and children.
Presenter(s): Sarah Long, Helen Ross McNabb Center, Knoxville, TN; and Beth Kinney and Kevin E. Brown, Summit County Children Services, Knoxville, OH

D3 – Effective Collaboration: Lessons from the Regional Partnership Grant Program
Research and practical experience has long demonstrated the prevalence of parental substance use disorders among families in the child welfare system. Historically, a lack of coordination and collaboration has hindered the ability of child welfare, substance abuse treatment, and family/dependency court systems to support these families. As child welfare involved families have complex needs, a coordinated effort between systems is needed. This presentation will share findings and lessons learned from the Regional Partnership Grant (RPG) program. The RPG program is the Federal government’s largest single investment focused specifically on the lives of children and families at significantly high risk for negative outcomes related to substance use and child abuse or neglect. This session will enable participants to better understand the relationships between adult client characteristics, treatment participation, and child welfare outcomes, services elements that appear to have a positive impact on outcomes, and strategies that communities employed to develop and sustain collaborative treatment and child welfare systems.
Presenter(s): Ken DeCerchio, National Center on Substance Abuse and Child Welfare, Lake Forest, CA and Elaine Voces Stedt, Children’s Bureau Office on Child Abuse and Neglect, Washington, DC

D4 – Improving Family Outcomes Through Strategic Partnerships to Implement Supportive Housing and Wraparound Services
The New Jersey Department of Children and Families, the Corporation for Supportive Housing, and Family Connections will present their partnership to establish a ‘housing first’ initiative based on the Keeping Families Together (KFT) model which offers wraparound services for families who are challenged by substance use and/or mental health disorders, lack stable housing, and are at-risk of losing custody or not achieving reunification.  Attendees will learn how to establish a trauma-informed supportive housing practice model designed to meet the specific needs of child welfare-involved families, and learn how KFT specifically aligns with the CWLA Standards of Excellence for Child Welfare Services.
Presenter(s): Mollie Greene, New Jersey Department of Children and Families, Trenton, NJ; Alison Harte, Corporation for Supportive Housing, Trenton, NJ; and Kelly Sachter and Krista Zuccheri, Family Connections, Inc., East Orange, NJ

D5 – Specialty Court Pot Luck: How Effective Multi-Disciplinary Teams Improve the Lives of Children in the Legal System
This workshop will identify and outline how effective implementation of specialty court models to traditional court rooms can increase the efficacy of legal interventions involving children and families.  Bexar County Children’s Court, utilizing Family Drug Court as a template, achieved a reduction of nearly 30 percent of case filings for removal of children, a similar reduction in court hearings, nearly 3,000 less court orders, and saved nearly half a million dollar during one fiscal year.  Presenters will pay special attention to how utilizing multi-disciplinary teams positively impacts the efficacy of the courtroom, and opens the doors for courts to work with providers for the sake of the children involved in complex cases.
Presenter(s): Hon. Peter Sakai, Barbara Schafer, Julie G. Thornton, Kenneth Lowe, and Kimberly Burley, Bexar County Civil District Courts, San Antonio, TX

D6 – What Happens After Treatment and Recovery Programs End:  A Study of Long-Term Outcomes for Women in Recovery
In this workshop, Wilder Research will share findings from the Women’s Recovery Services initiative, a 5-year project that funds 10 recovery programs across Minnesota targeting pregnant and/or parenting women with substance use disorders, and their children. Both short- and long-term outcomes will be shared, including information gathered from the women via telephone interviews 6- and 12-months after leaving recovery programs. The workshop will also highlight the study methodology, what works for women in recovery as well as the challenges involved after leaving treatment/recovery programs, and incorporate the voice and direct experiences of women who have participated in the programs.
Presenter(s): Rebecca Sales, Jackie Aman, Michelle Gerrard, Monica Idzelis Rothe, Stephanie Nelson-Dusek,and  Darcie Thomsen, Wilder Research, St. Paul, MN;

D7 – Substance Use: Prenatal and Postnatal Services in Family Preservation
Saint Francis Community Services developed a program to provide a gender responsive and trauma informed approach to treatment of pregnant women and girls who are abusing substances.  The program focuses on systems change with a caring, compassionate and empowering therapeutic environment enabling the family to create a healthy home.  The goal is to help the mother stop using substances while pregnant, to provide for a substance free baby at the time of birth, and to then be able to better attend to the baby’s needs once born.
Presenter(s): Susan Montague and Ruth Kemper, Saint Francis Community Services, Salina, KS

D8 – Understanding and Treating Addicted Youth
Using the context of adolescent development, this presentation will help providers and families to better understand how to work with addicted youth.  This presentation will also dive into the world of teen drug culture; the most popular substances on the market, ways teens are getting those substances, and how they are using those substances. Implications of co-occurring (mental health) issues are also evaluated and discussed.  Prevalence of co-occurring disorders, the interactional affect, and the value of integrated treatment and controversy around harm reduction principals are discussed in this presentation.
Presenter(s): Nadyia Abbas and Bonnie Byer, Devereux, Rutland, MA

Workshops E
Tuesday, August 2
10:30 am – 12:00 pm

E1 – CWLA’s Kinship Traditions of Caring and Collaborating Model of Practice: Supporting Kinship Families Impacted by Substance Abuse
CWLA’s Traditions of Caring and Collaborating Model of Practice is an evidence-based approach to address nine issues of unique concern to kinship caregivers, and offers five competencies essential to supporting them across four phases of service leading to child safety, well-being, and permanency.  The dynamics of substance abuse will be addressed as it impacts the issues, the competencies, the phases, and the outcomes.  Presenters will share specific practice tools and examples with administrators, supervisors, workers and all advocates who want to support kinship families impacted by substance abuse.
Presenter(s): Eshele Williams, CWLA, Altadena, CA; Eileen Mayers Pasztor, CWLA, Long Beach, CA; and Donna D. Petras, CWLA, Lincolnshire, IL

E2 – Integrated Housing and Service Models for Child Welfare Involved Families Affected by Homelessness and Substance Use
Homeless families involved with the child welfare system and affected by substance use disorders must have access to a comprehensive array of housing and service options to help them succeed in their recovery. Hear from housing providers and child welfare agencies implementing innovative cross-system strategies that are bridging the divide between housing, child welfare and treatment systems. Participants will learn about:  collaborative strategies for improving care coordination between housing, child welfare and treatment systems; evidence-based housing  and service models for homeless child-welfare involved families affected by substance use; and effective family-centered practices for serving parents with co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders and their children.
Presenter(s): Janette Kawachi and Alison Harte, Corporation for Supportive Housing, New York, NY; Kathryn Icenhower, SHIELDS for Families, Los Angeles, CA; Monica Figueroa King, ChildNet Broward, Ft. Lauderdale, FL; and Kelly Sachter, Family Connections, Inc., East Orange, NJ

E3 – Integrating Child Welfare and Behavioral Health Services for our Children, Families and Communites:  Strategies and Models That Work
In this workshop, participants will be able to understand the dynamics of the child welfare system and behavioral health integration.  Participants will learn how a managing entity system of child welfare and behavioral health care can develop policies, programs and implement effective models with performance outcomes to build a system of care.  Additionally, this workshop will provide models and effective practices for child welfare, substance abusing parents and vulnerable populations through experience of an integrated behavioral health care provider.  Participants will be able to learn innovations to serve the child welfare, substance abusing and co-occurring populations for replication.  A discussion of creative blended funding strategies to meet the needs of the individual will also be addressed.
Presenter(s): Babette Hankey, Aspire Health Partners Inc., Orlando, FL; and Mike Watkins, Big Bend Community Based Care, Orlando, FL

E4 – Utilizing Family Dependency Courts and The Circle of Security Parenting Program to Support Child Welfare Outcomes
Families involved in the child welfare system face barriers related to reunification. The Family Recovery Program, Inc. (FRP), is the only family dependency court in Baltimore City, Maryland.  As a national Peer Learning Court, FRP addresses barriers through providing case management services and using an evidenced-based parenting curriculum, “Circle of Security” (COS). This workshop will identify and describe components of “Family First”, an intensive family support service. “Family First” supports reunification efforts with on-demand access to housing, drug treatment, and other matched services. Additionally, efforts to strengthen the attachment process through implementation of the COS parenting program will be highlighted.
Presenter(s): Tara Doaty-Mundell and Jocelyn Gainers, The Family Recovery Program, Inc., Baltimore, MD

E5 – Working With Adult Survivors of Childhood Abuse and Neglect
This workshop will focus on clinical work with adult survivors of child abuse and neglect.  Perspectives on working with both victims/survivors and perpetrators will be presented in relation to the prevalence of child physical and sexual abuse, neglect and psychological maltreatment.  Co-morbid issues associated with surviving childhood abuse such as substance use disorders and other mental health disorders will be explored.  Emphasis will be placed on understanding the linkages between abuse and trauma in childhood and dysfunctional behavior in adulthood which is of particular importance as we struggle to help families break the cycle of violence.
Presenter(s): Janet Okagbue-Reaves, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI

E6 – Collaborative Approach to Integrating Recovery Peer Support in Child Welfare Systems
Overwhelming evidence exists to support the implementation of Peer Support Programs in recovery.  The guidance and resources available to implement such programs is scarce amongst literature reviews.  Summit County, in Akron, OH, took on the initiative to build this programming within its own community from the foundation up, and documented its journey along the way.  This workshop will share Summit County’s step by step process, providing guidelines, examples and documentation to assist as a starting point for future counties, programs, and/or agencies in enhancing their own communities of recovery with Recovery Coach Programs.
Presenter(s): Beth Kinney, Summit County Children Services, Akron, OH; and Mary Martell, Summit County Public Health, Akron, OH

E7 – Innovative Care Models: Integrated Prenatal Care and Substance Use Treatment
This workshop will present an innovative collaboration between health care, substance use treatment, child welfare and coordinated care organizations in Portland, Oregon.  The goal of the program is to provide prenatal/postpartum care in combination with substance abuse treatment.  A team approach includes Certified Nurse Midwives, Social Work, Peer Recovery Mentors and Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselors working in close collaboration with child welfare in terms of safety planning and foster care placement decisions.  Using outcome data, presenters will describe barriers and facilitators to integrated models of care for the pregnant substance abusing population.  Standardized substance abuse screening for the pregnant population will be discussed.  Collaborative relationships with child welfare and community agencies, policy implications and impact on foster care placement will also be emphasized.
Presenter(s): Julia Vance, Legacy Midwifery, Madison, WI

E8 – The Benefits and Challenges in Providing Multiple Evidence-Based, Trauma-Informed Services to Substance Abusing Families in Rural Child Welfare Programs
Using the background demographic components of a rural and urban community in Southwest Missouri, this workshop will address the specific multiple trauma-informed, evidence-based practices that are provided to families within a framework of  three specialized case management models and family group conferencing. The goal is to assist child welfare families with substance abuse problems to prevent placements or obtain family reunification.  Specific goals for families are Substance Abuse Treatment Services and follow-up community supports for adults and children; Parenting Education and Support Services; Mental Health Services that are trauma informed; and Community Resources for housing and employment. Outcomes regarding service delivery and family achievements will be presented with specific attention to the successes and challenges faced by families and staff.
Presenter(s): Mary Turner and Beverly Long, Preferred Family Healthcare Inc., Springfield, MO

Workshops F
Tuesday, August 2
2:30 pm – 4:00 pm

F1 – So How Do You Know They Are Ready?  Key Considerations for Assessing Families in Recovery for Reunification
This workshop presentation will explore the impact of parental substance use on the parent-child relationship and the essential service components needed to address these issues, including ensuring quality visitation and contact, implementation of evidence-based services, therapeutic services and access to ongoing family recovery support. This workshop discussion will explore family readiness as a collaborative practice issue by raising the need for coordinated case plans and effective communication protocols across child welfare, treatment and court systems.
Presenter(s): Phil Breitenbucher and Alexis Balkey, Children & Family Futures, Lake Forest, CA

F2 – A Journey to Family Recovery:  Pima County Family Drug Court
Pima County Family Drug Court will share lessons learned during a 15-year journey from focusing on parents’ substance abuse treatment compliance, to incorporating child and family well-being and evidence-based practices into a nationally-recognized program that focuses on child and family well-being.  As one of only four FDCs awarded the innovative Prevention and Family Recovery Grant, funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, and led by the Center for Children and Family Futures, this FDC has been the testing ground for best practice in dependency cases with parental substance use.
Presenter(s): Chris Swenson-Smith and Hon. Susan Kettlewell, Pima County Juvenile Court, Tucson, AZ; Laura Gomez, Arizona Department of Child Safety, Tucson, AZ; and Sheila May, Easter Seals Blake Foundation, Tucson, AZ

F3 – Innovative Approaches for Child Welfare Engaged Families Experiencing Substance Abuse Disorders, Complex Trauma and Mental Health Difficulties: Interventions, Outcomes and an Evaluation Cost-Benefit Study
This workshop will highlight several interventions designed to treat child welfare engaged families experiencing substance use disorders, complex trauma and mental health difficulties. The workshop will review progressive strategies utilized to promote successful family outcomes for both parents and children including full family treatment and full family sober supportive housing. The workshop will also highlight outcome and cost-benefit findings from an evaluation study examining effectiveness of full family treatment and sober supportive housing on parent-child psychological well-being, family reunification and child maltreatment recidivism. Additionally, presenters will review sustainability strategies used to sustain the programs beyond grant funding capablities.
Presenter(s): David Fredrickson, Brenda K. Roche, and Clare White, The Center for Children and Families, Billings, MT

F4 – Building a Better Courtroom: Courtrooms that Work for Families
There are many competing things to consider when designing a courtroom.  What if we looked at design through the eyes of the family entering the doors of the courtroom?  Come to this workshop session for practical examples and an engaging discussion of how to design a trauma-informed courtroom for problem solving courts centered on the needs of families and children.  In this session, presenters will discuss:  what a family problem solving court is and why it serves as a starting point for innovative courtroom design;  why trauma comes first in courtroom design; what you can do within an existing courtroom.
Presenter(s): Brenidy Rice, Colorado Judicial Department, Denver, CO; and Hon. Gail Meinster, First Judicial District, Denver, CO

F5 – The Intersection of Substance Abuse and Intimate Partner Violence: Innovative Programs at the Connecticut Department of Children and Families
This workshop will describe key aspects of the new approach the Connecticut Department of Children and Families is using to address the needs of families impacted by substance abuse, with a focus on the intersection of substance abuse and intimate partner violence. Participants will learn about the development and design of two new and innovative programs, which both include comprehensive, evidence-based treatments and collaborative work with multiple systems with the ultimate goal of improving outcomes and increasing safety for families. This workshop will also report on lessons learned in the first year of implementing a new program.
Presenter(s): Susan DiVietro and Rebecca Beebe, Connecticut Children’s Medical Center, Hartford, CT; Cindy Schaeffer, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Baltimore, MD; and Cynthia Cupit Swenson, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC

F6 – It Takes a Village: Keeping Families Together Using a Community Ecological & Strengths-Based Approach
Therapeutic Intervention, Education, and Skills (TIES), a family-based, trauma- informed, family preservation program for families with children at risk of removal due to parental substance use, has a long history of keeping families safely together without further abuse allegations (> 85%). This workshop will take an ecological approach to examine the larger contexts that affect service provision and family needs.  Presenters will share techniques that have worked in the larger state framework and demonstrate how high-risk families in crisis are engaged. Additionally, collaborative efforts that have been critical to the success of the families and the project will be highlighted.
Presenter(s): Edwina Chappell, Tennessee Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, Nashville, TN; Kathryn Mathes and Kristi L. Ward, Centerstone Research Institute, Nashville, TN; and Crystal R. Parker, Tennessee Department of Children’s Services, Nashville, TN

F7 – Relationship-Focused Intervention Improves Maternal Substance Use, and Maternal and Early Childhood Mental Health
This workshop presents findings of a research study conducted at Mothercaft’s Breaking the Cycle (BTC) program.  A children’s mental health/early intervention program, BTC aims to improve the mental health and development of children exposed to domestic violence, and maternal substance use and mental health problems, by providing integrated interventions with a relationship-focus. The goal of this study was to compare the intervention approach offered at BTC, to a contemporary intervention (CI) approach. The research confirmed the efficacy of a relationship-focused approach in early intervention services which aim to improve the mental health of at-risk infants, young children and their mothers.
Presenter(s): Mary Motz and Margaret Leslie , Mothercraft, Toronto, ON

F8 – Protecting Our Most Vulnerable:  Effective Strategies in the Early Identification, Screening Guidelines and Child Welfare Interventions of Infants Exposed to Prenatal Substance Use
This session describes a community collaboration to improve hospital screening efforts of mothers and infants with prenatal substance exposure and guidelines for reporting to Child Protective Services.  These efforts have increased identification of substance exposed newborns and helped to prevent further abuse and neglect through the provision of safety assessment and planning, resources and treatment services.  The session will also cover how specific strategies within a Differential Response Model combined with integrated treatment can be effective when working with this population.
Presenter(s): Angela Mead,  Larimer County Human Services, Fort Collins, CO; and Carol Wallman, Children’s Hospital – University of Colorado North, Fort Collins, CO

F9 – Beyond Sobriety:  How To Effectively Treat Clients With Co-Occurring Disorders
There are many people who suffer from mental illness or substance use disorder.  Some are uniquely challenged to struggle with both at the same time.  This workshop will discuss ways to help families work through the different stages of recovery from both substance use and mental illness for long term sobriety.  Participants will leave this workshop with a better idea about screening each client for co-occurring disorders and how to help the client receive the appropriate treatment, as well as helping providers of service understand how to effectively communicate with other providers for a better continuum of care for their clients.
Presenter(s): Christi Weaver, Stacey Lewis and Margaret Cohenour, Lena Pope, Fort Worth, TX

F10 – Expanding and Enhancing Services to Children and Their Families Affected by Substance Use Disorders in Family Drug Courts: Outcomes and Lessons Learned from the Children Affected by Methamphetamine Grant
This workshop presentation will include case studies of grantees from the Children Affected by Methamphetamine (CAM) Grant program, as well as overall program findings and lessons learned.  Funded by SAMHSA from 2010 to 2014, 12 Family Drug Court (FDC) Grantee sites focused on expanding and/or enhancing services to children and their families participating in an FDC due to parental substance use. This was a departure from most FDCs that primarily focus on adult services and outcomes. The workshop will explore the unique program designs, selected strategies, challenges and lessons learned, surrounding planning, implementation, and sustainability planning.  Suggestions for further implementation and evaluation regarding services to children in family drug courts will also be explored.
Presenter(s): Russ Bermejo, Children & Family Futures, Lake Forest, CA; and Sharon Amatetti, Substance Abuse & Mental Health Administration (SAMHSA), Rockville, MD

F11 – A View from the Bench: What Juvenile Court Judges Want to Know To Reunify Families When Substance Abuse Is a Protective Issue
Substance Abuse is a protective issue in the vast majority of child abuse cases, whether as the primary protective issue, or in combination with other factors such as domestic violence, unsuitable housing, or neglect. A Juvenile Court Judge must make decisions as to reasonable efforts, child detriment, and the extent of parental compliance with a case plan – to decide when and if a family can reunify when substance abuse is a protective issue.  Experienced Juvenile Court Dependency Judges from large and small counties in California will share their process of decision making where substance abuse is present in family life. This is not a presentation about dependency drug courts – but about how Judges who must make the decisions about reunifying families make those decisions when substance abuse is present. There will also be an opportunity to have service providers and advocates present to the Judges their questions and suggestions for how to improve fact-finding and communication with the Court.
Presenter(s): Judge Sharon L. Kalemkiarian and Judge Laura Birkmeyer, San Diego Juvenile Court , San Diego, CA; Judge Steven Bailey, El Dorado Juvenile Court, Placerville, CA; and Judge Katherine Lucero, Santa Clara Juvenile Court, Santa Clara, CA

F12 – Serving Veterans and Military Families Affected by Substance Use Disorders and Child Maltreatment
Military families – both of active duty service members and of veterans who have left service – are often impacted by child maltreatment due to substance use disorders and trauma. This workshop will highlight services for active duty military families as well as deployed veterans. Presenters will discuss the services, including substance use treatment, available on Department of Defense installations in the Family Advocacy Program for active duty service members and their families, activated guard and reserve members and their families, and services to retiree families. Participants will understand how to access these services to make referrals to Air Force, Army, Navy and Marine installations. Presenters will also discuss the program model and strategies of veterans’ treatment courts, of which there are more than 150 nationwide. This session will highlight the Orange County Strong Families, Strong Children program, which serves children and family members in veteran families.
Presenter(s): Pamela Collins, USAF Family Advocacy Program, San Antonio, TX  and Sid Gardner, Children & Family Futures, Lake Forest, CA

Workshops G
Wednesday, August 3
9:00 am – 10:30 am

G1 – Embracing the Strengths and Meeting the Needs of Families Impacted by Substance Use Disorders
The demands of a family often prevent parents with a substance use disorder from seeking or completing treatment.  The Prevention and Family Recovery (PFR) initiative seeks to address this problem.  PFR is funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (DDCF) and The Duke Endowment (TDE) to advance the capacity of Family Drug Courts (FDCs) to provide and sustain comprehensive family-centered care to children, parents and families affected by substance use disorders and child abuse and neglect.  Four geographically and culturally diverse grantees around the country implemented new or enhanced evidence-based services and served more than 500 families affected by substance use disorders and child abuse and neglect.  Presenters will summarize lessons learned from the initiative, review the tenants of a family-centered approach to meet the complex needs of families, provide examples of successful approaches and discuss practical steps providers can take to moving towards a family-centered approach.
Presenter(s): Theresa Lemus and Ashay Shah, Children and Family Futures, Lake Forest, CA

G2 – Community Responses to Opiate Use: Challenges and Opportunities in the Northern Shenandoah Valley
This interactive workshop will describe the work of a community collaboration that involves law enforcement, the judiciary, the medical community, child welfare, the treatment and recovery communities and other key stakeholders wotking together to reduce the number of opiate-related abuses and deaths in the Northern Shenandoah Valley in Virginia. The presentation will include how the Northern Shenandoah Valley Substance Abuse Coalition was formed, describe the roles that key system representatives have played and offer suggestions for sustainability. From 2014 to 2015, the collective work of the coalition contributed to a 50% reduction in the number of opiate-related overdose deaths in a predominantly rural area of Virginia.
Presenter(s): Lauren Cummings, Northern Shenandoah Valley Substance Abuse Coalition, Winchester, VA; Hon. Elizabeth Kellas, Frederick/Winchester Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court, Winchester, VA; Timothy Coyne, Public Defender’s Office, Winchester, VA; and Maria DeLalla, Winchester Medical Center, Winchester, VA

G3 – Ready, Set, Go! Planning Strategies to Adopt and Install a Parenting Program for Substance Affected Families
This workshop describes a multidimensional approach to systematic planning for the effective implementation of the Strengthening Families Program Birth-to-Three, a developmental adaptation of an evidence-based program (EBP) to serve substance-affected families of infants and toddlers involved with the child welfare system. While different approaches to EBP implementation have been described in the literature, little is known about the challenges and strategies identified by child welfare administrators and researchers during pre-implementation.  Study findings are organized around an integrated and multidimensional approach that combines key implementation frameworks (Proctor’s and Children and Family Futures). Policy and practice implications will also be discussed.
Presenter(s): E. Susana Mariscal, Kaela Byers and Kiley Walker Liming, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS

G4 – Peer Support in Substance Abuse Recovery
This workshop will explore the value of using Peer Support Recovery Specialists to work with parents who are involved with the Child Welfare system and who are battling substance abuse.  Early Intervention Outreach Specialists are a vital part of the family team in Contra Costa County. They are integral in making substance abuse assessments, identifying and  facilitating appropriate treatment plans/programs supporting  parents, providing weekly treatment program availability lists to staff, and developing safety plans with parents and casework staff.  They are also available to provide training and  individual consultation on various drugs and their effects.
Presenter(s): Judi Knittel, Therris Cunningham and Sunita Frey, Contra Costa County Children and Family Services and Child Abuse Prevention Council of Contra Costa County, Pleasant Hill, CA

G5 – Integrating Youth with Substance Use Challenges into a Mature System of Care
New Jersey has a statewide integrated children’s system of care.  This workshop will focus on how to address the complex needs of youth with substance use challenges within a system of care; the critical role of close partnerships between the state, child welfare and existing providers in preparing for and meeting the needs of youth and families; and how communicating a clear vision of staying true to the core values of a system of care provides a rudder in the storm of emotions and reactions to such a profound change in service delivery to a population largely new to the system of care approach.
Presenter(s): Elizabeth Manley and Alan Vietze, New Jersey Department of Children and Families – Children’s System of Care, Trenton, NJ

G6 – Integration as Prevention: Addressing the Reproductive Health Needs of Women in Substance Use Disorder Treatment
Women with substance use disorder (SUD) have unmet reproductive health needs. For example, almost 90% of pregnancies among women with SUD are unplanned. Although SAMHSA promotes the integration of services as central in reducing costs and improving care for individuals with behavioral health conditions, little attention has been placed on the incorporation of family planning in substance treatment.  This workshop will review the reproductive health needs of pregnant and parenting women with SUD and will report the results of a novel program which integrates reproductive health care into treatment.  Attention will be placed on patient centered outcomes, cost and sustainability.
Presenter(s): Mishka Terplan, Behavioral Health System Baltimore, Baltimore, MD

G7 – Using Big Data to Support Effective Program and Service Delivery Planning
This workshop will help participants understand how they can make use of “big data” or administrative data sets to help stakeholders plan programs and/or service delivery model designs. To illustrate, presenters will use data analysis conducted using the state of Florida child welfare administrative data set to identify key issues among children whose parents have substance use disorders. Presenters will also explore how these findings can be used to design service delivery models that address issues identified and are expected to improve outcomes.
Presenter(s): Linda M. Callejas and Svetlana Yampolskaya, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL;

G8 – Changing the Odds – Celebrating Families!, ¡Celebrando Familias!
Celebrating Families!(CF!) and ¡Celebrando Familias! are family-focused, trauma-informed, skill building programs developed for dependency drug courts(DDC). CF! is listed on SAMHSA’s National Registry of Evidence Based Programs & Practices and also serves resident-treatment facilities and communities.  Presenters will overview models and describe Santa Clara County’s (CA) use in DDC.  Incorporating research from the fields of prevention, addiction, and learning differences, CF! increases protective factors and decreases risk factors.  Evaluation outcomes from multiple sites show significant positive results in learning and applying parenting skills and improved family dynamics with significantly increased family reunification rates and decreased time to reunification.
Presenter(s): Toni Welch Torres, EMQ-Families First, San Jose, CA

G9 – Navigating the Future of Child Welfare and Substance Use: Accreditation Has a Critical Role
CWLA’s National Blueprint for Excellence in Child Welfare presents a vision for the future of child welfare. This roadmap provides the principles and standards organizations should have in place to achieve this vision. At the same time, the substance use and child welfare landscape is rapidly shifting as a result of policy changes at the federal, state, and local levels. Proposed legislation such as the Families First Act will further impact the shifting landscape. All pose potentially significant challenges for public and private organizations whose clientele are involved with these service systems. While the shift offers tremendous opportunities to improve the quality of care to children, youth, and families, organizations are and will be faced with an array of new hurdles to overcome. CWLA sees accreditation as a key tool to help organizations overcome these hurdles and achieve the vision of the National Blueprint. This workshop will provide participants with the opportunity to hear from experts with CARF, COA, and the Joint Commission how accrediting entities can be helpful in navigating this future. Participants will also have opportunity to hear from their peers how achieving CARF, COA, and the Joint Commission accreditation supports their organization in responding to the changing landscape and results in improved outcomes for children, youth, and families.
Presenter(s): Julie Collins, CWLA, Washington, DC; Leslie Ellis-Lang, CARF International, Tucson, AZ; Carol M. Smith, Catholic Human Services, Inc., Traverse City, MI; Richard Klarberg, COA, New York, NY; Joel Johnson, Human Resources Development Institute, Chicago, IL; and Tracy Collander, The Joint Commission; Oakbrook Terrace, IL 

G10 – Fathers for Change:  Statewide Implementation of an Integrated Intervention for Co-Occurring Substance Use and Intimate Partner Violence
“Fathers for Change” is an integrated treatment approach for fathers struggling with concurrent issues of substance use and intimate partner violence.  It is an emerging evidence based practice that has been implemented in a statewide child welfare response to domestic violence.  This workshop will provide an overview of the population served, model components and case examples, along with details of a statewide child welfare initiative to train agencies to deliver the services and outcome data from the first year of implementation in four communities.
Presenter(s): Carla Smith Stover, Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL; Rebecca Beebe and Susan DiVietro, Injury Prevention Center, Connecticut Children’s Medical Center/Hartford Hospital, Hartford, CT