Events
* Family Interaction: the Expressway to Permanency-Facilitating Successful Visitation
12 March 2010
The Fort Bend County Court Team for Maltreated Infants and Toddlers in collaboration with Infant Toddler Court of Harris County present a training on Family Interaction: the Expressway to Permanency-Facilitating Successful Visitation by Norma M. Ginther MSW, LISW. The training will be held March 12, 2010 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the George Memorial Library, 1001 Golfview Drive, Richmond, TX 77469. RSVP is required for lunch and attendance: Sbogard@zerotothree.org or 281-344-5142 by March 8, 2010. CLEs and CEUs pending. This training is supported by a grant from the Children’s Justice Act grant.
Workshop Synopsis
This workshop is designed to take a fresh look at family visitation during placement and out-of-home care. The research currently shows that the greatest success of return home is based on frequent, well planned, family interaction/visitation, not always the completion of a case plan. Due to physical abuse, neglect, and sexual abuse, the attachment between birth parents and children is most often maladaptive. The change that can be facilitated by considering visitation/family interaction as a planned, therapeutic intervention is one of the most important ways to build safety for the children when they return home. This workshop will explore all the reasons that we have not made any drastic changes in family visits, even though the research says so; the responsibilities of all parties during visitation; and developing plans that are clear and accurate to enhance the child’s return home.
* You Can’t Manage What You Don’t Measure: Total Clinical Outcomes Management and the CANS
18 Mar 2010
The Infant and Toddler Court of Harris County presents a training on You Can’t Manage What You Don’t Measure: Total Clinical Outcomes Management and the CANS by John S. Lyons, PHD. The training will be held March 18, 2010 from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Council on Alcohol and Drugs Houston, 303 Jackson Hill St., Houston, TX 77007. RSVP to Calmeida@zerotothree.org by March 12, 2010. This training is supported by a grant from the Children’s Justice Act grant.
Faculty Bio
In 2008, John S. Lyons, Ph.D. became the first Endowed Chair of Child and Youth Mental Health on the Faculty of Psychology at the University of Ottawa and the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario. Prior to that, he was a Professor of Psychiatry & Medicine at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine and the founding Director of the Mental Health Services and Policy Program. He has published nearly 200 peer reviewed articles and six books, including Redressing the Emperor: Improving our children’s public mental health service system and his latest Communimetrics: A communication theory of measurement for human service enterprises. He has developed and implemented outcomes management tools, such as the Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths (CANS) in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia. He actively works at the interface between behavioral healthcare, child welfare, juvenile justice, and education.
*National Children’s Advocacy Center’s Annual Symposium
22 Mar 2010-25 Mar 2010
The National Children’s Advocacy Center’s Annual Symposium will be held March 22-25, 2010 in Huntsville, Alabama. The Texas Children’s Justice Act will provide a limited number of scholarships to the event. Information about the scholarships can be found here. The conference website is http://www.nationalcac.org/professionals/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=158&Itemid=130
*Children Advocacy Centers of Texas Team Facilitation Training
23 Mar 2010-25 Mar 2010
Children’s Advocacy Centers of Texas (CACTX) will hold a Team Facilitation Training sponsored by the Texas Children’s Justice Act on March 23-25, 2010 at the CACTX training center. The CACTX Team Facilitation Training enhances functioning and productivity of MDTs by providing designated team facilitators with training to develop an understanding of group dynamics, group facilitation, and team management skills. For more information on CACTX, visit their website at http://www.cactx.org/.
*Fatherhood Roundtable
27 Mar 2010
In partnership with the Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS), the Texas Children’s Justice Act (CJA) Task Force will host a Roundtable on Fatherhood, Saturday, March 27, 2010 at the Texas Center for the Judiciary. The roundtable will address how to meaningfully engage fathers whose children are involved in the child welfare system to improve permanency outcomes for children. The roundtable will be hosted by Kenneth Thompson, Fatherhood Program Specialist, DFPS and the Honorable Larry Thorne, CJA Task Force Chair. Participation is by invitation only. For more information contact CJA staff at texascja@yourhonor.com.
*CJA Task Force Meeting
23 Apr 2010
The Texas Children’s Justice Act (CJA) Task Force will be meeting from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., April 23, 2010 at the Texas Center for the Judiciary, 1210 San Antonio, Ste. 800, Austin, TX 78701. For more information contact CJA staff at texascja@yourhonor.com.
*Investigative Techniques in Child Sexual Abuse Cases
TBD Apr 2010
The Center for Child Protection will be holding a Texas Children’s Justice Act sponsored training in April 2010. The training will be on Investigative Techniques in Child Sexual Abuse Cases. Check back for more information or visit the Center for Child Protections website at http://centerforchildprotection.org/.
*Circle of Security Training
10 May 2010 – 13 May 2010
The West Texas Association for Infant Mental Health (WTAIMH) is bringing Circle of Security® training to Lubbock on May 10-13. They are just introducing a four day, parent training facilitator workshop. It will begin on Monday, May 10th and go through Thursday, May 13th. The training will include:
- COS Parenting DVD
- COS Training Manual
- Parent Handouts
- License to teach COS Parenting
From their website: “The Circle of Security® integrates over fifty years of early childhood attachment research into a video-based intervention to strengthen parents’ ability to observe and improve their caregiving capacity. Attachment theory, through the Circle of Security®, offers clear individualized, pathway for providing a secure relationship between parent and child.”
Registration will be on their website. The charge is $800 per person which will pay for the training, DVD, license to use the DVD, facilitator’s manual, and parent manual.
For more information about their work please see their website: http://www.circleofsecurity.org/, and the link to the training page: http://circleofsecurity.net/cos_seminars.html.
*Texas Judicial Summit
24 May 2010-26 May 2010
The TCU Institute of Child Development’s 2010 Judicial Summit, sponsored by the Texas Children’s Justice Act, will be held May 24-26 in Fort Worth, TX. The Summit focuses on improving outcomes for children in protective custody. For more information, visit http://www.child.tcu.edu/.
*National Children Alliance Annual Leadership Conference
7 Jun 2010-9 Jun 2010
The National Children’s Alliance Annual Leadership Conference will be held June 7-9, 2010 in Washington, DC. The Children’s Justice Act will provide a limited number of scholarships to the event. Information about the scholarships can be found here.
*CJA Task Force Meeting
23 Jul 2010
The Texas Children’s Justice Act (CJA) Task Force will be meeting from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., July 23, 2010 at the Texas Center for the Judiciary, 1210 San Antonio, Ste. 800, Austin, TX 78701. For more information contact CJA staff at texascja@yourhonor.com.
*National Juvenile and Family Law Conference
20-23 Oct 2010
Save the date and apply for a scholarship to attend the upcoming National Juvenile and Family Law Conference to be held in Austin on October 20-23, 2010.
Sponsored by the Supreme Court of Texas Permanent Judicial Commission for Children, Youth and Families (Children’s Commission) and presented by the National Association of Counsel for Children (NACC), this multi-disciplinary conference is for attorneys who represent children, parents, and DFPS in child protective services (CPS) cases.
The Children’s Commission supports efforts to improve the quality of legal representation in CPS cases. To meet this goal, the Children’s Commission is offering registration scholarships to qualifying Texas attorneys to attend this conference – a great opportunity to receive CLE in this important area of law!
Scholarships are available for the conference and pre-conference offerings. The pre-conference trainings may include:
- Red Book Training (preparation training for child welfare law certification); or
- Trial Skills Course
Scholarships are available only to Texas attorneys who:
- Through court appointments, represent parents or children in CPS cases; or
- Represent DFPS in CPS cases.
As there is a limited number of scholarships available for this conference, scholarship applications will be taken on a first-come, first-served basis, beginning March 1, 2010.
To apply, each attorney must visit the NACC conference link, http://www.naccchildlaw.org/?page=National_Conference or the Texas scholarship page, http://www.naccchildlaw.org/?page=TexasScholarship beginning March 1st. The application requests information regarding the type of representation the attorney provides, as well as the primary judge before whom the attorney appears. After the application is completed, the NACC will provide qualifying attorneys with a promotion code to use when registration opens later in 2010. Qualifying attorneys will also receive a reminder email upon opening of conference registration.
Scholarships do not include funding for travel and lodging.
If you have further questions, please contact: Daniel Trujillo, Membership Director, NACC, at 303/864-5359 or Trujillo.daniel@tchden.org.
*CJA Task Force Meeting
22 Oct 2010
The Texas Children’s Justice Act (CJA) Task Force will be meeting from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., October 22, 2010 at the Texas Center for the Judiciary, 1210 San Antonio, Ste. 800, Austin, TX 78701. For more information contact CJA staff at texascja@yourhonor.com.
*CACTX 15th Annual Conference
25 Oct. 2010-27 Oct. 2010
Save the Date - The Children’s Advocacy Centers of Texas will be holding their 15th Annual Conference, October 25-27, 2010 at the Omni Austin Hotel Downtown. Please email info@cactx.org for more information.