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| SESSION III |
SESSION III Tuesday, November 15, 2011 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
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Helping Children Recover from Abuse Joyner
The workshop is designed to assist participants with exploring methods for helping children recover from
abuse. Children behavior changes will be discussed as well as techniques for understanding and responding
to children's grieving process, self-esteem, sexuality, self-protection, and resiliency.
Workshop Objectives: Participants will be able to: 1) discuss and examine current practices for helping
children recover from abuse; 2) identify five techniques to help children recover from abuse; and 3) identify
and discuss child development impacts on recovery techniques.
Presented by: Kathryn Hanchett, MPC, LPC, Licensed Professional Counselor, Private Practice/Therapist for
Dearing House, Northern Oklahoma Youth Services, and Domestic Violence of North Central Oklahoma;
Diana Sullivan, BA, Child Welfare Specialist, Oklahoma State Department of Human Services
Track: HEALTH/WELLNESS Level: Intermediate
The workshop is designed to assist participants with exploring methods for helping children recover from
abuse. Children behavior changes will be discussed as well as techniques for understanding and responding
to children's grieving process, self-esteem, sexuality, self-protection, and resiliency.
Workshop Objectives: Participants will be able to: 1) discuss and examine current practices for helping
children recover from abuse; 2) identify five techniques to help children recover from abuse; and 3) identify
and discuss child development impacts on recovery techniques.
Presented by: Kathryn Hanchett, MPC, LPC, Licensed Professional Counselor, Private Practice/Therapist for
Dearing House, Northern Oklahoma Youth Services, and Domestic Violence of North Central Oklahoma;
Diana Sullivan, BA, Child Welfare Specialist, Oklahoma State Department of Human Services
Track: HEALTH/WELLNESS Level: Intermediate
Learning the "Golden Thread": OKDHS Practice Model Part 2 Maynard
(Repeats Session VII)
The “Golden Thread” is the lynch pin to successful documentation of evidence-based practice as it relates to
safety threats and how to respect them throughout the life of a Child Welfare case. This training will be
offered in two sections. In SECTION ONE, participants will be presented and will review a Child Welfare
investigation and Assessment of Child Safety. They will then identify the parental behaviors that caused
safety threats and the desired results and outcomes for the family. Participants will begin to differentiate
between safety related and well-being issues, and will begin the describe safety threats to children in
behaviorally based terms. In SECTION TWO, participants will review the same case’s Family Functional
Assessment and continue completing the Golden Thread handout by outlining the family’s interventions and
services. Finally, they will review the family’s Individualized Service Plan to ensure it meets the needs of the
family to alleviate the safety threats and ensure successful reunification.
Workshop Objectives: Participants will be able to: 1) distinguish between safety and well being related
issues; 2) describe safety threats to children in behaviorally based terms; 3) understand the value of being
transparent to families throughout the life of a case; 4) identify Individual Service Plan goals that are
specific, measurable and achievable, thereby more easily determining the progress a family is making
towards changing the behaviors and/or conditions; 5) articulate the family’s safety threats to outside
agency partners (e.g., court officials); and 6) communicate better with service providers to assist the family
to change their behavior through the provision of appropriate services.
Presented by: David Riehl, BS, Area III Child Welfare Field Liaison, Oklahoma State Department of Human
Services; Misty McGaugh, BA, Oklahoma County Court Liaison, Oklahoma State Department of Human
Services; Allison Johnson, BA, Area III Tribal Coordinator, Oklahoma State Department of Human Services
Track: PRACTICE/GENERAL Level: Intermediate
(Repeats Session VII)
The “Golden Thread” is the lynch pin to successful documentation of evidence-based practice as it relates to
safety threats and how to respect them throughout the life of a Child Welfare case. This training will be
offered in two sections. In SECTION ONE, participants will be presented and will review a Child Welfare
investigation and Assessment of Child Safety. They will then identify the parental behaviors that caused
safety threats and the desired results and outcomes for the family. Participants will begin to differentiate
between safety related and well-being issues, and will begin the describe safety threats to children in
behaviorally based terms. In SECTION TWO, participants will review the same case’s Family Functional
Assessment and continue completing the Golden Thread handout by outlining the family’s interventions and
services. Finally, they will review the family’s Individualized Service Plan to ensure it meets the needs of the
family to alleviate the safety threats and ensure successful reunification.
Workshop Objectives: Participants will be able to: 1) distinguish between safety and well being related
issues; 2) describe safety threats to children in behaviorally based terms; 3) understand the value of being
transparent to families throughout the life of a case; 4) identify Individual Service Plan goals that are
specific, measurable and achievable, thereby more easily determining the progress a family is making
towards changing the behaviors and/or conditions; 5) articulate the family’s safety threats to outside
agency partners (e.g., court officials); and 6) communicate better with service providers to assist the family
to change their behavior through the provision of appropriate services.
Presented by: David Riehl, BS, Area III Child Welfare Field Liaison, Oklahoma State Department of Human
Services; Misty McGaugh, BA, Oklahoma County Court Liaison, Oklahoma State Department of Human
Services; Allison Johnson, BA, Area III Tribal Coordinator, Oklahoma State Department of Human Services
Track: PRACTICE/GENERAL Level: Intermediate
Tribal Title IV-E Options Cain
This workshop will provide information regarding the Title IV-E funding options for federally recognized
Tribes since the enactment of P.L. 110-351: Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act.
The presentation will include an outline and discussion of the elements of Title IV-E, including maintenance,
administrative and training costs. An update regarding successes and challenges with the current Tribal IV-E
grantees will also be discussed.
Workshop Objectives: Participants will: 1) gain an understanding of Tribal options for Title IV-E that include
direct funding, renegotiating Tribal/State IV-E agreements and/or negotiating a new Tribal/State IV-E
agreement; 2) gain a basic understanding of the elements of Title IV-E: maintenance, training and
administration; and 3) learn about “lessons learned” around implementation of Tribal IV-E programs.
Presented by: Dana Huckabee (Cherokee), MSW, Program Specialist, Children's Bureau/Administration for
Children and Families Region VI
Track: PRACTICE/GENERAL Level: Intermediate
This workshop will provide information regarding the Title IV-E funding options for federally recognized
Tribes since the enactment of P.L. 110-351: Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act.
The presentation will include an outline and discussion of the elements of Title IV-E, including maintenance,
administrative and training costs. An update regarding successes and challenges with the current Tribal IV-E
grantees will also be discussed.
Workshop Objectives: Participants will: 1) gain an understanding of Tribal options for Title IV-E that include
direct funding, renegotiating Tribal/State IV-E agreements and/or negotiating a new Tribal/State IV-E
agreement; 2) gain a basic understanding of the elements of Title IV-E: maintenance, training and
administration; and 3) learn about “lessons learned” around implementation of Tribal IV-E programs.
Presented by: Dana Huckabee (Cherokee), MSW, Program Specialist, Children's Bureau/Administration for
Children and Families Region VI
Track: PRACTICE/GENERAL Level: Intermediate
Agenda Subject to Change
Change Child Welfare Systems by Collecting ICWA Pung
Performance Data (Repeated from Session I)
The QUICWA Compliance Collaborative is a consortium of tribes, urban agencies, government departments
and national advocacy groups. Collaborative members collect Indian Child Welfare Act performance data
and use this data to improve relationships between tribal and state child welfare systems. Ultimately, state
systems’ responses to Indian children and families are improved resulting in better outcomes for children.
Come learn how to join the Collaborative and impact ICWA performance.
Workshop Objectives: Participants will learn: 1) how to become a part of the QUICWA Compliance
Collaborative; 2) how they can collect their own ICWA performance data; and 3) how ICWA performance
data can be used to improve the behavior, practices and policy of state child welfare systems.
Presented by: Paul Minehart, JD, QUICWA Compliance Collaborative Project Director, Minneapolis
American Indian Center; George McCauley, QUICWA System Administrator, Minneapolis American Indian
Center
Track: LEGAL, PRACTICE/GENERAL Level: Intermediate
Performance Data (Repeated from Session I)
The QUICWA Compliance Collaborative is a consortium of tribes, urban agencies, government departments
and national advocacy groups. Collaborative members collect Indian Child Welfare Act performance data
and use this data to improve relationships between tribal and state child welfare systems. Ultimately, state
systems’ responses to Indian children and families are improved resulting in better outcomes for children.
Come learn how to join the Collaborative and impact ICWA performance.
Workshop Objectives: Participants will learn: 1) how to become a part of the QUICWA Compliance
Collaborative; 2) how they can collect their own ICWA performance data; and 3) how ICWA performance
data can be used to improve the behavior, practices and policy of state child welfare systems.
Presented by: Paul Minehart, JD, QUICWA Compliance Collaborative Project Director, Minneapolis
American Indian Center; George McCauley, QUICWA System Administrator, Minneapolis American Indian
Center
Track: LEGAL, PRACTICE/GENERAL Level: Intermediate
Truth, Healing, and Reconciliation in Indian Child Welfare Reed C
(Repeated from Session I)
The Adoption Era: What is the Adoption Era? Why does it have to have a name now? We have ICWA right?
The Adoption Era workshop will describe the history of child removal and bridge it to the present day. What
happened to all those Adoption Project children? They have been finding their way back home. Some are
not so fortunate as records have been destroyed or altered to maintain secrecy. What can we learn from
them?
Workshop Objectives: Participants will: 1) have an understanding of the issues of adult Native adoptees/
fostered and birth relatives; 2) have a language to use when working with adoptees/fostered individuals;
and 3) understand the need for research and organized initiatives to “welcome our relatives home.”
Presented by: Sandy White Hawk (Sicangu Lakota), AA, Executive Director, First Nations Repatriation
Institute
Track: CULTURAL, HEALTH/WELLNESS Level: Advanced
(Repeated from Session I)
The Adoption Era: What is the Adoption Era? Why does it have to have a name now? We have ICWA right?
The Adoption Era workshop will describe the history of child removal and bridge it to the present day. What
happened to all those Adoption Project children? They have been finding their way back home. Some are
not so fortunate as records have been destroyed or altered to maintain secrecy. What can we learn from
them?
Workshop Objectives: Participants will: 1) have an understanding of the issues of adult Native adoptees/
fostered and birth relatives; 2) have a language to use when working with adoptees/fostered individuals;
and 3) understand the need for research and organized initiatives to “welcome our relatives home.”
Presented by: Sandy White Hawk (Sicangu Lakota), AA, Executive Director, First Nations Repatriation
Institute
Track: CULTURAL, HEALTH/WELLNESS Level: Advanced
Expert Witness Training Theater
(Repeated from Session I)
In this interactive session, participants will engage in developing an expert resume, and will participate in
exercises that demonstrate how expert testimony is presented at trial.
Workshop Objectives: 1.) Determine who qualifies as an expert for providing ICWA expert testimony 2.)
Develop a resume that lays the foundation for expert testimony 3.) Learn how an expert is qualified through
trial techniques.
Presented by: Kelly Stoner (Cherokee), Director, Native American Legal Resource Center, Oklahoma City
University School of Law; Casey Ross-Petherick (Cherokee), JD, MBA, Deputy Director, Native American
Legal Resource Center, Oklahoma City University School of Law
Track: LEGAL Level: Entry, Intermediate
(Repeated from Session I)
In this interactive session, participants will engage in developing an expert resume, and will participate in
exercises that demonstrate how expert testimony is presented at trial.
Workshop Objectives: 1.) Determine who qualifies as an expert for providing ICWA expert testimony 2.)
Develop a resume that lays the foundation for expert testimony 3.) Learn how an expert is qualified through
trial techniques.
Presented by: Kelly Stoner (Cherokee), Director, Native American Legal Resource Center, Oklahoma City
University School of Law; Casey Ross-Petherick (Cherokee), JD, MBA, Deputy Director, Native American
Legal Resource Center, Oklahoma City University School of Law
Track: LEGAL Level: Entry, Intermediate
Creating a Matrix of Indian Child Welfare Services in Minnesota Reed AB
Despite successes by Minnesota’s American Indian tribes and families, the State of Minnesota continues to
see Indian children removed from their homes and families at an alarming and disproportionate rate.
Addressing this disparity requires the coordinated efforts of multiple partners. One effort to improve
coordination of American Indian child welfare services will be described. The two agencies partnered to
create an internet-based matrix of child welfare programs and services provided by tribal and non-profit
agencies in Minnesota.
Workshop Objectives: Participants will: 1) be introduced to a tool that provides practitioners with a clear, up
to date, and interactive source of information on the vast array of services available for American Indian
children either currently in, or at risk of, being in the foster care system; 2) be introduced to a potential
model for using technology to improve information available to Indian child welfare practitioners; and 3)
have an opportunity to discuss ways in which a similar process might be utilized in other states.
Presented by: Erin Geary, MSW, Community Projects Coordinator, University of Minnesota Duluth Center
for Regional and Tribal Child Welfare Studies
Track: PRACTICE/GENERAL Level: Intermediate, Advanced
Despite successes by Minnesota’s American Indian tribes and families, the State of Minnesota continues to
see Indian children removed from their homes and families at an alarming and disproportionate rate.
Addressing this disparity requires the coordinated efforts of multiple partners. One effort to improve
coordination of American Indian child welfare services will be described. The two agencies partnered to
create an internet-based matrix of child welfare programs and services provided by tribal and non-profit
agencies in Minnesota.
Workshop Objectives: Participants will: 1) be introduced to a tool that provides practitioners with a clear, up
to date, and interactive source of information on the vast array of services available for American Indian
children either currently in, or at risk of, being in the foster care system; 2) be introduced to a potential
model for using technology to improve information available to Indian child welfare practitioners; and 3)
have an opportunity to discuss ways in which a similar process might be utilized in other states.
Presented by: Erin Geary, MSW, Community Projects Coordinator, University of Minnesota Duluth Center
for Regional and Tribal Child Welfare Studies
Track: PRACTICE/GENERAL Level: Intermediate, Advanced