Understanding Substance Use and Interventions in Child Welfare
In partnership with the Minnesota Center for Chemical and Mental Health, the Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare is pleased to announce our 20th Annual Spring Child Welfare Conference! This year’s conference will be a two-day conference featuring local and national speakers. Day 1 will be web-streamed and Day 2 will be on-site attendance only.
April 30th & May 1st, 2019
9 am to 4 pm CDT (both days)
Delta Hotel by Marriott
1330 Industrial Blvd NE
Minneapolis, MN 55413
Cost: Free for webstreamers, $25 per day for on-site attendees (fee helps covers a portion of breakfast and lunch each day)
Conference presentation topics include:
- Recovery oriented practice in child welfare
- Family-centered care for substance use disorders
- Supporting Somali clients and families through treatment navigation
- FASD from a trauma lens
- Adolescent brain development and substance use
- Reducing bias and stigma around substance abuse
- Motivational Interviewing in child welfare
- Drug treatment courts in Minnesota
- and much more!
Up to 11 free CEUs /3.25 standard CLEs available across both days.
Day 1 |
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| 8:30-9:15 | Check-In |
| 9:15-9:30 | Welcome: Traci LaLiberte, Piper Meyer-Kalos, Korina Barry |
| 9:30-10:30 | Family First Prevention Services Act: Opportunities to Strengthen Children and Families Impacted by Substance Use Disorders and Keep Families Together, Lauren Behsudi |
| 10:30-11:30 | Making Child Welfare Work for Families Affected by Substance Use: Collaboration, Policy and Best Practice, Tina Willauer |
| 11:30-12:30 | Lunch |
| 12:30-1:30 | Recognizing and Challenging Stigma around Substance Use, Lucien Gonzalez, MD, MS |
| 1:30-2:30 | Family-Centered Care for Substance Use Disorders, Jessie Everts, PhD, LMFT |
| 2:30-3:00 | Conference Wrap-Up |
Day 2 |
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| 8:30-9:00 | Check-in |
| 9:00-9:20 | Day 2 Welcome |
| 9:20-10:20 | Panel: Updates from the Department of Human Services Rebecca Wilcox, MSW, LGSW, Child Safety and Prevention Unit Manager Ruthie M. Dallas, BA, Project Director/Minnesota Women Services Coordinator, Behavioral Health Division Jeff Schiff, MD, MBA, Medical Director for Minnesota Health Care Programs |
| 10:20-10:35 | Break |
| 10:35-11:35 | Breakout Session 1 |
| 11:35-12:35 | Lunch |
| 12:50-1:50 | Breakout Session 2 |
| 1:50-2:05 | Break |
| 2:05-3:05 | Breakout Session 3 |
| 3:15-4:00 | Practitioner Resilience, Thomas Skovholt, PhD, LP |
| Day One | ||
| 9:30-10:30 Lauren Behsudi, Public Policy Advisor for Casey Family Programs | Family First Prevention Services Act: Opportunities to Strengthen Children and Families Impacted by Substance Use Disorders and Keep Families Together • download presentation pdf • download handout pdf • Family First Resource website • Family-based Residential Treatment Facility Directory • FFPSA Clearinghouse | Highlights the Family First Prevention Services Act and the opportunities available to both the child welfare and the substance use systems around strengthening supports for children and families impacted by substance use disorders. The Family First Prevention Services Act of 2018 (P.L. 115-123) is a groundbreaking law that will provide communities across the U.S. with critical new federal resources that can support activities that promote the safety, permanency, and well-being of children and their families. Parental substance use is a leading reason why children are placed in foster care. The Family First Prevention Services Act provides new federal resources through the federal Title IV-E child welfare program to support evidence-based prevention activities that allow children to safely remain with their parents and/or a relative caregiver. It also provides new resources to jurisdictions to support children remaining with their families while receiving substance abuse treatment. This presentation will provide an overview of the law and highlight how Family First is an important tool that will help jurisdictions to improve outcomes among children and families. |
| 10:30-11:30 Tina Willauer, MPA Program Director, Sobriety Treatment and Recovery Teams (START) | Making Child Welfare Work for Families Affected by Substance Use: Collaboration, Policy and Best Practice download presentation pdf | Highlights the challenges faced by child welfare across the country in serving families affected by substance use disorders and offer insights into policies and practices focused on meeting these families’ needs. Ms. Willauer has worked in all levels of child welfare for nearly three decades and will share her experience and wisdom about the services, supports and policies that child welfare practitioners and their collaborative partners can implement to strengthen systems and improve family outcomes. Current trends in substance use and its effects on families will be presented along with information about the elements of services that allow families affected by substance use to thrive and the policies that ensure the culture of collaboration necessary to implement these critical services. Participants will be encouraged to consider how advances in our understanding about substance use, trauma and attachment can be used to create systems that support practices across multiple disciplines to meet the needs of families affected by substance use in the child welfare system. |
| 12:30-1:30 Lucien Gonzalez, MD MS Assistant Professor, Child and Adolescent Division, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Minnesota | Recognizing and Challenging Stigma around Substance Use download presentation pdf | Substance use and other behavioral health disorders are the most highly stigmatized health conditions. Stigma is a complex social phenomenon based on the relationship between an attribute and a stereotype that assigns undesirable labels, qualities, and behaviors to a person with that attribute. Labeled individuals are then socially devalued, which leads to inequality and discrimination, both on individual and systemic levels. Research suggests that stigma can manifest in subtle and largely unintended ways, and none of us are immune to negative stereotyping. For example, in child welfare or any other setting, stigma can result from lack awareness of one's own prejudices. This presentation will create a safe space for participants to explore stigma and bias in child welfare settings. We will combine presentation with interactive activities, with the goals of increasing awareness, and generating ideas for combating stigma in practice. |
| 1:30-2:30 Jessie Everts, PhD, LMFT Vice President of Clinical Programs, Wayside Recovery Center | Family-Centered Care for Substance Use Disorders download presentation pdf | Highlights the family-centered approach to SUD treatment that is the foundation of the Wayside Family Treatment Center in Minneapolis, where mothers engage in intensive residential treatment while living or reunifying with their children. The presentation will include information about what trauma-informed and relational-cultural care look like in practice and how Wayside strives to keep families together to break the cycle of addiction and trauma for women and their children. |
| Day Two | ||
| 9:20-10:20Department of Human Services | Panel: Updates from the Department of Human Services Rebecca Wilcox, MSW, LGSW, Child Safety and Prevention Unit Manager Ruthie M. Dallas, BA, Project Director/Minnesota Women Services Coordinator, Behavioral Health Division Jeff Schiff, MD, MBA, Medical Director for Minnesota Health Care Programs | |
| 3:15-4:00 Tom Skovholt, PhD, LP, Professor of Counseling, University of Minnesota | Hazards of Practice and Tips for Professional Resiliency download presentation pdf | The Core of the Helping Professions is an intense one-way caring relationship between us and another person where we work to establish a positive trusting attachment. We must actively meet our client’s high distress level (anxiety-anger-depression), lack of knowledge, low motivation, ambivalence about us as a helper and lack of trust of others. Making positive attachments, establishing valuable working alliances, healing any ruptures between us and the client—these are professional skills that are central to the helping professions broadly defined. Being able to develop and maintain these professional relationships for the client’s well-being is the heart of why our work is so valuable as an accelerated method for human development. To do this work with client after client, time after time, the helping professional must actively engage in activities, big and small, that produce positive energy for this work—work that can drain so much from us even as it also gives us great meaning. Avoiding burnout--compassion fatigue--emotional depletion-vicarious trauma and developing professional resiliency and compassion satisfaction are crucial for long-term vitality and competence. |
| Room 1 | Room 2 | Room 3 | Room 4 | Room 5 (Lake Superior Room) | |
| Session 1 10:35-11:35 | Yussuf Shafie, MSW, LGSW: Supporting Somali Clients and Families through Treatment Navigation presentation summary presentation pdf | Ken Winters, PhD: This is Your Brain on Adolescence presentation summary presentation pdf | Lisa Skjefte: Supporting Mothers through Equitable Practices at Children's Hospital presentation summary presentation pdf | Tanya Freedland, MPS, LACD: Engaging with People Who Aren’t Ready to Change presentation summary presentation pdf | Jessie Everts, PhD, & Mothers of Wayside: Mothers' perspective on Family SUD Treatment and Child Welfare presentation summary |
| Session 2 12:50-1:50 | Judge Mark Vandelist: Drug Court: A View from the Bench presentation summary | Steve Carlson, PsyD: Motivational Interviewing in Child Welfare presentation summary presentation pdf | Monica Idzelis Rothe, PhD, Stephanie Nelson-Dusek, MA: Outcomes for Women in Substance Abuse Recovery presentation summary handout pdf | ThanhVan Vu, MPS, LADC, LPCC: Addiction as an Attachment Disorder: Clinical Presentation and Implication presentation summary presentation pdf |
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| Session 3 2:05-3:05 | Joanna Woolman, JD, Miriam Itzkowitz, MSW, LICSW: Supporting Parents through Recovery in Court presentation summary presentation pdf | Andrew Freeberg, Guy Bowling: Supporting Low-income, Non-custodial, Unmarried Fathers in Navigating Substance Abuse and Child Welfare Systems presentation summary | Barb Clark: Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders from a Trauma Lens presentation summary presentation pdf handout 1 pdf handout 2 pdf | Valerie Gustafson, Donna Washington: Peer Support in Recovery from the Lived Experience Perspective of Women with Children presentation summary |
Guest rooms may be reserved at Delta Hotels for a special group rate of $129. The deadline to reserve at this special rate is April 12th. Please access the “CASCW Spring Conference” block of rooms using the button below or call the hotel on their dedicated reservation line, 844-628-7953 or by calling the hotel directly at 612-331-1900.