This annual conference is hosted by the Agency, CPS, and School Liaison’s committee of the Family Violence Prevention Council of Broome County. This year’s conference will focus on providing attendees with a multidisciplinary approach to overcoming challenges in our community. Speakers of various backgrounds will reinforce our belief that by working together local professionals will achieve greater results and more successful families!
7:30am - 8:00am
8:00 - 8:15am
8:15 - 10:15am
10:15 - 11:00am
11:00 - 11:50am
11:50am - 1:00pm
1:00 - 1:50pm
1:50 - 2:00pm
2:00 - 2:50pm
2:50 - 3:00pm
Breakout #1A — Meeting the Needs of Families by Supporting before Reporting
Description: Presenter reviews the current NYS messaging of supporting families before reporting families to the child welfare system. Participants will review actual data that examines the over surveillance of families in the child welfare system and the existential consequences. Participants will join in a discussion reviewing the needs of families in Broome County.
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Breakout #2A — Make Every Day Count: Strategies to Improve School Attendance
Description: Participants in this session will review trends in Chronic Absenteeism data, explore evidence-based strategies while discussing how to make schools a welcoming place for all families, including those who have had poor experiences in their own childhood.
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Breakout #3A — The Importance of Protocol: How You Respond to a Child’s Allegations of Abuse Matters
Description: The course will provide an overview of the Child Advocacy Center in Broome County, its role in investigation and servicing child sexual, physical, or witnessing of abuse and the importance of following protocol to ensure victims, offenders, and their families achieve the best outcomes. The course will also review the differences in protocol and outcomes for adult offenders and child offenders of sexual abuse.
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Breakout #4A — Cannabis Use in The Teenage Population
Description: In this session, students will learn the current use trends of cannabis use alongside the effects seen in the teenage population. Participants will become empowered to educate the youth they are working with to make safe and factual decisions regarding cannabis use.
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Breakout #5A — Home: Understanding and Addressing the Psychological Health for Transient Populations
Description: This course is designed to increase awareness of the unique needs of transient clients who experience instability and the impact this has on their mental health and the systems within which they live. Participants will learn the nuances of assessment, treatment planning, and providing therapy to this subset of the population.
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Breakout #6A — Domestic Abuse: Opportunities for Intervention
Description: Course will review current domestic abuse education and trauma-informed practices, opportunities for intervention including red flags in teen dating, and the success of the Lethality Assessment Program in Westchester County (and soon to be Broome County!). This conversation will include stories of lived experience and survivorship and may be triggering for some attendees.
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Breakout #7A — United Voices: Fostering Collaboration Between English Language Learners, Families, and the School Community
Description: Throughout the presentation, participants will be actively involved in learning how to successfully collaborate with all stakeholders involved with ELLs and how to create a welcoming, inclusive environment in and out of the school setting. Participants will be provided with resources needed to be successful with this specific population of learners.
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Breakout #8A — All In A Day’s Work: When Productivity Eclipses Care
Description: This interactive presentation will identify and discuss factors affecting clinician’s ability to provide timely, appropriate, quality mental health care and explore possible remedies, including needs of clinicians in the workplace.
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Breakout #1B — Yoga and Mindfulness in Social Work Practice
Description: This course will first focus on why and how Mindfulness and Yoga can support students/clients. Then the course will focus on practical strategies and tools that can be used in sessions and with classrooms to support Wellness.
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Breakout #2B — Handle with Care
Description: This course will explore the Handle with Care practice, which connects local law enforcement with a child’s school after law enforcement responds to a child’s residence. Chief Dodge will review the program, issues of confidentiality, and the impact on community partnership. He will address initial hurdles to success and how the Johnson City community overcame those barriers. He is also discussing how to bring the program into new schools and include other human servicing agencies to increase communication and support for families.
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Breakout #3B — Transforming Conflict into Conversation
Description: Participants will learn about ACCORD’s evidence-based conflict resolution program that brings together youth, families, schools, and other service providers to communicate effectively regarding overcoming barriers to success. Participants will learn the referral process, appropriate attendees, and expected outcomes.
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Breakout #4B — Learning Awareness of Seven Drug Categories and their Impairment Signs and Symptoms
Description: Course will review the involvement of drugs in school and society, name the seven drug categories and their effects, review impairment signs and symptoms and how to interpret observations of drug use.
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Breakout #5B — The Safe & Together™ Model; A Systems Change Approach to Domestic Violence in New York State
Description: The purpose of this session is to introduce a perpetrator pattern, survivor strength based, child centered approach to domestic violence in New York State’s Child Welfare system. Participants will learn about and understand the Safe & Together Model principles and critical components and how those guide our work with families as human services professionals.
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Breakout #6B — Play Therapy: Doing so Much when it Appears you are doing “Nothing” at all
Description: This presentation will review the concept of Play Therapy as a developmentally appropriate psychotherapy intervention to help children emotionally. Pitfalls and common misconceptions will be discussed as well as how to document the sessions appropriately for notes.
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Breakout #7B — Advocating for the Rental Rights of Families
Description: This course will review rental rights of families impacted by low income, age, domestic abuse, and other inequities and review best practices surrounding how to advocate for families.
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Breakout #8B — Literary Therapy for Educators + Administrators: A Creative Wellness Writing Workshop
Description: Literary Therapy for Educators + Administrators is an interactive experience for educators, staff, administrators of all levels, and community/family partners that uses introspective writing to process complex personal and professional experiences with joy, creativity, and collaboration. Participants will mindfulness strategies, introspective writing activities, group discussion in a safe and supportive environment to foster connection, process complex emotions and experiences with joy and creativity, and cultivate tools and strategies to cope and thrive amidst transition.
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