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Substance Abuse and Child Welfare in Tribal Communities: A Two-Part Webinar Series

June 10: Family Centered Services for Indian Children Impacted by Family Substance Use Disorders

June 26: Substance Abuse Treatment, Child Welfare, and Court Collaboration

Regional Partnership Grant Program Webinar Series

April 3: Collaboration Challenges for RPGS: Data, Shared Outcomes, and Choosing the Bridges

May 16: Connecting the Dots: How States and Counties Have Used Existing Data Systems to Create Cross System Data Linkages

Substance Abuse and Child Welfare in Tribal Communities: A Two-Part Webinar Series

June 10: Family Centered Services for Indian Children Impacted by Family Substance Use Disorders

Part One in the Series: Substance Abuse and Child Welfare in Tribal Communities

Presented by Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Region 10, National Center on Substance Abuse and Child Welfare (NCSACW), and National Indian Child Welfare Association (NICWA)

This session examines the delivery of family-centered services in the context of the recovery model and community response. The topics include supporting families that are separated from their children, identifying traditional positive supports, and building understanding for the historical issues that surround tribal child welfare.

Presenters

Janice M. Holt, Program Specialist, Administration for Children and Families, Region 10
Cathleen Otero, Deputy Director, National Center on Substance Abuse and Child Welfare
Nadja Jones (Comanche/Onondaga), Senior Community Development Specialist, National Indian Child Welfare Association

Handouts

Agenda and Speaker Information (PDF – 63 KB)

Family Centered Services for Indian Children Impacted by Family Substance Use Disorders Presentation (PDF – 4,252 KB)

Interactive Exercise (PDF – 58 KB)

Questions and Answers Summary (PDF – 49 KB)

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June 26: Substance Abuse Treatment, Child Welfare, and Court Collaboration

Part Two in the Series: Substance Abuse and Child Welfare in Tribal Communities

Presented by Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Region 10, National Center on Substance Abuse and Child Welfare (NCSACW), and National Indian Child Welfare Association (NICWA)

NCSACW and NICWA have worked together to integrate the Relational Worldview Model and the 10 Element Framework to support administrators in developing and maintaining collaboration in Tribal communities. The panel presentation involves representatives from two tribes who are currently working to create system-wide linkages between their Tribal community and State or county level departments of child welfare services and substance abuse treatment services.

Presenters

Janice M. Holt, Program Specialist, Administration for Children and Families, Region 10
Nancy K. Young, Director, National Center on Substance Abuse and Child Welfare
Nadja Jones (Comanche/Onondaga), Senior Community Development Specialist, National Indian Child Welfare Association
Deborah Northburg, Programs Manager, Cook Inlet Tribal Council Child & Family Services Department, Cook Inlet Tribal Council (Alaska)
Elana Shiflea, Behavioral Health Coordinator, Native Village of Eklutna
Kari Hearod, Director, Mahli Issuba Family Recovery Center, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma (Oklahoma)

Handouts

Agenda and Speaker Information (PDF – 60 KB)

Relational Worldview Model and 10 Element Framework of System Linkages Presentation (5,221 –KB)

Regional Partnership Efforts in Anchorage Presentation (PDF – 4,798 KB)

Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma: Working to Create System-Wide Linkages Presentation (PDF – 240 KB)

Questions and Answers Summary (PDF – 53 KB)

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Regional Partnership Grant Program Webinar Series

April 3: Collaboration Challenges for RPGS: Data, Shared Outcomes, and Choosing the Bridges

Presented by Children’s Bureau, Administration on Children, Youth and Families, Regional Partnership Grant Program, and the National Center on Substance Abuse and Child Welfare

At an interagency arena, many data issues are essentially collaboration issues, based on a lack of consensus on what to measure or why it is important. The fundamentals of collaboration—shared outcomes in which two or more agencies agree that they will measure their effects of their collaboration with outcomes from each system—demand a flow of data that accomplishes two goals: (1) initially proves the need for collaboration and then (2) monitors its impact over time.

Presenters

Nancy K. Young, Executive Director, Children and Family Futures
Sid Gardner, President, Children and Family Futures

Handouts

Agenda (PDF-78 KB)

Collaboration Presentation (PDF-403 KB)

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May 16: Connecting the Dots: How States and Counties Have Used Existing Data Systems to Create Cross System Data Linkages

Presented by Children’s Bureau, Administration on Children, Youth and Families and the Regional Partnership Grant Program

This Webinar will focus on how sites have successfully linked and integrated child welfare and substance abuse treatment data. Representatives from Sacramento County, California and the state agencies in Washington, California and Arizona will provide a panel discussion on the strategies they developed and implemented.

Presenters

Catherine Nolan, Director Office on Child Abuse and Neglect, Children’s Bureau, Administration on Children, Youth, and Families
Ken DeCerchio, Project Director, Children and Family Futures
Karl Ensign, Director, Evaluation for Children, Youth and Families, Planning and Learning Technologies
Brian Arthur, Associate Director, Center for Applied Behavioral Health Policy, Arizona State University
Sharon Boles, Evaluation Director, Children and Families Futures
Michelle Cook, Justice Systems Analyst, Iowa Division of Criminal and Juvenile Justice Planning

Handouts

Agenda (PDF – 40 KB)

Connecting the Dots: How States and Counties Have Used Existing Data Systems to Create Cross System Data Linkages presentation (PDF – 542 KB)

Family Drug Court Draft Forms (PDF – 43)

Family Drug Court Variable Book (PDF – 69 KB)

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