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Group “C” Workshops, Monday February 3, 2020 3:15 pm – 4:30 pm C1 Leveraging the Community to Support Resource Families Krista Hopper-Pasillas, Supervisor, Marin County Children and Family Services Come learn about Marin County's Friends of the Family program, an innovative program that recruits community member volunteers to support resource families by helping make their lives easier so they can focus on providing excellent parenting. In this workshop, you will begin to develop an implementation plan for a similar program in your agencies. We will discuss important sections of the plan including: Pitching-Who are the stakeholders? Who needs to get on board? What do you need to make that happen? Planning-. Who is responsible for what? Implementing- An implementation plan template will be provided to you and you can participate in an interactive strategy sessions that will help you begin the planning. C2 The Power of Support and Training- to Recruit and Retain Resource Parents to Foster Teens Workshop is Repeated in Group “C” Lesia Knudsen, Parent Coach and Trainer Live-Life Coaching, Life in the Foster Lane Bridget Bullock, Assistant, Live-Life Coaching The Power of Training and Support will Introduce three powerful and relevant ways to support pre and post approval resource parents. This workshop is teen focused and will cover the importance of teen specific training, support, and empowering resource parents in order to: increase the number of new and seasoned resource parents willing to take in teens, decrease failed placements, and equip resource parents with the tools to effectively foster youth in a loving and understanding environment. You will: participate in teen specific training, role play using real scenarios, hear compelling testimonials, and laugh! C3 Family Finding Collaboration - A Community Efforts to Ensure Every Child has a Home Meg Easter-Dawson, Program Manager, Sonoma County Human Services Dept. Susan Fette or Hector Matias, CAO or Program Director, TLC Jeff Wolcott, Probation Officer, Sonoma County Probation Did you know Sonoma County's has an innovative and collaborative way to recruit, approve and retain Resource Families? Come learn about it! In 2015, the Family Finding Collaborative formed in an effort to meet the ever growing need for Resource Families in our community and a recognition that there should be no wrong door for a caregiver to walk through to provide a home for the youth in their care. The collaborative team consists of foster family agencies, probation, and child welfare working together to identify all possible families who are open to providing foster/adoption and transitional homes in the community and directing them to the agency who will best meet their needs through a non-competitive approach. C4 Building a Kinship Competent Foster Family Agency in the Context of Strong Public/Private Partnerships Carol Ramirez, LCSW, Chief Program Officer and Beverly Johnson, LCSW, Chief Administrative Officer, Lilliput Now more than ever, there is a demand for agencies who can work effectively to support children, youth and caregivers in kinship care. Designed for both public and private child welfare professionals, this workshop highlights promising family finding, engagement and kinship practices achieved through strong private/public partnerships. Agencies wishing to expand or develop internal competencies to work with kinship families will find this workshop particulary useful. The presenters will provide practical tips for building private/public partnerships that lead to better outcomes for children in kinship care. C5 Applying the Core Practice Model and Safety Organized Practice to Resource Family Approval Pamela Grothe, Senior Program Manager, Leslie Peck, Child Welfare Supervisor, Ivon Sanchez, Administrative Specialist III, and Teresa Stanley, Program Manager II - Ventura County Children & Family Services |