Conferences

Selected Keynote & Plenary Presentations

NATIONAL KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS

• Child Welfare League of America National Conference, “Living in an Inspired World”

• National Alliance for Children’s Grief Symposium, “Reclaiming Perspective: Critiquing the Dysfunctional Narrative of Grief”

• National Center for State Courts, “What Every Judge and Attorney Needs to Know About the Trauma of Removal”

• National Foster Parent Association and National Kinship for Children Alliance Convention, “Better Together: Building a Relational Home for Children in Transition”

• National Foster Parent Association Convention, “Shattered Assumptions: Ambiguous Loss and Disenfranchised Grief in Foster Care
  

STATE KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS

Georgia

• Georgia Department of Family & Children Services Safe at Home “Hopefuls” Training, “The Impact of Removal and Foster Care Entry on Children: Ambiguity, Grief, and Trauma”

Kansas

• Kansas Department for Children and Families Post Conference Training Event, “Strong Families Make a Strong Kansas: Promoting Healthy Transitions for Children and Youth Entering Foster Care”

Maine

• The Maine Judicial Branch Family Division Training: “The Impact of Removal: Children’s Lived Experience of Entry into Foster Care”

Minnesota

• Mitchell Hamline School of Law Conference, “Trauma of Removal: Impact of Removal on Children’s Well-Being”

Mississippi

• Coming Together to Safeguard Mississippi Families: A Multidisciplinary Training Focused on Safety and Removal, “The Reality of Removal: A Clinical & Empirical Examination of Child Removal in Mississippi”

Missouri

• Central Missouri Foster Care and Adoption Association Training: “The Neglected Transition: Children’s Experiences of Ambiguity, Grief and Trauma in Foster Care”

Montana

• Grief Institute, Tamarack Grief Resource Center, “Facilitating Positive Outcomes for Grieving Youth”

Oregon

• Oregon Juvenile Law Training Academy, “Can Everyone See My Screen? Part 2: A Legal and Social Science Framework for The Harm of Removal”

• Candlelighters for Children with Cancer Time of Remembrance Event, A Time of Remembrance

Pennsylvania

• Children’s Roundtable Summit, Office of Children and Families in the Courts – Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts, “The View from Here: Children’s Experiences of Loss, Grief, and Trauma Resulting from Removal”

• Philadelphia Juvenile Justice Summit, “The View from Here: Children’s Experiences of Loss, Grief, and Trauma Resulting from Out of Home Placements”

• Annual Trauma Informed and Resilient Communities Conference, “The Power of a Relational Home; Mitigating Trauma and Ambiguity for Children Entering Foster Care”

South Carolina

• University of South Carolina, School of Law, Children’s Law Conference: “Older Youth’s Experiences of Foster Care Transitions: The Importance of Having a Relational Home”

• South Carolina Department of Social Services Independent Living Graduation Celebration: “The Story Behind the Story”

• Thornwell Home for Children Foster Home Division Annual Conference, “The Transition into Foster Care: Children’s Experiences of Ambiguity and Trauma”

Utah

• Utah State Courts Court Improvement Program, “Ambiguous Loss and the Harm of Removal”

• Parental Defense Alliance of Utah Annual Conference, “The Harm of Removal: What Children and Youth Have to Say”

Washington

• Children’s Justice Conference, “The Harm of Removal: What Children & Youth Have to Say”