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 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

  • Foster Adopt Minnesota: “Ambiguity, Loss, & Grief: Supporting Children, Teens, & Young Adults in Foster Care”

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”

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