
Below is a list of past trainings hosted by the Resource Center, with links to more specific information about each event. Handouts, presentation slides, and recordings are available for many of the workshops and plenary sessions.
2011 Teleconference Series
The Resource Center hosted four trainings in 2011 on intimate partner violence, FASD, HIV and parenting, and poverty as a risk factor for child neglect.
Recordings of these trainings are available.
Substance Exposed Newborns: Collaborative Approaches to a Complex Issue
June 23-24, 2010
This summit showcased exemplary policies and practices for identifying pregnant substance users and their newborns; referring them to child welfare, treatment and other community services; and developing plans of safe care for the newborns. Participants engaged in cross-disciplinary discussions to explore challenges, best practices, and future directions in addressing the needs of pregnant substance users and SEN.
Audio recordings, presentation slides, and handouts from this meeting are available for listening and download.
2010 Teleconference Series
The Resource Center hosted six trainings in 2010 on Early Childhood Development, Substance Abuse, HIV; Child Maltreatment & Substance Abuse; and Fathers & Substance Abuse.
Recordings of these trainings are available.
Collaborative Approaches to Identifying and Serving Substance Exposed Newborns:
Lessons Learned from Four Demonstration Projects
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
In this webcast , hosted by the National AIA Resource Center, representatives from four federally funded demonstration projects share their experiences developing policies and procedures to meet the federal Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA) mandates related to substance exposed newborns (SEN). Specifically, the presenters discuss challenges they have encountered in multidisciplinary collaboration, and strategies they have employed to overcome those challenges.
An on demand webcast of this seminar is available for viewing.
Treating Parents with Co-occurring Disorders: Substance Abuse, Mental Health, HIV
August 20-21, 2009
This training provided information to increase participants' knowledge and skills in working with co-occurring disordered clients, particularly parents of young children. It focused on the relationships between psychiatric and substance use disorders and HIV, common problems among clients, psychosocial treatment approaches, pharmacotherapy, self-help groups, adherence, and relapse issues. An integrated model of treatment was presented that can be adapted to individual or group treatment contexts.
2009 Teleconference Series
The Resource Center hosted four teleconference trainings in 2009 on African American Women Affected by HIV/AIDS, and Promoting Change and Growth in Highly Resistant Clients.
Recordings of these trainings are available.
HIV, Families & Permanency Planning: Addressing New Realities
A National Webcast — September 9, 2008
Progress in the fight against HIV/AIDS has created new possibilities for
families and their children. This national training featured a panel of experts — attorneys,
social workers, and PWHAs — who have current information, experiences and
insights to share about future care and custody planning for children whose
parents have HIV/AIDS.
View the complete video of this training.
2008 Teleconference Series
The Resource Center hosted six trainings beginning in April 2008. The topics included the effects of methamphetamine, mental health services for women living with HIV and their children, and working with Latino families.
Recordings of these trainings are available.
Strengthening Connections
between Parents and Children Affected by Substance Abuse, HIV, & Incarceration
March 12-14, 2008
This conference presented family-focused, multi-disciplinary strategies that: (1) strengthen and support parent-child relationships to prevent separation due to substance abuse and/or HIV; (2) maintain parent-child relationships during necessary separation due to incarceration, substance abuse and/or HIV; and (3) rebuild parent-child relationships during reunification.
Recordings of the keynote speakers from this
conference are available.
2007 Teleconference Series
Economic Self-sufficiency for Families Affected by Substance Abuse and HIV
- Women, HIV, and Employment
- Employment for Parents in Recovery: Minimizing Barriers & Maximizing Opportunities
Infant Mental Health
- The ABCs of Infant Mental Health
- Taming the Ghosts in the Nursery
- Supporting Families in Recovery through Infant Mental Health Interventions
Recordings of these trainings are available.
2006 Teleconference Series
- Infants Exposed Prenatally to Methamphetamines:
Developmental Effects and Effective Interventions
- Facilitating Disclosure with Children in HIV/AIDS-Impacted
Families
- Attachment: Helping Babies Develop, Helping Mothers
Recover
- HIV Prevention Interventions with Women
Affected by Substance Use
Audio recordings of these trainings are available.
Substance Exposed Newborns: Weaving
Together Effective Policy & Practice
October 6-7, 2005
The purpose of this conference was to focus attention on
the needs and circumstances of substance exposed newborns
and their families; to showcase exemplary multi-disciplinary
collaborative efforts, policies, and practices from around
the nation; and to transfer this knowledge to a group of
committed stakeholders working with pregnant substance users
and substance exposed newborns.
Recordings of the plenary sessions from this conference are available.
Sustaining Your Child and Family Services Organization
in Lean Times
A Webcast
August 5, 2005
Are you: Operating on the fly? In a constant
state of uncertainty? Worried about whether
your organization will survive?
In this era of constricted resources and stiff competition,
learn how to plan strategically
and access diversified financial support to grow and sustain
your program.
Video
recordings of the workshops from this
one-day symposium are available for viewing.
Raising Kin: The Psychological Well-Being of Substance-Affected
Children in Relative Care
September 27-28, 2004
The purpose of this conference was to
help service providers and caregivers
understand the unique psychosocial issues affecting children
residing in kinship care due to parental substance abuse.
The conference identified the children's strengths,
the benefits, and challenges of kinship care, and useful
strategies and/or interventions for working with these
children and their families. The issues surrounding kinship
care and substance abuse were addressed from a child-focused,
family-centered perspective.
Spirituality: A Powerful Force in
Women's Recovery
September 15-16, 2003
This symposium considered the role that spirituality plays
in the recovery process for women from various ethnic and
racial backgrounds, and helped service providers integrate
spirituality into their work with women in recovery.
Recordings of the keynote speakers from this
conference are available. |