Conference

2011 Strengthening Families Training Institute

SFTI Program

Keynote Presentation—David Lawrence Building a Movement for Children, Early Childhood Initiative Foundation, Miami, FL.

Building a Strengthening Families Community

Movement Happens Ben Tanzer, Prevent Child Abuse America, Chicago, IL.

Session 1 Workshops

What will it take to Build a Children’s Movement in Idaho?
Building a Home Visiting Program for Idaho
Safeguarding our Children: Sexual Abuse Prevention in Faith Communities
Growing Great Relationships: Parents and Providers in Partnership

Session 2 Workshops

Stewards of Children, Part 1
Building Blocks for Helping Our Children Live in a Multi-Cultural Society, Part 1
Fight Crime: Invest in Kids: Raising the Voice of Unexpected Messengers
Protecting Native Children

Session 3 Workshops

Stewards of Children, Part 2
Building Blocks, Part 2
Breaking the Cradle to Prison Pipeline
Making Systemic Change to benefit Idaho Children

Session 4 Workshops

Depression, Child Maltreatment and Effects on Child Development
An Undervalued and Underutilized Partnership: Child Welfare and Early Childhood Working Together for Families
Handout
Why Words Matter
Idaho’s Early Learning eGuidelines (ELeG): Making them “Work”

Session 5 Workshops

Action, Implementation and Momentum (AIM) To Grow and Deepen Strengthening Families work
Post Partum Depression/Neglect Prevention
Ethical Decision Making in Social Work Practice

2010 SFTI Wrap Up

Changing the way we think about prevention

The 2010 Strengthening Families Training Institute held March 16 and 17 was a huge success. We learned about best practices in child abuse prevention from national and statewide experts. We learned from each other in both structured and unstructured networking. We found out that we have a lot in common no matter where we are working. We learned ways that we can pull together as communities making everyone a partner in prevention. For those of you who couldn't attend or for those of you who want to be reminded, we are attaching Power Point presentations and notes from 3 of our out of state presenters: Jim Hmurovich from Prevent Child Abuse America, Pat Stanislaski with Partners for Prevention and Lauren Morley with the Front Porch Project. You can also see the results of our community cafe session to get an idea of where the prevention community in Idaho hopes to go.

Community Café Harvest 2010

The Front Porch Project

Keynoter Pat Stanislaski
Helpful resources to learn more about resilience
Principles of Support – Fostering Resilience
Recovery: Strengthening Resiliency in Children
Resilience Factors: “I Have” “I Am” “I Can”

Keynoter Jim Hmurovich
Statewide Prevention Planning

Joan Sharp and Nancy Gagliano
Implementing Evidenced Based Home Visiting Programs with Fidelity

2009 Strengthening Families Training Institute

As part of our Strengthening Families Training Institute, ICTF hosted a Community Cafe' for all Institute participants. Discussions centered on the common goals of our programs for social movement and change. For a complete harvest of the SFTI Cafe', please visit the Cafe' link.

The nearly 200 people who gathered for the 10th annual training event of the Idaho Children’s Trust Fund on March 17th and 18th, were treated to a diverse and stimulating mix of speakers and experiences. Click here for a slide show of key events.

See Judy Langford, Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of Social Policy, and the SFTI’s opening keynote speaker interviewed for IPTV’s Dialogue aired May 14th. http://idahoptv.org/dialogue/

Do early childhood education programs reduce rates of child abuse and neglect? Research from the Center for the Study of Social Policy concludes they can. Host Joan Cartan-Hansen talks with Judy Langford, a Senior Fellow with the Center who heads the "Strengthening Families" movement. Langford contends that small but significant changes in early childhood education programs can have a profound impact on preventing child abuse and neglect. She explains how a small investment toward these changes can enable programs to effectively and quickly help families in crisis and protect children.