Youth Program [1]
8:00am :: REGISTRATION, CHECK-IN & REFRESHMENTS • Campus Center Auditorium Level 1
8:30am :: POSTER PRESENTATIONS ON ADOPTION & FOSTER CARE RESEARCH • Campus Center Auditorium Level 1
9:00am - 9:30am :: WELCOME AND INTRODUCTIONS - Remarks from Dr. Hal Grotevant, Judy Cockerton, Dr. Ruth McRoy, Commissioner Linda Spears &MA. Department of Children & Families • Campus Center Auditorium Level 1
9:30am – 10:15am :: YOUTH CONFERENCE WELCOME SESSION • Room 904-08
10:15am – 10:30am :: BREAK
10:30am – 11:45am :: MORNING CONCURRENT SESSION
- Racial Identity at the Intersection of Artist, Academic, and Advocate • Campus Center Auditorium Level 1
- Dan Hughes’ Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP) for Children with Trauma and Attachment Histories: an Introduction for Caretakers and Therapists • Room 163C
- The Secure Base Model: A Framework for Therapeutic Caregiving in Foster Care and Adoption • Room 165-69
- Improving the Outcomes for Success: Building a National Adoption Competent Child Welfare and Mental Health Workforce • Room 168C
- Fostering Futures: A Successful Community Volunteer Team Model for Supporting Foster Families • Room 174-76
- Mapping Needs, Costs and Outcomes: The English Adoption Journey • Room 804-08
- Think of Us: Leveraging Technology, Data, & Multimedia to Improve Policy, Practice, and Outcomes for Youth and Families • Room 805-09
- Advocacy 101: Advocacy for Self (Youth-Only Workshop) • Room 904-08
- Creating Trauma-Sensitive Schools • Room 917
11:45am-1:15pm :: LUNCH, POSTER SESSION & AWARDS CEREMONY • Campus Center Auditorium Level 1
1:15pm – 2:30pm :: YOUTH CONFERENCE AFTERNOON SESSION • Room 904-08
2:30pm :: YOUTH CONFERENCE ENDS
2:45pm - 4:00pm :: AFTERNOON CONCURRENT SESSIONS – OPTIONAL FOR YOUTH
- The Legacy of Foster Care: An Intergenerational Panel of Foster Care Alumni • Campus Center Auditorium Level 1
- Technology on the Frontline: Changing Practice, Changing Lives • Room 162-75
- Improving College Graduation Outcomes for Foster Youth: The Wily Network • Room 163C
- Getting Practice Right: Using the Strengths and Limits of Research Findings to “Bridge the Gap” Between Practice and Research • Room 165-69
- Finding Adoptive Families for Children in Care: Perspectives from the US and England • Room 168C
- Facilitating Peer Support between Foster Carers in the UK • Room 174-76
- Part of the Family: Achieving Permanence in Long-term Family Foster Care • Room 804-08
- Sexual Minority and Heterosexual Parents Adopting Through the Child Welfare System: Challenges and Surprises During the Transition to Parenthood and Beyond • Room 805-09
- Transaction to Transformation: A Modern Understanding of Adoption to Strengthen All Families • Room 811-15
- Expanding the Village: How “One Simple Wish” is Encouraging EVERYONE To Support Youth in Foster Care • Room 917
4:00pm :: POSTERS, MUSIC & NETWORKING • Campus Center Auditorium Level 1
5:00pm :: END