Conference Details
Meet the Speakers!
Angela Braxton
As a Family Involvement Consultant, Ms. Braxton works with child welfare agencies and family partners across the country to improve child welfare outcomes for children and families. Her work with state child welfare agencies is guided by the principles of Systems of Care as a way to promote safety, permanency, and well-being for children and families involved with, or at risk of becoming involved with the child welfare system. Ms. Braxton also works in partnership with state and county child welfare systems to create collaborative partnerships among diverse groups of parents and caregivers (birth, foster, adoptive parents and kin caregivers) groups as well as between these family members and agency service providers (child welfare, law enforcement, substance abuse treatment centers, and the courts) to sustain these collaborative partnerships over time. Ms. Braxton has several publications including:
“A Woman with an Issue”
“A Mother’s Memoir of Addiction, Loss, Redemption and Recovery”
“Restoration Through the Storm”
NORMA M. GINTHER, M.S.W., L.I.S.W.
Norma M. Ginther, M.S.W., L.I.S.W., is a nationally recognized consultant and trainer. She has trained child welfare social workers throughout the United States, Canada, Alaska and Eastern Europe and has even trained judges and court staff throughout the United States in conjunction with the National Zero to Three program and the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges. She strongly advocates daily family contact to reframe attachment within the family and has found that these efforts can be successful even if the family has been abusive or neglectful.
Prior to her training career, she worked as a caseworker and manager in many aspects of child welfare practice. She and her family worked for 18 years as a therapeutic foster family for 46 teenagers. Ms. Ginther has co-authored “Separation and Placement in Child Welfare”, and other widely acknowledged curricula, including “Family Interaction: The Expressway to Permanency”.
Agenda
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| 8:00 – 9:00 | Sign-In | 8:00-8:30 | Sign-In | |
| 9:00-10:30 | Opening | 8:30-10:00 | Workshop Session 3 | |
| 10:30-11:00 | Break | 10:00-10:30 | Break | |
| 11:00-12:00 | Town Hall | 10:30-12:00 | Closing | |
| 12:00-1:30 | Lunch | |||
| 1:30-3:00 | Workshop Session 1 | |||
| 3:00-3:30 | Break | |||
| 3:30-5:00 | Workshop Session 2 | |||
Hotel/Lodging Information
You are responsible for making your own lodging arrangements and payment. We have a block of rooms set aside especially for our conference attendees and Hotel Albuquerque is ready to receive your room reservations now! This room block will be available until Friday, August 19, 2011.
A reduced room rate of $81.00 plus tax per night (single/double occupancy) is available. You will need to contact the hotel directly and provide credit card information in order to reserve your room. The reduced room rate may not be offered after August 19, 2011.
To receive the group rate, guests must state that they would like to be placed within the “CYFD Annual Foster Parent Conference” block of rooms.
To make reserve a room, please call 505-843-6300 or toll free at 1-800-237-2133 and ask to be connected to reservations.
Reservation Office hours are:
Mon-Fri 7am-8pm
Sat 9am-5:30pm
Sun 10am-6pm
Questions?
If you have questions please call 575-646-4855 or email rshawn@nmsu.edu