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Training
On November 15-16, 2010, with the support of the Freddie Mac Foundation and Casey Family Programs, NCHCW partnered with CWLA, the National Alliance to End Homelessness, the National Foster Care Coalition, and the National Law Center on Homelessness an Poverty to present "Keeping Families Together and Safe: a National Housing-Child Welfare Conference."
Below, please you will find the panel topics and panelists. Please click on the links to view the presentations and the supplemental materials.
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PowerPoint overview of the Intersection of Housing and Child Welfare by NCHCW Director Ruth White
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Lingo Bingo - download this mixer designed to help participants learn the language of their partner system
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Peter Nucci, President and CEO, The Connection, Inc., Middletown, CT
Anne Farrell, Ph.D., Professor, University of Connecticut Department of Family Studies, Center for Applied Research in Human Development
Kim Somaroo-Rodriguez, Program Director, CT Department of Children and Families,
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Luncheon Federal Agencies Working Together to Make Collaboration Easier from the Top Down
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Renette Oklewicz, Director, Foundation Programs, The Freddie Mac Foundation
Danielle Bastarache, Director, Office of Voucher Programs, HUD
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Presenter: John Cheney Egan, Illinois Department of Children and Families
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Master Trainers Workshop on the Freddie Mac Foundation’s CWLA Housing-Child Welfare Cross Training Curriculum, Keeping Families Together and Safe
Presenters: Roxana Torrico Meruvia, NASW and Ruth White, NCHCW
Supplemental Materials:
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Lorraine Stephens, Deputy Commissioner, NYC Administration for Children Services
Nora Reiss, Director of Resident Services, NYC Public Housing Authority
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“Opening Doors” to End Homelessness through Partnership
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Moderator: Dave Berns, Executive Vice President, Casey Family Programs
Jennifer Ho, Deputy Director, U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness
Bryan Samuels, Commissioner, Administration on Children, Youth and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Mark Johnston, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Special Needs, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
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Fostering Connections: Capitalizing on recent, significant changes in federal law to increase and sustain housing options for youth and families in child welfare
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Kristin Kelly, ABA Center on Children and the Law
Kathi Crowe, Child Welfare Consultant, Former Director National Foster Care Coalition
Supplemental Materials
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Successful models for youth housing leaving foster care – good for your community, good for your budget
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Connie Lassandro, Director, Office of Housing & Homeless Services, Nassau County, NY
Shalita O’Neale, Founder and Executive Director, Maryland Foster Youth Resource Center
Leslie Leach, Cloudburst Consulting, Landover, MD
Ruth White, Executive Director, NCHCW
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Cross Training Frontline Housing and Child Welfare Staff
An important part, perhaps the most important part, of bridging the housing and child welfare systems is supporting front line workers. NCHCW brings together frontline workers from the housing system and the child welfare system using the Child Welfare League of America’s Keeping Families Together and Safe cross-training curriculum. The Freddie Mac Foundation provided funding CWLA to create and test this successful tool for bringing workers together for the day to broaden each worker’s understanding of the resources and knowledge to be gained by joining together to improve the lives of the families and youth with whom they work.
Click here to download the instructors’ manual.
Click here to download the participants’ manual.
NCHCW Holds First Annual Housing-Child Welfare Conference
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6711 Queens Chapel Road