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Workforce turnover and retention is a perennial concern for child welfare agency management with implications for service outcomes for families and children. Nevertheless, there is scant evidence supporting the effectiveness of interventions aimed at improving retention. Combined with data from Human Resource (HR) and targeted staff surveys, continuous quality improvement applications (CQI) can help shape the scaffolding needed to increase the prospects for identifying, implementing, and evaluating more effective interventions. This webinar will provide evidence for the use of turnover intentions and statistical predictors as leading indicators of turnover. Combined with the capacity for real time trend monitoring these indicators can provide a basis for forecasting turnover, and monitoring interventions.

The Ministry of Children and Family Development’s primary focus is to support all children and youth in British Columbia to live in safe, healthy and nurturing families and be strongly connected to their communities and culture. The Ministry supports the well-being of children, youth and families in British Columbia by providing services that are accessible, inclusive, and culturally respectful.

The Ministry has long recognized the need to go beyond tracking outputs, focusing instead on actionable reporting to best support the well-being of children and families it serves. This presentation will review the evolution of the Ministry’s outcomes reporting and discuss its current initiative of developing a child well-being analytics framework that is child centric.

The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal’s (CHRT) rulings on First Nations child and family services (FNCFS) were to 1) end discrimination; 2) ensure it does not reoccur.  Upholding these rulings requires changes to the structure, funding, and accountability of the existing program.  With the ongoing collaboration and contributions of FNCFS agencies and First Nations, an approach with the goal of holistic well-being of children, families, and communities was developed.  This presentation will review the approach and considerations for the interconnections of structure, funding, and accountability.

This webinar will provide an overview of the Family Group Conference Program provided at Ma Mawi Wi Chi Itata Centre in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The Ma Mawi Wi Chi Itata Centre has been operating the Family Group Conference (FGC) program for approximately 20 years. It’s an Indigenous-led initiative in Manitoba that aims to provide a culturally safe and trauma-informed alternative to the mainstream child welfare system. The FGC model emphasizes family and community involvement in decision making about child welfare issues and allows family to become the decision-makers in the development of their care plan with their immediate and extended family members in their circle of Ceremony. Through the FGC program, we focus on supporting families to concentrate on rediscovering their gifts and abilities, reaffirming their extended family relationships, and to act in their own self-interest. This program is grounded in Indigenous cultural values and practices. This includes extended family involvement, and self-determination from a strength-based approach. This culturally based programming has been effective when working with families who have or are facing the effects of trauma.

This webinar is part of the Fall/Winter 2023 Beyond Neglect series, brought to you in partnership with the Child Welfare League of Canada.

This presentation will focus on the child advocacy work of the Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth (MACY) office. Participants will learn how programs at MACY represent the rights, interests, and viewpoints of children, youth, and young adults throughout Manitoba who are receiving, or should be receiving, provincial public services. This includes direct advocacy support to young people and their families, the review of public service delivery after the death or serious injury of a child, and child-centred research and evaluation regarding the effectiveness of public services in Manitoba. The Manitoba Advocate is empowered by legislation to make recommendations to improve the effectiveness and responsiveness of services provided to children, youth, and young adults. MACY is mandated through The Advocate for Children and Youth Act, guided by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, and acts according to the best interests of children and youth, including the need for culturally relevant services and supports.

This webinar is part of the Fall/Winter 2023 Beyond Neglect series, brought to you in partnership with the Child Welfare League of Canada.

This webinar features presentations from two secondary and tertiary intervention programs in Québec and Ontario. Operating across most of Québec and housed in the West-Central Montreal Integrated Health and Social Services Centre (CIUSSS), the Polarization Clinic is a team of social workers, psychologists and psychiatrists, including child psychiatrists, providing specialized supports to individuals and families affected by radicalization to violence. The John Howard Society of Ottawa’s Project ReSet offers multi-disciplinary services in Eastern Ontario to support individuals and families affected by hate-motivated violence by providing interventions aimed at disengagement and reintegration for cases of radicalization to violence. Similar to webinar three, this session discusses the programs’ approaches, objectives and outcomes, as well as case management and interventions supporting disengagement from violent extremism.

This webinar is part of a series called, Preventing and Countering Radicalization to Violence in Canada: A Webinar Series with Frontline Practitioners on Evidence-Based Approaches, Multi-Agency Collaboration, and the Role of Social Work. This webinar series is brought to you in partnership with the Canada Centre for Community Engagement and Prevention of Violence.

This presentation will focus on the way the integrated hub model of services at RaY works to create a safe and inclusive space for youth from all cultural backgrounds. The presenters will begin by providing a brief overview of RaY's services and programs, followed by a more detailed discussion of RaY's cultural programming and how cultural safety is created across the agency as a whole, especially for youth from marginalized backgrounds, including those with experience in the child welfare system.

This webinar is part of the Fall/Winter 2023 Beyond Neglect series, brought to you in partnership with the Child Welfare League of Canada. 

This webinar features presentations from two secondary and tertiary intervention programs in Western Canada. Established by the British Columbia Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General, Shift BC is a civilian-led program that creates and supports community hubs that engage individuals vulnerable to radicalization to violence and develops intervention strategies tailored to them. The Organization for the Prevention of Violence’s Evolve program, located in Edmonton, Alberta, works with individuals involved in hate-motivated violence and/or their families. This webinar discusses the programs’ approaches, objectives and outcomes, as well as specific case management interventions aimed at supporting the disengagement process from violent extremism.

This webinar is part of a series called, Preventing and Countering Radicalization to Violence in Canada: A Webinar Series with Frontline Practitioners on Evidence-Based Approaches, Multi-Agency Collaboration, and the Role of Social Work. This webinar series is brought to you in partnership with the Canada Centre for Community Engagement and Prevention of Violence.

This workshop will bring together participants from sessions 2 to 4 (people with lived experience, frontline practitioners, caregivers and policy-decision makers) to highlight key takeaways from the training series and discuss the practical and collective action required to implement the Equitable Standards for Transitions to Adulthood for Youth in Care. Participants will be asked to commit to concrete actions they can take in their day-to-day work with youth in/from care after the conclusion of this session.

Join members of the National Council of Youth in Care Advocates as they share their insights and expertise on how frontline workers, caregivers and policy-decision makers can support youth in and from care in a more equitable way in their daily work.

This series is offered through a partnership between the Child Welfare League of Canada (CWLC) and the Canadian Association of Social Workers (CASW), and is funded by the Max Bell Foundation, the Northpine Foundation and the Children’s Aid Foundation of Canada. Simultaneous translation from English to French will be provided at each session, and CASW/CWLC certificates of participation will be sent to attendees.

Please note: the recordings of the sessions will not be distributed, so make sure to register to secure your spot!

*Simultaneous translation (English to French) will be available during the event, with breakout groups assigned per language of preference.

This workshop will focus on the ways government and other sectors can implement the Equitable Standards for Transitions to Adulthood for Youth in Care at the policy level, as well as ways people with lived experience can influence policy. Key lessons will include ways to influence policy via research, grassroots advocacy and allyship, and two case examples of grassroots advocacy in Ontario and British Columbia will be presented.

Join members of the National Council of Youth in Care Advocates as they share their insights and expertise on how frontline workers, caregivers and policy-decision makers can support youth in and from care in a more equitable way in their daily work.

This series is offered through a partnership between the Child Welfare League of Canada (CWLC) and the Canadian Association of Social Workers (CASW), and is funded by the Max Bell Foundation, the Northpine Foundation and the Children’s Aid Foundation of Canada. Simultaneous translation from English to French will be provided at each session, and CASW/CWLC certificates of participation will be sent to attendees.

Please note: the recordings of the sessions will not be distributed, so make sure to register to secure your spot!

*Live closed captions as well as simultaneous translation (English to French) will be available during the event.