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46th National Child Welfare Law Conference: Onsite/Dual

Dual – Online / Hyatt Regency Minneapolis 1300 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis, Minnesota

From Learning to Action: Shared Accountability for Disrupting Harm and Promoting Healing This year’s conference theme recognizes that all system actors have a shared responsibility to promote family integrity, center the voices and experiences of individuals with lived expertise, engage in authentic partnerships, and actively work towards equity and justice. These continue to be trying...

$775.00

2023 Conference Lunch and Learn

Preventive Legal Advocacy & Pre-Petition Representation: Where We Are, Where We Are Headed, and What We Are Learning Preventive legal advocacy and pre-petition programs are the result of strategically targeted efforts to support families through upstream civil legal services that address social determinants of health and safely reduce instances of unnecessary child welfare system involvement....

$75.00

Paisley Park Tour

Dual – Online / Hyatt Regency Minneapolis 1300 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Join NACC friends and colleagues for a private tour of Paisley Park, Prince’s home and studio in Chanhassen, Minnesota, outside Minneapolis. Registration includes round-trip charter bus transportation and 2-hour private tour. Capacity is limited to 200 so register today! Attendees must abide by Paisley Park's rules during the tour, including: Everyone will be asked to...

$75.00

80s Dance Party

Dual – Online / Hyatt Regency Minneapolis 1300 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Get ready to travel back in time to the decade of big hair, leg warmers, and funky beats at this year’s 80s themed dance party! Dress to impress in your best retro attire (there will be prizes!) and hit the dance floor with your friends and colleagues as we rock out to the best hits...

$35.00

Online Red Book Training Course – Fall 2023

Virtual

Tuesdays, September 5 - October 24 3:00 - 4:30pm MDT The Red Book Training Course is an exciting opportunity for practitioners to brush up on their knowledge of federal child welfare law and learn tips to enhance their representation of children, parents, or the agency. The course covers major dependency practice competency areas and includes...

$300.00

NACC’s 46th National Child Welfare Law Conference: Virtual/Online

Virtual Event

From Learning to Action: Shared Accountability for Disrupting Harm and Promoting Healing Virtual/Online This year’s conference theme recognizes that all system actors have a shared responsibility to promote family integrity, center the voices and experiences of individuals with lived expertise, engage in authentic partnerships, and actively work towards equity and justice. These continue to be...

$600.00

Protecting Financial Futures: Prevent, Identify & Resolve Identity Theft in Foster Care

Virtual

Identity theft in foster care is a growing concern that affects some of the most vulnerable members of society. In many cases, children in foster care may not even be aware that their identities have been compromised until they are preparing to age out of the system or after they have left care. This issue...

$45.00

Counsel for Kids: Communications on a Budget

Virtual

Children in court need lawyers of their own. We’re working to make sure they have them. Advocating for counsel for kids legislation includes spreading the word to policymakers, journalists, and the public. But creating digital communications content and materials requires time and money–two resources that may be in short supply for advocates. In this free...

Free

Defining “Services” Within Reasonable Efforts through a Safety Lens

Virtual
Virtual Event

NACC Member Webinar Federal program requirements do not provide clarification regarding what constitutes reasonable efforts. State interpretation and definitions of reasonable efforts vary across all fifty states and the territories. A large majority of states have defined reasonable efforts with the primarily focus on treatment services provided to the family as the means to prevent...

$45.00

A Dynamic Duo: Leveraging the Power of Children’s Attorneys and CASA/GAL Volunteers to Advance Children’s Legal Rights and Interests

Virtual
Virtual Event

Judge Maurice Portley (Ret.) (top left) joined Casey Family Programs in January 2017, after serving for 25 years as a trial and appellate judge in Phoenix, Maricopa County, AZ.  Judge Portley is the Senior Director of the Judicial & National Engagement team of Casey Family Programs and works with the Casey Strategic Consultants and other...

Free

NACC Virtual Training Series: High-Quality Legal Representation for Infants and Toddlers

Virtual

November 2, 9, & 16, 2023 12-2pm MT/2-4pm ET NACC invites all practitioners to join us for our inaugural virtual training series: High-Quality Legal Representation for Infants and Toddlers. Presented by NACC staff, and created in partnership with the ABA Center on Children and the Law, the Rocky Mountain Children’s Law Center, Zero to Three,...

$150.00

Your Feelings Make Sense: Using Validation to Build Client Rapport and Improve Interview Outcomes

From the initial contact with child welfare personnel/law enforcement to the closure of the case, participants’ voices, feelings, and perspective are often ignored at the expense of expediency and efficiency. Validation techniques allow system partners to honor the experience of those they serve and stay in the moment with them. It is a way of...

$45.00