The NACC Event Calendar provides up-to-date information on upcoming events from the NACC, including training sessions, webinars, and conferences in your local area and around the country.
In conjunction with NACC’s 46th National Child Welfare Law Conference, join us at the inaugural NACC career fair!
From Learning to Action: Shared Accountability for Disrupting Harm and Promoting HealingThis 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 times...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
