18th
Annual West Coast Child Welfare Trainers Conference
* Call for Proposals *
The conference
will be
August 20-22, 2008
in San Diego, California
Conference at the San Diego
Town and Country Conference Center
in Mission Valley
Get
on Board: All Tracks Lead to the West Coast Trainer’s
Conference 2008
Registration due by July 25th
| This is the Conference Schedule as of 05/27/08. We have attempted to organize the sessions into Beginning (New Trax), Intermediate (Main Line) and Advanced (Super Train) training topics. | Click
to View: Printable Schedule Session Descriptions |
Wednesday August 20th |
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8:30
- 9:00 |
Registration/Check-in | ||
9:00
- 9:15 |
Welcome & Conference Business | ||
9:15
- 10:00 |
Keynote: | ||
10:00-10:30 |
Network Foundations | R. Wentz | |
New Trax |
Main Line |
Super Train |
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10:45-12:15 |
Getting Everyone Onboard: Bringing All Trains of Thought to the Station - Villanueva | Starting the Journey: Implementing Diversity Training - Pilisko | Creating Supervisory Learning Communities - Morse |
12:15
- 1:30 |
Lunch |
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1:30
- 3:00 |
Trainer Passages - Becker & Dahlin | Training with Heart: Bringing Your Self to Training Methodology and Standardized Curriculum - Cordero | Idaho Child Welfare New Worker Acdemy: Critical Issues for Success - Morgan, Phillips, & Wilson |
3:15
- 4:45 |
Taking the "Fun" Train: Using Games in the Classroom - Brittain | The Ties that Bind - Attachment, Developmental and Thrapeutic Parenting: Jones | Making it Real: Creating and Nurturing University/Agency Work Groups to Develop Training for Public Child Welfare - Reynoso, Sufuentes & Toulmin |
5:00 - 7:00 Reception at TBA |
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Thursday August 21st |
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New Trax |
Main Line |
Super Train |
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| 9:00 - 10:30 | The Art of Intentional Facillitation 2 - Alvarez | ||
| 10:45 - 12:15 | Loco-motives - Gerber & Wentz | TBA |
All Aboard! Co-training with Family Partners: Moving forward in Family - Professional Partnership - Ewing-Marto & Morriso-Velasco |
| 12:15 - 1:30 | Lunch |
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| 1:30 - 3:00 | Improving your PowerPoint and Presentation Software Skills - Robinson Sievert | Your Ticket to Cultural Responsiveness - Rodriguez & Norman | Infusing Evidence-based Practice into Child Welfare Training - Wilson |
| 3:15 - 4:45 | How to "Roll with Resistance" to Deal with Difficult Students - James | "Conducting" a Quartet of Training Media - Jones | Collaborating with Supervisors around Knowledge Management of New Workers - Nelson & Phillips |
Friday August 22nd |
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| 9:00 - 10:45 | HOT TOPICS (Utilizing Open Space Technology): Wentz | ||
| 11:00 - 11:45 | Conference Wrap-up | ||