Session 1
Wednesday | April 27, 2022
9:30 AM - 12:30 PM MDT
NOTICE: As a foster parent you can claim 10 hours for the conference if you attend both days even though the certificates you receive won’t add up to 10 hours total. It is your responsibility to keep track of hours.
Mountain 9:15 – 9:30 AM
Pacific 8:15 – 8:30 AM
Pre-Conference & Tech Check
Join us for some uplifting music, connection, and test your tech
Mountain 9:30 – 9:45 AM
Pacific 8:30 – 8:45 AM
Welcome & Intro
Mountain 9:45 – 12:15 AM
Pacific 8:45 – 11:15 AM
Honor Yesterday & Treasure Today
This interactive keynote is designed to address the self-care needs of Resource Parents and Social Workers. Participants are encouraged to verbalize their understanding and connectedness to the multiple aspects of compassion fatigue with emphasis on the cumulative effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. Participants will be able to acknowledge their own levels of stress and experience tools and techniques to circumvent the most challenging aspects of their compassion fatigue and regain states of neuro-physiological (mind-body) regulation, recovery, and resilience. Learn to make choices to redesign your life for resilience in the face of overwhelming and emotionally intense demands.
Goal and Learning Objectives:
● Recognize the risks and challenges of compassion fatigue.
● Identify personal and professional impacts of compassion fatigue.
● Describe some causes and triggers of CF and burnout.
● Understand the importance of having each other’s back.
● Learn how to be and have accountable partners.
● Appreciate asking for help and accepting help.
● Understand the benefits of planned and intentional self-care.
● Name some strategies for accelerated recovery and self-regulation.
● Identify two benefits of planned and intentional self-care.
● Beverly’s 3 R’s Release – Reboot – Recharge
Mountain 12:15 – 12:30 PM
Pacific 11:15 – 12:30 PM
Closing With Tennille
Session 2
Friday | April 29, 2022
9:30 AM - 12:30 PM MDT
Mountain 9:15 – 9:30 AM
Pacific 8:15 – 8:30 AM
Pre-Conference & Tech Check
Join us for some uplifting music, connection, and test your tech
Mountain 9:30 – 9:40 AM
Pacific 8:30 – 8:40 AM
Welcome
Mountain 9:40 – 10:10 AM
Pacific 8:40 – 9:10 AM
Appreciation with Kim
Mountain 10:10 – 10:40 AM
Pacific 9:10 – 9:40 AM
DHW Updates
Julie Sevcik & Marjean Hazen with local program managers
Mountain 10:40 – 10:50 AM
Pacific 9:40 – 9:50 AM
Break
Mountain 10:50 – 12:20 PM
Pacific 9:50 – 11:20 AM
Keeping Kids Safe in a Tech-Filled World
Mark Dalton a Criminal Investigator with the Idaho Internet Crimes Against Children Unit, will discuss what parents can do as preventative measures, encourage parents to learn their own family’s issues, as no kid reacts or feels the same on two consecutive issues, and provide basic knowledge around keeping kids safe with tech.
Mountain 12:20 – 12:30 PM
Pacific 11:20 – 11:30 PM
Resource Expo | Closure
Session 3
Saturday | April 30, 2022
9:30 AM - 2:00 PM
Mountain 9:15 – 9:30 AM
Pre-Conference & Tech Check
Join us for some uplifting music, connection, and test your tech
Mountain 9:30 – 9:45 AM
Welcome & Intro
Mountain 9:45 – 10:30 AM
Self-Worth Through Heritage & Culture
Presented by Shari Baber with Brown Like Me
There are 5 points to our conversation on heritage and culture:
Bridge the gap in our communities
Cultural Connections
Color doesn't make friends
Representation is important for us all
Available resources in your community
https://www.idahobca.com/
Break
Mountain 10:30 – 11:30 AM
Workshop A
Ethics of Confidentiality in Foster Care
This workshop will discuss the difference between Privacy and Confidentiality when communicating in the foster care field. We will discuss some real-life examples and take a look at the DHW Standard for Confidentiality. There will be the opportunity to discuss some scenarios and decide if the examples fit into the box of Privacy or Confidentiality. While there may be some disagreement, the goal of this workshop is to provide a forum to discuss and decide how much to disclose and to whom.
Workshop B
Families Fostering Teens
Megan Millward with Family Panel & Q/A
Break
Mountain 11:40 – 12:25 PM
Workshop C
Reunification Fears From Foster Parents
Susan Baca, Elizabeth Dorpat & Anne Sharp present the journey of our foster parent's runification fears.
Workshop F
Foster Parent’s Experience of Identifying Needs & Resource Exploration
Foster parent's real life examples on how they idenified the needs of thier children & utilized resources.
Break
Mountain 12:35 – 1:20 PM
Workshop E
3D: Dad's Dish on Discipline
Changing the paradigm of discipline form dad's perspectives; real life examples with real foster Dads.
Workshop D
FASD, Trauma & other Neurobehavioral Disorders
Prenatal substance exposure plan of safe care -Wendy Brown
Mountain 1:25 – 1:55 PM
Learning Self Expression with Art
Presented by Gina Deeming
Mountain 1:55 – 2:00 PM