Session 1

Friday | April 8, 2022

6:00 PM - 9:00 PM MST 

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 5:45 – 6:00 PM

Pacific 4:45 – 5:00 PM

Pre-Conference & Tech Check

Join us for some uplifting music, connection, and test your tech 

Mountain 6:00 – 6:15 PM

Pacific 5:00 – 5:15 PM

Welcome & Intro with Jill

Mountain 6:15 – 8:45 PM

Pacific 5:15 – 7:45 PM

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 8:45 – 9:00 PM

Pacific 7:45 – 8:00 PM

Closing

Session 2

Saturday | April 9, 2022

9:00 AM -12 PM MST

Mountain 8:45 – 9:00 AM

Pacific 7:45 – 8:00 AM

Pre-Conference & Tech Check

Mountain 9:00 – 9:15 AM

Pacific 8:00 – 8:15 AM

Welcome With Jill

Mountain 9:15 – 9:45 AM

Pacific 8:15 – 8:45 AM

Appreciation with Kim

Mountain 9:45 – 10:15 AM

Pacific 8:45 – 9:15 AM 

DHW "What's New"

 Julie Sevcik & Marjean Hazen with local program managers

Mountain 10:15 – 10:25 AM

Pacific 9:15 – 9:25 AM

Break 

Mountain 10:25 – 11:55 AM

Pacific 9:25 – 10:55 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 11:55 – 12:00 PM

Pacific 10:55 – 11:00 PM 

Morning Closing

Mountain 12:00 - 12:30 PM

Pacific 10:55 – 11:00 AM 

Lunch Break

Session 3

Saturday | April 9, 2022

12:30  -  4:30 PM MST

Mountain 12:30– 12:35 PM

Pacific 11:30 – 11:35 AM

Welcome Back & Workshop Rounds

Mountain 12:35 – 1:20 PM

Pacific 11:35 – 12:20 PM

Self-Worth Through Heritage & Culture

Presented by Shari Baber with Brown Like Me

There are 5 points to our conversation on heritage and culture: 

https://www.idahobca.com/

Mountain 1:20 – 2:20 PM

Pacific 12:20 – 1:20 PM

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

5 Minute Break 

Mountain 2:25 – 3:10 PM

Pacific 1:25 – 2:10 PM

Workshop C

Reunification Fears From Foster Parents

Susan Baca, Elizabeth Dorpat & Leslie Hallen-Hickam present the journey of our foster parent's runification fears.

Workshop D

FASD, Trauma & other Neurobehavioral Disorders

Presenter: Wendy Brown Prenatal substance exposure plan of safe care. 

5 Minute Break 

Mountain 3:15 – 4:00 PM

Pacific 2:15 – 3:00 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 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.

Mountain 4:00 – 4:25 PM

Pacific 3:00 – 3:25 PM

Learning Self Expression with Art 

Presented by Gina Deeming 

Mountain 4:25 – 4:30 PM

Pacific 3:25 – 3:30 PM

Closing & Special Thanks