FRIDAY, JUNE 26
# 1 – Supporting foster families |
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| 10:45-12:15 | 1.1 | Foster parent identity in the Quebec context of the Act regarding the representation of resources: Parent or professional? Marie-Pierre Joly |
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The effects of fostering on the family |
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The role of long-term mentoring in a family-like care setting |
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| # 2 – Bringing about practice and policy changes | ||
| 10:45-12:15 | 2.1 |
Legislating the conditions in which love can flourish – Children’s voice |
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Authentically engaging youth with foster care experience in practice and policy change |
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Empowering youth in advocacy – A youth led perspective |
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| 2.4 | We have knowledge too: Indigenous youth-in-care as knowledge holders for their own well-being Lily Ieroniawakon Deer |
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| # 3 – Reflecting on adoption and permanency | ||
| 10:45-12:15 | 3.1 |
Reunifications in foster care in Finland – An urban legend? |
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Belonging in two families: Exploring simple adoption as a permanency option for children in long-term out-of-home care in Australia |
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Placing a child for adoption: What factors influence professionals in their decisions? |
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| 3.4 | Perspectives from a delegated Aboriginal agency: Culturally grounded reunification and permanency planning Alysha Brown |
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| # 4 – Enhancing young people’s perspectives and relationships | ||
| 10:45-12:15 | 4.1 |
Identity A’where’ness: Young people’s perceptions of the role of space in identity construction throughout their lives in foster care |
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Raising Black youth in care: Examining their educational, familial and social relationships |
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The magic of shared experience: Best practices and outcomes of youth peer support in child welfare |
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| 4.4 | Addressing the millennium scoop: A perspective from a former foster kid Natasha Reimer |
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| # 5 – Using data to inform practices and policies | ||
| 10:45-12:15 | 5.1 |
Promoting foster caregivers’ understanding and use of the Ontario Looking After Children (OnLAC) data |
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Intersectional data analysis: The importance of it in aiding child welfare in understanding and addressing service disparities and disproportionality |
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Focusing in on localized disparities in socioeconomic disadvantages and child welfare placement: Three-dimensional spatial data analysis and structural equation modeling |
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| 5.4 | Childonomics: Investing in child rights and alternative care Jean Anne Kennedy, Maria Herczog |
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| # 6 – Le maintien des liens parents-enfants durant un placement / Maintaining parent-child ties during placement | ||
| 10:45-12:15 |
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Évaluation d’une formation sur les visites supervisées: quels changements de pratique chez les intervenants de la protection de la jeunesse ? / Evaluation of a training on supervised visits: How do the practices of youth protection workers change? |
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Comment favoriser la rencontre entre un enfant placé et son parent dans un dispositif de visite médiatisée ? / Facilitating mediated visits between children in care and their parent |
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Mieux soutenir les enfants vivant des visites supervisées avec leur(s) parent(s) : discours des intervenants sur leur pratique d’accompagnement / Supporting children with supervised visits: Youth protection workers discuss their practices |
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Correspondances socionumériques : angle mort sur maintien des liens familiaux chez les jeunes placés / Online communications: A blind spot in maintaining family ties among youth in care Sophie Hébert, Marie-Andrée Poirier, Isabelle Laguë |
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| # 7 – Favoring whole-family approaches | ||
| 15:30-17:00 | 7.1 |
Supporting the whole foster family and reinforcing sibling relations in Finland |
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A holistic approach to child protection |
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Collaborating for change: Implementing an evidence informed fostering practice framework |
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| 7.4 | Siblings are for life Caroline Brown |
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| # 8 – Promoting cultural and community-based interventions | ||
| 15:30-17:00 | 8.1 |
The current situation and the perspectives of foster care in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia |
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Child protection in Honduras: Understanding the context of how migration shapes the lived realities of youth in and from care |
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| 8.3 |
Forensic child sexual abuse investigations. Thinking it through |
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| # 9 – Supporting foster care children and youth | ||
| 15:30-17:00 | 9.1 |
Youth Research Academy: A model for meaningfully engaging youth in research |
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Designing the future: Creating online resources with and for youth in state care |
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Right supports, right time, real difference: Impact of 5 years of primary & secondary educational supports for youth in care |
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| 9.4 | Promoting successful outcomes for youth in care: The impact of scholarship and bursary supports Violeta Dubov, Chrystal Colquhoun, Wendy Chan |
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| # 10 – Les relations et l’attachement : des éléments clés d’un placement en milieu substitut / Relationships and attachment: Key elements of in-care placement environments | ||
| 15:30-17:00 |
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Favoriser la relation en situant la communication et la participation au centre du placement / Fostering relationships: Promoting communication and participation in placement |
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Observer et analyser les représentations d’attachement chez les postulants famille d’accueil : un nouvel outil pour soutenir les évaluateurs / Observing and analyzing attachment characteristics among foster caregiver applicants: A new tool for evaluators |
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Et si on leur parlait d’amour ? Perceptions d’enfants placés sur leur sentiment d’être aimé / What if we talk to them about love? Perceptions of children in care on their sense of being loved |
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| 12:15-13:30 | 1 | Trauma inform substance abuse assessment & referral Amanda Keller |
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Prevalence data on attachment disorders of out-of-home care children using the latest DSM-5 criteria |
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Attachment disorders and functional impairment in foster care children |
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Enhancing natural supports for youth in care; Indicators to strongly engage youth’s ‘people’ |
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| 5 | Xpress yourself : Improving care leaver wellbeing through identity and empowerment work Carrie Harrop |
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| 6 | Children’s participation in kinship care assessments: A comparative examination between Scotland and Ontario Alexandra Jundler |
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| 7 | Cultural connections: Cultural project and honouring our sacred children Doreen Moellenbeck-Dushnitsky, Don Smoke |
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| 8 | Youth transitioning from care to independence and adulthood Noha Emam Hassanin, Yosr Kotb, Amira Ghonim, Yasmine El Hagry |
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| 9 | Family treatment program – Ranch Ehrlo Society Patti Petrucka, Bree Fiissel |
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| 10 | Alternative care for children around the globe: An overview of the alternative care and child protection situation in all countries Florence Koenderink |
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| 11 | Mettre au travail les relations pour favoriser le lien parent-enfant Laetitia Krummenacher |
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| 12 | Educational situation in foster care – A case study of Nepal Santosh Dhungana |
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| 13 | Beyond intstitutions: Changing the culture of care in India and Sri Lanka Myrna McNItt, Vasundhra Shrama |
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| 14 | The Canadian Child Welfare Information System Farah Barakat |
| 13:30-15:00 | 1 | nêhiyaw kesi wahkotok: Cree relationship mapping – How we are related Ralph Bodor, Kristina Kopp, Leona Makokis |
| 2 | Programme Pingouin: Implementing trauma-informed care in residential child welfare settings Denise Brend, Nicolas Fréchette, Frederick Martin, Véronique St-Pierre |
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| 3 | Skill-building workshop for working with and supporting LGBTQ+ youth in foster care Amy Salazar, Sara Gutschmidt, Jacquelene Lopez |
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| 4 | Ma Mawi Wi Chi Itata Centre family group conferencing: Overview and practical application Lisa Champagne, Jackie Anderson |
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| 5 | Inclusive foster care: Helping caregivers work with family, community and culture to grow connections for Indigenous children and youth Carolyn Oliver |
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| 6 | Relationships matter: Examining the pathways to long-term supportive relationships for youth exiting care in Canada Melanie Doucet |
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| 15:30-17:00 | 7 | Whu Neeh Nee – Building a new Carrier Sekani child and family well being model Mary Teegee, Warner Adam |
| 8 | Life after advocacy, how do you maintain your own wellness Audrey Thompson, Marie Christian |
Simultaneous interpretation from French to English available
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