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Call for Presentations Closes Soon!

Be a part of the leading family advocacy conference in America November 18 – 20, 2011. Proposals due July 31, 2011 so get busy!

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The National Federation of Families for Children’s Mental Health announces “Trauma Informed Care: Children, Youth and Families Shaping Best Practice” as the theme for its 22nd annual conference. We strongly believe the experience of families can provide the foundation for best practice in creating trauma-informed care.
The conference committee invites the submission of workshop or poster session proposals for the 2011 conference of the National Federation of Families for Children’s Mental Health that highlight best practice, research, and lived experience.
This conference will address the complex issue of trauma; the impact it has on children and families; the promotion of healing and prevention strategies; knowledge about how to address trauma through resiliency-based interventions, utilizing a family-driven, youth guided approach; and examples of how family organizations and the partners they work with are raising awareness and improving trauma-focused services and supports.
The National Federation is committed to shining a spotlight on these issues, lending support, and identifying workable solutions and promising practices.
As always, we are also interested in proposals with specific focus on:

Descriptions of outcome data that support parent-to-parent and youth peer support.
Developing and sustaining family and youth run organizations.
Family organization strategies for navigating budget cuts in creative and sustainable ways.

Proposals of particular interest include:

Healing and prevention-based approaches to equip and empower children with mental health challenges and their families to respond to traumatic events.
Addressing the needs of children birth to five in ways that foster resiliency and manage the impact of trauma.
Understanding the relationship between substance abuse and trauma, with particular attention to effective family-driven treatment approaches.
Youth guided resiliency-based approaches for delivering trauma-informed care.
Understanding and addressing trauma experienced by children involved in foster care or adoption, children living in military families, and children surviving disasters.

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