Alaska Child Welfare Conference

We are excited to invite you to be a part of our second Alaska Child Welfare Conference where the theme is “Working Together for the Safety, Permanency, and Well-Being of Alaska’s Children.”

This conference seeks to improve our knowledge and skill in providing child welfare services in Alaska. Our audience is focused on four important groups: OCS employees, resource families (foster, adoptive, and kinship care families), tribal members (ICWA workers, tribal social services, tribal court personnel), and child advocates (GALs and CASAs). We all hold a piece in our state’s response to keeping children safe and have crafted the conference to hear those different voices and look at child welfare through different lenses.

This is a VIRTUAL event. Each day will start with an all-conference plenary, followed by a choice of three concurrent workshops in the morning, and three concurrent workshops in the afternoon. For the concurrent workshops, you do not need to pre-select which one to attend. You may freely select which one to attend live on the day of the conference and watch the other two recorded workshops at your own convenience. We will end each day with a thought-provoking panel, grappling with a challenging question and offering a chance to look at these challenges through the different lenses of our participants. This conference is presented virtually, so wherever you are in Alaska, we invite you to participate.

There are the themes for each day:

• November 2 – Safety
• November 3 – Permanency
• November 4 – Well-Being

REGISTER HERE: ALASKA CHILD WELFARE CONFERENCE (vfairs.com)