Call for Workshop Proposals


Deadline for Workshop Proposal Submissions: December 16, 2011

Prevent Child Abuse New York is seeking workshop proposals that focus on developing the knowledge and expertise needed by practitioners in today’s complex environment. Preference is given to presentations that are highly interactive, include strategies to engage the audience, and leave participants with new skills and learning they can immediately put to use in their jobs, in their homes, and in their communities.

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About the Conference and General Types of Workshops PCANY is Seeking
The New York State Child Abuse Prevention Conference inspires and equips professionals, advocates, parents and other caregivers with the most recent strategies and techniques for strengthening families, preventing child abuse, and improving outcomes for at-risk children and families. Prevent Child Abuse New York is seeking workshop proposals that focus on developing the knowledge and expertise needed by practitioners in today’s complex environment. Preference is given to presentations that are highly interactive, include strategies to engage the audience, and leave participants with new skills and learning they can immediately put to use in their jobs, in their homes, and in their communities.

Attendees travel diverse paths to the conference, working in many arenas: parenting education, family support, child abuse prevention and child protective services, intervention and treatment, domestic violence, early childhood education, health care, mental health, legal services, schools and in the home as parents. Their common dream is to build a world where all children grow in healthy and nurturing homes, schools, neighborhoods and communities.

Workshop tracks include:

  • Parent/Caregiver Education and Support
  • Effective Prevention Strategies
  • Skills for Direct Services Provision
  • Collaboration and Implementation within and across Systems
  • Not-for-Profit Management and Leadership

The deadline for submission is December 2, 2011.

In addition to workshops, we are also interested in institutes (two-part workshops), as well as panels and round table discussions that feature three or four presenters. Maximum number of presenters per session is four.

Workshop length is 1.5 hours; institute length is 3 hours.

We encourage submission of proposals at advanced levels for experienced professionals, as well as general interest workshops.

Criteria for all workshops:

  • Relate to primary, secondary, or tertiary prevention and family support.
  • Focus on strategies, skills building and practical application.
  • Include an interactive component.
  • Fit one of the conference tracks listed on the previous page.
  • Provide participants with “take home” handouts on key information and concepts. This is very important. Participants expect to be able to take information home with them because it helps put new learning into practice.
  • If about a specific program model, focus must be on implementation/replication issues.
  • Is not a sales pitch (which would, however, be welcome as a conference exhibit).

Presenter benefits and responsibilities:

  • PCANY will promote workshops and presenters through mailings, e-mail, social networks, and our website.
  • We are happy to waive one day’s registration fee, for the day of their presentation, for workshop presenters.
  • Presenters are responsible for transportation, lodging, and copies of handouts for workshop       participants.
  • Presenters who wish to do PowerPoint presentations are responsible for bringing their own laptops, LCD projectors and hard copies of the PowerPoint to their workshop.   

Examples of workshop topics we are looking for this year include but are NOT limited to:

Track 1: Parent/Caregiver Education and Support

  • How to facilitate parenting classes and support groups
  • Incorporating art, music or theater into work with children and families
  • Recognizing and responding to mental health issues
  • Brain development: The effects of trauma versus positive interaction
  • The impact of new and emerging technologies on families
  • Enhancing parent-child interaction
  • Responding to children’s challenging behaviors
  • Becoming a parent advocate / involving parents in leadership roles

Track 2: Effective Prevention Strategies   

  •  The science behind early childhood development, attachment, behavior, mental health and other child and family topics and issues
  • Sex abuse prevention strategies
  • Preventing family violence
  • Preventing physical, emotional and/or educational neglect
  • Strategies to reduce bullying and peer violence
  • Home visiting strategies in New York State

Track 3: Skills for Direct Services Provision

  • Family engagement in CPS and preventive cases
  • Trauma-informed care
  • Immigration issues with child abuse cases
  • Working with families affected by domestic violence
  • Cultural competency in service provision
  • Providing support and services to military families
  • Child/infant mental health, including social and emotional development
  • Working with substance abusing families
  • Dealing with post-partum and maternal depression
  • Kinship caregiving: resources and services for grandparents and other relative caregivers; legal issues
  • Working with dads / integrating fatherhood issues into programs
  • Parenting the special needs child, for parents and for those who work with parents    
  • Working with parents with developmental disabilities
  • Working with teens / working with teen parents / the teen brain
  • Working with children with social/emotional issues
  • Working with children who have experienced trauma
  • Working with parents who have been or are incarcerated
  • Commercially sexually exploited children / human trafficking
  • Examination and evaluation of child victims
  • Motivational interviewing
  • Retaining families in service provision
  • Mandated reporter training

Track 4: Collaboration and Implementation within and across Systems

  • Effective local partnerships, for example between service providers and DSS
  • Cross systems collaborations that benefit families / integrating systems
  • Understanding and navigating the child welfare system
  • Working with the court system
  • Child welfare legislation, policy and practice, for example including Family Assessment Response
  • Disproportionate minority representation in the child welfare system   

Track 5: Not-for-Profit Management and Leadership

  • Logic models: How to create and refine yours
  • Surviving in challenging economic times
  • Use of evidence and best-practice in your program
  • Understanding the New York State budget process
  • Developing effective supervisory skills
  • Marketing and public relations
  • How to take advantage of current trends in funding
  • Acknowledging and preparing for transition
  • Dealing with employee burnout and vicarious trauma

SUBMITTING YOUR PROPOSAL

  • Submit Your Workshop Proposal here: All Workshop proposals must be submitted online. Make sure you have reviewed the proposal checklist from the Call for Proposals PDF before you submit your proposal online.
  • You may want to prepare portions of your proposal (summary, objectives, content, methods to engage audience) in Microsoft Word (or another word processing program) before submitting it online and save the file to your computer so you have a record of what you sent.
  • Supplementary materials (workshop handouts and presenter resumes) can not be submitted through the web site. Please email these materials to conference@preventchildabuseny.org.
  • Questions about your proposal should be directed to Jennifer Dailey at 518-445-1273.
  • Mailed or faxed proposals will NOT be accepted.
  • Incomplete proposals will not be accepted.

Download the Call for Workshop Proposals This is a PDF version of the information explained above plus a workshop proposal checklist to assist you with submission of your proposal.

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