Conference 2012

Information About the 2011 Conference

22nd Annual Conference

November 18 – 20, 2011 • Washington, DC

Trauma Informed Care: Children, Youth and Families Shaping Best Practice

Make plans to attend the conference next year in Washington, DC November 18 – 20, 2011.

Don’t forget pre-conference events on November 16th and 17th!

Welcome to the information section for the National Federation of Families for Children’s Mental Health 22nd Annual Conference. In this section of our website you will find all of the information you need to plan for attending what promises to be our best conference yet. 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.

Be sure to take time to review the amazing array of workshops and poster sessions we have assembled this year.

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 familydriven, 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.

This year we have a 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.

Topics of special 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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