2021 SUPERVISORY LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT SUMMIT - Florida Department of Children and Families
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The Quality Office & Office of Child Welfare Training presents the
2021 SUPERVISORY LEARNING
AND DEVELOPMENT SUMMIT
Florida Department of Children and Families
OUR MISSON The Supervisory Learning and Development Summit helps to unite child welfare supervisors through education, inspiration, and engagement on strategic initiatives. The virtual approach will provide effective learning and development with a shared vision and hope during a very challenging time in our work. This is your opportunity, as supervisors, to access a wealth of insight on topics such as domestic violence, work-life balance, and resiliency from renowned experts ready to motivate and equip you to help the children and families of Florida better. When you grow in your leadership, you can strengthen your relationships and increase productivity.
PARTICIPANTS
CPI Supervisors
Sheriff CPI Supervisors
Case Manager Supervisors
Children Legal Services (CLS)
Supervisors
SESSION TOPICS • Promoting Resiliency Among Children, Families And Child Welfare Professionals – Derrick Stephen, FSU • Domestic Violence – Safe and Together Institute Trainers • Program Integration – Quality Office & Child Welfare & ESS & SAMH • Neuroscience of Sexual Abuse and Domestic Violence Trauma – Dr. James Lewis • Child Sexual Abuse – Jill Levenson, Ph.D. • Work/Life Balance – Christine White • Resiliency – Gary White & Raja Benton & Martha Lang • Multidisciplinary Teams and Collaboration – Jacqueline Griffith Stephens, M.A. • Working Remotely – Nereida Warriner
SUMMI T SESSI ONS - Al l s es si ons wi l l b e L I VE!
JANUARY 2021 Click on the training title to register
MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY
9:15 AM – 4:30 PM EST 9:15 AM – 4:30 PM EST 9:15 AM – 4:30 PM EST 9:15 AM – 4:30 PM EST 9:15 AM – 4:30 PM EST
18 19 20 21 22
1:00 – 2:00 PM Domestic 1:00 – 2:00 PM Work-life 10:00 – 11:00 AM Domestic Violence Part 1 10:00 – 11:00 AM Domestic Violence Part 1
Violence Part 1 Balance
11:00 AM – 12:30 PM Neurotrauma Of 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM Promoting Resiliency
2:00 – 3:00 PM Domestic Sexual Abuse and Domestic Violence Among Children, Families And Child Welfare
Violence Part 1 Professionals
1:00 – 3:00 PM Program Integration
3:00 – 4:30 PM Promoting 3:00 – 4:30 PM Child Sexual Abuse: What
Resiliency Among Children, 3:00 – 4:30 PM Promoting Resiliency Among Supervisors Should Know to Help Works
Families And Child Welfare Children, Families And Child Welfare Make Decisions
Professionals Professionals
25 26 27 28 29
12:00 – 1:30 PM Promoting 1:00 – 2:00 PM Domestic 9:30 – 11:00 AM Child Sexual 10:00 – 11:00 AM Domestic Violence Part 2 10:00 – 11:00 AM Domestic Violence Part 2
Resiliency Among Children, Violence Part 2 Abuse: What Supervisors Should
Families And Child Welfare Know to Help Make Decisions 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM CPI Supervisor 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM CPI Supervisor
Professionals 1:00 – 3:00 PM Program Resiliency Part 1 (Mandatory for all CPIs) Resiliency Part 2 (Mandatory for all CPIs)
Integration 1:00 – 2:00 PM Work-life
1:00 – 2:00 PM Domestic Balance 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM & 3:00 – 4:30 PM 1:00 – 2:30 PM Working Remotely
Violence Part 2 3:00 – 4:00 PM Multidisciplinary Promoting Resiliency Among Children,
Teams and Collaboration 3:00 – 4:00 PM Domestic Families And Child Welfare Professionals 3:00 – 4:30 PM Promoting Resiliency Among
2:30 – 4:00 PM Working Violence Part 2 Children, Families And Child Welfare
Remotely 1:00 – 2:30 PM Neurotrauma Of Sexual Professionals
Abuse and Domestic Violence
2:30 – 4:00 PM Working Remotely
SESSION DESCRIPTIONS & PRESENTERS
Supervising Domestic Violence Practice with
the Safe & Together Model
Most child welfare and other human service professionals have received little to no training or education related to supervising domestic violence. This
series fills a major and important gap in professional education related to working with families.
Domestic violence is one of the most challenging case issues facing child welfare and other family service agencies. Handling it well requires skills,
confidence, and knowledge. Supervising workers in a domestic violence-related practice is one way to ensure employees have the support and guidance
they need when working with adult and child survivors, intervening with perpetrators, and managing safety for themselves and the family.
As a result of this online training, Supervisors will have more information to support them to:
• Assess the quality of their worker’s practice
• Address worker safety concerns
• Provide decision-making and case guidance
During the month of January, the Safe & Together Institute will facilitate a two-part online video series (60 minutes per session). Fifty minutes will be
dedicated for instruction and 10 minutes for questions and discussion. Participants have to attend both Part 1 and Part 2.
Work-Life Balance: Mythical Unicorn or Achievable Goal?
“Work-life balance” has become quite the buzz phrase! What does it really mean, though – and is it even possible to achieve? How can you give proper
attention to both your professional responsibilities and personal life without overwhelming yourself and feeling like you want to give up trying? It is
possible to live a happy and fulfilled life both on and off the job! Let’s break it all down and explore what this balance means, what it can look like for you,
and how you can get there – one realistic step at a time. Participants will create their own plan of action to implement right away.
During this session, learners will:
• Take inventory: Assessing current areas of imbalance.
• Identify priorities: Choosing actions that will have the greatest impact.
• Acknowledge obstacles: Preparing to overcome roadblocks.
• Take action: Establishing a daily grounding practice.
• Celebrate and evaluate: Continually growing and adapting for success.
Christine J. White joined the Florida Department of Children and Families in March 2020 as Statewide Director of DCF’s new Office of
Well-being. The mission of the office is to promote a healthy and resilient workforce that thrives both on and off the job. Prior to joining
DCF, Christine served as a well-being professional in a variety of different capacities, and is a Certified Wellness Coach, Fitness
Trainer, and Yoga Instructor whose greatest passion is helping people achieve their happiest, healthiest version of themselves through
a holistic approach focused on sustainable healthy behaviors.
Workplace well-being became a particular passion for Christine through her work with the non-profit Working Well, whose mission is
to foster a thriving, healthy workforce, and as coordinator of the City of Tallahassee’s employee wellness program. Before launching
her own wellness business, Christine enjoyed a 20-year career in the non-profit realm focusing on communications, public speaking,
events management, fundraising, and advocacy. She holds a bachelor’s degree in public relations and master’s degree in mass
communications, both from the University of Florida.
Mental Health: Promoting Resiliency Among Children, Families
And Child Welfare Professionals
This 90-min session will explore how primary and secondary trauma impacts children, families, and child welfare professionals' mental health. More specifically,
attendees will learn about toxic stress, adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), brain architecture, and other factors that impact mental wellness. Participants will
gain an overall understanding of a variety of strategies that promote resiliency, such as reflective supervision, motivational interviewing, and effective
communication to strengthening unit competency and confidence. This workshop-style training will include screening tools, group activities, and handouts to
increase participants' retention of information and confidence in applying and implementing the primary objectives listed below.
Derrick Stephens, MBA, LCSW, QS has been a lifelong advocate for vulnerable children and families involved with the child welfare
system. His passion and dedication stem from his personal journey spending his childhood in and out of the Georgia and Florida
foster care system due to his mother and father's battle with substance use disorder and mental illness. Mr. Stephens's mother is
diagnosed with Schizophrenia, and at age 10, his father committed suicide after murdering his girlfriend in an Atlanta hotel room.
Mr. Stephens is dedicated to ensuring access to education, physical and mental wellness, and innovative technology such as
virtual/augmented reality for foster youth and alumni are universal. Mr. Stephens is a 2019 graduate of the Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation Clinical Scholar Fellowship, where he led a team of healthcare professionals to Improve Quality of Life Outcomes for
Florida's Foster Youth and Families. He is the founder of Underdog Dream, a 501c not-for-profit working to provide foster youth
with the opportunity to imagine the possibilities, see a future filled with purpose, and live with intention.
He obtained a Master of Social Work and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Central Florida. Mr. Stephens is
President and CEO of Phoenix Healthcare Consultants and currently serves as Research Faculty with Florida State University
College of Medicine, Behavioral Sciences and Social Medicine working on a special project with Florida's Department of Children
and Families providing behavioral health training and consultations to child protective investigators, supervisors and leadership.
Neurotrauma of Sexual and Domestic Violence
“Trauma informed” decisions and services have become a standard in behavioral health and Domestic Violence victim advocacy. Based on
large-scale studies of the “Adverse Childhood Experiences/ACEs” interview tool, trauma informed assessments and services focus primarily
on critical psychological traumas in the lives of children and adults. However, the reality of neurotraumas (direct cerebral injuries) in Sexual
and Domestic Violence events, especially in older adolescent and adult women, are seldom emphasized in formal professional and client
education. In this interactive webinar, Dr. Lewis discusses the two forms of neurotrauma that are widespread in sexual and domestic
violence: concussion and hypoxia (brain oxygen deprivation from strangling/“choking” and smothering events.)
Dr. Jim Lewis is a clinical neuropsychologist with more than 40 years of experience in clinical evaluation, including assessments of 4,000+
older adolescent and adult women with brain injuries sustained in sexual and/or domestic violence incidents. In 1992, Dr. Lewis wrote
and presented a landmark article, “The Battered Woman Syndrome – Neglected Diagnosis of Traumatic Brain Injury.” Dr. Lewis has also
devoted himself to community and professional education on brain injury, beginning in 1977 in Washington, D. C., Maryland and the
surrounding Mid-Atlantic States, and now, in his eighth year in Florida.
A frequent presenter in the area of neurotrauma at regional, state and national webinars and at pre-Covid live audiences, Dr. Lewis has
taught for the Florida Institute for Advanced Judicial Studies, the Florida Circuit Court Judges Conference, the National Organization for
Victim Assistance, the National Drug Endangered Children Conference, the National Board of Forensic Examiners, the National Model
Family Court Program and at national conventions of the American Psychological Association and the National Academy of
Neuropsychology.
Dr. Lewis is the Founder of the Brain Injury Education Project and collaborated with FL State House Rep. Chris Latvala (District 67) to
author “Jordan’s Law.” This 2020 state law made Florida the first state to have mandatory brain injury education for all child welfare
system professionals. On October 16, 2020, Dr. Lewis received a special “Tribute Award” from the FL House of Representatives “for his
assistance in the development and passage of Jordan’s Law.”
Program Integration (ESS & OCW & Quality Office & SAMH)
One of the biggest challenges in working with individuals and families is having all the information to gain a full picture. The focus on our own
role and tasks that need to be completed make it a challenge to include collaboration and discussion with all other parties working with the
family. Without these vital pieces, it can be difficult to make the right decisions for care.
This training will focus on the importance of: Collaboration - This means bringing all parties to the table, including internal and external
partners; Cooperation – Shared decision-making which leads to shared responsibility; and Understanding – We can see the bigger picture
when we have the different perspectives of a multi-disciplinary team. This all results in better outcomes for the children and families we serve.
Jill Krohn is the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Kimora A. McConnell has committed her life’s work to
Director for the Central Region and has been in that position improving the well-being of and advocating for children. In
since July 2018. She has held various positions in the SAMH 2014, she graduated with honors from Florida State
department since coming to DCF in 2014. She also led a University with a Masters Degree in Social Work,
DCF funded contract that was implemented to co-locate concentrated in Social Leadership and Management.
individuals with social service backgrounds in the service Kimora has worked in child welfare for over 8 years and has
centers to assist the Child Protective Investigators with their previously volunteered as a Guardian ad Litem for children
cases, much like the present-day Behavioral Health in Florida’s dependency court system for over four years.
Consultants through the State Opioid Response grant. Jill Her experience also includes domestic and intimate partner
received her Bachelors in Psychology from the College of violence advocacy work with Florida’s certified domestic
William & Mary in Williamsburg, VA and her Masters in violence shelters along with various child abuse prevention
Counseling Psychology here in Florida at Palm Beach efforts and grassroot coalition formation with the Ounce of
Atlantic University. She is registered mental health Prevention Fund of Florida. Currently, Kimora serves as a
counseling intern working towards licensure and is also part Special Reviewer within the Quality Office where she
of team of counselors at a private practice in Orlando, participates in high level reviews and case studies at the
Florida. request of executive leadership.Child Sex Abuse: What Supervisors Should Know to Help
Workers Make Decisions
This 90-minute presentation will offer innovative ideas for how DCF supervisors can help workers make evidence-based decisions in child sexual
abuse cases. When sexual abuse is discovered, it creates crises and trauma for families. Victims, non-offending parents, and perpetrators all need
different kinds of help to aid in healing and to create safety for children.
This webinar will address what child and teen victims need, complex family dynamics and non-offending parents, recognizing grooming, and
considerations in referring for sex offender evaluation and treatment.
Dr. Jill Levenson, PhD, LCSW, is a Professor of Social Work at Barry University in Miami, FL. She has published 5
books and over 100 articles about treatments and social policies designed to treat and prevent sexual abuse. Her
research has been funded by the National Institutes of Justice, the Centers for Disease Control, and the National
Sexual Violence Resource Center.
Dr. Levenson began her career as a child abuse investigator in Maryland, she worked for CPT and SATC in
Broward, and was a DCF trainer in the 1990s. She is currently a licensed clinical social worker providing
assessment and treatment services for offenders, survivors, and families impacted by sexual abuse in South
Florida. In 2019 she was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Association for the Treatment of
Sexual Abusers (ATSA), and in 2020 she was NASW-FL Miami-Dade Social Worker of the Year. She has provided
trainings in more than 20 states, Canada, Australia, Mexico, and New Zealand.Working Remotely: Helpful Tips That Will Help You Work
and Supervise Others Remotely And Efficiently
Working from home can be a dream; no long commute, no tolls to pay, not having to wear a suit/dress up every day. YES!
But after a while, has it turned into a nightmare?
How do you know your staff are working, how do you keep an open-door policy if you are not in the office, the kids and spouse think
you are not working and at times keep interrupting. What should you do?
Join me as we will discuss some helpful tips and strategies that will help in working and supervising your teams remotely.
Nereida (Nellie) Warriner has over 25 years of experience in child welfare. She has her
degree from Cabrini College in organizational management. She is a certified curriculum
designer, a child safety practice expert and Council on Accreditation reviewer. She has
reviewed child welfare systems across the US and in Japan and Germany.
Nellie has held positions as a child protection investigator, Program Administrator,
Quality Assurance for both DCF and CBC and training specialist for Office of Child
Welfare. She is currently a Quality Office Reviewer Supervisor for the Southeast and
Central regions. On a personal note, Nellie is fluent in Spanish, has been married for over
28 years, is a mother of four adult children and grandmother to seven awesome
children.Multidisciplinary Teams and the Importance of Effective Collaboration
This presentation aims to help participants understand the importance of utilizing the
multidisciplinary team for the identification, intervention, and treatment of child abuse and
neglect. The role and purpose of the Children’s Advocacy Centers in Florida will be
explored along with the attributed standards for accredited centers.
Florida is unique in that we have both Children’s Advocacy Centers and Child Protection
Teams. The history and perspective of each organization will be reviewed. The advantages
of utilizing a multidisciplinary model in helping abused children, as well as some of the
challenges will also be discussed. This presentation will look at collaborative leadership,
how we make our teams work, and how the CACs help bring everyone together to protect
Florida’s Children.
Jackie Stephens is the Chief Executive officer of the Children’s Advocacy Center of Collier County. The Children’s Advocacy Center of Collier
County (CAC) is the county’s only immediate care center for children who have been subjected to physical or sexual abuse. Jacqueline Stephens,
who holds a B.S. in Psychology from Florida Institute of Technology and a Master’s degree in counseling from Rollins College, created many of
the CAC programs and manages all aspects of the non-profit organization.
Jackie has over 35 years of experience in the field of child protection and served many years as a lead quality assurance consultant for the
Florida Department of Health Child Protection Team Program. Jackie currently serves as president of the board for the Florida Network of
Children’s Advocacy Centers. and is a founding board member of the Safe & Healthy Children’s Coalition of Collier County.
She grew up in Florida and has been a resident of Collier County for 28 over years. She is deeply committed to the care and well-being of
children in the state of Florida as well as her community. She is a graduate of the Leadership Collier Class of 1999, and Leadership Florida Class
XXVI. Jackie and her husband, Tom Conrecode, have a blended family with five children.Resilience Program Introductory Sessions*
Resilient You: Moving Beyond Survival Mode (Part 1 of 2)
Resilient Us: Building Optimism & Connectivity (Part 2 of 2)
(*All CPI Supervisors MUST ATTEND BOTH SESSIONS)
Raja Benton is a mezzo social worker, yoga instructor, and strengths-based
advocate for people with over 8 years of experience building teams and
educating groups across the technology, non-profit, and international
development sectors. She is completing her Master of Social Work at
Florida State University with a focus on behavioral health and organizational As a leader within the child welfare program, your role at
leadership and draws upon her training and experience, as well as DCF is essential to the successful achievement of our
published research, to promote a holistic perspective to personal and organization’s mission. And your personal well-being is
professional well-being. deeply important to our leadership and your colleagues. To
help ensure that you thrive both on and off the job, our
Office of Well-being, in partnership with our Office of Child
Martha Lang is a Doctor of Philosophy (in philosophy), with research and Welfare, is launching a new comprehensive resilience
teaching areas focusing on ethics, philosophy of psychology, social justice, program designed just for you!
and well-being. She has worked as an elementary school teacher, an
elected official, a board member for multiple non-profits, and an adjunct
professor. Martha holds certifications in yoga and logic-based
therapy/philosophical counseling, and she utilizes an evidence-based This 6-month journey will guide you toward greater
model of well-being in her holistic well-being consulting and alternative resilience, optimism, self-care, and overall well-being. Our
counseling services. team of facilitators look forward to meeting with you
virtually in small groups weekly to make space for your
personal care so that you can continue to lead with
Gary White has over 20 years of experience in the healthcare, non-profit, inspiration and thrive as a human. These two introductory
and public health realms providing leadership and workforce wellness sessions will lay the foundation for the coming 6 months,
consulting, coaching, and training. His background includes organizational outline the process, define concepts, and set expectations.
transformation, leadership/workforce development, and trauma-informed Together, we will learn about ourselves and each other,
strategies. Gary is a certified facilitator with the National Council for
Behavioral Health and a national consultant on substance use disorder practice resilience, and have some fun!
prevention. He holds a Master’s in Public Health from the University of South
Florida and completed Psychological First Aid training via Johns Hopkins
University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health.QUESTIONS?
Please contact filiz.aktan@myflfamilies.com
Training Manager
Office of Child Welfare
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