Connect (Events)

• New 9/17: Virtual Event: The Fatherhood Connection: Engaging Dads at the Community Level from Zero To Three. Rebecca Parlakian, MA Ed, will share some of the seminal and emerging research exploring the impact fathers have on their children, and the ways in which fatherhood impacts men as well, and Alan-Michael Graves will discuss the critical success factors for powerful and authentic fatherhood engagement at the community level. (9/23)
• New 9/17: Harborview Medical Center, UW Medicine and King County present the 2nd Annual Re-Imagining Behavioral Health: Race, Equity, and Social Justice Conference. (9/23-9/24)
• New 9/17: The Importance of Fathers During the Perinatal Period (and Beyond) by Washington Interagency Fatherhood Council Partners. “Providers who engage fathers during the perinatal period can lessen the challenges many fathers endure and improve outcomes for children.” (9/29)
• New 9/17: SELF-Leadership Learning Journey Cohort – Oct. 5 - Nov. 9 from DCYF partner Emerging Wisdom. “Your six-week journey includes daily meditations, weekly cohort gatherings, teachings, and a reflection journal. The meditations are available in English and Spanish.” (Cost: $180) (10/5)
• New 9/17: Opportunity by the Numbers: Powerful New Data Tools and Data-Driven Strategies for Advocacy. Diversitydatakids.org data leaders will demonstrate how to use the down-to-the-neighborhood data in their new Child Opportunity Index 2.0 and will provide strategies for making this kind of data part of effective advocacy. Presented by the Alliance for Early Success. Register here. (10/13)
• New 9/17: Zeroing in on Skeptics with Jonathan Metzl: Why Early Childhood Advocates Must Upend Zero-Sum Perceptions of Government Solutions. Metzl is a Tennessee physician and the author of the acclaimed book Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America’s Heartland. He has done extensive research on voters who oppose health policies that would benefit them. Presented by the Alliance for Early Success. Reserve your spot here. (11/17)
• We Stand Together As Peers 2021. “Bringing folks together to share their passion for recovery and to build lasting connections.” Peers Empower Peers Washington. (9/18)
• NICWA Training Institute presents Positive Indian Parenting. “Positive Indian Parenting prepares tribal and non-tribal child welfare personnel to train American Indian and Alaska Native parents using a culturally specific approach.” (9/20-23, 11/1-4)
• 2021 American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) Health Summit. “HRSA ORO Region 10, in collaboration with Region 10 Tribal and Public Health organizations and stakeholders, is hosting a health summit to identify and explore current and salient health issues in Indian Country.” (9/21-23)
• The Children’s Bureau Child Welfare Virtual Expo 2021: Advancing Racial Equity in Child Welfare. “This important topic will address the racism and bias that continue to create disproportional representation in the child welfare system and disparities in outcomes for Black, American Indian/Alaska Native, and other children, youth, and families of color.” (webinar, 9/23)
• Earlier the Better: How Court Teams are Supporting Infants and Parents Affected by Prenatal Substance Exposure. This webinar will feature the results of national collaborative work, including the role of collaborative court teams in implementing Plans of Safe Care, supporting mothers and families during pregnancy, preventing family separation and child welfare involvement, and improving cross-system collaboration in their communities. (9/28)
• 1^st Annual Dads Campout, hosted by Dads MOVE. This weekend event is open to all dads, granddads, step-dads, and other male caregivers, who have a special needs child in their family, or extended family. We will have games and horse rides available for this event! Children 10 years and up are welcome! (Tonasket, Wa, 10/1 to 10/3)
• Kitsap Strong's 4th Annual Resiliency Summit: A hope-filled experience in connecting, learning, and growing together to strengthen our community! Resiliency isn't about rugged independence, it is about interdependence, inclusion, empathy, and the vulnerability necessary to form healing relationships. Join us for a fun-filled day of learning and connection. (Open to all. Note that location has changed to virtual) (10/7)
• Considerations on Racism, Implicit Bias, and Improving Care for Maternal and Infant Health Providers presented by Dr. Sayida Peprah, Parent-Child Relationship Programs, UW Barnard Center. Oct. 12, 9 - 11 a.m. or Oct. 13, 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. Click here for more info and to register.
• Immigrant Families: Spreading and Adapting 2Gen Working Practices. Hosted by the Aspen Institute Community Strategies Group in partnership with the Migration Policy Institute and Ascend at the Aspen Institute, this four-part webinar series will unpack the nuts and bolts of creative strategies that nonprofit organizations have implemented to deliver 2Gen services to immigrant families, youth and children. (10/14, 11/10)
• Pathways to Prevention Webinar Series: Translating Child Maltreatment and ACEs Prevention Research into Practice from the Colorado School of Public Health. Upcoming webinar: Indigenous Connectedness for Child Wellbeing. (10/20 and ongoing)
• The Alliance for Strong Families and Communities presents the SPARK 2021 conference. “Mark your calendars for this three-day, virtual learning experience, to convene leaders from across the human services ecosystem to create a unified, intrepid, just, and purposeful network so that all people can thrive.” Speakers include Dr. Ibram X. Kendi and Heather McGhee. (10/12-14)
• Supported Employment monthly topical webinar: Justice-Involved Jobseekers from the Healthcare Authority. This webinar will focus on ways to support reentry employment. Register here. (Webinar, 10/21)
• How we endUP | A Future without Family Policing. “Join the upEND Movement October 26-27, 2021 for the second annual convening of organizers, activists, scholars, and community leaders who are committed to dismantling the family policing system* a system predicated on the subjugation, surveillance, control, and punishment of mostly poor Black and Native children and families.” (10/26-27)

Learn (Educational Resources)

• Alia presents Dear Leaders: A set of theme-based discussion prompts and activities developed by lived experts and leaders in the field to help prepare child welfare teams to do community co-design as trustworthy partners.
• How to be anti-racist: it’s more than books, quotes and Blackout Tuesday – a quick video from the Washington Post.

Innovate (News and New Insights)

• How DOH is partnering with immigrant and refugee communities on COVID-19 education, an article from Washington State Department of Health.
• Multiracial population grew in almost every county in the US. It doesn't mean racism is over from CNN. The number of multi-cultural families is increasing across Washington state, and these families need specific and often personalized, equitable supports.
• Public notice of changes to the Medicaid State Plan: The Health Care Authority intends to submit State Plan Amendment 21-0003 to update the language of Attachment 3.1-A and 3.1-B, Section 13d: Rehabilitation Services, of the Medicaid State Plan.

Grow (Funding and Resources)

• Apply to become a Kagen Fellow through the Washington State System of Care Leadership Fellowship Program: The Washington State System of Care Leadership Fellowship Program uses the Kagen Leadership Development Process©. The program will be offered through the Health Care Authority’s (HCA) Division of Behavioral Health and Recovery (DBHR). This program is part of the System of Care Grant awarded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). Read the system of care fellowship program fact sheet | Fill out the online application | Contact Ace Bulger at Bulger@hca.wa.gov with questions.
• Priority Spokane has partnered with the Center for Trauma and Stress Education and Peer Washington to provide virtual trainings to lead COVID Stress & Trauma Education Programs (C-STEP) for individuals and organizations across Washington State. Participating agencies can receive up to a $1,500 stipend to offer the training to their staff, while funding lasts. Email priorityspokane@outlook.com for more information. (Ends 9/30)
• FORE Releases Request for Proposals Focused on Engaging and Empowering Vulnerable Families and Communities to Prevent Opioid Use Disorder. More information on the FORE webpage. (Due 9/20)
• PPE Backstop: Apply for additional Personal Protective Equipment for your agency from the Washington Department of Health. State, local, and tribal agencies, partner associations, health care providers and businesses are encouraged to order PPE to return state backstops to pre-COVID levels and allow entities to utilize existing, available PPE before it expires. Organizations are able to order up to a 90-day supply of PPE from the state backstop. (Available through 10/31)

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