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Honouring the Circle, Connections and Wisdom Achieving Permanency for Young People through FGDM TRACK 2 Youth and Family Engagement LEVEL Intermediate Anita Horner, American Humane Association, Englewood, Colo., USA Through the use of FGC, young people play a key role in crafting a plan to achieve permanency and in identifying whom they would like to have in their lives forever, with the overarching goal of achieving the highest level of permanency possible for the youth. This session will examine the definition of permanency for youth; explore diligent search methods to identify significant people in a young person’s life; consider the multifaceted, crucial preparation of a youth for active involvement in the diligent search and FGDM processes; and guide participants through an ongoing FGDM process until permanency is achieved. Aboriginal Case Conferencing and Circles TRACK 6 Aboriginal Practices LEVEL Foundational Crystal Doolittle, Cam Agowisa, Tibby Johnston and Yvonne Lunham, Children’s Aid Society of Simcoe County, Barrie, ON, Canada Aboriginal Circles and Case Conferences have been offered to the families of Simcoe County since 2008 in an effort to improve outcomes and relationships with families and the Children’s Aid Society (CAS). The presentation will provide participants with an overview of the history and process of Aboriginal Circles and Case Conferencing. Simcoe County CAS, through collaboration with the Aboriginal Child Welfare Advisory Committee of Simcoe County, is able to offer case conferences through an Aboriginal perspective and facilitated by a First Nations/Aboriginal worker in order to provide a culturally sensitive and collaborative approach to working with families affected by the Children’s Aid Society. Helping Caregivers and Parents in Crisis: Support from an Urban Aboriginal Agency TRACK 6 Aboriginal Practices LEVEL Intermediate Chantal Martin, Timmins Native Friendship Centre, Timmins, ON, Canada Aboriginal children are unique by virtue of their distinct histories, cultures, languages, status and challenges. Timmins Native Friendship Centre (TNFC) serves Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people in an urban community in northeast Ontario. TNFC provides 22 programs for children and families, with a specific focus on preventive or early intervention services. The programs are based on traditional Native teachings from the medicine wheel and include action, vision, relationship and reason. The many programs relate to the life cycle and are tailored to support the development of the family as a whole, along with partnering agencies, protocol agreements and process for referrals. Given the mandate of the agency, TNFC is able to draw from its many services to develop an individual response to each child and family. The services are culturally appropriate and preserve Aboriginal traditions and identity. 1 st Canadian Conference for Family Group Conferencing 16
Honouring the Circle, Connections and Wisdom Tuesday, September 27 8:00 A.M. Continental Breakfast 8:30 – 9:45 A.M. Keynote Address Harry Snowboy, Healer, Author, Cultural Teacher Harry Snowboy is a traditional healer from the James Bay Area of Chisasibi, Quebec. Through cultural teaching and the use of ceremonies, Harry helps reconnect people to their identity and assists them in contributing to the well-being of their communities. Harry is a member of the Seven Generations Healing Network, where he is a cultural advisor and works with many organizations to help them use ceremonies in order to bring spirituality and balance into their practice and their lives. Harry is a frequent presenter and speaker, and has shared his learning and tools for healing with audiences across Canada, and in Hawaii and Australia. In his recent book, A Voice from the Wilderness: A Cree Shaman’s Story, Harry describes his life journey and his calling to be a healer. 9:45 – 10:30 A.M. Plenary Session Numbers, Stories, Questions: Writing the Family Engagement Research Script for the Next Decade Gale Burford, University of Vermont, Burlington, V.T., USA Gale Burford, Ph.D., M.S.W., has experience as a foster and group home parent, a social work practitioner, a supervisor, manager and senior administrator in services for children, young people and their families. After completing his M.S.W. at the University of Washington in 1971, he worked with young people and their families in Montreal in a variety of positions until taking up an appointment teaching social work at Memorial University of Newfoundland in 1981. While there, he completed a Ph.D. at the University of Stirling in Scotland. Gale left Memorial University in 1998 to move back to the U.S., where he is now a professor of social work and director of the Child Welfare Training Partnership between the University and the State of Vermont Department for Children and Families. Gale has experience consulting, training and carrying out research in Canada, the U.S., the UK and in New Zealand. He is co-editor with Joe Hudson of Family Group Conferencing: New Directions in Community-Centered Child & Family Practice (2000, Aldine Transaction Pubs). Gale co-managed and co-investigated the Newfoundland and Labrador Family Group Decision Making Project, in which family conferences were used in child protection situations involving family violence. He is currently evaluating the use of family engagement strategies in Vermont. Other evaluation research has focused on the use of drug courts, Vermont’s reparative probation panels, and Washington, D.C.’s use of family team meetings, youth-run community living, group care and residential treatment. 1 st Canadian Conference for Family Group Conferencing 17
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