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8:30 AM - 9:30 AMCommissioners’ Business Meeting &Top Policy IssuesThis meeting will focus on key policy issues infinancial assistance, adult services, child welfareservices, juvenile justice, Medicaid administration,food stamps, child care, and challenges affectingsocial services.Presiding: David Jolly, NYPWA President8:30 AM - 9:45 AMCLE Legal Committee MeetingChaired by: Margaret Burt, Esq., Counsel tothe NYPWA8:30 AM - 9:45 AMFiscal Administrators' AssociationMeeting9:30 AM - 11:00 AMCommissioners' Meeting with StateMA DirectorLocal DSS Commissioners’ Dialogue with JasonHelgerson, Deputy Commissioner, Office ofHealth Insurance Programs, NYS Health Department.10:00 AM - 11:30 AMCreating Working Relationships WithPeople in PovertyThis session will focus on applying the conceptsof Bridges Out of Poverty and A Framework forUnderstanding Poverty in working with clients.The objective is to understand that change stemsfrom relationships and to identify and practicethe skills of making and maintaining workingrelationships. We will learn to build workingrelationships by developing the following skills:• Applying the concepts: Front Line StaffSkills• Skills and Strategies for Working withFamilies in Poverty• How Do We Handle the Mental Models ofOthers?• Balancing Discussion and Dialogue• Build Working Relationships by Developingthe Following Skills:• Recognize when we are bumping upagainst the culture of Poverty valuesystem in our routine interactions withclients• Adjust and change our approach to theperson, relationship, communication, sothat we accommodate the culturaldifferences as we engage the person• Develop our relationship with the personsothat we can be more successful as weoffer that HAND UP (not a hand out!) thatis needed to help them help themselves tomove forward.Presenter:Denise Y. Schaller, Lead Trainer, SchallerSolutions10:00 AM - 11:30 AMUse of Data for Decision Making atNew York State Office of Childrenand Family Services Division ofJuvenile Justice and Opportunitiesfor YouthNew York State Office of Children and FamilyServices has embraced the use of data fordecision making in terms of placement usingevidenced based assessment instruments inDetention and in placement. The Office ofChildren and Family Services (OCFS) has alsobegun developing performance standards tobetter evaluate facilities and programs. OCFSwill present how this information is improvingoutcomes for children.Presenters:Felipe Franco, Acting Deputy Commissioner,OCFS-DJJOYRebecca Coleman, Program Research Specialist3, OCFSSandra Carrk, IT Portfolio Manager, OCFSDavid Bach, Quality Assurance Director, OCFS10:00 AM - 12:30 PMMedicaid Legal DevelopmentsAffecting Social Services Districts(2.5 CLEs pending)This course will provide an overview of thestatutory and regulatory framework of MedicaidWednesday ■ July 1113