 |
|
| Conference Overview |
|
Dear Colleagues and Friends,
Building on the success of over forty years of annual meetings, The Black Administrators in Child Welfare (BACW) is pleased to bring you another professional conference opportunity on March 25-27, 2012 in Florida at the beautiful Renaissance, Fort Lauderdale Hotel at Fort Everglades. As a leading national child welfare organization, BACW is again preparing for a conference that will maximize and enhance the career investment of child welfare professionals committed to improving outcomes for all children and families and African American children in particular who come to the attention of the child welfare system. Through this national conference, we will explore challenges around child welfare issues in today’s economy, offer real solutions presented by talented speakers and workshop presenters who are concerned about the future of our children. Despite the challenges of the current economic environment in the US, child welfare professionals and advocates are determined to improve outcomes for childern and families.
|
|
| Through innovative programming, dedicated, committed and focused child welfare administrators, researchers, practitioners, foundations and child advocates, there has been a remarkable decrease in the number of children in the child welfare system in this country. In fact, for the first time in over a decade there are less than 500,000 children in foster care. Today, we are finally seeing the results of innovations that sprouted up across the country in support of children, families, relatives and communities. Best practices and policies reviewed by BACW across the country resulted in an effort to advance the field by identifying 10 Racial Equity Strategy Areas (RESA) supported by conditions and experiences that still must be present as a part of the child welfare systems ongoing operations. Therefore, we are looking for workshops to be presented that will share additional information around work that is being done on any of the RESAs. |
|
|
|
|
|
 |
