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Upbring’s 2nd Annual Conference on Child Maltreatment

April 10, 2017

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Pamela McPeters serves as the Director of Public Policy at TexProtects: The Texas Association for the Protection of Children. She implements the legislative priorities of the organization, works closely with legislators in Austin, chairs the Child Protection Roundtable and presents to various organizations and groups across the state. Pamela has 17 years of legislative and public policy experience.

She has served as Chief of Staff and Legislative Policy Analyst for Texas House and Senate members. She has also worked for the House Committees on Child Protection and Public Education. She has been an active officer of the Board of Directors for Strong Start and currently serves on numerous taskforces related to child welfare. She is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin.

PROGRAM AGENDAREGISTRATION OPENS 7:30 a.m.Outside Bethell Hall

BREAKFAST PLENARY 8:00-9:00 a.m.Bethell Hall

BREAK 9:00-9:15 a.m.

KEYNOTE PRESENTATION 9:15-10:15 a.m.Bethell Hall

BREAK 10:15-10:30 a.m.

BREAKOUT SESSION 1 10:30-11:50 a.m.Thinking Upstream - Crail CZipRisk - VestryRisk Terrain Modeling - Crail AAllocate Resources - Guild

BREAK 11:50 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

LUNCH & TABLE DISCUSSIONS 12:00-1:15 p.m.Bethell Hall

BREAKOUT SESSION 2 1:30-2:15 p.m.Lawson - VestryMadden/Aguiniga - GuildPecora - Crail AWilson - Crail C

AFTERNOON PLENARY 2:30-3:45 p.m.Bethell Hall

NETWORKING RECEPTION 4:00-6:00 p.m.Labyrinth Courtyard

Five Child Welfare Innovations in Five MinutesThese child welfare advocates take time from their busy 85th Legislative Session schedules to kick off the morning with five-minute talks on key child welfare innovations. The breakfast plenary is coordinated by Knox Kimberly, Senior Vice President of Advocacy and Stakeholder Relations at Upbring.

BREAKFAST PLENARY

PAMELA McPETERS | TexProtects

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Using Data to Effectively Scale Community-Based Prevention

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Andy Homer has served as Director of Public Affairs for Texas CASA since January 2014. In that capacity he leads Texas CASA’s legislative advocacy efforts and works on a variety of public policy issues affecting the child welfare system. Andy’s experience includes nearly 10 years of service as a staff member in the Texas Senate, including Chief of Staff for former Senator Peggy Rosson of El Paso. He also directed a

Special Senate Interim Committee on Welfare Reform and drafted its report to the Legislature. Andy served as Director of Government Relations for over a dozen years for the Texas Public Employees Association, a professional association for active and retired state employees. Andy has worked extensively on state appropriations issues and has been deeply involved in a number of complex public policy issues.

Will Francis is the Government Relations Director for the National Association of Social Workers – Texas Chapter. He previously worked for Mental Health America of Texas in the state office of a home-visiting program. His work experience includes positions with Child Protective Services and

Travis County Juvenile Probation. Will received a master’s degree in social work from the University of Texas at Austin and a bachelor’s degree in English from Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia.

ANDY HOMER | Texas CASA

WILL FRANCIS | NASW-Texas

As a Senior Child Welfare Policy Associate, Kate Murphy leads Texans Care for Children’s work to keep children safe at home through an effective Child Protective Services workforce, prevention services and other efforts. She also works to ensure child safety and success in foster care and beyond. Before joining Texans Care for Children, Kate was a Mental

Health Policy Fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation. In that role, she developed and advanced policy solutions at the state level to address a variety of mental health, public health and criminal justice issues. Kate earned her law degree from Texas Tech University School of Law, where she was inducted into the National Order of Barristers.

KATE MURPHY | Texans Care for Children

Collaborative Family Engagement

Workforce Educational Requirements

Targeted Capacity Building and Associated Data System Requirements under Community-Based Foster Care

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Dr. Katherine Barillas has over 15 years in the field of child welfare with experience in direct service, policy analysis, advocacy and research. She has a master’s degree in social work and graduated from the University of Houston with a doctorate in political science. Her dissertation examined the role of state capacity in the privatization of state child welfare systems. She is currently the Director of Child Welfare

Policy at One Voice Texas, where she has worked for six years. Dr. Barillas has worked with federal, state and local policymakers and been an integral part of the passage of several pieces of important legislation. Her work has helped change visitation policy for parents and their children in foster care and suspended versus terminated Medicaid/CHIP benefits for youth placed in juvenile facilities.

Knox Kimberly is Senior Vice President of Advocacy and Stakeholder Relations at Upbring. Knox joined the agency in 2014 to develop its advocacy platform and partnerships, and has since assumed management responsibility for grants, corporate relations and several

community programs. In the community, Knox serves as Chair-Elect of Mental Health America of Texas and in various organizations and collaboratives engaged in policy matters of importance to children, youth and families.

KATHERINE BARILLAS, Ph.D. | One Voice Texas

KNOX KIMBERLY | Upbring

Kinship Information Network and Caregiver Financial Support

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BREAKOUT SESSION 1

KEYNOTE PRESENTATION

Dr. Amanda N. Barczyk is a Research Scientist and the Associate Director of Research for Dell Children’s Trauma and Injury Research Center. She is an experienced mixed-methods researcher who focuses on youth suicide, child maltreatment, injury prevention and pediatric trauma. Dr. Barczyk received her doctorate in 2011 from the University of Texas at Austin School of Social Work. She was a Social Scientist fellow at the

U.S. Army Public Health Command from 2010 to 2011, where she examined a variety of behavioral health issues plaguing military personnel. She has continued researching vulnerable populations in her current role and through her service on Travis County Children’s Mental Health Operations Team and Pediatric Trauma-Informed Research Care Collaboration.

Dr. Peter Pecora has a joint appointment as the Managing Director of Research Services for Casey Family Programs, and Professor, School of Social Work, University of Washington. He has worked with a number of state departments of social services in the United States and in other countries to design and evaluate risk assessment systems for Child Protective Services, implement intensive home-based services, and refine foster care programs. With faculty from UCLA and USC, he evaluated community-based child

abuse prevention strategies in Los Angeles. With Walter R. McDonald and Associates, he evaluated group care reform in California. Recently with Mathematica Research Corporation and Community Science, he evaluated ACES-focused community-based networks in Washington. And he is developing multistate evaluation designs and fidelity assessment measures for child maltreatment risk assessment systems such as Eckerd Rapid Safety Feedback and Signs of Safety. He has published many books and journal articles.

Dr. Kurt Senske serves as Chief Executive Officer of Upbring. During his 22-year career with the nonprofit agency, he has been responsible for more than tripling its size. He is past chair of the Board of Directors of Thrivent Financial, a Fortune 500 financial services organization. Prior to joining Upbring,

he worked as Assistant to the President at Concordia University-Texas, practiced law in Chicago, and served as a senior staff member and consultant for candidates and government leaders at local, state and national levels. He is also the author of several books on leadership.

AMANDA N. BARCZYK, Ph.D. | Dell Children’s

PETER PECORA, Ph.D.

KURT SENSKE, Ph.D. | Upbring

From Research to PracticePeter Pecora, Ph.D., coming from Casey Family Programs in Seattle, will present a keynote on practical strategies for improving the utilization of research for policy, program design and practice. Introduction by Kurt Senske, CEO of Upbring.

Mapping Shift and ShareAttendees will split into four groups and visit mapping stations set up in each breakout room. Spend 15 minutes interacting with each presenter and learning how her organization has used mapping as a tool for better comprehension and prevention of child maltreatment.

Thinking Upstream: Mapping a Pathway To End Child Maltreatment

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LUNCH & TABLE DISCUSSIONS

Dr. Dana Booker is the Director of Research at TexProtects: The Texas Association for the Protection of Children. She oversees all research projects in areas related to child abuse prevention, including home visiting, Child Protective Services

reform and therapeutic healing practices. Additionally, Dr. Booker maintains university and community collaborations/partnerships for TexProtects in an effort to expand advocacy and education on behalf of Texas children.

Dr. Dyann Daley is a Pediatric Anesthesiologist at Cook Children’s Medical Center and Executive Director of The Center for Prevention of Child Maltreatment. Dr. Daley became involved in child maltreatment prevention after witnessing the suffering and death of physically

abused children who came to the operating room for emergency surgery. She established The Center for Prevention of Child Maltreatment to educate and raise awareness of child maltreatment.

Amy Knop-Narbutis is a Research Analyst for Upbring, where she leads the development of all statewide thought leadership efforts. This includes prospecting white papers and longitudinal research projects with external partners; leading an initiative to improve

outcomes-tracking and performance management; finding and integrating best practices from research into existing services and advocacy; and hosting this annual research conference. She is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin LBJ School of Public Affairs.

Murray Chanow is Senior Vice President of Strategy and Community Engagement at Upbring, where he has been instrumental in overseeing strategic planning processes and the creation of our Austin-based Strategic Alliance Partnerships. Murray is also promoting Upbring’s

thought leadership on issues relating to child abuse by commissioning the Texas Youth Permanency Study with the University of Texas at Austin and a series of published white papers by notable researchers.

DANA BOOKER, Ph.D. | TexProtects

DYANN DALEY, M.D. | Cook Children’s

AMY KNOP-NARBUTIS | Upbring on behalf of DataKind

MURRAY CHANOW | Upbring

#AftermapGrab a boxed lunch and join facilitated table discussions on how the Central Texas community can act on the information presented at each mapping station. Coordinated by Murray Chanow, Upbring Senior Vice President of Strategy and Community Engagement.

ZipRisk: A Child Maltreatment Risk Assessment

Risk Terrain Modeling to Predict Child Maltreatment

Mapping to Allocate Nonprofit Resources

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BREAKOUT SESSION 2

Dr. Karla A. Lawson is the Director of Dell Children’s Trauma and Injury Research Center. The Center focuses on the epidemiologic, clinical and behavioral study of child injury, injury prevention and trauma clinical care with the ultimate goal of informing and guiding improved clinical practice and prevention efforts. Dr. Lawson received her doctorate from the University of Texas in 2003 and was awarded the Cancer Prevention Fellowship at the National Institutes of

Health for 2003-2006. She received a master’s degree in public health from Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Lawson is an Affiliate Clinical Professor at Dell Medical School and holds Adjunct Faculty positions at University of Texas. Her current research interests include the prevention and clinical decision-making of non-accidental trauma injury (child abuse), childhood trauma, injury surveillance and best clinical practice.

Dr. Elissa Madden joined the Diana R. Garland School of Social Work at Baylor University in 2016 after previously serving as an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Arlington. Her primary research interest is in child welfare, with a particular focus on ways to promote permanency for children in foster care. Dr. Madden is a former child welfare conservatorship worker with Child Protective Services in Texas. She is a licensed social worker and has

extensive experience working with children and families in a variety of practice settings. Dr. Madden currently serves as the Assistant Editor of Adoption Quarterly. Most recently, Dr. Madden was awarded a grant through the Donaldson Adoption Institute to complete a study to better understand the decision-making experiences of women and men who have placed a child for adoption.

Dr. Donna M. Aguiniga is an Associate Professor with the University of Alaska Anchorage School of Social Work. Her primary research interests include child welfare outcomes,

family functioning, homelessness, poverty and the intersections between these areas. She received a doctorate in social work from The University of Texas at Austin in 2010.

Dee Wilson worked in public child welfare for more than 30 years, including 26 years (1978-2004) in Washington State. He was a Child Protective Services caseworker and supervisor, as well as area administrator, regional administrator and training director for the Children’s Administration in Washington State. From 2004-2009, Dee was director of a training and research institute at the University of Washington School of Social Work, where he also taught in the master’s in social work program. In 2010, Dee became a director in

Casey Family Programs’ Knowledge Management unit. He retired from Casey Family Programs in February 2016. Dee writes and speaks on a wide range of CPS subjects. He has produced monthly Sounding Board commentaries on child welfare issues since fall 2009. He has recently written several commentaries on foster care, including Is Foster Care Safe?; The Foster Care Recruitment and Retention Crisis; and Foster Care as a Mental Health System.

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BY: KARLA A. LAWSON, Ph.D.

BY: ELISSA MADDEN, Ph.D. & DONNA M. AGUINIGA, Ph.D.

BY: DEE WILSON

BY: PETER PECORA, Ph.D.

Breaking the Cycle of Child Abuse: White PapersLearn more about the following white papers in these presentations and Q&A sessions with the authors.

The Need for Primary Care Medical Homes for Children in Foster Care

Achieving Permanency for Children in Care: Barriers and Future Directions

Evidence-based and Promising Interventions for Preventing Child Fatalities and Severe Child Injuries Related to Child Maltreatment

Intergenerational Transmission of Child Neglect

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AFTERNOON PLENARY

Tymothy Belseth is a Research Coordinator with the Texas Institute for Child & Family Wellbeing and is currently working on the Texas Youth Permanency Study. Tymothy became motivated to improve the lives of children and youth living in foster care due to his own experiences

as a teenager in the Texas foster care system. In the past, he has worked as an internal advocate with the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services and empowered foster youth to find their voice and successfully advocate for change at the legislative level.

Courtney Jones holds a master’s degree in social work and has a strong commitment to impacting system-level change. She is also the Founder and Executive Director of Change 1, a volunteer program that brings the community together

to help those who are transitioning out of the foster care system. Courtney encountered the Texas foster care system at a very early age and is now giving back to help others.

As President and Chief Operating Officer of Upbring, Michael Loo oversees the departments of strategic planning, operations, programs, information technology, human resources and finance. He has extensive experience in strategy development, organizational planning,

financial structures, and operational constructs and systems. Prior to joining Upbring, Michael served as Vice President of Finance and Administration of Kamehameha Schools, as well as Vice President – Controller and Treasurer in the restructuring of Hawaiian Airlines, Inc.

Dr. Monica Faulkner is Co-Director of the Texas Institute for Child and Family Wellbeing at the University of Texas at Austin School of Social Work where, in addition

to managing the Texas Youth Permanency Study, she oversees multiple research and evaluation projects related to advancing child welfare in the State of Texas.

TYMOTHY BELSETH

COURTNEY JONES

MICHAEL LOO | Upbring

MONICA FAULKNER, Ph.D.

Texas Youth Permanency Study & Foster Care Alumni Panel Dr. Monica Faulkner will present early results from the Texas Youth Permanency Study, led by the Texas Institute for Child & Family Wellbeing, which will examine post-permanency experiences and long-term developmental outcomes of older youth in foster care.

Alumni from Texas foster care will provide feedback on how we as a community can work together to apply lessons from research to practice, highlighting successful supports from their lived experience. Moderated by Tymothy Belseth. Introduction by Michael Loo, President and COO of Upbring.

NETWORKING RECEPTIONLabyrinth Courtyard

Skip rush hour and join Upbring at the Networking Reception! This is your opportunity to meet with other policymakers, practitioners and researchers and

connect about today’s experience. Appetizers and drinks provided.

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Who We Are and What We Do

Upbring is a leading Texas-based, faith-inspired

nonprofit organization working to break the cycle

of child abuse by empowering children, families

and communities. Upbring embraces public-private

partnerships with individual stakeholders; federal,

state and local government agencies; community

groups; small businesses; and large corporations to

deliver services that produce measurable progress

toward five key markers of every child’s well-being:

safety, life skills, education, health and vocation.

Upbring benefits nearly 30,000 families each year

with its life-changing programs—including foster

care, adoption, education, residential treatment and

community services. While Upbring has evolved over

more than 135 years of service, our organization

remains firmly focused on delivering innovative

programs and services that address the root causes

of child abuse and neglect.

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