2020 Conference Presentations

Overview

2020 CWDA Virtual Conference

This year, CWDA welcomed over 1,400 attendees to our first ever virtual conference in October. We had phenomenal keynote speakers who are noted below and a wide-array of fantastic breakout sessions.

Below are PDF versions of breakout presentations from those presenters who shared visual presentations with CWDA. 

Keynote speakers:

  • Jarrett J. Krosoczka  - Author/Illustrator of “Hey Kiddo”
  • Dr. Kenneth V. Hardy  - Understanding and Addressing the Subtleties of Racial Trauma 
  • Cristela Alonzo​ - Cristela Alonzo is a stand-up comedian who made TV history in 2014 by becoming the first Latina to create, write and star in a network TV sitcom. Cristela was also the first Latina to star in a Disney Pixar movie when she starred as Cruz Ramirez in “Cars 3.”

Below are the breakout session presentations:

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CalSAWS – The Journey to One

The CalSAWS Implementation Team will provide an overview of what counties can expect between October-and C-IV County Go Live as well as plans and highlights of the CalWIN migration efforts. The presentation will focus on specific Change Management, Training and Implementation Support activities and county involvement leading up to the September 2021 CalSAWS Go Live for the C-IV counties. The Team will also provide timelines and upcoming milestones for the CalWIN migration efforts to CalSAWS.

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Sonoma County ACCESS – Helping the Homeless During COVID-19 Pandemic

To inform human services professionals on strategies deployed to support the homeless during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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  • Barbie Robinson: Sonoma County Department of Health Services, Sonoma County Community Development Commission
  • Carolyn Staats: County of Sonoma, Information Systems Department

Sonoma County ACCESS - Helping the Homeless During COVID-19 Pandemic

 

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Linking ACEs and Domestic Violence Solutions in the Rural North State

Increasing understanding of how Domestic Violence and ACEs are linked and how a trauma informed approach is needed and to share a multi-sector systems approach to ending domestic violence and reducing ACEs scores in Rural / Frontier counties.

  • Lisa Tadlock: Statewide/Public Health Institute
  • Wendy Dickens: First 5 Shasta

Linking ACEs and Domestic Violence Solutions in the Rural North State

 

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Infusing a Strengths-Based and Engagement Approach in Hiring the Right Staff (and Retaining Them), Informed by the Competency Drivers of Implementation Science

Ventura County will share best practices in Recruiting, Selecting, Onboarding and Retaining staff. While most examples will reflect Ventura County’s child welfare programs, many lessons are applicable to other social services programs. Your takeaways from this interactive workshop will include examples of: 1. Behaviorally-specific interview questions that help select candidates who share the organization’s values 2. Collaboration strategies between agency human resources and operational programs to navigate the hiring processes in a civil service environment 3.

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Enhancing Child and Family Well Being: The Power of Prevention

Strengthening families is the key to preventing child abuse and neglect. This presentation will explore the costs and impacts of child abuse on families and communities – and the movement toward investing in prevention across the nation and in California. Participants will hear concrete examples from two counties that demonstrate how prevention strategies are working to strengthen families and combat racial and social inequities.

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Fiscal Essentials 101

Fiscal Essentials 101 is back and will allow you to learn the essentials of human services financing. Fiscal Essentials 101 will provide a high-level overview on how human service programs are budgeted. In addition, it will provide information on how programs are funded, including 1991 and 2011 realignment, and current changes in finance.

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Governor’s Master Plan for Aging

Governor’s Master Plan for Aging.

  • Kim McCoy Wade: California Department of Aging
  • Kim Gallo: San Diego County
  • Christy Patch: County of San Diego

Governor’s Master Plan for Aging

 

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Medi-Cal and Health Care – What We’ve Learned During COVID-19 and How We Can Move Forward

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and resulting recession have created challenges for our public health systems, clinics and community health centers and the millions of California residents who rely on those systems. At the same time, these challenges have given rise to opportunities and flexibilities, especially in the Medi-Cal program – which already covered 1 in 3 Californians prior to the pandemic.

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Disaster Inequity: How California’s Policies and Practices Create Disparate Experiences for Communities

In recent years, California has faced several daunting natural disaster and health emergency challenges. Most recently, the state is weathering the devastating COVID-19 public health crisis and its accompanying economic impacts. For many residents, this emergency is combined with the pain of unprecedented wildfires, drought, and extreme heat events that have been exacerbated by climate change. These events are especially devastating for low-income communities, and particularly for people of color who often have fewer resources to recover from a disaster.

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The Intersections of Behavioral Health: Child Welfare, Juvenile Justice, and Homelessness

Mental illness and substance abuse disorders — known collectively as behavioral health conditions — are disproportionately prevalent among children and youth who are placed in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems, and Californians experiencing homelessness. The goal of this panel presentation is to explore the many ways in which behavioral health is connected to these issues and current policy proposals to help prevent illness, and promote wellness and recovery.

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AB 2083: Toward Effective Children and Youth System of Care

This presentation will provide attendees with a brief overview of California’s effort to implement local multi-agency System of Care for children, youth and families under AB 2083. State technical assistance team members from involved departments will provide an overview of the state’s progress in support of local systems, an exploration of the state’s System of Care toolkit, offer helpful information about four foundational elements important to building a local system partnership, and highlight learning from the field which may inform local MOU development.

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Fiscal Essentials 102

Fiscal Essentials 102 will provide you with a high-level understanding of how costs are charged to Social Services programs in the state claiming process, how time studies drive the allocation of costs, and why it is critical to have a global view of resource and funding and how those factors may impact your programs, and a review of the complete local budget cycle and how that might impact planning for your programs.

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San Diego Live Well Mobile Office

San Diego Live Well Mobile Office-Delivering Essential Services Directly to San Diego County Communities.

  • Ismael Lopez: San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency
  • Jennifer Navala: County of San Diego

San Diego Live Well Mobile Office

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Informing Our Community- How to Set up a Pop Up Call Center in Less Than 3 Days

This presentation will break down the steps in creating phone trees, and emergency response options to inform county residents with rapidly changing information. COVID-19 is one of many emergencies that impacts calls to the county. Our residents often look to the county for answers when times are tough. This presentation will show how we built a pop up call center out of thin air in less than 3 days to help reduce calls to our Public Health Division and inform our residents, employers, schools, and families.

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Promoting Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Human Services Programs

How can human services agencies take the next steps toward diversity, equity and inclusion in the services they provide? What approaches help support a diverse, inclusive workforce? Join state and local experts as they discuss the efforts they have undertaken in their organizations to promote diversity, equity and inclusion, while also striving to ensure these efforts are not just a one-time project but are embedded and supported within the organizational practices and culture.

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Getting Ahead and Staying Ahead One Cohort at a Time

San Bernardino County is the largest contiguous county by area in the continental United States, with a population of 2.2 million. Despite decreased unemployment rates and recent job growth, San Bernardino County’s 16% overall poverty rate is higher than state and national averages and is the highest among comparable counties. Projected job growth is strong, but the county’s population of working poor is also growing.

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Using a Robust In-Home Supportive Services Collaboration to Support a Countywide Pandemic Response

Beginning in March 2020, the coronavirus fundamentally altered traditional service delivery. Leveraging existing systems and relationships, San Francisco’s In-Home Supportive Services program rapidly supported a broad array of responses to ensure the delivery of personal care to COVID and individuals and recipients who lost care due to the pandemic.

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Findings from the California Youth Transitions to Adulthood Study (CalYOUTH): Outcomes through Age 23 and Implications for Policy and Practice

This session shares findings from the California Youth Transitions to Adulthood Study (CalYOUTH)–an evaluation of California’s extension of foster care leveraging interviews with youth at approximately 17, 19, 21, and 23 years of age. This session includes: (1) a description of trends over time across key domains, (2) relationships between extended foster care and youths’ outcomes at 23, (3) county variation in practice and services context, and (4) differences in outcomes between types of extended care placements.

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Paperless Operation for Quality Control

This presentation highlights the importance of embracing advancement in technology and how to best improve Quality Control operations by having an imaging repository for QC operations. As we entered unprecedented times, we find ourselves trying to quickly adapt to working remotely and having access to resources for continuous operations. The presenters will share how this new technology has improved their day to day operations by having quick access to needed information.

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Delivery of Evidence-Based Human Service Programs: Innovative Solutions for Data Management and Evaluation of County, City and Community Collaboratives in Sonoma County

The presenters will highlight case studies in housing and community violence prevention demonstrating how Sonoma County’s Human Services Department (SCHSD) is using APRICOT, a cloud-based case management and referral system, to manage the delivery of human service programs that involve County, City and community partners. SCHSD’s unique model supports the creation, implementation and scaling of programs that address the root causes of poverty in a cost-effective way.