Learning tracks

ACE Leaders

An ACE leader is anyone who is interested in addressing and preventing adverse childhood experiences (ACEs)on a community level. The track provides opportunities for individuals to understand how to lead these efforts. Sessions focus on the importance of a community or systems approach to ACEs, communicating effectively with individuals and communities about ACEs, understanding ACE data, and developing partnerships within the community.

Enhancing Your Well-Being

Self-care is an essential survival skill, especially among those who work on the front lines with families and children. These sessions will teach strategies to help manage life challenges and the stress they can cause. Being self-aware and managing stress is imperative for effective communication and healthy relationships and for finding balance in your professional and personal lives.

Fatherhood Engagement

Involvement with fathers greatly impacts a child’s growth and development. This track focuses on strategies to engage fathers and father figures and highlight the benefits of their engagement with their children. When fathers are involved and accessible, the relationship will influence many aspects of a child’s life.

Home Visiting

This track helps build upon additional skills and knowledge needed for home visitors and other early childhood professionals. Home visiting has shown its proven effectiveness at achieving improved outcomes around the health and well-being of children and families as well as an ability to reach at-risk populations.

Knowledge and Skill Building

These sessions offer a variety of information for professionals interested in gaining a better understanding of issues that impact families and children.

Protective Factors

These sessions offer rich content on a research-based national framework that utilizes a strength-based approach and helps all families thrive. Families and communities need the strength and healing provided by protective factors. Understanding the importance of resilience, building a network of friends and community alliances, and learning how to interact and communicate with children and families are all components of building protective factors.

Race Equity and Inclusion

Race equity and inclusion is a process of active and intentional engagement with diverse groups of people, resulting in situational fairness that makes us unable to identify advantage or disadvantage by race. These sessions will examine the importance of building racially diverse, inclusive and equitable organizations and communities through policies and practices.

 

 

Schedule

Monday, Oct. 2

8 to 8:45 a.m.
Exhibit Hall
Registration and Breakfast

8:45 to 9 a.m.
Exhibit Hall
Welcome
Sue Williams, CEO, Children’s Trust of South Carolina

9 to 10:30 a.m.
Exhibit Hall
Keynote Address
Interpersonal Neurobiology and Practices That Cultivate Connection and Well-Being
Dan Siegel, M.D.

10:30 to 10:45 a.m.
Break

10:45 a.m. to Noon
Session 1

Noon to 1:30 p.m.
Exhibit Hall
Lunch and Keynote Address
Cultural Humility and the Protective Factors
Charlyn Harper Browne, Ph.D.

1:30 to 1:45 p.m.
Break

1:45 to 3 p.m.
Session 2

3 to 3:15 p.m.
Break

3:15 to 4:30 p.m.
Session 3

4:30 to 6 p.m.
Networking Reception
Book signing, light refreshments and exhibitors

Tuesday, Oct. 3

8 to 8:45 a.m.
Exhibit Hall
Breakfast and Networking

8:45 to 9 a.m.
Exhibit Hall
Welcome and Warm-Up Activity, Speaking Down Barriers

9 to 10:30 a.m.
Exhibit Hall
Keynote Address
How Children’s Biography Becomes Their Biology – and How We Can Ensure Their Resiliency, Donna Jackson Nakazawa

10:30 to 10:45 a.m.
Break

11 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.
Session 4

12:15 to 1:45 p.m.
Exhibit Hall
Lunch and Keynote Address
Three Little Words, Ashley Rhodes-Courter

1:45 to 2 p.m.
Break

2 to 3:15 p.m.
Session 5