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The Rees-Jones Center Foster Care Education Series: Strengths-Based Advocacy: Implementing Trauma-Informed Care in Fieldwork
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1935 Medical District Drive
Mailstop K6217
Dallas, TX 75235
General Information
Wednesday, August 5, 2026 - Sunday, August 5, 2029
75 minutes
Children's Health
Virtual Conference Room
The Rees-Jones Center Foster Care Education Series Enduring Material
Children's Health
Objectives
  • Gain understanding of "strengths-mapping" during home or community visits to identify existing community, cultural, and relational assets that bolster stability.
  • Learn grounding techniques to maintain a collaborative, non-judgmental, and strengths-focused presence even during high-conflict or crisis-oriented field interactions.
  • Learn to utilize communication techniques that encourage children and caregivers to identify their own solutions, fostering a sense of control and agency.
Presentations and Speakers
The Rees-Jones Center Foster Care Education Series: Strengths-Based Advocacy: Implementing Trauma-Informed Care in Fieldwork
  • Erinne Conner, MSW
Available Credits/Points
  • This session is approved for 1.25 Continuing Education credit for Social Work License. Participants should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
  • The Children's Health designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.25 Hour(s) NCPD (ANCC Contact Hours). Participants should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
  • Children's Health designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.25 Hour(s) Certificate of Attendance. Participants should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Moving beyond a focus on deficits and symptom management, participants will learn how to identify, mobilize, and amplify the existing strengths, both internal and environmental, of children and families navigating the child welfare system. By integrating trauma-informed insights with intentional advocacy, attendees will develop the skills to foster environments that promote agency, self-efficacy, and sustainable resilience in every interaction.

Participants can earn 1.25 Social Work CEUs or 1.25 NCPD (ANCC Contact Hour) or a certificate upon successful completion.
  • This session meets Texas Administrative Code requirements for 1.5 continuing education credit for Licensed Marriage and Family therapy, Licensed Professional Counselors, and Licensed Clinical Social Workers. 
Disclosure Statements
Speakers:
Erinne Conner, MSW has no financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients to disclose.

Accreditation Statement
  • Children’s Health System of Texas is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
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