Children's Bureau Express

Conferences

Upcoming national conferences on adoption and child welfare through October 2008 include:

August

31st National Juvenile and Family Law Conference
National Association of Counsel for Children
August 3–6, Savannah, GA
www.naccchildlaw.org/events/event_details.asp?id=22928
Scaling the Summit Institute
Western Regional Recruitment and Retention Project of the Butler Institute for Families at the Graduate School of Social Work, University of Denver, and the Children's Bureau
August 5–6, Denver, CO
www.thebutlerinstitute.org/projects_wrrrp_scalingthesummit.cfm

September

The 21st Annual National Independent Living Conference
Growing Pains 2008
Daniel Memorial
September 3–6, Orlando, FL
www.danielkids.org/sites/web/content.cfm?id=276
Crossing Borders, Connecting Families: International Social Work in the 21st Century
International Social Service, United States of America Branch, Inc.
September 18–20, Baltimore, MD
www.iss-usa.org/site/index.asp?IdSection=4
2008 Annual ATTACh Conference
Attachment: Developing Connections, Saving Lives
Association for Treatment and Training in the Attachment of Children
September 24–27, Charlotte, NC
www.attach.org/2008confinfo.pdf

October

Seventh North American Conference on Shaken Baby Syndrome
National Center on Shaken Baby Syndrome
October 5–7, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
http://www.dontshake.org/Subject.aspx?categoryID=32&PageName=Vancouver08.htm (link no longer available)
2008 Alliance National Conference
The Power of Purpose/The Purpose of Our Power
Alliance of Children and Families
October 28–30, Baltimore, MD
www.alliance1.org/conferences/national2008/index.htm

Further details about national and regional adoption and child welfare conferences can be found through the Conference Calendar Search feature on the Child Welfare Information Gateway website:

www.childwelfare.gov/calendar/index.cfm

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