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FAMILY RESOURCE CENTERS
September 29, 2021
Family Resource Centers: Supporting Grandfamilies and Kinship Navigation
Co-presented with Generations United
This webinar illustrates how FRCs support grandparents and kin caring for children, highlighting New Hampshire’s effective leveraging of its Network of FRCs for federally-funded kinship navigation.
Presenters:
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Joelyn Drennan, Senior Program Director, New Hampshire Children's Trust
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Kat Morris, Training Coordinator, FRC of Northern New Hampshire
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Shannon Lavertu, Kinship Navigator, FRC of Northern New Hampshire
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Ana Beltran, Co-Director, National Center on Grandfamilies Generations United
Moderator:
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Julie Matusick, Senior Manager of Standards Training & Implementation, National Family Support Network
August 25, 2021
Report Release: Cost Savings FRCs Yield for Rural and Urban Child Welfare Systems
How do FRCs save Child Welfare systems money and reduce families' involvement in them? This webinar, co-presented by Casey Family Programs and the OMNI Institute, releases and discusses two new research reports detailing the return on investment of FRCs in Teller County, Colorado and Orange County, California.
Presenters:
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Melissa Richmond, Vice President, OMNI Institute
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Sara Bayless, Director, OMNI Institute
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Kim Mauthe, Teller County Department of Human Services, Colorado
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Jodi Mijares, Executive Director, Community Partnership Family Resource Center
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Angela Pool, Parent Representative, Community Partnership Family Resource Center
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Jill Bright, Administrative Manager, Orange County Social Services Agency
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Gina Nunes, Supervisor, Westminster Family Resource Center
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Valerie, Parent Representative, Westminster Family Resource Center
Moderators:
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Andrew Russo, Co-founder & Director, National Family Support Network
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Nicole Dobbins, Child Welfare Partnership Advisor - National SI Partnerships, Casey Family Programs
August 18, 2021
FRCs: Advancing Equity Every Day
This webinar provides a framework of how FRCs advance equity through how they are developed, structured, work with families, and address systematic barriers and features examples of FRCs in Washington, DC, and San Francisco, California striving to end inequalities in their communities.
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Julieta Dominguez, Senior Director of Family Services, Good Samaritan FRC, San Francisco, California
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Cherie Craft, CEO & Founding Executive Director, Smart from the Start, Washington, District of Columbia
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Corey Chandler, Learning & Development Consultant, National Family Support Network
April 28, 2021
On the Same Page: Family Resource Centers Co-located in Libraries
This webinar highlights Family Resource Centers (FRCs) co-located in public libraries in Pittsburgh, PA, Gainesville, FL, and Phoenix Arizona.
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Danielle M. Gill, Family Center Coordinator, Greater Hazelwood Family Center, Pennsylvania
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Pebbles Edelman, Senior VP, Clinical & Community Services, Partnership for Strong Families, Florida
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Diane Johnson, Library Manager, Cone Park Branch, Florida
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Wendy Resnik, Children and Teen Services Coordinator, Phoenix Public Library, Arizona
January 27, 2021
Having their Moment: How the Pandemic Has Spotlighted the Value of Family Resource Centers
This webinar provides an overview of how FRCs’ pandemic response has raised their profile.
Presenters:
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Dan Johnson (R), Utah State Representative
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Merritt Beckett, Senior Program Manager, California Family Resource Association (CFRA)
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B. Estela Camacho, Family Resource Center Director, Morris Street School, Connecticut
Moderator:
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Andrew Russo, Co-Founder & Director, National Family Support Network
October 28, 2020
Utilizing Casey Family Programs’ Community Opportunity Map to Support Family Resource Centers
This webinar provides an overview of Casey Family Programs’ Community Opportunity Map and illustrate how it can be leveraged to support Family Resource Centers.
Presenters:
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Kirk O'Brien, Ph.D. , Senior Director, Research Services, Casey Family Programs
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Whitney Rostad, Ph.D., Senior Research Associate , Research Services, Casey Family Program
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Patty Carroll, Director of Communications & Engagement , Partnership for Strong Families, Inc., Florida
June 17, 2020
Exploring the Impact of Family Resource Centers on School Readiness
This webinar details the investment in, work of, and data from a county-wide network of FRCs in rural Siskiyou, California on increasing school readiness.
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Karen Pautz, Executive Director, First 5 Siskiyou Children and Families Commission
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Michelle O’Gorman, Executive Director, Siskiyou Community Resource Collaborative
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Lisa Colvig-Niclai, Vice President of Evaluation, Applied Survey Research
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May 27, 2020
Rebuilding Hope: Family Resource Centers and Disaster Response
This webinar shares the experiences, reflections, and insights from FRCs in effectively responding to the 2011 Tuscaloosa–Birmingham tornado, Hurricane Sandy in 2012, and North Bay Wildfires in 2017
Presenters:
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Alissa Abdo, Executive Director, On the Move, California,
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Amanda Lightsey, Executive Director, Tuscaloosa’s One Place, Alabama
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Ana Martinez, Division Director, Family Success Centers Prevention Links Inc., New Jersey
April 29, 2020
Supporting Families with Opiate Use Disorder through Family Resource Centers
This webinar provides an overview of an initiative in Pennsylvania that has provided capacity-building funding to FRCs to engage and support families struggling with Opiate Use Disorder/Substance Use Disorder through home visiting, featuring a case study of the Columbia County Family Center.
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Andrew Dietz, Family Support Program Manager, Office of Child Development
Early Learning, Bureau of Early Intervention Services and Family Supports, Pennsylvania Departments of Education and Human Services -
Ashley Mensch, Director, Columbia County Family Centers
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April 22, 2020
Family Resource Centers and Family Engagement
Co-presented with the National Association for Family, School and Community Engagement (NAFSCE)
As the education field focuses on effective family engagement, understanding how Family Resource Centers (FRCs) support schools in this effort is especially timely. This webinar highlights the role of FRCs in relation to student and family success across the country, featuring a case study from the 856 school-based Family Resource & Youth Services Centers of Kentucky.
Presenters:
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Vito Borrello, Executive Director, National Association for Family, School, and Community Engagement
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Andrew Russo, Co-Founder & Director, National Family Support Network
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Mary Ann Jennings, Assistant Director, Division of Family Resource and Youth Services Centers, Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services
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Shannon Pfaff, Principal, Southside Elementary School
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Beth Cathcart, Coordinator, Southside Family Resource Center
March 18, 2020
Exploring Family Resource Centers in Relation to Child Welfare and the Family First Act
This webinar illustrates the role of FRCs in relation to child welfare, featuring a case study from Colorado. Since Teller County moved to a differential response model in 2016 that utilizes a FRC, its child abuse rate has had a 57.7% reduction.
Presenters:
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Andrew Russo, Co-Founder & Director, National Family Support Network
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Kim Mauthe, Director, Teller County Department of Human Services, Colorado
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Jodi Mijares, Executive Director, Community Partnership Family Resource Center
October 16, 2019
Understanding and Working Effectively with Grandparents through Family Resource Centers
Co-presented with Zero to Three
This webinar presents Zero to Three's research findings about grandparents, highlights work with grandparents from a collaboration of two Family Resource Centers, and shares resources available for multigenerational families and the professionals who support them.
Presenters:
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Rebecca Parlakian, Zero to Three
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Wendy Hill, The River Center Family & Community Resource Center, New Hampshire
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Carol Lunan, The Grapevine Family & Community Resource Center, New Hampshire
September 4, 2019
Family Resource Center Virtual Tour
This virtual visit to the Jennie Mose Family Resource Center in upstate New York is led by a staff member and a parent leader. Especially if you have not yet had the opportunity to see a FRC in person, this webinar will give you a sense of that experience.
Presenters:
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Krys Watkins, Coordinator, Jennie Mose Family Resource Center, NY
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Heather Balch, Parent Leader, Jennie Mose Family Resource Center, NY
April 10, 2019
Exploring Family Resource Centers in Unique Setting
This webinar highlights several unique examples of FRCs, including a mobile FRC, a school-based FRC serving the Native American community, and a prison-based FRC
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Faviola Alderete, Eagle County Public Health & Environment, Colorado
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Cindy Janechek, Indian Community School Family Resource Center, Wisconsin
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Kristina Toth, Family Connections Center - New Hampshire Department of Corrections
March 20, 2019
What Impact do Family Resource Centers Have on Community Levels of Child Maltreatment Investigations?
This webinar provides an overview of the network of Family Support Centers developed by the Department of Human Services in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania and shares the findings from a Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago report that found that neighborhoods with Centers had a 26% lower rate of child abuse and neglect investigations than similar neighborhoods without them.
Presenters:
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Bridgette Lery, San Francisco Human Services Agency and Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago
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Amy Malen, Allegheny County Department of Human Services
November 16, 2016
Developing and Evaluating a Coordinated Family Resource Center System in San Francisco
This webinar provides information on how San Francisco established a collaborative funding model for FRCs across three departments, engaged community stakeholders to develop sustainable partnerships, and included services that are diverse and responsive measured in a comprehensive evaluation framework that best reflects the richness of FRC work.
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Shelli Rawlings-Fein, Family Support Program Officer, First 5 San Francisco
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Theresa Zighera, Evaluation Officer, First 5 San Francisco