This one-hour session will host a unique panel of individual(s) with diverse experience across the child welfare, including experts in public policy & practice, author/systems reformer-foster-care youth alumni and a foster/adoptive parent.
The panel will include leaders from SAFY-Nevada, where this incredible team will provide an outline how Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics or NMT has been incorporated into every aspect of the work with children, youth, and families.
Exploring ways systems reforms can actively support every person where they have an opportunity to attain their full health potential. If the status quo continues the ‘disadvantaged’ are prevented from achieving this potential due to social position or other socially constructed scenarios.
Join Dr. John Lyons and our panel of experts who discuss the important goal for all children to be both physically and mentally healthy so that they can have a positive quality of life. Three new startup health technology companies join in this important discussion.
Preventive measures to avoid health risks can be as simple as screenings for potential illnesses. Exploring ways individuals can integrate healthy behaviors into their lifestyle, including practicing pro-active care, including learning more about signs or symptoms of a condition or disease as to increase taking control of one’s health & healthcare.
Alexis & Justin Black share their real-life story of beating the odds, having experienced trauma and growing-up in foster care. They will share how they managed to defy the odds, get healthy, and build a new life together.
Opeeka has brought together three (3) amazing thought-leaders from across the country to discuss the challenges & successes connected with child welfare.
The use of technology has led the charge in supporting all of us during the pandemic. We have all learned creative and effective ways to support those we serve.
Opeeka has assembled a panel of health-care executives who will share insights and offer assistance around what ‘value-based care’ looks like, including the struggles & lessons learned around unifying data.
There are close to 500,000 children/youth in foster care throughout the United States. What we know is that children with unresolved grief & loss enter a foster home, they bring their pain with them. Their main priority is self-protection against future loss and vulnerability. This will be a session where we can share creative ways to keep children/youth connected to health & wellness.
