aftnc THE ASSOCIATION OF FAMILY THERAPISTS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA PRESENTS:
| 2011 Annual Conference Collaborative Helping: A Practice Framework for Family-Centered Services Featuring: William Madsen, Ph.D., the author of Collaborative Therapy with Multi-Stressed Families. |  |
October 21-23 at Westerbeke Ranch, in Sonoma, CA
Across North America, services for families are undergoing profound changes. Community and government agencies are searching for effective models that support strength-based, culturally responsive, empowering partnerships with families. This workshop offers an integrated practice framework “Collaborative Helping” that is applicable across protective, outreach, residential, and outpatient contexts. It is applicable for helpers holding both “professional” and “non-professional” degrees. It offers a flexible map to put family-centered principles into practice in the everyday “messiness” of this work. Drawing on Appreciative Inquiry, Narrative and Solution-Focused approaches, Motivational Interviewing, the Signs of Safety approach to child protective services, and extensive interviews with “natural helpers,” this workshop highlights a practice framework to help families envision desired lives, address long-standing problems, and develop proactive coping strategies in the context of their local communities. Particular attention will be paid to engaging “reluctant” families and helping participants develop sustainable practices to ground their work in a spirit of possibilities, collaboration and accountability.
William Madsen, Ph.D. is the Founder and Director of the Family-Centered Services Project. He provides international training and consultation regarding collaborative approaches to therapy and development of institutional cultures that support family-centered work. Prior to his current efforts, Bill was the director of the Program in Narrative Therapies at the Family Institute of Cambridge and a senior Associate at the Public Conversations Project. He has spent most of the last 30 years working with multi-stressed families in public sector mental health, social services and health care settings. He has developed and administered innovative programs that combine outpatient and home-based services and has written and presented extensively about the development of strengths-based, collaborative partnerships between families and helpers. He is he author of Collaborative Therapy with Multi-Stressed Families (2nd Edition) and is currently working on a another book tentatively entitled, Helping: Towards More Supportive Services, which is an effort to highlight a practice framework for family support workers, case managers and milieu workers.
This conference is intended for licensed mental health professionals, residents, interns and students in training.
CEUs are provided by The Spiritual Competency Resources Center who is co-sponsoring the program and is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. SCRC maintains responsibility for the program and content. SCRC is a California Board of Registered Nursing Provider (BRN) and a Board of Behavioral Sciences Provider (BBS). For questions about ceu’s contact David Lukoff, PhD at (707) 763-3576.
Location:
Westerbeke Ranch
2300 Grove Street Sonoma, CA 95476 (707) 996-7546 www.westranch.com
Friday evening at 6pm
Schedule & Pricing
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Late Registration is after Tuesday, September 20, 2011
| Friday October 21 | Saturday October22 | Sunday October 17 |
| Session A: 9:00 am – 12:30 pm | Session C: 9:00 am – 12:30 pm | |
| Lunch: 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Lunch: 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm | |
| Dinner with the Presenter | Session B: 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Session D: 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm |
| Meet and Greet with Presenter | Dinner: 6:00 pm | Adjourn 3:30 pm |
| Options | Member Early | Member Late | Non Member Early | Non Member Late |
| 2 Nights (Fri & Sat) | $480 | $555 | $540 | $615 |
| 1 Night (Saturday) | $350 | $425 | $410 | $485 |
| Conference Day *Sat only | $290 | $365
| $350
| $425
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| Student 2 Night | $350 | $425 | $410 | $485 |
| Student 1 Night | $258 | $333 | $318 | $398 |
| Student Day Only | $187 | $232 | $237 | $292 |
| CEU | $25 | $25 | $25 | $25 |
To apply for Ram Gokul scholarship fund, please email Leticia Manzanares: lmanzana1@yahoo.com