This year, CWDA welcomed over 1,100 attendees to our annual conference in October. We had phenomenal keynote speakers who are noted below and a wide-array of fantastic breakout sessions.

Below are PDF versions of breakout presentations from those presenters who shared visual presentations with CWDA. 

Keynote speakers:

• Valerie Jarrett - Chief Executive Officer and a member of the board of directors of the Barack Obama Foundation

•  Donnie Campbell - Leadership Speaker and Inspiration for the TV Series character, Ted Lasso

• Stephanie Foo - Author of What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

• Jason Reynolds - Author of Ain’t Burned All the Bright and other publications

Below are the breakout session presentations:

Are Racial Groups Associated with Recurrence of Adult Protective Services?

CalSAWS & Counties: Partnering on Innovations to Improve Delivery and Efficiency

Collaborating Across Systems to Address Secondary Traumatic Stress Through Reflective Practice and Supervision

Disaster Response & Recovery, Strategies & Practices

Fiscal Essentials 101

Ventura County Thrive (VC Thrive); A Guaranteed Income Pilot Design Model 

An Integrated Agency’s Preventative Approach to Housing Support and Family Stabilization

Documented Substance Misuse, Domestic Violence, and Mental Health Concerns in CPS Investigations: Implications for Scaling Cross-System Service Delivery

Fiscal Essentials 102

Friend, Not Foe: Keeping Our Communities Healthy by Partnering with Managed Care Plans for Medi-Cal Redetermination

Integrated Approaches Using Technology to Combat Social Isolation in Older Adults and Persons Living with Disabilities

Solving Complex Cross-Agency Challenges Using an Innovation and Data-Driven Framework

California’s Counties are Cracking the Code to Prevent Homelessness Among Youth Exiting Foster Care

Contra Costa County Drives Collaboration and Engagement with Powerful Mapping and Visualizations of Social Services Data 2.0

Developing Policies That Are Culturally Appropriate. 

Housing Solutions and Expanding the Long-Term Care Continuum for Older Adults

How to Cuddle a Coworker Without Getting Fired! An Overview of the Sacramento County Teddy Pilot: The Small Canine Coworker With a Big Impact

SLO Youth Engagement Project (YEP) – Youth Voice in Program & Policy Development 

An Approach to Organizational Change to Enhance Workforce Performance, Well-Being and Retention

CalAIM & The Child Welfare Prevention Continuum: Aligning and Connecting Pediatricians, CBOs, and Child and Family Serving Systems

California Automated Response and Engagement System (CARES)

Serving Unsheltered Individuals with Complex Needs: A Multidisciplinary Approach

Suicide Postvention Support – the Local Outreach to Suicide Survivors (“LOSS”) Team

Using CalVet’s Medi-Cal Cost Avoidance Program to Integrate Veterans & Social Services

Building Inclusive Communities

Centering Justice and Racial Equity in Child Welfare

Child Support …Changes, Changes, and More Changes!

Creating a community prevention network.

Transforming Hiring for the HSS in San Diego County

Youth Engagement Project, Preventing and Addressing Child Trafficking, and Citizen Review Panels: Creating positive and lasting change in human services programs through the leadership and influence of those with lived expertise

This year, CWDA welcomed over 1,100 attendees to our annual conference in October. We had phenomenal keynote speakers who are noted below and a wide-array of fantastic breakout sessions.

Below are PDF versions of breakout presentations from those presenters who shared visual presentations with CWDA. 

Keynote speakers:

• Michael Tubbs – Founder of End Poverty in California (EPIC)

•  Brenda Peyser – Co-Author of The No Club: Putting a Stop to Women’s Dead-End Work

• Bill Walton – Basketball Legend and Author of “Back from the Dead”

• Alex Smith – Founder of the Alex Smith Foundation for Foster Teens and Retired National Football League (NFL) Quarterback & Frank Mecca, Retired CWDA Executive Director

Below are the breakout session presentations:

This year, CWDA welcomed over 1,400 attendees to our first ever virtual conference in October. We had phenomenal keynote speakers who are noted below and a wide-array of fantastic breakout sessions.

Below are PDF versions of breakout presentations from those presenters who shared visual presentations with CWDA. 

Keynote speakers:

• Jarrett J. Krosoczka  - Author/Illustrator of “Hey Kiddo”
• Dr. Kenneth V. Hardy  - Understanding and Addressing the Subtleties of Racial Trauma 
• Cristela Alonzo​ - Cristela Alonzo is a stand-up comedian who made TV history in 2014 by becoming the first Latina to create, write and star in a network TV sitcom. Cristela was also the first Latina to star in a Disney Pixar movie when she starred as Cruz Ramirez in “Cars 3.”

Below are the breakout session presentations: