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2018 TxCFR Annual Conference Highlights

Promoting Healthy Families:  Family Strengths & Challenges

Thursday, April 5th & Friday, April 6th

SpringHill Suites Dallas--Plano/Frisco

The annual TxCFR Conference bring together practitioners, researchers, students, and others working to serve Texas families. Join us for networking, professional development, and best practices for serving our communities. We are excited about our lineup of practitioners on the front lines strengthening families and our researcher who is engaging innovative, research-informed intervention with families. Join us for conversation and collaboration in April!

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ACCOMMODATION

The 2018 TxCFR Conference will be held at the SpringHill Suites Plano/Frisco. Reserve a room by calling the hotel at one of the numbers listed below. Discounted rate ends on March 12th!

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Toll Free:  888-236-2427

Local:  469-362-7773

 

Be sure to indicate that you are attending the 2018 Annual Texas Council on Family Relations Conference on April 5th - April 6th to receive the TxCFR conference room rate. Single King or Double Queen suites are available. The following amenities are included:

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  • Complimentary hot, fresh, and healthy breakfast daily

  • Complimentary appetizers during evening reception hour (Monday - Thursday)

  • Complimentary shuttle within a 5-mile radius of the hotel

  • Complimentary high-speed internet access in guestrooms and meeting spaces

  • Complimentary self-parking

Spring Hill Suites Dallas Plano/Frisco

8401 Angels Drive

Plano, TX  75024

PRECONFERENCE: Family Strengths and Challenges Through a Lens of Trauma, Grounded in Attachment Theory

Thursday, April 5th, 8:30-11:00 a.m.

 

Amy L. Curtis, LBSW-IPR, LPC-S

Director of Counseling, Buckner Children and Family Services, Inc.

 

The Center for the Study of Social Policy has outlined five protective factors to strengthen those we serve; building parental resilience, enhancing social connections, providing knowledge of parenting and child development, giving concrete support in times of need and strengthening the social and emotional competency of children. Yet, how we respond in moments of need and stress are often impacted by our attachment patterns. Attachment patterns are intergenerational. How a parent responds in moments of stress is often how the child will learn to respond. Attachment begins in infancy and can be further impacted by traumatic events that occur in our lives.

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Pre-conference fee is $40.00. A Continental Breakfast will be served.

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CEUs will be included in the CEU cost for the conference.

OPENING PLENARY: Strengthening Families From the Inside Out: A Collaborative Model

Thursday, April 5th

 

Mervil Johnson, MPA

Workforce Solutions for Tarrant County

 

From 2011 thru 2015, Workforce Solutions was awarded a four-year 8.4 million dollar grant by the Department of Health & Human Services’ Administration for Children and Families. This represented the largest single grant awarded to Tarrant County’s Workforce board designed to enhance positive outcomes for children through interventions engaging fathers and other parents of primarily low-income children in Tarrant County. This pilot program consisted of a holistic service design featuring services to strengthen parenting skills, enhance economic stability and improve communication and relationships between parents as they cared for their children. This presentation will describe the service model used, outcomes achieved and lessons learned.

CLOSING PLENARY: The Sociocultural Context of Family Resilience

Friday, April 6th

 

Norma Perez-Brena, Ph.D., Assistant Professor

School of Family and Consumer Sciences, Texas State University

 

Her work examines the combination of sociocultural characteristics that generate resilience in families, in general, and Latino and immigrant families, in particular. She is also the Director of Strengthening Relationships/Strengthening Families, an intervention program aimed at strengthening adolescent parents’ relationship, coparenting, and job readiness skills. Dr Perez-Brena’s presentations will provide a broad perspective on what builds resilience in the face of various sociocultural stressors, and discuss the important role of the family and culture as two major mechanisms through which resilience is developed.

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REGISTRATION

Preconference Registration

Includes Breakfast

$40 ($50 After March 29th)

Professional Registration

Includes Active TxCFR Membership

$170 ($190 After March 29th)

Student Registration

Includes Active TxCFR Membership

$90 ($100 After March 29th)

Exhibitor (For Profit Organization)

* Exhibitors that are NOT registering for the 2018 TxCFR Conference should use the radio button selection in the “Fee” section of the Registration page, while Exhibitors who are registering for the conference should register for the appropriate level in the “Fee” section, and then add the Exhibitor fee in the “Items for Sale” section of the Registration page.

$100

Nonprofit Exhibitor

* Exhibitors that are NOT registering for the 2018 TxCFR Conference should use the radio button selection in the “Fee” section of the Registration page, while Exhibitors who are registering for the conference should register for the appropriate level in the “Fee” section, and then add the Exhibitor fee in the “Items for Sale” section of the Registration page.

$50

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SPONSORSHIP

Title Sponsor: $1000

  • Full-page logo ad in the printed program

  • Acknowledgement as the "Title Sponsor" on all marketing materials (subject to copy content restrictions)

  • Name mentioned on all radio advertisements and press releases (subject to FCC regulations and copy content restrictions)

  • Logo placement on all print ads, online and hard copy registration, and website (sized according to the amount contributed and subject to copy content restrictions)

  • Exhibitor Table at the annual conference

  • 4 registrations for the 2018 TxCFR Conference

Benefactor Sponsor: $750

  • 1/2 page logo ad in the printed program

  • Acknowledgement as the "Benefactor Sponsor" on all marketing materials (subject to copy content restrictions)

  • Name mentioned on all radio advertisements and press releases (subject to FCC regulations and copy content restrictions)

  • Logo placement on all print ads, online and hard copy registration, and website (sized according to the amount contributed and subject to copy content restrictions)

  • Exhibitor Table at the annual conference

  • 3 registrations for the 2018 TxCFR Conference

Platinum Sponsor: $500

  • 1/4 page logo ad in the printed program

  • Acknowledgement as the "Platinum Sponsor" on all marketing materials (subject to copy content restrictions)

  • Name mentioned on all radio advertisements and press releases (subject to FCC regulations and copy content restrictions)

  • Logo placement on all print ads, online and hard copy registration, and website (sized according to the amount contributed and subject to copy content restrictions)

  • Exhibitor Table at the annual conference

  • 2 registrations for the 2018 TxCFR Conference

Gold Sponsor: $250

  • Acknowledgement as the "Gold Sponsor" on all marketing materials (subject to copy content restrictions)

  • Name mentioned on all radio advertisements and press releases (subject to FCC regulations and copy content restrictions)

  • Logo placement on all print ads, online and hard copy registration, and website (sized according to the amount contributed and subject to copy content restrictions)

  • Exhibitor Table at the annual conference

  • 1 registration for the 2018 TxCFR Conference

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