Call for Presentations

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Topics for Presentation

This year’s conference will feature the latest developments in two exciting areas:

• Youth empowerment and participation in designing, delivering, and evaluating services, supports, and systems
• Wraparound: practice, supervision, fidelity measurement, outcome studies, system support, and more

And, as always, the conference will include presentations on recent developments and innovations in the fields of family support and children’s mental health.

Topics can include, but are not limited to:

• Youth- and family-driven services and supports
• Peer-to-peer supports and services
• Service and system strategies that empower youth
• Youth leadership and collaboration in research and evaluation
• Building systems, services and supports that reflect the wraparound philosophy
• Lessons learned in education, special education, child welfare, juvenile justice, mental health, and integrated/wraparound
• Using research and evaluation for program and system change

Proposal Information

We encourage proposals that reflect our conference themes (above) and:

• Feature youth and/or family members in lead roles as presenters
• Focus on use of positive strategies and practices
• Show respect for youth and their families
• Present evidence or other rationale supporting the effectiveness or usefulness of a program, policy or approach
• Have a strong theoretical framework
• Are accessible to an audience of youth, family members, researchers, professionals, policy-makers, and advocates

We also welcome proposals that are presented in Spanish.

Proposals are invited from:

• Researchers,
• educators,
• family advocates,
• family members and youth,
• administrators,
• policy makers,
• service providers,  and
• others interested in strengthening research, practice, and policy in response to the needs of children and families, particularly those that are underserved.

Types of sessions:

We encourage varied methods of presentation including the use of handouts, overheads, videos, and experiential activities.

• PAPER presentation (30 minute presentation followed by a 15-minute opportunity for discussion)
• SYMPOSIUM presentation (75-minute presentation followed by a 15-minute opportunity for discussion); integrated perspectives on a single topic or several elements of a research project
• POSTER session (Informal discussion of visual poster board displays during a reception)

Submission Information

Selection of proposals:

Proposals will be evaluated by RTC staff, and family members and youth, using criteria relevant to conference themes, accessibility to a mixed audience, clarity of the proposal itself, and quality of research methods and findings. More specifically, proposals will be evaluated on:

• Their relevance to families whose children have emotional or behavioral disorders, or youth with such disorders
• The novelty and/or innovativeness of the approach
• The presence of a strong, conceptual framework/theoretical rationale and/or a clearly defined research/evaluation component
• The inclusion of families and youth in the design, implementation, or evaluation of the activities described in the proposal