Maryland Community Action Partnership
2020 Human Services Conference
Persevering Together: Moving from Crisis to Resilience
October 28-30
Conference Overview
Our theme "Persevering Together - Moving from Crisis to Resilience" sets the tone for reshaping, retooling and developing strategies for a sustainable future. The conference will offer a surge of collective energy around transformative social change, building after crisis and change through innovative and collaborative planning. Don't miss the opportunity to learn, connect and take action!
Mindset: Retrain Your Mind To Resilience – Rachel Druckenmiller (Wednesday AM)
Social Determinants of Health – Jameta Barlow, Denise Harlow & Michelle Hinton (Thursday AM)
NCAF Update – David Bradley (Friday AM)
”Now is the Time “Persevering Together: Moving from Crisis to Resilience" – Dr. Robert Lemon (Friday PM)
Workshops
The conference will feature five workshop tracks see the Conference Book for session descriptions and presenters.
Management & Administration
- Engaging Your Board During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Legal and Practical Tools and Considerations
- Due Diligence, Decisions and Data in Difficult Times
- High Performing Teams: Community Action in the Midst of a Crisis
- Enabling Workers to Work Remotely More Effectively by Removing the Greatest Obstacle, Paper Documents
- Poverty Matters: Learn Strategies to Help
- Managing Remote Staff
- Nonprofit Scenario Planning
- COVID-19 and Community Action
- Crisis Resilient Engagement
- High Performing Teams: Community Action in the Middle of a Crisis
Program & Professional Development
- (Mental) Health, Resilience and Building Safe, Healthy, Supportive Community
- Introduction to Restorative Practices in the Workplace
- Working with Humans: Using a DiSC® Approach to Building Stronger Relationships
- Balance Work & Family & Be Positive in Both
- Self-Care as a Tool for Professional Practice
- Zooming In? Or Zoning Out? – Tips to Engage More in your Virtual Meetings
Direct Services
- Racial Healing
- Financial Fitness During COVID-19
- Adapting and Sustaining Services in Crises
- The Digital Divide in Maryland: Can we close it?
- COVID-19 Food System Response in Montgomery County, Maryland
- Delivering Essential Services During COVID-19: Workforce Development Updates
Whole Family/2-Generation
- Multigenerational Family Development Plan
- Two-Generation Approaches
- The Power of Your Local Theory of Change
- Data Capacity During a Crisis
- Holistic Coaching
- Multi-generational Approach to ACES (Adverse Childhood Experiences) and linkage Whole Family Stability
- Human Capacity Community Transformation
Housing – see the online listing and filter Housing Track
- Confronting, Addressing and Acting on Racial Inequities in Homeless Systems
- Connecting Employment Opportunities to Housing Systems: Client and Market Driven Solutions
- Creating a Trauma-Informed Environment for Your Clients and Staff
- Working with the CoC to Keep People Housed
