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Cuyahoga County Division of Children and Family Services

The Institute for Human Services

9th Annual Discovering your Leadership Supervisor Conference

"Essential Qualities of Leadership" Pre-Conference - June 15, 2016

9:00-12:00 & 1:00-4:00

Crown Plaza Independence Ohio Sponsored by the Annie E. Casey Foundation




"Essential Qualities of Leadership" Conference

June 16- 17, 2016

Thursday June 16, 2017

7:30-8:50 - Morning registration

9:00 – 12:00 Morning Session

Ethics and Culture and Diversity for Supervisors (9-12:15)

Dr. Christine Cross

Edwin Lebron

Working with Individuals with Disabilities: Breaking Barriers Brian Bethel

Stress and Coping Skills for Leaders Helping Others... Dan Houston

Internal Barriers to Leadership Success Davis Zidar

Critical Links: Coaching workers in the Birth Parent/Foster Parent relationship

Dr. Denise Goodman

12:00 12:50 Lunch

1:00- 4:00 Afternoon Session

Team-Building in the Chaotic World of Child Protective Service Beth Ann Rodriguez

An Overview of Personality Disorders: The Emotional Hurricane Brian Bethel

"GAP” Guided Application and Practice: Making the Most of the Supervisor/Supervisee

Relationship" Dan Houston

Burnout Prevention for Supervisors David Zidar

Secondary Trauma in Supervision Dr. Denise Goodman




"Essential Qualities of Leadership" Conference

Friday June 17, 2016

7:30-8:50 Morning registration

9:00 – 12:00 Morning Session

Team-Building in the Chaotic World of Child Protective Service Beth Ann Rodriguez

An Overview of Personality Disorders: The Emotional Hurricane Brian Bethel

"GAP” Guided Application and Practice: Making the Most of the Supervisor/Supervisee

Relationship" Dan Houston

Burnout Prevention for Supervisors David Zidar

Secondary Trauma in Supervision Dr. Denise Goodman

12:00 12:50 Lunch

1:00- 4:00 Afternoon Session

Ethics and Culture and Diversity for Supervisors (1-4:15) Dr. Christine Cross

Edwin Lebron

Working with Individuals with Disabilities: Breaking Barriers Brian Bethel

Stress and Coping Skills for Leaders Helping Others... Dan Houston

Internal Barriers to Leadership Success Davis Zidar

Critical Links: Coaching workers in the Birth Parent/Foster Parent relationship

Dr. Denise Goodman




"Essential Qualities of Leadership"

Brian Bethel -308-21- What to Do with Axis II: Working with Individuals with Personality

Disorders

Personality disorders present complex challenges for professionals who work with this adult

population. Despite the high prevalence of personality disorders, individuals with personality

disorders may go undiagnosed or resist treatment for these disorders. As a result, child welfare

professionals continue to struggle in working with this unique population. This training will

provide a general overview of personality disorders. Participants will gain a better understanding

of the most evidenced-based practices for working with individuals with personality disorders.

Additionally, this training will explore the impact these disorders may have on an individual's

family and his/her ability to care for children.

Brian Bethel -Working with Individuals with Disabilities: Breaking Barriers Individuals with disabilities are a unique culture in American society. Despite recent legislation

with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), individuals with disabilities continue to

encounter prejudice, discrimination, and numerous other cultural obstacles. This workshop will

address the psychosocial adjustment that individuals with disabilities often confront. Participants

will be exposed to the stages of disability adjustment, threats to individual identity, as well as

common family reactions to a disability. An overview of the ADA will also be provided.

Daniel Houston-533-31-GAP: Making the Most of the Supervisor/Supervisee Relationship

One of the most challenging aspects of supervision is meeting the supervisory needs of those in

your charge. As supervisors get busy with the day-to-day administration of the job, they can

often close themselves off from their employees in an effort to get their own work done. This

GAP session will allow participants to discuss strategies for balancing being a supervisor who is

approachable and open to staff while also completing the administrative work for which they are

responsible.





Daniel Houston -537-5- Stress and Coping Skills for Leaders Helping Others This is likely to be a turbulent year for child welfare leaders/supervisors, during which

supervisors and managers must learn to deal with organizational change and uncertainty,

increased expectations from upper management, and organizational environments that will

require the manager to do more with fewer resources. Conditions such as these are likely to make

job stress an epidemic in the next few years. In addition, leaders and supervisors must help

clients cope with such factors as life-work balance, economic hardship, social change, financial

pressure, and changing expectations. Leaders, workers, and clients are therefore increasingly

being exposed to environments that are likely to trigger a stress response. What do people do? To

help supervisors, worker, and clients apply stress management, this workshop will develop

strategies and action steps to master, reduce, or tolerate stress so that leaders and workers can

provide high levels of support for compliance issues, staff development, and casework practice.

David Zidar – 535-11- Internal Barriers to Leadership Success Leaders in child welfare often are required to manage situations that are rooted in

communication and perceptive issues. Good leaders are good communicators and good listeners.

This learning provides child welfare leaders with some suggested methods of delivering the

message of the mission.

David Zidar-535-11- Internal Barriers to Leadership Success

Leaders in child welfare often are required to manage situations that are rooted in

communication and perceptive issues. Good leaders are good communicators and good listeners.

This learning provides child welfare leaders with some suggested methods of delivering the

message of the mission.

Denise Goodman- Secondary Trauma in Supervision

This session for Supervisors will explore the phenomena of Secondary Trauma Stress

experienced by child welfare workers and their supervisors. The causes of STS and its impact on

the well-being of staff will be explored. Strategies and resources for intervention will be

highlighted.





Denise Goodman-210-21- Critical Links: The Birth Parent/Foster Parent Relationship This session will explore an untapped resource - the relationship between foster parents and birth

parents. The benefits, challenges, and strategies of this work will be examined, as well as

methods for overcoming common pitfalls. The role of the social worker will be

highlighted. Preparation and support of the caregiver will also be discussed.

Christine Cross & Edwin Lebron-325-33-Ethical Issues in Culture and Diversity in Child

Welfare Practice This class explores ethical issues faced by child welfare workers, and how culture and diversity

play a significant role in the decisions made in casework practice. Participants will gain a better

understanding of their personal culture, and how their bias, past experiences, and own baggage

may create an inability or barriers to making ethical, consistent, and fair decisions on the

job. Participants will also learn to be ethically correct in their day-to-day professions, using the

National Association of Social Workers' code of ethics and The Ohio Code of Ethics as reference

guides.

Beth Ann Rodriguez- Team-Building in the Chaotic World of Child Protective Service

We all know the value of a good team. How do you develop a good team in the midst of constant

crisis and chaos? How do you keep your team effective when you are constantly having to

replace staff? These are the dilemmas we will discuss in this workshop. We will learn some team

building ideas and activities that will help improve the effectiveness of your team. Come join us

as we learn from each other and have some fun!





Beth Ann Rodriguez came to the Institute for Human Services (IHS) in 2005, bringing more

than 25 years of experience in child welfare. As a Trainer Development Coordinator, she

provides support and technical assistance to trainers in the Ohio Child Welfare Training Program

(OCWTP) and coordinates training development for evidence-based practice. Ms. Rodriguez

also coordinates the IHS Cultural Competence Task Force. She has taught coursework in cultural

diversity and child welfare at the University of Louisville, Kent School of Social Work, the

School of Social Work at the University of Texas (Austin), and The Ohio State University

College of Social Work. Her experience also includes direct service and administration for

residential, foster care and adoption services and emergency care settings in Texas and

Kentucky. Ms. Rodriguez holds a Master’s Degree in Social Work from Southern Baptist

Theological Seminary, Carver School of Church Social Work.

http://www.ocwtp.net/

http://www.ocwtp.net/





David Zidar has worked in child welfare for over twenty years. He started his career in

Cleveland working in residential settings for severely troubled children. He was the Vice

President for residential services for the largest provider of residential care in Kentucky. He has a

BSW from Capital University and MSSA from Case Western Reserve University and completed

the University of Louisville Certification in treatment of juvenile sexual offenders.





Dr. Christine Cross, is a Senior Training Officer for the Division of Cuyahoga County Children

and Family Services for over 20 years. She has a Bachelor’s of Arts degree in Urban Studies,

specializing in Public Administration from the University of Pittsburgh, a master’s degree from

the University of Phoenix in Education, Curriculum and Instruction and a Doctoral degree in

Educational Leadership from the University of Phoenix. Her research was completed on “The

perspectives of child protection caseworkers on sustainability, training, and attitudes.” She was

the orientation supervisor at the Cleveland Job Corps Center for nine years. She has taught many

topics on culture, diversity, ethics, stress, and other classes on casework issues in child welfare to

caseworkers and foster parents.





Edwin Lebron, M.B.A., is a Senior Training Officer with the North Central Ohio Regional

Training Center’s Foster Parent Training Program at the Cuyahoga County Department of

Children and Family Services. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in Human Resource

Management from Miami University (OH) and also holds a Masters of Business Administration

degree from Bowling Green State University with a specialization in Organizational

Development. Edwin completed the OCWTP Training of Trainers for the culture and diversity

curriculum. He has extensive experience working with training and staff development and has

trained foster/adoptive caregivers and social worker staff.





Brian Bethel is a Professional Clinical Counselor-Supervisor (PCC-S), a Licensed Chemical

Dependency Counselor (LCDC III), and a Registered Play Therapist-Supervisor (RPT-S) with

specialized training in counseling children, adolescents, and families. He earned a dual Master’s

degree in Clinical Counseling and Rehabilitation Counseling from Ohio University and is

currently completing doctoral studies in Counselor Education and Supervision. With over twenty

years of experience, Mr. Bethel brings a diversity of clinical strengths to his counseling practice.

He has dedicated much of his professional career to working with individuals impacted by

trauma.





Dr. Denise Goodman PhD and Master's in Social Work. 40 years of child welfare experience.

Since 1992, Denise has been a Senior Consultant to the Annie E. Casey Foundation and provided

sites across the nation with consultation around Birth Parent/Foster Parent relationships and

family engagement. Denise has authored articles and produced a/v materials on the subject.





Daniel A. Houston, President of Daniel Houston and Associates, is an organizational

development consultant specializing in improving management processes and leading agencies

to develop into high performance organizations. Dan is also a specialist in program evaluation

and organization assessment and has consulted with major organizations for over 20 years. He is

a National Center for Diversity Trainer of Trainers and an Ohio Child Welfare Training Program

lead trainer in the areas of cultural diversity and cultural assessment. Dan has facilitated

management and staff diversity training and organizational development processes in seven

states, the Caribbean, and the Pacific Rim. Dan has a master’s degree in counseling psychology

from the State University of New York at Albany and doctoral level training in management

science, group dynamics and organization development from Northwestern University. He is a

member of the National Organization Development Network and the American Society for

Training and Development.

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