2022 Family Support & Home Visiting Conference

November 14 & 15, 2022
Hershey Lodge and Convention Center,
Hershey Pennsylvania

Agenda

Handouts

Monday Nov 14th – 9:00am to 9:45am – Regional Breakout 1
– Regional Breakout Note Document
– Regional Breakout One PowerPoint

Monday Nov 14th – 10:15am to 11:30am
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Monday Nov 14th – 11:30am to 12:15am – Regional Breakout 2
– Regional Breakout Note Document
– Year 1 Monitoring Handout
– Regional Breakout Two PowerPoint

Monday Nov 14th – 1:30pm to 3:00pm
– Ideas and Strategies for CQI

Monday Nov 14th – 3:15pm to 4:30pm
– Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems
– Coming Unraveled
– Learning Communities Standard in Actions
– An Introduction to the Be Strong Parent Cafe

DAY 2
Tuesday Nov 15th – 8:00am – 8:45am
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Tuesday Nov 15th – 9:15am – 10:30am
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Tuesday Nov 15th – 10:45am to 12:15pm
– The Ripple Effect in Action

Tuesday Nov 15th – 1:30pm to 3:00pm – Regional Breakout 3
– Family Engagement and Leadership in Maternal and Early Childhood Programs
– Regional Breakout Note Document
– Regional Breakout 3 PowerPoint

Conference Information

Conference Participants
The Pennsylvania Family Support and Home Visiting Conference is designed for FS/HV program leaders, including administrators, directors, home visitor supervisors, directors of CQI efforts, or data managers. The conference is not designed for home visitors providing direct services to families. FS/HV programs are encouraged to bring family leaders to the conference.

Participation of Family Leaders
OCDEL continues to promote family voices in all its work. For the FS/HV conference, OCDEL is encouraging each FS/HV program to identify family leaders from their FS/HV programs who would like to attend the conference. During the conference, there will be breakout sessions and other activities designed for family leaders.

Family leaders are current or past participants in FS/HV programs who also play leadership roles in the program. For example, family leaders may be participants in local advisory groups, participants in CQI activities, or participants or facilitators of Parent Cafés.

Your help is needed to identify family leaders in your programs and help them to register for the conference. The Family Leader Conference Information handout provides information about the conference that family leaders will need. Please share it with family leaders from your program who might be interested in attending.

Funding is available for family leaders to cover the costs for mileage/tolls to travel to the conference, hotel rooms, meals, and child care costs. Family leaders should register for the conference and indicate they are family leader. Further information on payment for conference expenses will be sent to each family leader.

Conference Registration Limits
Due to space limitations at the venue, only 250 participants will be accepted. To allow for equal representation, a maximum of three administrative/supervisory staff from each Family Support and Home Visiting program may attend. Each FS/HV program should plan to bring at least one family leader.

Costs
There is no registration fee for the Family Support and Home Visiting Conference. Lunch will be provided on both days of the conference and a continental breakfast will be provided on Tuesday, November 15, 2022.

Hotel room and taxes will be covered by the conference. All participants MUST make their own hotel reservations by October 13, 2022. Please see the details below. Participants are responsible for other conference expenses, including meals not provided at the conference, and travel costs.

Family Support Staff Conference Registration for Family Support and Home Visiting Staff
Staff from Family Support and Home Visiting programs should use the link below to register for the conference. All participants must register for the conference by November 1, 2022.

Family Support and Home Visiting program staff only (not Family Leaders, see below) should click the link below to complete their conference registration(s): https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2T59BYH.

Hotel Reservations
The Family Support and Home Visiting Conference will be held at the Hershey Lodge and Convention Center, 325 University Drive, Hershey, PA. For those traveling more than 50 miles from the conference site (The Hershey Lodge Convention Center, Hershey, PA) the hotel room and tax will be paid by the conference.

You are responsible for making your own hotel reservations and providing a personal credit card for incidental costs. If you attend the conference, your hotel room and tax will be moved from your credit card and billed to the conference. If you are unable to attend the conference after making hotel reservations, you are responsible for cancelling your reservations.

To make your reservation, click here:
https://reservations.hersheypa.com/HRSApp/HRSHome?groupCode=FSC2022L&venue=hersheyLodge.

You may also reserve a room by calling 855-729-3108 and ask for the room block for the Family Support Conference at Hershey Lodge. All participants MUST make their own hotel reservations by October 20th.

Further Information
For questions about the conference content, please email [email protected].
For registration questions and support, please email Molly Martz at [email protected].

Family Leaders Guide to the Pennsylvania Family Support and Home Visiting Conference

PDF Version of the information for Family Leaders

The Pennsylvania Family Support and Home Visiting Conference is for the administrators and family leaders from Family Support and Home Visiting (FS/HV) programs. If you received this flyer, your FS/HV program thinks of you as a family leader.

Family leaders are current or past participants in FS/HV programs who also play leadership roles in the program. For example, family leaders may be participants in local advisory groups, participants in Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) activities, or participants or facilitators of Parent Cafés.

Conference Agenda
The conference starts at 9:00 AM on Monday, November 14, 2022, and ends at 3:00 PM on Tuesday, November 15, 2022.

There are many sessions at the conference, designed for family leaders. The conference will feature discussion groups, three breakout sessions featuring eighteen different topics, and two keynote presentations by nationally known speakers on race and equity and parent engagement and advocacy. Once you have registered, you’ll receive additional information about the family leader events available at the conference.

A special session of the Be Strong Parent Café will be held for family leaders attending the conference. This Parent Café is open to conference attendees, interested in having an opportunity to speak with other parents/caregivers about the challenges and victories of raising a family in a physically and emotionally safe space. Participants leave Parent Cafés feeling inspired, energized, and excited to put into practice what they’ve learned. Find more information on Parent Cafés, at www.bestrongfamilies.org/cafes-overview.

Costs
Funding is available to cover the costs for mileage/tolls to travel to the conference, hotel rooms, meals not already provided at the conference, and child care costs. There is no registration fee for the Family Support and Home Visiting Conference.

Family Leader Conference Registration
Family Leaders should use the link below to register for the conference. If you need a hotel room, you must register for the conference by October 20th. If you do not need a hotel room, have until Nov. 1, 2022, to register.

Family Leaders (only) should Register at: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2ZFNW3B.

This link is for Family Leaders only please, if you are a Family Support Provider please use the appropriate link in the “Family Support Staff Conference Registration for Family Support and Home Visiting Staff” section above.

Further Information
For questions about the conference content, please email [email protected].
For registration questions and support, please email Molly Martz at [email protected].