**ORPARC Training** 2024 Shoulder to Shoulder Pre-Conference (In-Person & Online)

In-Person & Online options available.

Join us for the 2024 Shoulder to Shoulder Pre-Conference Event (Hybrid Conference). Come to connect with others, enjoy some light refreshments and appetizers and hear informative and inspiring speakers.

Registration open!

Scholarships available for caregivers (including resource/foster, adoptive and guardianship parents).
Apply for a Scholarship here

Sunday, October 20, 2024
Pre-Conference Event | 4:00-7:00pm
Appetizers, Dessert & Refreshments included
Presentation - Voices of Youth: Foster Care Alumni Panel

Presentations:

• Understanding Trauma’s Impact On Your Child So You Can Build Lifelong Attachment & Healing | Mike Berry
• Building Bridges: Applying TBRI Principles with Teens and Tweens | Henry Milton
• Keeping Families Together, Stable and Safe: Transformation in Oregon Child Welfare | Aprille Flint-Gerner, ODHS Child Welfare Director & Lacey Andresen, ODHS Child Welfare Deputy Director
• Transracial Families and Sibling Dynamics | Isaac Etter and (sister) Sarah Etter-Hinojosa

More information on speakers & presentations here

Shoulder to Shoulder provides quality training and networking opportunities for those who work with or care for children, youth and families connected to Child Welfare.

ORPARC is pleased to be one of the partners sponsoring the Shoulder to Shoulder Conference.
The name "Shoulder to Shoulder" reflects the collaborative nature of child welfare work in hopes that joint training would strengthen partnerships to improve outcomes for children and their families.

Shoulder to Shoulder's planning committee is comprised of statewide community partners from the child welfare and child abuse prevention fields. See our Sponsor page for a full list of the community partners.