Call for Presentations 2015-Workshop Submission Document
All submissions for all for presenters must be submitted online at
www.surveymonkey.com/s/NICWA2015
This document is just to be used as a tool to prepare your information.
More information can be found at: www.nicwa.org/callforpresentations/
Part I: Workshop Content
Workshop Title
Topic
The following are the topic areas that are among the most pertinent to NICWA’s conference
attendees. Please select one* topical area from below that most adequately reflects the content
of your proposed presentation.
Child welfare, foster care, and adoption services
Presenters may include child welfare workers, directors, and staff from tribal, state,
federal, and private programs.
Children’s mental health
Presenters may include mental health, psychiatric, behavioral health, youth advocacy,
and general health professionals.
Data and research
Presenters may include researchers, educators, program directors, program service
coordinators, evaluation consultants, and data system consultants.
Legal affairs and advocacy
Presenters may include attorneys, judges, and other legal professionals and
advocates; law enforcement professionals; court and legal professionals; Court of
Indian Offenses judges and attorneys; CASA workers, Guardians ad Litem (GALs);
and grassroots community organizers.
Youth and family involvement
Presenters may include tribal and public school administrators, teachers, educators,
counselors, and staff; TANF workers; domestic violence workers; substance abuse
workers; parents; guardians; elders; and extended family members.
* If more than one topic area is selected, NICWA staff will use their own discretion to determine
the primary topic area, and this alone will be what is represented in the conference agenda.
Management and Administrative Focus
This year NICWA will be highlighting workshops in each of the tracks that have a focus toward
administrative and management staff. Check below is you would like your workshop to be
highlighted for this focus. These workshops will have an extra focus on topics including funding,
leadership, and administrative planning.
Will you be interested in being considered for this focus?
Yes or No?
Summary Workshop Description
Type a short paragraph of 100 words or less describing your workshop as it would appear in the
final program. Please ensure correct spelling, grammar, and punctuation, as errors will reflect on
the description of your presentation. Please do NOT exceed 100 words. If your description
exceeds 100 words, the description will be edited to fit the word count at NICWA’s discretion.
[Place summary workshop description here.]
Workshop Objectives
(Three to five objectives are required. Do not exceed five objectives.)
“As a result of attending this workshop, participants will:”
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Detailed Workshop Description
A detailed workshop description, two to four pages, typed and double-spaced, is required and will
enable the review team to fully evaluate your proposal as a potential workshop. Please note that
NICWA highly values interactive and participatory workshops. Please share in your submission
how your workshop will help conference attendees learn through interactive teaching methods.
[Place detailed workshop description here.]
Research Ethics Statement (Mandatory for Tribal Data)
Any proposed research workshop that includes data about a tribal community (whether the
community is identified by name or not) should have secured tribal approval to present the data in
advance of submitting a workshop proposal. Any presenters submitting a workshop proposal that
includes tribal community data should be prepared to substantiate this approval if they are called
upon to do so.
[Initial here.]
For workshops with content pertaining to historical and/or generational
trauma:
NICWA acknowledges that individuals working in the “helping professions,” especially child
welfare workers, often experience negative effects stemming from their work with traumatized
American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) children and families. NICWA also recognizes that
there are many different types of trauma that affect people’s lives in negative-traumatic ways.
These traumas—with their varied symptoms and responses—can affect one’s daily spiritual,
emotional, physical, and mental well-being.
NICWA wants to take appropriate measures to ensure that participants have a healthy
experience in conference workshops, which requires a standard of sensitivity for the discussion of
traumatic situations for AI/AN children and families be upheld. To ensure workshop consideration,
workshop presenters wanting to present on topics that include the discussion of issues related to
generational and/or historical traumas must also submit an action plan outlining how they plan to
respond to the emotional and/or spiritual needs of participants when problems arise. If it is
decided by reviewers that a workshop needs an action plan but one was not provided in the initial
submission, the presenter will be called upon to provide one before a decision regarding the
workshop’s acceptance is made.
[Place action plan here.]
Part II: Presenter Information
Presenters please note: Presenter #1 is the contact within the workshop group who will receive all
communications regarding the workshop. This person should be prepared to forward all details
regarding the presentation to the rest of their workshop group. If you would like someone other
than Presenter #1 to be listed first in the program book, please indicate below.
Presenter #1 (Contact Person)
Name
Tribal Affiliation (If applicable)
Job Title
Agency
Sub-Agency
Address
City, State, Zip
Telephone
Email
List first in program book? (If no, please write the name of the
person whose name should be first.)
Presenter Biography
Biography of each presenter, 75
words or less, written in third
person. If your bio exceeds 75
words, it will be edited to fit the
word count at NICWA’s
discretion.
Presenter #2
Name
Tribal Affiliation (If applicable)
Job Title
Agency
Sub-Agency
Address
City, State, Zip
Telephone
Email
Presenter Biography
Biography of each presenter,
75 words or less, written in
third person. If your bio
exceeds 75 words, it will be
edited to fit the word count at
NICWA’s discretion.
Presenter #3
Name
Tribal Affiliation (If applicable)
Job Title
Agency
Sub-Agency
Address
City, State, Zip
Telephone
Email
Presenter Biography
Biography of each presenter,
75 words or less, written in
third person. If your bio
exceeds 75 words, it will be
edited to fit the word count at
NICWA’s discretion.
Please indicate with an “x” any days during the conference period that you will not be available.
Monday, April 20, 2015
Afternoon
Tuesday, April 21, 2015
Morning
Afternoon
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
Morning
Should your proposal not be accepted, would you like to be considered as a backup presenter?
Yes or No?
Part III: A/V Needs and flash drives
Regarding audio/visual equipment NICWA DOES provide
NICWA will provide the following AV for participants in each workshop classroom a screen for an
LCD projector (aka PowerPoint projector) with accompanying cords (the LCD projector itself must
be provided by the participant), flipchart and markers, and a microphone (in larger breakout
rooms only)
Regarding audio/visual equipment NICWA does not provide
Submitting this proposal indicates an understanding that NICWA will NOT be providing workshop
presenters or presentations with LCD projectors (i.e. PowerPoint projectors) or laptop computers.
Participants should understand that it is the presenter(s) responsibility to provide these pieces of
equipment if they are necessary to the presentation, and any associated costs will be covered at
their own expense. Please type the name of submitter to indicate that the submitter(s) understand
the above requirement.
Animal-base Therapy
The 2015 conference facility may not have space that can accommodate the inclusion of live
animals in a workshop presentation. Please check with Lauren Shapiro (Lauren@nicwa.org) if
this is something you would like to consider. You are welcome to present without animals.
In submitting this proposal, I understand that NICWA is not offering to pay for travel, lodging,
meals, or registration. If approved, I agree to present on the assigned dates and times during the
conference, April 19–22, 2015. I also agree that I have read all of the above information.
[Type name of submitter to indicate you have read and agree to the above statement.]