8 - Strengthening Families and Protecting Sacred Bonds
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LockedIn this workshop, Dr. Pryce will discuss the importance of rebuilding a system which values and protects families, as well as children. She will present strategies to change power dynamics within the child welfare system and ideas for meaningfully engaging families. She will also illuminate research on bonding evaluations and assessments and the limitations and research needs. This workshop will provide insight and even more questions into how you measure the bond within and between families.
Objectives:
- Participants will understand the purpose and processes involved in Bonding Evaluations
- Participants will learn about the research on Bonding Evaluations in child welfare
- Participants will identify power dynamics that need transformation within child welfare work
- Participants will learn the long-term impact of continuing with an inextricable relationship between bonding evaluations and termination of parental rights
- Participants will identify strategies that enhance family connection and engagement.
Jessica Pryce, PhD, MSW (she/her)
Executive Director, Assistant Professor
Florida Institute for Child Welfare - Florida State University
Jessica Pryce, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at Florida State University. For over 10 years, she has been involved in multiple angles of child welfare (direct practice, teaching + training & policy and research). She has published on child welfare-related topics, such as training and education, racial disparity, and anti-poverty practices. She has presented her research at 100+ conferences both nationally and internationally. She is the author of several op-eds focused on racial disparity and effective strategies to impact racial disproportionality within child welfare. Her TED Talk on Implicit Racial Bias in Decision Making has been viewed over 1.3 million times. Dr. Pryce has worked on the frontlines of child welfare, conducted primary research, been a policy advisor to Florida’s legislature and taught graduate level courses in child welfare. In 2019, she received a five-year appointment to the Advisory Board of the National Child Welfare Workforce Institute, where she consults and advises on leadership and workforce interventions around the country. She currently sits on the Florida Dependency Court Improvement Panel, alongside judges and advocates who are working towards a more trauma-informed approach within the judicial system. She has maintained and cultivated a commitment to the wellbeing of vulnerable children and families, the sustainability of the child welfare workforce, and effectively addressing inequity.
