2025 CIP Children's Summit

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Younes Conference Center SOUTH, Kearney, Nebraska

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Check back here for information on Speakers, Breakout Sessions and how to Register as it becomes available.

 

Keynote Speakers (tentative):

Andrew Bridge

Andrew Bridge spent 11 years in Los Angeles County foster care, before earning a scholarship to Wesleyan University and graduating from Harvard Law School. He is a Fulbright Fellow and a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Writing Resident. His work has garnered coverage in The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Showtime, The Observer, The CBS Early Show, NBC Nightly News, Time Magazine, PBS, Psychology Today, NPR, and Observer Magazine. He began his legal career representing children against the State of Alabama. His work resulted in the closure of one of the most notorious psychiatric institutions in the country, the Eufaula Adolescent Center. 
 

Angela Pharris, Ph.D., MSW

Dr. Pharris is an Assistant Professor in the Anne & Henry Zarrow School of Social Work at the University of Oklahoma, Director of the Center for Child Welfare Training and Senior Research Fellow at the Hope Research Center. Her research  is focused on the application and implementation of hope-centered and trauma-informed practices that impact human service programs. Angela’s current research is in child welfare and human service organizations and the application of Hope Centered and Trauma-Informed framework. Hope is a psychological strength and a buffer to stress, adversity, and burnout and a hopeful mindset that improves organizational and individual outcomes.

 

Tentative Agenda

Tuesday, September 23
8:00-9:00am    Sign In/Registration    Pre-function area
9:00-9:15am    Welcome    Crystal Ballroom
9:15-10:45am    Keynote    Crystal Ballroom
10:45-11:00am    Break
11:00am-12:15pm    Breakout 1    Diamonds 1-10
12:15-1:15pm    Lunch    Crystal Ballroom
1:15-2:30    Breakout 2    Diamonds 1-10
2:30-3:00pm     Break
3:00-4:15     Breakout 3    Diamonds 1-10

6pm    Coordinator Dinner
 

 

Wednesday, September 24
8:30-9:45am    Breakout 4    Diamonds 1-10
9:45-10:00am    Break
10:00-11:15am    Breakout 5    Diamonds 1-10
11:15am-12:30pm    Lunch and Awards    Crystal Ballroom
12:30-1:45pm    Breakout 6    Diamonds 1-10
1:45-2:15pm    Break
2:15-3:45pm    eynote    Crystal Ballroom

6pm    Judge’s Dinner

Nominations for 2025 Children's Summit Awards

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