Pre-Conference Symposia

Pre-Conference Symposium: Intergenerational Community Planning and Placemaking

10:00 AM-3:30 PM

Presenters

• Chris Kennedy Founder and Senior Projects Manager Age2Age
• Matt Kaplan Professor, Intergenerational Programs and Aging Penn State University
• David Rouse Urban + Regional Planning Consultant David Rouse, FAICP
• Douglas Smith Bureau Chief of Community Planning and Design in Lancaster City
• Karen Kali Policy Advisor AARP Public Policy Institute

"How might a city develop policies that encourage and support intergenerational community planning?

This one-day workshop will introduce The American Planning Association (APA)'s 2023 Report Intergenerational Community Planning to planners, architects, city staff, as well as community based organizations that cut across disciplines focused on education, health and human services.

Participants will learn about:

• The case for intergenerational community planning
• The age-friendly perspective as a catalyst to integrate the intergenerational lens within the Comprehensive Planning process.
• Creating a network of educators, planners, providers and enthusiasts to develop a range/continuum of intergenerational community-building strategies.

Participants will receive:

• Complimentary copy of The American Planning Association (APA)'s 2023 Report Intergenerational Community Planning
• Certificate Maintenance Credits for AICP Planners (5 CM)

[Note: Here is the LINK to David Rouse's post-conference blog featuring the PAS Report and some highlights from this pre-conference symposium on "Intergenerational Community Planning and Placemaking".]

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Pre-Conference Symposium: Support for Kinship Care Families: Issues and Initiatives

12:00 PM-3:45 PM

Presenter

• Deborah Langosch

Sponsored by The Brookdale Foundation.

How can service providers, practitioners, and other community-based organizations best support kinship families across the Mid-Atlantic region?

This ½-day workshop will include a keynote featuring Dr. Deborah Langosch and a roundtable discussion. Descriptions of the keynote and roundtable are below.

Participants will:

• Learn about ways to help kinship families access needed resources, sustain and fund their programs for kinship families, establish new training/support programs, and conduct advocacy campaigns.
• Identify areas for which new resources, supports, and initiatives for kinship families are still needed.
• Form collaborations with other participants and engage in partnership building.

Keynote Presenter: Deborah Langosch, Ph.D., LCSW

• Keynote presentation title: Promoting the Emotional Well-Being of Kincare Families
• Description: Children living with relatives have endured separations from their parents and many were exposed to traumatic events. These can create emotional challenges, disruptions in attachments and difficulty with coping, behavior and beliefs. This presentation will focus on identifying the impact of these events on the child and caregiver, how to understand the meaning of them, what providers can do to help and what treatment options, services and resources are available to address mental health issues. It will also describe protective factors and consider how to build resiliency and highlight strengths to best support kincare families.

The four mini-presentations that are part of the rotating roundtables segment:

• Mental health (Deborah Langosch will extend and build upon the conversation generated from her keynote on "promoting the emotional well-being of kincare families.)
• Research-informed program development (Kristina Brant will discuss best practices for researcher-practitioner partnerships and provide examples of how research can inform the co-creation of innovative programs to support kinship families.)
• Information exchange, networks, and kinship navigator systems (Kathy Dial and Sarah Smalls will share their experiences and lessons learned in connection with the Statewide Kinship Task Force for the Commonwealth of Virginia and other networking and navigator systems.)
• Educational Opportunities and Support for Kinship Caregivers (Barb Paynter will present the classes and opportunities currently offered as part of Kinship Programs at COBYS Family Services. This includes Trust Based Relational Intervention, Incredible Years Autism, and CORE Teen. Additional services such as monthly parenting workshops, a resource and referral line, and individual sessions with a parent educator will also be highlighted.)