Agenda

14th Annual Commonwealth of Virginia CSA Conference - The Hotel Roanoke and Conference Center - Roanoke, Virginia - October 15-16, 2025

15th Annual Commonwealth of Virginia CSA Conference - Collaborate, Innovate, Transform: Together, we make it happen. The Hotel Roanoke & Conference Center - Roanoke, Virginia October 14-15, 2026

Tuesday, October 13, 2026
2:00 pm-5:00 pm	Pre-Conference Session for CSA Coordinators, CPMT members and FAPT Members Leading from Any Chair: Building Your Capacity for Greater Influence and Impact – Ellen B. Kagen, MSW, PCC
Wednesday, October 14, 2026
7:00 am - 8:30 am	Conference Registration - North Entry Foyer Continental Breakfast and Sponsor Visits - Common Areas
8:30 am - 8:45 am	Welcoming Remarks - Roanoke ABCD Scott Reiner, Executive Director, Office of Children’s Services
8:45 am - 9:45 am	Keynote Speaker - Roanoke ABCD Creativity is a Practice – Artist/Author Noah Scalin
9:45 am - 10:15 am	Sponsor Visits and Break
10:15 am - 11:45 am	Breakout Session Block A
11:45 am - 1:30 pm	Lunch Award Presentations - Roanoke ABCD/Sponsor Visits
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm	Breakout Session Block B
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm	Sponsor Visits and Break
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Breakout Session Block C
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm	Reception - Join us in the Garden Courtyard
Thursday, October 15, 2026
7:00 am - 8:30 pm	Continental Breakfast and Sponsor Visits - Common Areas
8:30 am - 10:00 am	Breakout Session Block D
10:00 am - 10:30 am	Sponsor Visits and Break
10:30 am - 12:00 pm	Breakout Session Block E
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Lunch and Sponsor Visits - Roanoke ABCD
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	Closing Remarks and Door Prizes

Breakout Sessions

Breakout Session tracks:

Service Innovations/Evidence-Based Programs: Creative interventions and approaches to service provision that positively affect youth and family outcomes.
Evidence-Based Practices: Approaches to sustainable frameworks in service delivery using evidence and data.
CSA Basics: Fundamental aspects of the CSA program regarding eligibility, program audits, family engagement, and use of CSA data.
State Partners: Updates for key state partners.
Self-Care: Activities or practices that reduce stress and maintain and enhance health and well-being for individuals in helping professions.
Family-Driven Practices: Approaches that promote families as central in the decision-making process in the care of their children.
Leadership Skills: Effective practices of leadership that positively influences and guides others to adapt their skills and achieve goals.

Please note session recommendations:
        * CPMT members
        ** FAPT members
        *** New CSA Coordinators

Tuesday, October 13, 2026

Pre-conference Training Session: 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Leading from Any Chair: Building Your Capacity for Greater Influence and Impact

In this highly interactive and experiential pre-conference, Ellen Kagen, founder of the Georgetown Leadership Academy, will provide a strong foundation for understanding and clarifying the role of adaptive leadership in challenging times. Based on the concept of “leadership as a practice that can come from any chair,” (i.e. clinician, supervisor, family, administrator), Ellen will set the stage by asking us to explore our specific scenarios so that we can provide the kind of leadership that will create change for the children and families we serve as well as for our systems and organizations.

Participants will reflect on how leadership, as a critical function in systems change, can support our ability to achieve our goals and create the change we envision. Participants will explore the many views we carry about what leadership is including an overview of the neuroscience that impacts human behavior. As agents of change, participants will have the opportunity to explore their role within formal and informal authority and consider the behaviors and habits that increase social influence in times of ongoing uncertainty and complexity.

To support the application of the concepts, each participant is asked to bring a challenging scenario they are facing with an individual, a team, cross department or cross agency that does not have an easy answer.

Ellen B. Kagen, MSW, PCC
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Georgetown University
Founder, Georgetown Leadership Academy
Founder, Coach Approach Partners, LLC
Principal, Kagen Leadership Group