The 2020 Strengthening Colorado Families and Communities Conference (SCFCC) is moving to a virtual format. We are excited to announce that the conference will take place during the same three initially scheduled days on September 28th, 29th and 30th, with a modified format. There will be more information to come on the new format soon!

We are currently seeking sessions to address the following areas: Innovation Space, Working Together to Maximize Resources, Getting to Anti-Racist Practice, Supporting Workforce Care, and Best Practices.

Each session has the flexibility to range from 15 to 75 minutes. There will also be an option for prerecorded sessions which will be available on the conference website.

If you, or someone you know, is interested in presenting virtually or submitting a prerecorded presentation for the 2020 SCFCC, please fill out this brief form. This is currently an ongoing submission, but we are asking you to fill it out sooner rather than later.

Below, you will find descriptions for each bucket area. If you are submitting a proposal for more than one bucket area, you will need to make 2 submissions.

**Innovation Space:
As agencies and organizations have had to shift how they conduct business due to COVID-19, there has been a tremendous amount of lessons learned and innovative solutions to adjusting to the world post-COVID. Communities and organizations have begun collaborating in new ways to meet the needs of families. Do you know of an example where agencies, organizations and/or communities innovated in their work with children and families as a result of COVID? What are the lessons learned? What are you planning to continue, and why? What shifts in practice took place?

**Working Together to Maximize Resources:
Collaboration, cooperation, alignment, resource sharing, oh my! How does collaboration in your relationships with partners maximize resources in your work? How has working together strengthened the families and communities you serve? Examples could include shifts in practice, new collaborative partnerships, concrete resource sharing, or referral practices.

**Getting to Anti-Racist Practice:  
We are committed to developing and implementing anti-racist and anti-discrimination practices. How do we actively prioritize anti-racism in our relationships, communities, workplaces and systems? How do we sustain and institutionalize that change? What conversations need to happen to recognize the things that make us uncomfortable and how are we actively seeking change?

**Best Practices:
Since the last time we met in 2018, there have been many new best practices established. What have you done that has advanced the strengthening of families and promotion of the protective factors? What skills have you gained that could be duplicated in other communities? What new research is out there that needs to be shared?

**Supporting Workforce Care:
Recognizing that self care can look very different from one individual to the next, this bucket will address how self care is important all of the time, but especially in light of COVID, and certainly vital in light of an anti-racist movement. These sessions can provide an opportunity to practice self- care; discuss techniques or activities for individuals, families, and workplace environments;  as well as other opportunities for taking care of ourselves.

Please do not hesitate to reach Karen Acosta-Corona for any questions.
kacostacorona@illuminatecolorado.org