01.20.10 (Nashville, TN)
Harmony Adoptions
Workshop Title: Extreme Recruitment: How to Secure Permanency for a Youth in 12-20 Weeks
Co-Presenters: Melanie Scheetz, Carlos Lopez, and Sheila Suderwalla
10.21.09 (Kansas City, MO)
Midwest Foster Care & Adoption Association’s Annual Conference
Workshop Title: Extreme Recruitment: How to Secure Permanency for a Youth in 12-20 Weeks
Co-Presenters: Sheila Suderwalla
09.25.09 (New York, NY)
You Gotta Believe
Workshop Title: Extreme Recruitment: How to Secure Permanency for a Youth in 12-20 Weeks
Co-Presenters: Melanie Scheetz, Carlos Lopez, and Sheila Suderwalla
09.12.09 - 09.15.09 (Columbus, OH)
North American Council on Adoptable Children National 34th Annual Conference –“Family Connections"
Workshop Title: Extreme Recruitment
Co-Presenters: Liz Johnson, Dawn Milburn, Melanie Scheetz, and Sheila Suderwalla
10.29.08 - 10.31.08 (Osage Beach, MO)
Missouri Coalition of Children’s Agencies Annual Conference: The Extreme Challenge: Protecting Missouri’s Most Valuable Resource
Workshop Title: Family Finding
Co-Presenter: Sheila Suderwalla
9.13.07 (Kansas City, MO)
Midwest Foster Care & Adoption Annual Conference
Workshop Title: A Guided Tour of Children’s Division On-Line Policy
Presenter: Denise Kelley, Director of Family Advocacy
07.25.07 - 07.27.07 (Tampa, FL)
North American Council on Adoptable Children National 33rd Annual Conference –“One Child, Every Child.”
Workshop Title: I Wanna Hold Your Hand
Presenter: Sheila Suderwalla, Director of Project Teen Plus
07.30.08 - 08.02.08 (Ottawa, Canada)
North American Council on Adoptable Children – Coming Full Circle: Linking to Tradition
Workshop Title: They Spoke, We Listened. How to Prepare Teens for Adoption
Presenter: Sheila Suderwalla
02.27.07 (Washington, D.C.)
Child Welfare League of America National Conference “Raising our Voices for Children”
Workshop Title: Giving Foster Teens a Voice in Permanency Outcomes.
Presenter: Sheila Suderwalla, Director of Project Teen Plus
09.15.06 (St. Louis, MO)
Daniel Memorial Institute – National Independent Living Conference – “Growing Pains”
Workshop Title: Confronting our Biases and its Impact on Permanency for Youth in Foster Care.
Presenter: Sheila Suderwalla, Director of Project Teen Plus
07.26.06 - 07.29.06 (Long Beach, CA)
North American Council on Adoptable Children National 32nd Annual Conference
Workshop Title: "Spurring the Village to Action."
Presenter: Reshelle “Rossi” Summers, Director of Training & Family Development
05.19.06 (Daytona Beach, FL)
Daniel Memorial Institute - National Foster Care Conference – “Footsteps to the Future”
Workshop Title: Confronting our Biases and their impact on Permanency.
Presenters: Denise Kelley, Director of Family Advocacy and Sheila Suderwalla, Director of Project Teen Plus
04.09.06 (Lake of the Ozarks, MO)
National Association of Social Workers – Missouri Chapter2006 Show-Me Annual Symposium - Power of Social Work:“Professional Revitalization in a Climate of Change”
Workshop Title:Confronting our Biases and their impact on Permanency.
Presenters: Denise Kelley, Director of Family Advocacy and Sheila Suderwalla, Director of Project Teen Plus