Carol Griffin, a licensed social worker and faculty member with MidSOUTH, the community service unit of the UALR School of Social Work, will make a presentation at the Title IV-E National Roundtable conference May 21-23, in Galveston, Texas.

Her presentation, “Navigating the S.E.A.s of Child Welfare Supervision,” will describe the collaborative efforts of the Division of Children and Family Services and IV-E Partnership universities, including UALR.

Title IV-E authorizes federal matching funds to states for directly administering foster care and adoption programs. Participants of the conference learn skills that can be employed in teaching, designing and administering IV-E.

The conference is hosted by the Center for Service and Family Strengths at the University of Houston’s Graduate College of Social Work.

Griffin will share with conference participants how the state and university collaboration is looking at an innovative approach to training new child welfare supervisors by enhancing three specific supervisory functions; namely, S.E.A., which stands for Supportive, Educational and Administrative functions.

By enhancing those particular functions, supervisors may better assure best practice approaches to meeting federal quality indicators for children in the child welfare system, according to Griffin.

MidSOUTH provides leadership, training, and product support in the areas of addiction, child welfare, technology, distance learning, and organizational development.