Focusing on the Future: Empowering Families to Help Themselves

April 16-18, 2010        Canaan Valley Resort     Davis, WV

 Brought to you by:

Family Leadership First

Direct Action Welfare Group (DAWG)

Step by Step

DEADLINE: Application must be postmarked by February 28.   

Download application form

 This is a free conference for families selected to attend.

Meals, lodging, and child care are paid for and a gas stipend will be given on the last day of the conference.   

Child care will be provided during workshop times by certified day care providers.

Reminder if your child needs one-on-one care, you must provide the caretaker and we will provide the space. 

You will be notified if your family is selected to attend several weeks prior to the conference.  We would like to accept everyone however due to space and financial restrictions that is not always possible.   __._,_.___

Some topics that may be offered at the conference

Perfect Board Member, Veterans Support, Veterans Family Deployment Support, IEPs, Internet Safety, Family Literacy, Coping with a Disability in the Family, Benefits for People with Disabilities and the Changes that Affect those benefits, Diversity Awareness, WV Family Leadership First and WV LINKS, How to Deal with Annoying People, Benefits Education, Legal and Financial Issues for Community Based Groups, Changes in Health Care, Blending Families, Parents as Teachers. Teen Workshops will include Mental Health issues, Protecting Yourself, Drug and Alcohol Prevention, Volunteer Opportunities, and Building Teen Leaders for Tomorrow.

Workshop topics are subject to change closer to the actual conference dates. 

Please contact Vanessa VanGilder if you have any questions about the conference. 

DAWG is currently looking for volunteers to help out in our office at 1605 West Washington Street in Charleston. We are looking for people who enjoy working with the community and want to help out in our office.  The current volunteer positions avialable in our office include:

Reception desk - we are looking for people to voluteer to answer the phone and greet people who come to the office. 

Resource area - we are looking for people interested in helping us gather community resources, maintain the resource area, and help people locate resource information in the office

Adminstrative assistance - we are looking for people interested in helping the staff with filing and organizing information in the office.

Clean up - we are looking for people who are interested in coming in once a week to help with cleaning the office and the small lot behind the building.

The DAWG office is located on the West Side of Charleston. 

1605 West Washington Street

(between the Smokehouse Restuarant and Young's Department Store)

Parking is available on the street and in the lot across from the office.

Here you will find the guide to WVs new Medicaid program Mountain Health Choices.