Title
Category
Credits
Event date
Cost
Pregnant and Parenting Youth for DCYF staff (eLearning)
  • Social Worker
  • Supervisors
  • English
  • 2.00 Participation
$0.00
This course focuses on the successful transition of pregnant and parenting youth involved with child welfare, and covers specific case management activities. You will learn about your role and responsibilities to provide information to pregnant and parenting youth, including the Pregnant and Parenting Teen Guidebook and tip sheets (DSHS #22-1536), and utilizing a Shared Planning Meeting to identify services and community resources.
Drug Testing (eLearning)
  • Area Administrators
  • Social Worker
  • Supervisors
  • English
  • 0.75 Participation
$0.00
Drug testing practices and their use in child welfare assessment of safety and risk is covered in this course. Participants learn the guidelines for the frequency and duration of testing, practices at drug collection sites, detection of adulterated samples and interpreting drug test results. Participants will know what to test and how to include this in the assessments of parents involved in the child welfare system, focusing on the behavior of parents, and knowing what a drug test can tell us is emphasized.
Education Policy and Case Planning (eLearning)
  • Social Worker
  • Supervisors
  • English
  • 0.50 Participation
$0.00
This course focuses on DCYF Education Policy and Procedures to achieve positive educational outcomes through solid education planning throughout the child's experience in out-of-home care. Caseworkers will understand education case planning and documentation requirements as well as how to engage with schools on enrollment, transportation plans, and potential cost sharing agreements. Information sharing processes and Post-Secondary Education and Training resources are also provided.
Extended Foster Care (eLearning)
  • Social Worker
  • Supervisors
  • English
  • 1.00 Participation
$0.00
Washington States Extended Foster Care Program allows dependent youth in placement at age 18 to continue to receive services including placement resources until age 21, in order to complete their education and ease the transition to adulthood. In this eLearning, case carrying Supervisors and Social Service Specialists will become familiar with the evolution of this program as well as its current Policy and Practice and learn how to document various EFC Services in FamLink.
Family Time with Incarcerated Parents (eLearning)
  • Social Worker
  • English
  • 1.00 Participation
$0.00
Family time is an essential part of supporting a child’s ongoing relationships while they are in out-of-home care. When a parent is incarcerated, there are specific policies and processes that need to be followed to ensure continuation of family time. This training will help you understand from start to finish the process of completing a visitation at a Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) prison, and how to supplement contact in other appropriate ways.
Family Time: Relationships and Reassurance (eLearning)
  • Caregivers
  • Social Worker
  • English
  • 1.00 Participation
$0.00
Parent, child and sibling family time helps reduce further trauma from the separation by reassuring the child and maintaining the parent-child relationship or helping build the relationship. Social workers and caregivers are part of a team in making family time happen, making sure that the benefits are realized for the children and parents, and helping children through the separation from their families, friends, and homes.
Family Time: Supportive Virtual Family Time Program and Training (eLearning)
  • Social Worker
  • English
  • 1.00 Participation
$0.00
Supervised visitation staff and child welfare staff who want to develop skills to support virtual family time will benefit from this Online learning. In this training you are provided with structured support, guidance and training to:
Culture of Family: Supporting Kin to Support Kids
  • Social Worker
  • Supervisors
  • English
  • 6.00 Participation
$0.00
The class will prepare you to recognize and address the issues that Kinship Caregivers are most likely to confront, and those that often lead to placement disruption or impact child wellbeing.  Participants will leave with a host of written resources that may be helpful as they talk with caregivers about their needs and about the child’s needs, and as they guide caregivers in connecting to resources within and outside the department that will decrease stress and increase support for them and their families.
Facilitated Cohort Learning Sessions To Support ICWA Practice
  • Social Worker
  • Supervisors
  • English
  • 1.50 Participation
$0.00
Facilitated Cohort Learning Sessions To Support ICWA Practice provides former cohorts from RCT and SCT classes that are working on Indian Child Welfare cases to expand their knowledge beyond core training curriculum and gain application within live cases. Topics of the sessions are identified by the cohort members and learning activities are organized and facilitated by Alliance staff. These sessions will review current WA State ICWA practices while providing opportunities to apply critical thinking to the overall complexities of child welfare work.
Intake (eLearning)
  • Social Worker
  • English
$0.00
The Intake In-Service course, which will support new staff working at Intake to gain the knowledge and skills they need to be effective in gathering and documenting information and in screening intakes. The course is divided into three modules which occur at different times during the employee’s first six months at Intake.

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