Title
Category
Credits
Event date
Cost
Facilitated Cohort Learning Sessions To Support Case Planning and Service Delivery
  • Social Worker
  • Supervisors
  • English
  • 3.00 Participation
$0.00
These two-hour sessions will provide you with the opportunity to develop a deeper understanding of the importance of co-creating culturally relevant case plans with families, service matching and applying the child safety framework/risk assessments to develop behavioral case plans.
Secondary Trauma: Impact and Solutions
  • Area Administrators
  • Social Worker
  • Supervisors
  • English
$0.00
This 3-hour course will help Children’s Administration social workers and supervisors who do ongoing work in the child welfare system with identification of and responses to secondary trauma. The training will increase knowledge and understanding of the levels of secondary trauma, its impact, and how to manage the impact in our environment.
Impacts of Parental Mental Health on Child Safety
  • Area Administrators
  • Social Worker
  • Supervisors
  • English
$0.00
Participants will be engaged to consider their own thoughts, beliefs, and biases about mental illness; understand basic definitions associated with parental mental illness and child safety; and identify family assessment strategies that can focus on the intersection between parental mental illness and child safety. Additionally, ideas and tools for drafting effective case plans and objectives to achieve child safety with parental mental illness is a factor will also be discussed.
Supporting a Kinship-First Culture in a Workforce Environment
  • Social Worker
  • Supervisors
  • English
  • 6.00 Participation
$0.00
IN DEVELOPMENT 
Right Response: Level 4
  • Area Administrators
  • Social Worker
  • Supervisors
  • English
  • 14.00 Participation
$0.00
The RIGHT RESPONSE Workshop is primarily prevention training. The Advanced Level 4 training is a full 14-hour certification which provides the skills of Prevention, De-escalation, Postvention and Physical Interventions, including Escorts and Therapeutic Holds. Attendees learn to use physical intervention as the last resort to maintaining safety and learn more proactive alternatives which can prevent dangerous incidents and increase safety.Attendees that complete the workshop receive a 1 year certification and recertification training will be offered annually.
Next Steps For Intake Staff In Their First Year
  • Social Worker
  • Supervisors
  • English
  • 12.00 Participation
$0.00
As DCYF intake workers who have finished the introductory eLearning trainings and worked at least six months on the job, you’re ready to take a deeper dive into the intake world by advancing your skills when working with Special Circumstance Intakes. In this course you’ll learn more about how to effectively document intakes that involve Substance Exposed Newborns, Domestic Violence (DV), Commercially Sexually Exploited Children (CSEC) and Indian Child Welfare (ICW). You’ll also discuss intakes related to providers, critical incidents, and consider legal issues related to intakes. 
Supporting Children's Mental Health in Child Welfare
  • Social Worker
  • Supervisors
  • English
  • 8.00 Participation
$0.00
This course takes place across two, 4-hour sessions. In order to receive credit for completion, you must complete both sessions.
Supporting LGBTQ+ Children, Youth and Families
  • Area Administrators
  • Social Worker
  • Supervisors
  • English
$0.00
This course will focus on providing information and engaging in conversation about LGBTQ+ children, youth and families. You will learn about identifying and addressing systemic institutional and personal biases when serving LGBTQ+ children, youth and families. Activities and self-reflection exercises will prepare you to return to your work and create a welcoming, safe and affirming space. Included in this training is updated terminology, resources, and current data/statistics.
Assessing Safety Beyond Removal: Family Time and Conditions for Return Home
  • Area Administrators
  • Social Worker
  • Supervisors
  • English
  • 6.00 Participation
$0.00
In this training, you’ll consider how to best explain the safety threat that’s keeping a child in out-of-home care and think about how this threat impacts child safety during family time. You’ll practice applying the threshold questions to decisions about family time and articulating to the court why you are recommending a specific level of supervision, even when the child needs to remain out of the home. You will also learn to address areas of personal and institutional bias and how this appears in the language used to shape views of child safety.
Foundations of Motivational Interviewing for Child Welfare Staff
  • Area Administrators
  • Program Managers
  • Social Worker
  • Supervisors
  • English
$0.00
Foundations of Motivational Interviewing for Child Welfare Staff will introduce you to the Spirit of MI; provide the opportunity to begin developing core skills, including using OARS (Open Ended Questions, affirmations, reflections and summaries) responding to the way people talk about change; and understand how to work with resistance. You will get practice opportunities to increase your skill at strategically responding to sustain talk and change talk and helping families make Brief Action Plans.

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