Title
Category
Credits
Event date
Cost
Right Response: Level 3
  • Area Administrators
  • Social Worker
  • Supervisors
  • English
  • 11.00 Participation
$0.00
The RIGHT RESPONSE Level 3 Workshop is primarily prevention training.  This 11-hour certification provides basic skills including Prevention, De-escalation, Postvention, and Physical Safety skills. Attendees learn about self-awareness, reflective thinking skills, positive behavior support, basic and advanced de-escalation skills, self-protection, and proactive alternatives which can prevent dangerous incidents and increase safety.Attendees that complete the workshop receive a 2-year certification.  
Understanding Bias and Impacts on Engagement
  • Program Managers
  • Social Worker
  • Supervisors
  • English
  • 6.00 Participation
$0.00
Through a series of interventions and strategies, you will learn how to interrupt unconscious bias and address subtle acts of exclusion. You will develop behaviors that reflect Cultural Competence; engage in discussions about the negative effects of stereotypes, microaggressions, and bias on effective case work; and practice courageous conversations to develop appropriate responses to these issues.
Advanced Microaggressions for Supervisors: Guiding Staff Through Cultural Conflict
  • Area Administrators
  • Supervisors
  • English
  • 6.00 Participation
$0.00
In this workshop supervisors and managers will develop their skills for engaging across culture when tension exists.  Together we will explore Intent vs. Impact, how implicit bias can affect their decision making in determining outcomes and unpack dynamics between employees when conflict exists.  Participants will learn how best to approach tense situations through role playing, video, and small and large group discussion.
Trauma Informed Engagement
  • Social Worker
  • 6.00 Participation
$0.00
Trauma Informed Engagement is a 6-hour course applying lessons from trauma studies to child welfare practice for children, youth, and adults. Participants will discuss practice guidelines crucial to trauma informed practice in any setting. Participants will learn to distinguish trauma from other adversities and suffering; describe the characteristics, dynamics and effects of trauma; and emphasize the ways in which chronic trauma and complex trauma compromise normal functioning.
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.
Worker Safety (eLearning)
  • Social Worker
$0.00
This eLearning is not intended as a standalone course; it is part of Workforce Core. This eLearning will orient participants to some of the worker safety threats that may occur in the child welfare context, including assaults, animal attacks, and environmental dangers.
Worker Safety
  • Social Worker
  • English
  • 6.00 Participation
$0.00
Worker Safety – a one-day mandatory training for social service specialists, covering such topics as:• Types of workplace violence related to social work practice• Predictors of violent behavior• Recognizing escalating behavior• Safety in the field• Safety precautions in methamphetamine sites• Resources and support for worker safety• Working with law enforcement
Facilitated Cohort Learning Sessions To Support Domestic Violence Practice
  • Social Worker
  • Supervisors
  • English
  • 2.00 Participation
$0.00
These sessions provide participants of the Domestic Violence in Child Welfare in-service training an opportunity to expand their knowledge and work 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 rely on the policy and best practices in "The Social Worker’s Practice Guide to Domestic Violence" for child welfare work with families experiencing domestic violence.
Trust Based Relational Intervention (TBRI) for DCYF
$0.00
TBRI for DCYF Staff is a foundational level training for DCYF workforce. This introductory training will help you learn the basic approaches of the three TBRI Principles (Connecting, Empowering and Correcting) by engaging participants in group activities and discussions based on real-life scenarios. TBRI uses effective techniques that help you help children gain a sense of belonging through connection, empowering and correction. TBRI tools are designed to create and heal connection and empower and encourage children to realize their own capability.
Infant Safety: Period of PURPLE Crying
  • Social Worker
  • English
  • 4.00 Participation
$0.00
The Period of PURPLE Crying will provide social workers with an understanding of the importance of assessing for both prolonged crying in infancy and the caregiver’s ability to manage long periods of crying. Emphasis will be placed on safety in terms of the connection between prolonged crying and child abuse/neglect, as well as completion of the Period of PURPLE Crying Training Certification through dontshake.org (if not previously completed).

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