Title
Category
Credits
Event date
Cost
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.
Advanced Guidelines for Difficult Conversations
  • Social Worker
  • Supervisors
  • 6.00 Participation
$0.00
For social workers, difficult conversations are part of a broad landscape of interactions necessary to achieve the best outcomes for children, youth and families. This new training, “Advanced Guidelines for Difficult Conversations,” will give you the tools to feel prepared to manage these exchanges effectively and with respect. By definition difficult conversations bring together opposing opinions and high stakes, with the potential for conflict and negative emotional reactions.
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.
Domestic Violence in Child Welfare
  • Area Administrators
  • Program Managers
  • Social Worker
  • Supervisors
  • 16.00 Participation
$0.00
Working with families impacted by Domestic Violence can be challenging, nerve wracking, and sometimes inspiring. You may often wish that you had more guidance about how you should approach this work.
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.
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.
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.  
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.
Child and Family Welfare Services In-Service
  • Social Worker
  • English
  • 12.00 Participation
$0.00
This two-day in-service training delivered by webinar will prepare new CFWS caseworkers and experienced CFWS caseworkers who wish to improve their practice to engage parents and families from the point of transfer or case assignment. Participants will learn how to make the most of the first meeting and monthly visits with the parent in building a working relationship geared toward safe reunification and timely permanency. Participants will explore engaging children and caregivers during monthly visits, best interest considerations and permanency planning.
Infant Safety: Assessing the Infant's Environment
  • Social Worker
  • English
  • 5.00 Participation
$0.00
Assessment of every environment in which an infant lives and sleeps, as well as all individuals providing care, is critical to ensuring the safety of this vulnerable population. Emphasis will be placed on developmental needs, attachment, and the infant’s relationships.

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