Title
Category
Credits
Event date
Cost
Facilitated Cohort Learning Session to Support TBRI
  • English
  • 2.00 Participation
$0.00
These two-hour sessions provide participants who have attended any TBRI Principles classes (there are four classes) or the TBRI for DCYF class an opportunity to expand their TBRI knowledge and work within live cases. These sessions will provide opportunities to apply strategic responses to move children/youth, caregivers and staff toward change and increasing the parent, caregiver and staff’s protective capacities to ensure child safety, well-being, and permanency. 
Introduction to Chronic Neglect (eLearning)
  • Caregivers
  • Social Worker
  • 0.75 Participation
$0.00
This eLearning course provides a foundational understanding of Chronic Neglect, a complex yet common issue within the realm of child welfare. Chronic Neglect refers to ongoing failure by caregivers to provide for the basic needs of individuals under their care, such as food, shelter, clothing, medical care and supervision, leading to serious physical, emotional and developmental harm.
Topic Support Group: We Hear You! A CaRES Podcast Club
  • Caregivers
  • Kinship Caregivers
  • Support Groups
$0.00
During this 1.5-hour topic support group, you will listen to a 30-minute, trauma-informed podcast from a variety of child welfare, child development and caregiving experts. After the podcast, you will talk through your questions, aha! moments, and new strategies in a guided conversation with fellow kinship and foster caregivers.  Join us for one podcast episode or all of them. Each session provides 1.5 hours of training credit.
Facilitated Cohort To Support the Best Interest of the Child
  • Social Worker
  • Supervisors
  • English
  • 3.00 Participation
$0.00
This course explores the critical concept of the best interests of the child in child welfare. You will learn to identify factors such as the child's wishes, needs, safety, permanency, and well-being. Through case analyses, you will apply this framework to various scenarios, developing skills to advocate effectively while navigating legal, ethical, and cultural considerations, essential for articulating to the courts. Join us to become a more impactful advocate for children's rights in the child welfare system!
Child Abuse Interviewing and Assessment
  • Social Worker
  • 30.00 Participation
$0.00
The Child Abuse Interviewing and Assessment (CAIA) course is an in-service webinar training that will provide instruction on the principles and application of research-based child interviewing, effective testimony, and interviewing skills with cultural considerations. It will address the special challenges of working with vague allegations, resistant children and adolescents, non-offending parents and alleged offenders. The purpose of this training is to enhance child interviewing skills.
Supporting a Kinship-First Culture in a Workforce Environment
  • Social Worker
  • Supervisors
  • English
  • 4.00 Participation
$0.00
This course will use kin-first culture principles to help DCYF workers engaging with kinship and relative caregivers to prepare them for successful placements of youth.
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.  
Working with Immigrant Communities
  • Area Administrators
  • Program Managers
  • Social Worker
  • Supervisors
  • 3.00 Participation
$0.00
People born outside of the United States often face challenges when adjusting to life in a new culture. Immigrant communities may encounter xenophobia, racism, discrimination and bigotry.This workshop helps you better engage and support immigrant communities by looking at different factors related to human migration and race. You will learn how to anticipate core challenges immigrant communities typically face and integrate skills to improve cross-cultural communication.
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.
Supporting LGBTQ+ Children, Youth and Families
  • Area Administrators
  • Social Worker
  • Supervisors
  • English
  • 3.00 Participation
$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.

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