Title
Category
Credits
Event date
Cost
Leadership Training for Supervisors, Program Managers, and Quality Practice Specialists
  • Area Administrators
  • Program Managers
  • Social Worker
  • English
$0.00
New supervisors need to achieve competency in understanding the child welfare practice as well as in supervision. This course provides supervisors with an introduction of baseline competencies for supervisors in public child welfare, and opportunities to develop and practice new skills regarding these competencies. Managing self, managing others, managing systems and managing outward are the four main themes integrated throughout this course.
Tools for CFWS/Adoption Supervisors
  • Supervisors
  • English
  • 3.00 Participation
$0.00
This class will provide opportunities for participants to utilize the various supervisory case review tools as well as reflective supervision to promote permanency, critical thinking and reflection when supervising staff. Ideally this session will be delivered to a combined group of CFWS and Adoption Supervisors to strengthen the connectedness between units and eliminate potential barriers to permanency. It is intended that this session and the materials presented will promote active participation and discussion in the context of real cases.
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.
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.
Area Administrator Core Training (AACT)
  • Area Administrators
  • English
  • 36.00 Participation
$0.00
New managers need to achieve competency in understanding the child welfare practice as well as in the higher levels of systems management. This course provides managers with an introduction of baseline competencies for middle managers in public child welfare, and opportunities to develop and practice new skills regarding these competencies. Managing self, managing others, managing systems and managing outward are the four main themes integrated throughout this course.
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
Permanency for Every Child
  • Social Worker
  • English
  • 12.00 Participation
$0.00
The focus of this course is on the role of the CFWS caseworker in achieving permanency for children taking into consideration how safety threats, risk factor and protective factors apply to achieving timely permanency. You will explore how to work a case from the beginning to achieve permanency through concurrent planning, having difficult conversations with parents about concurrent planning and the permanency process, how to assess for reunification, including the conditions for return home, determining best interest and choosing alternate plans.
Strategies for Interrupting Oppression
  • 3.00 Participation
$0.00
This course reminds you how to critically examine race and racism, how implicit bias can negatively impact an organizations culture and efficacy, and how to effectively employ strategies to interrupt them. It also helps you learn how to employ Courageous Conversations to better address and mitigate racial bias.
DCYF Area Administrators Summit 2025
  • Area Administrators
  • 12.00 Participation
05/01/2025
$0.00
The annual Area Administrators Summit brings together leaders from across DCYF for two days of learning, networking and inspiration.
DCYF Program Managers Conference 2025
  • Program Managers
  • 12.00 Participation
05/28/2025
$0.00
The annual Program Managers Conference brings together DCYF staff who oversee programs and projects across the agency for two days of learning, networking and inspiration.

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