Title
Category
Credits
Event date
Cost
Youth Missing From Care for Workforce (eLearning)
  • Social Worker
  • Supervisors
  • English
  • 1.50 Participation
$0.00
Participants learn the characteristics associated with youth who are at risk for running away, and key strategies to reduce the likelihood of running behavior.  Policy and procedural requirements are presented.  The components of a Run Prevention Plan are covered, as well as the fundamentals of conducting a debriefing meeting to assess the youth's immediate needs upon their return.
Working With Clients With Limited English Proficiency (eLearning)
  • Social Worker
  • English
  • 0.50 Participation
$0.00
In this course, participants learn the policies, procedures and best practices for using interpreter and translation services when working with CA clients with limited English proficiency.  Participants learn how interpreter services assist in helping families achieve permanency by enhancing communication between families and the social worker.  Participants also learn how to appropriately and accurately document the use of interpreter and translation services for LEP clients in FamLink, as well as how to navigate the CA Intranet to identify LEP tools and resources in order to best meet the
Understanding Autism: Reflections and Insights From Parents and Professionals (eLearning)
  • Caregivers
  • Kinship Caregivers
  • English
  • 1.00 Participation
$0.00
The University of Washington Research in Early Autism Detection and Intervention Lab (READi Lab) focuses on conducting research related to early identification and intervention for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), which is also referred to as autism.
Supervisor Core Training 1.1: Essential Professional Tools
  • Supervisors
  • English
  • 7.00 Participation
$0.00
Supervisor Core Training provides the foundation for effective supervisory practice in the child welfare system. This program will prepare you to become comfortable in assuming your new role through learnings and field based activities about what it means to be a supervisor in the child welfare system and understanding the new responsibilities of this position. You will be assigned a coach upon notification of hire to support you through the learning. Part 1.1 of this course is designed to provide you critical information needed on Day 1 in your new role.
Supervising for Safety: Decision Making Tools for Supervisors (eLearning)
  • Supervisors
  • English
  • 1.00 Participation
$0.00
The Child Safety Framework and the Structured Decision Making Risk Assessment are the tools that should guide caseworkers in making their most important decisions. Both tools aim to improve critical thinking and objective decision making, and ultimately to help DCYF correctly identify what level of intervention – from placement out of the home to providing referrals and case closure – is the most appropriate for each child and family. As a supervisor, you must understand these tools, but you also have a responsibility to integrate the tools into your supervision.
Structured Decision Making and Risk Assessment (eLearning)
  • Social Worker
  • English
  • 1.00 Participation
$0.00
Following successful completion of this elearning course, participants will understand the purpose of the Structured Decision Making-Risk Assessment (SDM-RA), and how it provides a framework for consistent decision making as well as a way to target in-demand resources toward those who can benefit most. Participants will understand the definition of each SDM-RA question, its application, and the procedures for completing this tool. This course incorporates numerous types of media through video, audio, images, and scenario application in order to enhance the transfer of learning.
So You Have a New Placement ... Now What? (eLearning)
  • Caregivers
  • English
  • 3.00 Participation
$0.00
Everything you need to know about agency processes:• Procedures and paperwork• Meetings and court proceedings• Allegations and investigations• Miscellaneous informationThis class will help you to be familiar with your regional paperwork and policies. This is an excellent class for both new and experienced caregivers.
Services: How to Prevent Placement and Promote Reunification of Children (eLearning)
  • Social Worker
  • English
  • 0.50 Participation
$0.00
This course is designed to teach social workers how to identify the service needs of families when trying to prevent out-of-home placement or to support reunification. Working through scenarios social workers actively engage in the decision-making process for appropriate services. Workers will learn the fundamentals of the referral process, engagement with providers and families as well as documentation.
Service Referral: An Introduction (eLearning)
  • Social Worker
  • English
  • 0.25 Participation
$0.00
This course provides instruction on using the service referral tool in the FamLink case management system for both social workers and fiduciaries. Step by step guidance walks through the steps necessary to launch the referral, provide customized details and instructions for the authorization of payments
Relative Search: Creating and Monitoring Your Request (eLearning)
  • Social Worker
  • Supervisors
  • English
  • 0.50 Participation
$0.00
This training will teach the participant the steps to initiate and monitor efforts completed by the Relative Search unit. When a child is in need of out of home care, the Department should be actively seeking placement of children with relatives. The centralized Relative Search unit assists staff to locate and identify relatives and this training will help staff learn about the process, required forms and how to gather detailed information from FamLink.

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