Title
Category
Credits
Event date
Cost
Permanency Considerations (eLearning)
  • 1.00 Participation
$0.00
This course will provide participants with an overview of permanency planning for children in out of home care. This course will focus on the differences and similarities of adoption, guardianship and non-parental custody as concurrent plans. Participants will explore personal bias, how it influences their professional decision-making, and how to counter bias in making permanency decisions that reflect the best interest of children.
Pregnant and Parenting Youth for Caregivers (eLearning)
  • 1.50 Participation
$0.00
This eLearning focuses on how caregivers can best support and care for pregnant and parenting youth (and their children) who are living in foster care. Participants will identify their roles and responsibilities and determine what they are able and willing to do. They will also gather information about supports, resources and partnering with the other members of the child welfare team.
Pregnant and Parenting Youth for DCYF staff (eLearning)
  • Social Worker
  • Supervisors
  • English
  • 2.00 Participation
$0.00
This course focuses on the successful transition of pregnant and parenting youth involved with child welfare, and covers specific case management activities. You will learn about your role and responsibilities to provide information to pregnant and parenting youth, including the Pregnant and Parenting Teen Guidebook and tip sheets (DSHS #22-1536), and utilizing a Shared Planning Meeting to identify services and community resources.
Preparing Youth for Transitioning to Adulthood (eLearning)
  • Caregivers
  • Kinship Caregivers
  • English
  • 0.50 Participation
$0.00
As a caregiver you play a key role in helping youth in your care transition into adulthood. During this course you will review the impact of childhood trauma on foster youth. You will explore the rights of youth in care and recognize your responsibilities for insuring those rights are met. You will explore ways to engage youth in conversations and activities in your home and community to develop life skills for launching into adulthood.
De-escalation for Meeting Facilitators Part 2: Managing Safety and Crisis (eLearning)
  • 0.75 Participation
$0.00
As a meeting facilitator you have an important role in achieving safety, permanency and well-being for children in out of home care. Permanency planning meetings can be emotionally charged. This eLearning will help you learn how more effectively manage a situation that has become a crisis and may involve threats to someone’s safety. The key insights in this course are identifying a crisis, verbal strategies to help de-escalate situations and managing your own reaction, as well as specific stay-safe strategies and considerations during and after a crisis.
Drug Testing (eLearning)
  • Area Administrators
  • Social Worker
  • Supervisors
  • English
  • 0.75 Participation
$0.00
Drug testing practices and their use in child welfare assessment of safety and risk is covered in this course. Participants learn the guidelines for the frequency and duration of testing, practices at drug collection sites, detection of adulterated samples and interpreting drug test results. Participants will know what to test and how to include this in the assessments of parents involved in the child welfare system, focusing on the behavior of parents, and knowing what a drug test can tell us is emphasized.
Education Policy and Case Planning (eLearning)
  • Social Worker
  • Supervisors
  • English
  • 0.50 Participation
$0.00
This course focuses on DCYF Education Policy and Procedures to achieve positive educational outcomes through solid education planning throughout the child's experience in out-of-home care. Caseworkers will understand education case planning and documentation requirements as well as how to engage with schools on enrollment, transportation plans, and potential cost sharing agreements. Information sharing processes and Post-Secondary Education and Training resources are also provided.
Family Time with Incarcerated Parents (eLearning)
  • Social Worker
  • English
  • 1.00 Participation
$0.00
Family time is an essential part of supporting a child’s ongoing relationships while they are in out-of-home care. When a parent is incarcerated, there are specific policies and processes that need to be followed to ensure continuation of family time. This training will help you understand from start to finish the process of completing a visitation at a Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) prison, and how to supplement contact in other appropriate ways.
Family Time: Relationships and Reassurance (eLearning)
  • Caregivers
  • Social Worker
  • English
  • 1.00 Participation
$0.00
Parent, child and sibling family time helps reduce further trauma from the separation by reassuring the child and maintaining the parent-child relationship or helping build the relationship. Social workers and caregivers are part of a team in making family time happen, making sure that the benefits are realized for the children and parents, and helping children through the separation from their families, friends, and homes.
Family Time: Supportive Virtual Family Time Program and Training (eLearning)
  • Social Worker
  • English
  • 1.00 Participation
$0.00
Supervised visitation staff and child welfare staff who want to develop skills to support virtual family time will benefit from this Online learning. In this training you are provided with structured support, guidance and training to:

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