Title
Category
Credits
Event date
Cost
Child Information and Placement Referral (ChIPR) (eLearning)
  • Social Worker
  • English
  • 0.50 Participation
$0.00
The Child Information and Placement Referral (CIPR, DSHS form 15-300) captures the most essential information about the needs, strengths and interests of a child placed in foster care. This information enables placement desk staff to match children with available placement resources, and empowers caregivers with the information they need to support successful out of home placements. This eLearning provides information on the policies and required timelines.
Child Protection Medical Consultation (eLearning)
  • Social Worker
  • English
  • 3.00 Participation
$0.00
This eLearning primarily features a video of a popular Child Protection Medical Consultation (MedCon) presentation for Regional Core Training. The video showcases two respected and well-known child abuse pediatricians, Dr. Rebecca Wiester and Dr. Joyce Gilbert. Dr. Wiester and Dr. Gilbert discuss important aspects of Physical Abuse, Sexual Abuse, and Neglect within the context of their expertise as child protection medial consultants.
Coaching for Child Safety Throughout the Life of the Case
  • Social Worker
  • Supervisors
  • English
  • 3.00 Participation
$0.00
Assessing for present danger/impending danger; applying the Child Safety Framework; understanding the 17 safety threats and how to plan for present danger with protective action plans and safety plans in cases with identified impending danger; how to make appropriate collateral contacts; interviewing of children, parents/caregivers and all adults in the home; using medical consultation (Med-Cons); scheduling and preparing for appropriate case staffings; using Structured Decision Making (SDM) to help assess risk in cases and reassessing child safety throughout the life of the case.
Coaching for Indian Child Welfare: Working With Tribes and Tribal Families
  • Area Administrators
  • Social Worker
  • Supervisors
  • English
  • 3.00 Participation
$0.00
Coaching sessions are an opportunity for participants to receive training and support on critical topics that is flexible enough to respond to their current needs. Coaching sessions can involve one or several workers, and may be delivered in person, on the phone or by other real time collaboration (face-time, etc). Preferably, they allow material to be understood within a context of an actual case, and completion of current work.
De-escalation for Administrative Staff: Managing Tense Situations (eLearning)
  • English
  • 1.50 Participation
$0.00
As an administrative professional you are important, and so is your safety! This eLearning will help you learn a range of prevention behaviors that can keep tense situations from turning into crises. The key insights in this course relate to:
Coaching for Permanency
  • Social Worker
  • Supervisors
  • English
  • 3.00 Participation
$0.00
Permanency timelines; permanency from day one; engaging with families to co-create case plans; setting safety objectives; measuring progress versus compliance in cases; transition planning for children; knowing when to file for Termination of Parental Rights (TPR); understanding the court process and when to change permanency plans; understanding the adoption process; understanding parent/child visitation plans (supervised, monitored, etc.); understanding reasonable efforts versus active efforts for ICWA cases.
Coaching for Regional Core Training Continuation
  • Social Worker
  • English
  • 3.00 Participation
$0.00
Coaching for Regional Core Training (RCT) Continuation provides an opportunity for you to enhance your skills after you graduate from RCT in a focused area of practice pertinent to your daily work/practice in child welfare. Identified goals are created and measured for progress toward those goals by both you and your coach after each session. Coaching sessions are offered by an Alliance coach at 30, 60, 90 and 120 days after the RCT class is completed.
Basics of Child Development and Effective Discipline (eLearning)
  • English
  • 2.25 Participation
$0.00
In this course, you will learn about the overall principles of human development. You will briefly consider issues relevant to the first year of life, like safe sleep and the dangers of shaking a baby, which impact DCYF’s work in many areas. You will learn why events of early childhood have a tremendous impact on the rest of a child’s life, and the importance of safe and stable relationships with adults during the vulnerable early childhood years.
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.
Youth Missing From Care for Caregivers (eLearning)
  • Caregivers
  • Kinship Caregivers
  • English
  • 1.50 Participation
$0.00
This 1 hour in-service eLearning is designed to provide caregivers with the information needed to identify, support, and intervene with youth who are living in care and are at risk of running away. Caregivers will learn the characteristics associated with youth who are at risk for running away, and key strategies to reduce the likelihood of them running. Legal and procedural requirements are presented so caregivers can successfully partner with Social Service Specialists and understand what steps to take when a youth is missing from care, and when they return.

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