Title
Category
Credits
Event date
Cost
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.
Connecting: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity and Expression Training for Caregivers and Kinship Providers (eLearning)
  • 2.00 Participation
$0.00
This training is for licensed and unlicensed caregivers and relative / kinship providers to learn to support children and youth in their care who may be questioning their sexual orientation or gender identity or who may identify as LGTBQ+. It is good for all caregivers to receive this training because it is important that all children and youth in care feel safe, accepted and supported.
Contract for Services Part 1: Understanding the CA Contract Process (eLearning)
  • 0.25 Participation
$0.00
This course provides information on the service contract process and the role of Social Workers, Fiduciaries, Program Managers, and Contract Managers. Participants will learn how to identify what types of services do and do not require contracts, how to determine if a contract is already in place, how to access contracted providers appropriately, how CA Contract Managers develop contracts and the Social Worker’s role in the process, as well as the process for paying for contracted services through FamLink.
Contract for Services Part 2: Contract Monitoring (eLearning)
  • 0.25 Participation
$0.00
Participants will learn about the importance of contract monitoring, the Contract Monitoring Team, the purpose of a Compliance Agreement, and what to do if there are concerns about a contractor’s performance.
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:
De-escalation for Meeting Facilitators Part 1: Tools for Tense Situations (eLearning)
  • 1.50 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 a range of prevention behaviors that can keep tense situations from turning into crises.
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.

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