Title
Category
Credits
Event date
Cost
Child Abuse Interviewing and Assessment
  • Social Worker
  • 30.00 Participation
$0.00
The Child Abuse Interviewing and Assessment (CAIA) course is an in-service webinar training that will provide instruction on the principles and application of research-based child interviewing, effective testimony, and interviewing skills with cultural considerations. It will address the special challenges of working with vague allegations, resistant children and adolescents, non-offending parents and alleged offenders. The purpose of this training is to enhance child interviewing skills.
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.
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.
Culture of Family: Supporting Kin to Support Kids
  • Social Worker
  • Supervisors
  • English
  • 6.00 Participation
$0.00
The class will prepare you to recognize and address the issues that Kinship Caregivers are most likely to confront, and those that often lead to placement disruption or impact child wellbeing.  Participants will leave with a host of written resources that may be helpful as they talk with caregivers about their needs and about the child’s needs, and as they guide caregivers in connecting to resources within and outside the department that will decrease stress and increase support for them and their families.
Facilitated Cohort Learning Sessions To Support ICWA Practice
  • Social Worker
  • Supervisors
  • English
  • 1.50 Participation
$0.00
Facilitated Cohort Learning Sessions To Support ICWA Practice provides former cohorts from RCT and SCT classes that are working on Indian Child Welfare cases to expand their knowledge beyond core training curriculum and gain application within live cases. Topics of the sessions are identified by the cohort members and learning activities are organized and facilitated by Alliance staff. These sessions will review current WA State ICWA practices while providing opportunities to apply critical thinking to the overall complexities of child welfare work.
Afterhours Core Training
  • Social Worker
$0.00
NOTE: Afterhours Core Training has four modules. You will register separately for each part of the module but you MUST complete each session within the module in order. For example, if you have not completed 1.1 you will not be allowed to participate in 1.2. However, you can complete module 2.1 before modules 1.2 or 1.3.
Facilitated Cohort Learning Sessions To Support Domestic Violence Practice
  • Social Worker
  • Supervisors
  • English
  • 2.00 Participation
$0.00
These sessions provide participants of the Domestic Violence in Child Welfare in-service training an opportunity to expand their knowledge and work within live cases. Topics of the sessions are identified by the cohort members and learning activities are organized and facilitated by Alliance staff. These sessions will rely on the policy and best practices in "The Social Worker’s Practice Guide to Domestic Violence" for child welfare work with families experiencing domestic violence.
Family Voluntary Services In-Service
  • Social Worker
  • English
  • 12.00 Participation
$0.00
This two-day in-service training will prepare new Family Voluntary Services (FVS) caseworkers and experienced FVS caseworkers who wish to improve their practice to engage parents and families from the point of transfer or case assignment. Participants will learn how to make the most of the first meeting and monthly visits with the parent in building a working relationship geared to reducing or mitigating safety threats and risk. Participants will be provided opportunity to improve the quality of case plans by linking services to behavior changes.
Informing Decisions Through Critical Thinking
  • Social Worker
  • Supervisors
  • English
  • 3.00 Participation
$0.00
Using objective evidence, recognizing patterns of behavior, considering families’ perspectives, and utilizing collaterals can improve decision-making in child welfare. Skills to ensure incorporation of new information and to identify biases, including confirmation bias, will be examined in this course to improve decision making.

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