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- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Caregivers
- Kinship Caregivers
- English
- Support Groups
$0.00
As a caregiver for a child in the foster care system, you are part of a parenting team. The courts, the social worker, CASA, GAL, medical team, therapists and the child’s biological family all have a role to play. Knowing what your role is and how to partner with the other members of the child’s team improves the child’s care, your experience as a foster parent, and the long-term outcomes of the placement.
- Caregivers
- Kinship Caregivers
- English
- Support Groups
$0.00
As an LGBTQIA+ caregiver have you felt that your Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Expression (SOGIE) impacts your fostering journey?In this supportive facilitated discussion group, you will get a chance to talk with other LGBTQIA+ kinship and foster caregivers about their experiences and share your own. As a group, you will talk about useful tools and techniques for navigating common issues faced by LGBTIA+ caregivers and use these to develop strategies specifically for your family.
- Caregivers
- Kinship Caregivers
- English
- Support Groups
$0.00
In this facilitated discussion group, we will share experiences, resources, and best practices for caring for infants and children who have been exposed to chemicals in utero. We will discuss signs of withdrawals in infants; what works best in caring for an impacted infant including therapeutic handling techniques and share parenting experiences and Resources. We will also discuss issues, behaviors, interventions, effective parenting techniques, and resources for the children in your care.
- Caregivers
- Kinship Caregivers
- English
- Support Groups
$0.00
It isn’t always easy to meet the complex needs of a child while navigating a new parental role. Foster parenting calls for a trauma-informed, mindful, and positive response to a wide variety of behaviors. In this supportive facilitated discussion group, you will work with fellow caregivers to develop practical parenting strategies that are trauma-informed, appropriate for the child, and suited to your home.
- Caregivers
- Kinship Caregivers
- English
- Support Groups
$0.00
As a parent of an infant or toddler, the earliest development years are among the most critical to a child’s long-term development. Children under 2 who are in foster care often require supports and approaches that are not so typical for their peers. You will talk through their needs, develop strategies to address those needs, and identify the resources available to help you support the littlest lives in care. You will also be able to build community with other caregivers of kids under 2 to share resources, experiences and problem-solving strategies.
- Caregivers
- Kinship Caregivers
- English
- Support Groups
$0.00
Ready access to smart phones, tables, and computers has created a whole new world of challenges for parents of pre-teens and teens. Youth do not need to leave their bedrooms be introduced to risky situations. And it is challenging for caregivers to know how guide children to appropriate use while keeping them safe.
- Caregivers
- Kinship Caregivers
- English
- Support Groups
$0.00
Understanding your child’s identity is critical to providing them the care and support they need to navigate the development years. Children with an LGBTQIA+ identity may need additional support as they navigate extra social and cultural factors. In this supportive facilitated discussion group, you will have an opportunity to talk through LGBTQIA+ terminology and identify concrete tools you can use to support a child’s LGBTQIA+ identity.