Title
Category
Credits
Event date
Cost
Engaging Youth In Group Care
  • Caregivers
$0.00
The “Engaging Youth In Group Care” series is composed of seven modules for those working with youth in a group care setting who have moderate to severe emotional and behavioral challenges.
DCYF Area Administrators Summit 2024
  • Area Administrators
  • 6.00 Participation
$0.00
This one-day in-person conference will help you build leadership skills, address challenges, and offer inspiration on how to continue to support yourself and others.
DCYF Administrative Professionals Conference 2024
  • 12.00 Participation
$0.00
This two-day, in-person event will help administrative and other support staff build technical and program skills as well as help connect them back to the importance of their role.
Supervisor Core Training 2.0: Foundations of Effective Leadership
  • Supervisors
  • 91.00 Participation
$0.00
Supervisor Core Training (SCT) provides the foundation for effective supervisory practice in the child welfare system. This program will prepare you to become comfortable in assuming your new role through learnings about what it means to be a supervisor in the child welfare system and understanding the new responsibilities of this position.
Shelter Care Simulation: Articulating and Defending the Need for Out of Home Placement
  • Social Worker
  • Supervisors
  • English
$0.00
This course will build on the Foundations of Practice modules.  Prior to the simulation, participants will independently prepare for their testimony.  This will be a guided preparation with a focus on the changes in standards for out of home placement at shelter care outlined in the Keeping Families Together Act (House Bill 1227). Participants will prepare for a simulated shelter care hearing based on a case scenario.
Trauma-Informed Emotion Coaching
  • Caregivers
$0.00
Emotion Coaching® is a research-based method from the Gottman Institute that gives caregivers a way to help children learn about emotions. Research shows that when caregivers value and guide emotions using this important method, children do better in many ways. These children tend to: •    Form stronger friendships with peers •    Have higher self esteem •    Regulate their moods more easily •    Be more successful in their problem-solving skills •    Bounce back from emotional events more quickly •    Get sick less often 
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.
Facilitated Cohort Learning Session to Support Motivational Interviewing
  • Social Worker
  • Supervisors
  • 1.50 Participation
$0.00
These sessions will provide participants of the Advanced Motivational Interviewing training an opportunity to deepen use and practice of Motivational Interviewing, focused on everyday child welfare.  You will focus on your role as a facilitator rather than an expert to collaborate, evoke and honor the family’s autonomy. These sessions will provide opportunities to apply strategic responses to move families toward change without coercion and avoid practitioner responses that trigger resistance. 
Facilitated Cohort Learning Session to Support TBRI
  • English
  • 2.00 Participation
$0.00
These two-hour sessions provide participants who have attended any TBRI Principles classes (there are four classes) or the TBRI for DCYF class an opportunity to expand their TBRI knowledge and work within live cases. These sessions will provide opportunities to apply strategic responses to move children/youth, caregivers and staff toward change and increasing the parent, caregiver and staff’s protective capacities to ensure child safety, well-being, and permanency. 
Facilitated Cohort To Support the Best Interest of the Child
  • Social Worker
  • Supervisors
  • English
  • 3.00 Participation
$0.00
This course explores the critical concept of the best interests of the child in child welfare. You will learn to identify factors such as the child's wishes, needs, safety, permanency, and well-being. Through case analyses, you will apply this framework to various scenarios, developing skills to advocate effectively while navigating legal, ethical, and cultural considerations, essential for articulating to the courts. Join us to become a more impactful advocate for children's rights in the child welfare system!

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