Title
Category
Credits
Event date
Cost
  • Social Worker
  • English
  • 12.00 Participation
$0.00
This two-day in-service training delivered by webinar will prepare new CFWS caseworkers and experienced CFWS 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 toward safe reunification and timely permanency. Participants will explore engaging children and caregivers during monthly visits, best interest considerations and permanency planning.
  • Social Worker
  • English
  • 5.00 Participation
$0.00
Assessment of every environment in which an infant lives and sleeps, as well as all individuals providing care, is critical to ensuring the safety of this vulnerable population. Emphasis will be placed on developmental needs, attachment, and the infant’s relationships.
  • Social Worker
  • English
  • 12.00 Participation
$0.00
The focus of this course is on the role of the CFWS caseworker in achieving permanency for children taking into consideration how safety threats, risk factor and protective factors apply to achieving timely permanency. You will explore how to work a case from the beginning to achieve permanency through concurrent planning, having difficult conversations with parents about concurrent planning and the permanency process, how to assess for reunification, including the conditions for return home, determining best interest and choosing alternate plans.
  • Social Worker
  • English
  • 18.00 Participation
$0.00
This three day in-service will describe the two different CPS pathways, Family Assessment Response (FAR) and Investigations.
$0.00
Advanced Practice in Motivational Interviewing will further support you in achieving competence in the use of Motivational interviewing with families. During the Advanced offering you will have multiple opportunities for practice and skill development as well as the opportunity to begin the process of being coded to fidelity through the use of the Motivational Interviewing Competency Assessment (MICA)  tool. Coding staff to fidelity of MI is an opportunity for caseworkers to become professionals in MI.
  • Area Administrators
  • Program Managers
  • Social Worker
  • Supervisors
  • English
$0.00
Foundations of Motivational Interviewing for Child Welfare Staff will introduce you to the Spirit of MI; provide the opportunity to begin developing core skills, including using OARS (Open Ended Questions, affirmations, reflections and summaries) responding to the way people talk about change; and understand how to work with resistance. You will get practice opportunities to increase your skill at strategically responding to sustain talk and change talk and helping families make Brief Action Plans.
  • Social Worker
  • Supervisors
  • English
$0.00
This course builds on knowledge-based learning objectives and related information presented in the pre-requisite LGBTQIA+ Basics for Supporting Youth eLearning for general audiences.  You must first complete that course before registering for this one. In this course, licensing staff will learn to center the lived experiences of LGBTQIA+ youth in conversations with licensed providers, both in childcare and out-of-home care systems. 
  • Supervisors
  • 12.00 Participation
09/04/2024
$0.00
This two-day in-person conference supports supervisors with information about practice and policy.
  • Area Administrators
  • Caregivers
  • Kinship Caregivers
  • Program Managers
  • Social Worker
  • Supervisors
  • 10.00 Participation
10/16/2024
$0.00
This two-day event celebrates community through a variety of speakers and expert-led sessions.

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