Title
Category
Credits
Event date
Cost
Suicide Prevention LEARN® Training by Forefront for Workforce
  • Social Worker
  • English
  • 3.00 Participation
$0.00
LEARN is a suicide awareness training that helps participants identify and act on signs of suicide. The training was developed in the School of Social Work by noted Suicidologist, Dr. Jennifer Stuber, and is based on best practices outlined by the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration (SAMHSA). LEARN® is designed to empower individuals to help others move in the direction of hope, recovery, and survival. Presenters for this training are contracted and trained by Forefront Suicide Prevention.
Child and Family Welfare Services In-Service
  • 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.
Right Response: Level 4
  • Area Administrators
  • Social Worker
  • Supervisors
  • English
  • 14.00 Participation
$0.00
The RIGHT RESPONSE Workshop is primarily prevention training. The Advanced Level 4 training is a full 14-hour certification which provides the skills of Prevention, De-escalation, Postvention and Physical Interventions, including Escorts and Therapeutic Holds. Attendees learn to use physical intervention as the last resort to maintaining safety and learn more proactive alternatives which can prevent dangerous incidents and increase safety.Attendees that complete the workshop receive a 1 year certification and recertification training will be offered annually.
Permanency for Every Child
  • 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.
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.
Supervisor Readiness
  • Area Administrators
  • Program Managers
  • Supervisors
  • English
  • 3.00 Participation
$0.00
This three-hour course covers Situational Leadership and Supervisor Readiness (4Rs). The course will review the three necessary components and strategies to impact performance. The Situational Leadership Theory developed by Paul Hersey and Kenneth Blanchard presents a model that suggests that to be effective leaders, supervisors must match their leadership style to an individual worker’s level of job readiness (job maturity).
LGBTQIA+ Youth: Guiding the Work for Licensing Staff
  • 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. 
Mandatory Reporter (eLearning)
  • Area Administrators
  • Caregivers
  • Program Managers
  • Social Worker
  • Supervisors
  • English
  • 1.50 Participation
$0.00
Mandatory Reporters play a vital role in safeguarding vulnerable children when they believe abuse or neglect is occurring. This is done through reporting to the Department of Children, Youth and Families (DCYF) Intake, or by supporting families with community referrals when they have identified risk factors present that could contribute to the potential of abuse or neglect. 
Identifying and Supporting Commercially Sexually Exploited Children for Workforce
  • Social Worker
  • Supervisors
  • English
  • 10.50 Participation
$0.00
This course is mandatory for CFWS workers, and recommended for Intake, CPS and other case carrying staff.

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