Title
Category
Credits
Event date
Cost
Caregiver Core Training
  • Caregivers
$0.00
Coaching for Permanency
  • Social Worker
  • Supervisors
  • English
  • 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
  • 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.
Qualified Expert Witness Training for Tribes
  • English
  • Participation
$0.00
This training will provide information on the importance of the qualified expert witness (QEW) in state Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) cases and offer you an interactive learning session to illustrate what QEW testimony looks like in practice. ICWA applies to a state child welfare case when there is an Indian child and a child custody proceeding. Before a state can remove a child or terminate parental rights, the state must find a QEW to support the finding that the continued custody of the child by their parent will likely result in serious emotional or physical damage to the child.
Individual Skill Development for Discipline-Related Compliance Agreements
  • Caregivers
  • Kinship Caregivers
  • English
  • Participation
$0.00
The Individual Skill Development for Discipline-Related Compliance Agreements session supports caregivers who are under DCYF Licensing Division Compliance Agreements for child/youth discipline issues. DCYF Licensing Division staff will typically refer caregivers to receive this session when Compliance Agreements are established for discipline concerns.
Supportive Facilitated Discussion Group: Parenting Teens
  • Caregivers
  • Kinship Caregivers
  • Participation
$0.00
This facilitated discussion group is a continuation of the seven-part “Parenting Teens” webinar. This group will continue to explore strategies for parenting teens with a history of trauma, developing healthy and supportive relationships with your teen, nurturing their identity, and understanding their challenging behaviors. You’ll work with other parents of teens to develop an action plan that takes into account your and your teen’s unique circumstances and proactively addresses the challenges you face. 
Coaching for Indian Child Welfare: Working With Tribes and Tribal Families
  • Area Administrators
  • Social Worker
  • Supervisors
  • English
  • 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.
Culture of Family: Supporting Kin to Support Kids
  • Social Worker
  • Supervisors
  • English
  • 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.
Supportive Facilitated Discussion Group: Foster-To-Adopt Journey
  • Caregivers
  • English
  • Support Groups
  • Participation
$0.00
As a prospective adoptive foster parent, your journey from placement to adoptions is different from other adoption experiences. The goal of concurrent planning leads to unique challenges and beautiful opportunities. During the three sessions, you will consider some of the challenges of the foster-to-adopt process and develop strategies to help you fulfil your role in the adoption triad.
Compassionate Parenting
  • Caregivers
  • Kinship Caregivers
  • English
  • Participation
$0.00
Discover what compassion really is, how it starts by being compassionate with ourselves and see the positive results with our families and others.You’ll hear about and learn the roadblocks, hurdles and challenges that often prevent this kind of parenting and discover ways to move through them so you, and your children, win!Topics include:

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