The Foundations

Objectives:

• Understand family engagement and its impact on families in child welfare
• Use critical thinking to find ways to improve engagement
• Develop skills to utilize strategies to increase family engagement

Objectives: 

• Understand general concepts of child development
• Apply knowledge of child development to help families identify when a child’s development may be impacted by current or past experiences

Time: 1-hour online course

Objectives:

• Understand multigenerational trauma
• Understand how parents’ past experiences and trauma may impact their current behaviors or parenting dynamics 
• Use strategies for working with families in child welfare who have experienced multigenerational trauma 

Time: 1-hour online course

Objectives:

• Understand social justice and how it relates to child welfare practice
• Acquire skills and knowledge to advocate for marginalized groups in child welfare 

Time: 1-hour online course

• Review ethical obligations within child protection and social work
• Engage in critical thinking about how social work ethics and practice
• standards will impact their daily work

Time: 1 hour online 

Objectives:

• Increase awareness of the history of colonialism, family separation, bias, and disproportionality in the child welfare system

Time: 2-hour in-person course

Objectives:

• Increase awareness of structural racism in broader systems (criminal justice, healthcare, education, etc.) and the connections between the child protection system and broader systems 

Time: 2-hour in-person course

• Identify the 5 principles of social just child welfare practice
• Learn how to apply 5 principles into child welfare practice

Objectives:

• Learn to understand how to practice from a social just perspective

Time: 1.5 hours in-person courseLearn to understand how to practice from a social just perspective