The New Supervisor Academy begins by laying the foundation for leadership in this Web-based training. This course will provide you with all of the tools and resources you will need to support your supervisory practice throughout training and beyond.
Target audience: caseworkers
As the initial course in the Fundamentals of Colorado Child Welfare Casework Practice series, this interactive, self-guided online training is designed to give learners a basic understanding of the Colorado child welfare system.Target audience: caseworkers, hotline workers
Prerequisite: Welcome to Child Welfare WBT
This hybrid course—designed to prepare both hotline workers and caseworkers for certification—builds on personal and professional experiences that promote quality customer service and provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to successfully carry out the duties associated with the referral and screening processes.
Target audience: caseworkers
Prerequisite: Welcome to Child Welfare WBT
This three-day learning experience is an interactive, action-based classroom training experience that uses a problem-based learning model to facilitate growth. With a single complex case scenario interweaved throughout the course, learners conduct an in-depth assessment of safety with a family.Target audience: caseworkers
Prerequisite: Welcome to Child Welfare WBT
This three-day Fundamentals course is an interactive, action-oriented classroom training. Upon completion, learners have a basic understanding of the crucial decisions that inform case planning with families and bring to life the values, concepts, skills, and practices of child welfare in Colorado.Target audience: caseworkers
Prerequisites (4): Welcome to Child Welfare WBT; Hotline and RED Team; Safety Through Engagement; Working Toward Closure.
Upon completion of the four prerequisite courses, new caseworkers participate in the Fundamentals Practice Simulation, in which they demonstrate the competencies learned throughout the Fundamentals courses in a live, case scenario–informed interaction with a real family, played by professional actors.Target audience: caseworkers
Prerequisite: Welcome to Child Welfare WBT
This two-day, interactive classroom training dives into the details of each of the key moments in the court process for both dependency and neglect and delinquency cases.Target Audience: caseworkers; case aides; supervisors; state staff; foster, kinship, and adoptive families
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are traumatic events occurring before age 18 and include all types of abuse and neglect, as well as parental mental illness, substance use, divorce, incarceration, and domestic violence. The repeated stress of these experiences has proven effects on the development of the brain, with the impact occurring over a lifetime. People who experienced high levels of trauma as children are at a much higher risk for health issues, such as heart disease and lung cancer.
The long-term impact of adverse childhood experiences gained wider acceptance through the landmark CDC-Kaiser Permanente ACE Study. In this interactive Web-based training, you’ll explore the study and lessons learned. You’ll also gain an understanding of how toxic stress can impact brain development and, in turn, long-term health and well-being outcomes. Furthermore, you will begin to explore prevention and intervention strategies to help mitigate the impact of ACEs.
Target audience: caseworkers
This interactive learning experience provides child welfare professionals with the tools to help families understand how to access quality and consistent health care for children and youth.
Target audience: caseworkers; supervisors; foster, kinship, and adoptive parents
This interactive, self-guided online course is designed to help child welfare professionals and foster, kinship, and adoptive parents understand the impact of trauma on the development of adolescents who have experienced child abuse and neglect.
Target audience: caseworkers; supervisors; foster, kinship, and adoptive parents
This interactive, self-guided online course is designed to help child welfare professionals and foster, kinship, and adoptive parents understand the impact of trauma on the development of infants and toddlers who have experienced child abuse and neglect.
Target audience: caseworkers; supervisors; foster, kinship, and adoptive parents
Target audience: caseworkers; supervisors; foster, kinship, and adoptive parents
This interactive, self-guided online course is designed to help child welfare professionals and foster, kinship, and adoptive parents understand the impact of trauma on the development of children and youth who have experienced child abuse and neglect.Target audience: caseworkers, supervisors
If you completed the Colorado Family Safety and Risk Assessments Training for Caseworkers or Colorado Family Safety and Risk Assessments Training for Supervisors in 2014 or 2015, we have good news! You don’t need to redo the training. This self-paced, Web-based refresher training is developed exclusively for you.
Target audience: caseworkers and supervisors
This short video will assist caseworkers and supervisors in accurately entering data into Trails and includes a demonstration of what, where, and how to enter data.
Target Audience: caseworkers; supervisors; case aides; foster, kinship, and adoptive parents
Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) affect nearly 30 percent of children and youth in the foster care and adoption system and 15 to 25 percent of those in the juvenile justice system. Do you know how to support children, youth, and families who are impacted by them? This Web-based training, with customized content for both caseworkers and caregivers, explores the research around the impacts of fetal alcohol exposure and how FASD affects behavior and functioning. You’ll examine what FASD looks like to adults and think about what it feels like to an affected child or youth. Using case scenarios, you’ll explore practical strategies and interventions for supporting these children and youth at home, in school, and in the community.
Target audience: caseworkers and supervisors
This web-based training highlights key elements of four key federal laws: the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), the Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA), the Multiethnic Placement Act (MEPA), and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
Are you looking to deepen your knowledge and understanding of issues related to substance use? Join this interactive learning opportunity to connect with experts in the field and your peers for a deep dive into substance use and child welfare practice.
In this virtual series of six 60-minute case-based learning experiences, you’ll explore the following:
• Indications of substance use and how to identify substances, paraphernalia, and a person under the influence
• What drug tests really reveal—and the complications associated with interpreting test results
• Treatment evaluations and the importance of supporting families in accessing the right level of treatment at the right time
• Facts and myths about medication-assisted treatment
• Approaches for supporting families in recovery and working to prevent relapse
• Various decision points in the life of a child welfare case and how to assess and ensure for parental capacity at each point
Not only will you hear from experts, but you’ll also discuss challenging cases and build solutions with your peers, creating a community of practice to share experiences and continue learning into the future!
The Web-based training The Substance Use Puzzle: Putting Together the Pieces has foundational information related to this ECHO series. We encourage you to complete the WBT prior to the first session so that you can make the most of your virtual sessions.
Target audience: caseworkers; supervisors; child welfare professionals; foster, kin, and adoptive parents; community partners
The legalization of marijuana for both medical and recreational use in Colorado has brought with it many questions about its impact on children and families. In this interactive learning experience, learners will explore to what extent marijuana use or cultivation may affect child safety.Target audience: individuals who are required by law to make reports of child abuse or neglect
This Web-based training is for individuals who are required by law to make reports of child abuse or neglect.