Target audience: caseworkers
Please contact your Regional Learning Coordinator if you are already certified and wish to enroll in this course.
Category: New Caseworker Academy 2022-2023
Search results: 49
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Target Audience: caseworkers, supervisors, and any other staff required to submit Random Moment Time Study surveys
This hour-long video provides a walkthrough for accurately completing and submitting Random Moment Time Study (RMTS/RMS) surveys.
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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.
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Target Audience: Change of venue coordinators
This WBT is specifically for change of venue (COV) coordinators. This brief video provides an overview of statute and Volume 7 administrative rules as they relate to the COV process. It shows step-by-step how to complete a COV as the sending
or receiving county coordinator, and it reviews the role and responsibilities of COV coordinators.
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.
Category: New Foster Parent Academy 2022-2023
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.
Category: New Foster Parent Academy 2022-2023
Target audience: caseworkers; supervisors; foster, kinship, and adoptive parents
Category: New Foster Parent Academy 2022-2023
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.Category: New Foster Parent Academy 2022-2023
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Target Audience: caseworkers and supervisors
Entering complete and accurate data into Trails is critical. In this brief course, you’ll engage in three short interactive activities—including a demonstration of what, where, and how to enter data—that will assist caseworkers and supervisors alike in avoiding common errors when documenting contact in Trails.
Learners who have already completed this WBT can access the training at any time to review it.
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Target Audience: all audiences
How familiar are you with Family First? The Family First Prevention Services Act of 2018, dubbed Family First, overhauled federal child welfare funding—but it reaches far beyond funding. With an emphasis on evidence-based and trauma-informed services and preventing out-of-home and out-of-family placements, Family First has implications beyond child welfare and into the juvenile justice system, courts, service providers, and community partners. In this introductory Web-based training, you will review the purpose of Family First, how it impacts service provision and placements, and much more.
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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.
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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).
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Target Audience: caseworkers
This brief Web-based training provides an overview of individualized safety planning with families. You will finish the training with an understanding of the basic principles of safety planning, how to involve a family in the creation of the safety plan, and when and where to document the safety plan in Trails. If you are completing this training as part of the PIP requirements, follow-up activities to this training include a facilitated discussion within teams regarding safety planning and a tool for supervisors and caseworkers to use during supervision to ensure safety plans are supporting children and families effectively.
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Target Audience: child welfare professionals and resource parents
Informed supervision is the daily supervision of a juvenile who has committed a sexual offense. This short web-based training introduces the role of an informed supervisor, standards for informed supervision, and best practices. In this course you will learn the following:
- Basic terminology regarding sexual offenses
- Goals and phases of treatment for youth who have committed sexual offenses
- How multidisciplinary teams work with the informed supervisor and the youth
- Safety planning around high-risk behaviors and protective factors
Although this course does not certify you to be an informed supervisor, you will learn some basics on how to keep the youth and community safe, ways to hold the youth accountable, and ways to maximize the health of the youth and minimize deviant behaviors.
Target Audience: all child welfare staff
Becoming an adult can be challenging, especially for young people who have experienced foster care. Colorado’s child welfare system is familiar with serving older youth, but the Foster Youth in Transition Program is a new program. Legislative changes in 2021 recognized that foster youth need more during this transition, and the program was created in response to enhance the support these youth receive and the way we partner with them. In this Web-based training, you’ll be introduced to the Foster Youth in Transition Program. This module is a guide to eligibility, entry into the program, and the court process. You’ll explore casework tools such as the Voluntary Services Agreement, Roadmap to Success, Emancipation Transition Plans, and Supervised Independent Living Placement, which support youth in developing skills for adulthood. You will also understand the purpose of and how to prepare for a Transition Hearing and an Emancipation Discharge Hearing. You’ll leave this course with the confidence and know-how to partner with youth and set them up for a future of success.
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.Self enrollment
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.Target Audience: resource caregivers
In this training, you'll learn how to become an advocate for children in your home
to ensure they receive the services and supports that they need.
Emphasis is placed on being a lifelong learner, recognizing the
importance of developing a support network (school, community supports,
friends, medical), and learning about the types of services and supports
that the child and/or the family that is fostering or adopting might
find beneficial.
Target Audience: resource caregivers
In this training, caregivers who are fostering and adopting learn concepts and definitions related to enhancing the resilience of children who have experienced trauma, separation, or loss. Protective factors are described along with strategies on how to build upon these factors to support children develop their identity, self-esteem, and skills toward self-advocacy.