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.

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.

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).

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.

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

Target audience: individuals who are required by law to make reports of child abuse or neglect

Target audience: supervisors

Module 1 for supervisors provides an overview of the National Adoption Competency Mental Health Training for Child Welfare Professionals and makes the case for the need for adoption competency. Lessons in this module orient participants to the training and training objectives, highlight the guiding principles that provide the foundation for work with children and families from an adoption or guardianship lens, provide context for the changes in adoption and guardianship options and practice today, and emphasize the urgent need for permanency for children and youth and the negative consequences of impermanence.