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 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; 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.Target Audience: hotline workers, hotline supervisors, hospital mandatory reporters
The birth of a new baby is a joyous occasion—but it is also a critical time for infants who are affected by prenatal substance exposure and for their caregivers. Plans of Safe Care is an interactive learning experience for hospital mandatory reporters and screeners who are vital to the creation of plans of safe care with these families.
Target audience: caseworkers, case aides, supervisors
This self-guided, interactive course will enhance your understanding of psychological assessments as they are used within child welfare.Sex trafficking is on the rise in the United States, and you—the child welfare workforce—are uniquely positioned to recognize and respond to children and youth who might be experiencing trafficking. This self-guided Web-based training will increase your awareness of indicators of sex trafficking, highlight risk factors that statistically make a child or youth more vulnerable to traffickers, and empower you to respond with sensitivity to disclosures.
Target audience: caseworkers and supervisors
In this Web-based training, you’ll get an introduction to the internationally recognized Safe and Together™ Model. The model is a set of concepts, tools, and practices to improve how agencies, communities, and individuals respond to domestic violence when children are involved.
Target audience: caseworkers and supervisors
Prerequisite: Safe and Together: Introduction to the Model
This course dives deeper into the internationally recognized Safe and Together™ Model. The model is a set of concepts, tools, and practices to improve how agencies, communities, and individuals respond to domestic violence when children are involved.
Target audience: caseworkers and supervisors
This course dives deeper into the internationally recognized Safe & Together™ Model. The model is a set of concepts, tools, and practices to improve how agencies, communities, and individuals respond to domestic violence when children are involved.
This interactive learning experience introduces a father-inclusive approach to working with children and families.Target audience: caseworkers, supervisors, and foster, kin, and adoptive parents
In this interactive Web-based training, you will learn about creating safe sleeping environments for infants. You’ll explore customs and myths related to infant sleep along with recommended approaches and interventions associated with reductions in the risk of sleep-related infant deaths.Target audience: caseworkers, supervisors, and foster, kin, and adoptive parents
In this interactive web-based training, you will learn about creating safe sleeping environments for infants. You’ll explore customs and myths related to infant sleep along with recommended approaches and interventions associated with reductions in the risk of sleep-related infant deaths.Target audience: caseworkers and supervisors
Prerequisite: Recognizing and Responding to Sex Trafficking (WBT)
Once you’ve completed the online course Recognizing and Responding to Sex Trafficking as a prerequisite, this interactive, self-guided online training is designed to introduce you to the Colorado High Risk Victim Identification Tool.Target audience: foster, kinship, and adoptive parents; caseworkers; supervisors; managers and directors; CDHS staff
On a daily basis, parents and caregivers are faced with decisions regarding their children’s safety, permanency, and well-being. These decisions require the use of judgment. The task is complicated for caregivers of children and youth in foster care given the number of laws, policies, guidelines, and rules that restrict activities and require potentially time-consuming approval processes.Target audience: foster, kinship, and adoptive parents; caseworkers; supervisors; managers and directors; CDHS staff
On a daily basis, parents and caregivers are faced with decisions regarding their children’s safety, permanency, and well-being. These decisions require the use of judgment. The task is complicated for caregivers of children and youth in foster care given the number of laws, policies, guidelines, and rules that restrict activities and require potentially time-consuming approval processes.Target audience: caseworkers, supervisors, child welfare professionals
Issues of substance use and abuse within families can be a complex puzzle. Its various pieces—a family’s struggles, needs, strengths, and supports—cohere to form a unique picture of the impact of substance use on parental functioning and parenting capacity. Through this interactive Web-based training, learners will better understand all of the pieces of this puzzle and how they fit together.Target Audience: any learner transitioning to the Zoom virtual learning environment
You’ve attended in-person learning experiences and completed self-directed Web-based trainings, but now ALL of your training opportunities are taking place in the Zoom virtual environment. With everything going on, showing up online as a confident learner might seem like a big ask.
You can do this.
In this brief and accessible
WBT, you’ll access e-learning resources that will have you feeling like a
virtual learning superstar! You’ll master how to
AND you’ll get comfortable with online learning etiquette and expectations! In just one hour, you’ll ease your anxiety and be ready to learn and engage your colleagues in all of your virtual courses.