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.Search results: 31
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Target Audience: caseworkers; supervisors; case aides; CDHS staff; multidisciplinary professionals
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.
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Target Audience: caseworkers, supervisors
What happens in a family when domestic violence, substance abuse, and mental health issues meet? These intersecting issues produce some of most challenging cases that we work with in child welfare. In this interactive learning experience, you’ll apply the Safe & Together model—an internationally recognized approach to responding to domestic violence when children are involved—to these complex situations.
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 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.Self enrollment
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.Self enrollment
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
- get started with Zoom,
- join a Zoom meeting,
- operate basic Zoom controls, and
- consider how to troubleshoot when things go wrong.
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.