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, supervisors
Partnering with adult survivors is a critical aspect of domestic violence–informed practice. It’s the key to developing a child-centered approach to families in which domestic violence occurs. In this Web-based training, you’ll learn six steps to facilitate effective partnering with survivors. Based on the internationally recognized Safe & Together model, these steps will help you enhance safety, promote healing, and support family functioning. You’ll become a stronger ally for adult survivors and a more effective advocate for the well-being of children and youth.
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 deathsTarget 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: caseworkers, supervisors, managers
This video presentation is designed to help caseworkers learn about the Toxicology Resource Guide. The Toxicology Resource Guide is an online resource developed to support Colorado child welfare professionals in understanding substances, possible effects, and the utility and application of toxicology testing to enhance practice.
Target Audience: caseworkers, supervisors, and foster, kinship, and adoptive caregivers
Opioid use disorder (OUD) is at a crisis level in Colorado. Caregivers facing OUD may have diminished protective capacities that lead to child safety concerns, and their families are frequently at increased risk for harm to occur due to potentially compromised protective factors. In this interactive Web-based training, you’ll explore how to better serve families experiencing OUD with empathy and compassion as they navigate this devastating brain disease that impacts behavior and decision making. You’ll build concrete skills for avoiding stigma-inducing language while still identifying behaviorally specific child safety concerns associated with OUD. Through this learning experience, you’ll better understand how positively influencing a caregiver’s ongoing participation in treatment can significantly impact their ability to create lasting safety for children.