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Recognizing and Responding to Human Trafficking (WBT) 2023-2024
Self enrollment

Target Audience: caseworkers, supervisors, case aides, CDHS staff, multidisciplinary professionals

Human 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 labor and sex trafficking, highlight risk factors that statistically make a child or youth more vulnerable to traffickers, support you in screening for trafficking, and empower you to respond with sensitivity to disclosures.



Category: Learning Experiences for ALL Audiences 2023-2024
Register for the New Caseworker Academy 2022-2023
Self enrollment

Target Audience: New caseworkers

Welcome to the New Caseworker Academy!

Start here to register for a cohort of the Fundamentals of Colorado Child Welfare Casework Practice.

  1. Welcome to Colorado Child Welfare WBT 
  2. Hotline and RED Team: Where Assessment With Families Begins
  3. Safety Through Engagement
  4. Working Toward Closure: Decision Making and Documentation
  5. Legal Preparation for Caseworkers
  6. The Fundamentals Practice Simulation
  7. Choose Your Own Trail: Documentation and Practice

Category: New Caseworker Academy 2022-2023
Register for the New Caseworker Academy 2023-2024
Self enrollment

Target Audience: New caseworkers

Welcome to the New Caseworker Academy!

Start here to register for a cohort of the Fundamentals of Colorado Child Welfare Casework Practice.

  1. Welcome to Colorado Child Welfare WBT 
  2. Hotline and RED Team: Where Assessment With Families Begins
  3. Safety Through Engagement
  4. Working Toward Closure: Decision Making and Documentation
  5. Legal Preparation for Caseworkers
  6. The Fundamentals Practice Simulation
  7. Choose Your Own Trail: Documentation and Practice

Category: New Caseworker Academy 2023-2024
Safe and Together: Intersections—When Domestic Violence, Substance Abuse, and Mental Health Meet (WBT) 2023-2024
Self enrollment

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.


Category: Learning Experiences for ALL Audiences 2023-2024
Safe and Together: Introduction to the Model (WBT) 2023-2024
Self enrollment

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.



Category: Learning Experiences for ALL Audiences 2023-2024
Safe and Together: Multiple Pathways to Harm (WBT) 2023-2024
Self enrollment

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.


Category: Learning Experiences for ALL Audiences 2023-2024
Safe and Together: Partnering with Survivors (WBT) 2023-2024
Self enrollment

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.


Category: Learning Experiences for ALL Audiences 2023-2024
Safe and Together: Working with Men as Parents (WBT) 2023-2024
Self enrollment

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.

Category: Learning Experiences for ALL Audiences 2023-2024
Safe Sleep: Creating Safe Sleeping Environments for Infants (WBT) 2023-2024
Self enrollment

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.

Category: Learning Experiences for ALL Audiences 2023-2024
The Reasonable and Prudent Parent Standard (WBT) 2023-2024
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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.

Category: New Foster Parent Academy 2023-2024
The Substance Use Puzzle: Putting Together the Pieces (WBT) 2023-2024
Self enrollment

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.

Category: Learning Experiences for ALL Audiences 2023-2024
The Toxicology Resource Guide: An Online Resource for Child Welfare Professionals (WBT) 2023-2024
Self enrollment

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.


Category: Caseworker-Specific Learning Experiences 2023-2024
Understanding Opioid Use Disorder: Protective Factors, Child Safety, and Intervention (WBT) 2023-2024
Self enrollment

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.


Category: Learning Experiences for ALL Audiences 2023-2024
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