The New Supervisor Academy begins by laying the foundation for leadership in this Web-based training. This course will provide you with all of the tools and resources you will need to support your supervisory practice throughout training and beyond.
Target audience: caseworkers
As the initial course in the Fundamentals of Colorado Child Welfare Casework Practice series, this interactive, self-guided online training is designed to give learners a basic understanding of the Colorado child welfare system.Target audience: NEW CASEWORKERS & NEW HOTLINE WORKERS
Please contact your Regional Learning Coordinator if you are already certified and wish to enroll in this course.
Prerequisite: Welcome to Child Welfare WBT
This hybrid course—designed to prepare both hotline workers and caseworkers for certification—builds on personal and professional experiences that promote quality customer service and provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to successfully carry out the duties associated with the referral and screening processes.
They are not standalone courses. If you’re having scheduling issues with a series and need special accommodations (e.g., you need to take one course at a time over the next four series), please reach out to your Regional Learning Coordinator to see what can be worked out.
If you’re a certified supervisor looking for a refresher in one of the courses, please reach out to your Regional Learning Coordinator before registering for a specific date.
New/Uncertified supervisors will be given first priority, then lead workers, then certified supervisors looking for a refresher.
This three-day course concentrates on educational supervision. You’ll emerge from the course prepared with the coaching skills necessary to promote workers performing best child welfare practice standards within the parameters outlined in Volume 7.
They are not standalone courses. If you’re having scheduling issues with a series and need special accommodations (e.g., you need to take one course at a time over the next four series), please reach out to your Regional Learning Coordinator to see what can be worked out.
If you’re a certified supervisor looking for a refresher in one of the courses, please reach out to your Regional Learning Coordinator before registering for a specific date.
New/Uncertified supervisors will be given first priority, then lead workers, then certified supervisors looking for a refresher.
Target audience: NEW CASEWORKERS & NEW HOTLINE WORKERS
Please contact your Regional Learning Coordinator if you are already certified and wish to enroll in this course.
Prerequisite: Welcome to Child Welfare WBT
This three-day learning experience is an interactive, action-based classroom training experience that uses a problem-based learning model to facilitate growth. With a single complex case scenario interweaved throughout the course, learners conduct an in-depth assessment of safety with a family.This two-day course centers on the administrative areas of supervision. These specialized child welfare leadership and management tasks are required to motivate and maintain organization, productivity, and compliance.
They are not standalone courses. If you’re having scheduling issues with a series and need special accommodations (e.g., you need to take one course at a time over the next four series), please reach out to your Regional Learning Coordinator to see what can be worked out.
If you’re a certified supervisor looking for a refresher in one of the courses, please reach out to your Regional Learning Coordinator before registering for a specific date.
New/Uncertified supervisors will be given first priority, then lead workers, then certified supervisors looking for a refresher.
Target audience: NEW CASEWORKERS & NEW HOTLINE WORKERS
Please contact your Regional Learning Coordinator if you are already certified and wish to enroll in this course.
Prerequisite: Welcome to Child Welfare WBT
This three-day Fundamentals course is an interactive, action-oriented classroom training. Upon completion, learners have a basic understanding of the crucial decisions that inform case planning with families and bring to life the values, concepts, skills, and practices of child welfare in Colorado.Target audience: NEW CASEWORKERS & NEW HOTLINE WORKERS
Please contact your Regional Learning Coordinator if you are already certified and wish to enroll in this course.
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.During this skills practice, you’ll have the unique opportunity to apply your freshly attained competencies in a real-life supervision session with a worker.
They are not standalone courses. If you’re having scheduling issues with a series and need special accommodations (e.g., you need to take one course at a time over the next four series), please reach out to your Regional Learning Coordinator to see what can be worked out.
If you’re a certified supervisor looking for a refresher in one of the courses, please reach out to your Regional Learning Coordinator before registering for a specific date.
New/Uncertified supervisors will be given first priority, then lead workers, then certified supervisors looking for a refresher.
Target audience: NEW CASEWORKERS & NEW HOTLINE WORKERS
Please contact your Regional Learning Coordinator if you are already certified and wish to enroll in this course.
Prerequisite: Welcome to Child Welfare WBT
This two-day, interactive classroom training dives into the details of each of the key moments in the court process for both dependency and neglect and delinquency cases.Target Audience: caseworkers; case aides; supervisors; state staff; foster, kinship, and adoptive families
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are traumatic events occurring before age 18 and include all types of abuse and neglect, as well as parental mental illness, substance use, divorce, incarceration, and domestic violence. The repeated stress of these experiences has proven effects on the development of the brain, with the impact occurring over a lifetime. People who experienced high levels of trauma as children are at a much higher risk for health issues, such as heart disease and lung cancer.
The long-term impact of adverse childhood experiences gained wider acceptance through the landmark CDC-Kaiser Permanente ACE Study. In this interactive Web-based training, you’ll explore the study and lessons learned. You’ll also gain an understanding of how toxic stress can impact brain development and, in turn, long-term health and well-being outcomes. Furthermore, you will begin to explore prevention and intervention strategies to help mitigate the impact of ACEs.
Target audience: caseworkers
This interactive learning experience provides child welfare professionals with the tools to help families understand how to access quality and consistent health care for children and youth.
Target audience: caseworkers; supervisors; foster, kinship, and adoptive parents
This interactive, self-guided online course is designed to help child welfare professionals and foster, kinship, and adoptive parents understand the impact of trauma on the development of adolescents who have experienced child abuse and neglect.
Target audience: caseworkers; supervisors; foster, kinship, and adoptive parents
This interactive, self-guided online course is designed to help child welfare professionals and foster, kinship, and adoptive parents understand the impact of trauma on the development of infants and toddlers who have experienced child abuse and neglect.
Target audience: caseworkers; supervisors; foster, kinship, and adoptive parents
Target audience: caseworkers; supervisors; foster, kinship, and adoptive parents
This interactive, self-guided online course is designed to help child welfare professionals and foster, kinship, and adoptive parents understand the impact of trauma on the development of children and youth who have experienced child abuse and neglect.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).
Are you looking to deepen your knowledge and understanding of issues related to substance use? Join this interactive learning opportunity to connect with experts in the field and your peers for a deep dive into substance use and child welfare practice.
In this virtual series of six 60-minute case-based learning experiences, you’ll explore the following:
Not only will you hear from experts, but you’ll also discuss challenging cases and build solutions with your peers, creating a community of practice to share experiences and continue learning into the future!
The Web-based training The Substance Use Puzzle: Putting Together the Pieces has foundational information related to this ECHO series. We encourage you to complete the WBT prior to the first session so that you can make the most of your virtual sessions.
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: child welfare professionals
Module 1 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.
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.
Target Audience: hotline
workers, hotline supervisors, child welfare caseworkers and supervisors,
medical providers, treatment providers, mental health providers
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, 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.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.