Communities Connected for Kids

Cultural Competency
2023-03-09 12:30 - 15:30 (America/New_York)
Cultural Competency for Child Welfare professionals.

Permanency Round Table
2023-03-14 09:00 - 12:00

IPV Safety Planning
2023-03-15 09:00 - 12:00

Quality Home Assessments
2023-03-16 09:00 - 12:00
This interactive training will explore how policy and best practice look at how we interact with families in their homes.

Conversational Communication
2023-04-04 13:00 - 16:00 | Zoom
Interaction training to improve interviewing and engagement skills.
This training is for CCK staff and CPI staff

Motivational Interviewing - the Next Steps
2023-04-06 09:00 - 12:00 | Zoom
How to use Motivational Interviewing to help your clients embrace change.
This training is for CCK staff and CPI staff

TANF & Child Welfare Collaboration
2023-04-18 15:00 - 16:30
WEBINAR ANNOUNCEMENT
TANF & Child Welfare Collaboration: Preventative Strategies Focused on Family Well-being- A Review of the Evidence and Implications for Practice, April 2023
Research shows that families living in poverty have a significantly higher likelihood of experiencing crises, and that poverty is the greatest threat to child well-being and the best predictor of abuse and neglect. Further, research suggests poverty is a key driver of child welfare system involvement and preliminary evidence suggests even modest economic supports can stabilize families and alleviate the need for more intensive intervention.
Although the relationship between poverty and child neglect is supported by research, there is not yet a clear national policy and systems approach to intervening on behalf of families in ways that preserve the family unit while resolving safety issues compromised by poverty. Scattered across the country, however, are innovative policies, system reform efforts, program models, and practice strategies for bridging this gap.
The Office of Family Assistance (OFA), in partnership with the Children’s Bureau, will host a webinar on April 18, 2023, from 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. EST to examine research conducted and presented by researchers from Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago.

The webinar will:

• Highlight research findings contributing to the current knowledge base on the interrelationships among family economic insecurity and stability, income and concrete material supports, family well-being, and preventing child welfare system involvement.
• Describe innovations introduced by states to bolster family economic security and protect children.
• Identify pain points and key challenges to collaboration and coordination derived from research and practice.
OFA Director Ann Flagg will give opening remarks. Webinar participants will be able to ask questions and explore topics of interest in additional detail with the Chapin Hall researchers.

Human Trafficking Training
2023-04-21 13:00 - 14:30
Please see the link below to register for this upcoming virtual training. This training is approved for HT Certification quarterly hours and may be used for HT continued education credits:
Connecting the Dots: The Links Between Substance Use and Human Trafficking – Survive and Thrive (surviveandthriveadvocacy.org)

Conflict Resolution
2023-04-26 08:00 - 17:00, 2023-05-09 11:00 - 13:00
In Conflict Resolution, participants will learn practical methods to help resolve conflicts, with specific professional applications in child welfare. Topics include: establishing and maintaining inner calm, cultivating a cohesive team, and seven steps for conflict resolution, all of which support the common goal of safeguarding vulnerable children and making sound decisions for their well-being.
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The Impact of Trauma (Sunshine Health)
2023-05-03 09:30 - 12:30
Attendees will review the definition of trauma, its prevalence, and the impact trauma has in the community. Attendees will also be introduced to trauma-informed care and resources available to address trauma.
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Conflict Resolution
2023-05-03 13:00 - 15:00, 2023-05-17 10:00 - 12:00
In this training, participants will identify psychological conflict triggers, understand the fight/flight/freeze response, define and use strategies and techniques to manage and/or resolve conflicts, and de-escalate challenging interactions.
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Cultural and Linguistic Competence: Core Concepts and Individual
2023-05-04 10:00 - 11:00
A training to heighten our awareness of cultural and linguistic competency and how it is related to service delivery.
​How can we truly help a family without knowing who they are? What are their traditions, beliefs, and background? This helps us gain trust with our co-workers and our clients. This is how you would want your own family treated.
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Self-Care, Compassion Fatigue & Secondary Traumatic Stress
2023-05-04 10:00 - 12:00
This training is designed to help participants to identify factors which contribute to/reduce professional quality of life. Recognition of symptoms of compassion fatigue, prevention skills, and self-care strategies are offered to allow participants to reflect and utilize these skills for personal and professional use.
Course Objectives:
– Identify factors that contribute to professional quality of life
– Differentiate between compassion fatigue, burnout, and secondary trauma (conditions that reduce professional quality of life)
– List several prevention and self-care strategies
– Identify symptoms of compassion fatigue
– List the ABCs of prevention
– Identify 3 self-care techniques
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Workforce Wellness 360YOU: Your Opportunities Unlimited with Crystal Gery-Agee
2023-05-05 13:00 - 14:00
In this 60-minute workshop, participants will learn about the eight dimensions of wellness and challenges associated with each.
Participants will:

Complete a self-assessment of their wellness dimensions.
Review areas that are “flat” and areas of strength.
Develop a self-wellness plan to increase areas of wellness identified as challenging

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Urine Analysis: Do's and Don'ts Training
2023-05-08 13:00 - 14:30
A “how to guide” on the Do’s and Don’ts of testing urine samples.
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CIRRT Overview Training
2023-05-09 10:00 - 11:30
This training provides an overview of the CIRRT process. What it entails, what to expect, and what NOT to expect. There will also be some case examples discussed to provide context around the presentation.
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Casework Practice
2023-05-09 13:00 - 16:00 | Zoom
**Note: class is for Pre-Certified DCM staff only

Women with Substance Use and Co-Occurring Disorders
2023-05-10 13:00 - 15:00
Speaker: Stacey Gallo
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First Responders Sexual Abuse Interviews
2023-05-11 10:00 - 12:00
First responder sexual abuse interview training will provide insight of how to conduct interviews with children of all ages. Specifically examining techniques of how to interview children that are finding it difficult to disclose because of the stigma and grooming techniques that have been utilized to perpetrate on them.
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Critical Thinking
2023-05-11 13:00 - 15:00
Critical Reasoning introduces learners to the differences between critical thinking and critical reasoning. This training will provide a rational for adopting a forensic framework to strengthen an objective focus on recognizing child maltreatment with presenting parental behaviors.
Learn a new process to slow your brain down so you can recognize, examine, interpret, and review information.
Learn the five most common bias traps we fall into.
Practice working through decisions with our validated tools.
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Supporting and Sustaining Recovery
2023-05-12 10:00 - 12:00
This training discusses what Recovery promotion plans are, and how to utilize them to support parents/Guardian’s involved with child welfare
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Cultural Humility, Racial Trauma, and Resilience
2023-05-16 12:00 - 14:00
This training is designed to create an understanding of Cultural Humility and how it relates to Cultural Competence. Specific attention will be given to the role of implicit and explicit bias in interpersonal interactions.
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Substance-Exposed Newborn and Plan of Safe Care
2023-05-16 13:00 - 16:00
This training will provide an overview of the Substance-Exposed Newborn and Plan of Safe Care process, the role of the Behavioral Health Consultant (BHC), the BHC and Child Protective Investigator collaboration and joint response, in addition to the common classification of substances in child welfare and the impact on behavioral health.
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Providing Culturally Affirming Care
2023-05-17 11:00 - 12:30
Caregivers learn the effect of cultural and racial differences in youth, particularly undocumented children in foster care, and how to recognize different values, beliefs, behaviors and needs to create relationships built on respect.
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Narcan Training
2023-05-18 10:00 - 11:00
This training will be facilitated by Jennifer Williams, Statewide Overdose Prevention Coordinator for The Department of Children and Families, Office of Substance Abuse and Mental Health.

After this training, participants will know how to:

Recognize and respond to an opioid overdose;
Understand different ways to obtain naloxone in Florida; and
Connect individuals in need with assistance through current overdose prevention initiatives in Florida.

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Trauma Informed Care 101 Part 1
2023-05-18 11:00 - 12:00
Trauma is a word we hear all around us. As professionals, we have often interacted with the concept of trauma in many forms over the years of our careers. Yet, we can often feel like bringing a trauma-informed lens into the everyday aspects of our work remains elusive. In this online workshop, we will explore what is beyond trauma 101, how to incorporate trauma-informed care into our daily practices, and how to give trauma-informed principles internally to support resiliency and growth.
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Opioid Overdose Prevention: Recognition and Response Training
2023-05-19 13:00 - 15:00
After this training, you will be able to:

Recognize and respond to an opioid overdose.
Understand different ways to obtain naloxone in Florida.
Connect individuals in need with assistance through current overdose prevention initiatives in Florida.

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Workforce Wellness 360YOU: Your Opportunities Unlimited
2023-05-22 10:00 - 11:00
