Communities Connected for Kids

Case Work Practice
2020-10-21 13:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York)
Interactive Case Discussion – for Pre-Certified Case Managers only

Child Placement Agreement Training
2020-10-13 09:00 - 12:00, 2020-10-07 13:00 - 16:00
Child Placement Agreement Training – for case managers & supervisors

Lunch ‘n Learn: FSFN
2020-10-08 12:00 - 13:30
This training is for Pre-Certified DCMs only.

Supervising for Excellence: Day 3 (of 3)
2020-09-30 09:00 - 16:00
This is a 3 day training, so you MUST register for all 3 days: 9/9/20, 9/16/20 & 9/30/20

Relationship Based Child Welfare: Supporting Partners, Strengthening Families, and Sustaining Hope
2020-09-30 09:00 - 12:00
IN-SERVICE TRAINING
Relationship Based Child Welfare:
Supporting Partners, Strengthening Families, and Sustaining Hope

FACILITATED BY
Jamie G. Averett, JD, CWLS
Quality Parenting Initiative Consultant-former dependency judge

Wednesday September 30, 2020 from 9:00am – 12 noon
or
Thursday October 1, 2020 from 1:00pm – 4:00pm
About The Training:
The traditional principles of child welfare and the legal practices that guide child welfare are by nature generally adversarial, and do not promote the expectation of working together as partners. However, research does not support this traditional system as being an effective process, supportive of family centered practices. Ironically, many times our traditional system creates a larger divide in families and inflicts additional trauma to the children we are called to protect. What research instead confirms, is one of the most effective ways to support families is through a relationship based approach. Relationships are established by developing connections and forming trust. Therefore, all child welfare stakeholders — caregivers, birth parents, youth, case managers, service providers, GALS, legal partners, and community leaders – must be integrated into this process and must be treated as respected partners in order to be successful and for sustainable change to occur.
Developing collaborative relationships require demonstrative leadership, not only setting the expectations for change, but modeling the expectations for change. Relationship based child welfare must not only be incorporated into daily practice and interactions, it also must display continuity throughout all processes in order to create ongoing promise.
The goals of this training will be as follows:

Challenge stakeholders to engage in collaborative, innovative efforts to engage one another to move beyond the accepted, traditional practices, and move towards setting expectations that strengthen working relationships with one another;
Incorporate evidence based research that supports cultivating strong relationships;
Provide suggested tools of how to create effective, working relationships;
Explore how developing a relationship based approach will support fostering support and respect of others, will strengthen co-parenting relationships, will improve placement stability of children, will provide more thoughtful transitions for children and will ensure more timely permanency for children.

Case Work Practice
2020-09-22 09:00 - 12:00, 2020-08-13 09:00 - 12:00, 2020-07-15 13:00 - 16:00, 2020-06-15 09:00 - 12:00, 2020-05-12 09:00 - 12:00
Interactive Case Discussion – for Certified Case Managers only

Supervising for Excellence: Day 2 (of 3)
2020-09-16 09:00 - 16:00

Case Manager Supervisors: Information Sufficiency - What is it? Why does it matter?
2020-09-15 12:00 - 13:30, 2020-08-25 12:00 - 13:30
Case Manager Supervisor’s only:
How to coach your staff to obtain and document sufficient information, per policy and procedure. Encourage and foster critical thinking among your staff.

Supervising for Excellence: Day 1 (of 3)
2020-09-09 09:00 - 16:00

Motivational Interviewing
2020-08-19 09:00 - 12:00, 2020-06-23 09:00 - 12:00

Quality Home Assessment Training for Child Protective Investigators: The Process and Purpose
2020-08-13 09:00 - 12:00, 2020-06-03 09:00 - 12:00
This interactive training will explore how policy and best practice look at how we interact with families in their homes.
(this training is for CPIs only)

Safety Planning in Cases of Substance Misuse
2020-07-30 09:00 - 12:00, 2020-06-24 09:00 - 12:00
This training will explore how to create safety plans that control the danger threat in cases where there is caregiver substance misuse.

Safety Planning in Cases of Intimate Partner Violence
2020-07-06 09:00 - 12:00, 2020-06-25 09:00 - 12:00
Training (online) for all staff regarding safety planning in cases of intimate Partner violence, holding the batterer accountable.
Registrants will be sent the Zoom meeting credentials 24 hours prior to the training.

Lunch ‘n Learn: Incident Reporting
2020-07-01 12:30 - 13:30
This training is for Pre-Certified/New DCMs only.

Safety Planning in Cases of Intimate Partner Violence
2020-06-29 09:00 - 12:00
Training for DCF CPI staff regarding safety planning in cases of intimate Partner violence, holding the batterer accountable.

Strengths-Based Supervision: Supporting Family Centered Practice through Supervisory Processes
2020-06-18 09:00 - 16:00
Enhance your skills as a Lead/Supervisor. Learn practical ways to enhance the capabilities of our staff in assisting the families we work for. (this training is for supervisors only)

Lunch ‘n Learn: FSFN
2020-05-27 12:00 - 13:30, 2020-05-14 12:00 - 13:30

Lunch ‘n Learn: Scaling CPCs and Child Needs
2020-05-21 12:00 - 13:30

Safety Planning in Cases of Substance Misuse
2020-05-21 09:00 - 12:00
THIS TRAINING HAS BEEN CANCELLED
This training will explore how to create safety plans that control the danger threat in cases where there is caregiver substance misuse.
