Classroom Curricula

Child Welfare

• Coaching social workers, supervisors and managers
• Concurrent planning
• Permanency planning
• Federal laws and reviews (Children and Family Service Review, Program Improvement Plans)
• Case planning/Behavioral contracting/Minimum Sufficient Level of Care/Engaging family in case planning
• Visit planning: Parent/child visits as a casework tool — Planned, Purposeful, Progressive Visits
• Foster Care/Resource Families
• Systemic reform and policy development
• Trauma/Grief/Loss/Separation issues
• Resiliency of children
• Licensing of foster care and child care
• Caseload Management
• Time management
• Secondary Trauma
• Interviewing
  • Children by development ages
  • Adults: resistance, fathers, relatives
  • Solution-Focused
  • Motivational interviewing

• Diversity/Disproportionality
• Supervision/Administration
• Independent Living
• Enhancing a child’s connections: siblings, school, culture, family, friends
• Supervising visits (coaching visits)
• Worker contacts/visits with children, caregivers and parents to assess safety, permanency, well-being and case progress
• Documentation and writing of reports and case narrative
• Child Development: talking to children based on age, engaging children in their case plan and permanency planning decisions, Impact of Separation  a tool based on the child’s age
• Interagency collaboration
• Measuring parental progress: addiction, substance abuse, domestic violence, mental illness, sex abuse
• Case planning meetings: family conferencing, ice breaker meetings, multi disciplinary
• Engaging family and children incase planning ñ strategies for engaging family members in planning and implementing case plans
• Working with professional in case planning: addiction, domestic violence, mental illness, special needs
• Incarcerated parents: visits, case planning, assessing progress
• Rural and tribal child welfare

Training of Trainers

• Curriculum development – How to change on the job performance through effective training
• Presentation skills
• Training coaches
• Competency based training
• Experiential learning
• How to develop simulation and experiential curriculum
• Managing training projects and staff
• Federal regulations for training
• Adult learning principals
• Using content experts as trainers
• Co-training principles
• Elearning: Technology based training: online, computer based
• Transfer of learning ñ making classroom training produce changes in daily work
• Using committees to develop curriculum
• Conference planning

Management/Supervision

• Skills and knowledge of supervision/management
• Coaching within the supervisory role
• Team building
• Children and Family Services Reviews/ Program Improvement Plans
• Visioning and outcome-orient goal development
• Supporting evidence based practice
• Outcome oriented management and meeting legal requirements
• Change management
• Clinical supervision in child welfare
• Leadership
• Supervising to outcomes

Adult Services/Temporary Assistance for Needy Families

• Abuse of elderly and disabled adults
• Coaching staff
• Self Sufficiency
• Casework services/case planning
• Caseload management
• Time management, Handling work stress
• Supervision
• Interviewing – Solution-Focused, Motivational Interviewing
• Home and field visits
• Case planning: outcome oriented, behavioral specific
• Motivating clients
• Working with resistant clients
• Interagency collaboration