Dynamics of Interpersonal Relations I, is an exploration of the small-group process through participation, interpretation and study. Major focus is on the class itself as an interacting group providing for personal, interpersonal, and intellectual challenge.The modules are designed for undergraduate students to become familiar with group dynamics. This resource has a syllabus, OpenStax text chapters, TedTalks and group activities. 

Dynamics of Interpersonal Relations I, is an exploration of the small-group process through participation, interpretation, and study. A major focus is on the class itself as an interacting group providing for personal, interpersonal, and intellectual challenges. The modules are designed for undergraduate students to become familiar with group dynamics. This resource has a syllabus, OpenStax text chapters, TedTalks, and group activities. Thank you to Jennifer Burns for sharing this resource.

Dynamics of Interpersonal Relations I, is an exploration of the small-group process through participation, interpretation and study. Major focus is on the class itself as an interacting group providing for personal, interpersonal, and intellectual challenge. The modules are designed for undergraduate students to become familiar with group dynamics. This resource has OpenStax text chapters, TedTalks and group activities. Thank you to Jennifer Burns for sharing this resource.

In this three-hour workshop; we will begin the conversation about cultural competency; privilege; oppression and humility. This course focuses on personal; and often unquestioned; beliefs and experiences in an attempt to enhance learning about cultural competence; increase humility in working with others and begin to be more open to examining the world from various perspectives. We will discuss entering into situations with humility; willing to learn from others; and being open and honest with ourselves about our own identities; privileges; oppression and growth opportunities.

Motivational Interviewing (MI) is an evidence-based conversational method that helps promote behavior change in youth and adults. MI is used in diverse behavioral health and primary care settings to engage clients in change; and providers are finding important applications for this powerful approach. The child welfare system has found MI useful for engaging in change conversations; and MI is has been effective in working with pre-teens; adolescents; emerging adults and adults in the child welfare system. MI can be used in a number of child welfare settings; including differential response teams; schools; criminal justice environments; foster/kinship care; behavioral health centers and others. In this workshop; the central motivational interviewing concepts will be reviewed; and participants will have opportunities to practice discrete and powerful interventions that demonstrate important concepts of the model.

San Luis Obispo County has maintained one of the most effective public/private Wraparound programs in California for nearly 20 years. Based on this experience; the workshop will provide a framework for integrating Wraparound with the new CCR Level Of Care (LOC) system; Intensive Services Foster Care (ISFC); as well as Therapeutic Family Care (TFC) to achieve maximum benefit for children; youth and the families working with them. Participants will learn how to enhance program outcomes through Wraparound; including increased services and supports; augmented staffing; augmented Resource Parent compensation; and by integrating community-based resources. Additionally; this presentation will discuss using Wraparound to provide an enhanced level of services and supports to children and youth placed with relative and NREFM families.

This session focuses on current research; theory and best practices for health and wellness programming and interventions in the workplace setting. Examples include planning; design and implementation of wellness programming; environmental and policy change; evaluation and reporting; communication; management; and culture change. The workshop also includes a case study of a Wraparound program implementing best practices that significantly decreased perceived stress and burnout.

Integrating the goals of probation into one sustainable; achievable Wraparound plan can be a challenge; especially in rural counties. Learn how one county and its Wraparound provider overcame obstacles to achieve success with limited resources and how you can make it happen; too.

The key to transformation is in families and communities. At weekly gatherings; this group now teaches people how to “Wraparound” each other and keep kids out of a gang culture that can be generational. Former gang members now work alongside the probation department; law enforcement; churches; schools; universities and a multitude of nonprofit organizations to intervene and educate others.

This session covers integration of the 10-week; evidence-based Strengthening Families curriculum utilizing caregiver/youth groups and family sessions. Aspiranet staff will discuss the development of and successful implementation with the families served in Wraparound to include strategies to engage families and community partners. Families who successfully complete the program demonstrate an increase in effective communication among family members. Parents receive tools for understanding youth and how to demonstrate love while setting limits.

Getting the foster parents our youth need and supporting them so they stay is a daunting task. This session will focus on the essential strategies that target and engage the “right” foster parents and ensure they will commit to fostering for years to come.

Can probation youth live successfully in the context of a family? The answer is... of course they can! The question then becomes; how? Since no one succeeds alone; success is predicated on support. This session discusses what probation families need to help probation youth reach their potential.

Please attend this workshop to learn more about the integration of Review; Evaluate; Direct (RED) teams into your practice. RED teams provide a platform for an internal group decision-making process that expands the ability of the organization to engage in advanced critical thinking to match an accepted report of child maltreatment with a selected child protective service response. RED teams involve the intake social worker; supervisor; other staff and community partners in the process of determining the appropriate level and time frame of a response to reports of child abuse and neglect. CDSS has issued a draft All County Letter *due to be finalized spring 2018* recommending the use of RED teams as a child welfare best practice.

This workshop will provide guidance and strategies in supporting children; youth and families through the Quality Parenting Initiative (QPI). Emphasis will be on creating an implementation plan and discussing how quality parenting supports positive outcomes.

This workshop will help participants understand the dynamics of conflict and learn strategies to respond effectively and confidently. We will look at how culture can help in planning; using preferred methods for meeting needs. Family Voice and Choice can be realized when we successfully interact and think in ways that show respect for diversity in communication; outlook and preference; to name a few. Join us as we unpack an understanding of culture and how being Culturally Responsive; Reflective and Respectful can be a great planning tool for meeting needs through the phases “Hello; Help; Heal and Hope.” Through a process of self-reflection; the principle of culture and its impact on the Wraparound process will be reinforced.

In Alameda County; out of 235 youth who received Wraparound services between July 2012 and April 2017; 210 (89%) have no new sustained offenses within six months of their release from probation. Lincoln’s Project Permanence Wraparound Program in collaboration with Alameda County Behavioral Health and Alameda County Probation have designed a program to successfully empower youth and their families so that children can get off and stay off Probation. Please join our panel including a provider; behavioral health and probation as we share our program; collaboration and family stories.

This training will provide an overview; insight and experiential opportunities to explore effective methods for providing Wraparound services to families with youth under age 10. In a round-robin format; the audience will spend time cycling through the four phases of Wraparound: Engagement; Planning; Implementation and Transition.

Parent partners; also known as peer and family partners; are lauded by families across the state as being the key people able to engage and support parents as they navigate systems; personal emotions and prejudice. Parent partners are not new to California; but their growing role calls for more collaboration and support than ever before. The Parent Partner Advisory Committee is a unique group of Parent partners; from a variety of disciplines and practices; who are meeting this need. The committee provides feedback on state initiatives; suggests parent involvement strategies and reviews curricula to ensure parents’ voices are included. We are honored to be called upon at policy-level decision points to provide feedback. The committee is also a place to share ideas and receive support from peers. Come join us and hear how you can be involved!

As care providers; we attempt to help children and families; but what is our role when we identify societal injustice standing in the way of family success? Discrimination of all types; both overt and subtle; can be a major obstacle for our families; as well as ourselves. This workshop will examine our ability to facilitate positive societal change within our work as well as support families in overcoming the effects of social injustice.

This multi-component project studied the impact of the implementation of the Child Welfare Services/Case Management System (CWS/CMS) on child welfare practice by examining the casework practices affected by computerization, measuring the extent to which these practices were affected by computerization, and identifying organizational and individual factors that influenced the effect of computerization on these practices. Findings showed that the implementation of CWS/CMS did not lead to drastic changes in the ways in which CWSs carried out their daily work; time spent with clients was unchanged. However, the study demonstrated that CWS/CMS led to modest but crucial changes in how workers spent their time on the job, affected the quantity and quality of relationship with coworkers, and changed some workers' attitudes toward their agency and job. (Research Report: 135 pages; Curriculum: 154 pages; Training Academy Curriculum: 111 pages)Weaver, D., Furman, W., Moses, T., Linsdey, D., & Cherin, D. (1999).