This resource provides access to videos of the presentations, as well as the handout materials associated with the Northern California Training Academy and Casey Family Programs' Crisis Communication and Preparation in Child Welfare conference, which was hosted at UC Davis Nov. 5-6, 2013.

This workshop is designed to explore and discuss the importance of cultural competency when providing services to children and families experiencing trauma. Different perspectives will be explored, as well as self reflection of the participants own biases. Different degrees of sociohistorical trauma, environmental trauma and psychological trauma will be discussed. Participants will leave with the knowledge and understanding needed to provide culturally responsible services.

This course informs participants about new laws that impact child welfare practice in the dependency court system. Presented by David Myers, J.D. for the Nor...

This resource provides access to the Disaster Preparation and Recovery Series materials. The series is hosted by Human Services at UC Davis Continuing and Professional Education. 

This workshop is designed to explore and discuss the importance of cultural competency when providing services to children and families experiencing trauma. Different perspectives will be explored, as well as self reflection of the participants own biases. Different degrees of sociohistorical trauma, environmental trauma and psychological trauma will be discussed. Participants will leave with the knowledge and understanding needed to provide culturally responsible services.

This resource provides access to the Northern California Training Academy's Educational Advocacy course materials for child welfare social workers. If you would like to learn more about the Academy, please visit humanservices.ucdavis.edu/academy

There are materials that we are asking the participants to copy and bring with them to the class. There are materials that the Resource Center will provide for participants and there are materials that we are providing to participants that we ask for them to review prior to the class that do not need to be printed.

Creating a social story requires 4 elements:
Descriptive statements relate to the most important aspect of the story and guide the telling of the story. Perspective sentences refer to other people's feelings or opinions in the story. Directive sentences provide literal behavioral choices for the reader. Affirmative statements highlight a commonly shared value with a culture.

This course offers family service workers a framework for working with internal and external partner agencies to meet the needs of the families they serve.

Developed for family service workers, this course will help participants understand what life skills are, how to assess a client’s life skills, and how to successfully work with clients to help them strengthen or acquire certain life skills.

This resource contains class materials for the Core Field Advisor and Field Guide Training, which is designed for prospective field advisors. California Child Welfare Common Core 3.0 (and 2.5) requires new social workers to engage in a specific set of field based activities that will enhance their learning of the in-class sessions. Each new social worker will be assigned a Field Advisor (most likely his or her supervisor) to work through these activities.

Overview: Fiscal Essentials for Child Welfare Services
Summary: This site contains the materials for the Fiscal Essentials for Child Welfare Services course. There are materials that we are asking the participants to copy and bring with them to the class. There are materials that the Resource Center will provide for participants and there are materials that we are providing to participants that we ask for them to review prior to the class that do not need to be printed.

This page hosts training materials associated with the Northern Academy's Integrated Core Practice Model (ICPM) training. 

Access to the Northern California Training Academy's Advanced SOP: R.E.D. Teams classroom materials, as well as supplemental content and trainer-specific materials for the course.

This page provides resources related to Katie A. and the Katie A. Northern Collaborative, as well as useful information pertaining to collaborative learning and communities of practice.

This resource provides access to the Northern California Training Academy's extensive list of literature reviews related to child welfare practice.

This resource provides access to the presentations and materials from the National Conference on Coaching in Health and Human Services, a first of its kind coaching conference that took place April 25-26, 2017 at the University of California, Davis.