This resource provides access to the Northern California Training Academy's Core for Social Workers Module 8 training materials. To learn more about the Academy, please visit humanservices.ucdavis.edu/academy.
This resource provides access to the Northern California Training Academy's Core for Social Workers Module 9 training materials. To learn more about the Academy, please visit humanservices.ucdavis.edu/academy.
Materials for Court Report Writing training
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.
Team planning efforts have spread throughout our systems in recent years and are now required in many service areas. As new and innovative practices present themselves, we are sometimes challenged to incorporate them into our team planning processes. The purpose of this workshop is to define and integrate Safety Organized Practice (SOP) into the practice of high fidelity Wraparound. It will assist SOP and Wraparound practitioners, as well as all team members.
Are you a new program supervisor, manager or director who is looking for a concrete and effective means of monitoring and developing the services within your program? Are you a seasoned manager who is looking for new ideas on how to create/implement a culture of accountability within your organization? Supervising programs that include the education, perspectives, life experience and clinical training of staff can feel dizzying at times. This workshop is an introductory level presentation on some tools that have been used and proven effective that management can implement in their programs that helps to monitor and verify that services are being delivered while maintaining a focus on the children and families you serve as well as keeping the mission of your agency as the focal point.
This presentation will provide a foundation of effective parent partner strategies and effective team strategies. Presenters will provide engagement strategies, concrete family tools and resource mapping. The workshop will also highlight the success of the monthly Parent Retreat, a support group which provides affirmation and enhances social and emotional connection through brainstorming and peer support.
This workshop discusses the essential information about the impact of trauma for professionals in the child welfare system. The discussion includes practical tools from the Neurorelational Framework (Lillas and Turnbull, 2009) to detect “red flags” and ideas for interventions to mediate the impact. This presentation is suited for judges, attorneys, CASAs, child welfare professionals and others who interface with children and families in the child welfare system.
This workshop will focus on Sacramento County’s cross agency collaboration and outcome sharing to provide High Fidelity Wraparound planning for youth and their families. The presentation will outline the roles and relationships within the county as they relate to practice, training and system integration. Specific highlights will detail the implementation of performance measures and new initiatives. In addition, the workshop will include lessons learned and a youth/parent testimonial.
This training will provide an overview, insight and experiential opportunities to explore effective methods for providing Wraparound services to families with youth under 10 years of age. In a round robin format, the audience will spend time cycling through the four phases of Wraparound: engagement, planning, implementation and transition. Handouts and step by step techniques will be offered to help individuals practice specific activities in each phase that are intended to engage the youth and family. This training will benefit all mental health providers and allow them to deepen their practice working with youth, meeting them at their developmental level and using fun, hands on strategies to create mental health progress.
In this active workshop, you will participate in and learn how to facilitate several teambuilding exercises that could be used with many types of groups, large or small, with clients and families or with your own staff. We will learn activities for use early in a group’s development to break the ice and develop trust. We will also learn activities for later stages of group development that challenge groups to confront problems and expand thinking. We will finish with an activity useful for concluding services with a group and bring meaning to the process being concluded. Spots will be limited, so please arrive early!
Developing effective programs for linguistically and culturally diverse children and families. Based on One Child, Two Languages
Teaming on a highway of different participation styles is a skill often given little development. The norm is to put teams together, toss the dice and hope for synergy. This workshop will impact the way you team, by focusing on understanding and working with different “driving” or team participation styles. We will discuss how to keep the team moving toward integration and not get lost. You will leave this workshop with personal insight on your participation style and develop skills to collaborate with other or different participation styles
The course will provide new insights into creating and maintaining the vision of the family throughout the Wraparound process. The workshop will explore stages of change and how to support families in becoming ready to participate in the Wraparound process.
This presentation will provide a foundation of effective parent partner strategies and effective team strategies. Presenters will provide engagement strategies, concrete family tools and resource mapping. The workshop will also highlight the success of the monthly Parent Retreat, a support group which provides affirmation and enhances social and emotional connection through brainstorming and peer support.
This workshop will focus on the importance of including men in services. It will show the strengths that men bring to their children’s lives, the impact that they have on outcomes, and ways to overcome barriers to having men included.
The California Well Being Project provides participating counties with the flexibility to invest existing resources more effectively in proven and innovative approaches that better ensure the safety of children and the success of families. This flexibility enables the opportunity to reinvest resources into more cost efficient approaches that achieve better outcomes. One project focus is Wraparound for probation youth exhibiting delinquency risk factors that put them at risk of entering foster care. This workshop offers an overview of the project, the state’s Wraparound intervention and intersecting project outcome changes with Wraparound.
How many times have you had a meeting erupt with emotions? Once? Five times? Countless times? Well, this workshop will help you gain skills to contain, affect and finish your meeting in a timely fashion. You will learn practical strategies to recognize early signs and contain crisis situations with families.
This workshop will highlight the three core concepts of early brain development. During this vital stage of rapid cognitive growth, the brain is vulnerable to trauma in unique and lasting ways. This workshop will describe how trauma can change the brain as well as the cascading effect of neglect.
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