This resource provides access to the Northern California Training Academy's "Advanced Issues of Adult and Child Mental Health" classroom materials. To learn more about the Northern California Training Academy and the classes offered, please visit humanservices.ucdavis.edu/academy.

This page hosts training materials associated with the Northern Academy's Best Practices in Emergency Response (ER) training. This hands-on, Safety Organized Practice (SOP)-based class offers participants advanced training in the use of best practices designed to enhance family engagement and balanced assessments during Child Welfare ER investigation, assessment and front end intervention services to improve outcomes and long-term safety for children.

This resource features presentations and materials offered throughout the 2018 Continuous Quality Improvement Statewide Conference for Child Welfare and Probation, which was hosted by the California Department of Social Services at the University of California, Davis from March 28-29, 2018.

Summary: This site contains the materials for the CWS/CMS 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.

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 Child and Family Teaming (CFT): Role of the Social Worker training. 

Summary: This site contains the materials for the Connecting Probation Youth with Families and Others (Family Finding) 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 will feature key resources for Northern California Core for Supervisors stakeholders and serve as an important hub for accessing information related to participation in the program. 

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 lesson plan was created by Jennifer Pritchett as part of the 2020 Nebraska CTE-Beginning Teachers Institute. The attached lesson plan is designed for students in grades 7-12 as a introduction to a service learning project.  This lesson plan can also be used in classes such as Sociology, Introduction to Education, Ethics, Leadership, etc. Students will learn the meanings of values and rank their top 5 values in a hands on or virtual format.  The culminating project is collaboration on a Google Slides presentation with the rest of the class.

A chart of open resources for the course Human 2279: Ethics & Legal Issues in Human Services at the College of DuPage. The following materials are freely available online and are licensed as indicated in the source material. This resource will be updated as needed. For the most recent version, visit: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WZ1R0E3ln2FfiU331RYMr3MxDpvDJTYk/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=106338283910941994938&rtpof=true&sd=true

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.

The webinar was presented by Melanie Schindell on March 9, 2018. The webinar describes the parameters associated with the Level of Care Protocol Inter-Rater Reliability Project and has specific information necessary for counties participating in the project.

Keynote presentations, workshop materials, and other helpful resources from the 2020 Partnerships for Well-Being Institute hosted by Human Services at UC Davis Continuing and Professional Education. This includes content from both the June 3 Virtual Mini-Institute and the in-person institute currently scheduled for Dec. 8-10 in Garden Grove, CA.

This course provides an overview of social service agencies, social work, and human services. Students will understand the historical and current delivery of social services by exploring problems of living such as poverty, substance abuse, and mental health. Emphasis is on the knowledge and tasks used by skilled, ethical, and culturally responsive social service workers. Students will have the opportunity to analyze the structure a social service agency, create a career plan, and develop the identity of a social work/human services professional. This course is not open to students who have completed HSER 300.

This text is intended for use in introductory social work classes at the college level. Chapter topics include the foundations and history of social work and social welfare; generalist social work; ethics and values; social policy; race & ethnicity; sex, sexism, & gender; LGBTQ+ clients; poverty and financial assistance; school social work; families and children; healthcare and disabilities; substance use; mental health; criminal justice; and older clients. Mick Cullen, LCSW, CADC, MA, is a professor and chair of the social work/human services department at College of Lake County in Grayslake, Illinois. Matthew Cullen, LICSW, LCSW, M.Ed., is a counselor at Green River College in Auburn, Washington.

This text is intended for use in introductory social work classes at the college level. Chapter topics include the foundations and history of social work and social welfare; generalist social work; ethics and values; social policy; race & ethnicity; sex, sexism, & gender; LGBTQ+ clients; poverty and financial assistance; school social work; families and children; healthcare and disabilities; substance use; mental health; criminal justice; and older clients. Mick Cullen, LCSW, CADC, MA, is a professor and chair of the social work/human services department at College of Lake County in Grayslake, Illinois. Matthew Cullen, LICSW, LCSW, M.Ed., is a counselor at Green River College in Auburn, Washington.