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Training for Supervisors
Workforce surveys consistently rate supervision as a key factor in worker retention. It is important that child welfare supervisors are provided with adequate training on supervisory skills, such as effective management, supervision styles, interpersonal skills, clinical supervision, and more. Use the following resources to locate training curricula and materials on general supervision issues as well as information for supervisors in specific child welfare program areas.
Adoption and Safe Families Act Curricula
National Resource Center on Child Welfare Training and Evaluation (2004)
Offers downloadable files for lesson plans, handouts, tips, and slide presentations on topics including: supervisor-worker relationships, skills assessment, the Family Solutions Model of casework, client engagement, readiness for change, family team meetings, and case consultation.
Change Is All Around Us: Tools to Build Commitment to Change: Trainer's Guide (PDF - 216 KB)
Institute for Child and Family Policy, Edmund S. Muskie School of Public Service (2003)
Outlines a workshop for child welfare leaders about overcoming barriers to change and engaging staff in new practices.
Clinical Supervision
Homestead Schools (2005)
Addresses supervisory models, learning styles, the supervisory relationship, dealing with difficult situations, and tools and techniques for supervision. Includes a posttest, course evaluation, and information on obtaining continuing education credit.
Effective Supervisory Practice: A Confidence Building Curriculum for Supervisors and Managers. Part I: Instructor's Guide
Child Welfare League of America (2000)
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Includes directions for implementing the first nine modules of an orientation to child welfare supervision, addressing the functions of supervision, the language of management, task analysis, goal setting, inherent role conflicts, constructive confrontation skills, supervisory relationships, communication, team building, and meeting, stress, and time management. Also see the Workbook.
Effective Supervisory Practice: A Confidence Building Curriculum for Supervisors and Managers. Part II: Instructor's Guide
Child Welfare League of America (2000)
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Includes directions for implementing modules 10 through 18 of an orientation to child welfare supervision, addressing personnel issues in human services, the hiring process, in-service training, managing change and conflict, and crisis prevention and management. Emphasis is placed on peer consultation and the development of action plans to implement the concepts presented in the training. Also see the Workbook.
Empowerment Skills for Leaders: A Leader Handbook
Forest & Palmer-House (2004)
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Instructs social work supervisors in the competencies necessary for family development and empowerment-based supervision. Also see the instructor's manual.
Leading Practice: A Development Programme for First-Line Managers
Social Care Institute for Excellence (2004)
A training program in Great Britain to improve the supervisory skills of social work managers, addressing topics such as group dynamics, teamwork, stress and distress, service user participation, and management information. The website provides a trainer's guide, participant's handbook, supplemental handouts, and PowerPoint presentations.
Preparation for Adulthood: Supervising for Success
National Resource Center for Family-Centered Practice and Permanency Planning, Foster Care Coalition, & Child Welfare League of America (2007)
Strengthens supervision of staff interventions with older foster youth. The website offers training materials for a supervisory overview and for conducting learning circles as well as digital stories from youth, child welfare workers, and supervisors.
Promoting Structured Clinical Casework Supervision in Public Child Welfare: Curriculum Outlines and Selected Materials
Southern Regional Quality Improvement Center for Child Protection (2006)
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Provides outlines to develop the knowledge and skills supervisors need to promote a structured clinical casework supervision approach. Training materials, learning modules, materials for online tutorials, and supervisory tools developed by the projects are included.
Results Oriented Management in Child Welfare
University of Kansas School of Social Welfare
Assists child welfare program staff in managing programs and supervising staff to achieve results for children and families within the context of the Adoption and Safe Families Act. Includes 21 modules in three major content areas: policy, data, and evidence-based practice.
STAR, Successful Transitions for Adult Readiness: Training for Managers and Supervisors: Participant Version
Academy for Professional Excellence (2003)
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Offers training for child welfare supervisors and managers about independent living services for foster youth. Includes information on youth protection and care, youth development strategies, interagency collaboration, and community planning. Also see the trainer version.
Supervising for Excellence: Training Curriculum
Smith (2003)
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Assists child welfare supervisors in employing best practices in their supervision of child welfare workers.
Supervisors' Toolbox: An On-line Supplement to the Supervisors' Toolbox in Fundamentals of Clinical Supervision
Bernard & Goodyear (2004)
Provides links to Internet resources relevant to supervision, including ethical and legal issues, model or discipline-based supervision, and online PowerPoint presentations on clinical supervision.
Training for Child Welfare Supervisors: Final Project Report
Faller (2004)
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Discusses a training for supervisors on Federal child welfare laws, best practices, and management skills. Topics include training and coaching staff, supportive communication, managing difficult people, problem solving, and reviewing and evaluating staff.
Training of Child Welfare Agency Supervisors in the Effective Delivery and Management of Federal Independent Living Service for Youth in Foster Care
Children's Bureau Discretionary Grant Cluster
Presents site visit reports from programs funded to develop, implement, evaluate, and disseminate a training curriculum for public child welfare agency supervisors that strengthens supervision of staff interventions with older youth who are in foster care and/or independent living programs.
Training Program for Child Welfare Supervisors
University of Michigan School of Social Work (2004)
Includes links to training materials addressing the needs of supervisors in public agencies, voluntary agencies providing contractual child welfare services, and supervisory personnel in the courts.
Using Information Management to Support the Goals of Safety, Permanency and Well Being
Institute for Child and Family Policy, Edmund S. Muskie School of Public Service (2004)
Trains supervisors how to use Statewide Automated Child Welfare Information Systems (SACWIS) data to generate information critical to casework supervision and incorporate its use into their day-to-day work as supervisors.
The Visit: Observation, Reflection, Synthesis for Training and Relationship Building
Axtmann & Dettwiler (2005)
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Demonstrates how supervisors and direct care practitioners can work as a team to uncover a child's strengths and challenges and relate them to the strengths and challenges of the family.
Child Welfare Information Gateway encourages organizations to submit resources from their workforce or training efforts for inclusion in our library. Send information to library@childwelfare.gov.
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