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Toolkit for Child Welfare Trainers

Find tools, activities, and other tips that may be useful to professionals who deliver training in a variety of environments.

	National Staff Development and Training Association (NSDTA) Builds professional and organizational capacity in the human services through a national network of membership sharing ideas and resources on organizational development, staff development, and training. Offers resources that include the Professional Development Institute and links to NSDTA chapters.

Activity Guide: A Tool for Beginning Child Welfare Caseworkers
Portland State University Child Welfare Partnership
Provides guided learning opportunities on a number of topics for caseworkers during their first year of service; includes assignments, handouts, and other materials.

Assessment in Social Work: A Guide for Learning and Teaching
Social Care Institute for Excellence (2007)
Examines aspects of assessment in social work and considers approaches to teaching and learning assessment.

Circle of Parents Train the Trainers Training
Circle of Parents (2003)
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Offers a curriculum designed to train facilitators in teaching strategies to prevent child abuse and neglect and strengthen families through mutual self-help parent support groups.

Community Tool Box
University of Kansas Work Group on Health Promotion and Community Development
Provides training on topics related to community health and development, including step-by-step instruction, examples, checklists, and "plan the work" toolkits.

Indian Child Welfare Act: Train the Trainers
Native American Training Institute (2001)
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Prepares non-Indian trainers to conduct workshops about the purpose of the Indian Child Welfare Act and the cultural implications of child welfare practice.

Juvenile Justice Trainers Association
Provides a national network for sharing information, providing technical services, and developing other support mechanisms for juvenile justice trainers.

So You Want to Be a Trainer?: Self Assessment: Your Interests, Values and Skills (Word - 130 KB)
California Social Work Education Center (2007)
Helps potential trainers determine if their interests and values match closely with the training profession and if their current skills lend themselves to further application and growth as a child welfare trainer.

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Updated on March 1, 2010