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Training for Caseworkers
Selected curriculum and other training materials in the Information Gateway Library from 2000 to the present have been identified for each of the following categories. Information may appear in more than one category as appropriate. To expand your document search, visit the Information Gateway Library.
General Training
Basic/Core Training for Caseworkers
Curriculum and other training materials covering basic skill sets and practices required for new workers.
Data Management
Curriculum and other training materials covering the use of automated systems and a focus on outcomes.
Legal Processes
Curriculum and other training materials covering legal mandates and guiding statutes.
Guiding Principles/Ethics
Curriculum and other training materials covering values, emotional literacy, and confidentiality.
Work Management
Curriculum and other training materials covering time and stress management and worker safety.
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Casework Practice
Assessment
Curriculum and other training materials covering safety and risk assessment, interviewing, and multitrack systems.
Case Management
Curriculum and other training materials covering case planning and management, interventions, accessing services, and working in the community.
Family Involvement and Engagement
Curriculum and other training materials covering resources related to family-centered practice, including team decision-making, family group conferences, and engaging families and children.
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Child Protective Services
Child Protective Services
Curriculum and other training materials regarding the designated social services agency (in most States) to receive reports, investigate, and provide intervention and treatment services to children and families in which child maltreatment has occurred.
Intake and Investigation
Curriculum and other training materials covering screening, differential response, and critical decision-making.
Indicators and Dynamics of Abuse and Neglect
Curriculum and other training materials covering medical indicators, effects of abuse and neglect on development, and family and child dynamics leading to abuse and neglect.
Legal Processes
Curriculum and other training materials regarding the legal processes associated with child protective services.
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Adoption
Adoption
Curriculum and other training materials covering a court action in which an adult assumes legal and other responsibilities for another, usually a minor.
Preparing Professionals to Work With Adoptive Families
Curriculum and other training materials covering evidence-based practice, cultural sensitivity, and post-adoption services.
Preparing and Supporting Adoptive Families
Curriculum and other training materials covering child development, special needs, support groups/networks, and post-adoption.
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Specialized Professional Training
Adolescents
Curriculum and other training materials covering development, independent living,
sexuality, substance abuse, and sexually reactive/aggressive youth.
Child Health and Development
Curriculum and other training materials covering preventative healthcare, medical conditions, and child development phases.
Collaboration
Curriculum and other training materials covering working with community providers and providing wraparound services.
Cultural Issues
(Also known as cultural responsiveness or cultural sensitivity.) Curriculum and other
training materials covering working with specific populations, fairness and equity in
casework, cross-cultural placement, and Federal legislation related to cultural issues.
Developmental Disabilities
Curriculum and other training materials covering types, diagnoses, and treatment of developmental disabilities.
Domestic Violence
(Also known as family violence, spousal abuse, and partner abuse.) Curriculum and other training materials covering issues related to domestic violence, such as safety planning and service provision.
Education
Curriculum and other training materials covering education advocacy and individual
education plans.
Family Involvement in Decision Making
Curriculum and other training materials covering Family Group Decision-Making, Family Group Conferences, family meetings, and family-to-family initiatives.
Fatherhood Involvement
Curriculum and other training materials covering issues related to finding and involving fathers in the casework process.
Foster Parent Recruitment
Curriculum and other training materials covering how to recruit foster parents.
Interviewing Techniques
Curriculum and other training materials covering a variety of interviewing techniques and situations, including motivational interviewing and forensic interviewing.
Mental Health
Curriculum and other training materials covering medications, attachment and reactive disorders, and treatment.
Sexual Abuse
Curriculum and other training materials covering the assessment and treatment of sexual abuse of children, as well as issues related to perpetrators and nonoffending parents.
Substance Abuse
Curriculum and other training materials covering street drugs, methamphetamine use, and treatment options.
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Out-of-Home Care (Including Foster and Kinship Care)
Foster and Kinship Care
Curriculum and other training materials covering placement, support, recruitment, and foster care safety.
Out-of-Home Care
Curriculum and other training materials covering child care, foster care, or residential care provided by persons, organizations, and institutions to children who are placed outside their families, usually under the jurisdiction of juvenile or family court.
Permanency Planning
Curriculum and other training materials covering concurrent planning, visitation, diligent search, reasonable efforts, Adoption and Safe Families Act, and the Indian Child Welfare Act.
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