Highlights

Advanced Structure Decision Making for Social Workers and Supervisors Four separate Advanced Structured Decision Making trainings will be held in Davis. The four focus areas will be: SDM for Supervisors, Safety Assessment, Family Strengths Needs Assessment and Hotline. Please click on the link to see the full descriptions of the four classes.

New Standardized Core Training Program for Child Welfare Social Workers A comprehensive and customizable training program that fulfills the new state requirements for public child welfare workers.

Reaching Out: Current Issues for Child Welfare Practice in Rural Communities This issue of Reaching Out is dedicated to providing information to help child welfare workers better understand and address the mandated responsibilities to families in which children are in foster care and a parent is incarcerated. Children have the right to regular contact with their incarcerated parents, and incarcerated parents have the right to continue to parent their children, yet accommodating these rights can be a real challenge for child welfare workers and foster parents. While there is no simple solution for helping these families, it’s time to bring them out of the shadows and listen to what they need.