MARYLAND CHILD WELFARE ACADEMY (MCWA)
The School of Social Work and the Maryland Department of Human Resources will identify state-of-the-art skills and knowledge that child welfare workers, foster and kinship care providers, and adoptive parents need to secure a safe, permanent, and positive outcome for children who have come to the attention of the child welfare system. Training will take place at the School, at DHR, in local departments of social work, and elsewhere. (Presentations occurring Conference 1 & Conference 2, respectively) Alternative Responses: What It Is and Why It Works (D1 & A1)  Assessing Safety and Risk (E2 & B2) Dean Barth's Response on April 16, 2008 Dean Barth's Response on April 18, 2008 Building Bridges: Child Welfare Services for Immigrant Families and Children (C1 & E1) Children of Incarcerated Parents (C4 & E4) Coach Before the Crisis for the Crisis (E1 & B1) Culture and Race: How We Make Screening Assessments and Placement Decisions (C5 & D1) Data Informed Supervision: Detecting Patterns and Areas for Improvement (E5 & B5) Everything You Wanted to Know About Diversity But Were Afraid to Ask (E4 & B4) Family Involvement Throughout the Child Welfare Continuum (B3 & D3) Gangs and Foster Children (D3 & A3) How to Search for the Best Evidence-Based Practice to Meet the Client's Needs (D2 & A2) Identifying and Overcoming Barriers to Reunification and Adoption (B2 & D2) Jack's Brain, Jill's Brain (B4 & D4) Kinship Care: Promoting Child Well-Being for Children Placed with Relatives (B1 & E5) Maryland's Child Welfare Services Research and Evaluation Agenda (A2 & C2) Monitoring, Documenting and Enhancing Child Well-Being (B5 & C6) Placement Matters: Promoting Placement Stability (C3 & E3) Plenary: Dickinson - Achieving Retention Through Evidence-Based Practice Plenary Dickinson - Achieving Retention Through Evidence-Based Practice References Plenary Panel: Ayers - Using Data to Guide Policy and Practice Plenary Panel: Dean Barth - Using Data to Guide Policy and Practice Plenary Panel: Kennai - Using Data to Guide Policy and Practice The Right Match: Strategies for Realistic Recruitment and Screening (C6 & B6) Independent Living Skills: What Really Matters (E3 & B3) Worker Well-Being: Strengths, Safety and Secondary Trauma (A6 & D5) Working with African American Families Who Have Experienced Trauma (B6 & E6) Working With LGBT Youth (D4 & A4) New Registration & Attendance Policies In order to better manage limited training resources, effective immediately, we ask for your cooperation with the following If you find that you are unable to attend a training workshop for which you have registered, please contact us as soon as you know, up to the night before by email: kedwards@ssw.umaryland.edu or call 410-706-3637, select option #2. This will allow us to move people up from the waiting list.
Please do not appear for training for which you are not registered. You can register up to the night before, if there is no waiting list. Unfortunately, we cannot accommodate "walk-ins" any longer.
Participants who arrive beyond fifteen minutes late for a workshop will not be awarded CEUs for attending the class. In addition, participants who miss more than one hour of class time (returning late from breaks, lunch, exiting for phone calls, etc.) will not be awarded CEUs.
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Restricted Access - ONLY State of Maryland DHR/DSS Family and Child Welfare staff are eligible to participate in training. Adult Services staff are advised to see their supervisor for a schedule of Adult Services workshops. Registrations will be monitored.
For more information contact:
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Adoptive/Foster/Kinship Care Parents Inservice Offerings Parenting Children with a History of Sexual Abuse
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The University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) School of Social Work, Child Welfare Academy (CWA) in collaboration with Maryland Department of Human Resources (DHR) will offer expert statewide training to Maryland adoptive, foster, and kinship care parents. Training topics have been carefully selected based on the statewide training needs assessment administered to Maryland adoptive, foster, and kinship care parents and child welfare professionals. The University of Maryland has partnered with The Maryland Foster Parent Association (MFPA) and Maryland local departments of social services (DSS) to ensure that the training needs and interests of statewide adoptive, foster, and kinship parents are met. As identified by Maryland Department of Human Resources, child welfare professionals, and statewide care givers, training sites have been selected throughout each region of the state: Western Region, Northern Region, Baltimore City, Southern Region, Eastern Region, and Metro Area. For more information contact:
Teri Benson, MSW, Foster Parent Training Coordinator, 410-706-0721, tbenson@ssw.umaryland.edu
Adult Services Offerings View Calendar and Register The School of Social Work has partnered with Department of Human Resource’s Community Services Administration to provide quality training for DHR and the local departments of social services. The Training Program utilizes a competency-based approach in developing and delivering training. A competency-based approach to training provides staff with awareness, knowledge, and skills required to perform role-related tasks. The Training Program proposes a total 7 days of Pre-Service Training offered one time per year and twelve days of in-service training during the period dedicated to CSA’s adult services staff. The training will be designed to enhance the work-related knowledge, skills, and competence of the trainees and will be grounded in adult learning principles. CEU’s will be provided at the rate of 6 units per each day of training for individuals who complete a workshop. The Training Program will be conducted by licensed clinical social workers and other licensed professionals with expertise in adult learning. The content areas for the training are relevant to adult services staff and topics for the training will be determined in conjunction with input from local departments of social service and CSA.
For more information contact:
Kelley Macmillan, PhD, ACSW, Principal Investigator, 410-706-5121
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