Non-In-Service Classes

Advanced Guidelines for Difficult Conversations
This course will begin by taking you through a self-assessment of your own comfort level with difficult conversations, and help you understand your own emotions and how to maintain objectivity. You will then engage in discussions around how to develop a goal or mutual purpose for these conversations, considering what all parties want to achieve. You also will talk about how to develop a safe space for having these conversations, a vital element in creating open dialogue.
9 a.m.-4 p.m. April 28
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* Advanced Practice in Motivational Interviewing
This training will further support you in achieving competence in the use of Motivational interviewing with families. During the Advanced offering you will have multiple opportunities for practice and skill development as well as the opportunity to begin the process of being coded to fidelity through the use of the Motivational Interviewing Competency Assessment (MICA) tool. 
9 a.m.-12 p.m. May 19, 20, 21, 22
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Afterhours Core 2.2 Physical Abuse: Sentinel Injuries
In this course, you will practice distinguishing between medical child abuse, medical neglect, starvation and failure to thrive.  You will learn the indicators and dynamics of child torture and how these differ from what is typically seen in neglect or chronic maltreatment cases.
6-8 p.m. April 6
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Afterhours Core 2.3 Physical Abuse: Serious Physical Abuse
In this session, you will learn about indicators and dynamics of serious physical abuse which produces injuries that require medical care and can cause long-term consequences or death. You will have a chance to apply this information to scenarios and discuss the best ways to move forward in situations when serious physical abuse is suspected.
6-8 p.m. April 7
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Afterhours Core 3.2 Maltreatment and Placement: Neglect and Sexual Abuse
In this course, you will practice distinguishing between medical child abuse, medical neglect, starvation and failure to thrive.  You will learn the indicators and dynamics of child torture and how these differ from what is typically seen in neglect or chronic maltreatment cases.  You will learn more about how to talk with children, including skills for responding when a child spontaneously discloses abuse.
6-8 p.m. April 13
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Afterhours Core 3.3 Maltreatment and Placement: Trauma Informed Placements
Afterhours staff respond in crises and emergencies – situations that are likely to be traumatic for everyone involved.  In this course, you will consider ways to reduce the traumatic impact of removal from the home and placement into a new care setting. 
6-8 p.m. April 14
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Afterhours Core 4.2 Caring for Children: Trauma Informed Care and Following ICWA
In this course, you will review several principles of trauma-informed care and consider how these apply to your routine interactions with children awaiting placement. Significant time is spent addressing children who have challenging behaviors or exceptional care needs. You also will discuss your takeaways from the eLearning related to the Indian Child Welfare act and apply what you learned to your role in afterhours.
6-8 p.m. April 20
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Afterhours Core 4.3 Caring for Children: Worker Safety, Documentation and Infants
In this course, you will identify and discuss possible worker safety threats, both in homes and while supervising youth, and options to promote everyone’s safety. You will learn how to document your work in case notes and will receive guidance on coding case notes correctly. Specific requirements related to caring for infants and assessing and supporting their caregivers is reviewed, including policy related to safe sleep, period of purple crying, and the plan of safe care.
6-8 p.m. April 21
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Child Abuse Interviewing and Assessment (CAIA)
This course provides instruction on the principles and application of research-based child interviewing, effective testimony, and interviewing skills with cultural considerations. It will address the special challenges of working with vague allegations, resistant children and adolescents, non-offending parents and alleged offenders. 
8 a.m.-5 p.m. April 1, 2, 6, 7
8 a.m.-5 p.m. May 6, 7, 11, 12
8 a.m.-5 p.m. June 3, 4, 8, 9
Registration for CAIA is subject to priority requirements. Please reference the CAIA Registration Request Form for more information.

Child Abuse Interviewing and Assessment Refresher
This training is an online refresher class for Washington State law enforcement, CPS, prosecutors and child interviewers who have previously attended the four-day Child Abuse Interviewing and Assessment courses (CAIA). The class will review and reinforce research-based best practices in child forensic interviewing and discuss recent modifications to best practices in child forensic interviewing. This class is open to WA State law enforcement, CPS, prosecutors and child interviewers who meet the prerequisites.
8 a.m.-5 p.m. April 22
To register for this class, please fill out this form.

* Domestic Violence in Child Welfare
In this course, you’ll learn more about the policy and legal guidance for child welfare work with families experiencing domestic violence. More importantly, you’ll learn the best practices for this work and get to practice applying these best practices.
12:30-4:30 p.m. April 22, 23, 29, 30
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8:30 a.m.-12 p.m. May 14, 21, 28; June 4
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The Effects of Historical and Present-Day Trauma on the Social Determinants of Health
This training examines how adverse childhood experiences become normalized and perpetuated through social construction, how it can and does inform our decision making, and ways we can partner with our tribal partners to improve outcomes and promote wellness.
9 a.m.-12 p.m. May 15
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Ethics in Child Welfare
This course explores the ethical responsibilities and challenges faced by child welfare professionals. You will examine the core values and ethical standards that guide decision-making, including confidentiality and professional boundaries.
12:30-4:30 p.m. May 18
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* Foundations of Motivational Interviewing in Child Welfare
This course will introduce you to the Spirit of MI; provide the opportunity to begin developing core skills, including using OARS (Open Ended Questions, affirmations, reflections and summaries) responding to the way people talk about change; and understand how to work with resistance. You will get practice opportunities to increase your skill at strategically responding to sustain talk and change talk and helping families make Brief Action Plans.
10 a.m.-3 p.m. May 5, 6, 7, 8
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Guiding Engagement Through Conflict
This course will help supervisors learn new skills in conflict management and resolution while using culturally responsive approaches to communication. Through deepening their understanding of communication styles and interpersonal dynamics, supervisors will be able to identify the components contributing to workplace dynamics.
9 a.m.-12 p.m. May 29
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Identifying and Supporting Commercially Sexually Exploited Children for Workforce
This course will help you build skills to more accurately identify youth who are or may be commercially sexually exploited. The training will provide a framework for understanding this issue, as well as for understanding the basic social work practices that support helping these youth reach positive outcomes. 
8:30 a.m.-12 p.m. April 13, 14, 15
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1-4:30 p.m. May 11, 12, 13
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Informed Decisions Through Critical Thinking
During this training, you will enhance your decision-making in child welfare by employing objective evidence, identifying behavior patterns, considering family perspectives and utilizing collateral information. This course will explore techniques for integrating new information effectively and recognizing biases, such as confirmation bias, to enhance decision-making abilities.
9 a.m.-12 p.m. April 29
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9 a.m.-12 p.m. June 16
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Leadership Training for Supervisors, Program Managers, and Quality Practice Specialists (based on Area Administrator Core Training)
9 a.m.-4 p.m. April 28, 29; May 12, 13; June 23, 24
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Meaningful Cultural Connections: Working with Indigenous Communities
This course will offer ways to learn about Tribal resources, and to support Indigenous families with meaningful cultural connections. Cultural continuity is a protective factor, and when cultural relationships have been interrupted, facilitating reconnection can be healing of the issues that brought the family to the attention of child welfare. We will explore Tribes’ traditional supports, cultural activities, community knowledge keepers and Tribes’ structured service programs. Each Tribe has a unique culture and their particular approaches to supporting their families.
1-4 p.m. May 21
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Next Steps for Intake Staff in Their First Year
As DCYF intake workers who have finished the introductory eLearning trainings and worked at least six months on the job, you’re ready to take a deeper dive into the intake world by advancing your skills when working with Special Circumstance Intakes. In this course you’ll learn more about how to effectively document intakes that involve Substance Exposed Newborns, Domestic Violence (DV), Commercially Sexually Exploited Children (CSEC) and Indian Child Welfare (ICW). You’ll also discuss intakes related to providers, critical incidents, and consider legal issues related to intakes; guest presenters will guide your learning in these areas.
9 a.m.-4 p.m. June 2, 3
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Permanency for Every Child
The focus of this course is on the role of the CFWS caseworker in achieving permanency for children taking into consideration how safety threats, risk factor and protective factors apply to achieving timely permanency. You will explore how to work a case from the beginning to achieve permanency through concurrent planning, having difficult conversations with parents about concurrent planning and the permanency process, how to assess for reunification, including the conditions for return home, determining best interest and choosing alternate plans.
9 a.m.-4 p.m. April 20, 21
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Right Response: Level 3
The RIGHT RESPONSE Level 3 Workshop is primarily prevention training. This 11-hour certification provides basic skills including Prevention, De-escalation, Postvention, and Physical Safety skills. Attendees learn about self-awareness, reflective thinking skills, positive behavior support, basic and advanced de-escalation skills, self-protection, and proactive alternatives which can prevent dangerous incidents and increase safety. Attendees that complete the workshop receive a two-year certification.
Vancouver – Columbia DCYF: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. June 24 and 9 a.m.-3 p.m. June 25
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Secondary Trauma: Impact and Solutions
This course will help you with identification of and responses to secondary trauma. The training will increase knowledge and understanding of the levels of secondary trauma, its impact, and how to manage the impact in our environment.
9 a.m.-12 p.m. May 19
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Strategies for Interrupting Oppression
This course reminds you how to critically examine race and racism, how implicit bias can negatively impact an organizations culture and efficacy, and how to effectively employ strategies to interrupt them. It also helps you learn how to employ Courageous Conversations to better address and mitigate racial bias.
1-4 p.m. May 28
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* Suicide Prevention LEARN® Training by Forefront for Workforce
LEARN is a suicide awareness training that helps participants identify and act on signs of suicide. LEARN® is designed to empower individuals to help others move in the direction of hope, recovery, and survival.
1-4 p.m. June 3
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Supervisor Readiness
This course covers Situational Leadership and Supervisor Readiness (4Rs). The course will review the three necessary components and strategies to impact performance. The Situational Leadership Theory developed by Paul Hersey and Kenneth Blanchard presents a model that suggests that to be effective leaders, supervisors must match their leadership style to an individual worker’s level of job readiness (job maturity).
9 a.m.-12 p.m. May 21
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Supporting a Kinship-First Culture in a Workforce Environment
This class will prepare you to recognize and address the issues that kinship caregivers are most likely to confront, and those that often lead to placement disruption or impact child wellbeing. You will leave with a host of written resources that may be helpful as you talk with caregivers about their needs and about the child’s needs, and as you guide caregivers in connecting to resources within and outside the department that will decrease stress and increase support for them and their families.
8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. June 3
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* Supporting Children’s Mental Health in Child Welfare
In this course, you’ll learn about childhood mental health, including common symptoms and screenings, assessment, effective interventions, and ways to engage children, caregiving adults, and professionals.
9 a.m.-1 p.m. April 22, 23
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1-5 p.m. May 11, 12
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Supporting LGBTQ+ Children, Youth and Families
This course will focus on providing information and engaging in conversation about LGBTQ+ children, youth and families. You will learn about identifying and addressing systemic institutional and personal biases when serving LGBTQ+ children, youth and families. Activities and self-reflection exercises will prepare you to return to your work and create a welcoming, safe and affirming space. Included in this training is updated terminology, resources, and current data/statistics.
9 a.m.-12 p.m. April 16
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9 a.m.-12 p.m. May 14
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Tools for CFWS/Adoption Supervisors
This class will provide opportunities for participants to utilize the various supervisory case review tools as well as reflective supervision to promote permanency, critical thinking and reflection when supervising staff. Ideally this session will be delivered to a combined group of CFWS and Adoption Supervisors to strengthen the connectedness between units and eliminate potential barriers to permanency. It is intended that this session and the materials presented will promote active participation and discussion in the context of real cases.
9 a.m.-12 p.m. June 5
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Trauma-Informed and Healing-Centered Fundamentals Training
This course provides examples of on-the-ground applications of trauma-informed and healing-centered principles and concepts. Each of the commonly recognized Six Key Principles of Trauma-Informed Care (TIC) are discussed during the training, as are foundational concepts behind the Healing-Centered Approach.
8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. April 30
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12:30-4:30 p.m. June 22
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* Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI) for DCYF
TBRI for DCYF Staff is a foundational level training for DCYF workforce. This introductory training will help you learn the basic approaches of the three TBRI Principles (Connecting, Empowering and Correcting) by engaging participants in group activities and discussions based on real-life scenarios. TBRI uses effective techniques that help you help children gain a sense of belonging through connection, empowering and correction. TBRI tools are designed to create and heal connection and empower and encourage children to realize their own capability.
1-4 p.m. April 14
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1-4 p.m. June 4
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Understanding Chronic and Complex Neglect
This course takes a deeper dive into the dynamics of chronic and complex child neglect. You will consider effective ways to engage and assess families where neglect is present and how to evaluate each child’s unique characteristics, including how each child’s needs are impacted by neglectful behaviors and conditions in the home.  We will look at how the impacts of substance misuse, unaddressed mental health concerns, domestic violence and cognitive challenges may interrupt the parent/child relationship resulting in unmet child needs. 
9 a.m.-12 p.m. April 3
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9 a.m.-12 p.m. May 12
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Worker Safety
Worker Safety is a one-day mandatory training for social service specialists, covering such topics as types of workplace violence related to social work practice, predictors of violent behavior, recognizing escalating behavior, safety in the field and more.
Region 1/2 Training Hub, Spokane: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. May 5
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