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. March 19
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Afterhours Core 1.2 Child Safety: Identifying Present Danger
In this course, you will learn about present danger. You will apply your understanding of this concept to many scenarios, building a robust understanding of what is and is not present danger. A framework for assessing for and responding to present danger across cultural difference is provided, and you will apply this framework to practice scenarios, helping prepare you to serve families more equitably.
6-8 p.m. March 30
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Afterhours Core 1.3 Child Safety: Protective Actions
In this course, you will learn how protective actions help ensure the safety of children in present danger.  You will learn what components protective actions must include for you to feel confident in their being effective.  Of particular importance, you will consider how you decide whether a specific adult can be relied upon to participate and provide safety to the child.  Finally, you will put everything you have learned about child safety into practice as you consider a scenario and determine whether present danger exists and, if so, what protective actions might be effective.
6-8 p.m. March 31
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The Autism Basics: Behaviors and Coping Strategies
This comprehensive training aims to provide you with insights and practical strategies to support individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) throughout their developmental journey. We will explore essential topics such as ASD diagnosis and characteristics from birth to adulthood. We will address attachment dynamics, transitions, sensory sensitivities, and emotional support strategies. You will gain insights into behavior as communication and learn trauma-informed and culturally responsive behavior management techniques.
9 a.m.-2 p.m. March 13
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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. March 4, 5, 9 and 10
Registration for CAIA is subject to priority requirements. Please reference the CAIA Registration Request Form for more information.

Child and Family Welfare Services In-Service
This two-day in-service training will prepare new CFWS caseworkers and experienced CFWS caseworkers who wish to improve their practice to engage parents and families from the point of transfer or case assignment. Participants will learn how to make the most of the first meeting and monthly visits with the parent in building a working relationship geared toward safe reunification and timely permanency.
9 a.m.-4 p.m. March 2 and 3
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Child Protective Services In-Service
This three-day in-service will describe the two different CPS pathways, Family Assessment Response (FAR) and Investigations. You will be asked to review several examples of CPS intakes and the information in the course will be presented through these case examples. 
9 a.m.-4 p.m. March 24, 25 and 26
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Comprehensive Qualified Expert Witness (QEW) Training
This training is intended to give you the information you need to provide Qualified Expert Witness (QEW) testimony in Washington State Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF) Indian Child Welfare cases. This training provides an overview of background information on the history and impacts of colonization on Native American and Alaska Native children and families that led to the passage of the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978, an introductory level overview of the Indian Child Welfare Act and Washington Indian Child Welfare Act, an overview of DCYF Dependency Cases, and a detailed look at QEW purpose, qualifications, and procedures.
9 a.m.-4 p.m. March 12 and 13
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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. March 5
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Engaging Youth in Group Care: Building Supportive Relationships
In this course you will learn about the types of grief and loss and what impact each may have on a youth, including the teen’s ability to attach. Learning how to promote healthy relationships is an important component of this training, as so much of building a supportive relationship lies with developing a sense of security. With than in mind, you also will learn about developing “felt safety,” which happens when a youth truly believes they are safe; and developing structure and nurture, essential components of safety and healing.
1-4 p.m. March 3
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Engaging Youth in Group Care: Challenging Behaviors
This module provides group care staff with tools and strategies to respond effectively to youth who display rejecting, testing or disruptive behaviors. You will explore how trauma, disabilities and sensory processing needs shape behavior.
Using the Regulate–Relate–Reason framework, the course offers response strategies such as logical consequences, environmental modifications and positive reinforcement. You will also explore the impact of secondary trauma and identify self-care practices to prevent burnout and support sustainable, compassionate caregiving.
1-4 p.m.  March 17
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Engaging Youth in Group Care: High-Risk Behaviors
This module equips group care staff with practical tools to respond to high-risk behaviors often seen in teens, such as sexual acting out, physical aggression, unsafe internet use, self-harm and suicidal ideation. You will explore the developmental and trauma-related roots of these behaviors, as well as how to approach them using the Regulate–Relate–Reason framework. The course emphasizes proactive planning while also recognizing the importance of building youth capacity for discernment, consent and digital literacy.
1-4 p.m. March 18
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Engaging Youth in Group Care: Identity-Affirming Care
This session of Engaging Youth in Group Care equips you with practical strategies to support youth in developing strong, positive identities. You will explore how to affirm and incorporate each youth’s race, culture, sexual orientation and gender identity into the group care environment. Through reflection, discussion and real-world scenarios, the course builds skills for identity-affirming care. The goal is to foster safety, connection, and resilience by ensuring every young person feels seen, respected and supported in their identity.
1-4 p.m. March 4
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Family Reconciliation Services (FRS) In-Service
This training is designed for both new and experienced FRS case workers who wish to learn more about the Family Reconciliation Services (FRS) program. The course is structured to support the steps of an FRS case from intake to case closure with the goal of increasing opportunities for statewide consistency in practice when serving families seeking FRS services. You will also explore strategies to engage families to complete a family assessment. Working through a case scenario, you will think through service and legal recommendations.
9 a.m.-12 p.m. March 31
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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. 
1-4:30 p.m. March 9, 10 and 11
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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. March 20
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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.
9 a.m.-12 p.m. March 10
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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. March 17 and 18
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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.
Moses Lake DCYF: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. March 11 and 9 a.m.-3 p.m. March 12
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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. March 19
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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.
9 a.m.-12 p.m. March 4
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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.
1-5 p.m. March 11 and 12
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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.
12:30-4:30 p.m. March 31
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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.
Bellingham DCYF: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. March 11
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