Workforce Training Schedule_May 2024

Training Locations

Regions 1/2 Training Hub: 316 W. Boone, Suite 180, Spokane

Regions 3/4 Training Hub: 4045 Delridge Way SW, Seattle 

Regions 5/6 Training Hub: 6860 Capitol Blvd., Tumwater 

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.
5:30-7:30 p.m. May 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.
5:30-7:30 p.m. May 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.
5:30-7:30 p.m. May 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. 
5:30-7:30 p.m. May 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.
5:30-7:30 p.m. May 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.  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.
5:30-7:30 p.m. May 20
5:30-7:30 p.m. May 21
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Appropriate Interventions for Chronic Neglect
The most frequent allegation of child maltreatment is neglect. Some families are referred to the department numerous times with little change in family functioning. In this course, participants will learn how to assess for chronic neglect, its effects on children and appropriate interventions.
9 a.m.-4 p.m. May 7
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Assessing Safety Beyond Removal: Family Time and Conditions for Return Home
In this training, you’ll consider how to best explain the safety threat that’s keeping a child in out-of-home care and think about how this threat impacts child safety during family time. You’ll practice applying the threshold questions to decisions about family time and articulating to the court why you are recommending a specific level of supervision, even when the child needs to remain out of the home.
9 a.m.-4 p.m. May 7
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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. May 1 and 2
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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. Participants will be asked to review several examples of CPS intakes and the information in the course will be presented through using these case examples. 
9 a.m.-4 p.m. May 15, 16 and 17
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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. May 13, 14, 15 and 16
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Harm Reduction and Safety Planning With Substance Using Families
This course will provide you with an understanding of substance use and when it affects the safety of children in the family, how to safety plan with families who have children of all ages (0-18), how to support clients in their treatment programs, and how to measure progress sufficient to have mitigated the safety threats to the children.
9 a.m.-4 p.m. May 17
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Identifying and Supporting Commercially Sexually Exploited Children for Workforce
This course will help workers who do ongoing work with adolescents in the child welfare system identify youth who are at risk for or are being commercially sexually exploited. The training will provide a framework for understanding this issue that greatly impacts adolescents in the child welfare system, 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. May 9, 10 and 16
5:30-9 p.m. May 28, 29 and 30
12:30-4 p.m. May 29, 30 and 31
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Impacts of Parental Mental Health on Child Safety
Participants will be engaged to consider their own thoughts, beliefs, and biases about mental illness; understand basic definitions associated with parental mental illness and child safety; and identify family assessment strategies that can focus on the intersection between parental mental illness and child safety.
Tumwater DCYF: 8:30 a.m.-12 p.m. May 21 and 22
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Indian Child Welfare Policy Training
This course provides key information incorporating changes necessary to comply with Washington State Supreme Court decisions, In re Dependency of Z.J.G. and M.E.J.G. and In re Dependency of G.J.A. The policy training introduces content that sets the stage for applying the revisions to the Indian Child Welfare (ICW) Policies and Procedures throughout practice in Washington State. 
Region 1/2 Training Hub, Spokane: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. May 1
Region 1/2 Training Hub, Spokane: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. May 2
Region 5/6 Training Hub, Tumwater: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. May 2
Region 5/6 Training Hub, Tumwater: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. May 3
Wenatchee DCYF: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. May 3
Moses Lake DCYF: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. May 3
Region 5/6 Training Hub, Tumwater: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. May 6
Spokane Central DCYF: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. May 6
Spokane Central DCYF: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. May 7
Tumwater DCYF: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. May 7
Kelso DCYF: 9 a.m.-4 p.m.  May 8
Spokane Central DCYF: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. May 9
Spokane Central DCYF: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. May 10
Aberdeen DCYF: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. May 13
Region 1/2 Training Hub, Spokane: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. May 13
Centralia DCYF: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. May 14
Colville DCYF: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. May 14
Tri-Cities DCYF: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. May 14
Ellensburg DCYF: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. May 15
Colfax DCYF: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. May 15
Sky Valley DCYF: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. May 16
Tri-Cities DCYF: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. May 20
Smokey Point DCYF: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. May 20
Sunnyside DCYF: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. May 21
Bellingham DCYF: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. May 21
Toppenish DCYF: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. May 22
Yakima DCYF: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. May 23
Lynnwood DCYF: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. May 23
Mount Vernon DCYF: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. May 24
Yakima DCYF: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. May 28
Everett DCYF: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. May 28
Everett DCYF: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. May 29
Tacoma DCYF: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. May 29
Puyallup DCYF: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. May 30
Cowlitz Tribe-Vancouver: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. May 30
Cowlitz Tribe-Vancouver: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. May 31
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Infant Safety: Plan of Safe Care
The Plan of Safe Care is an element of case planning for families with infants born with and affected by substance abuse or withdrawal symptoms resulting from prenatal drug exposure, or a Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, or born to a dependent youth. The focus of this course is to provide opportunities for demonstration, practice, and feedback pertaining to meeting the practice and policy requirements for this component of the Infant Safety Education and Intervention Policy.
9 a.m.-12 p.m. May 22
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Infant Safety: Assessing the Infant’s Environment
Assessment of every environment in which an infant lives and sleeps, as well as all individuals providing care, is critical to ensuring the safety of this vulnerable population. Emphasis will be placed on developmental needs, attachment, and the infant’s relationships.
9 a.m.-3 p.m. May 28
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Infant Safety: Period of PURPLE Crying
The Period of PURPLE Crying will provide social workers with an understanding of the importance of assessing for both prolonged crying in infancy and the caregiver’s ability to manage long periods of crying. Emphasis will be placed on safety in terms of the connection between prolonged crying and child abuse/neglect, as well as completion of the Period of PURPLE Crying Training Certification through dontshake.org (if not previously completed).
12:30-4:30 p.m. May 24
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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. 
9 a.m.-4 p.m. May 30 and 31
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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.
9 a.m.-4 p.m. May 13 and 14
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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.
Moses Lake DCYF: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. May 7 and 8
Tacoma DCYF: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. May 8 and 9
King West  DCYF – Harrison Building: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. May 22 and 23
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Right Response: Level 4
The RIGHT RESPONSE Workshop is primarily prevention training. The Advanced Level 4 training is a full 14-hour certification which provides the skills of prevention, de-escalation, postvention and physical interventions, including escorts and therapeutic holds. Attendees learn to use physical intervention as the last resort to maintaining safety and learn more proactive alternatives which can prevent dangerous incidents and increase safety.
Region 1/2 Training Hub, Spokane: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. May 29 and 30
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Secondary Trauma: Impact and Solutions
This course will help those who do ongoing work in the child welfare system 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 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.
1-5 p.m. May 8 and 9
1-5 p.m. May 21 and 22
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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.
Region 3/4 Training Hub, Delridge: 1-5 p.m. May 6
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Trauma Informed Engagement
This course applies lessons from trauma studies to child welfare practice for children, youth, and adults. Participants will discuss practice guidelines crucial to trauma-informed practice in any setting. Participants will learn to distinguish trauma from other adversities and suffering; describe the characteristics, dynamics and effects of trauma; and emphasize the ways in which chronic trauma and complex trauma compromise normal functioning.
9 a.m.-4 p.m. May 6
Region 3/4 Training Hub, Delridge: 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. May 23
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Worker Safety
This mandatory training for social service specialists covers topics including workplace violence related to social work practice; predictors of violent behavior; recognizing escalating behavior; safety in the field; safety precautions in methamphetamine sites; resources and support for worker safety; and working with law enforcement.
Bremerton: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. May 1
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