Non-In-Service Classes

* 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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Assessing Safety Beyond Removal: Family Time and 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.-3 p.m. May 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. 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.

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. June 1, 2
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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.
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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Engaging Youth In Group Care — Foundational Module 1: ​ Understanding the Impact of Trauma
This multimedia-driven course will expose you to a variety of composites of youths facing trauma and you will learn how events can affect long-term behaviors. A large portion of this training involves lessons about brain function and how trauma or disruptions manifest. Key learnings will include how to transition this information into real-life caregiving situations, including how to get to a place where you can understand the “why” behind the behavior. 
9 a.m.-12 p.m. May 13
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Engaging Youth In Group Care — Foundational Module 2: Engaging Youth Who Have Experienced Trauma
You will not be able to register for Module 2 of this series until you complete Module 1. If you would like to attend, please plan on registering for this class after Module 1 is completed.
The second module of “Engaging Youth in Group Care” focuses on tailoring your approach to respect the impact of trauma. This course starts with a self-assessment exercise in which you will discuss your own responses to certain behaviors. This leads to a conversation about the science of brain function, which continues from Module 1 to be foundational in this training, with a lot of time devoted to learning about the two major adaptive responses to threats and state-dependent functioning. 
9 a.m.-12 p.m. May 15
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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.
9 a.m.-12 p.m. May 20
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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.
9 a.m.-12 p.m. May 22
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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.
9 a.m.-12 p.m. May 27
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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.
9 a.m.-12 p.m. May 29
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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. 
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. June 16
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LGBTQIA+ Youth: Guiding the Work for Licensing Staff
In this course, licensing staff will learn to center the lived experiences of LGBTQIA+ youth in conversations with licensed providers and caregivers, in childcare and out-of-home care systems. You must first take LGBTQIA+ Basics for Supporting Youth.
9 a.m.-12 p.m. June 29, 30
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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. 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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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.
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. 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.
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. 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. May 12
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Washington State Indian Child Welfare (WICW) Training
This training is designed to deepen your understanding of the Indian Child Welfare Act’s legal foundations, its historical significance, and its vital role in ensuring that Native American/Alaska Native children remain connected to their Tribal communities. Learners will also explore Washington State’s Indian Child Welfare Act, in addition to DCYF’s Indian Child Welfare policies and procedures. Through the use of case scenarios and videos, you will be provided with multiple opportunities for practical application of topics such as Reason to Know, Active Efforts and Tribal collaboration.
9 a.m.-4 p.m. May 6, 7
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9 a.m.-4 p.m. May 27, 28
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9 a.m.-4 p.m. June 11, 12
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9 a.m.-4 p.m. June 22, 23
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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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