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Child Welfare League of America (CWLA) cordially invites you to participate in
“Collaborating with Kinship Caregivers”
An Evidence-Based Research to Practice Competency-Based Training Program for
Child Welfare Workers and Supervisors
Los Angeles, CA
Monday - Wednesday, July 20 - 22, 2015
9:00 AM – 4:30 PM
Overview: CWLA’s Collaborating with Kinship Caregivers: A Competency-based, Research to Practice Training Program for Child Welfare Workers and their Supervisors aims to help public and private child welfare agencies recognize the contributions of kinship caregivers and support kinship families. This program embraces a model of practice that provides a shared vision, mission, objectives, values, strengths-based language, and best practice strategies to achieve outcomes in the best interests of children and families.
Training objectives include:
- Demonstrate why and how kinship care has become a policy choice and practice challenge;
- Provide the rationale for collaboration as a framework for a best practice model;
- Identify and provide examples of nine major issues of concern that require collaboration with kinship caregivers (including legal, health/mental health, child behavior, family relationships, and more);
- Demonstrate five competencies essential for collaborating with kinship caregivers, including addressing the dynamics of attachment versus authority, and demographic and cultural diversity;
- Apply the five competencies to specific phases of service delivery, from engaging families to securing community supports;
- Demonstrate specific collaboration practice tools with an emphasis on family assessment and trauma informed parenting;
- Share strategies that support the transfer of skills from training to practice, including advocacy.
Participants and Facilitators: This three day training program is designed for public and private agency child welfare caseworkers and supervisors, and representatives of kinship support groups, navigator, and advocacy programs. Child welfare educators, trainers, staff developers, and administrators of programs that serve kinship caregivers are welcomed, along with staff who work with mental health, juvenile justice, and school programs. Kinship caregivers are also warmly welcomed. The CWLA facilitator will be Eileen Mayers Pasztor, DSW, a curriculum researcher and principal developer. She will be joined by a kinship caregiver co-facilitator.
Registration Fee: CWLA Members $280; Non-Members $350
Required Materials: Collaborating with Kinship Caregivers Trainer’s Guide and Collaboration Handouts
Cost of Required Materials: CWLA Members $180; Non-Members $225
Registration Options: 1) Participants who already have the Collaborating with Kinship Caregivers curriculum, which includes a Trainer’s Guide and Collaboration Handouts (resource materials for participants), can select "Registration Fee Only" and must bring the material to the training. 2) Participants who need the required material can select "Registration & Material" and it will be provided onsite.
PLEASE NOTE: The Trainer's Guide and Collaboration Handouts are copyright material. If your organization wishes to train others on this curriculum, additional copies of the Collaboration Handouts will need to be purchased for your training participants. Please contact jbrite@cwla.org for purchase options for the Collaboration Handouts.
CEUs: Up to 18 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) are available for the training, provided through the NASW – Washington State Chapter. Cost for CEUs: CWLA Members $25; Non-Members $35
Training Location/Host Agency: Children’s Bureau, 1910 Magnolia Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90007. If hotel accommodations are needed, please check Hotels.com for nearby options.
For questions about participation and program content, please contact: Donna Petras, CWLA Director, Models of Practice and Training, dpetras@cwla.org. For questions about registration please contact: Julie Brite, jbrite@cwla.org.