CFSP 5 Year Plan - RI Department of Children, Youth & Families

Course
Where’s
Daddy? How to
Engage Hardto-Reach
Dads?
Syllabus
3 day training designed to develop an understanding of the
important role of fathers for child well-being and
development, and how to engage fathers to be more involved
in the case. Provides information, referral and resource
identification for service planning and engaging fathers.
IV-E Function
Addressed
Development of the service
plan; Referral for services;
Preparation for and
participation in judicial
determination; Case
management and supervision.
Cross Systems
Collaboration
Working with
Pregnant and
Parenting Teens
Nature of
Substance
Abuse
Half day inter and intra-departmental training - developing an
understanding for the DCYF system, roles and
responsibilities; identifying the role and contributions of
community providers as they relate to DCYF functions
promoting safety, permanency and well-being outcomes.
3 day training designed to develop an understanding of the
dynamics of adolescent pregnancy and parenting as it relates
to service planning. Information addresses agency policy,
ways to engage teen dads, assessment of the teen parent; and
engaging teen parents in service planning as it relates to
effective parenting practices.
3 day training designed to enhance knowledge and skills
relating to parental substance abuse as it relates to appropriate
referral for services and development of the service plan.
Referral for services; Case
management and supervision.
Development of the service
plan; Referral for services;
Preparation for and
participation in judicial
determination; Case
management and supervision.
Development of the service
plan; Referral for services;
Preparation for and
participation in judicial
determination; Case
management and supervision.
A new series of Core II training modules for the Social Caseworker II
classification was implemented at the Child Welfare Institute this past year as an
enhancement to the in-service curriculum. There are 15 new modules which, combined,
provide a total of 450 hours of instruction. The new modules are listed as follows:
Social Caseworker II – Core II In-Service Training
Course Syllabus IV-E Functions
Addressed
Module I:
Child Welfare
and Cross-
System
Collaboration
27 hour course instruction covering the following areas:
° Navigating and Collaborating within the DCYF
system
° Ethical issues in child welfare: risk management
implications
° Collaborating with external stakeholders
° Working with foster families
° Parenting skills and what to expect from service
providers (Not IV-E claimable)
Placement of the child;
referral to services; case
management and supervision.
General administration.
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