Your onboarding taught what you NEED to know to do your JOB, hopefully well and following best practices. But let’s get real, when you are on home visits and parents ask you for advice or have special needs, there’s not much in your initial training you can fall back on. That’s why ongoing training is important. We’ve got you covered on that point. Each of our seasoned casework professional trainers have decades of experience in the field, so they can help you prevent burnout and help prepare you for the real-life challenges of a career in child welfare.

Child Welfare Toolshop® CORE Courses for...

Child Welfare Professionals

  • $197

CW Level 3 Electives: Working with Parents who have Limited Cognitive Abilities (4 hrs)

  • Course
  • 6 Lessons

In this highly interactive webinar, we discuss how to identify and meet the special needs of parents with learning disabilities and developmental delays. We share service options and resources available, discuss special case planning issues, and what parenting skills these parents may have difficulty learning. Then we apply what we’ve learned to real and case studies.

  • Free

Child Sexual Abuse: Prevention is Possible, with Lindsey Burkhardt

  • Course
  • 6 Lessons

Preventing Child Sexual Abuse (CSA), with Lindsay Burkhardt of Families Flourish of N. Dakota. She will tell you what you can do to prevent CSA, risk factors, red flags to look for, and what to do if you suspect CSA. EVERY parents, grandparent, and family service professional will benefit from attending this FREE webinar!

  • $14.97

Emotional Regulation: What Society Didn't Teach Your Clients

  • Course
  • 8 Lessons

Do your clients' have chronic stress and an inability to manage their emotions? Research has shown this has a detrimental effect on mental and physical health and relationships. So it's important to know how to use, model, and teach emotional regulation.

  • $9.97

Legal Framework of Child Protection Service Agencies

  • Course
  • 8 Lessons

Cooperation with Child Protective Service Agencies is required of Foster Parents. Foster Parents rely upon the Child Protective Services Agencies to provide guidance. Often, Foster Parents disagree with policies or decisions made by Child Protective Services Agencies and do not know where to turn for help.  Understanding the Legal Framework of Child Protection Service Agencies will provide Foster Parents: help un...

  • $297

SW Level 1 - The Basics: Assessing & Advising Parents with Practical Research-Based Tools (6-hour Basic training for Child Welfare Professionals)

  • Course
  • 1 Lesson

Parents often hear or follow unhealthy advice or use quick-fix solutions that bring unhealthy long-term results. They need clear guidelines and practical skills that empower them to plan healthy, individualized solutions to their parenting problems. This interactive LIVE WEBINAR teaches a reliable step-by-step method for assessing and guiding parents you serve as a child welfare professional.

  • $597 or 3 monthly payments of $197

SW Level 2 - Advanced: The 6 Steps for Supporting & Empowering EVERY Parent (12-hour Advanced training for Child Welfare Professionals)

  • Course
  • 1 Lesson

This introduction to Universal Blueprint® Parenting Success System shows you how to find effective individualized responses to the challenges faced by the parents you serve. It includes the top research-based practical language and action tools for effective parenting. PLUS, you’ll discover how to use and model the skills to build healthy relationships with clients and co-workers, too.

  • Free

Secondary Trauma, Self-Care and Building Resilience

  • Course
  • 6 Lessons

 Children in foster care have experienced trauma. As caregivers, you may have experienced personal traumas. You may experience secondary trauma from hearing of the traumas the youth have experienced or from dealing with their resulting behaviors and reactions.  Attend this webinar to learn more about: “What is secondary trauma?” How do you know if you might have experienced it? What you can choose to do to prevent...

  • $60

To Adopt or Not to Adopt?

  • Course
  • 9 Lessons

Adopting a child is a complex decision. This one-hour webinar offers research-based strategies to support pre-adoptive and adoptive families, grounded in our theoretical framework and study of 35 prospective adoptive parents. Learn how to tailor interventions, foster communication, and apply practical insights to guide families through their adoption journey.

  • Free

What You Should Know About Trauma and Children

  • Course
  • 18 Lessons

Featuring Robert Rhoton Psy D., LPC, D.A.A.E.T.S., CEO of Arizona Trauma Institute, LLC Trauma is an emotional response to an intense activation of the child’s nervous system, this can happen from an event, more commonly from environments of Toxic Stress and repeated adversity. The harm can be physical or emotional, real or perceived.  Unfortunately the largest contributor to trauma, toxic stress and adversity is...