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Barton Child Law and Policy Clinic Working Paper

Workplace Supports to Improve Georgia's Child Protective Services

Table of Contents - I. Current Status - II. Recommendations - III. Conclusions - IV. Appendices.

IV. Appendices

  1. Training Programs in Other States

    They type of training programs other states provide to public child welfare agency case managers may provide guidance to Georgia DFCS as that agency revises the type of training provided to new and experienced case managers.  The following are two examples of components of training programs in other states.

    Texas[108]

    1. CPS Phase 1 Workshops (3 workshops are required of all new workers)
      1. Advanced risk assessment
      2. Child Development:  From Birth to Age Five
      3. Developmental Delay in Children
    2. Workshops to Go Toward CPS Specialist Phase II Certification/ CPS Specialist and Supervisor Recertification
      1. Strengthening Families
      2. Client Mental Health Issues
      3. Cultural Competency
      4. Skills, Safety, and Well-Being
      5. Substance Abuse and Addiction
      6. Children and Adolescents
    3. Child-Care Licensing-Focused Workshops (Certified CPS staff may apply CCL-focused courses to their recertification training requirements if the workshop topic is closely relevant to their work)
      1. Beyond Behavior
      2. How to Testify Effectively in Hearings
      3. Interviewing Children
      4. Overcoming Resistance
      5. Planning Presentations:  Speaking With Your Community
    4. Ethics for PRS (can go towards CPS Specialist Phase II certification/ CPS Specialist and Supervisor recertification/  Ethics training for Texas social worker licensure)
      1. Discrimination:  Pride and Prejudice
      2. Forgiveness and Child Protective Services:  The Missing Peace
      3. Knowing Where to Draw the Lines:  Professional Boundaries with PRS Clients
      4. Religion and CPS:  Bridge or Barrier?
    5. Distance Learning
      1. Ethical Issues for Social Workers in CPS
      2. Tools for Solving Ethical Problems

    California[109]

    California Social Work Education Center (CalSWEC) - statewide consortium of social work graduate schools, county departments of social service, mental health centers and the California chapter of National Association of Social Workers
     

    1. Standardized Core Curriculum Project (new child welfare workers get competency-based training before they get independent course loads)
      1. Personalized tracking of progress and customized on-the-job training
      2. Reinforcement on-the-job:  Supervisors use a cookbook which reinforces classroom training with on-the-job activities
      3. Evaluation: An integrated evaluation is conducted to see which methods are working
    2. Eight components to the Program:
      1. Primary child welfare skills
      2. Social work skills
      3. Human behavior
      4. Workplace management
      5. Legal processes
      6. Cultural competence
      7. Social work values and ethics
      8. Interdisciplinary practice

Continued ...

[108] Child Welfare Training Resources Online Network, at  http://www.childwelfaretraining.org (visited June 25, 2001).

[109]Id.

Table of Contents - I. Current Status - II. Recommendations - III. Conclusions - IV. Appendices.

Barton Child Law and Policy Clinic, 2002 Working Paper, Revised February 20, 2002


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