Central California Training Academy
Online Learnings
Are you falling short on your 40 hours of continuing training? Is going to a full day of training challenging? If you answered yes, then online learning is perfect for you!
eLearnings
Browse through our eLearning options. The hours you complete will be counted toward your 40 hours of continuing training.
What Other Topics Should CCTA Cover in Future eLearnings?
*Requirements: You must have a CACWT account to access the E-Learning courses.
Description: This E-Learning module is structured to provide you with an introduction to what the Core Practice Model is and why California is adopting the CPM. It will take a deeper dive into the values, principles and practice behaviors of the Core Practice Model and explore how those particular components of the CPM relate to your professional role in child welfare service.
Training Credit: 1 hour
Learning Objectives:
- Identify the Core Practice Model (CPM) and its components
- Identify how the CPM relates to both internal system transformation as well as external child welfare practice through shared values and principles
- Envisage how the CPM functions as an overarching framework
- Identify how to integrate the CPM values, principles and behaviors into your practice on a daily basis that will lead to improved outcomes for the children, youth and families that you serve
- Recognize how current child welfare initiatives including Safety Organized Practice (SOP), Continuum of Care Reform (CCR) and Child and Family Teams (CFT) support the CPM values and practice behaviors
View California Child Welfare: Core Practice Model
Requirements: You must have a CACWT account to access this course.
Description: This course is designed to provide a broad overview of three types of Human Trafficking and information regarding the ongoing research on the topic; narrowing in on CSEC and Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking (DMST). The course will focus on the impacts and implications for the child welfare system. The course will also provide a brief review of current federal, state, and local efforts to address the wide variety of issues associated with trafficking. Identification, assessment, and promising intervention strategies will also be identified. The course will provide information about the multi-systems response to working with victims and addressing demand. The overarching goal of the course is to educate and foster a deeper awareness of human trafficking and CSEC throughout the child welfare community. The course will use lecture, small group discussion, short video clips as well as application activities.
Training Credit: 2 hours
Learning Objectives:
Define human trafficking and the commercial sexual exploitation of children and how they are related. Describe the dynamics involved that contribute to the victimization of young people by sex traffickers. Identify tools that may be utilized in the identification and assessment of victims of trafficking. Identify and highlight programs designed to intervene, assess and treat those affected by the commercial sexual exploitation of children.
View Commercially Sexually Exploited Children Awareness Training
Note: This course is hosted by CalSWEC.
For support issues, please contact: calswec_tech@berkely.edu
Requirements: You must have a CACWT account to access this course.
Description: This Micro-Learning provides a brief overview of what Concurrent Planning is, how timelines are defined, the importance of engaging and searching for families, and techniques, skills and procedures which support Concurrent Planning efforts. Trainees will acknowledge - everyone needs a Concurrent Plan.
Learning Objectives:
- Knowledge: The trainee will increase their knowledge and be able to identify two key practice components supporting Concurrent Planning.
- Skills: The trainee will develop Skills and be able to put into practice effective strength-based engagement strategies when discussing and developing a concurrent plan with a child, family and caregiver. The trainee will be able to put into practice creative solutions to challenges and use engagement behaviors described in the Integrated Core Practice Model.
- Values: The trainee will appreciate the importance of concurrent planning as a valuable method for achieving timely permanent placement that is strength-based, trauma-informed, child-centered, culturally-responsive, and is the best outcome for children and youth.
Training Credit: 1 hour
View Concurrent Planning Micro-Learning
Requirements: You must have a CACWT account to access this course.
Description: Welcome and thank you for your interest taking a deeper dive into the importance of engaging fathers, along with ways we can help support an increase in father's engagement in Child Welfare services. This micro-learning will discuss the "why" - why it is important to engage fathers early on and the "how" - How we engage with fathers. We will present video interviews from experts, the fathers themselves, who are paving the way for others to successfully bond and attach with their children. Valuable resources and top tips will be presented on what father engagement looks like, as well as "take-aways" social workers can use in the field and working with families.
Training Credit: 1 hour
Learning Objectives:
- Skills: Skills will be developed in effective strength-based engagement strategies for engaging fathers, while identifying their strengths and underlying needs.
- Values: There will be a gained appreciation of the importance of engaging fathers in order to improve the safety, permanency and well being of children and youth.
View Father Engagement in Child Welfare
Requirements: You must have a CACWT account to access this course.
After completing this training the trainee will be able to:
- Understand the historical framework and policy issues related to FASD.
- Identify the effects and main neurological deficits of prenatal exposure to alcohol.
- Identify physical features and behaviors that are consistent with FASD.
- Understand the criteria of the diagnosis that are associated with FASD and their frequency.
- Identify Primary and Secondary disabilities associated with FASD, their cause, and prevention.
- Identify different treatment and intervention options for youth with FASD, given cultural factors.
Training Credit: 1 hour
View Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
Requirements: You must have a CACWT account to access this course.
Description: This training module contains four sections, each requiring approximately 20 minutes to complete. The first section is an introduction to psychotropic medication in foster care. The second section will cover treatment decisions. The third section will go over using psychotropic medication in foster care. In the fourth and final section, we will explore the court process for authorization of psychotropic medication, and the forms used in that process.
Training Credit: 1.5 hours
Learning Objectives:
Learners should be able to do the following by the end of this course:
- Identify key information about psychotropic medication, including some risks and potential benefits.
- Highlight the reasons why trauma-informed care is important for children and youth in foster care.
- Recognize the required legal forms necessary for prescribing psychotropic medication to children and youth in California’s foster care system.
View Psychotropic Medication in Foster Care
Note: This training module contains three sections; each should take you approximately 20 to 30 minutes to complete.
Requirements: You must have a CACWT account to access this course.
Description: The purpose of this eLearning is to provide County staff, Adoption and Foster Family Agency staff, Probation staff, Community Partners, and Families with an overview of the Resource Family Approval (RFA) Program. This program directly impacts counties, adoption agencies, foster family agencies, and probation by creating one single caregiver approval process that replaces the previous processes of licensing or certifying foster homes, approving relatives and Non-Related Extended Family Members, and prospective adoptive parents and guardians.
Training Credit: 2 Hours
Requirements: You must have a CACWT account to access this course.
Webinars
Browse through our webinar options. The hours you complete will be counted toward your 40 hours of continuing training.
What Other Topics Should CCTA Cover in Future Webinars?
*Requirements: You must have a CACWT account to access the webinars.
Description: The educational topic was focused on tips for aligning and integrating local policy and procedures to support SDM practice.
Training Credit:
Q1 - 1.5 hours
Q2 - 2 hours
Topics Covered:
SDM Core Team Discussion Forum
SDM Core Team Meeting Updates
Building Toward Achieving SDM Goals
Implementing and Supporting Practice Improvement
Quantitative Versus Qualitative
SDM Fidelity Oversight Structure
Implementation Timeline
Description: The CANS for Administrators webinar is live! CANS is a multi-purpose tool that supports decision-making, including level of care and service planning, which allows for the monitoring and outcome of services.
Training Credit: 2 hours
Description:
- Continue to understand and explore the value of assessing Organizational Readiness Building for "knowing where we stand," and then planning for and addressing how to get better.
- Revisit some initial local next steps across counties for digging deeper into assessing ORB
- Share what we learned and develop some next steps (based on what you have learned through the assessment process) to increase readiness for CPM in your counties
- Share thoughts for planning December Managers Summit
Training Credit: 1.5 hours
View Central County Voices in Assessing Organizational Readiness Building
Description: This series of webinars will focus on one key factor that has emerged as vital to the success of continuous quality improvement (CQI) efforts in child welfare agencies: top management commitment. The importance of this factor has become clear from work around California, from child welfare agencies across the country, and from lessons from industry. Far and away, the most successful improvement industries have had is top management’s commitment to and personal involvement in continuously improving quality. While it is possible to make selective improvements, driven by groups of committed individuals or middle managers, continuous improvement cannot be sustained without top management making such efforts a priority. Top management is also needed to break down barriers between units; barriers that impede progress.
Training Credit: 1.5 hours each
Description:
- Participants will be able to describe two methods to decrease the risk of COVID-19 transmission in the field and in the office.
- Participants will be able to identify who are “high risk” individuals for contracting COVID-19.
- Participants will be able to identify two resources for accurate and up-to-date COVID-19 information-locally and nationally/globally.
Training Credit: 1.5 hours
Description: Denise Goodman, Ph.D is hosting a series of webinars. The first webinar in this series, “From Plan to Action: Implementing and Tracking Our Recruitment Efforts Webinar” is now available. This webinar will explore the common roadblocks to successful implementation of a recruitment plan and how to identify your obstacles. In addition, tools to help track progress and monitor the growth of resource families will be provided. To get the most out of this session, please have your most recent recruitment plan in front of you.
Training Credit: 2 hours
Presenter: Dan Thorne, LMFT
Description: This webinar will cover 3 interventions for youth that are involved in high-risk behaviors. What are the common threads in working with youth that exhibit high-risk behaviors in a residential, mental health outpatient, or foster family agency setting? How do we use this information to work with these youth? How do we improve how we identify these youth?
Training Credit: 0.5 hour
Learning Objectives:
- Identify common behaviors which occur in high-risk situations
- Develop means to assess risk in youth
- Learn about upcoming PRAXES webinars
Permission to use this webinar was granted by Dan Thorne, CEO of Praxes.
Objectives:
- Understand what Organizational Readiness Building (ORB) is, why it is important for implementation, and some key elements that make it real
- Explore the value of assessing ORB, not as judgment, but as a strategy for “knowing where we stand” and then planning for and addressing how to get better
- Set in motion some next steps for digging deeper about assessing ORB locally, then sharing our learning with each other at the next October webinar
Training Credit: 1.5 hours
Description: In this webinar, Sarah Roush will go over some of the major health disparities that we see with this population. Why do we care about this from a clinical and public health perspective? What types of issue and disparities are we talking about? Also, she covers current terminology related to LGBTQ individuals and patients. Finally, she discusses the recommended sexual and reproductive health screening and counseling services for LGBTQ patients.
Training Credit: 2 hours
Description: This training was developed to support new staff in building a foundation for reviewing and analyzing state letters. Resources will also be shared that can assist in determining what questions to ask while reviewing and the next steps going forward. Established county processes in managing the flow and platforms of communication will be examined as a reference. Managing the flow and analysis of state letters is essential when working in a fiscal environment. Knowing what to look for when reviewing and interpreting fiscal legislation drives next steps within department. Understanding how to decipher complex legislation embedded in policy and allocation documents can be overwhelming. However, it is imperative to stay ahead of changes related to the fiscal impact. This training will provide a review of developed processes implemented to review, interpret, track, and report any next steps if needed. An established review methodology could avoid costly financial mistakes and ensure fully maximized funding.
Training Credit: 1.5 hours
Registration Link: https://cacwt.dss.ca.gov/Registration.aspx?aid=12691
Presenters: Anna Johnson, Carolyn Ho, Alexis Barries, Lois Rasberry
Objectives/Description:
- Reproductive and Sexual Health Disparities for Youth in Foster Care
- Perspectives from Subject Matter Expert with Lived Experience
- CA Foster Youth Sexual Health Education Act (Senate Bill 89)
- SB89 Findings, County & Resource Spotlights, and Recommendations
Training Credit: 1.5 Hours
View SB89 Implementation in the Bay Area: What can We Learn as a State?
Description: Provides an overview of the resources and information contained in the toolkit. Provides basic information on the following items:
- Overview of Immigrant Children and Families & Pathways into the Child Welfare System
- Trauma & Immigrant Families
- Cultural Considerations
- Immigration Relief Options
- Working with Detained/Deported Parents
- Working with Foreign Consulates and Embassies
Training Credit: 1.5 Hours
View Strengthening Child Welfare Practice for Immigrant Children and Families
Description: With the passage of the California Foster Youth Sexual Health Education Act (SB 89), all California foster youth age 10 and older are required to be informed of their reproductive and sexual health rights annually in an age and developmentally appropriate manner.
As part of the Los Angeles Reproductive Health Equity Project for Foster Youth (LA RHEP), John Burton Advocates for Youth has developed a series of youth fact sheets for case managers to communicate this important information. Accompanying the youth fact sheets is a guide that includes age-appropriate conversation starters to help them navigate these sensitive conversations. Fact sheets are available for three age groups: tweens/early adolescents, middle adolescents, and transition-aged youth/young adults.
Training Credit: 1.5 hours
View Age-Appropriate, Medically Accurate Sexual Health Fact Sheets Webinar
Permission to use this webinar was granted by John Burton, Advocates for Youth.
Objectives/Description:
- Describe the context of pandemics and getting through them
- Recognize how the pandemic affects people, people who are helpers as they also try to take care of self, and people involved in child welfare who have already experienced traumas
- Explore coping strategies and the important role of leaders at multiple levels(existing county strategies to care for self and others; organizational strategies with teams and the work)
- Share tools and resources for how to cope and support the child welfare workforce
Training Hours: 2 hours
View What to expect in the Age of Pandemics and How to Cope and Support the Child Welfare Workforce
Participants will be able to identify:
- Safety & Risk considerations in determining virtual contact
- Ways to prepare for a virtual contact
- Technology options available
- Skills utilized in a virtual format
- Benefits of video conferencing due to the current circumstances
Training Hours: 1.5 hours
Participants will be able to identify:
- Safety and risk considerations to determine virtual contact
- Ways to prepare for a virtual contact
- Technology options available
- Skills and support strategies
- Benefits of virtual contacts
Training Hours: 1.5 hours