Assessing for Safety and Out of Home Investigations (2 Contact Hours)
The training covers the OHAN process, children’s safety and wellbeing needs, and participants’ rights.
Documentation in Daily Foster Care (2 Contact Hours)
Covers the importance of documentation, effective record keeping, and how documentation supports teamwork, advocacy, and permanency planning.
Easing Transitions in Foster Care (2 Contact Hours)
This training covers transitions in foster care, their impact on children and caregivers, and strategies for managing them positively.
Fostering Fundamentals: In This Together Understanding Your Role as a Foster, Kinship Care or Adoptive Parent (2 Contact Hours)
Covers the basics of foster care roles, responsibilities, and teamwork.
Navigating the Child Welfare System: Support for Foster Parents & Kinship Caregivers (2 Contact Hours)
Covers how caregivers should understand their rights, roles, and agency relationships.
Reasonable & Prudent Parenting (RPP and APPLA) (2 Contact Hours)
Covers Normalcy and the Reasonable and Prudent Parent Standard, including their application in care for older youth, based on Public Law 113-183.
So you are ready for Adoption: what is the legal process? (2 Contact Hours)
Covers the adoption process, legal requirements, and laws like the Indian Child Welfare Act and ICPC from termination of parental rights to finalization.
The Birth Family Connection (2 Contact Hours)
This interactive workshop is designed to help participants understand the importance of children in care remaining in connected to their biological family and to encourage foster parents to be supportive of the child maintain interactions with the biological and extended family. It also assists participants in building skills to increase case stabilization.
Understanding What GPS Means for Foster Parents (2 Contact Hours)
Participants will learn about the Guiding Principles and Standards (GPS) developed by the SCDSS. They will learn about the values, guiding principles, and core practice skills that SCDSS uses to improve practice and outcomes with children and families. They will learn what to expect from their case manager and supervisor and from the system. They will learn how and when they are supposed to be including as a member of the team. They learn about how to apply these same principles to their work as a member of the team and when working with birth families to support reunification when possible.