Social Worker Health and Wellness Publications
(View Complete Item Description)This resource provides a look at various publications concerning social worker health and wellness.
Material Type: Reading
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Social Worker Health and Wellness Videos
(View Complete Item Description)The following training videos are dedicated to helping child welfare workers learn practical skills to cope with the emotional tolls of their very important work. Throughout this series, child welfare workers will learn about the dynamics of secondary traumatic stress, self-care strategies, and a framework for coping with secondary trauma.
Material Type: Lecture, Reading
Core 2.5: Child Maltreatment Identification, Part 1
(View Complete Item Description)This training provides participants with the skills to recognize factors that will assist them in accurately identifying neglect, emotional abuse and physical abuse as defined by California law. After attending this training, participants will be able to: Identify factors that constitute abuse and/or neglect as defined by the Welfare & Institutions Code Section 300 (a) - (j) and recognize parenting behaviors that promote child safety and family well-being outcomes; distinguish scenarios of child maltreatment from those that are not child maltreatment based on a constellation of factors such as physical injuries and behavioral indicators, within a cultural context; and value the importance of diversity as it relates to child maltreatment. Successful participants will be better equipped to recognize conditions contributing to child maltreatment as well as common injuries bringing children to the attention of child welfare.
Material Type: Reading
FSW: Developing Working Partnerships and Maintaining Confidentiality
(View Complete Item Description)This course offers family service workers a framework for working with internal and external partner agencies to meet the needs of the families they serve.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Reading
FSW: Teaching Life Skills to Parents
(View Complete Item Description)Developed for family service workers, this course will help participants understand what life skills are, how to assess a client’s life skills, and how to successfully work with clients to help them strengthen or acquire certain life skills.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Reading
Core 2.5: Engagement
(View Complete Item Description)Explore the value and importance of engaging children, youth, families, kin networks, care providers, and community resources in a collaborative, strength-based process.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Reading