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Child Welfare Services Training and Development

Training

Child Welfare Services staff liaison: Jodi Latuszek

Child Welfare Services continues to implement judicial, attorney, and field worker trainings targeted toward child welfare system improvement. The trainings are based on Court Improvement Program committee findings and are developed collaboratively with various stakeholder community agencies, the Governor's Task Force on Child Abuse and Neglect, and the Department of Human Services.

Upcoming CWS Webcasts

Archived CWS Webcasts

Upcoming CWS Off-Site Programs

Archived CWS Off-Site Programs

Current CWS Training Calendar

  • Training Provided in 2011
  • Training Provided in 2010
  • Training Provided in 2009
  • Training Provided in 2008


    • Index of Training Materials



    Training Materials (by date)

    • Appeals by Leave: What Child Welfare Attorneys Need to Know - February 21, 2012

      Tab A - Appeals by Leave


    • Child Development and Abuse: What Every L-GAL Must Know - January 24, 2012

      Tab A - Child Development and Abuse: What Every L-GAL Must Know


    • The Michigan Department of Human services Centralized Intake: Statewide Implementation - January 19, 2012

      Tab A - Centralized Intake (CI) for Abuse and Neglect


    • Avoiding Preservation Pitfalls: How Trial Attorneys Can Preserve Issues for Appellate Review - December 15, 2011

      Tab A - Spotting, Preserving, and Evaluating Issues for Appeal


    • Family Preservation Program Overview - October 20, 2011

      Tab A - Michigan's Families First and Family Reunification Programs


    • Making Reasonable Efforts both Reasonable and "Effortful" - August 18, 2011

      Tab A - Reasonable Efforts


    • Educational Planning and Collaboration - July 14, 2011

      Tab A - Education Planning and Collaboration


    • Partnering with Families for Optimal Outcomes: Assessment and Case Planning - April 27-28, 2011

      Tab A - Agenda

      DAY 1 - April 27, 2011
      Plenary 1 - Child Focused, but Family Friendly: Assessment Children in the Context of Their Families in the Child Welfare System
      Plenary 2 - The Problem with Parenting: Overcoming Cultural Barriers
      Plenary 3 - Common Psychiatric Disorders: Assessment and Case Planning Using a Bio-Psycho-Social Format
      Workshop A1 - Assessing Mothers when Maltreatment has Occurred
      Workshop A2 - Psychotropic Medications and Considerations During the Assessment and Case Planning Process with Families and Children
      Workshop A3 - Making Families the Experts: Strength-Based Assessment and Planning (materials will be provided)
      Workshop A4 - Taking Care of Self/Handling Job Stress and Coping with Daily Trauma
      Workshop A5 - Stress Management Skills with Families (materials will be provided)
      Workshop A6 - Role of "Poverty Competency" in Assessment
      Workshop A7 - Parenting Through Change (PTC): A Strength-Based Group Intervention
      Workshop A8 - Delving Below the Surface: Examining Unmet Needs

      DAY 2 - April 28, 2011
      Plenary 1 - Cookie Cutters Work for Bakers, Not Child Welfare Professionals! How to Make Individual Plans for Every Family (materials will be provided)
      Workshop B1 - Sharing Their Expertise: The Family Preservation Family Panel
      Workshop B2 - Developing Safety Plans that Address Any . .. That's Right, ANY Risk Factor (materials will be provided)
      Workshop B3 - Doing Away with Cookie Cutter Case Plans: Tips and Techniques
      Workshop B4 - Maintaining Professional Boundaries for Frontline Workers (materials will be provided)
      Workshop B5 - Improving Daily Practice: Meaningful Case Conferences with Workers
      Workshop B6 - Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD): Assessment and Case Planning
      Workshop B7 - Working with Fathers in the Assessment and Case Planning Process
      Workshop B8 - Strength-Based Assessment of Substance Affected Families (materials will be provided)
      Workshop C1 - It Helps to Know: Assessing for Domestic Violence in Child Abuse Cases
      Workshop C2 - Humility, Respect, and Understanding: Tips on How Judges and Lawyers Can Work with Families to Address the Needs of Their Children (materials will be provided)
      Workshop C3 - Making Families the Experts: Strength-Based Assessment and Planning (materials will be provided)
      Workshop C4 - DHS Educational Planners: Case Planning to Meet Educational Needs and Goals of Older Youth in Foster Care
      Workshop C5 - Addressing the Needs of and Advocating for LGBTQ Youth in Foster Care
      Workshop C6 - Assessment and Case Planning with Native American Families: The Indian Child Welfare Act (materials will be provided)
      Workshop C7 - The Value of Youth Involvement (materials will be provided)
      Workshop C8 - Trauma Informed Practices
      Plenary 2 - Planned, Purposeful, and Progressive Visits: Measuring a Parent's Substantial Progress (materials will be provided)

    • Testifying in Court for Non-Lawyers - April 7, 2011

      Tab 1 - Agenda
      Tab 2 - Foster Care Worker Fact Pattern
      Tab 3 - Protective Services Worker Fact Pattern

    • Investigation and Discovery in Child Protective Cases - Tips for L-GALs and Parents' Attorneys - March 24, 2011

      Tab 1 - Discovery in Child Welfare Cases - What do you need? How do you get it?

    • National Youth in Transition Database (NYTD) - February 24, 2011

      Tab 1 - National Youth in Transition Database

    • Ten Michigan Cases We All Should Know - January 20, 2011

      Tab 1 - Webcast Presentation


    • Working with Incarcerated Parents After In Re Mason - December 7, 2010

      Tab 1 - Mason Webcast Presentation
      Tab 2 - Michigan Supreme Court Mason Opinion
      Tab 3 - Department of Human Service L-letter
      Tab 4 - Court Reference Materials
      Tab 5 - Michigan Department of Corrections Reference Materials
      Tab 6 - Engaging Absent Parents
      Tab 7 - Children's Law Section Reference Material
      Tab 8 - INTER-COM Tending Mason Article


    • The Role of Parent/Child Visitation in Achieving Timely Reunification -
      November 4, 2010

      Tab 1 - Agenda
      Tab 2 - Judicial Oversight of Parental Visitation in Family Reunification Cases
      Tab 3 - Planned, Purposeful, and Progressive Visitation
      Tab 4 - Parent and Child Attorney Role in Improving Visitation
      Tab 5 - Making it Happen for Parents and Children
      Tab 6 - Family Interaction Plan
      Tab 7 - Reason for Hearing


    • Absent Without Legal Permission (AWOLP): Resources and Best Practices - October 21, 2010


    • Michigan's 2009 CFSR and Program Inprovement Plan Webcast - August 19, 2010

      Tab A - Improving Outcomes for Michigan's Children and Families


    • Educational Issues in Child Welfare - August 17, 2010

      Tab 1 - Agenda
      Tab 2 - Educational Outcomes for Foster Youth
      Tab 3 - In Re Dwayne B. Lawsuit Settlement's Educational Provisions and Department of
                 Human Services Educational Planners
      Tab 4 - McKinney-Vento and Fostering Connections Education Provisions for Foster Youth
      Tab 5 - Additional Resources


    • Interpreting Mental Health Reports - July 15, 2010

      Tab 1 - Interpreting Mental Health Reports


    • DHS Policy for Legal Personnel - June 17, 2010

      Tab 1 - DHS Children's Services Policy for Legal Personnel


    • Are You Confused Yet? Understanding Recent Changes in Child Welfare Law -
      May 20, 2010

      Tab 1 - Understanding Recent Changes in Child Welfare Law


    • Transition Plans for Youth Aging Out of the Foster Care System - May 11, 2010

      • Tab 1 - Agenda
      Tab 2 - The Fostering Connections Act and Youth Aging Out of Foster Care
      Tab 3 - Emotional Issues of Aging Out/The Importance of Permanent Connections
      Tab 4 - The Seita Scholars Program at Western Michigan University: Transitioning Foster
                 Youth to Adulthood Through a 4-Year College Education

    • Keeping Families Together: Removal, Prevention, and Timely Reunification
      April 7-8, 2010

      • Day One
      Tab A - Agenda
      Plenary 1 - Victims Once Again
      Plenary 2 - Center for Family Advocacy
      Plenary 3 - From Trauma Induced Care to Trauma Informed Care
      Workshop A1 - SAFERR Protocol
      Workshop A2 - Permanency Planning Conference
      Workshop A3 - Michigan's Children
      Workshop A4 - Parent Partner Program
      Workshop A5 - Parent Child Interaction Therapy
      Workshop A6 - Concurrent Permanency Planning
      Workshop A7 - ICWA Active Efforts
      Workshop A8 - ABA Father Engagement

      Day Two
      Plenary 1 - Engaging Families
      Workshop B1 - The PLAN Program, Part 1
      Workshop B2 - Permanency Planning Conference
      Workshop B3 - Family Reunification Programs
      Workshop B4 - Crisis and Safety Planning
      Workshop B5 - Parent Child Interaction Therapy
      Workshop B6 - System of Care
      Workshop B7 - Kinship Care Model
      Workshop B8 - Drug Testing in Child Welfare Proceedings
      Plenary 2 - In Re Rood
      Workshop C1 - The PLAN Program, Part 2
      Workshop C2 - Project FAIR FAN
      Workshop C4 - Crisis and Safety Planning
      Workshop C5 - Effective Use of Visitation
      Workshop C7 - Kinship Care Model

    • Concurrent Planning Roll Out in Michigan Webcast - March 18, 2010

      Tab A - The Components of Concurrent Permanenty Planning
      Tab B - Components of Concurrent Permanency Planning-Final

    • Mandated Reporters and the Friend of the Court - February 18, 2010

      • Tab A - Mandated Reporting Training Program
      Tab B - Friend of the Court Staff Reporting of Suspected Child Abuse and Neglect and
                  Information Sharing by Child Protective Services and Friends of the Court

    • Effective Parent Representation: Advanced Legal Training - December 8, 2009

      Tab A - Agenda
      Tab B - The Preliminary Hearing
      Tab C - Case Law Updates

    • Effectively Involving Children in the Court Process - November 5, 2009

      • Tab A - Why Children Should be Seen and Heard
      Tab B -
      Tab C - Is this Really in the Child's Best Interests?
      Tab D - Denver's Child Friendly Court

    • Changing Perceptions and Practices: Addressing Disproportionate Ethnic and Minority Representation in Michigan's Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice Systems - October 5 and 6, 2009

      Day One
      Tab A - Agenda
      Tab B - State and National Disproportionality Data, and Theories of Causation
      Plenary - History of the U.S. Child Welfare System and Disproportionality
      Tab C - NCJFCJ's National Priority to Reduce Disproportionality
      Workshop A1 - Mental Health Outcomes
      Workshop A2 - Employment Outcomes
      Workshop A3 - Educational Outcomes
      Workshop A4 - Changing Outcomes for Kids and Families
      Tab D - Reflections of a Social Worker on Power, Privilege, and Oppression

      Day Two
      Tab E - Assessing Community Readiness for Change
      Workshop B1 - Native American Children: Juvenile Justice and Child Welfare Issues
      Workshop B2 - Kinship Care Model for African American Children
      Workshop B3 - School to Prison Pipeline Reclaiming Michigan's Throwaway Kids
      Workshop B4 - Promising Practices to Reduce Disproportionality
      Panel - Programs and Actions Underway in Michigan to Address Disproportionality

    • Individuals with Disabilities Education Act: Special Education Issues for Children in the Child Welfare System - August 31, 2009

      • Tab A - Agenda
      Tab B - Special Education in Michigan
      Tab C - Child Find
      Tab D - Educational Surrogate Parents
      Tab E - New State Complaint Procedures
      Tab F - SOAHR Special Education Programs and Services
      Tab G - Michigan Administrative Rules for Special Education Supplemented by
                  IDEA Federal Regulations
      Tab H - Sample Psychological Evaluation

    • ASFA Revisited - July 23, 2009


      • Tab A - CIP Match
      Tab B - ASFA Revisited
      Tab C - Overview of the Adoption Safe Families Act (AFSA): Reasonable Efforts and the Federal Child and Familiy Services Review (CFSR)

    • Juvenile Guardianship Webcast:
      Requirements, Funding, and Implementation       - June 3, 2009

      • Tab A - Agenda and Evaluation
      Tab B - EPIC Minor Guardianships and Juvenile Guardianships
      Tab C - DHS Process
      Tab D - Juvenile Guardianship FAQs

    • Interstate Compact - May 28, 2009

      • Tab A - The Roles and Responsibilities of the Interstate Compact Office
      Tab B - Advocacy Tips for Child Welfare Attorneys
      Tab C - ICPC Resources
      Tab D - ABA Child Law Practice
      Tab E - Training Evaluation

    • Recent Developments in Child Welfare Law: The Year in Review - May 4, 2009

      • Tab A - Conference Agenda
      Tab B - Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions
      Tab C - Fostering Connections Act
      Tab D - Recent Developments in Child Welfare
      Tab E - Michigan Public Acts 199-203 of 2008
      Tab F - Draft Court Form JC 19
      Tab G - Draft Court Form JC 76
      Tab H - Draft Court Form JC 91
      Tab I - Draft Court Form JC 92
      Tab J - Draft Court Form JC 93
      Tab K - Draft Court Form JC 94
      Tab L - Draft Court Form JC 95
      Tab M - Draft Court Form JC 96
      Tab N - Draft Court Form JC 97
      Tab O - Draft Court Form JC 98
      Tab P - Draft Court Form JC 99
      Tab Q - Case Law Updates 2008-2009

    • Addressing Invisible Injuries (Neglect Conference) - April 1-2, 2009

      Day One
      Plenary - Emotional Maltreatment versus Emotional Neglect
      Workshop A1 - Why Me? Children's Response to Parental Mental Illness
      Workshop A2 - Preparing Social Workers for Court
      Workshop A3 - Poverty Issues and Neglect
      Workshop A4 - Assessing the Impact of Our Cultural Experiences
      Workshop A5 - Changing the Path of Social Emotional Health for Infants, Toddlers
                             and Their Families
      Workshop A6 - Addressing Media Messages that Contribute to the Exploitation of Children
      Workshop A7 - Native American Children in the Child Welfare System
      Workshop A8 - Working with the Substance Abusing Parent

      Day Two
      Plenary - Interventions and Effectiveness Cross Professional Panel
      Workshop B1 - Impact of Neglect and Trauma on Legal Representation
      Workshop B2 - The Effects of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Children
      Workshop B3 - Assessing the Impact of Our Cultural Experiences
      Workshop B4 - Infant Mental Health Court Model
      Workshop B5 - Failure to Thrive
      Workshop B6 - Investigating and Building a Neglect Case for Court
      Workshop B7 - Using Strengths and Meeting Needs: Increasing the Precision of Intervention
      Workshop B8 - Assessing How Our Culture and Experiences Impact Our Values and the
                             Way we View Clients
      Workshop C1 - Hands On Trial Skills
      Workshop C2 - Working with Trauma in Refugee Youth
      Workshop C3 - Crisis and Safety Planning: Building the Right Balance


    • Concurrent Planning - March 10, 2009

      Tab A - Agenda, Evaluation, and CIP Forms
      Tab B - Overview of Principles and Methods
      Tab C - Judicial Leadership in Concurrent Planning
      Tab D - New Department of Human Services (DHS) Policy

    • Title IV-E (Various training dates between 1/22/09 and 3/23/09)

      Tab A - Agenda and Evaluation
      Tab B - Contrary to the Welfare and Reasonable Efforts Findings
      Tab C - Court Orders
      Tab D - Title IV-E Eligibility Requirements
      Tab E - Title IV-E Appeals
      Tab F - Resource Materials

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