This page hosts training materials associated with the Northern Academy's Best Practices in Emergency Response (ER) training. This hands-on, Safety Organized Practice (SOP)-based class offers participants advanced training in the use of best practices designed to enhance family engagement and balanced assessments during Child Welfare ER investigation, assessment and front end intervention services to improve outcomes and long-term safety for children.

This session will cover aspects of providing Wraparound services to youth over the age of 18; by exploring unique aspects of collaboration with this age group and their community partners. Participants will also learn to help family members accept the change in a youth’s status and their role in supporting the youth. Finally; we will discuss maintaining engagement with adult youth and defining the roles of all Wraparound team members in the treatment process.

Come learn about California’s QPI effort to transform foster care by re-orienting system practice and policy to meet the core developmental needs of children and youth through prioritizing excellent; loving parenting. Although child development; brain and trauma research have definitively established excellent parenting as a foundational element to support healthy child and youth development and well-being; systems have often undermined; rather than supported; effective parenting. Approximately 70 jurisdictions in 10 states; including 26 counties in California; have joined the QPI movement. Families; youth; agency leaders and staff; judicial partners and community agencies are working in partnership to make the practice; culture and policy changes necessary to prioritize relationships and ensure the healthy development of children and youth in child welfare.

This workshop will focus on real and effective strategies when working with defiant teenage youth. So often we seek to quickly throw out labels that hinder our ability to establish a trusting working relationship. Learn to connect with tough youth by using an authentic approach and effective collaboration strategies in the Wraparound process.

Engaging with Wraparound team members on the topic of Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC) in a way that demonstrates respect for the values; preferences; beliefs; culture and identity of bilingual/bicultural families is a critical part of collaborating and integrating the Wraparound principle of Cultural Competency. This workshop focuses on strategies for sharing introductory CSEC information with team members in Spanish and with a bicultural lens. Attendees will participate in a CSEC 101 training provided in Spanish and be equipped with the information and materials (written in Spanish) to engage with others around this important topic. Participar con los miembros del equipo de Servicios Integrales sobre el tema de ESCNN A de una manera que demuestre respecto por los valores; preferencia; creencias; cultura e identidad de las familias bilingües/biculturales; es una parte fundamental de la colaboración de los Services Integrales sobre el Entendimiento Cultural. Este curso se enfoca en estrategias para proporcionar información introductoria de ESCNN A a los miembros del equipo en español y estarán equipados con la información y materiales para acoplar y compartir esta información a otros.

As professionals in the helping field; we are encouraged to carry hope for our families with an empathetic heart without being educated about the cost of caring. This training will define Compassion Fatigue and compare its symptoms to burnout. It will encourage participants to take a holistic look at stressors in their life and examine how those stressors impact the empathic hearts.

The CEBC (www.cebc4cw.org) is an online dissemination tool containing over 380 intervention and prevention programs with varying levels of supporting research evidence. The CEBC can be used by child and family-serving systems and organizations to identify new practices for implementation; however; knowledge alone of available practices is not sufficient for selecting the right one. The CEBC has created a guide to help child- and family-serving agencies think critically through the selection and implementation process. This workshop will walk participants through the process of how to assess agency needs; determine whether changes to the agency are needed and successfully select a new program to best meet the needs of the children and families being served.

In this active workshop you will participate in and learn to facilitate several team-building exercises that could be used with many types of groups; large or small; with clients and families or with your own staff. A skillful facilitator makes use of team building tasks to examine relationships in a much more effective way than just talking about them. We will learn activities for breaking the ice in early stages as well as for pushing a team through challenges and finally saying goodbye in a meaningful way.

This workshop will focus on proactive techniques and skills to help ensure facilitators are able to recognize and obtain the results they are looking for in every meeting. Participants will learn how to manage and drive the results of meetings before they even begin. They will also get an opportunity to reflect on their own values; which may/may not impact their approach with their team and families. Facilitators will have a chance to reflect and recognize the type of facilitator they are and the need to be flexible depending on the results they want for a meeting. We will focus on facilitators in Wraparound and what it means to be outcome-based; by going over types of meeting goals. All of these goals are “results;” and we will help participants recognize when they are getting these results and how we see them in the Wraparound process.

African Americans have been disproportionately affected by H V/AIDS since the epidemic’s beginning; and that disparity has deepened over time. African Americans account for more new HIV infections; people estimated to be living with HIV disease; and HIV-related deaths than any other racial/ethnic group in the U.S. The epidemic has also had a disproportionate impact on African American women; youth and gay and bisexual men; and its impact varies across the country. As a Wraparound provider in LA county; it is common to work with families affected by HIV.

Child-welfare professionals and mental health therapists serving children and families who are achieving permanency through adoption/guardianship often have a limited understanding of the complex issues that complicate or contribute to common mental health problems. These include trauma; grief; loss; identity and many others. This presentation will highlight the need for adoption mental health competency training for child-welfare and mental-health professionals; and it will present the National Adoption Competency Mental Health Training Initiative’s (NTI) efforts to create systems change to better address the mental health needs of children who have achieved permanency through adoption or guardianship. NTI has piloted a state-of-the-art; evidence-informed; web-based training initiative. This presentation will discuss the pilot (which includes California); core competencies of the curriculum; initial evaluation findings; and challenges and successes of implementing a web-based curriculum in our pilot sites.

Are you ready to take your Wraparound interactions to a higher level? Participants will tap into their creative sides and explore new and fun ways to turn everyday items into meaningful tools. Each role will gain practical application of new ideas and tools from development to implementation. Participants will leave with the ability to break the ice on difficult conversations as well as make their interactions more meaningful and fun.

The importance of teaming and collaboration to achieve successful outcomes exists at all staffing levels of a Wraparound program; not just among those who work directly with children and families. This workshop focuses on strategies that supervisors; managers and administrators can use to support their programs in becoming more aligned with their partner agencies. Participants will engage in an assessment of program alignment; learn strategies for strengthening alignment and leave with action steps for moving their program toward true integration.

The importance of teaming and collaboration to achieve successful outcomes exists at all staffing levels of a Wraparound program; not just among those who work directly with children and families. This workshop focuses on strategies that supervisors; managers and administrators can use to support their programs in becoming more aligned with their partner agencies. Participants will engage in an assessment of program alignment; learn strategies for strengthening alignment and leave with action steps for moving their program toward true integration.

How are fathers treated in your agency? Child welfare and juvenile probation are required to work with parents of children to create a safe environment for their children. Often; the work is done with the mother; and the efforts to engage the father fade away or are simply less. Does your agency do that? Are the children and youth you work with getting the benefit of their fathers? Is there an unspoken bias to prioritize moms? Hear from dads who have been in the system and are now working hard to make sure agencies are attuned to the needs of fathers. Go dads!

The workshop, intended for child welfare, probation, education, and
providers and staff who work with Transitional-Aged Youth (TAY), will
provide information about the need for engaging TAY through Child and Family Teams (CFTs). The specificity and uniqueness of needs in this population will be presented, and participants will develop an awareness of integrated strategies and resources for authentic engagement in the lives of these youth within a CFT framework. The workshop will provide an opportunity for participants to ask questions and share strategies for effective partnerships between TAY and CFTs.

The purpose of this workshop is to orient participants to the key principles in Wraparound blended with recommended best practice guidelines for serving the early childhood birth to six populations. Participants will gain an understanding of some key areas of differences when evaluating and serving the early childhood population in Wraparound. Participants will be given an overview of trauma informed practices within the Early Childhood Wraparound Model of care. Participants will walk away with an understanding of recommended competencies for working with the birth to six populations as outlined by the California Center for Infant-Toddler Mental Health. Participants will be oriented to resources available within the 0-6 system of care.

The purpose of this workshop is to orient participants to the key principles in Wraparound blended with recommended best practice guidelines for serving the early childhood birth to six populations. Participants will gain an understanding of some key areas of differences when evaluating and serving the early childhood population in Wraparound. Participants will be given an overview of trauma informed practices within the Early Childhood Wraparound Model of care. Participants will walk away with an understanding of recommended competencies for working with the birth to six populations as outlined by the California Center for Infant-Toddler Mental Health. Participants will be oriented to resources available within the 0-6 system of care.

This resource includes a webinar overview of the CA Core Practice model, practice behaviors, and a description of the theoretical framework underlying the model

This resource points to the California Welfare and Institutions Code from the California State Legislature.