Access curricula for the Northern California Training Academy's CWS/CMS for New Users (consortium) Course. Learn more about the Northern California Training Academy by visiting humanservices.ucdavis.edu/academy

Learning Objective To familiarise students with the framework, key principles and statutes surrounding social work intervention with families and adult offenders.

Learn how Harrison High School in Evansville, IN is using community partnerships to support students in this video from American Graduate Day 2013. Reconnecting Youth is a nonprofit organization that helps bring social workers into schools. High school students often need help balancing school, work and their social lives. Social workers help students improve their time management and communication skills. When students feel more connected to school, they begin to see how they fit in and how they can contribute to their communities. Use the resources in the Support Materials section below to help students improve their communication skills.

This course informs participants about new laws that impact child welfare practice in the dependency court system. Presented by David Myers, J.D. for the Nor...

This resource provides access to the Northern California Training Academy's Educational Advocacy course materials for child welfare social workers. If you would like to learn more about the Academy, please visit humanservices.ucdavis.edu/academy

The Guidelines for professional peer coaching is an important tool for strengthening the transition of young people to the integration on the labour market, highly contributing to their development of professional key competences, skills and employability.
The booklet introduces theoretical knowledge to define the concept of professional peer-coaching and to differentiate it from other forms of coaching and work-based learning. It also provides details related to the process of peer-coaching and its benefits on learners, as well as practical guidelines on the way students, volunteers, internship participants and young professional could share their professional experiences, concerns, ideas with colleagues and to provide them guidance, feedback and suggestions.
The guidelines contains a large variety of exercises and practical activities specific for the professional areas of the target groups, respectively helping professions: nurse, teachers, social workers meant to prepare the new and young employees to understand better their role and work responsibilities by collaborative learning.

This page provides resources related to Katie A. and the Katie A. Northern Collaborative, as well as useful information pertaining to collaborative learning and communities of practice.

This curriculum was developed as an empirical foundation for a practice model that facilitates collaboration toward providing the highest level of service for at-risk children and their families. It teaches collaboration in nine areas: legal issues, financial issues, health and mental health, education/school, family relationships, child management, support services, fair and equal treatment, and general satisfaction. It is organized around five competency areas: respecting the knowledge, skills, and experiences of others; building trust by meeting needs; facilitating communication; creating an atmosphere in which cultural tradition, values, and diversity are respected; and using negotiation skills. The curriculum is divided into five sections: Introduction to the Curriculum, Conducting the Training, Training Modules (two 3-hour modules for in-service training), Classroom Modules (for undergraduates and graduates), References and Annotated Bibliography. (345 pages)Pasztor, E. M., Goodman, C. C., Potts, M., Santana, M. I., & Runnels, R. A. (2002).

This page provides access to recorded webinars and materials from the live webinar sessions.

This page features information and course materials for all of the Safety Organized Practice (SOP) courses the Northern California Training Academy regularly offers. This does not include trainings the Academy tailors specifically to individual counties upon request. If you would like to enroll in one of the courses below, please visit the Northern California Training Academy website for upcoming dates and locations.

This page will serve as a resource library for counties to share examples of forms, policies and procedures, training materials, communication materials any materials or videos that have supported Safety Organized Practice and implementation.

This resource provides access to news, publications, videos, tips, tools, practice briefs and course materials related to Safety Organized Practice in child welfare, with particular emphasis on child child welfare in Northern California counties.

This resource provides a look at various publications concerning social worker health and wellness.

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.

This course focuses on families with members who are substance abusers, and the ways in which these families function. The course explores the methods and resources available for helping such families.

This page provides access to recorded webinars and materials from the live webinar sessions. Check back often, as new materials will be added as soon as they become available.