BLENDED LEARNING
Blended learning courses combine online, self-directed (asynchronous) coursework with a virtual classroom experience (synchronous). A virtual classroom is scheduled on a specific date and time, is facilitated by a trainer, and involves using an online meeting environment, such as GotoMeeting or WebEx.
Engaging Families in Planned and Purposeful Visitation
This course includes self-directed, asynchronous learning via the internet, guided discussion via a wiki, and two instructor-led synchronous sessions via GoToMeeting (GTM). The course is intended for staff and foster parents and consists of two parts.
Part One involves watching a 1.5- hour online video of a class on visitation taught by Rose Wentz (a nationally recognized expert); reading a short article about visitation and responding online to discussion questions; and joining an online class facilitated by a trainer to process the video, discuss Ohio-specific application, and brainstorm dilemmas and barriers to doing this work.
Part Two involves watching the second part of Rose Wentz’s class online; completing a visitation plan for a family you are currently working with; and joining the trainer and other participants in an online session to process the video and discuss application issues using your cases.
Registration: If interested in this course please contact your RTC.
Effective Use of Home Visits
This course is divided into three sessions:
Session One: Planning for the Home Visit
Session Two: Conducting the Home Visit
Session Three: Documenting and Debriefing the Home Visit
For each session you will complete a short, self-directed online course at your desk, apply the concepts learned to current cases, and discuss your experiences with a facilitator and colleagues during a two-hour Guided Application and Practice (GAP) online meeting and conference call.
Registration: If interested in this course please contact your RTC.
SELF-DIRECTED LEARNING
The following courses are self-directed (asynchronous). You can take them from your own computer at a time most convenient to you. Note: Currently, many of these courses do not provide social work licensure credit.
Getting the Most Out of Distance Learning
This short online course is designed to help child welfare staff and caregivers enhance their ability to fully participate and get the most out of distance learning courses. Increased knowledge and skill are common goals for both classroom training and distance learning courses. However, what learners need to know and be able to do is different when participating in a distance learning environment. This course discusses various distance learning formats and provides eight tips for getting the most out of distance learning.
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Family Search and Engagement: An Online Overview
Family Search and Engagement (FSE) is the process of searching for and engaging family and kin through a variety of strategies that leads to permanency for the youth. This online overview introduces basic concepts of FSE and explores a broader concept of permanency that goes beyond legal adoption. Learners will have an opportunity to explore the focused application of three central skills used in everyday child welfare practice (engaging, planning, and documenting) through five key skills. This self-study online overview tells you what you need to know about FSE; how it fits in with what you already do; gives you a case study to see how this all fits together; and shares sample forms and tools you can start to use right now with children and families.
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Transcending Differences Tool Kit:
Module 1: Key Concepts in Culture and Diversity -- An Online Overview
Working with “All kinds of families…” is the hallmark of child welfare practice. In this online module you will be encouraged to think beyond just culture and consider the range of diversity in the families and children with whom you work. This module reviews basic concepts in culture and diversity, how the two interrelate, and where race, ethnicity, and other constructs associated with these terms fit in; introduces the concept of “collective membership” (i.e., the fact that most people are members of a number of affiliate groups, and are shaped and influenced accordingly); and discusses the relevance of learning about your own and your clients’ diversity as a prerequisite to effective casework.
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Module 2: Self-Awareness – An Important First Step Toward Competency
This is the second module in the Transcending Differences Tool Kit. In this module you will explore some of the family-related values, beliefs, and practices you were exposed to as a child; contrast your values, beliefs, and practices with those of other colleagues; and consider the potential for inappropriate assessments and interventions when we encounter family patterns and practices different from our own.
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Child Welfare Values and Principles Put Into Practice
This online course is designed to help orient new caseworkers. It provides a detailed overview of the history of child welfare values and how these values impact services and laws. Through the use of a survey format the course also helps new caseworkers clarify personal values about helping children and their families and begin to identify values and guiding principles that are central to the profession of social work and child protective services.
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It’s Still Training: Best-Practice Facilitation of Distance Learning
Best practice facilitation of distance learning requires trainers to use all of the skills used in a traditional classroom, but often differently. In this self-directed online course trainers will learn strategies to design effective distance learning courses, engage participants in distance learning events, gain technology competence, ask questions to provoke rich dialog, and multitask and mange time when facilitating a distance learning.
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Orientation for New Caseworkers
This web page provides resources and materials designed to help new employees become oriented to the field of child welfare, their county agency, and the community they serve. The page includes:
- A checklist that can be used as a guide as well as a record for New Employee Orientation
- New employee resources that include:
- An outline of recommended orientation topics and content
- Resources and links to recommended orientation content
- Worksheets and activities designed to help new employees gather and keep track of information specific to their agency and their community
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Readiness for New Caseworkers
OCWTP Readiness checklists, resources, & activities are designed to help new child welfare caseworkers prepare for their duties and responsibilities. Resources and activities include strategies and suggestions to explore best practice standards; agency-specific policies and procedures; and specific job functions (Screening, Investigation, & Assessment; Case Planning & Implementation; Placing & Working with Children in Substitute Care & Their Families; and Working with Foster & Kinship Caregivers & Adoptive Parents.) The web page includes:
- An outline of readiness topics and content
- Resources and links to recommended readiness content
- Worksheets and activities to help prepare new caseworkers for specific job functions
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Readiness for New Supervisors
OCWTP Readiness checklists, resources, & activities are designed to help new child welfare supervisors prepare for their duties and responsibilities. Resources and activities include strategies and suggestions to explore best practice standards, agency-specific policies and procedures, and specific job functions. The web page includes:
- An outline of readiness topics and content
- Resources and links to recommended readiness content
- Worksheets and activities to help prepare new supervisors for specific job functions
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CAPMIS Tool Kit
The CAPMIS Tool Kit is a compilation of resources and skill-building activities designed to support CAPMIS implementation in Ohio’s PCSAs. It includes a variety of learning activities that can be delivered in a variety of ways – many self-directed – to help you either learn more about the CAPMIS process or actually build skills for better assessments and documentations.
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Essential Learning: A Library of 1-3 Hour Courses
The OCWTP has access to online courses on a variety of topics through Essential Learning. Topics range from issues related to substance abuse and mental illness to engaging fathers and OSHA related topics. Click here to see course descriptions.
Note: Not all Essential Learning courses will be approved for credit toward your required hours of continuing education. For example, compliance courses and workforce courses, such as sexual harassment, first aide, time management, etc., are not approved for licensure nor continuing education credit. In addition, not all courses have been approved for social work licensure credit. We suggest you carefully review the color-coded library of Essential Learning courses and get your supervisor's approval before taking a course.
Registration: If you see a course that matches your training need, have a conversation with your supervisor for approval and contact your RTC to explore eligibility.
Foster Parent College
These interactive, multi-media courses from Foster Parent College (FPC) explore specific behavior problems, emotional disorders in children, and practical parenting strategies. Effective and powerful messages are presented through dramatized vignettes, interviews with parents, and instruction from nationally-known parenting experts. Most courses are self-paced, and provide two hours of training credit. A few courses are identified as advanced parenting workshops and require assignments to be completed by a certain time as well as interaction with the facilitator and other participants through a discussion board. Advanced parenting workshops provide 6 hours of training credit.
Registration: Public agency foster caregivers are eligible to take select FPC courses for free. Interested caregivers should ask their agency support worker/training liaison for a referral to their regional FPC coordinator. The regional FPC coordinator will verify eligibility, create an account with FPC, and assign credits for course registration. Registrants will receive a participant handbook that explains how to register and take FPC courses.
Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) of 1978
This web-based training was developed by the National Indian Child Welfare Association (NICWA) and presents key provisions of ICWA in non-legal language. In this course, provisions of the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 (ICWA) are presented in the order in which a child welfare worker might encounter them. With its “just-in-time” format, the course gives best practice standards associated with effective social work practice and provides information to support best practice and appropriate documentation. The course also provides an overview of Native American and Alaskan Native cultures. This learning takes between three to six hours to compete, including a post-test. It is divided into sections, making it convenient to complete in several sessions. A certificate is issued from NICWA upon successful completion of the course, and three hours of Ohio social work licensure credit is available.
Registration: This course is free and available to PCSA caseworkers, supervisors, and administrators as well as OCWTP trainers. To register, contact Liz Noe at lnoe@ihs-trainet.com. She collaborates directly with staff at NICWA who manages the log-in process. A NICWA liaison is also available in each region to provide further support.
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