What role does implicit bias play in our everyday lives? How does this impact the services provided to youth in foster care? This session provides attendees with eye-opening strategies to increase cultural compassion and address implicit biases we all have. This training is broken into two sections. Each section contains reflective exercises that allow you to consider the material presented. Objectives for both modules are: - Share 10 exercises which improve capacity to provide culturally compassionate care to foster children. - Identify and address implicit biases - Understand and address ethnocentrism - Understand components of culture - Learn to navigate differences between cultures

What role does implicit bias play in our everyday lives? How does this impact the services provided to youth in foster care? This session provides attendees with eye-opening strategies to increase cultural compassion and address implicit biases we all have. This training is broken into two sections. Each section contains reflective exercises that allow you to consider the material presented. Objectives for both modules are: - Share 10 exercises which improve capacity to provide culturally compassionate care to foster children. - Identify and address implicit biases - Understand and address ethnocentrism - Understand components of culture - Learn to navigate differences between cultures

Working in the field of child welfare requires staff to be able to work effectively with children and families of diverse backgrounds. The Department of Children and Family Services serves families regardless of their race, ethnicity, sexual orientation/gender expression, or socioeconomic background. This course will assist child welfare professionals in understanding the importance of engaging families through the lenses of cultural humility in order to effectively assess for the safety, permanency, and well-being of children. This course will also provide effective strategies for working in a way that encourages mutual respect and trust and acknowledges families as experts of their lives. Many new child welfare staff may be familiar with the concept of cultural competence however, the term cultural competence can imply that full proficiency in another culture is an achievable goal and runs the risk of suggesting those who share culture have identical experiences. On the other hand, cultural humility assumes that others are experts in their own culture, culture is multifaceted, there are structural factors that influence people differently, and people hold multiple cultural and social identities. Course Objective: At the completion of this course, participants will be able to: - Define, self-reflect and demonstrate cultural humility, ensuring personal biases are not impacting engagement and assessment.

During this virtual interaction session, we will discuss DCFS drug screening policy, the different drug panels, frequency of testing as well as understanding the results. Lastly we will discuss the Medical Review Officer (MRO) Process.

During this training session, we will discuss DCFS drug screening policy, the different drug panels, frequency of testing as well as understanding the results. Lastly we will discuss the Medical Review Officer (MRO) Process.

This course covers DCFS In-Home Safety Plans. The sections included are: DCFS In-Home Safety Plan defined, Developing a Safety Plan, Writing a Safety Plan and Monitoring a Safety Plan. It includes a pre- and post-test of writing a safety plan based on a case scenario.