Join us for a 2-day intensive virtual training on working with survivors of sex trafficking in the child welfare system.

Many families impacted by domestic violence perpetrators� behaviors have multiple, complex, intersecting issues. In the past, we might have referred to these as co-occurring issues. But the language of co-occurrence often doesn�t provide us with a sense of how these issues interact. For example, listing the family�s issues is not as powerful as explaining how the domestic violence perpetrator interfered with his partner�s recovery. Listing that the family has experienced both domestic violence and child behavioral health issues is not as useful as describing how the perpetrator�s violence has produced anxiety and aggression in the children. Using an intersections framework, versus a co-occurrence framework, we increase perpetrator accountability, improve our ability to diagnose and treat each member of the family, and improve our ability to help the adult and children survivors. This course will provide guidance on how to understand the connections, or intersections, and make them work for us in our practice.

This course is a part of the "Foster Parent Training: An In-Depth Exploration of Advanced Topics Trainings will provide in-depth discussion of topics relevant for providing developmentally appropriate, trauma-informed, and culturally responsive, care for children involved with the child welfare system. Learning objectives: 1. Participants will understand the basic concepts of power and control in intimate partner relationships. 2. Participants will be able to differentiate between tolerable and toxic stress and the impact that this has on child development. 3. Participants will understand ways that exposure to IPV impacts child behavior. 4. Participants will learn parenting skills to support children in their recovery from exposure to IPV.

Provide CLEAR users with an introduction to CLEAR. The training will provide all features available to search for individuals and how to locate relatives of searched individuals.

Child maltreatment during infancy and childhood years has been shown to negatively affect child development, including brain and cognitive development, and can have lasting effects. Abuse and neglect also affect children and youth�s social and emotional development. This course will provide a brief introduction on basic child development, common milestones, and the impact of abuse/neglect on normal childhood development.

This course will provide and introductory foundation to the terms and concepts of the Department of Children and Family Services' Child Welfare Assessment and Decision Making Model (CWADM). This course is the pre-requisite for the CWADM course provided in Level 2 of the Foundations of Child Welfare Practices.