View previously recorded webinars and meeting presentations (CEUs available)
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Welcome to CapLEARN, the Child Welfare Capacity Building Collaborative tool that provides access to training, knowledge, and skills to promote professional leadership development. CapLEARN is available to all individuals interested in building child welfare capacity through learning.
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Course Catalog
This curriculum builds the knowledge, skills, and motivation of current and future child welfare frontline staff to participate in efforts to develop and test successful child welfare interventions and improve outcomes for children and families.
This curriculum builds the knowledge, skills, and motivation of current and future child welfare frontline staff to participate in efforts to develop and test successful child welfare interventions and improve outcomes for children and families.
Learn how to develop agency capacity and programs that foster a healthy work environment for child welfare professionals. Individuals or teams can use the discussion guide to choose video demonstrations, presentations, resources, and activities that suit specific workforce needs.
Learn about the complexity of chronic neglect and how to assess system change to meet the needs of children and youth. Use the eLearning modules to understand the processes and partnerships needed for understanding and identifying chronic neglect to effectively intervene and reduce it (CEUs available).
Learn about supporting culturally responsive services for American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) children, youth, and families and increasing Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) compliance. Use this 3-day in-person training to engage in collaborative learning and action planning for stronger state-tribal partnerships.
ELearning Course by JBS International under a cooperative agreement with the Children’s Bureau (CEUs available)
Create a mutual understanding of what it takes to build and sustain an effective continuous quality improvement (CQI) system with a 2-day, in-person overview curriculum for teams. Use downloadable tools to self-assess current CQI programs and set goals before training.
Help your agency identify the needs of its CQI system and explore solutions with a deeper dive into eight key areas using this customizable curriculum for in-person training. Use assessment and training resources to engage participants at all levels of CQI knowledge and ability.
Learn how to improve engagement with families and feedback strategies for supervisors in this learning experience. Videos, discussion guides, and assessment tools help individuals and teams identify elements of quality contacts before, during, and after visits, and ways the supervisory relationship can improve practice (CEUs available).
Learn how to increase communication and collaboration between courts and state child welfare agencies to promote safety, permanency, and child and family well-being. This three-module learning experience uses a case study model illustrating how agencies and courts use a shared continuous quality improvement (CQI) approach to improve outcomes for children, youth, and families (CEUs available).
Watch and discuss what you hear from firsthand accounts of resource parents sharing the impact of support and collaborative partnerships when working with children, youth, and their families. Agencies can use the videos and discussion guide to explore the impact of agency staff, peer, family, and community support structures on resource parents (CEUs available).
Learn how to improve the quality of assessments and decision-making to improve outcomes for children, youth, and families. Use the four modules with associated learning activities, personal stories, and supplemental resources for individual or group training to promote dialogue, critical thinking, and practice improvement (CEUs available).
Online training on parent-child visits focused on efforts towards family reunification
An online course covering the core components of parent's representation in dependency cases
A comprehensive online course covering ICWA's substantive provisions and historical context
E-toolkit, including interactive modules, automated tools, videos, and links to additional resources
Videos, resources, and information from the Child Welfare Virtual Expo, held on July 13, 2016 (CEUs available)
E-learning course focused on building capacity to achieve placement stability
Co-facilitate to model partnership between agency staff and family leaders. Teams can build skills together to form partnerships, identify effective family empowerment strategies, create favorable culture and climate, and advance shared leadership.
Family leaders, child welfare agency staff, and community partners can use the online modules to learn how to build meaningful partnerships, provide peer-to-peer support to families, and promote positive outcomes through family empowerment (CEUs available).
Training Course focused on building capacity to implement Sex Trafficking provisions of PL113-183
Training Course focused on defining, reporting and addressing the needs of sex trafficking victims
Digital stories and discussion guides that explore the complexities of sex trafficking
View previously recorded webinars and meeting presentations (CEUs available)
Learn how to develop agency capacity and programs that foster a healthy work environment for child welfare professionals. Individuals or teams can use the discussion guide to choose video demonstrations, presentations, resources, and activities that suit specific workforce needs.
Learn about the complexity of chronic neglect and how to assess system change to meet the needs of children and youth. Use the eLearning modules to understand the processes and partnerships needed for understanding and identifying chronic neglect to effectively intervene and reduce it (CEUs available).
Learn about supporting culturally responsive services for American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) children, youth, and families and increasing Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) compliance. Use this 3-day in-person training to engage in collaborative learning and action planning for stronger state-tribal partnerships.
ELearning Course by JBS International under a cooperative agreement with the Children’s Bureau (CEUs available)
Create a mutual understanding of what it takes to build and sustain an effective continuous quality improvement (CQI) system with a 2-day, in-person overview curriculum for teams. Use downloadable tools to self-assess current CQI programs and set goals before training.
Help your agency identify the needs of its CQI system and explore solutions with a deeper dive into eight key areas using this customizable curriculum for in-person training. Use assessment and training resources to engage participants at all levels of CQI knowledge and ability.
Learn how to improve engagement with families and feedback strategies for supervisors in this learning experience. Videos, discussion guides, and assessment tools help individuals and teams identify elements of quality contacts before, during, and after visits, and ways the supervisory relationship can improve practice (CEUs available).
Learn how to increase communication and collaboration between courts and state child welfare agencies to promote safety, permanency, and child and family well-being. This three-module learning experience uses a case study model illustrating how agencies and courts use a shared continuous quality improvement (CQI) approach to improve outcomes for children, youth, and families (CEUs available).
Watch and discuss what you hear from firsthand accounts of resource parents sharing the impact of support and collaborative partnerships when working with children, youth, and their families. Agencies can use the videos and discussion guide to explore the impact of agency staff, peer, family, and community support structures on resource parents (CEUs available).
Learn how to improve the quality of assessments and decision-making to improve outcomes for children, youth, and families. Use the four modules with associated learning activities, personal stories, and supplemental resources for individual or group training to promote dialogue, critical thinking, and practice improvement (CEUs available).
Videos, resources, and information from the Child Welfare Virtual Expo, held on July 13, 2016 (CEUs available)
E-learning course focused on building capacity to achieve placement stability
Co-facilitate to model partnership between agency staff and family leaders. Teams can build skills together to form partnerships, identify effective family empowerment strategies, create favorable culture and climate, and advance shared leadership.
Family leaders, child welfare agency staff, and community partners can use the online modules to learn how to build meaningful partnerships, provide peer-to-peer support to families, and promote positive outcomes through family empowerment (CEUs available).
Training Course focused on building capacity to implement Sex Trafficking provisions of PL113-183
Training Course focused on defining, reporting and addressing the needs of sex trafficking victims
Digital stories and discussion guides that explore the complexities of sex trafficking
An online course covering the core components of parent's representation in dependency cases
A comprehensive online course covering ICWA's substantive provisions and historical context
Online training on parent-child visits focused on efforts towards family reunification
