The Foundation Series for Case Managers provides the fundamental knowledge and skill necessary for public child welfare practice. Case Manager Foundation training will change in 2008. It will include a two-tier system where all new case managers will be required to take Tier 1 level classes within the first 9 months of employment and then take Tier 2 classes after but within 18 months of employment.

This series is also recommended for supervisors who have not previously or recently worked in child welfare.

• T1.1: Professionalism in Family-Centered Child Protective Services
  Effective January 2008, Professionalism and F-CCPS will be combined into one 2-day class.
  
  
• T1.2: Legal Aspects of Child Welfare
  A four-day training in which participants develop familiarity with child welfare laws and their application.
  
  
• T1.3: Engaging for Trusting Relationships
  

  Engagement skills training provides a framework to create the desired core conditions necessary for building trust with families: genuiness, respect, empathy and competence.

  
  
  
• T1.4: Interviewing for Child Welfare
  
  
  
• T1.5: Safety Foundation
  This training stresses the importance of first assuring safety for children and then utilizing proper case planning to assure timely, high quality services to families.
  
  
• T1.6: Safety Intervention in Ongoing Services (Formerly PCFA)
  In this three day class, particpants will gain a working knowledge of how safety concepts and crieria apply to the case planning and case evaluation process.
  
  
• T1.6: Safety Intervention in Ongoing Services Overview (Formerly PCFA)
  This one-day session is for all staff (specifically Intake/IA and OHC) who would like a general overview of PCFA concepts.
  
  
• T2: CST Facilitation Practicum
  
  
  
• T2: Case Practice with American Indian Tribes
  This 2-day training is designed to give the participant an understanding of the justification and legislative intent of the Indian Child Welfare Act.
  
  
  
  
• T2: Effects of Maltreatment in Child Welfare
  A two-day training in which participants actively explore the development consequences of child abuse and neglect in children from birth to adolescence.
  
  
• T2: Separation, Placement and Permanence
  A three day workshop addressing the knowledge and skill required to assess risk, identify and respond to the effects of separation, intervene in crisis situations, work with foster care givers and effect family reunification.  Must take all Tier 1 Foundation classes prior.