Online Child Welfare Courses
NO CONTINUING EDUCATION CLOCK HOURS (CECHs) are offered for the online courses listed on this page. Use the buttons below to navigate to each section.
Caregiver
200-18: Trauma-informed Caregiving (Part 2): Understanding Neurodevelopment and the Stress Response System
Begin this course
This training will explore in more depth how trauma can alter development and examine emotional and behavioral differences that may result.
208-18: Support Services for Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Children & Families
Begin this course
In this training, you will examine multiple risk factors that impact transgender youth from a solution-focused lens, including attempted suicide rate (40 percent), homelessness, school bullying and harassment, and hate crimes.
213-19: Doing the Difficult Work (Part 1): How to Develop Effective Relationships with Birth Families
Begin this course
Experienced foster parents will discuss the realities of parenting children not living with their birth families. Learn approaches that help you establish relationships with birth families that are designed to help you and your children maintain healthy connections with birth parents. Learn about cultural humility and how to view birth families through a cultural lens.
218-19: When Behaviors Prevent School Success: Advocating for Your Child with Emotional or Behavior Problems
Begin this course
This webinar will introduce caregivers to the purpose of school Behavior Intervention Plans. It will teach them how to know when their child would benefit from a Behavior Intervention Plan and how to determine if the plan is appropriate and effective. Caregivers will learn to advocate for their child’s emotional and behavioral needs to be supported in school, preventing suspensions, expulsions, and school failure.
372: Trauma-Informed Caregiving (Part 1) Becoming Trauma Informed Parents
Begin this course
This training will explore why different techniques are needed when working with foster, kinship, and adoptive parents and what skills you can use to provide compassionate care that support the needs for safety and love in our vulnerable children.
Children & Families
200-19: The Matter of Motivation
Begin this course
This webinar will take an in-depth look into human motivation.
201-19: Big Behavior & Trauma: Similarities, Differences, and Strategies for Working with Traumatized Youth
Begin this course
In Michigan, over 28% of children under the age of 17 have experienced two or more adverse childhood experiences, well above the national average. Adverse childhood experiences include verbal, psychological, physical, or sexual abuse (witness or victim), among other somewhat complex traumatic events (ACES Study, 2011). These traumatic experiences can greatly affect how children view and cope with life. Complexly traumatized children often behave in ways that seem random, unpredictable, withdrawn and extreme, struggling with impulse control and being able to think through consequences (NCTSN, 2017). Research and practice are now opening our eyes to the significant relationship between behavior and trauma exposure. In this webinar, you will learn about common similarities and differences between typical developmental behaviors and trauma behavior as well as the interrelatedness of each. You will receive strategies for working with youth who are exhibiting big behavior due to trauma exposure. In addition, you will receive tips and resources for further education and tools available to families. This webinar will utilize visual displays, incorporate participant feedback, and allow time for questions and answers. Recommended for LMSW beginning skill level.
203-19: Stress & Burnout in Foster Families
Begin this course
This webinar will focus on the emotional challenges of foster parenting and the resulting stress and burnout. In this webinar, you will learn about the realities of how stress, burnout, trauma, loss, and grief can affect the entire family. You will also learn strategies designed to best support foster parents and address the stress that comes with this time of loss. This webinar will utilize visual displays, incorporate participant feedback, and allow time for questions and answers. Recommended for LMSW beginning skill level.
219-19: Mindfulness, Wellness, and Creative Self-care for Helping Professionals
Begin this course
This webinar seeks to prepare you to understand secondary traumatic stress exposure in the workplace, the conditions that may expose helping professionals to secondary traumatic stress, and allow you the space to assess your exposure to workplace conditions that may impact your mental health, wellness, and self-care practices with mindful awareness. You will be able to identify supports and resources to improve your holistic functioning as well as utilize self-assessment tools for reflection. This webinar seeks to impact the awareness of and need for stress management and focus on self-care. The practice of mindfulness will be explored as a tool to increase the helping professional’s awareness and peace during time of stress. This webinar will utilize visual displays and allow time for questions and answers. Recommended for LMSW beginning and intermediate skill levels.
315: Children of Parents with Mental Illness
Begin this course
Learn how social workers and other professionals can better recognize and attend to the needs and strengths of children and their family members of children of parents who have mental health concerns.
340: Positive Parenting with Very Young Children
Begin this course
This online training will focus on ways to positively manage behaviors in children aged 2-6, and explore strategies for professionals to help caregivers with challenging behaviors.
Substance Use
347: Working with Families Affected by Substance Abuse
Begin this course
This training will focus on ways workers can be prepared to work with families affected by substance abuse and provide additional available resources.
Trauma
201-18: Connecting Brain and Behavior
Begin this course
This training will focus on atypical brain development resulting from exposure to prenatal teratogens and/or prenatal and early childhood chronic trauma and how this impacts behavior.