Vol. 24, No. 2
May 2019

Family Engagement Learning Resources

By honing your family engagement skills, these resources may help you strengthen your assessment of safety and risk.

National Resources
Family Engagement: A Web-Based Practice Toolkit. This guide is offered by the National Center for Child Welfare Excellence. http://www.nccwe.org/toolkits/family-engagement/introduction.htm

Family Engagement. Bulletin for professionals offered through the Child Welfare Information Gateway. https://www.childwelfare.gov/pubPDFs/f_fam_engagement.pdf

Family Engagement in Child Welfare Video Series. Offers insight into key elements needed to make peer-to-peer family engagement programs successful. https://www.childwelfare.gov/topics/management/reform/soc/communicate/initiative/ntaec/familyvideos/

Engaging Families: Making Visits Matter--A Field Guide. Features detailed practice recommendations for family engagement, including steps for working with resistance. http://muskie.usm.maine.edu/helpkids/PMNetworkDocs/CPM%20Field%20Guide.pdf

Training in NC
Engaging the Non-Resident Father. This 2-day course helps supervisors build skills needed to support their staff in actively engaging non-resident fathers.

Navigating Child and Family Teams: The Role of the Facilitator is an intensive, 3-day skill-building opportunity for those who will be facilitating child and family team meetings.

Secondary Trauma: A Course for Child Welfare Workers. Managing secondary trauma is an important piece of our work. In this 1-day course you will create an individualized resilience plan to help you anticipate and respond to secondary trauma.

Secondary Trauma: A Course for Supervisors & Managers. Seeing and hearing about child maltreatment every day takes a toll. This 2-day course will teach you about the impact secondary trauma has on you, your team, and your agency, and what to do about it.

Step by Step: An Introduction to Child and Family Teams. This 2-day interactive orientation and practice training focuses on the use of child and family teams.

Trauma Screening 101. This 1-hour self-paced, online course explores how trauma screening can reveal valuable information, improve our understanding of children's behavior, build relationships with children, and ensure they and their families get the services they need.

To learn more about these and other courses, or to register, North Carolina child welfare professionals should log in to their accounts on www.ncswLearn.org.