Ethics in Everyday Practice: Protecting Clients and Ourselves
Services for children and families come with myriad ethical challenges. In this webinar, Dr. Frederic Reamer will explore complex ethical issues and practical strategies designed to protect clients, practitioners, and employing organizations. The webinar will include challenging ethics cases and explore practical steps that professionals can take to manage ethical issues skillfully. Key topics will include boundary issues, dual relationships, conflicts of interest, confidentiality exceptions, privileged communication, informed consent, clients’ rights, use of online and digital technology, termination of services, documentation challenges, and impaired professionals, among others. The webinar will include discussion of relevant ethics standards, statutes, regulations, and case law, along with practical strategies designed to prevent litigation and licensing board complaints.
Saving Lives: Recognizing and Responding to Youth Suicide Risk
This training provides an overview of the topic of suicide, signs, and symptoms, and how caregivers should respond in times of crisis. The training will dive into the rates of youth suicide, risk factors, and proactive steps to take for prevention.
Supporting Families of LGBTQ+ Youth
This topic addresses how to engage and strengthen families as allies in the lives of LGBTQ+ youth. It highlights the importance of family acceptance, strategies for helping caregivers process their emotions, and ways to reduce risks of rejection.
Assessing LGBTQ+ Affirmation in a Potential Foster Home
This topic examines how to evaluate whether a foster home provides affirming care for LGBTQ+ youth. It highlights the importance of caregivers’ attitudes, language, and practices that validate a young person’s sexual orientation, gender identity, and expression.
Affirming Transgender, Nonbinary, and Gender Diverse (TNGD) Youth in Out-of-Home Care
This topic examines how to evaluate whether a foster home provides affirming care for LGBTQ+ youth. It highlights the importance of caregivers’ attitudes, language, and practices that validate a young person’s sexual orientation, gender identity, and expression.
A Conversation About the Keeping Families Together Act
Join us for an open discussion about Washington’s Keeping Families Together Act (HB 1227) and what it means for the child welfare system across the state. We’ll talk about what this law does and doesn’t do, the challenges with Implementation and how this law changes the way we support families and work to keep them safely together. Shrounda Selivanoff, Kim Justice, and Annie Chung will share their insights and experiences, and there will be time for questions and conversation.rsation.
Engagement of Family and Youth
The Engagement of Family and Youth Training equips child welfare professionals, educators, and community leaders with culturally responsive strategies to strengthen family and youth partnerships. This interactive training focuses on reducing racial disproportionality, fostering trust, and implementing equitable, family-centered decision-making practices.
Trauma Informed Care - Understand & Reduce Trauma Reactions in Children
Children who have experienced trauma often bring challenging behaviors to their environment. This training offers a trauma refresher overview and ideas into helping the child manage their reactions and behaviors.
Empowering Supervisors: Coaching, Communication and Retention
This training aims to provide supervisors at child welfare agencies with tools and actionable strategies that will improve their leadership skills. Participants will learn how to adopt coaching practices, improve communication, set clear expectations, support staff well-being, and foster retention.
The Use of Artificial Intelligence in Child and Family Services: Ethical and Risk Management Challenges
Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming increasingly prevalent in the delivery of services to children and families. AI is being used to conduct client risk assessments, assist people in crisis, strengthen prevention efforts, record clinical notes, identify systemic biases in the delivery of social services, provide professional education, and predict practitioner burnout and service outcomes, among other uses. This webinar will examine cutting-edge ethical issues related to practitioners’ use of AI; apply relevant ethical standards; and outline elements of a strategy for practitioners’ ethical use of AI.
Staying Mission-Focused during uncertainty: A key to workforce stability and wellness
This session equips leaders with strategies to maintain mission alignment during tough times. Participants will explore how uncertainty impacts organizational focus, decision-making, staff morale, and client engagement.
Motivational Interviewing: An Introduction Day 2
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Presented by: Steven Malcolm Berg-Smith
Motivational Interviewing (MI) offers a practical, evidence-based communication style for mobilizing clients’ motivation for change and growth. This intensive 8-hour virtual MI introductory workshop will provide participants with an overview of the theory, principles, skills, and current advances of MI.
Motivational Interviewing: An Introduction Day 1
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Presented by: Steven Malcolm Berg-Smith
Motivational Interviewing (MI) offers a practical, evidence-based communication style for mobilizing clients’ motivation for change and growth. This intensive 8-hour virtual MI introductory workshop will provide participants with an overview of the theory, principles, skills, and current advances of MI.
TBRI Training
Presented by: Megan Walsh
TBRI® is an attachment-based, trauma-informed intervention that is designed to meet the complex needs of vulnerable children. TBRI® uses Empowering, Connecting and Correcting Principles to address physical needs and attachment needs.