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Curricula and Training for Adoption Administrators, Managers, and Supervisors
In this section find curricula, training, and assessment tools for adoption administrators, managers, and supervisors, including State and local examples.
Adoption Competence: A Guide to Developing an Adoption Certificate Program for Mental Health Practitioners (PDF - 1060 KB)
National Child Welfare Resource Center for Adoption (2007)
Describes a training program and toolkit to bring adoption education to mental health providers and to help them work through issues facing adopted children and adoptive families.
State Child Welfare Training Resources | |
Series Title: | Related Organizations Lists |
Author(s): | Child Welfare Information Gateway |
Availability: | View Download (PDF - 0KB) |
Year Published: | 2011 - 12 pages |
Includes links to State-specific agencies, organizations, and universities providing training and/or continuing education for the child welfare workforce. |
AFCARS Toolkit
National Resource Center for Child Welfare Data and Technology (2004)
Provides both new and experienced State child welfare program and system staff with an orientation to the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS).
Adoption and Safe Families Act Curricula
National Resource Center on Child Welfare Training and Evaluation (2004)
Provides a training program for supervisors about case planning in the context of the Adoption and Safe Families Act.
Educational Collaborations With States (Podcast)
National Resource Center for Family-Centered Practice and Permanency Planning (2007)
Outlines educational outcomes for youth in care and offers examples of State educational collaborations for State program managers in foster care and adoption.
Recruitment Work Plan Guide for Adoption and Foster Care Program Managers (PDF - 1690 KB)
Collaboration to AdoptUsKids (2003)
Describes a results-based system for adoptive parent recruitment that focuses agency activities on placing children in permanent homes. Also available: Recruitment Work Plan Booklet (PDF - 88 KB), Assessment Tool for Recruitment Programs (PDF - 58 KB), and Toolkit (PDF - 1280 KB)
Rural Child Welfare (Podcast)
National Resource Center for Family-Centered Practice and Permanency Planning (2008)
Addresses rural child welfare issues for State foster care and adoption managers.
Training Program for Child Welfare Supervisors
University of Michigan School of Social Work (2004)
Includes training sessions to integrate management and supervisory theory into child welfare. Online materials are geared for supervisors in public agencies, voluntary agencies providing contractual child welfare services, and supervisory personnel in courts.
Traumatic Stress in Children (Podcast)
National Resource Center for Family-Centered Practice and Permanency Planning (2008)
Presents an overview of traumatic stress, effects of trauma, and basic approaches to treatment for State foster care and adoption managers.
State and local examples
Supervising for Comprehensive Relative Identification and Exploration: Training Curriculum
Muskie School of Public Service, Child Welfare Training Institute (2009)
Describes a curriculum developed by the University of Southern Maine for supervisors that focuses on identifying relatives of children in the child welfare system in Maine. The course goal is to develop the skills of supervisors to meet the needs of both children and staff they serve. (PDF - 262 KB)
Supervisor Core: Child Welfare Policy and Practice for Supervisors: Trainee's Guide (PDF - 1130 KB)
California Social Work Education Center (2006)
Presents a mandated, standard curriculum for new child welfare supervisors in California that focuses on child welfare policy and practice.