Course Catalog

Introduction to working with children who have been sexually abused.

This course has been incorporated into CORE training and is no longer being offered as an independent course.

This Level 1 training is designed specifically for the CPS specialist to equip them with the knowledge and skills to address the area of practice where CPS and FCS intersect.

This is a 2 day course. This training is mandatory for new Hotline and Child Protective Services specialists who have completed CORE training. Specialists will be enrolled into this training by CW Training Coordinators following the successful completion of Provisional Certification.

This course is required for all Family Center Services and Permanency Planning specialists and occurs after CORE. CW Training coordinators will enroll specialists into this course following successful completion of Provisional Certification.

This training is an overview of the foster care and adoption process.

This course has been incorporated into CORE training and is no longer being offered as an independent course.

The Oklahoma Child Welfare Behavioral Health: Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders training provides information about mental health and substance use disorders and supports the practice of skills that are helpful in working with families.

The Oklahoma Child Welfare Behavioral Health: Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders training provides information about mental health and substance use disorders and supports the practice of skills that are helpful in working with families.

This training pertains to child abuse/neglect referrals and CPS investigations/assessments of foster homes, trial adoptive homes and child care center/homes.

This training will provide specialists with the philosophy and best practice techniques for specialists who work with older adolescents in out-of-home placement.

Pre-Requisites: CW 1006 This Level 1 training is an overview of policy and best practice in Family Centered Service casework. The training will build off the information learned in CW 1006 to increase knowledge and skills of the FCS specialist.

This training is intended to explore the impact of domestic violence on families who are involved with the Child Welfare system.

This training will guide Contractors and Sub-Contractors through the process of assessing and preparing potential resource families to meet the needs of children from the child welfare system.

This training is an overview of adoption process from termination of parental rights to adoption finalization.

Guiding Principles for Oklahoma Bridge Resource Families is the 9-session, 27-hour trauma-informed training curriculum for Oklahoma pre-service kinship, foster, and adoptive parents.

This training is an overview of the background search and assessment process for resource staff.

In this course the specialist will learn about assessing safety in resource homes, as it relates to identifying concerns that can lead to Maltreatment In Care (MIC).

Early Childhood Development in Child Welfare teaches typical childhood development and how to identify signs of atypical development. It addresses the importance of early relationships and early environments. The importance of attachment and attachment styles are taught as well as the impact trauma, grief and loss have on development.

This training will provide specialists an overview of Child Safety Meetings (CSM) in Child Welfare. Specialists will leave with an understanding of the main purpose of a CSM, an introduction to the six stage decision making models, and their responsibility prior to, during and after the CSM.

This course has been incorporated into CORE training and is no longer being offered as an independent course.

This course is an introduction to Child Welfare for School-Based specialists. In this course, specialists will comprehend the intake process of a referral; know and apply the difference in abusive and neglectful behaviors versus poor parenting practices; distinguish between the basic roles of CPS, FCS and PP and how these different programs interact with School-Based specialists; and recognize and apply how to support children and families, who are engaged with the child welfare system, in a school-based setting.

Enrollment for all level trainings is restricted. Level 1 trainings are required to be completed prior to attending Level 2 trainings. To inquire regarding the Level 1 trainings you have remaining or to be enrolled in Level 2 trainings, please contact childwelfaretraining@okdhs.org.

This training is designed for specialists working in the field longer than one year to remain current on CPS policy and practice changes.

This class is not currently available.

This class is not currently available.

This training pertains to child abuse/neglect referrals and CPS investigations/assessments of foster homes, trial adoptive homes and child care center/homes.

This training will provide specialists with the philosophy and best practice techniques for specialists who work with older adolescents in out-of-home placement.

This training focuses on injuries associated with child abuse, particularly fractures, head trauma, and other injuries that may be misdiagnosed as accidental.

CW 2057 has moved to a Level 1 course, and is now CW 1057.

This is a level 2 course wherein the specialist will be learning about assessing safety in resource homes, as it relates to identifying concerns that can lead to Maltreatment In Care (MIC).

CW 2111 has moved to a Level 1 course and is now CW 1100.

Introduces participants to the phases of performance development, identifying performance issues, providing performance feedback, and basic assessment skills.

Motivational interviewing (MI) is a proven, client centered intervention method for addressing ambivalence to change.

Time Management is one of the core differences between effective and ineffective people, and is an important challenge for lead specialists to balance a caseload with provision of back up supervision.

There will be a brief re-view of CW 3032 material. Motivational interviewing (MI) is a proven, client centered intervention method for addressing ambivalence and resistance to change.

This workshop will address the effects of domestic violence on children. Research shows that children suffer lasting effects many areas of their lives from domestic violence.

This training describes the characteristics of those who engage in sexually abusive behavior, addresses some myths about sex offense and sexual offenders, and how to interact effectively with families that have been impacted by sexual abuse.

This training does have a mandatory online pre-requisite, Introduction to Mentoring Basics.

This training will follow up on and expand the basic coaching principles introduced in CW 3300 and apply their coaching skills specifically to the Mentor Certification Test.

The certification process is a two hour simulation in which the mentor is provided with a scenario and role plays the act of providing coaching to a new specialist based on the scenario.

This 3 hour course will provide hands on training to increase the understanding of workload data and reports, workload calculations, and balancing a group workload.

This workshop will discuss the aspect of supervision that focuses on the work with clients.

The Follow-Up Coaching Workshop series allows participants to practice concepts learned in their initial coaching courses and also receive specific, personalized feedback.

Child Welfare practice has the need for ethical awareness and ethical practice at its highest pitch.

The CW Supervisors' Annual Conference is mandatory for Child Welfare Supervisors.

Meeting management, case consultation, feedback on staff performance, teaching, reviewing reports and supporting your specialists are a few of the daily tasks any manager in child welfare faces today.

Quality supervision should integrate the importance of the many parallel processes that take place emanating from the supervisory relationship.

This course will examine the historical and current role that poverty, race, and ethnicity play in family violence, in general, and child maltreatment, in particular, the research about how these contexts affect families, the parent-child relationship, and discipline as well as the research on the effects of poverty and racial oppression on child maltreatment.

KIDS Reports Training for Supervisors is a track specific training for PP, offered to Supervisors currently attending CW 4550 Supervisor Academy and others if space permits.

KIDS Reports Training for Supervisors is a track specific training for CPS, offered to Supervisors currently attending CW 4550 Supervisor Academy and others if space permits.

KIDS Reports Training for Supervisors is a track specific training for Resource, offered to Supervisors currently attending CW 4550 Supervisor Academy and others if space permits.

This is an interactive workshop that will cover the following topics: Essential Management Skills, Retention, Influential Leadership, Coaching, Performance Management, etc.

This simulation builds on skills learned in the “Indirect Trauma Sensitive Supervision” session of Module 3 of Supervisor Academy.

This is a training developed to offer Child Welfare Leadership an opportunity to provide oversight on cases in which child abuse and domestic violence intersect.

This training is designed specifically for Child Welfare Specialists and supervisors who work with fatality cases.

This course will provide information about House Bill 2552, which was passed by the Oklahoma Legislature effective November 1, 2018 and covers the rights afforded to children in foster care. The Foster Children’s Bill of Rights is presented by the Office of Client Advocacy.

Assessing safety is an ongoing process that is continuous throughout the entire time a child is in DHS custody. In this course, we will explore these opportunities, so we can improve in: Preventing Maltreatment in Care (MIC) from occurring, Recognizing when a child may be experiencing MIC, Intervening quickly if we become aware of MIC, or conditions that can contribute to MIC

Review the new Foster Care / Adoption policy that was released in 2018.

This training is for all Resource Family Specialists, Adoption Specialists, Resource supervisors, and Field Managers whose job responsibilities include the ongoing assessment and reopening of resource homes.

This course will provide a basic understanding of Permanency Safety consultations, including intent, frequency of, and roles and responsibilities of PSCs.

Maltreatment in Care (MIC) 2 expands on principles learned in the Maltreatment in Care (MIC) course by taking a deeper dive into three key areas of MIC identification and prevention: identifying and supporting children’s and caregivers’ needs, improving communication among Programs, and assessing for safety.

This session in the All Children–All Families training series expands upon the “Setting the Foundation” training by equipping child welfare professionals with a deeper understanding of common experiences and challenges faced by LGBTQ+ youth and adults in child welfare systems.

Generational trauma that isn’t just experienced by one person but extends from one generation to the next.

This training provides specialists with another overview of the AOCS and is encouraged for new specialists to take in preparation for their Module 6 Provisional Certification.

In this training, Specialists will learn about Safe Sleep.

The CBHS is a tool developed to help Child Welfare Specialists more quickly identify children's medical, developmental, and behavioral health needs.

This is a training developed to help identify expectations in regards to safety and best practices.

This training will outline the supervisor’s role for Maltreatment in Care and Quality Safety Assessments.

Coaching focuses on the actions, responses, and decisions of a Specialist in providing services to the children and families they serve.

This training will outline how outside barriers from timely permanency and court barriers impact placement stability and the minor’s well-being.

This training will help participants with different aspects of safety focused supervision.

The training will outline how supervision strategies can be used to evaluate safety.

Training is intended to describe supervision strategies.