Foster Care/Adoption Specialist

Previously Adoption & Foster Care

Following Provisional Certification, which occurs in Module 6: Putting It All Together, Foster Care and Adoption specialists are considered Provisionally Certified and eligible to carry a partial caseload (50%).

Training coordinators will enroll specialists into their Post CORE Required Levels, which are required to be completed prior to the specialists being considered fully Certified (100% caseload).

CW 1002: Introduction to Childhood Sexual Abuse

CW 1007: Foster Care and Adoption New Specialist Training

CW 1009: Behavioral Health and Substance Abuse. This is a two part course and the online portion of this course is required to be completed prior to being enrolled into the classroom.

CW 1017: Assessment Training

CW 1024: Domestic Violence

CW 1057: Bridge Guiding Principles

CW 1115: Child Safety Meetings

CW 1077: Assessing and Addressing Concerns in Resource Homes

CW 1016: Oklahoma Successful Adult Program (OKSA)

• Level 1 Post Core Learning

• CW 1002 CEU Introduction to Child Sexual Abuse
  Introduction to working with children who have been sexually abused.

  12 Credit Hours Details Enroll
• CW 1007 Foster Care and Adoption New Specialist Training
  This training is an overview of the foster care and adoption process.

  12 Credit Hours Details Enroll
• CW 1009 CEU Online: Behavioral Health and Substance Abuse
  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.

  5 Credit Hours Details Enroll
• CW 1016 Overview of the Oklahoma Successful Adulthood Program
  This training will provide specialists with the philosophy and best practice techniques for specialists who work with older adolescents in out-of-home placement.

  12 Credit Hours Details Enroll
• CW 1024 Domestic Violence
  This training is intended to explore the impact of domestic violence on families who are involved with the Child Welfare system.

  12 Credit Hours Details Enroll
• CW 1057 Bridge Guiding Principles
  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.

  6 Credit Hours Details Enroll
• CW 1077 Assessing and Addressing Concerns in Resource Homes
  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).

  12 Credit Hours Details Enroll
• CW 1115 Child Safety Meetings
  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.

  6 Credit Hours Details Enroll

• Level 2 Intermediate Learning

• Child Welfare Specialists in specialized tracks must complete their Level II training within 36 months of their CORE graduation date.

• CW 2111 Early Childhood Development in Child Welfare
  CW 2111 has moved to a Level 1 course and is now CW 1100.

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