This learning program is aimed at improving the skills of learners who lead CARES (Collaborative, Assessment, Response and Support)/FAR (Family Assessment Response) responses with multiple stakeholders and priorities.
This training provides a deep dive into the ideas of change — and immunity to change — within the CARES/FAR context. Learners share challenges and successes to facilitate meaningful conversations that orient group and reflective process work.
Learners use multiple tools while engaged in supportive family leadership to facilitate strategic and effective brainstorming. They also use these tools to facilitate the parallel process of the CARES/FAR modality in process and within communities. These tools include Virtual Assignment, Powerful Questioning, Family Circles, Life Mapping, Ecomap, Genogram, Three Houses, and Racial Equity Strategy. Before attending this virtual, instructor-led training, learners must complete all course prerequisites listed below and an online pre-test.
Who Should Attend?
Management in the Division of Child Protection (DCP).
Course Benefits
Learners will:
- Gain an advanced understanding of the foundational features of the CARES/FAR casework practices that promote the supervision and performance of staff.
Course Prerequisites
Prior to attending this course, learners are required to have completed:
- Family Assessment Response CBT (Computer-Based Training).
- All components of the CARES/FAR: Process and Practice learning program.
- All components of the CARES/FAR: Solution Focused learning program.
- All components of the CARES/FAR: Assessing Safety and Risk learning program.
- All components of the CARES/FAR: Supervising to a Practice Shift learning program.
Course Components
Once enrolled in the course, learners will complete:
- An online pre-test.
- A virtual assignment.
- A full-day, virtual instructor-led training.
- An online post-test.
Completion of all components is necessary to receive a Certificate of Completion.
Continuing Education Units
There are no CEUs associated with this course.
Registration
Staff development coordinators will contact DCP staff during their assigned enrollment period to coordinate registration.