After this course you'll be able to:

(1 hour to complete)

  • Demonstrate an understanding of the core values of trauma-informed care and its application in child welfare

  • Understand what you can do to implement trauma-informed care into practice at the practitioner level

  • Learn how to bring awareness of trauma-informed practices to your agency and team

Course curriculum

  • 1

    Chapter 1: Introduction to Trauma Informed Care

    • Have you taken the Academy Pre-Survey?

    • Welcome!

    • Opening Activity: How Trauma Informed Care Saved My Life

    • Trauma Revisited

    • Principles and Values of Trauma-informed Care

    • Implementation in Child Welfare

    • Check for Understanding
  • 2

    Chapter 2: Beyond Trauma-Informed Care

    • Beyond Trauma-Informed Care

    • Read: Healing Centered Engagement

    • Discussion Post
  • 3

    Chapter 3: Healing Centered Engagement and Child Welfare

    • Applying it to Child Welfare

    • Handout: Meet Alice and her Family

    • Activity: Listen to Alice & Mike

    • Activity: Listen to Alice & Mike with Healing Centered Engagement

    • Activity: Help Alice & Mike

    • Activity: Moment of Reflection
  • 4

    Chapter 4: Closing

    • Closing thoughts & review

    • Course Evaluation

Social Work Certificate in Child Welfare Services

This course is a part of a certificate within the Child Welfare Academy

Learn more here

Instructor

Child Welfare Academy Coordinator

Cassandra Mendoza

Cassandra has multiple years of experience working with Black and Latinx families in urban settings, families with child welfare involvement, and children living in under-resourced communities. Cassandra has experience providing academic tutoring and socio-emotional counseling to public school students in Chicago, IL. Prior to joining The Texas Institute for Child & Family Wellbeing, Cassandra was a bilingual, mental health therapist and crisis specialist providing services to families that have experienced violence and youth and caregivers involved in the child welfare system in Chicago, IL and Los Angeles County.