Impact: Training Resources for Child Welfare Workers

Training Resources for Child Welfare Workers

Serving Children with Disabilities: Handbooks for Child Welfare Workers. These free handbooks and companion videos from the Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development provide child welfare personnel with information about a variety of develop-mental disabilities and how to work with children with developmental disabilities and their families. The three handbooks and companion videos are titled Developmental Disabilities, Supporting Families with Children with Disabilities, and Accessing Services Through IDEA. In addition, a resource manual is available. The manuals are online in full text for downloading (they’re no longer available in print) at http://gucchd.georgetown.edu/topics/special_health_needs/object_view.html?objectID=2597. The free videos are available by contacting Mary Moreland at deaconm@georgetown.edu or calling 202/687-8803.

College of Direct Support. This resource provides online, competency-based training to professionals supporting individuals with developmental disabilities. Course topics include Introduction to Developmental Disabilities; Maltreatment of Vulnerable Adults and Children; Individual Rights and Choices; Positive Behavior Support; Supporting Healthy Lives; Supporting Family Connections, Friends, Love and the Pursuit of Happiness; Person-Centered Planning and Supports; and Cultural Competence. The training is a collaborative project of the Research and Training Center on Community Living at the University of Minnesota, and MC Strategies, Knoxville, Tennessee. For information on the training options visit www.collegeofdirectsupport.com or call 865/934-0221.

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Retrieved from the Web site of the Institute on Community Integration, University of Minnesota (http://ici.umn.edu/products/impact/191/default.html). Citation: Gaylord, V., LaLiberte, T., Lightfoot, E. & Hewitt, A. (Eds.). (2006). Impact: Feature Issue on Children with Disabilities in the Child Welfare System 19(1). [Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, Institute on Community Integration.]
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