Target Population: Local District Social Services (LDSS) and voluntary agency child welfare and child protective services staff, including administrators, caseworkers, supervisors, directors of services; OCFS Child Welfare Home Office and Regional Office staff; other identified stakeholders, to include LDSS contract agencies providing child welfare services.

Purpose: This training provides the foundation for all child welfare professionals, regardless of specific job function (child protective services, preventive, foster care, etc.).

Training Type: Classroom, Web-Based Training

Description: YRI will use the OCFS approved curricula for this program. CWFP is a multi-part, multi-modality training. This competency-based course is intended for new child welfare professionals. It has been designed around the ten (10) domains of the New York State Office of Children and Family Services Practice Model. The ten (10) domains are: Critical Thinking; Cultural Competence; Strengths-based Family Engagement; Assessment; Interviewing; Self-Management; Intervention; Collaboration; and, Service Planning (note that the Service Planning component will include two days of CONNECTIONS training). Also included will be the one day virtual Safe and Together Overview training. This training will be conducted by another vendor. The program supports training participants in building competency and achieving performance outcomes in all these areas. This program lays the foundation for all child welfare workers, regardless of their function, and supports them in taking their next step into training related to their specific job function.

OCFS will specify the learning activities in each domain which will consist of one or more modalities (classroom instruction, WBT, skill clinic), and all domains include an on-the-job learning (OJL) component.

The OJL activities are a required part of the program. They are casework-related tasks that help workers take what they have learned and apply it on the job. In domains that include classroom instruction, the OJL activities should be completed after classroom participation. Trainees will be required to attest to the completion of OJL activities in HSLC in order to receive credit for fully attending CWFP.

Skill clinics provide each trainee with individual practice sessions in which their skills are self-assessed and evaluated by a trainer.

After the trainee completes all ten (10) domains, their learning culminates in an Integrative Skill Clinic. Using case scenarios, each trainee will practice incorporating the use of interpersonal skills, the interviewing protocol and process, intervention, assessment analysis, and identification of service needs of the family. Practice will include the demonstration of critical thinking skills, practice values, and self-management.

Purpose: Provide child welfare LDSS and voluntary agency staff with individualized training, consultation, and support to meet emerging needs.

Target Population: Local District Social Services (LDSS) and Voluntary Agency child welfare and child protective services staff, including administrators, caseworkers, supervisors, directors of services; OCFS Child Welfare Home Office and Regional Office staff; other identified stakeholders, to include LDSS contract agencies providing child welfare services.

Training Type: Classroom

Description: Provide training and consultation, delivered to groups or on a one- on-one basis that will support child welfare LDSS or regional implementation of strategies and concepts taught in the Child Welfare Foundations Program. This activity may also include consultation on skill development and application. It could involve on-site observation and coaching/modeling for professional development. Content for each training day will be developed by vendor in consultation with OCFS.

Target Population: Child Welfare supervisors and direct service professionals in New York State who are required to complete OCFS training.

Purpose: To provide new supervisors in local districts and voluntary agencies with the training and support necessary to make a successful transition from worker to supervisor.

Training Type: Classroom, Distance Learning

Description: KEYS Core training focuses on the development of leadership and supervisory effectiveness skills. The KEYS Core curriculum focuses on the needs of new supervisors and the competencies they need most within the first six months of assuming a supervisory position. KEYS Core Training includes: Transitioning from Worker to Supervisor, The Process of Supervision, and Case Consultation. In addition to the classroom training, there is a pre-class web-based training (WBT) component that introduces the concept of a working agreement to participants. Another integral part of the training is a mid-class group coaching component that is conducted using a virtual platform.

YRI will use the OCFS approved curriculum for this activity.

The KEYS Core trainers must have training experience in child welfare/CPS supervision or comparable experience as approved by OCFS.

Purpose: To provide more experienced supervisors with training in the competencies most commonly identified as needing development. Training Type: Classroom

Description: The KEYS Supervision Essentials Training series will be offered to experienced local district and voluntary agency supervisors (over one year in supervisory position) to support their implementation of the model of supervision. Training topics will include: Embracing the Supervisory Role, The Supervisory Process, and Case Consultation. It is recommended that all three modules be taken in sequence.

YRI will use the OCFS approved curriculum for this activity.

The KEYS Supervision Essentials trainers must have training experience in child welfare/CPS supervision or comparable experience as approved by OCFS.

Target Population: Child Welfare supervisors in New York State who are required to complete OCFS training.

Purpose: Quarterly webinars will provide training on topics/strategies to improve child welfare caseworker and supervisory competencies related to key aspects of practice.

Training Type: Distance Learning - Webinar

Description: YRI will collaborate with OCFS to develop quarterly webinars to address supervisory training. Topics may include, but are not limited to, assessment; family engagement; safety and risk.

Target Population: Child Welfare staff and supervisors.

Purpose: Participants will learn skills and be able to apply Motivational Interviewing techniques within their work.

Training Type: Classroom

Description: YRI will use the OCFS approved curricula for this program. Provide training and consultation to support LDSS, Voluntary Agency, Community Based Provider Agencies, OCFS staff and OCFS identified stakeholders in the use of Motivational Interviewing techniques in their work.

This activity may also include consultation on skill development and application. It may involve on-site observation and coaching/modeling for professional development.

The funding to support this activity will support three positions located in Rensselaer: two trainers and one training supervisor.

This training may be conducted at the Human Services Training Center or at locations throughout the state. Site locations will be determined in consultation with OCFS BTD.

Target Population: Foster and adoptive parents, foster care and adoption caseworkers, supervisors, home finders, trainers and agency administrators in local districts and voluntary and provider agencies.

Purpose: Upon successful completion of training, participants from local districts or voluntary agencies will be able to locally facilitate the pre-certification process for prospective foster/adoptive parents.

Training Type: Virtual Classroom and Classroom Learning

Description: The National Training and Development Curriculum (NTDC) for Foster and Adoptive Parents is a replacement for the Model Approach to Partnerships in Parenting (GPSII/MAPP). This nine-day training is a train-the-trainer for foster and adoptive parent homefinders. The NTDC will prepare participants from local districts and voluntary agencies to locally facilitate the pre-certification process for prospective foster/adoptive parents. The NTDC uses state-of-the-art curriculum for foster/adoptive parents that includes intensive preparation and ongoing development components so:

• Families will be better prepared to determine their ability and capacity to parent and/or explore additional supports, resources, or training that is needed to gain the capacity to parent and

• Families will increase their knowledge and be able to understand and respond to the unique needs of children placed in their care.

This training provides the knowledge and skills to deliver the mutual selection/pre- certification/developmental training process. The program includes the selection, development, preparation, and certification of prospective foster/adoptive parents.

YRI trainers will facilitate trainings based on the approved schedule of classroom and WebEx (virtual training platform) trainings. Training topics include:

• Child Development

• Foster Care: A means to support Families and Reunification as the primary goal

• Maintaining Children’s Connections and Attachment

• Separation, Grief, and Loss

• Trauma Related Behavior

• Trauma Informed Parenting

• Cultural Humility

• Parenting in Racially and Culturally Diverse Families

• Mental Health Considerations and Impact of Substance Use

• Parenting a Child with a History of Sexual Trauma and Effective Communication

• Preparing for Managing Intrusive Questions and Creating a Stable, Nurturing and Safe Home Environment

• Connections with Birth Families after Adoption

• Panel

• Kinship Additional themes:

1. Kinship Parenting

2. Building Resilience for Kinship Caregivers

Target Population: Foster and adoptive parents, foster care and adoption caseworkers, supervisors, home finders, trainers and agency administrators in local districts and voluntary and provider agencies.

Purpose: To make training more convenient and accessible for foster/adoptive parents statewide through a distance learning format. This training helps reduce the rate of placement disruptions within a foster family; and distance learning has proven to be a successful method to reach foster/adoptive parents with relevant information on a variety of topics.

Training Type: Distance Learning – Virtual Classroom

Description: YRI will develop and deliver training to support foster/adoptive parents and related professional staff using data gathered through local needs assessments and in coordination with OCFS.

YRI trainers will facilitate trainings based on the approved schedule of WebEx (virtual training platform) trainings. Training topics may include:

• Foster fatherhood

• Developmental disabilities

• Ages and stages of development

• When children move: the foster parent’s loss experience

Topics will be informed by needs assessment data and may differ from the list above. Final topic selections will be made in coordination with OCFS.

Target Population: Local district social services (LDSS) CPS and child welfare caseworkers, supervisors and administrators and provider agency FAR staff as well as OCFS CWCS staff involved in FAR.

Purpose: Develop the knowledge and skills needed to conduct accurate investigations and assessments and to use both the casework practice skills and legal processes to promote child safety, well-being and permanency.

Training Type: Classroom, Web-Based Training

Description: Provide specialized training to CPS caseworkers or supervisors who have successfully completed Child Welfare Foundations Program. CPSRT builds the skills and knowledge base of CPS workers to enable them to conduct thorough investigations on reports of alleged abuse and maltreatment, to accurately assess safety and risk, to control for safety and reduce risk and support child well-being and permanency.

An integral part of this training program is on-line pre- and mid-classroom modules through a virtual platform. These components are mandatory for course completion and build on the skills learned in the classroom.

One (1) day of this training is facilitated by an attorney trainer and two (2) attorney trainers facilitate a half-day mock fact-finding hearing. The attorney trainers will be provided by another vendor.

YRI will use the OCFS approved curriculum.

Target Population: Local district social services (LDSS) CPS and child welfare caseworkers, supervisors and administrators and provider agency FAR staff as well as OCFS CWCS staff involved in FAR.

Purpose: To prepare CPS workers for Child Protective Services Response training.

Training Type: Classroom

Description: This training will include content on risk and the Risk Assessment Profile (RAP) as well as foundational legal content necessary to attend Child Protective Services Response training (CPSRT). This activity includes two (2) attorney trainers for one (1) day. The attorney trainers will be provided by another vendor. YRI will use the OCFS approved curriculum for this activity.

Target Population: Local district social services (LDSS) CPS and child welfare caseworkers, supervisors and administrators and provider agency FAR staff as well as OCFS CWCS staff involved in FAR.

Purpose: Skill development to administer the work of a CPS unit, provide support to CPS caseworkers and to develop the knowledge and skills of CPS casework staff so that they can conduct effective and efficient assessments and investigations in accordance with the NYS Child Welfare Practice Model.

Training Type: Classroom

Description: Provide training for supervisors who have successfully completed CPSRT and KEYS Core or KEYS Essentials. This training will build supervisors’ ability to coach, support, and monitor child protective services caseworkers through the CPS investigative process, including information gathering, safety, and risk and needs assessments, determination decisions, and family court involvement.

This course fulfills the NYS mandate, required by Chapter 525 of the Laws of 2006 that all CPS supervisors participate in a CPS specific supervisory training course. This course is part of a CPS series of prescribed and mandated trainings including Child Welfare Foundations Program, CPSRT, KEYS and Supervising CPS.

YRI will use the OCFS approved curriculum.

Target Population: Local district social services (LDSS) CPS and child welfare caseworkers, supervisors and administrators and provider agency FAR staff as well as OCFS CWCS staff involved in FAR.

Purpose: Trainees will develop knowledge and skills in CPS specific topics for identified emerging needs.

Training Type: Classroom

Description: Develop and provide specialized training to meet the identified needs of local district CPS staff as well as continue to provide classroom support.

A variety of methodologies will be used and will depend on the targeted need and topic. Course topics and offerings will be determined in consultation with OCFS and implemented upon approval of OCFS. Content for each training day will be developed by YRI in consultation with OCFS and implemented upon approval of OCFS.

Target Population: Local district social services (LDSS) CPS and child welfare caseworkers, supervisors and administrators and provider agency FAR staff as well as OCFS CWCS staff involved in FAR.

Purpose: Provide and increase the knowledge and skill of caseworkers, supervisors, administrators and other key individuals to provide an effective Family Assessment Response to families reported to the NY Statewide Central Register for maltreatment.

Training Type: Classroom, Web-Based Training

Description: Deliver training that will include, but not be limited to: FAR Process and Practice, Solution-Focused FAR Practice, Assessing Safety and Risk in FAR, Supervising to a Practice Shift in FAR, Advanced Supervision in FAR and Increasing the Voice of Children and Youth.

The Advanced Supervision in FAR and Increasing the Voice of Children and Youth will be standalone courses; they will not necessarily be delivered sequentially with the other FAR courses.

These trainings will be delivered based on local district needs due to expansion of program or staff turnover; provided to new districts to begin implementation or for other reasons as decided in consultation with OCFS.

YRI will use the OCFS approved curricula.

Target Population: Provide and increase the knowledge and skill of caseworkers, supervisors, administrators and other key individuals to provide an effective Family Assessment Response to families reported to the NY Statewide Central Register for maltreatment.

Purpose: To increase the availability of in-service training to assist child protective services caseworkers and supervisors to meet their annual training requirement, including specific practice topics identified in Chapter 525 of the Laws of 2006 and the OCFS and LDSS ongoing practice improvement plans.

Training Type: Classroom

Description: YRI will work with OCFS Regional Office and local district social services staff to assess the needs of the CPS workforce and provide a minimum of 25 days of professional in-service training through qualified experts on specific CPS casework and supervisory practice topics.

Target Population: Provide and increase the knowledge and skill of caseworkers, supervisors, administrators and other key individuals to provide an effective Family Assessment Response to families reported to the NY Statewide Central Register for maltreatment.

Purpose: To provide skill demonstration opportunities for trainees who received CWFP/CPSRT training only via a virtual platform.

Training Type: Classroom

Description: Due to the COVID-19 global pandemic in-person training was suspended for training participants for significant periods of time. This activity will provide participants opportunities for skill demonstration and feedback from their immersive experience using the simulation space at the Human Services Training Center.

YRI will use the OCFS approved curriculum.

Purpose: To provide in-person skill practice opportunities for trainees who attended CWFP on the virtual platform and will not be continuing on to the Child Protective Services Response Training (CPSRT).

Type: Classroom

Description: This activity is intended to support voluntary agency and LDSS participants’ learning by presenting them with a series of realistic family scenarios that will enable them to integrate their newly acquired foundational skills while using the simulation space at the Human Services Training Center. Evaluations will be conducted by their peers and by trainers to support participants’ skill building and prepare for transfer of learning to the field. This in person training will be provided to participants who will not be attending the CPSRT training.

YRI will use the OCFS approved curriculum.