Child Welfare Training Benefits & Features

Child Welfare Training Benefits & Features

NTI enables Child Welfare Agencies to engage effectively with children, youth, and families who’ve experienced trauma, loss and grief.

Curriculum Focus:

The modular web-based training is 20 hours (see Curricula Overview) and focuses on case work practices and professional skills for staff across the child welfare continuum to promote child well-being, permanency and family stability for children living with foster, adoptive or guardianship families.

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Advantages and Benefits of NTI:

  • Provides standardized training for Child Welfare Professionals.
  • Teaches skills that are trauma and evidence-informed, consistent with the Family First Act.
  • Emphasizes strategies that address multiple CFSR outcomes, including placement stability, preservation of family connections, and services to meet mental health needs.
  • Approved by NASW for continuing education credits.
  • Piloted with over 6,000 Child Welfare Professionals, participants experienced significant knowledge gains on all training modules and reported improvements to their casework practice. Learn about the NTI Pilot
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NTI helps organizations fulfill the National Child Welfare Workforce Institute’s workforce development framework:

 

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NTI supports Family First and CFSR Goals:

NTI helps organizations comply with the Family First Act requirement for a skilled, competent, and trauma-informed workforce.

Learn about specific organizational benefits, and download this helpful document to share with others:

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NTI will help professionals in these ways and more:

  • Focus on addressing the behavioral and mental health needs of children and youth to enhance their well-being.
  • Enhance professional skills needed to promote stability and permanency for children, youth, and their families from their entry into the child welfare system to post-adoption or guardianship.
  • Go beyond available trainings to focus on trauma-informed, attachment-based casework skills you can apply in your daily work.
  • Increase knowledge of the complexities of adoption, kinships and guardianship that relate to many other facets in your work.
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Features of NTI Training:

  • Free web-based interactive training – enables you to engage completely…participants rave it “holds your interest!”
  • Learn at your own pace – pause with opportunities for reflection.
  • All participants are active and engaged – activities using real life scenarios, case vignettes, and videos of people with actual lived experience and experts in the field.
  • Free downloadable resources – enhance a deeper dive into learning essentials.
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