Research & Evaluation
Training Pilot
Child Welfare professionals, including foster, kinship, and adoptive parents, routinely work with children and parents with disabilities. Although the child welfare field has extensive training resources there aren’t many training opportunities to learn about working with children and parents with disabilities. The College of Direct Support (CDS) fills that gap … and then some!
The Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare is currently facilitating training for child welfare professionals, using CDS, and using the opportunity to better understand the training needs of child welfare professionals as they relate to working with children and parents with disabilities. We encourage you to explore this webpage to learn more about disability training in child welfare, the pilot training project, and the CDS curriculum. On this page you will find project background information as well as a ‘crosswalk’ document which demonstrates the crossover between child welfare competencies (developed by the Institute for Human Services) and the learning objectives in each lesson of the College of Direct Support. You can also access a link to the child welfare-CDS project website and the CDS marketing website where you can learn more about the training curriculum itself. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact the project director, Traci LaLiberte, at lali0017@umn.edu or 612-624-2279.
Resources
- Download crosswalk document
- College of Direct Support child welfare learning center
- College of Direct Support