NTI Child Welfare Training

Free state-of-the-art, web-based, standardized training that gives you the ability to learn at your own pace.

The modular web-based training is 20 hours 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.

Course curriculum

  • 1

    Module 1

    • Resources

    • Lesson 1: Overview, Purpose, and Need

    • Lesson 2: Guiding Principles That Supportive Effective Mental Health Practice

    • Lesson 3: Adoption & Guardianship Options Today - How Practices Have Changed

    • Lesson 4: Children's Urgent Need for Permanence

  • 2

    Module 2

    • Lesson 1: Overview of the Mental Health Needs of Children

    • Lesson 2: Mental Health Assessment and Treatment Planning

    • Lesson 3: Helping Children and Youth Create Their Life Narrative

    • Lesson 4: Working with Parents to Address Mental Health Needs

    • Lesson 5: Child Welfare Role with Community Mental Health Providers
  • 3

    Module 3

    • Lesson 1: Attachment and Separation Their Impact on Development

    • Lesson 2: Supporting Attachment after Children's and Youth's Separation

    • Lesson 3: Working with Children and Youth to Support Healthy Attachment

    • Lesson 4: Child Welfare Professionals Role in Working with Parents

    • Lesson 5: Working with Mental Health Providers to Support Attachment
  • 4

    Module 4

    • Lesson 1: The Impact of Race, Ethnicity, Culture, and Diversity

    • Lesson 2: Understanding the Mental Health Needs of Children in Diverse Families

    • Lesson 3: Working with Children and Youth Around Issues of Race and Racial Identity

    • Lesson 4: Role with Parents in Transracial and Transcultural Families

    • Lessons 5: Working with Youth and Families with Diverse SOGIE
  • 5

    Module 5

    • Lesson 1: Impact of Ambiguous and Unresolved Loss and Grief on Emotional Adjustments

    • Lesson 2: Understanding Loss & Grief in the Context of Developmental Stages

    • Lesson 3: Helping Children and Youth Deal with Loss and Grief

    • Lesson 4: Helping Parents and Guardians Support Their Child's Grief

    • Lesson 5: Maintaining Connections and Openness
  • 6

    Module 6

    • Lesson 1: Traumatic Experiences of Children Receiving Permanence

    • Lesson 2: Understanding the Psychological Impact of Trauma & How Children Cope

    • Lesson 3: Working With Children and Youth to Identify & Address the Impact of Trauma

    • Lesson 4: Working with Parents to Address the Impact of Trauma

    • Lesson 5: Child Welfare Professionals Role in Supporting Mental Health Treatment

  • 7

    Module 7

    • Lesson 1: Overview, Identity Matters

    • Lesson 2: Identity Formation During Adolescence

    • Lesson 3: Child Welfare Role With Children, Youth, and Birth Families

    • Lesson 4: Helping Children & Youth with Positive Identity Formation

    • Lesson 5: Search and Reunion and Collaboration
  • 8

    Module 8

    • Lesson 1: Child, Youth, and Family Adjustment After Adoption or Guardianship

    • Lesson 2: Challenges of Children, Youth, and Families After Adoption or Guardianship

    • Lesson 3: Matching Child, Youth, and Family Needs to Services

    • Lesson 4: Maintaining Stability Post-Permanency - The Ongoing Journey

    • Lesson 5: Review of Lessons and Tools to Enhance Adoption Mental Health Competence

    • Training Survey

    • NTI Video Links

    • NTI Directory

    • Cassidy Seminars