Supporting Our Instructor Community
Program Guide
The California Title IV-E Education Program Guide provides information and resources to support program administration and implementation at participating universities.
This is a restricted-access document designed for faculty and staff responsible for administering a California Title IV-E Education Program at a participating university. To request access, please contact us at [email protected]. To expedite your request, please provide your name, university, and role in the California Title IV-E Education Program.
Online Curriculum Resources
- Title IV-E ICWA Modules
These modules have been developed to provide a foundation for all BASW and MSW students in the Title IV-E Program about California Indian History, Tribal Sovereignty and the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA). These modules are meant to provide a cultural, historical and political context to working with tribal communities and applying the Indian Child Welfare Act, the golden standard in social work practice. In providing this foundation, we hope students arrive at a deeper understanding of the history of Native American communities and how this history has shaped their experience with governmental agencies, laws, policies and practices, including child welfare agencies and workers. Based on this understanding, graduates of the Title IV-E Program will be prepared to engage Native American families, children, and Tribal partners in a way that is culturally responsive and respectful. Finally, the ultimate goal of these modules is to increase ICWA application and compliance, and improve outcomes for Native American children and families.
- Title IV-E Online Field Instructor Training eLearning
- This series of six eLearning modules, which reside in the statewide CACWT LMS (with course completion tracking), has been designed for field instructors in public child welfare agency settings and should take approximately three hours to complete. For access to the trainings, Project Coordinators can refer to the "Field Placements" section of the California Title IV-E Education Program Program Guide*.
This is a restricted-access document for faculty and staff responsible for administering a California Title IV-E Education Program at a participating university. To request access, please contact us at [email protected]. To expedite your request, please provide your name, university, and role in the California Title IV-E Education Program. - Trauma-Informed Curriculum
These modules address trauma-informed practice and systems change. They were developed through the SJSU School of Social Work and they emphasize active and experiential learning. Although the modules were designed for use with intermediate (MSW program) audiences, they are easily be adapted to courses or trainings for beginner or advanced audiences. The modules may be used independently or in conjunction with existing publicly available didactic materials.
The modules were developed by Ryan Pickrell, Principal and Owner of Family Restoration Consulting, with Laurie Drabble, Professor, San Jose State University School of Social Work. They address the following thematic areas: building resilience in the context of cultural humility; self assessment; adaptive ways of addressing trauma across cultural differences; principles of trauma-informed care; developmental perspectives; trauma-informed systems change; and creating effective and sustainable trauma-informed practice.
- Trauma-Informed Practice eLearnings
• Neurobiology of Trauma (link is external)
• SSHARED: A Tool for Identifying Signs & Sequelae of Trauma (link is external)
• Trauma Advocacy with Mental Health Systems (MHS) (link is external)
If you need to load the above resources into your LMS to track student completion, please access the following downloadable versions (link is external). For information about trauma-informed practice specific to Native peoples, please consult the resources available at Neurodecolonization and Indigenous Mindfulness.
- Academic Writing eLearning
- This eLearning is available by request only. To use this eLearning (developed as an imscc file), you will need to load it into your campus's LMS.
To request the file, please contact us at [email protected]. - Accessibility Remediation Guides
- This online folder of how-to guides was developed for the in-service training program as part of our ongoing efforts to ensure that our training materials and events meet current accessibility standards. While these resources should not be considered exhausted, they were assembled carefully in close collaboration with the Accessibility and Policy Unit of the California Department of Social Services.
Accessibility Resources
Title IV-E Summit
The Title IV-E Summit is the largest annual gathering associated with the Title IV-E Education Program. It brings together Title IV-E students, child welfare researchers and practitioners, and a range of county, Tribal and community partners around a timely child welfare theme. It is a unique opportunity for instructors and educators to connect with early career professionals and participate in vibrant, research-informed conversations about the future of child welfare practice in California. To learn more about the Title IV-E Summit, visit our event website.