For Title IV-E Faculty and Staff

Supporting Our Instructor Community

This page provides essential resources for Title IV-E Faculty and Staff.

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 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 titleive@ucdavis.edu. To expedite your request, please provide your name, university, and role in the California Title IV-E Education Program.

• 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.  With this new acquired understanding, our intention is that graduates of the Title IV-E Program will 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.  

  • Access modules

• Title IV-E Online Field Instructor Training eLearning series 
• 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 titleive@ucdavis.edu. To expedite your request, please provide your name, university, and role in the California Title IV-E Education Program.
• Trauma-Informed Curriculum

• • Access at OER Commons

  Modules related to trauma-informed practice and systems change developed through the SJSU School Work 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 beginning or advanced audiences. The modules may be used independently or in conjunction with existing publicly available didactic materials (see Curriculum Resource Review document for recommended materials). The modules were developed Ryan Pickrell, Principal and Owner of Family Restoration Consulting, with Laurie Drabble, Professor, San Jose State University School of Social Work, and include the following: 1) building resilience in the context of cultural humility, 2) self assessment, 3) adaptive ways of addressing trauma across cultural differences, 4) principles of trauma-informed care, 5) developmental perspectives, 6) trauma-informed systems change, and 7) creating effective and sustainable trauma-informed practice.

• Trauma-Informed Practice eLearnings

• • Neurobiology of Trauma

  • SSHARED: A Tool for Identifying Signs & Sequelae of Trauma

  • Trauma Advocacy with Mental Health Systems (MHS)

  • Downloadable versions(link is external) if you need to laod them into your LMS for student completion tracking. Please note that the three eLearnings linked above are playable but do not record course completion.
  
  For information about trauma-informed practice specific to native peoples, a resource is the website on Neurodecolonization and Indigenous Mindfulness.

• Academic Writing eLearning
• To use this eLearning (developed as an imscc file), you would need to load this eLearning into your campus's LMS. To request the file, please contact us at titleive@ucdavis.edu.
• Accessibility Remediation How-To Guides folder
• 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 our accessibility standards (WCAG 2.1, level AA).  We are now sharing it as a resource with the Title IV-E Project Coordinators, faculty, and students. As a disclaimer, we are not claiming authority on accessibility matters. That said, we were thorough in assembling and developing this information, working in collaboration with CDSS's Accessibility and Policy Unit.
  
  • Access folder 

The Title IV-E Summit is an annual educational conference that convenes Title IV-E partners, Students, agencies, and Tribal- and community partners around a relevant child welfare theme. To learn more about this event, please visit our event website.