CDSS Foundational Child Welfare Training Series (Virtual)

This class is part of a series of trainings designed for California Department of Social Services employees. Each class focuses on a different topic within Child Welfare and will enhance the participant’s knowledge in this topic area. Classes should be taken as a series but can be taken individually if they need to be made up.

The full list of classes in this series includes:

Framework - April 3, 2024
Safety Organized Practice and the Core Practice Model - April 9, 2024
Permanency Planning - April 30, 2024
Indian Child Welfare Act/Legal Procedures - May 15, 2024
Structured Decision Making and Case Planning - May 28, 2024
Interviewing, Engagement & Teaming - June 4, 2024
Cultural Humility - June 13, 2024
Foster Youth Rights - June 26, 2024

Course Makeup Requests

Enrolling in this section will enroll participants in all trainings in the series. In order to be enrolled in select courses within this cohort for make-up, please email your request to Academy@ucdavis.edu

Academic Units

Section Number

234SSA867

Instruction Method

Online class

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Section Schedule

Tues., Wed., Thur., Apr 3rd, 2024 to Jun 27th, 2024, 9:00am to 4:00pm

Fees

Instructors

Kimberly Cluff

Kimberly Cluff, J.D., is the legal director of the California Tribal Families Coalition. Since becoming a member of the California Bar in 1998, Cluff has worked exclusively in the field of Indian law. Her career has always focused on advocating for tribes and native non-profits, including advocacy and litigation connected to Indian child and family welfare, tribal economic development, intergovernmental agreements, strengthening of tribal courts, tribal governance and tribal infrastructure. She also extends her advocacy to state and federal legislative efforts to secure federal resources for native children and families.

Luck Luckey

Luck Luckey worked for more than 17 years as a Senior Protective Services Worker with Child Welfare Services, specializing in emergency response, domestic violence, Safety Organized Practice (SOP), Structured Decision Making (SDM) and cultural responsiveness to children and families. In conjunction with Children’s Research Center (CRC),Luckey has trained across the United States and Canada on the implementation and integration of SDM, SOP and various domestic violence practice tools. Luckey identifies as gender non-binary and is devoted to advocating for, and supporting, LGBTQ+ children, youth and caregivers.

Janice Boafo

Janice Boafo, LCSW, M.S.W., is a coach and facilitator whose professional life is informed by her lived experiences and more than 25 years of work in human services and behavioral health. She is dedicated to culturally responsive liberatory practices, community healing and the transformational power of story sharing. Her interests include educational equity, behavioral health recovery, public child welfare reform, pedagogy as activism, and exploring the intersections of art, culture and social justice.

Betsy Watson

Betsy Watson has worked in the field of child welfare since 2001. She began her career as a social worker and then transitioned to Emergency Response social work at the County of Ventura, where she currently serves as an after-hours supervisor. She also serves as a backup facilitator for the county’s CFTM program. Watson has worked as a child welfare trainer since 2019 with subject matter expertise in CFTM, structured decision making, trauma-informed practice, Common Core, fairness and equity, cultural humility in child welfare interviews, critical thinking and assessment, and other training topics.

Rebekah Rogers

Rebekah Rogers, M.A., served as a social worker for Tuolumne County’s Adult, Child and Family Services for 12 years, including five years as the supervisor of the Emergency Response unit. She has also served as the Foster and Kinship Care Education program specialist for several counties, where she wrote curriculum and delivered training workshops for Resource Family Approval caregivers. Rogers has been teaching for UC Davis Human Services Northern Academy since 2015.

Dionne Puckett

Dionne Puckett, M.S.W., is an instructor with Human Services at UC Davis Continuing and Professional Education. With nearly two decades of human services experience, Puckett has served in a variety of positions of community outreach, leadership, direct practice, and education. As a social worker with San Diego County, she honed in on her ability to provide leadership, engagement, and education to a multitude of families and staff. Puckett combines her professional experience with theory, adult learning model and best practice to illustrate course material in every training she facilitates

Peggi Cooney

Peggi Cooney, M.S.W., is a Safety Organized Practice coach and trainer for Human Services at UC Davis Continuing and Professional Education. She has more than 15 years of experience in social services with expertise in child welfare, adult services and supervision in Colusa County. In that same county, Cooney developed the Independent Living Program and was part of the team that developed and implemented the Multiple Discipline Interview Team. During her tenure in Colusa County, she was also an adjunct faculty member, where she taught psychology at Woodland Community College.

Geneva Shaw

Geneva Shaw (Enrolled Hoopa Valley Tribe; Yurok/Karuk/Mescalero Apache descent), M.S.W., has been a CPH Social Work Department faculty member since 2014. Four of those years were in service as the Department’s MSW Director. She has spent her social work career working as an administrator, direct practitioner, educator, trainer, and technical assistance provider of social work in Tribal communities. For six of those years, she worked for the Yurok Tribe developing, implementing, and reporting on many state and federally funded programs to provide a variety of programming including but not limited to Indian Child Welfare, Tribal TANF, Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault, Youth Prevention/Intervention and much more. Shaw also serves as the Training and Curriculum Development Director for California Tribal Families Coalition which is a tribally led and centered advocacy organization in the field of tribal child welfare.