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 - October 10, 2024
Safety Organized Practice and the Core Practice Model - October 24, 2024
Permanency Planning - October 31, 2024
Structured Decision Making and Case Planning - November 12, 2024
Indian Child Welfare Act/Legal Procedures - December 11, 2024
Interviewing, Engagement & Teaming - December 17, 2024
Cultural Humility - January 14, 2025
Foster Youth Rights - January 22, 2025

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

242SSA934

Instruction Method

Online class

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Section Schedule

Tues., Wed., Thur., Oct 10th, 2024 to Jan 22nd, 2025, 9:00am to 4:00pm

Fees

Instructors

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.

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.

HollieDayle Hertweck

HollieDayle Hertweck, M.A., is a court representative for the children and family services bureau of the Contra Costa County Human Services Department. She has been involved in the implementation of the CWS/CMS computer system in Contra Costa County since 1996. Her other areas of expertise include family reunification and permanency planning. Hertweck has also served as a counselor and manager in several shelters and residential treatment facilities.

Ken Weston

Ken Weston has worked in public child welfare as a caseworker and supervisor since 1989 and retired as a Child and Family Team Meeting Facilitator and Field Advisor in August 2020. Mentoring child welfare social workers in the early 2000s led to his current interests in training, curriculum development and coaching. Weston has delivered Safety Organized Practice trainings for Riverside County since 2017 and has developed curricula around court testimony and fatherhood engagement. He is currently involved with the Cultural Responsiveness Academy and gives local university and community presentations to foster positive regard for the child welfare profession.

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