Child and Family Team (CFT) Meetings: Facilitation Training

This intensive training is designed to provide participants with basic meeting facilitation knowledge and skills. Utilizing the Integrated Core Practice Model (ICPM) as the foundational guide for CFT meeting facilitators, trainees will learn about:

Key elements of team meetings for safety and case planning
Procedural basics of team meeting facilitation
The role of the facilitator
Facilitator skills
Structured problem-solving and solution-focused dialogue within team meetings
Creating safe, inclusive and empowering spaces for child/youth and family voice and choice
Introducing and using the Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths (CANS) to reflect the needs and strengths of the child and family

Trainees will have opportunities for hands-on facilitation practice throughout the 5-day training and will be equipped to facilitate child and family team meetings across the intervention continuum that address safety, permanency, and well-being.

CEUs

2.4

Section Number

243SSA940

Instruction Method

Online class

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Section Schedule

Tues., Wed., Thur., Fri., Mar 4th, 2025 to Mar 7th, 2025, 9:00am to 4:00pm

Fees

Instructors

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.