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

244SSA960

Instruction Method

Classroom

Location

Davis: University Parks Inn & Suites

1111 Richards, BLVD, Davis, CA, 95616

Davis: University Parks Inn & Suites

Davis: University Parks Inn & Suites 1111 Richards, BLVD, Davis, CA, 95616

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Section Schedule

Tues., Wed., Thur., Fri., Jun 24th, 2025 to Jun 27th, 2025, 9:00am to 4:00pm

Fees

Instructors

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.

Darryn Green

Darryn Green is a training facilitator, consultant and coach with more than 20 years of experience working with organizations that empower people to improve the systems by which they are impacted. As an instructor for UC Davis Human Services, he helps human services professionals improve their skill and knowledge in the areas of intervention & de-escalation, understanding sexual orientation gender identity & expression (SOGIE), understanding race & racism, integrating equity & inclusion values and practices, strategic planning and leadership development. Green also works with the Bay Area Academy as a trainer, curriculum developer and coach. A systems thinker with a deep commitment to collaboration and empowerment, Green enjoys working with clients and colleagues to explore and develop ways to improve the world around them–beginning with the self and extending out into their networks, organizations, and communities.