Child Welfare Supervisor Learning Collaborative

In recognition of the vital and challenging role supervisors play in the work of child welfare, the Northern Academy provides quarterly learning collaboratives and complementary learning circles as opportunities for child welfare supervisors to network and share ideas, successes, and challenges around supervision. These collaborative learning opportunities will give supervisors a safe space to learn about and share new tools, techniques, and strategies to enhance quality supervision that helps support, develop and retain social workers.

Topics are generated by participant interest. Upcoming sessions will focus on burnout, compassion fatigue, conflict management, communication styles, performance management, and retention.

Academic Units

CEUs

0.2

Section Number

241SSA917

Instruction Method

Online class

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Section Schedule

Wed., Sep 25th, 2024, 9:00am to 11:00am

Fees

Instructors

Nicole Bradford

Nicole Bradford, M.S.W., has spent over a decade working with vulnerable children and families as a child welfare social worker and supervisor in one of the few frontier counties in California. She has expertise in child abuse prevention and differential response, referral intake and emergency response investigations, and Resource Family Approval. Bradford has significant experience working in child abuse investigations, forensic interviewing of abuse victims and critical incidents related to child death investigations. She extends this trauma-informed lens administratively in her work to recruit, retain and build a competent child welfare workforce.

Kate Bedwell

Kate Bedwell is a social worker, trainer, and a certified Gallup Strengths Coach with more than 20 years of practice and leadership success. Her professional career has spanned the realms of public child welfare, juvenile justice, family self-sufficiency and workforce development. As a supervising practice coach within public child welfare for more than seven years, she developed mastery of coaching, training, and simulation facilitation to support implementation of best practices across all levels of the workforce in public child welfare. She specializes in facilitating safe, challenging, dynamic and interactive learning processes which vitalize, inspire, and motivate teams and individuals. Deeply inspired by her work training and coaching within child welfare, Bedwell strongly believes training and coaching of the child welfare workforce is fundamental to the implementation of evidenced based child welfare practice.