Core for Supervisors - February 2024 Cohort (In-Person)

Build your leadership skills and gain confidence in your ability to support your team at the micro, mezzo and macro levels throughout this comprehensive program tailored specifically for child welfare supervisors. Throughout the 11 days of training, we will help you gain more knowledge about yourself, your leadership style and your practice as a whole.

Supervisor Core will engage you through the use of videos, scenarios, small and large group activities, journaling and action plans, providing a rich environment for collaboration, discussion and individual reflection. Each day will layer and integrate knowledge to show the parallels to your agency practice and to cross-thread the ideas in the classroom.

This program consists of multiple topics spread across 11 days that are grouped into five modules.

Cohort Course Schedule

This will be a fully in-person cohort. Modules 1-5 will be held at our Sacramento location. All trainings are full-day trainings from 9:00am to 4:00pm.

MODULE 1

Session 1 - Leading in Child Welfare – The Role of the Supervisor. Feb. 7-8, 2024

MODULE 2

Session 2 - Creating an Organizational Learning Environment. Mar. 6-7, 2024

MODULE 3

Session 3 - Data-Informed Supervision. Apr. 10, 2024
Session 4 - Supervising for Accountability. Apr. 11, 2024

MODULE 4

Session 5 - Case Consultation & Critical Thinking: Teaming for Success. May 7-8, 2024
Safety Organized Practice for Supervisors. May 9, 2024

MODULE 5

Session 6 - Supporting Individual and Team Development Jun. 25, 2024
Session 7 - Ongoing Development as a Leader Jun. 26, 2024

Course Makeup Requests

In order to be enrolled in select courses within this cohort for make-up, please email your request to Academy@ucdavis.edu

Section Number

233SSA851

Instruction Method

Classroom

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Section Schedule

Feb 7th, 2024 to Jun 20th, 2024, 12:00am to 12:00am

Fees

Instructors

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.

Laura Shotzbarger

Laura Shotzbarger has recently retired as a regional manager from the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services. With over 28 years of experience working in child welfare, she is passionate about supporting those staff working directly with children and families. As a regional manager, she advocated for advanced training in the areas of domestic violence as well as maternal mental health and its impact on the family. She embraces multidisciplinary teaming and quality supervision to make the best decisions possible for families. Shotzbarger is a champion for coaching and mentorship at all levels of the organization to foster an environment of transparency, respect and integrity.

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.

Michaela Woodward

Michaela Woodward, M.S.W., has served in the fields of child welfare, public service and leadership. Since 1998, she has had roles in both non-profit and county settings, providing child welfare services as a TDM facilitator, therapist, social worker, program manager and program director. She has experience in the field from screening to permanency in legal, educational, juvenile probation and mental health settings, as well as a strong background in addressing disproportionality of marginalized families and improving fatherhood engagement in child welfare. Woodward partners with counties throughout California to provide facilitation, training, coaching and implementation consultation of SOP, CFT, CANS, and many other child welfare topics. Her facilitation style and humor provide adult learners with higher levels of engagement, resulting in effective transfer of learning and best outcomes.

Dorothy Byron-Arrington

Dorothy Byron-Arrington has 20 years of experience in child welfare services. She has worked with the Indian Child Welfare Unit, Resource Family Approval, and as a Team Decision Making Facilitator. Byron-Arrington assisted with countywide implementation of Child and Family Teaming in her county, and she helped develop training for the Katie A. Settlement. She is currently an administrator for a CWS county and a trainer for Quality Caseworker Visits.

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.