Core for Supervisors - February 2025 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 a Sacramento location (not One Capitol Mall. Details forthcoming). 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. 11-12, 2025

MODULE 2

Session 2 - Creating an Organizational Learning Environment. Mar. 12-13, 2025

MODULE 3

Session 3 - Data-Informed Supervision. Apr. 15, 2025
Session 4 - Supervising for Accountability. Apr. 16, 2025

MODULE 4

Session 5 - Case Consultation & Critical Thinking: Teaming for Success. May 13-14, 2025
Safety Organized Practice for Supervisors. May 15, 2025

MODULE 5

Session 6 - Supporting Individual and Team Development Jun. 11, 2025
Session 7 - Ongoing Development as a Leader Jun. 12, 2025

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

CEUs

6.6

Section Number

243SSA973

Instruction Method

Classroom

Location

Hyatt House Sacramento Airport/Natomas

4850 Duckhorn Dr, Sacramento, CA, 95834

Hyatt House Sacramento Airport/Natomas

Hyatt House Sacramento Airport/Natomas 4850 Duckhorn Dr, Sacramento, CA, 95834

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Section Schedule

Tues., Wed., Thur., Feb 11th, 2025 to Jun 12th, 2025, 9:00am to 4:00pm

Fees

Instructors

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

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.

Marian Kubiak

Marian Kubiak, M.S.W., brings over 30 years of experience in working with children and families. Her experience includes working in various programs and leadership capacities in a social services setting, including the Department of Children, Family and Adult Services. She also has experience collaborating and partnering with community agencies and stakeholders. Currently, Kubiak is employed as a Title IV-E liaison/lecturer in the Social Work Department at California State University-Sacramento where she teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses and works with MSW students in the Title IV-E program.

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.

Amanda Gollon

Amanda Gollon is a Human Services professional with 16 years of experience in county and state departments. Presently, she is a manager with the California Department of Social Services overseeing union negotiations between the State of California and Child Care Providers United. Prior to that role, Gollon worked with the Department of Transportation as a training consultant where she developed unique curriculum to support over 22,000 employees. She also worked at Sacramento County Department of Human Assistance and was responsible for Training and Staff Development. Gollon is a certified facilitator for True Colors International and is working toward a Master of Science in Learning Experience Design and Educational Technologies.

Baljit Hundal

Baljit Hundal, M.S.W., has built a thirty-year career in the Health and Human Services arena and has worked in the private and public sectors throughout California and New York City. Hundal has held several significant leadership roles over her career, with her most recent role as the child welfare director and local mental health director for a small county in California. She has taken the lead to implement several initiatives and reforms over the past 10 years, which include extended foster care (Merced County), Katie A. (Merced County), Continuum of Care (AB 403-Mariposa County) and CalAIM implementation (Mariposa County). In addition, Hundal has been the lead for mass care, shelter and recovery work, helping to stand up local assistance centers after significant loss and damage from wildfires. An instructor for California’s child welfare regional training academies, she provides training in Core for Social Workers, Supervisor Core and specialized topics for social workers, supervisors and senior leaders.

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.