ICWA Specialist Continuing Education

This 2-hour webinar is being offered to past ICWA Specialist participants to keep their ICWA Specialist designations current. Past participants who did not complete the entirety of the training program are also encouraged to attend to stay abreast of their ICWA knowledge. Participants will engage in a focus group style feedback loop to reflect on how practice may have shifted since training completion and share innovations. In addition, participants will hear about changes to state policies, legislative updates, what's new in CA Tribal Child Welfare and more.

Academic Units

CEUs

0.2

Section Number

243WIS526

Instruction Method

Online class

Section Notes

The format of this virtual training will be on Zoom. You will receive login information via email once your enrollment has been received.

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Section Schedule

Wed., Feb 12th, 2025, 1:00pm to 3:00pm

Fees

Instructors

Geneva Shaw

Geneva Shaw (Enrolled Hoopa Valley Tribe; Yurok/Karuk/Mescalero Apache descent), M.S.W., has been a CPH Social Work Department faculty member since 2014. Four of those years were in service as the Department’s MSW Director. She has spent her social work career working as an administrator, direct practitioner, educator, trainer, and technical assistance provider of social work in Tribal communities. For six of those years, she worked for the Yurok Tribe developing, implementing, and reporting on many state and federally funded programs to provide a variety of programming including but not limited to Indian Child Welfare, Tribal TANF, Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault, Youth Prevention/Intervention and much more. Shaw also serves as the Training and Curriculum Development Director for California Tribal Families Coalition which is a tribally led and centered advocacy organization in the field of tribal child welfare.