Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System
This training is designed for P&P and PCC/PCP staff who complete AFCARS requirements within the i-twist system. In this training, participants will understand the purpose of AFCARS, the role AFCARS serves, and where AFCARS elements can be located within the i-twist system.... (read more)

Adult Protective Services: Assessment and Documentation Tool
This training is for tenured DCBS Staff who provide Adult Protective Services (APS). This training will review the Assessment and Documentation Tool (ADT) screens in iTWIST and discuss utilizing the protective and risk factors in those areas of assessment. In considering the ADT Summary, participants will have an opportunity to discuss the format of that documentation, view a video of a victim, collateral, and perpetrator interview and prepare an ADT in a group discussion.... (read more)

Adult Protective Services: Investigation
This training is intended for Protection & Permanency workers responsible for Adult Protective Services (APS). Participants will review the KY Revised Statutes that pertain to APS and consider a model protocol response to the prevention and remedy of the abuse, neglect and exploitation of vulnerable adults. Using the DCBS Standards of Practice, participants will discuss the intake and investigation policies and procedures and apply those to case scenarios. Participants will review and observe indicators of maltreatment, demonstrate interviewing techniques to be used when assessing adult clients and demonstrate engagement skills in service delivery. Participants will review a video case scenario, develop a Prevention Plan to be used with that client/family and prepare a Continuous Quality Assessment.... (read more)

Adult Protective Services: Utilization Review
This training is intended for Division of Protection & Permanency management staff that provide Adult Protective Services (APS). This training will provide an overview of the Guardianship process, specifically the Utilization Review for reaching the agency consensus to initiate involuntary protective services.... (read more)

Advanced Practical Training Institute: Frontline Adult Protective Services-Part I
This is a two (2) day training designed for frontline Adult Protective Services (APS) staff. The first day of the Institute lays the groundwork for the participants’ knowledge about systems safety. The content provides a framework of system safety and is designed to engage participants with a comprehensive and holistic introduction to Human Factors and System Safety. Contrasting models and approaches are presented to give participants an increased command of relevant scientific literature. Concepts and learning objectives are presented in a way that enables participants to make information meaningful. Throughout the course, information is strategically and thoughtfully connected to their work. The second day of the Institute is directed toward teaching participants on how to integrate safety science concepts into investigations of abuse and neglect in a trauma informed manner that supports psychological safety for the adults and families they encounter. Attention is given to current roles, administrative rules, and legislative mandates so that concepts are able to be imbedded into everyday work that is compatible with these roles, rules and mandates.... (read more)

Advanced Practical Training Institute: Frontline Child Protective Services
This is a two (2) day training designed for frontline Child Protective Services (CPS) staff. The first day of the Institute lays the groundwork for the participants’ knowledge about systems safety. The content provides a framework of system safety and is designed to engage participants with a comprehensive and holistic introduction to Human Factors and System Safety. Contrasting models and approaches are presented to give participants an increased command of relevant scientific literature. Concepts and learning objectives are presented in a way that enables participants to make information meaningful. Throughout the course, information is strategically and thoughtfully connected to their work. The second day of the Institute is directed toward teaching participants on how to integrate safety science concepts into investigations of abuse and neglect in a trauma informed manner that supports psychological safety for the children and families they encounter. Attention is given to current roles, administrative rules, and legislative mandates so that concepts are able to be imbedded into everyday work that is compatible with these roles, rules and mandates.... (read more)

Aetna Better Health of Kentucky SKY Program Overview
The participants will be provided with an overview of the KY SKY program; including the contractual requirements of the program; the organization, staffing, infrastructure to support the program; and how the state/Cabinet sister agencies define roles and responsibilities and collaborate to meet the needs of the KY SKY population. In addition, participants will be provided with an overview of the MCO contractual requirements as they relate to practice transformation, reporting, quality improvement initiatives, and service delivery. Also, participants will be introduced to the KY SKY organizational structure, the System of Care structure, the Care Coordination Model of service delivery, and points of contact for issue resolution.... (read more)

American Red Cross: Bloodborne Pathogens
This American Red Cross training will train individuals how bloodborne pathogens are spread; how to help prevent exposure incidents by following work practice controls, using engineering controls and personal protective equipment, practicing good personal hygiene and properly cleaning and disinfecting equipment and supplies; and how to recognize, report and follow up on exposures to infectious materials.

This certification is valid for 1 year.... (read more)

Assessing Families Involved with Methamphetamine Labs
This training recommended for P&P workers and supervisors will help participants to assess if families are involved in meth labs (manufacturing and/or using). It will also focus on the steps to be taken in dealing with these families. The impact of meth use and manufacturing on the child welfare system will also be addressed.... (read more)

Attachment: How Do I Connect
This training will help Foster/Adoptive Parents with attachment issues. The content of this training includes what attachment is, attachment issues, causes of attachment issues, effects on children, grief stages, effects on relationships, how parents can promote attachments, what research indicates, needs of a child, as well as goals and supports.... (read more)

Building Foundations for Successful Parenting: Informational and Sessions I-V
This 15-hour pre-service for prospective foster and adoptive parents will be taught in five, three-hour classroom sessions to prepare them to care for children in foster care. This curriculum is designed to meet all the requirements of 922 KAR 1-495 and includes information on the rights, responsibilities and expectations of foster or adoptive parents; the process of a child entering foster care; importance of birth parents and culture; categories of child maltreatment; impact of childhood trauma; stages of grief; long term effects of separation and loss; permanency planning for children, including independent living for transitioning youth; importance of attachment; family functioning, values, and expectations; cultural competency; emergency preparedness; child development; basic discipline and behavior management skills; Reasonable and Prudent Parent Standard; Supporting Independent Living Skills; and Self-Care for Foster/Adoptive Parents.

There will be additional web-based trainings to accompany this classroom training.... (read more)

Building Manager Safety
This training was designed for Building Managers and other identified staff that will help in emergency situations such as fire drills, building evacuations, non-evacuation emergencies, etc. and other non-emergency facility issues.... (read more)

Call Services for Supervisors and Monitors
This web-based training is intended for FS Supervisors or Public Assistance Program Specialists assigned to the function of DCBS Call Services. Upon completion of this training, participants will be able to successfully log into and navigate the Interaction Client Business Manager (ICBM) phone system. Supervisors and Monitors will be able to monitor and manage users and workspaces, manage various views, and respond to Assistance Requests as well as reviewing recorded calls, monitoring in-process calls, and running reports.

To begin this training, please visit: https://learn.trc.eku.edu/moodle/course/view.php?id=97... (read more)

Care Plus Parenting for Foster/Adoptive Parents
This training is for Foster/Adoptive Parents and Kinship Care Providers who are caring for children who have the more difficult behaviors to manage. This training will help them understand their needs and ways to meet those needs.... (read more)

Care Plus: Introduction
This web-based training is for Foster/Adoptive Parents and Kinship Care Providers who are caring for children who have the more difficult behaviors to manage. This training will help caregivers understand the child and birth family needs and ways to meet those needs. This training is a prerequisite to attending the Care Plus series of classroom trainings and includes an overview. Culture and skill building are included.... (read more)

Caring for Children Who Have Experienced Trauma for Foster/Adoptive Parents: Follow-Up
This training, conducted by the UK Center on Trauma and Children, is intended for Resource Parent Trainers who have already been trained to deliver the Caring for Children Who Have Experienced Trauma curriculum. Completion of the TOT is required prior to attendance.

Participants completing this training will be able to effectively communicate the importance of trauma-informed care given for abused and neglected children to other professionals and resource parents; effectively coach others on how to engage caregivers in the process of developing specialized skills to care for trauma-affected children; acquire additional knowledge regarding the more complex issues involved with trauma-informed care giving such as trauma’s effects on brain development, creating psychological safety and dealing with feelings and behaviors; and maintain fidelity to the training protocol and promote the maintenance of fidelity to other training providers.... (read more)

Caring for Children Who Have Experienced Trauma: Sessions I-VIII
This training is for Foster/Adoptive Parents and Private Child Care Parents. Participants completing this training will be able to effectively communicate the importance of trauma-informed care giving for abused and neglected children to other professionals and resource parents; effectively coach others on how to engage caregivers in the process of developing specialized skills to care for trauma-affected children; acquire additional knowledge regarding the more complex issues involved with trauma informed care giving such as trauma’s effects on brain development, creating psychological safety and dealing with feelings and behaviors.... (read more)

Case Management Part I: Case Planning
This training is designed for new Protection and Permanency workers who have successfully completed Social Work Principles, Intake Process Systems, and CPS Assessment Skills and Policies of Foundations in Child, Family, and Adult Services. This training consists of asynchronous and synchronous learning components regarding Case Planning, Individual and Family Level Objectives, Readiness for Change, Family First, Service Array, In Home Conferences, Plan of Safe Care, Mental Health, Substance Misuse, Trauma, Court, and Intimate Partner Violence.... (read more)

Case Management: Refresher
This training will offer information as a refresher training to P&P staff so that they will be able to recognize and assess risks during investigations and know the appropriate documentation to gather throughout the investigation process.... (read more)

Child Care Assistance Program Enrollment and Copays
This web-based training is intended to instruct Family Support workers on Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP) provider enrollment on Worker Portal, and calculations for CCAP copays. Upon completion of this training, participants will be able to complete the enrollment process on Worker Portal and calculate copays for CCAP.

To begin this training, please go to: https://learn.trc.eku.edu/moodle/course/view.php?id=479... (read more)

Child Care Assistance Program: Refresher Post-Test
This web-based post-test is intended for Family Support employees who are enrolled in the Child Care Assistance Program: Refresher training and will be used to measure learning after attending the virtual class on Teams.... (read more)

Child Development and Forensic Interviewing
This web-based training is a prerequisite to Forensic Interviewing training and will focus on child development for Toddlers, Preschoolers, Early School, Elementary School and adolescent children. It will examine normal development for these ages in four areas: Physical, Cognitive/Linguistic, Emotional/Social and Sexual/Genital. Additionally, the training will provide key points for the connection between child development and formulation of forensic interviewing questions. The course consists of multiple choice and true false questions.... (read more)

Child Protection Services Track: Post-Test
This web-based training is used to measure knowledge of Child Protection Services workers after attending the P&P Academy.

Child Protective Services Assessment Skills and Policies: Part I
This training is designed for new Protection and Permanency workers who have successfully completed Social Work Principles and Intake Process Systems of Foundations in Child, Family, and Adult Services. This training consists of asynchronous and synchronous learning components regarding Biases, Cultural Humility, Trauma, Poverty vs Neglect, Mental Health, Substance Misuse, Relapse and Recovery, Family Solutions, Interviewing Skills, Assessment and Documentation Tools, Safety vs. Risk, Prevention Planning, and Safety Planning.... (read more)

Child Sexual Abuse in Child Welfare
This training is designed for new Protection and Permanency workers who have successfully completed Social Work Principles, Intake Process Systems, CPS Assessment Skills and Policy, and Case Management of Foundations in Child, Family, and Adult Services. This training consists of asynchronous and synchronous learning components regarding Sexual Development, Human Trafficking, Effects of Sexual Abuse, Dynamics and Indicators, Interviewing the Victim, Non-Offending Parent, and Perpetrator, Female and Adolescent Perpetrators, Roles and Responsibilities of the Social Service Worker, Working with the Victim, Court, and Self Care.... (read more)

Civil Rights Review
This web-based training is required to be completed annually by all FS Staff including front-line staff, administrative staff and supervisors. This training is required for Kentucky to maintain compliance with Civil Rights laws and regulations. The collection and use of data, conflict resolution, complaint process, civil rights review process, customer service and providing reasonable accommodations for the disabled will all be covered.... (read more)

Coaching Remotely
This training is intended for supervisors. Coaching in the child welfare workforce often happens face-to-face or in context of daily work activities. With our shift to virtual work, face-to-face contact may have been curtailed but connecting and supporting growth does not need to stop. This session will explore what stays the same and what adjustments must be made when coaching remotely.... (read more)

Collaborative Care Management
Participants will understand the process of Care Management and ways in which DCBS and SKY Care Managers can work together to best serve their clients. They will be able to understand the assessments that SKY Care Managers complete on each client and each level of Care Management involvement in each case. Participants will understand other evidenced based engagements that Care Managers are using such as High Fidelity WrapAround, Family Finding, Charting the LifeCourse, and the use of UniteUs for resources for enrollees.... (read more)

Collaborative Safety Staff
This Collaborative Safety training is designed for P&P staff. This content will explore the following: How Collaborative safety supports agencies to establish and maintain a safety culture, the importance of integrating Safety Science to human service agencies, the main values and components of old and new view thinking, language that is more consistent with new view of safety and how to use this language, and what a "second story" is and how staff can better explain their work.... (read more)

Collaborative Services in Mental Health and Substance Abuse: Part I
This two-part training series is intended for tenured full-time P&P Staff to provide them with critical knowledge about substance abuse and mental health problems experienced by families. A variety of subjects related to substance use disorders and mental health problems is discussed such as screening, assessment, case management, and referral services.

Classroom based portions of the course focus on theoretical foundations, etiology/diagnosis of substance abuse and mental health problems, as well as screening, referral, and case management practices. Participants will be completing some assignments using the Blackboard system.... (read more)

Continued Connections
The purpose of this web-based learning opportunity is to convey the importance of supporting and maintaining connections with those the youth has had a past relationship. This training is designed for foster and adoptive parents/caregivers. This could include biological family members, prior foster parents, coaches, teachers, etc. In this program, continued connections mean honoring the teens’ former attachments, recognizing and accepting that the teen has another family and previous connections, and understanding the teen’s attachment and loyalty to that family may be significant.... (read more)

CORE TEEN: A New Suitcase of Parenting Knowledge and Skills
In this training, parents will be able to: describe two ways that parents can support youth’s
important connections and a sense of connectedness; demonstrate the impact of secondary trauma on
/>parenting; and identify the important elements to developing a self-care plan. For all parents and staff.... (read more)

CORE TEEN: Introduction and Understanding the Impact of Trauma on Youth in Foster Care
In this training, parents will be able to: define trauma; describe ways that traumatic stress and adversity impact a youth’s development; and describe the importance of responding to the underlying cause of a youth’s behaviors. For all parents and staff.... (read more)

CORE TEEN: Parenting Youth Who Have Experienced Trauma
In this training, parents will learn to: describe the two major adaptive responses to threats; describe how fear changes the way youth think, feel and act; and describe three trauma-informed techniques to effectively parent youth, based on their emotional age and developmental state. For all foster parents and staff.... (read more)

CORE TEEN: Understanding and Managing Youth's Challenging Behaviors--Part II
In this training, parents will be able to: demonstrate at least two skills in addressing crisis /
severe behavior challenges; demonstrate two skills in teaching your youth how to remain safe; recognize vulnerabilities of youth with challenging behaviors who have experienced trauma; and describe how to access and be actively involved in professional supports that your youth may need to access. For all parents and staff.... (read more)

Crossing State Lines: Breaking Down Border Barriers in Child Welfare
This session will provide a deep-dive into the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children (ICPC) and the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), clarification of the role of both the courts and the Department for Community Based Services in these cases, and the importance of communication and collaboration throughout each case.... (read more)

Customer Service and De-Escalation Module 1: Leveling Up Customer Service
A virtual, interactive webinar focused on improving external customer service to increase client satisfaction and DCBS Family Support Staff experience in Call Services.

Customer Service and De-Escalation Module 3: Giving Your Colleagues Your Best Customer Service
A virtual, interactive webinar focused on improving internal customer service to reduce internal DCBS Family Support call services conflict and foster a culture of inclusion and respect.

Domestic Violence: Basic
This web-based training is required for FS Staff and all P&P Staff who do not attend the P&P Academy. This training requirement includes management, supervisors, and support staff in direct service roles.

DCBS plays a critical role in the coordinated response to domestic violence by enhancing safety of adult and child victims. This training meets the 1996 domestic violence mandatory "initial course" training requirement pursuant to KRS 194A.545. Specific focus will be on the following: nature and extent of domestic violence, "common ground" differences between domestic violence and child protection philosophies, psychological dynamics of battering, assessment and lethality/risk issues, service planning strategies, legal remedies for protection, model protocols for addressing domestic violence and community resources.... (read more)

Elder Abuse: Continuing Education
This web-based training will cover the dynamics, indicators, and effects of elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation, legal remedies for protection, lethality and risk issues, model protocols for addressing elder maltreatment, victim services and community resources, and mandatory reporting of elder maltreatment. This training is intended for all DCBS employees who directly provide services or who supervise the direct provision of services, whose job duties do not include elder maltreatment or adult protective services casework. These employees may encounter elder abuse, neglect, and/or maltreatment directly or indirectly while performing their assigned duties.... (read more)

Electronic Benefits Transfer: Card Security
This web-based training is intended for all FS Staff who are tasked with responsibilities for Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) cards received in the local office. Participants will receive instruction on Federally mandated levels of security that must be maintained for EBT cards according to Volume I, MS 0290.... (read more)

Eligibility Advisor Verification Service
This web-based training is intended for FS Staff who take applications for public assistance benefits or process cases. Upon completion, participants will be able to navigate the Eligibility Advisor to verify some or all of the following: income, employment history, real property and liquid assets.... (read more)

Equal Employment Opportunity
This web-based training is designed to help participants learn about and understand the Equal Employment Opportunity laws. How to prevent discrimination and what to do if you feel like you have been discriminated against will be covered. It is mandatory that all employees take this training every two years.... (read more)

Exploring Cultural Diversity and Prejudice for Private Child Care
This training is designed for all PCC/PCP staff to help create and awareness of different cultures and to help decrease prejudice and discrimination to help proved better services for the children and families they serve. This training helps staff evaluation their own cultural characteristics and discover where their attitudes and beliefs about other cultures originate. Open discussion around 9 cultural groups help participants grasp how both unintentional and intentional forms of discrimination affect others.... (read more)

Family Court Procedures and Protocols
This web-based training is designed for DCBS P&P staff. During this training, participants will learn about various court hearings, identify the types of hearing in Family Court, and match courtroom and other judicial personnel with their assigned job duties. In addition, participants will differentiate between basic professional and unprofessional court behavior and recognize judicial expectations in and out of the courtroom.... (read more)

Family First: Evidence-Based Practices and Prevention Services Referral
This training, designed for all DCBS staff, describes the process of selecting an Evidence-Based Practice based on the target population and outcome and entering and submitting the Prevention Services Referral Form in TWIST. It also includes a section for supervisors around approving the Prevention Services Referral.

After this training, participants will be able to enter and submit the Prevention Services Referral Form in TWIST after selecting the appropriate Evidence Based Practice.... (read more)

Family First: Introduction and Overview
This training was designed to provide an overview of the Family First Prevention Services Act to all DCBS staff. It includes the areas of child welfare impacted by the Act, the two major provisions of care, the Evidence-Based Practices (EBP) used by the state, definition of a Family First "candidate", and the qualifications of a "Qualified Residential Treatment Program" (QRTP) and its exceptions.

After this training, participants will be able to restate the basic components of the Family First Prevention Service Act by scoring 100% on the quiz.... (read more)

Family First: Prevention Services Array Overview
This training was designed to provide an overview of the Family First Prevention Services Array to all DCBS staff. Participants will become familiar with the available prevention services, program descriptions, durations, eligibilities, and intensities of regional and statewide programs.

After this training, participants will be able to identify prevention services and evidence based interventions available in each region.... (read more)

Family Support Supervision
This virtual training is intended for new Family Support Supervisors, Public Assistance Program Specialists, Service Region Administrator Associates, Branch Managers and Resource Management Analysts. Participants will learn to negotiate a working relationship with their staff, establish effective leadership habits, conduct team meetings, motivate workers, identify and close performance gaps, coach and mentor staff, and practice self-care. The training includes discussions, interactive exercises, and development of learning partnerships with other participants.... (read more)

Family Support: What is My Role?
This web-based training is intended for new FS Staff who have not received any other programmatic training, such as SNAP, Medicaid, KTAP, etc. Upon completion of this training, participants will be able to recognize the many roles of the FS worker.... (read more)

FAST: Foster/Adoptive Support and Training Resources
This web-based training is intended for prospective DCBS Foster/Adoptive Parents completing pre-service training. This training will outline the available programs (ASK, Mentor and the Network) for Parents and will be followed by a short quiz.... (read more)

Field Training Specialist: Overview
This hybrid training is designed for all new Protection and Permanency (P&P) Field Training Specialists. Participants will be given a short history of the KY FTS, an overview of the FTS program, and a detailed review and practice of all P&P Behavioral Anchors. Participants will use sample DCBS documents, contact notes, videos, and case scenarios to critique the anchors. In the last tutorial, participants will practice documentation by using the FTS Reporting System. During the synchronous sessions, participants will practice coaching new workers using the FTS Approach studied in the online sections of the course.... (read more)

Foster/Adoptive Parent Support Network Conference
The Network Conference is for all members of the Kentucky Foster and Adoptive Parent Training Support Network. All members should plan to attend.

Foundations in Child, Family, and Adult Services: Adult Protective Services Part II
This training is required for Protection & Permanency workers responsible for Adult Protective Services (APS). This training will cover the following topics: Assessing decisional capacity, disabilities, legal remedies, court, safety plans, prevention plans, and aftercare plans. This training will include web-based training and synchronous sessions.... (read more)

Getting Started with SKY
Students will understand eligibility rules of the SKY program, how members are assigned to SKY and how the transition process happens from one MCO to Aetna SKY if members were already on Medicaid. Students will also learn about the disenrollment process for those members who are eligible to opt out of the SKY program and chose another MCO. Students will understand how initial PCP and Dental assignments are made and who can go about changing those providers if needed. The presentation will also cover an introduction to our Utilization Management and Behavioral Health Department, which will include, certification, prior authorizations, residential level of care, hospital liaisons and discharge planning.... (read more)

GPS: Child Sexual Abuse--Training of Trainers
This training is designed to enable participants to conduct the training for Foster/Adoptive Parents to assist with children in placement who have been sexually abused. The program addresses the unique pressures of caring for children who have been sexually abused that can bring on families and marriage, while providing practical strategies for dealing with the difficult behaviors of children.... (read more)

HIPAA: Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
This web-based training is intended for all DCBS Staff. Foster/Adoptive Parents may also take the training.

Human Trafficking 101: An Overview
This is a mandatory training for DCBS and PCC/PCP staff. Upon completion of this training, participants will be able to meet the following performance objectives: Describe the types of human trafficking, understand federal law related to human trafficking, list vulnerabilities, risk and protective factors for human trafficking, and locate and access resources for survivors and youth at risk of human trafficking.... (read more)

i-TWIST: Agency Adoptions
This web-based training is designed for workers that will enter Agency Adoptions using the i-twist screens. This training will detail the steps involved.

i-TWIST: Assessment and Documentation Tool and Maintaining System Integrity
This web-based training is designed to teach and test participants the basic functionality of the i-TWIST program in the assessment phase. Participants will learn about accurate data reporting to maintain system integrity. The following screens are demonstrated: i-TWIST Home Page, Summary of Tasks, each Assessment Screen and Progress Bar, Due Date column coding, submitting for supervisor approval and printing and filing of the ADT.... (read more)

i-TWIST: Case Planning Navigation--Case Tasks
This web-based training is designed for all APS and CPS staff, supervisors, specialists and associates in P&P who complete the Case Planning: Case Task Process. DCBS has finalized recent TWIST changes to streamline the documentation.... (read more)

i-TWIST: Case Planning Navigation--Out-of-Home Care
This web-based training is designed for all CPS staff, supervisors, specialists and associates in P&P who complete the OOHC Case Planning process. DCBS has finalized recent TWIST changes to streamline the documentation.... (read more)

i-TWIST: Creating and Navigating Non-Agency Adoption Cases
This web-based training is designed for workers and supervisors that work with Non-Agency Adoptions. This training details how to create and navigate a non-agency case.

i-TWIST: Extended and Recommitment Youth
This web-based training is intended for P&P frontline staff. Participants will learn how to create and navigate a case for extended and recommitment youth in out-of-home care (OOHC).

i-TWIST: Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children
This web-based training is intended for all CPS staff in P&P who will submit an electronic ICPC (Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children) request. This training will demonstrate how to navigate to the ICPC progress bar and walk through creating a request in i-twist.... (read more)

i-TWIST: Leveling and Placement Navigation 886A and 106B
This web-based training is designed for all CPS Staff, Supervisors, Specialists and Associates in P&P who complete the Out-of-Home Care Case Planning process. DCBS has finalized recent TWIST changes to streamline the documentation.... (read more)

i-TWIST: Offline Application--Part I
This web-based training, intended for P&P staff, contains information on installing the i-TWIST Offline Application, utilizing the download/upload functions, and accessing and navigating within the Offline Activity link on the i-TWIST home page.... (read more)

i-TWIST: Offline Application--Part III
This web-based training, intended for P&P staff, contains information on utilizing the i-TWIST Offline Application for completing prevention plans offline, completing aftercare plans offline, completing e-forms, and taking pictures in the field.... (read more)

i-TWIST: Out-of-Home Care for New Removals
This web-based training is designed for all CPS staff, supervisors, specialists and associates in P&P who complete the OOHC Case Planning process. DCBS has finalized recent i-twist changes to streamline the documentation when a youth is placed in OOHC.... (read more)

i-TWIST: Post Adoptive Placement Stabilization Services
This web based training is designed for P&P staff to understand how to navigate i-TWIST screens for Post Adoptive Placement Stabilization Services (PAPSS) in Subsidy cases. After completion of this training, participants will be able to navigate I-TWIST Provide Screens when PAPSS being utilized to complete the 886A and 114.... (read more)

i-TWIST: Prior Removal and Adoption Screens
This web-based training is designed for all CPS staff, supervisors, specialists and associates in Protection and Permanency. The training explains the requirement to report AFCARS and where to navigate in the iTWIST system to complete the case manager tasks for the prior removal and adoption data documentation. How to enter prior removal data and adoption data for children placed in out-of-home care will also be covered.... (read more)

i-TWIST: Provide Inquiry
This web-based training is designed for workers that receive inquiries from individuals interested in becoming foster or adoptive providers for DCBS. This training will detail the steps involved in processing a system inquiry.... (read more)

i-TWIST: Safety Check and Review
This web-based training is intended for P&P frontline staff. Participants will learn how to complete a Safety Check and Review (DPP 1277) in i-twist.

i-TWIST: Supporting Kentucky Youth
This web-based training is intended for Protection and Permanency staff to demonstrate how to navigate the MCO SKY Youth panels.

Identifying Burnout and Assessing for Trauma in Child Welfare Professionals
This training, intended for P&P Staff, which focuses on allowing participants to gain knowledge on identifying Work Related Stress, Trauma and Burnout that they can experience as a Child Welfare Professional. Participants will be able to identify the different types of stressors and trauma that are common to Child Welfare Professionals. Participants will be provided with skills and strategies to become self-aware of Trauma and Burnout and their effects, but through practice and instruction, will gain an understanding of how to manage their emotions and how to practice positive self-care.... (read more)

Implicit Racial Bias 101: Exploring Implicit Bias in Child Protection
Developed by the Kirwan Institute at The Ohio State University, this training introduces you to learn about your own biases, their origins, and associations. You will gain insight on how your mind operates and learn strategies for addressing these biases in decisions and actions. By understanding implicit racial biases can operate outside of what we are consciously aware of and the implications they can have on disproportionality and disparate outcomes, you can begin to learn how to reduce biases that create and reinforce racialized barriers to opportunity.... (read more)

Intake Adjustments: A Look at Four Technical Requests
This training opportunity zeros in on four areas that are frequently seen as pain points or areas of complex challenge associated with intake and early investigative functions. We will explore intake modifications, adding victim/perpetrator pairs, referral deletes and re-entries, and second incidents. The information provided is aimed to help break down these multifaceted processes to provide clarity for when and why these options should be utilized, as well as responsible role assignment. The training provides an overview of functionality and process flow for best practice in utilization of each of these process resources.... (read more)

Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children: Kentucky and Tennessee Border Agreement
This web-based training is designed for P&P Staff in The Lakes who provide placement services across the Tennessee and Kentucky state line in emergency circumstances. The counties covered by the agreement are: Montgomery County in Tennessee and Christian, Trigg and Todd Counties in Kentucky. This border agreement allows children who otherwise might be placed in foster care, to be placed with relatives living in the other state.... (read more)

Intimate Partner Violence Micro
This micro-training is intended for DCBS P&P staff to review the social worker's role in cases involving Intimate Partner Violence. This training is a refresher of the content presented in the Academy.... (read more)

Introduction to Family Support Supervision
This web-based training is intended for Family Support Supervisors, Public Assistance Program Specialists, Service Region Administrator Associates, Branch Managers and Resource Management Analysts who are enrolled in the Family Support Supervisor series, and is a prerequisite to the second class in the Supervisor series. This course introduces participants to basic concepts and processes of supervision, and to serve as just-in-time training for new Family Support Supervisors prior to attending class.

To begin this WBT, go to: https://learn.trc.eku.edu/moodle/course/view.php?id=544... (read more)

Investigations in Alternate Care Facilities
This training is intended for Protection & Permanency workers responsible for Adult Protective Services (APS). Utilizing the DCBS Standards of Practice, this training will prepare Adult Protective Service workers to conduct investigations in Alternate Care Facilities. Participants will practice the investigative methods of observation, record review and interview in different facility settings. Participants will observe a video and review redacted medical records with case scenarios to make a determination of findings.... (read more)

KAAAP: Effective Use of Dual Monitors
Participants completing this web-based training will receive instruction on the proper use of dual monitors. This will include how to utilize the new space to "expedite their daily work." This training must be completed prior to attending KAAAP: Electronic Case Files classroom training.... (read more)

Kentucky Applicant Registry and Employment Screening
This training is designed for DCBS child welfare professionals who enter prospective foster and adoptive parents into the KARES system. In this training, participants will be learn how to create a KARES account and navigate the KARES system.... (read more)

Kentucky Strengthening Ties and Empowering Families
This web-based training is intended for DCBS Staff and will include an overview of the KSTEP project and a review of Solution-Based Casework; Stages of Readiness for Change and Motivators for Change; Motivational Interviewing; and Substance Abuse Dynamics and Interventions.

This training will be followed by a classroom training conducted by regional staff where participants will practice the intervention strategies taught in this web-based training.... (read more)

Kentucky Works Program: Components
This web-based training is intended for Family Support workers who are enrolled and participating in Kentucky Works Program (KWP) training. This training includes instruction on components used to track participation for KWP. Participants will be able to define each of the components, and distinguish between Core, Non-Core, and Allowable components.

To begin this training, please go to: https://learn.trc.eku.edu/moodle/course/view.php?id=569... (read more)

Kentucky Works Program: Pre-Test
This web-based training will be taken by participants enrolled in the Kentucky Works Program (KWP) classroom training and will be used to measure program knowledge before being trained.

Kinship Care: Navigator
This training, designed for all P&P staff, will give an overview of the foundational legislative pieces which drive the services, information on how to identify and assess relative/fictive kin, descriptions of the service array and practice explaining those to possible caregivers, and details of ongoing case management strategies and engagement.... (read more)

Kinship Care: Navigator--Overview
This web-based training is an overview of the Kinship Care Navigator Program for Family Support Staff and Office Support Assistants. The training will explain the basics of the options of the service array that is provided by House Bill 2 and was implemented on April 1, 2019.... (read more)

KTAP and KWP Statewide Refresher
This instructor-facilitated refresher training is intended for tenured workers who have completed KTAP and KWP trainings and have been working in Case Management, their supervisors, and Public Assistance Program Specialists who work with KTAP and KWP. This in-person event includes advanced topics, including Bridges Out of Poverty, Human Centered Design, problem solving/critical thinking with your participants, increasing participation/motivating individuals and tracking participation, error prevention, and policy discussion with DFS.... (read more)

KTAP for Worker Portal: Part II
This training includes instruction on two-parent households including Incapacity and Unemployed parent cases, Deprivation of Single Parent Adoption and additional practice on income and resources. Additional topics are FAD, relocation assistance, WIN, payee only cases and Kinship care. Review of policy on case changes, supplementals and special circumstance payments is also part of the content. Upon completion of this training, participants will be able to work in the functional area of Eligibility and Enrollment. Participants will not be able to work in the functional area of Support Services for Case Management until they have completed the third course in this series (KWP).... (read more)

KTAP for Worker Portal: Pre-Test
This web-based training will be taken by participants enrolled in KTAP for Worker Portal classroom training and will be used to measure knowledge before being trained.

KTAP: Resources
This web-based training is intended for new or tenured Family Support workers who complete KTAP cases. This training includes instruction on consideration of resources for Kentucky Transitional Assistance Program. Participants will be able to determine resource eligibility for KTAP cases.

To begin this training, please go to: https://learn.trc.eku.edu/moodle/course/view.php?id=533... (read more)

kynect Appointment Scheduling: General Awareness Webinar for DCBS Staff
This webinar provides DCBS Staff with an overview of the changes coming to kynect benefits and Worker Portal systems with the kynect Appointments Module, the benefits for DCBS Staff and Residents, a system demonstrations of both systems, and information on the help resources available for DCBS Staff and Residents.... (read more)

kynect Appointment Scheduling: kynect ability Webinar Phase II
This webinar provides DCBS Staff with the E&T Worker Role (Case Managers) with an overview and walkthrough of the new video appointment functionality coming to the kynect ability system for E&T Providers and E&T Supervisors as part of Phase 2 of the kynect Appointments Module. This webinar also provides an overview of the Phase 2 system changes coming to kynect benefits for E&T Participants as they schedule E&T appointments, and the help resources available for E&T Providers and E&T Participants.... (read more)

kynect Appointment Scheduling: Webinar for DCBS Management Phase II
This webinar provides DCBS Management with an overview and walkthrough of the new appointment scheduling and appointment location setup functionality in Worker Portal. This webinar also covers the joining video appointments and video appointment best practices for DCBS Staff and Management, the updates coming to kynect benefits and kynect ability, and the help resources available for DCBS Management, Staff, and Residents.... (read more)

kynect Benefits Awareness 2021
This training will provide participants an overview of the kynect benefits system, benefits of using the system, a system demonstration, and information on help resources available to Residents. This is the 2021 update to the training. This will be required for all DCBS employees.... (read more)

kynect Health Coverage: Managed Care Organization Enrollment and Copays
This training is intended for Family Support employees who are enrolled in the kynect Health Coverage series and currently attending Part I of the series. This micro-session will be completed during Part I virtual class and provides an overview of Managed Care Organizations (MCO) and Copays for Medicaid. Participants will be able to outline steps for the Enrollment Module on Worker Portal for MCOs.... (read more)

kynect Health Coverage: Part I
This classroom training is intended for Family Support workers who have completed SNAP and Child Care series but have not previously attended Medicaid training. This training includes instruction and practice on completing QHP, APTC, CSR, and MAGI Medicaid cases. Participants will receive instruction on policy, procedures, and system entry on Worker Portal. Upon completion of this training, participants will be able to interview clients and enter applications and renewals in the Eligibility and Enrollment Family Support function, and complete other Dashboard tasks for these types of cases.... (read more)

kynect Health Coverage: Part II
This classroom training is intended for Family Support workers who have completed SNAP and Child Care series but have not previously attended Medicaid training. This training includes instruction and practice on completing Medicare Savings Program cases for individuals and couples, and resource consideration for Non-MAGI cases. Participants will receive instruction on policy, procedures, and system entry on Worker Portal. Upon completion of this training, participants will be able to interview and complete applications for Medicare Savings Program cases.... (read more)

kynect Health Coverage: Part III
This classroom training is intended for Family Support workers who have completed SNAP and Child Care series but have not previously attended Medicaid training. This training includes instruction and practice on completing Pass Through cases and Non-MAGI Spend Downs, including couples and MRT referrals. Participants will receive instruction on policy, procedures, and system entry on Worker Portal. Upon completion of this training, participants will be able to interview and complete applications for Spend Downs and Pass Through cases.... (read more)

kynect Health Coverage: Qualified Health Plan Shopping
This training is intended for Family Support employees who are enrolled in the kynect Health Coverage series and currently attending Part I of the series. This micro-session will be completed during Part I virtual class and outlines Shopping procedures for Qualified Health Plans at Open Enrollment and for Qualifying Life Events. Participants will be able to navigate the shopping screens for Qualified Health Plans (QHP).... (read more)

kynect Health Coverage: Resources Review
This training is intended for Family Support employees who are enrolled in the kynect Health Coverage series, preparing to attend Part III, and can also be completed by tenured employees as a refresher. This course reviews resources for Non-MAGI Medicaid, including types of life insurance, prepaid funeral contracts, and real property. Participants will practice application of policy through scenarios, including verification sources and system entry.... (read more)

LGBTQ+ Mental Health: The Trauma of Coming Out
This course will assist foster parents and staff understand the trauma of a youth coming out or considering coming out.

Medicaid for Worker Portal: Introduction to Long Term Care
This web-based training is intended for new or tenured workers. Participants will receive instruction on the difference between Facility and Waiver care, review the various types of care received with the Long Term Care program, and what difference the Living Arrangement has on vendor payment cases.... (read more)

Medicaid Works
This web-based training introduces participants to basic policies for the Medicaid Works program. Upon completion, participants will be able to complete applications for and processing of Medicaid Works cases.... (read more)

Medicaid: Medicare
This web-based training is intended for workers who are enrolled in the Medicaid series and is a prerequisite to attending Medicaid: Non-MAGI training. Participants will be able to identify and define all parts of Medicare with policy and procedures relevant to Non-MAGI Medicaid cases.... (read more)

Medicaid: Resources
This web-based training is intended for FS workers who are enrolled in the Medicaid Series and is a prerequisite to attending Medicaid: Medicare Savings and Health Benefits classroom training. This training introduces participants to basic policies and resource definitions for Medicaid for Aged, Blind and Disabled individuals.... (read more)

Medicaid: Vendor Payment
This virtual training is intended for FS workers who have completed the kynect Health Coverage (or other Medicaid series), and will be working with Medicaid Vendor Payment cases. This training includes instruction and practice on completing vendor payment cases, including Nursing Facilities, Hospice, Waiver including Home and Community Based Services (HCBS), Supports for Community Living (SCL) and other institutional/waiver programs for single individuals, couples and children. Participants will receive instruction on policy, procedures and system entry on Worker Portal. Upon completion of this training, participants will be able to interview and complete applications for vendor payment cases.... (read more)

Medicaid: Vendor Payment Pre-Test
This web-based training is intended for FS Staff who are enrolled in Medicaid: Vendor Payment training and will be used to measure knowledge before attending the classroom training.

Medical Indicators
The purpose of Medical Indicators training is for newly hired DCBS case workers to learn the indicators of child abuse and neglect. Although this training does not cover every potential form of child maltreatment, the most common indicators are addressed in the training. Every case of child abuse and neglect contains a medical component; therefore, this interactive day of training is vital to the foundation of basic case investigation. This training is engaging and allows the opportunity for workers to ask questions as well as receive answers in real time. With DCBS Medical Support Nurse Service Administrators providing the training, it is the beginning of a working relationship between field staff and Central Office Medical Support. The teaching material is supplemented by the presenter’s examples as they relate to the topics discussed. Attendees are challenged throughout the training to process case investigative work when presented with medical issues requiring field staff decision.... (read more)

Medically Complex: Annual
This conference-style training event will provide DCBS and PCC Medically Complex Foster/Adoptive Parents the opportunity to obtain 12 hours of the ongoing training needed for recertification. Participants will choose from a variety of training topics to allow them the opportunity to attend the training sessions most relevant to the needs of the child in their care. General training sessions will also be held and are conducted through the meals. Therefore, attendance at meals is required to receive full training credit. All 12 hours of training must be completed.

Foster/Adoptive Parents must be an approved Medically Complex Resource Home in order to attend.... (read more)

Medically Complex: Join Hands Together
This training is for DCBS and Private Agency Foster Parents who have been approved by their R&C Supervisor and/or agency to attend. This is the initial training that all Foster Parents must complete before they can be approved as a Medically Complex Foster Home. This training is comprised of 5.25 hours of prerequisite web-based trainings and 6.75 hours of classroom training for 12 total training hours.

Prior to attending this training, participants must complete a series of web-based trainings. These trainings are: Medically Complex: Orientation, Medically Complex: Nutrition, Medically Complex: Standards of Practice, and Medically Complex: Growth and Development web-based trainings. All of these trainings should be completed no later than one-week prior to the start of the Join Hands Together training or participants may be cancelled. Training credit will not be issued for completion of any of these web-based trainings until the entire classroom portion of Join Hands Together is completed. If these prerequisites are completed more than six months prior to attending the Join Hands Together classroom training, they must completed again to ensure participants are equipped with the knowledge and information provided through these web-based trainings.... (read more)

Medically Complex: Orientation
This web-based training is intended for any Foster/Adoptive Parent, Kinship Care Provider, PCC's, or workers who are interested in the Medically Complex Program. Information such as diseases and conditions of the medically complex child, documentation for approval of the resource home and ongoing training requirements will be discussed.... (read more)

Medication Administration
In this web-based training, Foster/Adoptive Parents will receive information on basic medication administration and documentation. The training will include information of the six rights of medication administration, how the body utilizes medications, side effects, adverse effects, considerations for administering medications and DCBS forms related to medication administration.... (read more)

National Adoption Competency Mental Health Initiative for P&P Supervisors
This training is available for all Protection and Permanency Supervisors. The training focuses on casework practices for staff across the child welfare continuum to promote child well-being and family stability. It also seeks to improve collaboration between child welfare and mental health service systems. An additional 3 hours of training and a Supervisor Coaching and Activity Guide to support their staff to transfer learning to daily practice will also be included.

The competencies on which the curriculum modules are based include: Understanding Children’s Mental Health Needs; Supporting and Strengthening Attachment; Understanding the Impact of Race, Culture, and Diversity on Adoptive & Guardianship Families; Supporting Loss and Grief; Understanding the Impact of Trauma on Brain Development and Behavior; Supporting Positive Identity Formation and Promoting Family Stability Post Placement.... (read more)

New Employee Orientation for Private Childcare Staff
This is a training for new PCC/PCP agencies that are just beginning or would like a refresher on what the agencies are responsible for as far as forms, trainings and a clear explanation of the PCC/PCP agreement that they have with the Cabinet for Health and Family Services. There is open discussion about process and timeframes for required documentation... (read more)

Non-Fatal Strangulation Education for Child Protective Services Employees
Identify the signs and symptoms consistent with strangulation and apply evidence-based practices, while utilizing a trauma-informed approach. Recognize the risk and predictive nature associated with intimate partner strangulation. Articulate the importance of creating a regional non-fatal strangulation protocol and galvanizing a coordinated community response. Apply knowledge gained through non-fatal strangulation training to the application of care and investigations involving children.... (read more)

Orientation for Private Child Care and Private Child Placing
This is a training for new PCC/PCP agencies that are just beginning or would like a refresher on what the agencies are responsible for as far as forms, trainings and a clear explanation of the PCC/PCP agreement that they have with the Cabinet for Health and Family Services. There is open discussion about process and timeframes for required documentation.

Objectives: Understand the different agency roles utilized with PCC/PCP; understanding of PCC Tracking system; forms for completion for DCBS, TRIS, CRP, and other agencies; understanding of training requirements for PCP parents either therapeutically elveled or medically complex; understand the method for leveling a child using CRP forms; understanding the ongoing monitoring of children and how each agency has a role in this process.... (read more)

Parental Regulation
The purpose of this web-based learning opportunity is to enhance the participants understanding of parental regulation. This training is designed for foster and adoptive parents/caregivers. Parental Regulation is the set of skills and abilities that help participants manage feelings and behaviors so that they can then use the right skills, interventions and supports at the right time.... (read more)

PCWCP: Social Work Principles-Part II
This course is designed to integrate PCWCP students for working with families through knowledge and skills on a variety of topics. Those topics include: family strengths, resistance, interviewing skills, and court. Students will have an opportunity to practice and demonstrate new skills learned throughout the training.... (read more)

Personnel Management
This training was designed to give new managers and supervisors a practical knowledge of personnel management issues necessary to handle day-to-day personnel situations with governing policies and procedures. The first day of training will include hiring and selection process and performance planning. The final day continues with the performance planning, job/task criteria and evaluation and coaching practices. The training will wrap up with the topics of corrective action and progressive discipline.... (read more)

Practicing Self-Care
This web-based training is intended for Family Support workers. Participants will receive information about the importance of self-care and ways to practice self-care in their work environment. Topics include self-care for physical, emotional and professional realms among others to restore and reduce unnecessary stress, burnout and compassion fatigue. Participants will be able to engage in a self-care assessment, and to make an individualized self-care plan. Upon completion of this training, participants will have the tools to incorporate self-care into their daily routines.

To begin this training, please go to: https://learn.trc.eku.edu/moodle/course/view.php?id=617... (read more)

Presentation Skills: Part II
This training is intended for DCBS trainers, volunteer trainers, supervisors, R&C staff, and anyone else that facilitates or conducts presentations. Prior to attending this classroom session, participants must have completed Presentation Skills: Part I on Moodle. In this training, all of the components from the Part I will be debriefed, and there will be additional topics, including: Introductions, Debriefing Methods, Visual Aids, Difficult Participants, and Commanding the Room. Participants will apply this content by conducting mini-presentations which include checking for understanding, introductions and group facilitations.... (read more)

Professional Documentation
This web-based training is intended for DCBS Staff working in P&P. A major responsibility for P&P staff is casework documentation. This training will raise awareness of the need for professionalism in documenting services to families. Guidelines for organizing your writing, checking for common grammatical errors and avoiding pitfalls that are often found in professional social work documentation will be covered.... (read more)

Protection and Permanency Leadership Training Series: Core A
This series of trainings is designed for Family Services Office Supervisors of Protection and Permanency. These trainings will provide supervisors with leadership skills and tools that can support them as they carry out their diverse activities. Supervisors are presented with an integrated framework consisting of three functions: Administrative, Educational and Supportive functions and will practice strategies to ensure strength-based approaches are systemically applied for both employees and families. Topics include trauma informed practice, self-care and secondary traumatic stress, racial equity, ethical decision making, cultural humility, coaching and mentoring strategies, learning styles and team building.... (read more)

Protection and Permanency Leadership Training Series: Core C
This series of trainings is designed for Family Services Office Supervisors of Protection and Permanency. These trainings will provide supervisors with leadership skills and tools that can support them as they carry out their diverse activities. Supervisors are presented with an integrated framework consisting of three functions: Administrative, Educational and Supportive functions and will practice strategies to ensure strength-based approaches are systemically applied for both employees and families. Topics include trauma informed practice, self-care and secondary traumatic stress, racial equity, ethical decision making, cultural humility, coaching and mentoring strategies, learning styles and team building.... (read more)

Protection and Permanency Leadership Training Series: Core E
This series of trainings is designed for Family Services Office Supervisors of Protection and Permanency. These trainings will provide supervisors with leadership skills and tools that can support them as they carry out their diverse activities. Supervisors are presented with an integrated framework consisting of three functions: Administrative, Educational and Supportive functions and will practice strategies to ensure strength-based approaches are systemically applied for both employees and families. Topics include trauma informed practice, self-care and secondary traumatic stress, racial equity, ethical decision making, cultural humility, coaching and mentoring strategies, learning styles and team building.... (read more)

Psychotropic Medication Use in Out-of-Home Care
This web-based training is intended for all DCBS Staff and will provide an overview of psychotropic medications, their common classes, how they relate to common diagnoses of children in care, and how assessment of their appropriateness fits with trauma-informed care and the screening, assessment and treatment of children in out-of-home care. Participants will also be provided with information on the behavioral health needs of children in care, alternatives to use of psychotropic medications, weighing risks and benefits, the worker’s role in informed consent, and questions for medical providers which may assist workers in determining appropriate treatment and whether to provide consent for use of psychotropic medications.... (read more)

Quality Engagement for Successful Partnership
The purpose of this training, intended for P&P Regional Staff, Supervisors and Workers, is to enhance staff and supervisors' skills in effective engagement with families and to demonstrate its importance.... (read more)

Random Moment Sampling
This course is required as part of New Employee Orientation for DCBS Staff in FS and P&P. In this web-based training, participants will be reviewing tools used by DCBS that determine cost distribution to various family support and protection and permanency programs and services. The primary purpose of this training is to inform you of the overall Random Moment Sampling (RMS) process and create awareness of the types of information that you will provide in a RMS such as the activity being performed by the worker at a particular moment. Random moment is a point in time selected at random and moment is a specific minute during work hours. In this training, there is a section that tells us who the observers are and how RMS works.... (read more)

Reasonable and Prudent Parenting Standards for Private Child Care Staff
This training is intended for private child care staff. Trainer must have previously attended RPPS:TOT. This training will provide information regarding the Reasonable and Prudent Parent Standards as it pertains to the Preventing Sex Trafficking and Strengthening Families Act of 2014. This training will define RPPS and how it applies to all staff and foster parent roles, youth rights and responsibilities, and DCBS policies. Protecting Children and Youth at Risk of Sex Trafficking and the Planning and Transition for a Successful Adulthood will also be Reviewed.... (read more)

Recovery Champions: Harm Reduction
This training is available for all DCBS staff as well as both DCBS and PCP Foster Parents to understand the definition of both abstinence-based models and harm reduction models in addressing SUD. Participants will identify the most common harm reduction services related to the opioid crisis and learn how to separate myth from fact regarding common ideas about harm reduction. For DCBS Foster Parents only, this training meets policy for ongoing Care Plus training.

This training has been funded by the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services through the Kentucky Opioid Response Effort (KORE), a Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) grant.... (read more)

Recovery Champions: Medication-Assisted Treatment
This training is available for all DCBS Staff as well as both DCBS and PCP Foster Parents to understand the comprehensive model of medication-assisted treatment (MAT) and the evidence to support MAT. Participants will become familiar with the FDA approved medications and understand how to communicate with others about effective use of MAT. The corresponding activity will allow participants to explore the myths versus facts of MAT. For DCBS Foster Parents only, this training meets policy for ongoing Care Plus training.

This training has been funded by the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services through the Kentucky Opioid Response Effort (KORE), a Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) grant.... (read more)

Recovery Champions: Recovery-Oriented Systems of Care (ROSC)
This training is available for all DCBS staff as well as both DCBS and PCP Foster Parents to understand recovery-oriented systems of care (ROSC) and identify areas your organization can focus on to move ROSC forward.

This training has been funded by the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services through the Kentucky Opioid Response Effort (KORE), a Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) grant.... (read more)

Recovery Champions: Stigma
This training is available for all DCBS Staff as well as both DCBS and PCP Foster Parents to understand the definition of stigma as related to addiction and the potential impact of stigma on individuals with SUD. The corresponding activity will allow participants to identify stigmatizing words or phrases and learn how to replace them with non-stigmatizing language. For DCBS Foster Parents only, this training meets policy for ongoing Care Plus training.

This training has been funded by the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services through the Kentucky Opioid Response Effort (KORE), a Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) grant.... (read more)

Recovery Champions: Treatment
This training is available for all DCBS Staff as well as both DCBS and PCP Foster Parents to understand the current structures of treatment and how people benefit from these professional services. Participants will understand how clinical services operate at different levels to support recovery and identify markers of effective treatment. This training will explore the concept of a continuum of care and identify ways medication-assisted treatment (MAT) can work across levels of care and the best practices in the treatment of SUD, opioid use disorders, and co-occurring mental health disorders. The corresponding activity will demonstrate the effectiveness of using an individualized, collaborative, strengths-based, non-punitive approach to build on a client’s resilience rather than focus on failures. For DCBS Foster Parents only, this training meets policy for ongoing Care Plus training.

This training has been funded by the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services through the Kentucky Opioid Response Effort (KORE), a Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) grant.... (read more)

Relative and Fictive Kin Service Array Micro
This micro training is intended for DCBS P&P workers to overview the relative and fictive kin service array. Participants will differentiate between the two service array options and know which forms to complete for each option.... (read more)

Resource Parent Curriculum Trainers: Effective Implementation
The UK Center on Trauma and Children (CTAC) is hosting a session focused on overcoming implementation challenges associated with Caring for Children Who Have Experienced Trauma: Resource Parent Curriculum. This will be a 1 hour session to discuss challenges and strategies for overcoming barriers to effective implementation. This session is intended for those who have already completed the initial three day train the trainer event with CTAC.... (read more)

Right Time Training: Accessing Service and Support
This web-based training is designed for PCP and DCBS foster and adoptive parents as well as PCP and R&C workers. In this training participants will: Learn to normalize the need to ask for services and the importance of being a life-long learner, recognize the need to become an advocate for children to ensure they get the services they need; recognize the importance of developing a support network (school, community supports, friends, medical), understand the types of services available including counseling for trauma and loss; understand the importance of medical/developmental screening and counseling; understand the value of support groups and peer-to-peer programs.... (read more)

Right Time Training: Building Parental Resilience
This web-based training is designed for PCP and DCBS foster and adoptive parents as well as PCP and R&C workers. In this training participants will: Understand what parental resiliency is and the importance of resiliency for those parents who are fostering or adopting; recognize the kinds of parenting challenges that are likely to occur when fostering or adopting children who have experienced trauma, separation and loss; understand the four building blocks of parental resiliency; recognize friends and family may not understand the complexity of the children’s needs or the need to provide support to the family; understand the importance of self-care and the steps necessary to build and maintain self-care.... (read more)

Right Time Training: Education
This web-based training is designed for PCP and DCBS foster and adoptive parents as well as PCP and R&C workers. In this training participants will: Understand educational considerations that may need to be put in place for children who have experienced loss, separation or other traumatic experiences; know how to advocate for children in the school settings; aware of challenges children may encounter in school; understand IEP and 504 plans; aware of strategies to partner with teachers and schools for academic success; know how to plan for higher education and/or vocations.... (read more)

Right Time Training: Life Story
This web-based training is designed for PCP and DCBS foster and adoptive parents as well as PCP and R&C workers. In this training participants will: Understand when and how to tell children their adoption/birth story based on age and developmental level; recognize the importance of making this an on-going conversation with children in an inclusive, open fashion; willing to honor strengths while also acknowledging challenges.... (read more)

Right Time Training: Preparing and Managing Visitations
This web-based training is designed for PCP and DCBS foster and adoptive parents as well as PCP and R&C workers. In this training participants will: Understand how to check in and address children’s concerns, questions and emotions before and after visits with their families; able to name and validate the range of feelings associated with visits from children and their parents; understand how to prepare the children for visitations; recognize the importance of visits even if children exhibit behaviors before or after the visits; understand role of the parent who is fostering or adopting in the visit and need to keep the children free to enjoy the visits; aware of language to use with children when visits are missed or cancelled.... (read more)

Right Time Training: Responding to Children in Crisis
This web-based training is designed for PCP and DCBS foster and adoptive parents as well as PCP and R&C workers. In this training participants will: Become aware of strategies to help children become regulated while de-escalating crises; aware of strategies to help children return to a calm state and keep children who are dysregulated safe while also keeping family members safe; become aware of strategies to help children and families feel physically and psychologically safe; understand the importance of partnering with other professionals and entities around a crisis.... (read more)

Right Time Training: Sexual Identity and Development
This web-based training is designed for PCP and DCBS foster and adoptive parents as well as PCP and R&C workers. In training participants will: Understand healthy sexual development; aware of definitions and language (familiar with the differences between sex and gender, gender expression and gender identity, and sexual orientation and gender); know how to help children and teenagers develop strategies to handle bias and discrimination; open to non-binary gender identities; aware of how to help teenagers understand healthy sexual relationships.... (read more)

Risk Factors and the Assessment of Child Protective Service Referrals
This training is designed for child protective service teams to strengthen their skill development in assessing and identifying protective and risk factors. Instructional content will guide participants into discussion on specific risk factors which have been identified as critical through the Continuous Quality Assessment. The training focuses on and explores the impact of substance abuse, domestic violence and mental health issues with the family to help determine safety for family members, including assessing for out-of-home care placement if necessary. Information and materials are presented on each of these risk factors and protective factors by a panel of Specialists. The training also has guided practice in assessing a case scenario and making safety determinations on the case scenario including final determination of placement options.... (read more)

Safeguarding Confidential Social Security Administration and IRS Information
This web-based training is intended for DCBS employees who have access to confidential information provided by Social Security Administration (SSA) or the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). This training will familiarize staff on steps to take when handling confidential information, identify Federal Tax Information (FTI) and agencies that have existing Memorandums Of Understanding (MOUs).... (read more)

SAFESPACE for Champions
This training is designed for a select group of P&P team members in selected regions. This training will discuss the roles of the Champions in rolling out the new SAFESPACE procedures and training as well as provide practice in administering the new Behavioral Health Screening tools and how to incorporate the results of the Functional Assessment into the Case Plan.... (read more)

Safety: Preventing and Reporting Dog Attacks During Home Visits
This web-based training is intended and mandated yearly for all frontline Protection and Permanency staff. The purpose of this training is to educate staff on how to remain safe in the presence of dogs during a home visit. Participants will also learn how to report a critical incident in the event of a dog bite or attack.... (read more)

Self-Care for Child Welfare and Family Support Professionals
The purpose of this training, intended for both P&P and FS Staff, is to build self-care competency. Working with children and families can be challenging. Evidence suggests that child welfare and family support workers are increasingly faced with daunting caseloads, compassion fatigue, secondary traumatic stress and professional burnout among other challenges. Those employed in public sectors may be disproportionately impacted by bureaucratic processes and community resource restrictions. Given these factors, it is imperative that child welfare and family support professionals engage in self-care.

Upon completion, participants will gain an understanding and familiarity with a variety of definitions of self-care; design a self-care plan utilizing provided guidelines/templates; identify strategies for implementing a self-care plan; identify tools for evaluating self-care and sustaining good self-care practices.... (read more)

Sibling Connections in Out-of-Home Care
This training, intended for Foster/Adoptive Parents and DCBS Staff, will look at background, placement decision making, supporting sibling relationships, application to case practice and connecting to resources when dealing with siblings in out-of-home care.... (read more)

SNAP and Child Care: Applicant Explanations
This micro-learning web-based training is intended for Family Support workers who are enrolled and currently participating in SNAP and Child Care series. Instruction includes elements that must be discussed with applicants for SNAP and CCAP. Participants will devise ways to explain these elements during this course and will practice these explanations when they rejoin their virtual class.... (read more)