Adoptive Interstate Placements
This course is designed to help DPP staff refer and manage adoption cases moving through the Interstate Compact system.

Adult Protective Services: Case Planning
This training is intended for Protection & Permanency workers responsible for Adult Protective Services (APS). Utilizing the DCBS Standards of Practice, participants will be prepared to develop an ongoing case plan, prevention plan, adult personal development plan and evaluate an ongoing case using the APS Ongoing CQA/Case Plan Evaluation template. Participants will demonstrate solution- based casework techniques and assess underlying causes of maltreatment in developing their case plans.... (read more)

Adult Protective Services: Safety and Risk Manual
Staff will be able to understand and apply the safety/risk manual. They will be able to complete the safety/risk assessment appropriately.

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: Adult and Pediatric First Aid/CPR/AED
The purpose of the American Red Cross training is to help participants recognize and respond appropriately to cardiac, breathing and first aid emergencies. The courses in this program teach skills that participants need to know to give immediate care to a suddenly injured or ill person until more advanced medical personnel arrive and take over. This could be a mixture of online and face-to-face learning.

This certification is valid for 2 years as of January 1, 2011.... (read more)

Americans with Disabilities Act
This web-based training includes the history of the ADA, who is and is not protected under the ADA, what is considered a disability, which types of businesses must comply with the ADA, and what is considered Reasonable Accommodation according to the ADA. A guided tour of the ADA website and a list of contacts and resource information for use on the job will be provided during the training.... (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)

Call Services for Case Workers
This web-based training is intended for FS Staff assigned to work in the functional area of Call Services. Upon completion of this training, participants will be able to successfully log into and navigate the Call Services system, answer phone calls, set their status, transfer calls and request assistance as necessary.... (read more)

CAPTA: Child Abuse Prevention Treatment Act Hearings
This web-based training will provide P&P staff with basic information concerning the appeal process that an individual and families can initiate when they do not agree with the actions of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services. Staff will be given the materials and information that need to be made available when CAPTA appeals have been filed by clients.

This training is a prerequisite for Specialized Referrals and Assessments in Day Cares, Schools and Other Out-of-Home Care Settings.... (read more)

Care Plus Parenting for Foster/Adoptive Parents: Training of Trainers
This TOT is intended for individuals who will be training foster/adoptive parents for the level of Care Plus. This training is not open to PCCs as they have therapeutic care and this is not a therapeutic model. Topics covered include SOPs related to this area as well as documentation, how to deal with behaviors and how to work with the birth parents of these children. Participants attending this training will be required to complete the Care Plus: Introduction web-based training.

Foster/Adoptive Parents attending to become trainers must be an approved care plus home.... (read more)

Caring for Children Who Have Experienced Trauma
The purpose of this training, in accordance with 922 KAR 1:495, is to develop a leadership base among R&C Workers, who are responsible for recruiting, training, and certifying foster/adoptive families.... (read more)

Caring for Children Who Have Experienced Trauma for Foster/Adoptive Parents: Training of Trainers
This training, conducted by the UK Center on Trauma and Children, is designed to be taught by a mental health/child welfare professional with foster/adoptive parents as co-facilitators. It includes nine case studies of representative foster children from the ages of 8 months to 15 years, as well as cases of secondary traumatic stress in foster/adoptive parents. For those regions that serve military families, adaptations have been made to allow for application of the material to the special circumstances faced by children of military families, or foster/adoptive parents who may be members of the military.

During the training, participants will demonstrate skills learned throughout the three day training by teaching a component of the curriculum.... (read more)

Caring for Children with Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome
This web-based training, intended for Foster/Adoptive and Private Child Care Parents, will guide participants through caring for a child with neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS). It can be used as a reference to help care for a child in the home with NAS. This training cannot be used as child-specific training.... (read more)

Case Management Part II: Out-of-Home Care
This training is designed for new Protection and Permanency workers who have successfully completed Social Work Principles, Intake Process Systems, CPS Assessment Skills and Policies, and Case Management Part 1 of Foundations in Child Family, and Adult Services. This training consists of asynchronous and synchronous learning components regarding Out of Home Care (OOHC) Case Planning including Individual and Family Level Objectives, Tasks and the Child and Youth Action Plan, Visitation, Reunification, Family First, OOHC Conferences, Mental Health, Substance Misuse, Trauma, Court, and Permanency Options.... (read more)

CHART: Cultural Humility Authentic Response Training
This interactive training will enhance supervisors and management staff's ability to coach and mentor staff to better engage and provide quality customer service delivery to an increasingly diverse clientele. In addition, the training fosters improved engagement with colleagues, customers and internal/external partners leading to stronger collaborations and improved agency outcomes.... (read more)

Child Care Assistance Program: DCC-94
This web-based training is intended to instruct Family Support workers on the DCC-94 Child Care Service Agreement and Certificate, including reviewing and explaining the form to clients, and completing the task when the form is returned. Upon completion of this training, participants will be able to interpret the information found on the DCC-94 and complete the pending child care enrollment on Worker Portal when a signed form is returned.

To begin this training, please go to: https://learn.trc.eku.edu/moodle/course/view.php?id=519... (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)

Compassion in Crisis
The training is intended for Child Welfare professionals who work directly with families in crisis. Participants will develop a personal conflict cycle and identify the importance of self care and professionalism during challenging situations. Behavioral indicators of trauma and secondary stress will be explored. Participants will also demonstrate the appropriate use of the HEAT de-escalation model.... (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: Developing and Sustaining Healthy and Supportive Relationships with Your Youth
In this training, parents will be able to: describe the impact of loss and grief on teens; describe two actions that parents can take to enhance attachment and strengthen their relationship with youth; and describe two ways that parents can deepen attunement with their youth or a youth they will parent. For all foster parents and staff.... (read more)

CORE TEEN: Nurturing Youth's Cultural Needs, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
In this training, parents will be able to: identify ways to incorporate the youth’s race, culture and ethnicity into family life; demonstrate two skills in communicating acceptance and support for youth who are questioning their sexuality or gender identify and/or identify as LGBTQ2S. For all parents and staff.... (read more)

CORE TEEN: 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)

CORE TEEN: Relationship Development
The purpose of this web-based learning opportunity is to enhance the participants learning around Relationship Development. This training is designed for foster and adoptive parents/caregivers. In this program, Relationship Development is defined as the critical tasks and skills required to engage, increase commitment and positive connection, and develop a supportive healing relationship between foster caregivers and the youth in their homes.... (read more)

CORE TEEN: Transition Support for Youth in Out-of-Home Care
The purpose of this web-based training is to enhance learning around transitions. This training is designed for foster and adoptive parents/caregivers. This session focuses on how change impacts the youth, foster and adoptive parents, and their family. Strategies are introduced to help foster and adoptive parents prepare for and manage the emotional impact (stress, fear, uncertainty, pain, loneliness, anxiety and hopelessness) that are often a part of the transition process.... (read more)

CORE TEEN: Trauma Informed Resource Parenting II: Understanding Behavior
The purpose of this web-based learning opportunity is to further explore how trauma effects youth’s behaviors. This training is designed for foster and adoptive parents/caregivers. The experience of trauma often produces behaviors that will seem out of context and usually includes anger, mistrust or defiance. The experience of trauma can also impact school performance and relationships and can result in delays in and social skills and development. Participants will explore how the interactions and interventions used with youth who have experienced trauma are different than those used with youth who have not experienced trauma.... (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)

CPS Decision Making
This training is designed for Child Welfare professionals to strengthen their skill development in assessing and identifying safety, risk, and protective factors to aid decision-making. In this hands-on training, participants are guided to gather information using the SDM Safety and Risk Assessment, interviewing skills, and critical thinking skills. This training focuses on gathering and processing information to make informed decisions. This training is designed to be attended by supervisors and their teams. Anyone attending without their supervisor or team will be combined with others attending the training.... (read more)

Cultural Diversity: Training of Trainers
This training, intended for RTCs and Training Branch staff, will prepare participants to conduct the recently changed Exploring Cultural Diversity and Prejudice training. The newly revised training will include Implicit Bias, Cultural Humility and some data from TWIST regarding Racial Disproportionality.... (read more)

Customer Service and De-Escalation Module 2: Managing Difficult Interactions and Service Recovery
A live, virtual, and instructor-led training that instructs DCBS Family Support Staff on how to employ de-escalation techniques and follow DCBS protocols to handle difficult call service situations.

CW Prep: Social Work Principles-Part I
This course is designed to prepare CW Prep students for working with families through knowledge and skills on a variety of topics. Those topics include: professionalism, self-care, trauma, implicit bias, racial equity, engaging families, poverty, neglect, safety and risk. Students will have an opportunity to practice and demonstrate new skills learned throughout the training.... (read more)

Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) 101
This training is designed to provide Protection and Permanency staff with information regarding DJJ and their court process, facilities, and services. The training will also provide information on the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between DCBS and DJJ, including investigations involving youth with criminal charges, DCBS case responsibilities for youth also involved with DJJ, and Status Offenses.... (read more)

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)

Effective Communication and Maintaining Connections
This web-based training is required for foster and adoptive parents and is designed to support in maintaining connection and culture with children and youth. After completion of this course, participants will be able to recognize effective communication characteristics and skills to maintain connection and culture with children and youth and implement the four key elements and practical strategies for effective communication.... (read more)

Elder Abuse: Initial Course
This web-based training meets the legislative mandates of KRS 194A, requiring all DCBS Staff to complete an elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation initial course. This training is designed for Protection & Permanency and Family Support Staff to increase identification and assessment skills in order to prevent and remedy elder maltreatment. This training will present demographic information and future trends of the elder population, examine the dynamics and effects of elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation, identify lethality/risk factors, and present model protocols on providing community resources and victim services available for older adults experiencing elder maltreatment.... (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.... (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: Applicant Explanations
This micro-learning web-based training is intended for Family Support workers who are enrolled and currently participating in SNAP, CCAP, MAGI and MSP series. Instruction includes elements that must be discussed with applicants for SNAP, CCAP, and MAGI. Participants will devise ways to explain these elements during this course and will practice these explanations when they rejoin their virtual class.... (read more)

Family Support: Right to Apply
This web-based training is intended for new FS Staff who have not received any other programmatic training, such as SNAP, KTAP, Medicaid, etc. Upon completion of this training, participants will recognize the right of individuals to apply for any programs administered by the Division of Family Support.... (read more)

Family Support: Unearned Income
This micro-learning web-based training is intended for Family Support workers who are enrolled and participating in SNAP, CCAP, MAGI, and MSP: Part I class. Instruction includes the identification of various Unearned income types, and verification sources that can be used for each.... (read more)

Family Team Meeting: Skill Building
Participants will gain knowledge around Family Team Meetings, Standard of Practice (SOP) and demonstrate the skills of engagement, facilitation and collaboration with families and /or community partners.... (read more)

Fidelity Information Systems: Navigating the Agency Portal for Electronic Benefits Transfer Inquiry
This web-based training is intended for FS Staff who work in the programs of SNAP or KTAP, or handle client or other inquiries regarding the EBT card or usage. Upon completion, participants will be able to inquire the Fidelity Information Systems ebtEDGE Agency Portal application in the Inquiry Role to view case, client and card information and transaction history for a card or case.... (read more)

Forensic Interviewing
This training, intended for P&P staff, focuses on techniques for effectively interviewing children in abuse cases. It focuses on the Forensic Interviewing Structure designed to elicit detailed information about a possible event(s) that the child may have experienced or witnessed. These techniques can also be applied while conducting an assessment with an adult. During the skill-building component, participants practice forensic interviewing skills through role-play with trainers. These structured interviews are facilitated in small groups with immediate coaching and feedback included for all participants.... (read more)

Foundations in Child, Family, and Adult Services: Adult Protective Services Part I
This training is required for Protection & Permanency workers responsible for Adult Protective Services (APS). This training will cover the following topics: Kentucky Revised Statutes, Standards of Practice, indicators of abuse, interviewing skills, working with community partners, and completing the assessment and documentation tool. This training will include web-based training and synchronous sessions.... (read more)

FPP: Medication Assisted Treatment
This training will include a brief overview of legal and illegal substance abuse and their effects on the family. It will also focus on opioids and the crisis in Kentucky. We will continue the day discussing Medication Assisted Treatment and pregnant women. Upon completion, participants will learn about drugs of abuse and their possible effects; what to look for when screening for abuse; how opioids affect the brain; what medications are available to treat opioid addiction; the pros and cons associated with each medication; and the risks and benefits of utilizing these medications during pregnancy.... (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
Welcome to the HIPAA: Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act training. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act is a national law passed by Congress in 1996. The goal of the Act is to protect the privacy of individual's health information by improving the security, efficiency and effectiveness of how that information is stored and transferred. This training is available for Foster and Adoptive Parents, PCC staff, and PCP staff. You will receive 2.0 training credit hours for successfully completing this training.... (read more)

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 Custody and Adoption
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: Structured Decision Making Intake Assessment for APS
This web-based training is designed for P&P staff completing the APS Structured Decision Making Intake Assessment. After completing this training, participants will be able to complete the Structured Decision Making Intake Assessment for APS cases.... (read more)

i-TWIST: Using the Staff Directory
This web-based training is designed for Administrators to add, update and/or view information in the Staff Directory.

Identifying Burnout and Assessing for Trauma in Child Welfare Supervisors
This training, intended for P&P Supervisors, 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. Supervisors will also receive knowledge, not only on the affects that Trauma from front-line work can have on themselves, but how the increased responsibility of being a Child Welfare supervisor can intensify stress and burnout. Supervisors will also understand how the stress, trauma and burnout affect employees under the direct supervision. 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. Instruction will allow P&P Supervisors to not only practice positive self-care themselves, but also give them the skills and understanding to educate their team on how to become self-aware and practice meaningful and positive self-care.... (read more)

Indian Child Welfare Act
This Web-Based Training is required for all new Protection and Permanency Workers. This course includes the history and purpose of the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) legislation and the job duties and functions of the Protection and Permanency staff.... (read more)

Intake Process Systems
This training is designed for new Protection and Permanency workers who have successfully completed Social Work Principles of Foundations in Child, Family, and Adult Services. This training consists of asynchronous and synchronous learning components regarding Central Intake, Acceptance Criteria, SOP, Child Fatality Determinations, Structured Decision Making, Medical Indicators, Time Management, Cultural Humility, Intimate Partner Violence, Interviewing Skills, Self-Care, and Collaboration with Colleagues and Supervisors.... (read more)

Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children: Overview
This course is designed to give DPP staff an overview of how to make case referrals to the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children (ICPC) system, provide services to families from other states, and close ICPC cases. This includes topics of what is ICPC, why we must have a system, who must use this system, how to request, receive and manage ICPC cases through case closure. Each form is described along with several completed examples.... (read more)

Introduction to Community Based Services
Participants will learn the training development needed to become a DCBS Human Services Professional, including the Kentucky Human Resource Center Information System (KHRIS) and EKU Training Resource Center’s Training Records Information System (TRIS), and e-Learning (Moodle) systems. Participants will become familiar with DCBS processing of time and attendance, DCBS polices/laws/regulations, safekeeping of confidential information and the appropriate use of CHFS computer equipment, internet and email systems. Participants will be instructed in the proper way to provide quality client service, the DCBS Mission and Vision for new employees and the various types of poverty, causes of poverty and responses. A review of the various programs offered by DCBS, their purpose and the population they serve will also be provided in this training. Participants will learn the Workplace Violence Policy, Emergency alert systems and Critical Incident reporting procedures.... (read more)

Introduction to CPS Decision Making for Supervisors
This web-based training is a required pre-requisite to the classroom training 'CPS Decision Making'. In this training, participants will review planning coaching skills, 'in the moment' coaching skills, reflective questioning, functions of supervision, and supervising with the SDM tools. Information will be received during the web-based training that will be utilized during the classroom 'CPS Decision Making' training.... (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)

Kentucky Adoption Profile Exchange
This training is intended for Protection and Permanency frontline staff, specialists, R&C staff, WWK specialists, and Supervisors. This training will provide an overview of KAPE, including the criteria to submit a KAPE referral, and the roles of KAPE and WWK Specialists.... (read more)

Kentucky Safety Model: Case Consultation, Safety, Prevention, and Aftercare Plans
This training is intended for all Protection and Permanency workers responsible for Child Protective Services cases. The purpose of this training is to discuss Case Consultation and when and how to use the Safety, Prevention, and Aftercare planning tools to effectively work in partnership with children and families.... (read more)

Kentucky Works Program
This training is designed for FS Case Managers only. Topics include: OTIS navigation; core, non-core, and allowable components; referrals and placements; transportation payments and creating PA-33s; reports and tracking on OTIS; supportive services; conciliation; good cause and sanction processes; and OTIS History/Inquiry.... (read more)

Kentucky Works Program: Post-Test
The 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 after being trained.

Kinship Care for KTAP Case Managers
This web-based training is intended for KTAP Case Managers who will be processing Kinship Care cases. Participants will receive instruction on Kinship Care eligibility requirements, FS worker responsibilities, caretaker responsibilities, and special procedures for recertifying a Kinship Care case.... (read more)

Kinship Care: Navigator--Introduction
The following Modules will give you an overview of the information on Kinship Care and the Service Array that is available.

KORE: Child Welfare and Opioid Use Disorder/Substance Use Disorder--Regional Kick-Off
As part of Kentucky’s Opioid Response Effort (KORE), DCBS will conduct ½ day kick-off events in each region to provide information on the latest research, evidence-based practices, and the critical role DCBS staff have in addressing the opioid use disorder/substance use disorder epidemic in Kentucky. The trainings will include presentations from medical professionals, behavioral health and child welfare experts, as well as persons in recovery and will introduce new training initiatives soon to be available to DCBS staff. DCBS Protection and Permanency leadership (Central Office and Regional), P&P Supervisors, Frontline Staff and Foster/Adoptive Parents are encouraged to attend. Participants will gain knowledge on adverse childhood experiences and substance use disorders, stigma’s around substance use disorders, treatment and recovery, and risk/safety assessment of substance use disorders and will be equipped to serve as Champions of the KORE Child Welfare and OUD/SUD Training Project scheduled to roll out in Fall 2019.... (read more)

KTAP for Worker Portal: Part II
This training includes instruction on two-parent households and additional practice on income and resources. Additional topics are FAST, 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: kynect ability Webinar
This webinar provides DCBS Staff with the E&T Worker Role (Case Managers) with an overview and walkthrough of the system changes coming to the kynect ability system for E&T Providers and E&T Supervisors as part of the kynect Appointments Module. This webinar also provides an overview of the 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 Residents enrolled in the SNAP E&T Program.... (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 Self Service Portal Training for Family Support Staff
A virtual, interactive web based training designed to acquaint Family Support Staff with the kynect benefits Self Service Portal (SSP) to better serve residents as they apply for and access information relating to benefits.... (read more)

kynect Health Coverage: Kentucky Integrated Health Insurance Premium Payment
This training is intended for Family Support employees who are enrolled in the SNAP, CCAP, MAGI, and MSP series and completed prior to attending Part III. This training provides an overview of KI-HIPP. Participants will be able to identify potential KI-HIPP eligibility for Medicaid individuals.... (read more)

kynect Health Coverage: Medical Expenses
This micro learning web-based training is intended for Family Support workers who are enrolled and participating in kynect Health Coverage: Part III training. This training includes instruction on which medical expenses are allowed and not allowable, and what verification is needed to verify the expense.

To begin this training, please go to: https://learn.trc.eku.edu/moodle/course/view.php?id=687... (read more)

kynect Health Coverage: Renewal Process
This web-based training is intended for FS Staff who are enrolled in the kynect Health Coverage series and is to be completed after attending kynect Health Coverage: Part I. This training provides an overview of the renewal process for kynect Health Coverage, including steps for active and passive renewals.... (read more)

Labor Trafficking of Children and Youth
This training is designed to assist Child Welfare Professionals in working with cases that involve the labor trafficking of children and youth. Upon completion of this training, participants will be able to meet the following performance objectives: Describe labor trafficking and related terminology, understand federal law related to labor trafficking, list vulnerabilities, risk, and protective factors for labor trafficking, become familiar with labor trafficking typologies and case examples, and locate and access resources for survivors and youth at risk of labor trafficking.... (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.

MapHabit
MapHabit is a science-backed, interactive program that gives individuals and caregivers step-by-step tools to support activities of daily living for diverse populations. This is a pre-recorded training that will describe the MapHabit pilot that Aetna is starting on 12/1/2023. Participants will learn about the MapHabit application and receive a demonstration of the application. DCBS workers will learn about the criteria and process of referring a member to this pilot project.... (read more)

Medicaid Basic: Part II
This training includes instruction and practice on completing QHP, APTC, and CSR. 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)

Medicaid Basic: Part III
This classroom training is intended for Family Support workers who have completed Introduction to Family Support Policy and Systems, and possibly SNAP and CCAP series. 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)

Medicaid Basic: Series Pre-Test
This test is intended for Family Support employees who are enrolled in Medicaid Basic series and will be used to measure knowledge before attending the series.

Medicaid for Worker Portal: State Supplementation
This web-based training introduces participants to basic policies for State Supplementation needed to navigate Worker Portal. Upon completion, participants will be prepared to attend Medicaid Vendor Payment training in the computer lab.... (read more)

Medicaid: Life Estate
This micro learning web-based training is intended for Family Support workers who are enrolled and participating in Medicaid: Vendor Payment training. This training includes instruction on Life Estate transfers, and determining the value of the property transferred.

To begin this training, please go to: https://learn.trc.eku.edu/moodle/course/view.php?id=593... (read more)

Medicaid: Pass Through
This web-based training introduces participants to basic policies and system entry for the Pass Through program. Upon completion of this web-based training, participants will be prepared to complete Pass Through applications and renewals.... (read more)

Medicaid: Resources
This web-based training is intended for workers who will be working in the Non-MAGI program. This course introduces participants to basic policies and resource definitions for Medicaid for Aged, Blind and Disabled individuals.... (read more)

Medicaid: Transitional Medical Assistance
This web-based training is intended for FS Staff who take applications or process cases in MAGI Medicaid. This training provides an overview of the Transitional Medical Assistance (TMA) program, including eligibility criteria for TMA, reporting requirements and good cause.... (read more)

Medicaid: Vendor Payment Post-Test
This web-based training is intended for FS Staff who are enrolled in the Medicaid: Vendor Payment training and will be used to measure learning after attending Medicaid: Vendor Payment classroom training.... (read more)

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)

Methamphetamines 101
This web-based training will cover the basics of Meth.Topics covered will include what it looks like; how it’s used and made; how to identify red flags and/or symptoms of Meth use; and using interpersonal skills to assess and communicate in these situations to increase safety for them and the children they are to protect.... (read more)

Network Crisis Intervention
This mandatory training, for Network members only, will introduce participants to the Network Crisis Intervention Model. Participants will learn and practice communication skills; explore and identify personal triggers; learn critical thinking skills and how to apply them to a crisis; and will understand the need for and how to self-care.... (read more)

Non-Certified Basic First Aid Skills and Universal Precautions
This web-based training is intended for all Foster/Adoptive Parents with the EXCEPTION of homes that are Medically Complex which requires Certified First Aid. The training will teach basic skills such as how to recognize and how to handle situations that include bleeding, fractures, nosebleeds, head injuries, etc. This information in no way replaces the need to consult medical professionals if needed. This training will meet the required First Aid training requirements. Participants will understand universal precautions and other preventative health practices, increase awareness of ways illnesses are spread and to explore ways to prevent the spread of disease.... (read more)

North Carolina Family Assessment Scale
This web-based training was designed for P&P front-line staff to help them incorporate the NCFAS in their casework decisions. Once completed, workers should have a better understanding of the tool, services offered by in-home providers and how to better use this information to update assessments and case plans therefore providing appropriate services for families and children.... (read more)

PCC/PCP Provider Learning: Cabinet Requirements and Recommendations
This is a four-module training intended to provide PCC/PCP agency staff with helpful information about Cabinet requirements and recommendations in the areas of assessment, treatment planning, discharge planning, and two-week notices.... (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)

Religious Affiliation Protocol for Children in Out-of-Home Care
This web-based training is intended for P&P Staff and Private Child Care Staff. This training will help all staff become more aware of children and families’ rights of religious freedom and protection from proselytization or coercion related to religion. Agreements, forms and protocol that have been designed to ensure and protect this freedom will be highlighted.... (read more)

Responding to the Impact of Implicit Bias
This online training is designed for all DCBS staff to understand the impact of implicit bias and its effect on decision-making. This training allows participants to become aware and appreciate aspects of culture while evaluating their own cultural characteristics to discover where their attitudes and beliefs about other cultures originated. Participants are given information on the REDUCE model as a skill to help them reduce prejudice both personally and professionally.... (read more)

Right Time Training: Building Children’s Resilience
This web-based training is designed for PCP and DCBS foster and adoptive parents as well as PCP and R&C workers. Resilience can be defined as "the ability to achieve positive outcomes-mentally, emotionally, socially, spiritually- despite adversity" (Kain & Terrell, 2018). The purpose of this module is to help foster and adoptive parents understand concepts and definitions related to enhancing resiliency in children who have experienced loss, separation, or other traumatic experiences; understand the protective factors; how to build upon protective factors; become aware of strategies that support children and develop their identity, self-esteem, and skills towards self- advocacy.... (read more)

Right Time Training: Common Feelings
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 common feelings that children can have that are associated with being adopted, such as believing that they were responsible for removal from their birth family, internalizing the message that they should be grateful or that they should feel lucky to have been adopted, feeling guilty regarding mixed loyalty issues, experiencing a sense of loss or being different, etc. Strategies for parents to provide support for children to help them address and make sense of these emotions.... (read more)

Right Time Training: Family Dynamics
This web-based training is designed for PCP and DCBS foster and adoptive parents as well as PCP and R&C workers. This theme is best for families who are in the process of becoming a foster or adoptive parent or families who have just recently started this journey. The theme will provide critical information that a family needs to think about in regards to how bringing children into their home through foster care or adoption will impact their marriage, children already in the home, relations with extended family and friends and overall schedule. This theme also provides information on what families should consider when determining how and when to bring new children into their home including making informed decisions regarding the age of children and types of behaviors that the family could effectively handle.... (read more)