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Culturally Responsive Training in New Worker Foundations

One of the many components of the new Foundations training is the incorporation of Cultural Responsiveness and opportunities for learners to develop their own Cultural Competence.

New Worker Foundations Update
Big changes are coming to Foundations training for new child protection workers! Following is an overview of what agency supervisors and their workers will need to know. Learn more.

New Worker Orientation External Pilot Feedback Report
The Training Academy recently completed a pilot evaluation of the New Worker Orientation (NWO) course (December 2023-May 2024). The evaluation’s purpose was to collect and review feedback from learners during the external pilot of the Self-Paced Modules and the Instructor-Led Enhancement, which make up New Worker Orientation. Learn more.

Visit here to view the complete training report for July. Indian Child Welfare (ICWA) Foundations training is developed and provided by the Tribal Training and Certification Partnership (TTCP).

Open seats are available in our trainings. Visit our Training Catalog to see them all. Upcoming trainings include:

Specialty Training

Signs of Safety + Signs of Safety: Three Month Review (CWTA X215)

Must attend all dates listed below:

Part 1: August 21-22 | 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Each Day | Roseville

Part 2: November 21 | 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. | Virtual

Human Trafficking and Sexually Exploited Youth: Basic Training for Child Welfare (CWTA X205)

August 27 | 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. | Virtual

Legal Practice Skills (CWTA X201)

September 10 | 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. | Roseville

ICWA/MIFPA Ongoing Worker Training (CWTA X212)

September 11-12 | 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Each Day | Detroit Lakes

Assessing Prospective Foster and Adoptive Parents (CWTA X220)

September 17-18 | 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Each Day | Roseville

Family Group Decision Making: Overview and Facilitation (CWTA X202)

September 17-18 | 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Each Day | Duluth

Structured Decision Making (CWTA X200)

September 18 | 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. | Virtual

Permanency Regional Training (CWTA X402)

September 19 | 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. | Detroit Lakes

Collaborative Safety - Advanced Practice (CWTA X208)

September 24-26 | 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Each Day | Virtual

Domestic Violence Co-Occurrence: Partnering and Engaging Parents (CWTA X209)

October  8 | 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. | Virtual

Supervisor Training

ICWA/MIFPA Foundations for County Agency Supervisors (CWTA X216)
August 27-28 | 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m Each Day | Virtual 

Motivational Interviewing (MI) Training

All MI Courses and Pathways are Now Available
All Motivational Interviewing (MI) courses and Pathways are now available for Minnesota county and tribal child protection workers and their supervisors. This update was recently emailed to our learners.

New Worker Training: Current Curriculum 

Supervisors and Tribal Leaders: The current Foundations training is ending soon. If you have child protection workers that have started but not yet completed Foundations, following is the final cohort of Child Welfare Foundations Training (CWTA X100):

• Cohort 127 | September 17 - November 14 | Virtual (WAITLIST)

If this applies to any of your workers and they are not yet enrolled in

Cohorts 125-127, please have them contact Myrna Klegin at mklegin@umn.edu ASAP. Myrna will help them reschedule. A checklist for supervisors of this current training can be found here. 

PLEASE NOTE: Cohort 127 is the final cohort of the current Foundations curriculum. Learners who are not able to complete ALL parts of this training will be required to start the new Foundations from the beginning.

New Worker Training: New Curriculum 

The updated New Worker Foundations is now ready and available in the Training Catalog. With the exception of new workers finishing the old curriculum (see above), all new child protection workers should plan to take the following courses. Supervisors can use this new checklist to help assign and monitor employee progress:

New Worker Orientation: Self-Paced Modules (CWTA X110)

Ask new workers to finish this course in the first few days on job, and remind them that they cannot register for instructor-led until this is complete. Please note that the final completion grade for this course will take 6-8 business days to post (this includes time for the DEI team to grade all IDI requirements at the end of the course). You will not be able to register for the Instructor-Led Enhancement course until your final completion grade shows up on your training record. Please have your workers plan accordingly.

New Worker Orientation: Instructor-Led Enhancement
(CWTA X111)

August 13 | 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. | Virtual

August 22 | 12:30 - 4:30 p.m. | Virtual

September 12 | 12:30 - 4:30 p.m. | Virtual

September 17 | 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. | Virtual

October 1 | 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. | Virtual

ICWA/MIFPA Foundations for New Workers (CWTA X219)

August 19-20 | 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. | Duluth

August 22-23 | 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. | Roseville

September 5-6 | 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. | Owatonna

New Worker Foundations (CWTA X113)

This revised training is made up of self-paced, instructor-led (both in-person and virtual), and simulation. Additional details can be found here.

Cohort 200 | September 10 - December 20 |  Roseville

Cohort 201 | September 17 - January 10 |  Owatonna

Cohort 202 | October 8 - January 23 |  Roseville

Cohort 203 | November 13 - March 5 |  Roseville

Cohort 204 | November 20 - March 7 |  Detroit Lakes

Cohort 205 | December 3 - March 20 |  Roseville

Accommodation Requests
If you need a reasonable accommodation to participate in a training, contact us as soon as possible at info@mnchildwelfaretraining.com.

Questions about Attendance, Cancelation, or Registration?

Visit our Training Policies page. 

Need to Cancel Your Registration?
Our class sizes tend to be small, and we often have a waiting list. Follow the instructions here if you need to drop a course.

Foster Parent Pre-Service Training

Cohort 22 Starts on August 22

Foster Parent Pre-Service Training for resource parents includes four virtual, weekly meetings from 6:00-8:00 p.m., which are supplemented by self-paced modules to be completed before each meeting. Licensors should visit our website to learn more about this Foster Parent training option, see all upcoming cohorts, and to get connected with Foster Parent College.

CASCW Resources

The Practice Space Podcast

Listen to a brand new podcast that invites us to meet at the intersection of meditation and social work to explore ideas and skills that will help to support us in our professional practice. Child welfare professionals in particular can benefit from these conversations which offer space for reflection on practice and impact of the work on both mind and body.

New Support for Recovery Videos

The first module, New Support for Recovery, discusses a variety of important resources for people in recovery (it is primarily focused on recovery from substance use disorders) including some new and emerging trends. The second module, Medication for Recovery, covers medications to treat opioid-use disorders for training purposes for social workers in child welfare. It reviews the science of how the brain works and then presents the different types of medications that are available. Learn more.

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Minnesota Child Welfare Training Academy (MNCWTA), 1711 County Road B West, Suite 200N, Roseville, MN 55113, United States

The Minnesota Child Welfare Training Academy (MNCWTA) is a collaboration between the Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) Child Safety and Permanency Division and the Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare (CASCW) at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities.