TRAUMA INFORMED CHILD WELFARE PRACTICE

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Prerequisite: Baccalaureate degree from accredited institution. This course is designed to expand child welfare workers' knowledge, skills, and values about working with children who have experienced traumatic stress within the child welfare system. The course describes traumatic stress and its impact on children, assessment tools that can help identify children affected by traumatic stress, and provides ways that child welfare workers can manage professional stress. It also teaches how to use this knowledge to support children's safety, permanency, and well-being through case analysis and corresponding interventions tailored for them and their biological and resource families.