what we do
Training System Development
Well-trained staff are essential to achieving best practice in any organization. Our Comprehensive, Competency-Based Inservice Training (CCBIT) model is designed to provide everyone in the organization with the knowledge and skills they need to ensure best practice, thereby promoting and supporting large-scale system change. CCBIT is comprised of the following elements:
Direct Training
We provide competency-based training for managers, supervisors, caseworkers, caregivers, and adoptive parents in child welfare and protection, and adult protective services. Training topics range from foundational to highly specialized.
Training Needs Assessment
Our system of individual training needs assessment (ITNA) enables us to identify the highest priority training needs in a service system and ensure individuals get to the right training at the right level at the right time.
Curriculum Development
Our approach to curriculum development is competency-based and incorporates a variety of training methodologies, including classroom, learning labs, guided application and practice, coaching, and tools for just-in-time learning.
Trainer Development
We identify content experts with solid child welfare practice experience and hone their training skills through a comprehensive trainer development program.
Transfer of Learning
We use multiple strategies to ensure that the knowledge and skills acquired by learners through training are actually used in their day-to-day work.
Coaching for Skill Development
One-on-one feedback and support from a coach is necessary for learners to develop proficiency in newly acquired knowledge and skills.
Training Evaluation
We integrate evaluation into all aspects of our work, both to ensure continuous quality improvement, and to identify training system outcomes.
Well-trained staff are essential to achieving best practice in any organization. Our Comprehensive, Competency-Based Inservice Training (CCBIT) model is designed to provide everyone in the organization with the knowledge and skills they need to ensure best practice, thereby promoting and supporting large-scale system change. CCBIT is comprised of the following elements:
Direct Training
We provide competency-based training for managers, supervisors, caseworkers, caregivers, and adoptive parents in child welfare and protection, and adult protective services. Training topics range from foundational to highly specialized.
Training Needs Assessment
Our system of individual training needs assessment (ITNA) enables us to identify the highest priority training needs in a service system and ensure individuals get to the right training at the right level at the right time.
Curriculum Development
Our approach to curriculum development is competency-based and incorporates a variety of training methodologies, including classroom, learning labs, guided application and practice, coaching, and tools for just-in-time learning.
Trainer Development
We identify content experts with solid child welfare practice experience and hone their training skills through a comprehensive trainer development program.
Transfer of Learning
We use multiple strategies to ensure that the knowledge and skills acquired by learners through training are actually used in their day-to-day work.
Coaching for Skill Development
One-on-one feedback and support from a coach is necessary for learners to develop proficiency in newly acquired knowledge and skills.
Training Evaluation
We integrate evaluation into all aspects of our work, both to ensure continuous quality improvement, and to identify training system outcomes.
Policy Development
In collaboration with other child and family advocacy organizations, we identify the most critical issues and dilemmas facing the child welfare/child protection field today. We do extensive research to clarify the issues and the current state of evidence, and we synthesize our findings into policy statements, white papers, amicus briefs, and other vehicles to promote national and international policy change to support best practice. All of our policy work is done by interdisciplinary teams of practitioners, academicians, researchers, and thought leaders in the field of child maltreatment. Primary partners currently include the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC), the New York Foundling, and the National Council on Crime and Delinquency (NCCD).
In collaboration with other child and family advocacy organizations, we identify the most critical issues and dilemmas facing the child welfare/child protection field today. We do extensive research to clarify the issues and the current state of evidence, and we synthesize our findings into policy statements, white papers, amicus briefs, and other vehicles to promote national and international policy change to support best practice. All of our policy work is done by interdisciplinary teams of practitioners, academicians, researchers, and thought leaders in the field of child maltreatment. Primary partners currently include the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC), the New York Foundling, and the National Council on Crime and Delinquency (NCCD).
Organizational Development
We use multiple organizational-development strategies to strengthen the ability of child and family serving organizations to achieve and sustain evidence-informed best practice. These strategies include comprehensive organizational assessment, strategic and operational planning, team development, technical assistance in program implementation and evaluation, and the hiring and development of staff.
We use multiple organizational-development strategies to strengthen the ability of child and family serving organizations to achieve and sustain evidence-informed best practice. These strategies include comprehensive organizational assessment, strategic and operational planning, team development, technical assistance in program implementation and evaluation, and the hiring and development of staff.
International Capacity Building
We work throughout the world to build sustainable infrastructures to support family- and community-based care and services for vulnerable and at-risk children and families. Our partners include governments, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), child and family advocates, faith communities, and other international child welfare organizations. Our forty years as thought leaders in the field of child welfare enable us to contribute well-tested products and strategies that can be adapted and adopted by developing organizations.
We work throughout the world to build sustainable infrastructures to support family- and community-based care and services for vulnerable and at-risk children and families. Our partners include governments, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), child and family advocates, faith communities, and other international child welfare organizations. Our forty years as thought leaders in the field of child welfare enable us to contribute well-tested products and strategies that can be adapted and adopted by developing organizations.