Social workers in Child Welfare must be familiar with many things. The list below grouped as to programs, issues, personnel, etc. At some point in time you may need to know any one of these.
Within the category there are subsets that point to whether this is a worker concern, supervisor issue. manager issue, and/or policy note. We also try to point to likely partners/stakeholders whom could collaborate on resolutions.
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The best source of Information in the country is at the Child Welfare Information Gateway. It covers topics from Macro to micro.
Tasks of County Child Welfare Services
- Intake
- Emergency Response
- Voluntary Family Maintenance
- Court Services
- Family Reunification
- Adjudicated Family Maintenance
- Permanency Planning
- Independent Living Program
- Adoptions
- Licensing
- Foster Home Recruitment
- Foster Home Support
- Emergency Shelter Homes
- Differential Response
- Comprehensive Assessment Tool
- Structured Decision Making
- 24 hour / After Hours services – Intake & Emergency Response
- Case Plans
- Life Long Connections
- Sonoma County
- Valley of the Moon Children’s Center
- Redwood Children’s Center – VOMCC-FY&C
Various Social networking, and transparency, knowledge management and use of technology resources
Social networking and transparency
Issues Social Workers would need to know about
- Adult development
- Adult learning theory
- Alcohol abuse
- Alcohol abuse treatment
- Alcohol use
- Alternative dispute resolution
- Basic domestic skills
- Basic human needs
- Behavioral management / behavior change theory
- Body language
- Bureaucracy
- Confidential and recommending mediation
- CalWORKS /SonomaWORKS
- CAPTA
- Child custody mediation and evaluation
- Child development
- Community Organizing
- Compassion
- Counseling theory
- Criminal court, especially child related issues
- Culture
- Cycle of violence
- Developmental disabilities
- Developmental Disabilities – IPP – Individualized Program Plan (regional Center)
- Developmental Disabilities – ISP – Individualized Service Plan (Residential Provider)
- Differential Response
- Domestic violence
- Domestic violence – typology
- Drug treatment
- Economic Assistance – income
- Education
- Employment issues
- Ethics
- Ethnicity
- Extended family
- Family dynamics
- Family law court
- Family systems theory
- Family violence
- Funding cycles
- General Relief
- Grant writing
- Health
- Health and medical systems
- History
- History of human services
- Housing
- Human behavior
- Human biology and physiology
- IDEA
- Illicit drug use
- Immigration issues
- Intermediate Care Facilities
- International issues
- Juvenile dependency mediation
- Learning disabilities
- legislative process
- Lethality assessment
- Levels of government
- Maternal and child health
- Medi-Cal
- Mental health
- Mental illness
- Parent child alienation
- Parenting and Child research
- Parenting theory / issues
- Parole
- Planning
- Pre natal drug exposure
- Prescription drug abuse
- Probate guardianship
- Probation
- Psychological evaluations
- Race
- Rehabilitation
- Religious beliefs
- Retirement systems
- Role modeling
- Sexual Abuse
- Skilled Nursing Facilities
- Special education
- SSI – Supplemental Security Income
- State prison system
- Substance abuse relapse
- Unemployment
Partners
- Adult and Aging program
- Alcohol & Other Drugs program
- Animal Control
- AOD Services & Residential
- Board of Supervisors
- California Department of Social Services
- California Parenting Institute http://www.calparents.org/
- CalWORKS
- CASA – Court Appointed Special Advocates
- Child Care providers
- Children’s Mental Health
- Code Enforcement
- Community Based Organizations
- Courts – Delinquency
- Courts – Dependency
- Courts – Family Law
- Courts – Probate Guardianship
- DA – Victim Witness
- District Attorney’s Office
- Drug Abuse Alternatives Program
- Economic Assistance Program
- Employers
- Family Court Services
- Family Court Services = Mediation
- Family Court Services = Evaluation
- Federal government agencies
- First Five Commission
- Fleet Services
- Foster Family Agencies
- Grandparents Parenting Again
- Health Care system
- Hospitals
- Inpatient Mental Health Hospitals
- Law enforcement agencies
- Mandated Reporters
- Media
- Mental Health Department
- Other Counties
- Parole
- Petaluma People Services http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=&=&q=petaluma+people&aq=f&oq=&aqi=g1
- Probation
- Regional Center
- Relative Caregivers
- Schools http://www.scoe.org/
- Social Advocates for Youthhttp://www.socialadvocatesforyouth.org/
- Social Security Administration
- Sonoma County Child Care Planning Council
- State Office of Rehabilitation
- State Prisons
- Universities
- Victim Services
- VINELink is the online version of VINE (Victim Information and Notification Everyday), the National Victim Notification Network.
- https://www.vinelink.com/vinelink/initMap.do
- West County Community Serviceshttp://www.westcountyservices.org/
- YWCA – Domestic Violence Programs
The Clocks – Various time elements affect the Work
- The Child Welfare Services Clock:
- Immediate response
- Three (3) day response
- Ten (10) day response
- Thirty (30) day time frame
- Fifteen (15) days to jurisdiction
- Six (6) month review
- Twelve (12) month review
- Eighteen (18) month review
- The child development clock:
- ages 0-3
- ages 3-5
- ages 5-7
- ages 7-12
- ages 13-18
- ages 18-25
- The TANF clock: 60 months
- Yoakim payments
- Guardianship payments
- Adoption payments for special needs
- The recovery from Substance abuse clock: One day at a time, relapse,
- The Social Worker Frustration clock:
- What are the issues you face in working as a social worker in Child Welfare?
- What do you do to help the people you set out to serve: children, parents, families, society?