Adult Mental Health Issues which Impact Families Served by Child Welfare

Adult Mental Health Issues which Impact Families Served by Child Welfare is a two-day, competency-based curriculum that addresses the mental health needs of parents and caretakers involved with the child welfare system. In this training participants will learn the causes, symptoms, prognosis, treatments and interventions for depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder (manic-depression), and borderline personality disorder, and what risks may be posed to children, to the person with the illness and to workers.

To view this curriculum's table of contents and a list of the competencies it addresses, click here.

Adult Mental Health Issues Which Impact Families Served by Child Welfare is currently offered free of charge to social workers from North Carolina departments of social services. To learn more about class times and registration for this course go to ncswLearn.org, a site where North Carolina's human services professionals can discover and engage in the learning opportunities provided by the NC Division of Social Services.

If you work in child welfare outside of North Carolina and you are interested in learning more about this curriculum, please contact the Resource Program's training coordinator, Amy Ramirez (t: 919/962-4365; e: aramirez@email.unc.edu).