Placement in Child Welfare Services

Placement in Child Welfare Services is a four-day, competency-based curriculum that provides information about making appropriate foster care placements and opportunities for skill practice. Participants learn strategies to minimize trauma to the child, preserve family connections, and form a collaborative partnership with substitute caregivers for the delivery of services to the child and family. Topics include:

• The dynamics of attachment and separation,
• Preparation for placement;
• The history and legal basis of foster care,
• Permanency planning,
• ICWA and MEPA,
• Visitation and reunification,
• Teamwork among social workers, birth and foster families,
• Behavior management, and
• Sensitive foster care issues.

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

Placement in Child Welfare Services 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).