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	The Child Welfare Team Preview Description Testimonials Related Courses Share This pre-service course provides a broad overview of the child welfare system. You’ll learn how the system works, who is involved and their roles and responsibilities, key terms, and goals of the system. A bonus section on supporting sibling relationships of children in care was added to the course in January 2021. Supplemental handouts round out the course. At the end of this course, you will be able to: identify the primary goals of child protective services understand how the child welfare system works understand the stages a typical case follows identify who is on a child's team and their responsibilities know how to work as a team on behalf of a child know best practices for siblings in the care system This course reviewed the individual roles of each TEAM member, and stressed the importance of working together in order to protect the child. As indicated, we may sometimes experience differences of opinion on if a child should be reunified; however we must all work together to work out what's BEST for each child. As the saying goes... "There is no 'I' in any team", however we need to remember that each memeber of the team has a voice, and we need to use it sometimes. The take away is... Communication is key. Lynn B. I felt the Team Members handout was the most helpful information included while completing this course. It helped in determining which team members were considered primary team members or secondary team members. Rhonda N. Child Safety and Supervision Michael F. Quinn, M.A., uses a professional childcare worker's approach to child safety, providing foster parents with effective supervision strategies and tools for collecting background information, making in-home observations, and making supervision adjustments. House Safety This course shows how foster parents can observe safety rules for licensed or certified residential care facilities using self-inspections. Working with Birth Parents: Visitation What to expect before, during, and after visitation with birth parents and strategies for helping the foster child transition back to their foster home are examined in this course. The Role of Mandated Child Abuse Reporters Explores the role and challenges mandated child abuse reporters face during the reporting process and offers strategies for helping ensure subsequent investigations are not compromised. [Also available in Spanish] Share this with friends. Link to share: At the end of the course, you will understand: who is on a child welfare team how the team works on behalf of a child the role of the foster parents how to support sibling relationships 4 credit hours, $20.00 per person