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2024 DCFS Child Welfare Community Partner Policies and Procedures Overview Training - CP

Aimed at equipping community partners with helpful information, this course provides details to pertinent DCFS policies and procedures as well as programmatic topics of interest.

Learning Objectives:

  • Inform community partners on DCFS child welfare practices and policies
  • Advise community partners on how to best leverage available DCFS tools and resources
  • Validation comprehension of existing processes

Hours: 1.5
Social Work CEUs: None
CW Training Hours: CW Training Hours
Instructor's Name: DCFS
Skill Level: Beginner

Human Trafficking 101 - CP

Human Trafficking 101: A Multidisciplinary Introduction to Human Trafficking is an introductory course designed to raise awareness of the problem of human trafficking as the first step to eradication. The course aims to provide the knowledge necessary to define human trafficking and its prevalence.  Risk factors are given to help participants identify and assess victims of human trafficking as well as services available to victims.

Participants will not be equipped to provide direct interventions with a victim after completing this course, and in fact, may harm a victim without being properly trained in trauma-informed intervention techniques. This course includes video clips from an interview with a survivor. Please be aware of the sensitive nature of the information shared in the videos and respect the confidentiality of what is shared.

Upon course completion, you will be able to:

  • Define the crime of human trafficking and dispel common myths.
  • Differentiate between the types of human trafficking.
  • Identify risk factors that contribute to the vulnerability of potential victims.
  • Recognize the prevalence of human trafficking.
  • Outline the legislative response to human trafficking.
  • Identify victims of human trafficking.
  • Review the comprehensive service needs of victims.

Hours: 1.5
Social Work CEUs: General Social Work CEUs
CW Training Hours: CW Training Hours
Instructor's Name: Dr. Corie Hebert, PhD, LMSW
Skill Level: Beginner

Introduction to Trauma-Informed Education - CP

Upon successful completion of this course you will earn 1.0 Training Hours.

Trauma Informed Education is a healing-centered approach to adverse childhood experiences specifically as it applies to schools. This course discusses trauma and how it affects students, learning, and the classroom environment. The course also details what ACEs and trauma are, how to identify their signs and symptoms, how they impact students and schools, and how to respond in a compassionate, healing-centered way. Best practices for schools and classrooms regarding trauma-informed approaches to education are provided as well as how schools can recognize and respond to the secondary trauma school employees are exposed to.

Participants will learn:

  • The impact of adverse childhood experiences on students' education and on the school and classroom culture.
  • How to identify the signs and symptoms of ACEs and trauma.
  • Best practices for schools and classrooms regarding trauma-informed approaches to education.
  • Recognition of the impact of secondary trauma on school employees.

Hours: 1
Social Work CEUs: None
CW Training Hours: CW Training Hours
Instructor's Name: Alyshia Boagni, LPC, Angela Golden, Caitlin LaVine, LMSW
Skill Level: Beginner

Supporting Wellness: Caring for Ourselves - CP

This course has been approved for 1.0 Training Hours

This one-hour course invites participants to consider activities, actions, and attitudes that help foster wellbeing and manage stress. Participants are guided in experiential exercises that are designed to calm the body and mind and that can be incorporated into daily life.


Hours: 1
Social Work CEUs: None
CW Training Hours: CW Training Hours
Instructor's Name: Angela Breidenstine, PhD
Skill Level: Beginner

Louisiana Kinship Navigator - CP

1.0 Training Hours

Louisiana Kinship Navigator has created this course to educate kinship caregivers and other individuals on the different types of legal custody a person can obtain in Louisiana.  This webinar aims to help participants become more familiar with the different types of custody a person may have and the authority, security and stability that type of custody provides to a child.



Hours: 1
Social Work CEUs: None
CW Training Hours: CW Training Hours
Instructor's Name: Margot Hammond
Skill Level: Beginner

One Heart Can Make a Difference: Impacting Lives through Dynamic Service Excellence - CP

1.75 Training Hours

This highly informative, inspirational and purpose-driven message will address how every person within the child welfare system has the power to be a difference maker when their heart is emotionally connected to the jobs they perform.  Furthermore, participants will be taught a variety of skills designed to enhance their professional abilities in the areas of building relationships, valuing others, exhibiting leadership and mastering service excellence. Individuals will leave this session motivated, recharged and with a renewed sense of purpose.


Hours: 1.75
Social Work CEUs: None
CW Training Hours: CW Training Hours
Instructor's Name: Mark Anthony Garrett
Skill Level: Beginner

Cultural Compassion: Addressing Implicit Bias Pt. 2 - CP

0.50 Training Hours

What role does implicit bias play in our everyday lives? How does this impact the services provided to youth in foster care? This session provides attendees with eye-opening strategies to increase cultural compassion and address implicit biases we all have.  This training is broken into two sections.  Each section contains reflective exercises that allow you to consider the material presented.

Objectives for both modules are:

1. Share 10 exercises which improve capacity to provide culturally compassionate care to foster children.
2. Identify and address implicit biases
3. Understand and address ethnocentrism
4. Understand components of culture
5. Learn to navigate differences between cultures

Hours: 0.5
Social Work CEUs: None
CW Training Hours: CW Training Hours
Instructor's Name: Stephanie Ledesma, JD
Skill Level: Beginner

Cultural Compassion: Addressing Implicit Bias Pt. 1 - CP

1.0 Training Hours

What role does implicit bias play in our everyday lives? How does this impact the services provided to youth in foster care? This session provides attendees with eye-opening strategies to increase cultural compassion and address implicit biases we all have.  This training is broken into two sections.  Each section contains reflective exercises that allow you to consider the material presented.

Objectives for both modules are:

1. Share 10 exercises which improve capacity to provide culturally compassionate care to foster children.
2. Identify and address implicit biases
3. Understand and address ethnocentrism
4. Understand components of culture
5. Learn to navigate differences between cultures


Hours: 1
Social Work CEUs: None
CW Training Hours: CW Training Hours
Instructor's Name: Stephanie Ledesma, JD
Skill Level: Beginner

The Developmental Disabilities Service System: Navigating the Road - CP

0.50 Training Hours

The purpose of this course is to inform participants of the services available for foster children through the Offices for Citizens with Developmental Disability (OCDD). Topics discussed include an overview of the different types of assistance that can be applied for, eligibility requirements that must be met to apply for services, and how one can request services.


Hours: 0.5
Social Work CEUs: None
CW Training Hours: CW Training Hours
Instructor's Name: Troy Abshire and Tanya Murhpy, DOH
Skill Level: Beginner

Mandatory Reporter Training - CP

1.5 Training Hours

Every day the safety and well-being of some children across Louisiana are threatened by child abuse and neglect. Mandated reporters play a crucial role in helping to keep children safe. 

Objectives of this training are:
1. Recognize who is a mandated reporter and who is a permissive reporter.
2. Understand the legal obligations of a mandated reporter.
3. Make a report of suspected abuse and/or neglect to DCFS through either the Child Abuse Hotline or the Online Mandated Reporter Portal, and how to submit a follow-up report.
4. Recognize the signs and symptoms of child abuse and neglect.
5. Identify groups of children at higher risk for abuse/neglect.
6. Apply techniques to use if a child discloses abuse or neglect to you.

This training will help you learn your rights and obligations as a mandated reporter. In return, you will help keep children safe and build stronger families in Louisiana.


Hours: 1.5
Social Work CEUs: General Social Work CEUs
CW Training Hours: CW Training Hours
Instructor's Name: Department of Children & Family Services
Skill Level: Beginner