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What is QPI? - CP

QPI is an approach to ensuring that all children receive excellent parenting. It is an initiative adopted by the Department of Children and Family Services to strengthen the foster care system and its ability to meet the needs of vulnerable children and families. The goal of this training is to provide an introduction to the QPI principles. A review of developmental research highlights the importance of recognizing early trauma, as well as the ability of consistent, caring relationships in helping children to have better outcomes. The role of foster parents in the QPI process is highlighted.

Hours: 1.0
CW Training Hours: CW Training Hours
Instructor's Name: DCFS Training Unit
Skill Level: Beginner

Teaming for Culture Change - CP

The goal of this training is to provide an opportunity for participants to explore the importance of building supportive partnerships between foster parents and birth parents.

Hours: 0.5
Social Work CEUs: None
CW Training Hours: CW Training Hours
Instructor's Name: Youth Law Center
Skill Level: Beginner

Comfort Calls and Ice Breakers - CP

The goal of this training is to introduce participants to comfort calls and ice breakers as effective relationship-building tools.

Hours: 0.75
Social Work CEUs: None
CW Training Hours: CW Training Hours
Instructor's Name: Youth Law Center
Skill Level: Beginner

Keeping Youth TECHnically Connected - CP

Life can be difficult as a teenager in foster care, and COVID-19 has added huge new challenges that impact both youth and their resource families. Join QPI and a panel of California youth to learn how to partner with youth in your care to use technology and social media creatively to keep youth connected to family and community, and navigate some of the worries and concerns families may have about the online world.

This is a recorded video of a live webinar.  The live webinar was be held on Tuesday, April 14th.  Some of the webcast features, including chat, will not be available.

Upon successful completion of training participants will receive 1.0 Training Hours. 


Hours: 1
Social Work CEUs: None
CW Training Hours: CW Training Hours
Instructor's Name: Youth Law Center and Quality Parenting Initiative
Skill Level: Beginner

The Power of Connection: How Resource Families Can Support Adolescents Through COVID-19 Crisis - CP

1.25 Training Hour(s)

Participants will listen to the conversation between national adolescent development expert Dr. Ken Ginsburg, MD, MSEd, Co-Director of the Center for Parent and Teen Communication at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and Jennifer Rodriguez, Executive Director of the Youth Law Center. Dr. Ginsburg will be sharing the science behind why resource and foster families are so important to adolescents during the COVID-19 national crisis, and practical tips and guidance for the best ways resource families - and all families - can support youth in foster care right now to weather this challenge and thrive. 

This is a recorded video of a live webinar.  The live webinar was be held Tuesday, March 31st.  Some of the webcast features, including chat, will not be available.


Hours: 1.25
Social Work CEUs: None
CW Training Hours: CW Training Hours
Instructor's Name: Dr. Ken Ginsburg, MD, MSEd
Skill Level: Beginner

Culture Clash: Bringing the Perspective of Child Development to Social Services and Family Court - CP

1.5 Training Hours.

This training discusses the perspectives of child development and the legal system. Hypothetical cases are examined to help understand how they would be analyzed through the lenses of child development, legal, and case managers. Participants will be able to reflect and respond to these cases as well. 

The objectives of this training are:

1. Learn strategies for family court and social service practice that is developmentally appropriate
2. Understand brain development and attachment theory and their implications for practice
3. Apply developmentally appropriate knowledge to QPI practice


Hours: 1.5
Social Work CEUs: None
CW Training Hours: CW Training Hours
Instructor's Name: Dr. Charles H. Zenah Jr. MD & Dean Madeliene Landrieu
Skill Level: Beginner

Parent Perspective for System Change in QPI - CP

1.75 Training Hours


Panelists discuss the ways the Quality Parenting Initiative touches each part of a child's team including Case Managers, Foster Parents, Birth Parents, and Community Partners.  Panelists share their personal experiences with QPI and how it as affect their time within the child welfare system.


Hours: 1.75
Social Work CEUs: None
CW Training Hours: CW Training Hours
Instructor's Name: Carole Shauffer, JD
Skill Level: Beginner