Engagement, critical thinking, self-reflecting, cultural awareness, and interviewing are essential skills necessary for child welfare professionals to complete comprehensive family assessments. This course provides information on these topics. Family assessments are critical to the job of a child welfare worker. Conducting accurate assessments can impact children's safety, permanency, and well-being in the child welfare system. Therefore, they are critical to child welfare practice. According to the Child and Family Services Reviews (CFSR) findings, the Children's Bureau identified a connection between comprehensive family assessments and good outcomes for children and families. In addition, positive ratings on comprehensive family assessments are associated with positive ratings on permanency and safety outcomes (Child Welfare Information Gateway, 2014). Comprehensive Assessments are needed to help workers know what steps to take to keep children safe.

This course is approved for 4 Child Welfare Training Hours and General Social Work CEUs.