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Working with LGBTQ+ Families in Foster Care and Adoption

Free State Social Work

This course examines supportive practices for working with LGBTQ+ families in foster care and adoption and offers guidance for building trusting and successful relationships. The course describes the advantages and challenges of engaging, recruiting, and helping LGBTQ+ families and aims to strengthen cultural competence for child welfare professionals.

1.0 hr

Self-study

$6

Prescription Stimulant Misuse and Prevention Among Youth and Young Adults

Free State Social Work

This course examines the prevalence of prescription stimulant use and misuse among youth and young adults. Short and long term health effects of prescription stimulant use are explored along with risk and protective factors. Opportunities for prevention are discussed, and considerations for screening, assessment, and treatment are given.

1.0 hr

Self-study

$6

High-Achieving Asian American Adolescents and Suicide: The Need for Culturally Sensitive Suicide Intervention Approaches in Schools, A Case Study

Free State Social Work

This course examines suicide risk and cultural variation among high-achieving Asian Americans. The course explores cultural and family factors and offers examples of acculturation, acculturative stress, stereotype, obligatory stress, and cultural humility. A case example of a high-achieving Asian American adolescent in a large high school is presented. Recommendations for clinical interventions are provided.

1.0 hr

Self-study

$6

Language Bias in Child Welfare

Free State Social Work

This course explores the potential harms of biased language in child welfare practice and offers strategies for reducing implicit or unconscious bias and improving practice. The course examines key concepts to understanding language bias in child welfare, including neutral language, labels, the concrete-to abstract continuum, and sociolinguistic inequality.

1.0 hr

Self-study

$6

Child Welfare and Social Work Education: From a Pedagogy of Oppression to a Pedagogy of Resistance

Free State Social Work

This thought-provoking course explores the relationship between social work and the child welfare system and critiques the federal Title IV-E training program and the ethical conflicts involved in training MSW students to regulate families. The course examines the forces of racism, classism, misogyny, and injustice within the child welfare system.

1.0 hr

Self-study

$6

Working with Immigrant and Refugee Families: A Guide for Child Welfare Caseworkers

Free State Social Work

This course explores culturally specific and responsive strategies for working with immigrant and refugee families. The course highlights the unique strengths of immigrant and refugee families, including a focus on family, education, work, faith, and community. The course also examines specific challenges faced by immigrant and refugee families, including difficulties with acculturation, language, economic hardship, legal concerns, and trauma.

1.0 hr

Self-study

$6

Youth Suicide Prevention and Intervention Best Practices and Policy Implications

Free State Social Work

This course examines youth suicide prevention and intervention through foundations, school settings, suicide-specific interventions, cultural considerations for specific populations including Black youth, LGBTQIA+ youth, youth with intellectual and neurodevelopmental disorders, American Indian and Alaska Native youth, and rural communities, and improving quality of suicide care across systems. The course explores trends and research and offers strategies for prevention, early identification, and response including suicide screening, safety planning, lethal means counseling, and hotlines.

7.0 hrs

Self-study

$42

Understanding the expansion of social control and helping professionals as unwilling agents of the states: The passing of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act in the US

Free State Social Work

This course explores mandated reporting and the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, offering important perspective on the historical context of mandated reporting, the rationale for CAPTA, and continuing concerns. Criticisms include causing children and families harm, family policing through state-mandated surveillance, and disproportionately impacting families of color and families experiencing poverty. Present day implications are discussed.

1.0 hr

Self-study

$6