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The Digital Commons Network brings together free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide. Curated by university librarians and their supporting institutions, the Network includes a growing collection of peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work. Open Access Textbooks:
Other resources:
* what role the document plays in a family's interaction with the child welfare system
* how the document is structured
* what writing skills lead to drafting an effective document
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The Digital Commons Network brings together free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide. Curated by university librarians and their supporting institutions, the Network includes a growing collection of peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work. Open Access Textbooks:
- Sociology: Understanding and Changing the Social World
- Children’s Social Worker Portfolio and Training Guide : Training guide created by the LA. County Dept. of Children Services( Can be adapted for your students)
- Family Group Conferencing: Implications for Crime Victims
- Social Science Research: Principles, Methods, and Practices
- Soft Skills
- Applied Developmental Systems Science: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Theories, Meta-Theories, Methods, and Interventions but Didn't Realize You Needed to Ask. An Advanced Textbook
- Instruction in Functional Assessment
- Scientific Inquiry in Social Work
- Core for Social Workers Resources : Handouts, ppts, videos, activities.
- Introduction to Social Work
- Applying social work skills in practice
- Social work learning practice
- Experiences of assessment
- Care relationships
- Interview with a social worker
- Developing reading skills in relation to the Social Sciences
- Social Problems: Who makes them? from Openlearn
- Reading Evidence from Openlearn
- Addiction and neural ageing
- Intro to Case notes for new social workers
- Neurobiology of Trauma
- SSHARED: A tool for identifying signs and sequale of Trauma
- Trauma Advocacy with Mental Health Systems
- Trauma Informed
- Trauma Informed Practice Modules: Neurobiology, SSHARED, and Mental Health System
- Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC) Awareness: Description: This course is designed to provide a broad overview of three types of Human Trafficking and information regarding the ongoing research on the topic, narrowing in on CSEC and Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking (DMST).
- Documentation Practice and Report Writing: Description: This e-learning module provides tips and best practices for documentation of casework activities including writing case notes, case plans, and court reports.
- ICWA: Inquiry and Notice:This courses describes the purpose and principles of ICWA, identifies the types of cases covered, summarizes the process of initial and further inquiry, identifies roles, best practices and primary resources on Tribes.
- Overview of Resource Family Approval : Description: RFA is a family-friendly and child-centered caregiver approval process that combines elements of the current foster parent licensing, relative approval, and approvals for adoption and guardianship processes and replaces those processes.
- Psychotropic Medication in Foster Care: Description: This training module contains three sections. The first section is an overview of psychotropic medications, what they are, and why they are used, as well as some information about potential side effects. The second section will cover the basics of trauma-informed care and how it relates to medication in foster care settings. It will also give a brief description of treatment planning and the use of Child and Family Teams. In the third and final section, we will explore the Juvenile Court process for authorization of psychotropic medication, and the forms used in that process.
Other resources:
- Overview of Child Welfare Documentation : Explore the types of documents by clicking through this interactive graphic. It provides key information about each document type including:
* what role the document plays in a family's interaction with the child welfare system
* how the document is structured
* what writing skills lead to drafting an effective document
- Four types of child welfare documentation: How similar or different are case notes from investigation narratives? Do case plans have any relationship to court reports? The goal of this interactive graphic is to consider the relationship between case notes, investigation narratives, case plans and court reports by reviewing how they are similar and different from one another.Click on the icons in the interactive graphic to compare the four documents to each other. The text found in the graphic can be downloaded in doc format by clicking on the "resources" link at the top right side of the graphic.
- Child Welfare Documentation Cycle with Vignette: At what chronological points during the life of a case might a child welfare social worker need to draft case notes, investigation narratives, case plans or court reports? This vignette timeline depicts when the four core documents were written for a particular case vignette. It begins at the point of the initial referral and proceeds through the first several months of Child / Family - Agency interaction thereafter, from promotion of the referral to the opening of a case. The purpose of this exercise is to demonstrate the non-linear relationship between the four core documents and illustrate the purpose of each document in the cycle of a family's interaction with a child welfare social worker / agency, given the circumstances presented in a vignette. Click on objects in the graphic to explore more details about the events occurring during the case. Throughout the case you will also see what documents were used to record details of the events. Several of the events along the timeline contain links to the vignette documents. Additional resources can be accessed by clicking on the "resources" link above the top right corner of the graphic.
- National Center on Substance Abuse and Child Welfare: The free tutorials focus on the subjects of substance abuse and child welfare; they support and facilitate collaboration between the child welfare system, the substance abuse treatment system and the courts. Continuing Education Units are available upon successful completion of a tutorial.
- A Toolkit for Teaching Communication Skills in Social Work
- Social Work OER Video Repository
- Social Worker Health and Wellness Videos
- Try A Day in the Life of a Social Worker
- American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare Webinar Series.
- Growing Old in a New Age
- Coping with Depression
- The Science of the Mind: Investigating Mental Health
- Age:Structure of society
- Writing good case notes: differentiate Fact & Evidence from Assessment & Opinion
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