Expanding Our Silos: Building Effective Collaboration between Child Welfare Professionals and Domestic Violence Advocates – TOPEKA – July 2023

Expanding Our Silos: Building Effective Collaboration between Child Welfare Professionals and Domestic Violence Advocates

Audience: Child Welfare Professionals, including DCF Staff, Reintegration and Family Preservation Case Managers and Family Support Workers; Social Workers; Mental Health Professionals; Foster Home, Kinship, and Adoption Workers; and CASAs. Kin/Relative, Foster, and Adoptive Families are also welcome and encouraged to attend, as well as KCSDV Member Program Advocates.


Date & Time:

Wednesday, July 12, 2023
9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. (lunch on your own)

Materials will be provided.

Location: 

Kansas Department for Children and Families
500 SW Van Buren Street
Topeka, KS 66603
785-296-2500

Description:

Families experiencing domestic violence often interact with many different community service providers, including domestic violence advocates, while also navigating the child welfare system. By making concerted efforts to build collaboration across systems, safety and services for survivors are enhanced, and offender accountability is increased. Building an effective partnership between child welfare professionals and domestic violence advocates enhances communication among collaborative partners. Maintaining these partnerships can help break down the barriers that survivors encounter. By attending this training participants will learn the key components to building an effective collaboration; gain knowledge of the different systems domestic violence survivors interact with; understand the different confidentiality and mandatory reporting requirements of child welfare professionals versus domestic violence advocates; and become familiar with the different services provided by domestic violence advocacy organizations in Kansas.

As a result of this training, participants will be better able to:

  • Identify the different systems that survivors of domestic violence and their children may have to interact with
  • Describe the services provided by Domestic Violence Advocacy Programs to survivors of domestic violence and their children
  • Distinguish between the different confidentiality requirements of Child Welfare Professionals and Domestic Violence Advocates
  • Differentiate the mandatory reporting requirements of Child Welfare Professionals and Domestic Violence Advocates
  • Explain how effective collaboration can help hold domestic violence offenders accountable
  • Explain how effective collaboration can help increase safety for survivors of domestic violence and their children

Presenters:

Kristina Scott, LMSW
Child Welfare Project Coordinator
Kansas Coalition Against Sexual & Domestic Violence

Cassie Bone
Child and Youth Collaboration Coordinator
Kansas Coalition Against Sexual & Domestic Violence


Registration:

Registration Deadline: Wednesday, July 5, 2023

How to Register:
To register, Create an account and login, then select the number of people you want to register and click “Register Now.” If you need assistance registering, contact trainingteam@kcsdv.org.

Space is limited with a room capacity of 48. Register soon!
If you register and are unable to attend, please email Kristina Scott, kscott@kcsdv.org, as soon as you are able and at least 24 hours prior to the date of the training, so others can have the opportunity to attend. 

If registration reaches capacity and you would like to be put on the waiting list, please also email Kristina.

Accessibility:

We welcome people of all abilities. For questions about accessibility or to request an accommodation, please select your needs on the online registration form or contact trainingteam@kcsdv.org or call 785-232-9784. Requests should be made at least 14 business days prior to the training. 

Questions:

Training Questions: 
Kristina Scott
Child Welfare Project Coordinator
Kansas Coalition Against Sexual & Domestic Violence
kscott@kcsdv.org
785-232-9784

Registration Questions:
Training Team
Kansas Coalition Against Sexual & Domestic Violence
trainingteam@kcsdv.org
785-232-9784


Sponsored by:

Funding provided through Department for Children & Families (DCF) Grant.


Total Training Hours: 5.5

BSRB approval for 5.5 hours of Continued Education Units (CEU) – PENDING

  • Expanding Our Silos: Building Effective Collaboration between Child Welfare Professionals and Domestic Violence Advocates
     July 12, 2023
     9:00 am - 4:00 pm
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