Alliance Course Catalog

This eLearning is a component of Regional Core Training (RCT), it is recommended RCT participants complete this eLearning during their fourth week of RCT instruction. 

In this short eLearning, participants will come to understand the importance of the ChIPR in conveying information to caregivers and potential placement providers. Participants will learn important techniques to write an accurate and behaviorally specific ChIPR describing both the strengths and needs of the child. Participants will understand their responsibilities pertaining to documentation and distribution of this document.

This eLearning can be completed outside RCT as a stand-alone eLearning to provide instruction for the Child Information and Placement Referral. 

This eLearning is a component of Regional Core Training (RCT), it is recommended RCT participants complete this eLearning during their third week of RCT instruction, following Interviewing Adults, and prior to Adult Interview Simulation.

In this eLearning participants will review the stages of an adult FVS/CFWS interview and the information they need to gather in each stage; read a case summary; and view an interview with the parents related to the case. Participants will see how the interview uses strategies discussed during the Interviewing Adults classroom session Participants will be encouraged to consider what – if anything - they might have done differently in preparation for Adult Interview Simulation.

This eLearning is a component of Regional Core Training (RCT), it is recommended RCT participants complete this eLearning during their eighth week of RCT instruction.

This eLearning will help learners understand the process for assessing the suitability of prospective unlicensed caregivers and when to initiate a home study.

This eLearning can be completed outside RCT as a stand-alone eLearning to provide instruction for relative home studies.

This 4-part eLearning series is a component of field-based learning in Regional Core Training (RCT). This eLearning series provides an interactive, deeper dive, into the roles and responsibilities of the major programs within DCYF; CPS Investigations and CPS Family Assessment Response, Family Voluntary Services, and Child and Family Welfare Services. Participants will have an opportunity to review the flow of a case and better understand the structure of DCYF offices and the roles of those who work around them. Finally, participants will walk through the basic parts of their job as CPS, FVS, or CFWS workers, including which policies and laws often guide their choices. This eLearning is offered in four distinct modules:

In this module, you’ll:
•    Identify the role of child welfare in Washington State.
•    Better understand the basic organizational structure of Children’s Administration (CA).
•    Feel more confident in your understanding of your role within the child welfare system.

This eLearning series can be completed outside RCT as a stand-alone eLearning series to provide an orientation to child welfare practice and programs in Washington State

This 4-part eLearning series is a component of field-based learning in Regional Core Training (RCT). This eLearning series provides an interactive, deeper dive, into the roles and responsibilities of the major programs within DCYF; CPS Investigations and CPS Family Assessment Response, Family Voluntary Services, and Child and Family Welfare Services. Participants will have an opportunity to review the flow of a case and better understand the structure of DCYF offices and the roles of those who work around them. Finally, participants will walk through the basic parts of their job as CPS, FVS, or CFWS workers, including which policies and laws often guide their choices. This eLearning is offered in four distinct modules.

In this module, you’ll:
•    Review the basic organizational structure of CA
•    Answer questions about the various job roles encountered by most social service specialists

This eLearning series can be completed outside RCT as a stand-alone eLearning series to provide an orientation to child welfare practice and programs in Washington State.

Regional Core Training (RCT) is Washington State’s foundational training designed to prepare newly hired social service specialists with the basic knowledge, skills, and understanding to begin their careers in public child welfare for the State of Washington, Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF). RCT is a comprehensive training and coaching program containing multiple sessions which lay the foundation for continuous on-the-job learning and professional development critical to developing competent, confident, and effective child welfare professionals. RCT begins on a new employee’s date of hire, either the 1^st or the 16^th of each month.

RCT includes pre-service activities to be completed prior to the first classroom session, then eight weeks of instruction integrating both classroom and field-based learning. The third week of instruction takes place in Seattle, WA. All RCT cohorts statewide will come together for Child Interview, Adult Interview, and Court Testimony Simulation Training during week 3. Once registered, RCT participants and their supervisors will receive a detailed RCT Cohort Calendar from their assigned Alliance Coach. RCT Cohort Calendars will indicate classroom session dates, times, and locations; as well as mandatory field-based learning.

RCT consists of a cohesive developmental curriculum in which knowledge and skills are broadened and deepened, without any stand-alone sessions. New employees must complete all classroom sessions and field-based learning in order to complete the RCT course and be eligible to carry a full caseload.

RCT provides participants with blended learning opportunities, including classroom instruction, transfer of learning activities in the field, and 1:1 or small-group coaching. Woven throughout RCT are several critical concepts, integral to best practice in child welfare, and designed to maximize learning within context and with relevancy to the work:

• Child Safety, Permanency, and Wellbeing
• Critical Thinking
• Trauma-Informed Practice
• Disproportionality and Racial Equity in Child Welfare
• Cultural Competency/Cultural Humility
• Reflection and Recognizing Bias
• Documentation Skills in FamLink
• Program Specific Job Skills

This training will share the data from the original Adverse Childhood Experience study and its effect on brain development, physical and mental health, education and life trajectory. Just as important is the research on how resilience reduces these negative effects. A caring adult using trauma informed strategies can significantly change these negative outcomes. Many strategies that increase resilience will be shared in this presentation as well. Presentation will be interactive. Share personal challenges and success. Take the ACEs test. Play the Resilience Trumps ACEs card game. Connect with others. Leave feeling enlightened, empowered and supported!

The RIGHT RESPONSE Level 3 Workshop is primarily prevention training.  This 11-hour certification provides basic fundamental skills including Prevention, De-escalation, Postvention, and Physical Safety skills. Attendees learn about self-awareness, reflective thinking skills, positive behavior support, basic and advanced de-escalation skills, self-protection, and proactive alternatives which can prevent dangerous incidents and increase safety.

Attendees that complete the workshop receive a 2 year certification.

Since 1993, Service Alternatives has been researching and developing best practices in the management of behavior and aggression problems in families, schools, group homes, hospitals, camps, detention centers and beyond.  Together, the staff team at Service Alternatives Training Institute has more than 200 years of experience within the company.