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ACFS 18-120_RFI | REQUEST FOR INFORMATION - Serving Youth with Intellectual Disabilities in a Group Care Setting
This Request for Information (RFI) is issued by the Iowa Department of Human Services (DHS) to solicit information about the needs and capacity of child welfare service contractors to serve youth who have an IQ in the range 50-70, and have behavior issues that are serious, but not so severe they cannot live in a community setting. Learn more here.
Decategorization Providers Advisory
Speaker: Justin Boggers, Goodwill Industries, What providers should know about services provided by Goodwill
Wednesday, May 16, 2018
8:30am to 10:00am at
Polk County River Place, 2309 Euclid Avenue Conference Room 2
Providers of Color Fair!
Several entities, including the NASW IA Diversity Committee, DCAT, and the IA Department of Human Services, are hosting Providers of Color Fair on May 3rd, from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at Polk County River Place, 2309 Euclid Avenue in Des Moines. We are featuring programs that provide services to large numbers of minorities and/or provides culturally specific services and/or are providers that are of color. Sponsors and host of the event include DCAT; NASW IA Diversity Committee; University of Iowa School of Social Work, Social Workers of Color; Meskwaki Family Settlement; and Iowa Department of Human Services Minority Youth and Family Initiative. Please come join us for a light lunch and for more information about the providers and agencies that serve our community.
Please contact us at jgrenko@dhs.state.is.us or 641-895-3488 for more information.
Polk Decategorization and Community Partnerships for Protecting Children (CPPC) invite you to participate in a Lemonade for Life training. Lemonade for Life trains professionals working with parents and caregivers in the community on use of the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Questionnaire. The goal of the program is to help prevent future exposure to ACEs while promoting resiliency and hope. If you work in the human services field, this training would be most helpful for training you and your agency/organization staff in learning more about addressing methods for combating the effects of ACEs and Trauma in your everyday work.
The training is being paid for by Polk Decategorization and CPPC, but you are required to register as there are a limited number of available spots for the training.
Training Details: Wednesday, June, 13, 2018
Time: 9:00 am - 4:30 pm (half hour break for lunch)
Location: United Way Human Service Campus
Conference Room F
1111 Ninth St.
Des Moines, IA 50314
To attend, please register here:
https://kusurvey.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4PywtbFtzrkAABv
The registration survey provides information about your background and helps us tailor the Lemonade for Life training to your groups specific needs.
Complete Training details
Prerequisites:
· Complete the attached ACEs Questionnaire. This is for your information only. We will NOT be collecting these scores.
· Complete the ACEs 360 Online Training Courses:
1. Go to http://training.dynamiclearningmaps.org/course/view.php?id=91
2. Login using the following credentials:
Username: acestudy
Password: ACE$tudy1 (password is case sensitive)
There are two modules in the course: The ACE Study: Its Impact and Our Opportunity and A Child Abuse Prevention Response to ACEs. The link to each module is located on the main course page. These modules take 2-4 hours to complete.
*** Please Note: We are not collecting completion records at this time, so when you are prompted at the end of each section and the end of the course to submit your answers to training questions the program will tell you your answers have not been submitted. Though we are not collecting completion records, you will need to complete the brief quiz at the end of each section to advance in the program.
Additional Requirements:
* Attend the full training
* Post training Coaching Call will be scheduled approximately 45-60 days after Lemonade for Life training
* Complete a Post-Training Survey
After completing the Coaching Call AND Post-Training Survey, you will receive:
* Certificate of Completion. This program is eligible for 1.25 (10.25 contact hours) CEU credit. CEU credit will be
available for an additional charge of $26.30
If you have any questions, please contact info@lemonadeforlife.com
We hope you can take advantage of this offer!
Invitation for Training Proposals for DHS Staff - Read this first
DHS Training Committee Mission and Objectives
DHS Social Work Position Descriptions
Sample 1 - Training Proposal One Page Summary
Cultural Equity Resources for Child Welfare
Access **new resources** at the IDHS Training website http://training.hs.iastate.edu/. Create a free account if you don’t already have one, log in, and go to:
Categories => Resource Library => Cultural Equity Alliance Resources
to learn about working more effectively with all of Iowa’s children and families.
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Cultural Equity Alliance Resources - document with links!
Continuing Courageous Conversations Toolkit
Corrected - CJJP Release of Juvenile Justice Planning Data - 2016 Statewide Report
We found minor errors in the document that was shared with you yesterday and have posted the corrected report on our website. Our sincere apologies for the inconvenience. We hope you will re-distribute this information with your respective audiences. If you have any questions, please contact Dave Kuker at (515) 281-8078 or dave.kuker@iowa.gov.
Please use the following link to corrected report: https://humanrights.iowa.gov/sites/default/files/media/2016%20Statewide%20Report%20-%20Juvenile%20Justice%20System%20Planning%20Data_1.pdf
More information can be found here: https://humanrights.iowa.gov/cjjp/disproportionate-minority-contact/data
Could you, or someone you know or work with, benefit from a Family Team Meeting?
What is a Family Team Meeting?
A community-based Family Team Decision Making meeting (FTDM) is a facilitated meeting that brings together individuals who can assist families in getting back on track while providing them with helpful resources and supports.
This approach draws upon a family‘s strengths, experiences, knowledge, and resources to create a plan that provides for the safety and well-being the family; especially the children. The family is assisted in building a circle of support that will see the family through difficult times.
FTDMs are based on these values: everyone has strengths, people can change, and people deserve support.
Would Your Family Like to Have a Family Team Decision Making meeting?
You can complete your own referral form and make a self-referral, or you can have someone that you trust complete the referral form on your behalf. The FTDM referral form can be obtained by contacting Polk County’s Project and CPPC Coordinator Jordan Kauffman at jkauffm@dhs.state.ia.us, or by calling 515-725-2787.
During the FTM, the team:
Updated ongoing FTDM/YTDM Meeting Q&A Document
This document will be posted to the Child Welfare Provider Training Academy (CWPTA) webpage where all of the current approved statewide documents/forms can be accessed:
http://www.iatrainingsource.org/ftdm-ytdm-documents
NOTE: This is a NEW direct link to the FTDM/YTDM meeting documents/forms so if you have saved as a favorite, be sure to replace with the new link above.
In the ongoing Q&A document, click on the specific topic in the Table of Contents to go directly to that topic, and then use CTRL Home to take you back to the Table of Contents.
REMINDER: When you download the forms from the CWPTA webpage, you MUST save the documents with the .dot extension in order for them to maintain all functionality of the cells. In order to do this, complete the following steps:
Please forward to others as appropriate. If you have any questions, contact Mindy Norwood (Office # 515.281.4212, mnorwoo@dhs.state.ia.us)
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Effective October 1, 2015: the Iowa Domestic Violence HelpLine phone number has changed to 1-800-770-1650
Updated on JCS Directory for Polk County