ECEM Trainings 2008
Project Overview
Georgia has been working over the past year to meet the new federal mandate requiring more frequent visits to children in care through its “Every Child, Every Month” Initiative. This initiative promotes placement stability and permanency through caseworker/child visits. By October 2011, 90% of children in foster care must be visited by their caseworkers on a monthly basis, with the majority of those visits occurring in the home. Georgia is well on its way in meeting this mandate through new and revised policy, timely data collection and reporting, and training and technical assistance.
Training and Technical Assistance
A successful Case Worker Visit (CWV) pilot training was held this past February with selected field program specialists and placement supervisors. Based on overwhelming positive feedback, Georgia is developing its own Georgia-specific curricula (attached are the goals of the training) and rolling out training statewide through a two-step process:
Step 1
July 16-18, 2008 Train the Trainer Sessions
July – September 2008 Train field program specialists and placement supervisors
(those not trained during the pilot)
Step 2
October 2008 – September 2009 Train Frontline Caseworkers:
New Workers through New Worker Orientation
Veteran Workers through Professional Excellence
Participant Resources
Supervisors and caseworkers who attend the ECEM Trainings receive a binder of materials as well as a CD of carefully selected resources. For your convenience, all those materials are collected here as well. To download a copy of any of these files, please click on the links below:
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Job Aid Cards (printable on Avery 5389 cards: front and back) - The Cycle of Conducting Purposeful and MeaningfulCaseworker/Child Visits
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Safety Checklists - Infants, Toddlers, Pre-schoolers, School-age Children & Early, Middle, and Late Adolescence
Additional Resources:
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