Domestic Violence and the Child Welfare System (1 credit hour)
Program Summary: This course explores the relationship between domestic violence and child maltreatment and discusses the shared goals of child welfare and domestic violence programs. It describes an emerging practice that features a more coordinated, collaborative, and broad-based approach.
This course is recommended for social workers, counselors, and therapists and is appropriate for beginning and intermediate levels of practice.
Publisher: Child Welfare Information Gateway
US Department of Health and Human Services
Administration for Children and Families
Administration on Children, Youth and Families
Children’s Bureau
Find the article at: http://www.freestatesocialwork.com/articles/domesticviolencechildwelfare2014.pdf
Program Objectives: To enhance professional practice, values, skills, and knowledge by identifying key issues related to children and families affected by domestic violence.
Learning Objectives: Describe the impact of domestic violence on children. Identify goals shared by both child welfare and domestic violence programs. Describe the emerging differential response approach. Identify at least one promising practice featured in this course.
Review our pre-reading study guide.
Free State Social Work, LLC, provider #1235, is approved as a provider for social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) www.aswb.org, through the Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Free State Social Work, LLC maintains responsibility for the program. ASWB Approval Period: 9/6/2018 - 9/6/2021. Social Workers should contact their regulatory board to determine course approval. Social Workers participating in this course will receive 1continuing education clock hour.
Free State Social Work has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP NO. 6605. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Free State Social Work is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
G.M. Rydberg-Cox, MSW, LSCSW is the Continuing Education Director at Free State Social Work and responsible for the development of this course. She received her Masters of Social Work in 1996 from the Jane Addams School of Social Work at the University of Illinois-Chicago and she has over 20 years of experience. She has lived and worked as a social worker in Chicago, Boston, and Kansas City. She currently practices in the area of hospital/medical social work. The reading materials for this course were developed by another organization.