Protective Factors: Approaches in Child Welfare (1 credit hour)
Program Summary: This course explores an increasing emphasis on protective factors as an intervention strategy in child welfare. The course summarizes and compares four key protective factor approaches using an ecological framework.
This course is recommended for social workers, counselors, and therapists and is appropriate for beginning and intermediate levels of practice.
Find the reading at: https://www.childwelfare.gov/pubPDFs/protective_factors.pdf
Publisher: Child Welfare Information Gateway; Children’s Bureau
Program Objectives: To enhance professional practice, values, skills, and knowledge by identifying key issues related to child welfare and the emerging emphasis on protective factors.
Learning Objectives: Describe the protective factors approach in child welfare. Identify individual protective factors. Identify relational protective factors. Identify community protective factors.
Review our pre-reading study guide.
Free State Social Work, LLC, provider #1235, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Free State Social Work, LLC maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 9/6/2021 - 9/6/2024. Social workers completing this course receive 1 continuing education credit.
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.
Read more:
Making Meaningful Connections
https://www.childwelfare.gov/pubPDFs/guide.pdf#page=9
School Connectedness: Strategies for Increasing Protective Factors Among Youth
http://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/protective/pdf/connectedness.pdf
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.