Child Welfare Practice With Families Affected by Parental Incarceration (1 credit hour)
Program Summary: This course explores how parental incarceration affects children, parents, and caregivers and offers resources for professional practice. Issues of visitation, case planning, and reunification are discussed.
This course is recommended for social workers, counselors and therapists and is appropriate for beginning and intermediate levels of practice.
Course Reading: Child Welfare Practice with Families Affected by Parental Incarceration
Publisher: Child Welfare Information Gateway; Children’s Bureau
Find the reading at: https://www.childwelfare.gov/pubPDFs/parental_incarceration.pdf
Course Objectives: To enhance professional practice, values, skills, and knowledge by identifying key issues related to families affected by parental incarceration.
Learning Objectives: Describe the effects of parental incarceration on children, parents, and caregivers. Compare rights of incarcerated parents and other parents regarding visitation, case planning, and reunification. Describe ways to maintain connections between incarcerated parents and their children.
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.
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.