• Duration

    20 Contact Hours

    National Adoption Competency Training for Child Welfare Professionals Training Initiative

    Advancing Practice for Permanency & Well-Being!

    The free, web-based training enables you to better address the mental health & developmental needs of children in foster, adoptive, or kinship families. The NTI training can change your practice with the goal of improving well-being and permanency outcomes for youth in foster, adoptive, and guardianship families.
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    Enhance your foundational knowledge, values, and
    skills for adoption competent casework and practice!

    • Focuses on the behavioral and mental health needs of children moving toward adoption or guardianship. 
    • Improved capacity to apply trauma-informed, attachment-based casework.
    • Provides a companion supervisor curricula with downloadable coaching activity guide to support application of learning to practice.
    • Increased knowledge of the complexities of adoption, kinship and guardianship.
    • Enhanced professional skills needed to promote stability and permanency for children and their families. 

    C.A.S.E. Training Institute

    C.A.S.E. National Training Institute is the culmination of more than 25 years of hands-on clinical expertise with foster, adoptive, and kinship families. Informed by the power of this experience, C.A.S.E. has become a national leader in adoption, foster and kinship competency trainings to enhance the capacity and competency of child welfare, mental health and school professionals from foundational understanding to comprehensive, clinical skills.

    NTI was funded through a cooperative agreement (#90CO1121) and (#90CO1145) between the Children’s Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, US Department of Health and Human Services, and the Center for Adoption Support and Education (C.A.S.E.).