Training & Support
Training & Support
Training and support is provided in the areas below.
Courses are culturally appropriate, trauma, and emotionally sensitive and were developed in consultation with Knowledge Keepers, Elders, First Nations Group Home Managers and comply with the Customary Standards of Care for First Nations Group Home, Assessment and Stabilization, Therapeutic, and Treatment Programs.
In providing training, we actively engage Elder/Knowledge Keepers and honour their sacred teachings. We practice having an Elder/Knowledge Keeper present in each of our training deliveries to provide wisdom, guidance, and learner support.
Board Governance
- Training
Board Governance training helps Non-Profit Board Members of Child and Family Service Providers learn about their roles and responsibilities so they can provide effective governance to their non-profit organizations and the role clarity of oversight and due diligence is provided in setting the strategic end goals for the non-profit is achieved.
Finance
- Training
- Working Group
Finance training helps Finance staff work through finance related problems or concerns and create solutions so that operations run effectively and efficiently. Training is provided through the SFNFCI Finance Working Group.
Group Homes
- Training
- Network
- Annual Gathering
Group Home worker training, support and resources are designed for Group Home staff and other caregivers who work in the management and operation of group homes in Saskatchewan. Learning is provided by facilitators delivering competency-based courses on topics related to youth in group homes and how to deliver programs.
Human Resources
- Network
- Working Group
Human Resources training helps Agency Human Resource staff work through human resource related problems or concerns and create solutions to these challenges. Training is provided through the SFNFCI Human Resources Working Group.
Income Assistance
- Network
- Working Group
Income Assistance worker training, support and resources are designed for Income Assistance workers.
Learning is provided by facilitators delivering competency-based courses on how to help community members acquire funds to meet their basic needs of food, clothing, and shelter, and to access employment.
LTCC
- Working Group
- LTCC Forum
- Training
Prevention
- Training
- Network
- Annual Gathering
Prevention training, support and resources are designed for Prevention workers who work with Indigenous children, youth and families.
Learning is provided by facilitators delivering competency-based courses on how to deliver prevention programs.
Shelters
- Training
- Network
- Annual Gathering
Our Shelter worker training, support and resources are designed for individuals working in First Nations Women’s Shelters in Saskatchewan.
Learning is provided by facilitators delivering competency-based courses on topics related to people living in shelters.
The Saskatchewan First Nations Women’s Shelter Standards are used to help foster and support the good work of Indigenous Shelters across Saskatchewan, to create a culturally safe, responsible, and welcoming environment, and to foster protection and healing for our Indigenous women, children and families.
Structured Decision-Making (SDM)
- Training
- Working Group
Structured Decision-Making (SDM) training, support and resources are designed for Child and Family Protection Supervisors working to adapt SDM and IPS (integrated practice strategies) into their Service Model. The goal of SDM is to reduce subsequent harm or maltreatment for children and families, and to expediate permanency and safe reunification. SDM Systems follow a Policy and Procedures Manual.
SDM Systems:
- Help child protection workers and supervisors make decisions in several areas of child and family management.
- Use defined decision-making criteria to screen for investigation, determine response priority, identify immediate threatened harm, and estimate the risk of future abuse and neglect.
- Consider the needs and strengths of children and families in developing and monitoring
