Training & Support
SFNFCI Training Course Catalogue
Prevention
Introduction to Prevention in Child Welfare
Course Length: 1 Day
Participants will learn:
- The day-to-day work of Prevention Workers.
- The role of prevention in building strong families.
- The history of First Nations child and family service, and truth and reconciliation, the development of the prevention field, prevention policy and standards, child abuse protocol, principles and ethics that inform prevention, and program expectations.
Communication Skills for Prevention Workers
Course Length: 2 days
Participants will learn:
- Basic communication skills for Prevention Workers.
- Their own communication styles, how to listen with empathy, respond with patience, the impacts of non-verbal communication, how to apply effective communication skills to build positive relationships, motivational interviewing, and using impactful communication skills when dealing with difficult or resistant clients or during a crisis or conflict.
Prevention Program Planning
Course Length: 2 days
Participants will learn:
- Guidelines to use when developing new programming.
- Practical methods to prepare and implement a plan, create schedules, and techniques to measure a plans’ success.
Managing Multiple Priorities
Course Length: 1 day
Participants will learn:
- How to manage time effectively.
- Time management skills, managing conflicting priorities, and dealing with everyday challenges.
- How to set priorities, get organized, and time management skills to help achieve your agencies’ goals.
Documentation Skills for Prevention Workers
Course Length: 2 days
Participants will learn:
- How to identify and apply effective observation, communication and report writing skills including applicable terminology.
- How to create and complete files, file management, document client and worker activities, and case planning.
- How to write clear, concise, detailed reports including understanding opinion, objective and subjective comments and perspectives.
- How to identify situations that require the completion of a critical incident report (E.g. death, injury, sexual/physical abuse).
Engaging Clients Using Therapeutic Interventions
Course Length: 1 day
Participants will learn:
- Ways to engage clients to assist in creating healthy, safe, helping environments.
- The goal of therapeutic interventions, and basic interventions such as art therapy, play therapy and animal therapy, and how these can be beneficial for engaging families in relationship development.
- Skills in building respectful relationships.
Mental Health First Aid - Adults who interact with Youth
Course Length: 2 days
Participants will learn:
- Mental disorders including, but not limited to mood, anxiety, eating disorders, and psychotic disorders, and crisis first aid skills specifically for adults working with youth.
- Stigma and discrimination associated with mental health.
- Five basic actions of mental health first aid.
- Participants completing this course receive a certificate from Mental Health First Aid Canada.
Facilitating Change
Course Length: 2 days
Participants will learn:
- A hands-on approach to facilitation and public speaking.
- Key concepts in public speaking and facilitating groups.
- Their own personal public speaking style and characteristics of groups/audiences, how to create and use a variety of presentation media, and how to deal with challenging group situations.
- This is a practical course that provides learning through instruction, discussion, small and large group work, practice and feedback.
Facilitating Life Skills Development
Course Length: 3 days
Participants will learn:
- The knowledge, skills and resources needed to assist clients in developing life skills to manage their children and their home. Strategies to engage clients in conversations about their current life skills, assess client’s knowledge and abilities in various life skills, and how to coach clients to develop life skills.
- Their own life skill strengths and the value of modelling positive, healthy life skills.
Grief and Loss
Course Length: 2 days
Participants will learn:
- The role of prevention workers in providing grief and loss support to clients.
- The process of grief, and knowledge and skills to support clients experiencing grief and loss.
- Their own grieving process and the importance of modelling positive, healthy grief and loss recovery for others.
Culture and Diversity
Course Length: 2 days
Participants will learn:
- Cultural and diversity topics such as: history, storytelling, worldviews, sacred circles, tipi teachings, animals and their significance in teaching values, oral traditions, protocols, plants and medicines, treaties, diversity, etc.
- This is a land-based course led by Elders/Knowledge Keepers and course participants. A general list of teachings and information will be identified by the First Nations Prevention Working Group to assist the structuring of the course. The specific learnings will depend upon the Elders/Knowledge Keepers and their expertise.
Group Homes
Case Management in a Group Home Setting
Course Length: 1 day
Participants will learn:
- The roles and responsibilities of case management within a team environment.
- How to use the circle of care model to identify and demonstrate their understanding of the components and processes that are integral to the case management strategy including goals and intended outcomes.
- How to enhance consistent practice in documentation writing and oral reporting through the use of forms and files relevant to First Nations Group Homes.
Crisis Management and Support in a Group Home Setting
Course Length: 2 days
Participants will learn:
- Crisis management and support skills including awareness and responses to the various stages of the Crisis Cycle and techniques to reduce conflict and violence in a group home setting.
- Best practices in working with children and youth in a group home setting and how to develop a ‘tool kit’ of behavioral management skills.
Rights of Children in a First Nations Group Home Setting
Course Length: 1 day
Participants will learn:
- Standards, policies and legislation specific to the development and maintenance of children rights.
Documents include: The Customary Standards of Care Section: 2, Rights of Children, United Nations Convention on the Rights of Children (UNCRC), United Nations Declarations on the Rights of Indigenous People (UNDRIP), MSS Duty to Report, FSIN Child Welfare and Family Support Act, MSS Child & Family Services Act and the role of the Advocate for Children and Youth.
- Exercises in demonstrating the rights and how to ensure children and youth are aware of their rights.
The History of Saskatchewan First Nations Child Welfare
Course Length: 1 day
Participants will learn:
- The History of First Nations Child and Family Services in Saskatchewan and the key events that impacted the development of the First Nations Child and Family systems in Saskatchewan.
- Canadian Government policies and legislation including the Residential School System from late 1800’s to 1996, Indian Act of 1876 and the 60’s Scoop through the Adopt Indian Metis Program.
- The long and challenging path and efforts of First Nations to gain control of this system which continues on into the 21st Century with Jordon’s Principle in 2007, the 2015 TRC Calls to Action, the 2016 Canadian Human Rights Tribunal Ruling and the 2017 SFNFCI Engagement Project.
Communication Skills in a Group Home Setting
Course Length: 2 day
Participants will learn:
- Basic communication skills for Group Home Workers.
- To examine their own communication styles, and key elements of communication including how to listen with empathy, respond with patience, and the impacts of non-verbal communication.
- How to apply effective communication skills to build positive relationships, motivational interviewing skills, and using impactful communication skills when dealing with difficult or resistant clients or during crisis or conflicts.
Engaging Clients Using Therapeutic Interventions
Course Length: 1 day
Participants will learn:
- Techniques to engage group home clients to assist in creating healthy, safe, helping environments.
- The goal of therapeutic interventions, and basic interventions such as art therapy, play therapy and animal therapy, and how these can be beneficial for engaging children and youth in relationship development.
- Skills in building respectful relationships.
Documentation in a Group Home
Course Length: 2 days
Participants will learn:
- How to identify and apply effective observation, communication and report writing skills including applicable terminology.
- How to create and complete files required in a group home setting, file management, documenting client and worker activities, and case planning.
- Key elements required for writing clear, concise, detailed reports including understanding opinion, objective and subjective comments, and perspectives.
- How to identify situations that require the completion of critical incident reports (E.g. death, injury, sexual/physical abuse).
Grief and Loss
Course Length: 2 days
Participants will learn:
- The role of the group home worker in providing grief and loss support to children and youth.
- Knowledge and skills to support group home residents who may be experiencing grief and loss.
- To examine their own grieving process and the importance of modelling positive, healthy grief and loss recovery for others.
Culture and Diversity
Course Length: 2 days
Participants will learn:
- Cultural and diversity topics such as: history, storytelling, worldviews, sacred circles, tipi teachings, animals and their significance in teaching values, oral traditions, protocols, plants and medicines, treaties, diversity, etc.
- This is a land-based course led by Elders/Knowledge Keepers and course participants. The specific learnings will depend upon the Elders/Knowledge Keepers and their expertise.
Mental Health First Aid – Adults who Interact with Youth in a Group Home Setting
Course Length: 2 days
Participants will learn:
- Mental disorders (mood, anxiety, eating disorders, and psychotic disorders, etc.) and crisis first aid skills specifically for adults working with children and youth in a group home setting.
- Stigma and discrimination associated with mental health.
- Five basic actions of mental health first aid.
- Participants who complete the full course will receive a certificate from Mental Health First Aid Canada.
Working with Children and Youth with Exceptionalities in a Group Home Setting
Course Length: 1 day
Participants will learn:
- Symptomologies/spectrums and assessment processes associated with FASD, Autism, ADHD Oppositional Defiance Disorder, Anxiety Disorder, Attachment Disorder and Depression.
- Biases, myths and misperceptions about exceptionalities with the aim of developing an informed understanding of the issue.
- How to apply basic techniques, interventions and strategies for each of the designated exceptionalities appropriate to the age and developmental level of the child and youth.
Child and Adolescent Behavior from a First Nations and Western Perspective
Course Length: 1 day
Participants will learn:
- Child and youth development from a First Nations and western perspective.
- How to design programs and services that meet the developmental levels of children and youth in their care.
- Parenting styles and how they support or hinder child and youth development.
Helping Skills for the Group Home Worker
Course Length: 1 day
Participants will learn:
- The basic theoretical foundations of the helping skills models of counselling and their role in providing help to children and youth as part of the continuum of care in a group home setting.
- Basic helping skills appropriate to the age and developmental level of the child and youth.
Working with Children Who Have Experienced and Witnessed Violence
Course Length: 2 days
Participants will learn:
- Types of violence that children and youth living in a group home may have witnessed and experienced including family/domestic violence, intimate partner violence, child abuse, bullying, gangs, sexual abuse, emotional abuse, drug abuse and media violence.
- The historical and current context of these types of violence so that learners can better understand the tools necessary to develop trusting relationships as a means of better understanding and modelling behavior with children and youth.
Income Assistance
Facilitating Change
Course Length: 2 days
Participants will learn:
- A hands-on approach to facilitation and public speaking.
- Key concepts in public speaking and facilitating groups.
- Their own personal public speaking style and characteristics of groups/audiences, how to create and use a variety of presentation media, and how to deal with challenging group situations.
- This is a practical course that provides learning through instruction, discussion, small and large group work, practice and feedback.
Managing Multiple Priorities
Course Length: 1 day
Participants will learn:
- How to manage time effectively.
- Time management skills, managing conflicting priorities, and dealing with challenges that happen in shelters every day.
- How to set priorities, get organized, and time management skills to help achieve your agencies’ goals.
Communication Skills
Course Length: 2 days
Participants will learn:
- Basic communication skills for Income Assistance workers.
- Their own communication styles, how to listen with empathy, respond with patience, the impacts of non-verbal communication, how to apply effective communication skills to build positive relationships, motivational interviewing, and using impactful communication skills when dealing with difficult or resistant clients or during a crisis or conflict.
Motivational Interviewing
Course Length: 2 days
Participants will learn:
- Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a communication approach that is client-centered and directional; aimed at changing something specific. The goal of MI is to help clients explore and resolve their ambivalence to change within an atmosphere of acceptance and compassion.
- The state of ambivalence.
- The stages of change.
- The spirit of Motivational Interviewing.
- Four processes in Motivational Interviewing.
- Essential Motivational Interviewing communication skills.
Professional Boundaries and Confidentiality
Course Length: 2 days
Participants will learn:
- To explore ethics, values, and boundaries within their personal and professional lives and how these impact the clients they work with, as well as explore how to handle situations where ethics, values, and boundaries may come into conflict.
- Skills in handling confidentiality issues, boundary conflicts, and dual/multiple relationships that can arise in a shelter setting, including their on-line presence and social media.
Webinars
Mental Health 101
Supporting People with Anxiety
Emotional Resilience in Trying Times
Checking On Your Co-workers
Recovering from Burnout
Shelters
Communication Skills
Course Length: 2 days
Participants will learn:
- Basic communication skills for Shelter Workers.
- Their own communication styles, how to listen with empathy, respond with patience, the impacts of non-verbal communication, how to apply effective communication skills to build positive relationships, motivational interviewing, and using impactful communication skills when dealing with difficult or resistant clients or during a crisis or conflict.
Managing Multiple Priorities
Course Length: 1 day
Participants will learn:
- How to manage time effectively.
- Time management skills, managing conflicting priorities, and dealing with challenges that happen in shelters every day.
- How to set priorities, get organized, and time management skills to help achieve your agencies’ goals.
Documentation Skills
Course Length: 2 days
Participants will learn:
- How to identify and apply effective observation, communication and report writing skills including applicable terminology.
- How to create and complete files, file management, document client and worker activities, and case planning.
- How to write clear, concise, detailed reports including understanding opinion, objective and subjective comments and perspectives.
- How to identify situations that require the completion of a critical incident report (E.g. death, injury, sexual/physical abuse).
Engaging Clients Using Therapeutic Interventions
Course Length: 1 day
Participants will learn:
- Ways to engage shelter clients to assist in creating healthy, safe, helping environments.
- The goal of therapeutic interventions, and basic interventions such as art therapy, play therapy and animal therapy, and how these can be beneficial for engaging families in relationship development.
- Skills in building respectful relationships.
Mental Health First Aid - Adults who interact with Youth
Course Length: 2 days
Participants will learn:
- Mental disorders including, but not limited to mood, anxiety, eating disorders, and psychotic disorders, and crisis first aid skills specifically for adults working with youth.
- Stigma and discrimination associated with mental health.
- Five basic actions of mental health first aid.
- Participants completing this course receive a certificate from Mental Health First Aid Canada.
Professional Boundaries and Confidentiality
Course Length: 2 days
Participants will learn:
- To explore ethics, values, and boundaries within their personal and professional lives and how these impact the clients they work with, as well as explore how to handle situations where ethics, values, and boundaries may come into conflict.
- Skills in handling confidentiality issues, boundary conflicts, and dual/multiple relationships that can arise in a shelter setting, including their on-line presence and social media.
Supporting Individuals who Experienced Violent Episodes
Course Length: 3 days
Participants will learn:
- Types of violence that men, women, children, and youth may have witnessed and experienced (family/domestic violence and abuses, intimate partner violence and abuses, child abuse, sexual abuse, and drug/alcohol/substance abuse), discussed in a relevant and current context to better understand the workers clients they are working with.
- Better understanding of the prevalence and impact of the violence that happens on our communities as well as the trauma the client is dealing with.
- Tools necessary to develop trusting relationships as a means of better understanding clients and their children and move to a place of support for them.
Grief and Loss
Course Length: 2 days
Participants will learn:
- The role of shelter workers in providing grief and loss support to clients.
- The process of grief, and knowledge and skills to support clients experiencing grief and loss.
- Their own grieving process and the importance of modelling positive, healthy grief and loss recovery for others.
Culture and Diversity
Course Length: 2 days
Participants will learn:
- Cultural and diversity topics such as: history, storytelling, worldviews, sacred circles, tipi teachings, animals and their significance in teaching values, oral traditions, protocols, plants and medicines, treaties, diversity, etc.
- This is a land based course led by Elders/Knowledge Keepers and course participants. A general list of teachings and information will be identified by the First Nations Prevention Working Group to assist the structuring of the course. The specific learnings will depend upon the Elders/Knowledge Keepers and their expertise.
Crisis Management and Support in a Shelter
Course Length: 2 days
Participants will learn:
- A broad range of essential crisis management and support skills, including awareness and responses to the various stages of the Crisis Cycle, and techniques to reduce conflict and violence in a shelter setting.
- To develop a ‘tool kit’ of behavioral management skills and best practices so they can effectively work with shelter clients and their family members.
Structured Decision-making
Intake Assessment
The screening section of the intake assessment helps child abuse hotline workers determine if the current report requires a child protective services (CPS) investigation response. The response priority section helps workers determine how swiftly an investigation must be initiated for those reports accepted for investigation.
Safety Assessment
The assessment helps workers at all points in a case determine if a child may safely remain in the home, with or without a safety plan in place. A second safety assessment, customized for use in foster and substitute care, has also been developed.
Risk Assessment
This actuarial assessment estimates the likelihood of future child and family services system involvement, and assists investigation workers in determining which cases should be continued for ongoing services and which may be closed at the end of an investigation.
Family Strengths and Needs Assessment
The FSNA informs case planning by structuring the worker’s assessment of family caregivers and all children across a common set of domains of family functioning. For the case plan, priority areas of need are chosen as the focus of efforts to improve family functioning and child safety.
Risk Reassessment
For families receiving in-home services, the actuarial risk reassessment helps the ongoing service worker determine when risk has been reduced sufficiently that the case may be recommended for closure.
Reunification Assessment
For families with a child in out-of-home care with a goal of reunification, this assessment helps the worker determine when a child may safely be returned to the home, or when a change in permanency goal should be considered. The assessment has three sections that focus on risk, caregiver-child visitation, and safety.
SDM On-Call/Emergency Duty Training
Course Length: 2 days
Participants will learn:
- When and how to use the SDM Intake and SDM Safety tools.
- Practice using the tools in a variety of on-call/emergency duty scenarios.
SFNFCI SDM Consultants provide workers with paper copies of the SDM manual and training aids to assist them on the job. Each Agency develops their own protocols and processes as to how they will fulfill their own on-call/emergency duty requirements.
Integrated Practice Strategies Training
Progressive Visitation
Integrating IPS & SDM into Safety Planning
Integrating IPS & SDM into Case Planning
Supervising Worker’s Practice: Progressive Visitation
Supervising Worker’s Practice: Safety Planning
Supervising Worker’s Practice: Case Planning
IPS Safety House
IPS Three Houses
Solution Focused Questions
IPS Networking Tools
Engaging Families in Crucial Conversations
Progressive Visitation Planning: Refresher
CAP Framework
Gems of Clarity
Grief & Loss
Applied Suicide Intervention Skills (ASIST)
Mental Health First Aid
Crisis Management & Support in a Group Home Setting
Compassionate Crisis Response Training
The Cost of Caring
Supporting Staff Mental Health
De-Escalating Potentially Violent Situations
Challenging Behaviour in Youth
Mental Health Concerns in Children & Youth
Lateral Violence
Integrated Practice Strategies Training
Non-Profit Governance TRAINING
Board Training
Course Length: 3 days
This course is designed increase the members’ ability to perform Board-related tasks, support the non-profit service provider and the community, influence key stakeholders, and move the non-profit service provider further towards the mission of strengthening and providing support to families. The course is divided into three sections: Governance Environment, Board Governance Basics, and Governance Support and Management.
Media Training
Course Length: 1 day
This course provides members with information on how the media and reporters work, and the role they play as spokespersons in responding to questions when the media calls. Participants learn techniques to help them answer difficult questions and how to alert the media when a crisis occurs. This course offers spokespersons with an opportunity to complete mock on-camera interviews on topics relevant to the non-profit service providing organization the board member provides oversight to.
HUMAN RESOURCES
Mental Health in the Workplace and Management Styles
Course Length:
Fit to Work: Drug & Alcohol Testing, Canadian Model Testing Guidelines
Conflict Resolution Training
Navigating Key Employment Law Considerations
Mapping Operational Process
Supporting Employee Mental Health, HR Considerations
Saskatchewan Labour Standards Training, Part 1
Saskatchewan Labour Standards Training, Part 2
Finance
Excel Level 1&2 (Saskatoon Business College)
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Measuring and Improving Operational Processes Program
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