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KinnectU offers comprehensive training, consulting, and program replication services designed to strengthen families and promote a KinFirst culture. Our child welfare training programs equip professionals, organizations, and communities with the skills, tools, and knowledge needed to improve kinship care, family preservation, and youth support services.
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Expert Training for Those Who Serve Children & Families
Brought to you by Kinnect, KinnectU provides engaging, immersive, and impactful training experiences for child welfare professionals and organizations dedicated to strengthening families.
Whether you're an individual looking to enhance your skills and learn best practices in kinship care and family preservation, or an organization seeking to advance your mission, we offer comprehensive training and consulting services to meet your needs.
Our training opportunities include:
- Instructor-led, in-person sessions for hands-on learning
- Virtual instructor-led training for interactive engagement
- Self-paced eLearning courses for flexible education
- On-site training & consulting support tailored to your agency
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The KinnectU Learning Management System is where you’ll find information about our training courses, and where you can register and purchase access to them. After registering, you’ll also gain access to a variety of Kinnect resources, including best practices, white papers and implementation tips. You’ll also be able to track your training completions and access your training certificates.
EQUITY 101
Course Description
Equity 101 is the foundational course for anyone looking to understand the fundamental concepts and definitions of equity.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this training, learners will be able to:
- Recognize a set of terms, concepts, and definitions and develop a shared language for talking about equity
- Understand how these concepts are used in their own work and community
- Identify actionable ways to use the equity terms, concepts, and understandings in their work
Cost: $95
EQUITY 102
Course Description
Building on the concepts introduced in Equity 101, Equity 102 is a two-part live-virtual training designed to provide attendees with a deep understanding and practical application of equity terms and concepts.
Learning Objectives
Through this training, attendees will
- Apply key equity terms and concepts to a variety of example scenarios
- Practice engaging in difficult conversations, increasing comfort and skill level
- Reflect on their own identities and how those identities influence and impact their work
Cost: $95
Social Media Use in Child Welfare: Privacy, Protection, and Ethic in Engagement
Course Description
This is a half-day virtual instructor-led training offering focused on structuring social media usage to maintain privacy, both for the PCSA staff and for the families served.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this training, participants will be able to:
- Explore social media as a tool for FSE efforts
- Examine professional boundaries and ethical considerations around confidentiality and privacy
- Identify the attributes of a professional social media profile
Cost: $95
Unpacking the ‘No:’ Navigating Family Resistance
Course Description
This is a half-day virtual instructor-led that examines ambivalence and resistance from families impacted by child welfare.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this training, participants will be able to:
- Understand the importance of establishing trust and identify strategies to do so
- Define ambivalence and resistance from relatives and youth involved in child welfare
- Examine how these can impact the willingness to be involved and the desired role of involvement
Cost: $95
Engaging Fathers: Enhancing Family Connections
Course Description
This half-day virtual instructor-led training is centered around the engagement of non-custodial fathers and their paternal families.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this training, participants will be able to:
- Recognize the current limitations of child welfare engagement with the broader paternal family network
- Acknowledge the importance of searching for and engaging with fathers and the paternal side of the family
- Describe additional engagement identification strategies for legal, social, and alleged fathers and their families
Cost: $95
SEEK Training
Course Description
Search, Engage, Explore, and Kinnect (SEEK) - This one-day, in-person training experience introduces participants to our intense values-based family search and engagement (FSE) process.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this training, participants will be able to:
- Recognize how legislation supports keeping children connected to their family
- Explain how the core values of family search and engagement can be incorporated into practice
- Describe the difference between outcomes related to children with kinship caregivers versus those who grow up in foster care
Cost: $95
SOGIE 101
Course Description
Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Expression (SOGIE) 101 offers a virtual, half day of foundational information about gender identity and sexual orientation and the influence of affirmative caregiving.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this training, learners will be able to:
- Differentiate between basic definitions for sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression
- Discuss the impact of bias, myths, and misinformation on developing youth
- Recognize the impact of rejection and acceptance by family and/or community on young people with diverse SOGIE.
Cost: $95
SOGIE 102
Course Description
SOGIE 102 is an advanced course divided into two sessions, both of which are mandatory for full participation.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this experience, learners will be able to:
- Demonstrate proficiency around language, terms and definitions regarding servicing youth and families with diverse SOGIE.
- Develop the ability to recognize diverse SOGIE as a distinctive part of culture and diversity.
- Integrate knowledge and understanding that SOGIE is one part of one intersection within intersectionality; developing ways to implement this understanding in working with youth and families.
Cost: $95