Training
If you are interested in BACW’s Cultural Competence Training or Assessments, Other-Race Foster/Adoptive Training, or Human Services Management training
Please complete the form below. Simply choose the method that is most convenient.
Complete the online form and submit your membership payment via our secure server.
The Black Administrators in Child Welfare, Inc. has partnered with Thriving Families, Safer Children, in order to ensure that Black children are centered in the overall strategy. Specifically (as cited by the Children’s Bureau on their website), the “Children’s Bureau, Casey Family Programs, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, and Prevent Child Abuse America have joined with parents, youth, and community organizations in their new initiative called, Thriving Families, Safer Children: A National Commitment to Well-Being. The goal of this partnership, which spans the public, private, and philanthropic sectors, is to assist jurisdictions in creating a more just and equitable child and family well-being system that benefits all children and families and breaks harmful intergenerational cycles of trauma and poverty.”
Please download the Training form below, complete, and mail with your check or credit card information to
Black Administrators in Child Welfare 7625 Wisconsin Avenue, Suite 300 Bethesda, MD 20814
Please download the Training form, complete and fax with your credit card information to:
240.482.3599
Leadership Development Training
BACW’s new Leadership Development Program mentors, trains and prepares interested members for leadership roles within the child welfare area and helps place them in key positions throughout the country.
For more information, contact the BACW at (202) 783-3714, email:bacw@blackadministrators.org, or
Cultural Competence Curriculum
African American children and their families are in crisis in the child welfare system of the United States. The nation’s history of segregation, racial, and cultural bias, negative stereotypes, and exclusion of minorities poses a special challenge to view each child and family in a framework that encompasses the political, social, economic, cultural, and spiritual experience that shapes their identity and behavior.
In an effort to address this problem, BACW offers A Journey Towards Cultural Competence, a four-day training seminar that explores the dynamics of cultural diversity, including cross-cultural communication and encounters, your knowledge level of cultural diversity, and specific skills in cultural competence. The journey begins with the awareness and appreciation of diversity. It begins with each of us, as we work to make a difference.
These seminar are designed to be delivered to small groups of 15-25 employees and can be presented in its entirety or as separate modules, depending on your needs. To receive additional information, contact the BACW at (202) 783-3714, e-mail: bacw@blackadministrators.org, or
Human Services Management Seminar
This seminar is designed to provide beginning and mid-level staff with a practical framework for managing human service programs and agencies. Emphasis is placed on developing good management techniques, leadership development, team building, understanding budgets and building relationships. Technical and management consulting services are also provided to assist managers and other key staff in delivering and implementing efficient and effective management practices for delivering human services in public or private agencies and organizations. These areas include the following:
Long range or strategic plans
Program and policy analyses
Program development and evaluations
Community needs assessments
Information systems management for human service programs
Reorganization and restructuring of agency programs and services
Organizational development General consulting support with other ongoing management functions as determined
Services can be provided on a project-specific basis or through technical assistance provided to facilitate management in assessing the problems and making the appropriate changes. Special training can also include instructions for handling similar problems or issues that may develop in the future. Follow-up reviews and analysis can be provided to determine the extent to which the implemented changes have achieved the outcomes.
Fees: To be determined based upon the work to be performed. For more information, contact the BACW at (202) 783-3714, e-mail:bacw@blackadministrators.org, or
Other-Race Foster/Adoptive
Caregivers Training
The BACW is proud to offer a new, progressive, and comprehensive training and support seminar for Other-Race, Foster/Adoptive Caregivers of African American Children in the Child Welfare System. The training was created in response to the significant increase of children of color in foster and adoptive placements with caregivers of different racial or cultural backgrounds. This training seminar addresses some of the issues and challenges that inevitably arise in these placements.
Training topics include:
Conflict management between foster/adoptive parent, biological family, and workers
The importance of family connections for black children
Child welfare laws including MEPA, IEPA
Standards for raising other people’s children
Birth connections; the importance of foster/adoptive parents working with birth parents
The elephant in the living room, race, and the importance of open communication
Survival skills for black children and teens Black identify development, black pride and self-esteem
Self protective mechanisms in society
Black hair and skin care Is love enough?
Is love enough? Black children being raised by other-race parents
Cultural bonding and community connections
Cross-cultural communication and conflict Differential physical/psychosocial development of black children
Raising black male children
To receive additional information about this training, complete our secure online training form. BACW also offers Cultural Competence Training, a comprehensive Cultural Competence Assessment of your agency, Human Services Management and Leadership Development.
Fees: To be determined based upon the work to be performed. For more information, contact the BACW at (202) 783-3714, e-mail:bacw@blackadministrators.org, or
RESA
Black Administrators of Child Welfare’s (BACW) Racial Equity Strategy Areas (RESA) were first published in 2011 to provide guidance to promote equity for Black/African American children and families. It has been ten years since the initial launch of the RESA, and there is more recognition of disproportionality and disparities that Black/African Americans face in child welfare and related systems.
Thriving Families
We will be releasing major updates on Thriving Families in the coming weeks. Stay tuned for more information shortly.
Episode 61: Thriving Families, Safer Children - A National Commitment to Well-Being, Part 1
Contact Us
Black Administrators in Child Welfare
7625 Wisconsin Avenue
Suite 300
Bethesda, MD 20814