TXICFW believes that professionals who have the proper support and tools are the most successful at helping children and their families thrive. That’s why we are committed to providing opportunities for professionals to expand their skills and create a space where children, parents, families, practitioners, non-profits and organizations can feel supported and are provided with high quality instruction that they can be incorporated into the workplace tomorrow. Our conference and workshops are interactive, skills-based trainings that aim to be accessible and applicable to their intended audience but also larger communities. Check out our Current Training & Professional Development Opportunities:
Introducing “Coffee Breaks with TXICFW!” Coffee Breaks is a professional development series for those who work with children and families. It’s an opportunity to receive FREE Continuing Education Credits while talking with experts and leaders in the field on Facebook Live. Each Coffee Break is 30 minutes and is hosted by one of our staff… Read more »
Welcome to Clinician’s Corner! This is a learning space where social work researchers and practitioners can exchange resources and knowledge to the increase successful usability of research findings in the social work field. The project culminates in an annual Clinician’s Corner digest that will be published on the TXICFW.socialwork.utexas.edu website. The content for the digest will be… Read more »
The UT School of Social Work’s Texas Institute for Child and Family Wellbeing and St. Edward’s University are developing a Social Work Detention Response Teams in response to recent waves of migrants seeking asylum, particularly from ‘Northern Triangle’ countries of Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador. Given that Texas has a large number of immigration detention… Read more »
Our general approach to adolescent sexual health alienates and shames youth who have experienced sexual violence. By focusing solely on risk and prevention, sex education programs and youth-serving professionals generally fail to engage youth in necessary conversations about their power, choice and consent. This workshop is available will provide guidance to youth-serving professionals so they can have brave conversations… Read more »
Join us for our Psychoanalytic Lunch & Learns! Introduction David Howe, a world-renowned researcher in attachment and foster children, has stated (2006) that the most effective and impactful way to help foster children is to “work with and through” the foster parents themselves (p.129). One of the ways to significantly impact the mental health and… Read more »
Experiences that can cause trauma in childhood are common across populations. The most significant way to impact how children experience trauma is to support caregiver behaviors that reduce exposure and build resilience. Social workers and other practitioners may recognize when a parent’s past traumatic experiences are connected to their current behaviors but can feel ill… Read more »
When is it the right time to start the conversation about sex? What is developmentally appropriate to share at what ages? This session will offer participants valuable resources and skill-building around talking with children of all ages about sexuality. Building upon psychosocial, moral, cognitive, and spiritual development theories, participants will explore age-appropriate messaging about topics… Read more »
CWEC is a partnership between the School of Social Work at The University of Texas at Austin and the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services Child Protective Services (CPS) that links social work education and public child welfare. CWEC is funded by the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, federal title IV-E, and cost… Read more »
2017 Call for Presenters now open! The UT Child Welfare Conference seeks to unite research & practice and promote resilience in children and families. The Texas Institute for Child & Family Wellbeing (TXICFW) has been able to this free high quality continuing education opportunity for local professionals, students, advocates and researchers interested in child welfare the past few years. … Read more »
By Kate McKerlie 135 social workers, case managers, CASA volunteers, probation officers, and other child welfare advocates attended our 4th Annual Child Welfare Conference at Thompson Conference Center at the UT Austin Campus on November 16th, 2016. Each year TXICFW provides this professional development opportunity to give practitioners, researchers and advocates a chance to network and… Read more »
The Healthy Youth Partnership (“HYP”) is a volunteer-led collaboration working to support youth-serving professionals in the Central Texas community. Through the Mobilization for Health: National Prevention Partnership Award, HYP increased the capacity of the Central Texas community to provide evidence-based sexual health programs to youth through two mechanisms: 1) direct programming to youth to support… Read more »