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College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Center for Family and Community Engagement

CPS In-Home Child Welfare Services

CPS In-Home Child Welfare Services is a four-day specialized curriculum focusing on the skills, beliefs and competencies that are necessary to achieve successful outcomes with families and children. This training is interactive and includes numerous opportunities for skill practice.

Topics covered include the role of the case manager, relationships as a foundation for practice, identifying and building on strengths, family centered casework, meeting with resistance, policy for In-Home Services provision, reassessment decision- making tools, child and family teams, monitoring the case, case closure/transition, and case documentation.

The highlight of this curriculum is learning skills from each other. On day four, participants
share skills, techniques, tools and ideas used in their work with families. From this experience, participants acquire a set of tangible tools to add to their repertoire.

Prerequisite: Child Welfare in North Carolina or completion of other required pre-service training based on date of employment and functional responsibilities (for NCDSS Child Welfare Staff).

Open to: This course is open to child welfare social workers and supervisors employed in a NC County Department of Social Services (DSS) in the areas of CPS Intake, CPS Assessments, CPS Occasional On-Call, CPS In-Home Services and Child Placement including LINKS, Foster Home Licensing, or Adoptions.

Required For:

  • New child welfare social workers and supervisors hired to perform or supervise In-Home Services function in a County DSS.
    • *Course should be taken within the first year of employment.
  • DSS child welfare workers and supervisors who assume the new function of In-Home Services within their agency or a new agency.
    • *Course should be taken within 3 months of assuming the new responsibility.

Contact Hours: 24 contact hours. This training can be credited toward the required 18/39 hours of additional training within the first year or the 24 hour continuing education requirement.

If you have any questions about the appropriateness of this course in relation to your job responsibilities, please contact NC DSS Child Welfare Services, Staff Development Team.

  • Address: 820 S. Boylan Avenue, MSC 2412, Raleigh, NC 27699-2412
  • Phone: 919-527-6364