409-G - Training of child welfare personnel.

§  409-g.    Training  of child welfare personnel.  Within the amounts  appropriated therefor, including all federal reimbursement  received  or  to  be  received  on  account  thereof, the department shall develop and  implement a plan for  the training of social services district and other  authorized agency  personnel,  including  caseworkers  involved  in  the  provision  or  supervision  of preventive services, foster care services  and adoption services.   Such training shall include  but  need  not  be  limited to:    1.  Permanence casework:  casework methodologies focused on activities  designed to prevent placement in foster care or to shorten the length of  stay  in  care  for those children who can be returned home or freed for  adoption;    2.  Development of skills to facilitate rehabilitation or  restoration  of the family unit;    3.    Development  of knowledge and skills in legally freeing children  for adoption and providing adoption services;    4.  Development of knowledge and skills to prepare for court processes  necessary in foster care and adoption; and    5.   Development of case  management  skills  including  planning  for  permanence for each child.