Increasing Knowledge, Advancing Permanency
ISS-USA offers a wide range of training options that can be modified for your social work or legal staff’s particular needs. All trainings include a customization of curriculum for each jurisdiction and a participant guide that contains all PowerPoint presentations, copies of all ISS-USA forms, suggested readings and activities to improve case practice.
Preview ISS-USA custom training example below:
Social Work Trainings:
- International family finding and engagement
- Document tracings
- International home studies for visitation and/or custody
- Post-placement monitoring and reporting
- Child welfare checks in foreign countries
- Protective Service Alerts in foreign countries
- Utilizing technology to include family in permanency planning
- Travel assistance for social workers travelling to place a child
- Causes and factors of the separation of families across borders
- Developing policy and best practice for your agency on international child welfare issues
Legal and Judicial Trainings:
- Relevant state, federal, and international laws on family finding, family notification and family engagement
- Serving legal notices overseas
- Permanency planning across international borders
- How to obtain international home studies for visitation and/or custody
- Post-placement monitoring and reporting
- Your role under the various Hague Conventions
- Utilizing technology to include family in hearings, depositions, or other legal proceedings
- Judicial cooperation across international borders
Schedule Training
Please email Elaine Weisman at [email protected]