ISS-USA offers a wide range of training options that can be modified for your social work or legal staff’s particular needs.
Increasing Knowledge, Advancing Permanency
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.
ISS-USA suggests limiting trainings to 75 participants or less.
• 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
To schedule a training for your staff, please contact:
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