CCFL’s training team delivers comprehensive New Worker Training to Child and Family Services (CFS) Specialists and Nebraska Tribal staff. CCFL’s multidisciplinary team invites input from CFS trainees, experienced workers, supervisors, administrators, and families with lived experience, which helps to expand perspectives and grounds training curricula in genuine practice. Research suggests that workers and families are experiencing increased stress. Raising mental and physical well-being awareness, education, and support is crucial to staff retention. When CFS staff feel empowered in self-care, they become better equipped to support child and family well-being.
TEAM: Anna Christy, Mitchell Hesseltine, Amy Peters, Tari Miller, Michael Rumbaugh, Audine Oehm, Mindy Liebelt, Mark Ells, Chad Gressley, Amelia Feit, Paulette Sombke-Hansen, Teri Bougger, Charlotte Lewis, Cheryl Turner, Eve Brank, Angela Gebhardt, Sarah Melichar, Rachel Kloke, Jessica Cook, Shelly Johnson, Joyce Starke, Laura Cable, Angie Graham, Leslie Schlecht, Krista Roebke, Barb Sturgis, Bob Hock, Jill Knox, Megan Paul, Rebecca Wilson, Cody Struss, Kathy Olson, Sarah Mundil, Melissa Mager, Maureen Chavez, Allison Jones, Kristin Adkins, Alissa Bankson, John Turner, Shelly Egge, Christine Henningsen, not pictured: Kenya Faith, Justine Fiscus, Sara Ibrahim, Hicham Mahir, Wendy Kahland, Laurie Voelker, Cheryl Yoder
COLLABORATIVE PARTNER: Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services—Division of Children and Family Services
"By hearing, respecting, and honestly addressing the needs of workers, we remain true to our mission to help the helpers and improve the lives of children and families." - Shelly Johnson, Training Administrator
NEW WORKER TRAINING HAS:
19 courses with mental and physical well-being resources for workers and families