EPAS Core Competencies: 2.1.1—Identify as a professional social worker and conduct oneself accordingly (cont’d) CalSWEC Foundation Competencies CalSWEC Advanced Competencies for Public Welfare CalSWEC Advanced Practice Indicators CF 1.g. Demonstrate capacity to perceive the diverse viewpoints of clients, community members, and others in cases of value conflict and the ability to resolve such conflicts by applying professional practice principles. CA 1.2. Applies ethical principles, codes of ethics and professional social work values skillfully in practice and in resolving ethical conflicts CP 1.3. Skillfully identify and apply ethical principles in making child welfare practice decisions and articulate their application in routine and challenging ethical contexts. CF 1.h. Demonstrate knowledge of ethical decision making methods and the capacity to apply these in practice, policy, advocacy and research. EPAS Core Competencies: 2.1.2— EPAS Core Competencies: 2.1.2 Apply social work ethical principles to guide professional practice CalSWEC Foundation Competencies CalSWEC Advanced Competencies for Public Child Welfare CalSWEC Advanced Practice Indicators CF 2.a. Demonstrate awareness of personal values and bias and manages such bias to engage in practice consistent with professional ethics and values. CA 2.1. Able to articulate the roles of a professional child welfare social worker and consistently demonstrate effective self-management, interpersonal interaction, service advocacy, and continuing professional development within those roles. CP 2.1. Skillfully identify and apply ethical principles in making child welfare practice decisions and articulate their application in routine and challenging ethical contexts.
EPAS Core Competencies: 2.1.4—Engage diversity and difference in practice CalSWEC Foundation Competencies CalSWEC Advanced Competencies for Public Child Welfare CalSWEC Advanced Practice Indicators CF 4.a. Demonstrate knowledge of historical, legal, socioeconomic, and psychological forms of oppression and the ability to develop culturally sensitive interventions within that understanding. CA 4.1. In providing effective child welfare practice, consistently demonstrate and articulate both accurate awareness of self and knowledge of societal variables contributing to power imbalances and interpersonal and intercultural conflict among individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities. CP 4.1. In child welfare practice, demonstrate both an acute awareness of historical and societal variables influencing interaction at the micro, mezzo, and macro levels and the consistent ability to work effectively with diverse individuals, families, and communities. CP 4.2. Consistently demonstrate the of learning from client systems and from diverse cultures, being informed by such differences, and applying the knowledge to child welfare practice. CF 4.b. Recognize how institutional racism and dynamics affect workplace culture and climate in practice. CF 4.c. Demonstrate self-awareness of bias, including knowledge of and capacity to manage power differences, when assessing and working with diverse populations. CF 4.d. Demonstrate ability to understand and communicate the effects of individual variation in the human developmental process and its importance to the shaping of life experiences within diverse groups. EPAS Core Competencies: 2.1.4—Engage diversity and difference in practice (cont’d)
EPAS Core Competencies: 2.1.5—Advance human rights and social and economic justice (cont’d) CalSWEC Foundation Competencies CalSWEC Advanced Competencies for Public Child Welfare CalSWEC Advanced Practice Indicators CF 5.c. Develop case planning strategies to address discrimination, barriers, gaps, and fragmentation that impede client access, functioning, and optimum use of resources and opportunities. EPAS Core Competencies: 2.1.6—Engage in research informed practice and practice informed research CalSWEC Foundation Competencies CalSWEC Advanced Competencies for Public Child Welfare CalSWEC Advanced Practice Indicators CF 6.a. Demonstrate a beginning capacity and skills to gather and synthesize practice evaluation findings, including client feedback, to support and increase the professional knowledge base. CA 6.1. Regularly assess and use research to guide child welfare practice, to evaluate child welfare practice, and to disseminate findings to improve child welfare practice. CP 6.1. Demonstrate skill in conducting child welfare literature reviews, in applying findings to practice, in program evaluation, and in knowledge dissemination. CF 6.b. Demonstrate knowledge of how to consult and utilize research evidence to inform ongoing practice and policy at all levels. EPAS Core Competencies: 2.1.7—Apply knowledge of human behavior to the social environment
CalSWEC Foundation Competencies CalSWEC Advanced Competencies for Public Child Welfare CalSWEC Advanced Practice Indicators CF 7.a. Demonstrate beginning ability to apply conceptual behavioral frameworks to social environments involved in assessment, intervention and evaluation. CA 7.1. Integrate knowledge and theory of behavior and the social environment from diverse perspectives to conduct reliable and valid assessments, comprehensive service plans, effective interventions, and meaningful evaluations in child welfare. CP 7.1. In evaluation of child welfare practice (engagement, assessment, planning, intervention, and evaluation), demonstrate the ability knowledgably to apply information about human behavior and the social environment from diverse perspectives. CF 7.b. Demonstrate beginning ability to gather and interpret behavioral knowledge in perceiving person and environment. EPAS Core Competencies: 2.1.8—Engage in policy practice to advance social & economic well -being and to deliver effective social services CalSWEC Foundation Competencies CalSWEC Advanced Competencies for Public Child Welfare CalSWEC Advanced Practice Indicators CF 8.a. Begin systematically to collect and analyze knowledge and experiences to identify, formulate, and advocate for policies that advance social and economic well-being. CA 8.1. Articulate knowledge of current agency, state, and federal child welfare policies and engages in effective development and implementation of ethical and effective child welfare practices and policies. CP 8.1. Demonstrate through policy practice interventions the knowledge of social work values, child welfare relevant policies (including those specific to cultural groups), and assessment of service effectiveness. EPAS Core Competencies: 2.1.8—Engage in policy practice to advance social & economic well -being and to deliver effective social services (cont’d)
CalSWEC Foundation Competencies CalSWEC Advanced Competencies for Public Welfare CalSWEC Advanced Practice Indicators CF 10(a).a. Demonstrate the knowledge base and affective readiness to intervene constructively with individuals and groups. CA 10(a).1. Demonstrate the ability to develop relationships and manage power differentials in routine and challenging client and partner situations, in a manner that reflects core social work values in child welfare practice. CP 10(a).1. Skillfully and respectfully establish working relationships with clients and community partners in accord with social work values, and utilize those relationships in forging goals and positive outcomes. CF 10(a).b. Demonstrate the capacity to exercise empathy and use of self in engagement and service delivery CF 10(a).c. Demonstrate the ability to work with individuals, families, and groups to identify and work towards accomplishment of shared goals. EPAS Core Competencies: 2.1.10(b)—Assessment CalSWEC Foundation Competencies CalSWEC Advanced Competencies for Public Welfare CalSWEC Advanced Practice Indicators
CF 10(b).a. Demonstrate ability to effectively engage with diverse individuals to gather, analyze, and interpret consumer/client information in a coherent, objective manner. CA 10(b).1. Consistently gather qualitative and quantitative data from a variety of sources, form coherent meaning from the data, and use the resulting information to make recommendations and to plan interventions that meet standards for child welfare social work practice. CP 10(b).1. Create service plans that demonstrate data collection and assessment methods reflecting goal mutuality and respect for clients from diverse backgrounds. CF 10(b).b. Demonstrate capacity to conduct a comprehensive, collaborative, unbiased assessment that follows and ethical guidelines and identifies strengths and needs, CF 10(b).c. Demonstrate ability to involve individuals, family members, and community service providers to develop coordinated intervention plans. CF 10(b).d. Demonstrate ability to critically determine the most appropriate intervention strategies to implement a plan. EPAS Core Competencies: 2.1.10(c)—Intervention
CalSWEC Foundation Competencies CalSWEC Advanced Competencies for Public Child Welfare CalSWEC Advanced Practice Indicators CF 10(c).a. Demonstrate beginning ability to initiate efforts consistent with service and organizational goals. CA 10(c).1. Comfortably move among the roles of a social worker in child welfare and intervene effectively in those roles, including enhancing client strengths, acting as a client advocate, and skillfully handling transitions and terminations. CP 10(c).1. Shape child welfare interventions that demonstrate effective balance of multiple social worker roles and phases of service that recognize client strengths and self- determination. CF 10(c).b. Demonstrate capacity to identify and utilize prevention measures that enhance individual clients’ strengths and protective factors. CF 10(c).c. Demonstrate capacity to identify and prioritize challenges and to foster solutions that call on clients’/consumers’ existing strengths. CF 10(c).d. Demonstrate capacity and skills to undertake the role of client advocate in negotiating for needed policies, resources and services. CF 10(c).e. Recognize the importance of understanding the transition and termination processes and demonstrate the capacity to sensitively terminate work. EPAS Core Competencies: 2.1.10(d)—Evaluation
CalSWEC Foundation Competencies CalSWEC Advanced Competencies for Public Child Welfare CalSWEC Advanced Practice Indicators CF 10(d).a. Demonstrate a beginning ability to systemically monitor, analyze and evaluate interventions, applying a knowledge-for-action approach to determine future action. CA 10(d).1. Consistently employ reliable and valid methods for monitoring and evaluating practice interventions and use the results to improve child welfare policy and practice. CP 10(d).1. Regularly engage in practice evaluation using reliable and valid methods, and apply the results to benefit child welfare clients.