Learning From the UK: Informational Session
- Instructor:
- Caroline Long, LCSW-C, PhD
- Duration:
- 1 Hour
Description
Best Practices in Child Welfare: Learning from the UK
Travel to London, England to learn about best practices in UK child welfare, along with the history and development of UK child welfare services. Participants will hear from UK child welfare leaders and experienced practitioners about child protection, foster care, and adoption policies and systems. With support from UMSSW faculty Emerita, Caroline Long, PhD, participants will have opportunities to compare US and UK policies and systems in order to bring lessons learned back to the US. The experience includes site visits to child welfare agencies, along with visits to two sites of historical importance in the development of child welfare services: the Foundling Museum and the Dickens Museum.
This informational session is designed to answer any questions you may have in preparation for the trip!
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Instructor
Caroline Long, LCSW-C, PhD Related Seminars and Products
Caroline Long, LCSW-C, PhD, Associate Professor, University of Maryland School of Social Work and Gisele Ferretto, MSW, LCSW-C, Clinical Instructor, University of Maryland School of Social Work
Learning Objectives
During this Global Learning Week in London (May 2024), participants will be able to:
- Understand the social care system in the UK, the diversity and sensitivity of care situations, and the wide variety of UK care services including their interconnection.
- Know the history of child welfare services in the UK and how this history has informed U.S. practice.
- Demonstrate systematic knowledge and a critical understandig of key aspects of the application of child protection, family-based services, foster care, and adoption in the UK.
- Know how UK practice empowers service users in child welfare programs as a model strengths-based prespectives.
- Be able to apply their learning about child welfare in the UK to their own practice.
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Agenda
Agenda for Global Learning in London (May 2024)
Each day (except Tuesday) has time built in for you to explore London on your own. Please note that you will only receive CEUs for the workshops that you attend. Travel to the workshop locations is your responsibility. We will meet as a group at a designated location and time to travel together for each workshop; however, it is your responsibility to be present if you would like to travel with the group. The time below does not include travel time. You must be willing and able to ride on the London Underground (subway). If you decide to bring a guest, your guest will not be permitted to attend the workshops.
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Date |
What/Where (tenative) |
Time |
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Sunday, May 19, 2024 |
Arrival (You are welcome to arrive in London earlier on your own. The included hotel nights begin of the 19th.) Mandatory Group Dinner and Overview of the Program |
6pm |
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Monday, May 20, 2024 |
Morning Session |
8:30-12:15 |
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Tuesday, May 21, 2024 |
Full Day of Training |
8:30 - 5:30 |
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Wednesday, May 22, 2024 |
Morning Session |
8:30 - 12:15 |
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Thursday, May 23, 2024 |
Afternoon Session |
1:00 - 4:45 |
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Friday, May 24, 2024 |
Morning Session |
8:30 -1:45 |
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Saturday, May 25, 2024 |
Group Breakfast Departure (You are welcome to stay in London on your own. The included hotel nights end on the 24th) |
8:00 a.m. |