CHILD WELFARE ACADEMY
The Child Welfare Academy (CWA) provides training and technical assistance to the State of Alaska, Office of Children's Services. CWA also contracts with other organizations, as requested, to provide a variety of training and facilitation needs in the area of child welfare.
The Family & Youth Services Training Academy (FYSTA) began in 1998 through the initiative of Alaska's Governor Tony Knowles and Department of Health and Social Services Commissioner Karen Perdue. Wanting to create a training center for child protection workers in Alaska, a partnership between the 快盈v3, School of Social Work and the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services was established. The Academy receives its funding through a combination of state, university, and matching Federal Title IV-E funds earmarked to improve child welfare services through training.
In 2011, Family and Youth Services Training Academy (FYSTA) became the Child Welfare Academy (CWA). The new name represented the agency's commitment to new innovations including training, curriculum and expanded partnerships.
This CWA web page is intended to serve several functions: to let you know who we are, how we're doing, when we offer classroom training and how to access additional training. There is never enough time or resources for classroom training, therefore, we offer many topics and methods to augment your knowledge, skills and development. On the right side of this page you will see a menu of options. The "Training Calendar" shows the dates of SKILS, Supervisor, and SSA core training, along with the online registration form. Courses lists our regularly scheduled classes, their descriptions and access to the course agenda by clicking on the course name.
Next are a series of learning opportunities - micro-learning, webinars, podcasts, and available online courses. The rest of the links on the right are resource pages specific to special topics relating to child welfare. Additionally, we have included the bi-annual reports we compile for the Office of Children's Services, information about Staff Members, and how to contact us. Please let us know how we can make the CWA website more helpful, it's all about staff development!
The Child Welfare Academy mission: 鈥淓mpowering communities to promote child well-being.鈥�
Core Values
Respect: We respect and honor all peoples' dignity with compassion.
Trauma Informed: Our curricula and training is trauma informed.
Excellence: Through research, collaboration, adaptability and creativity.
Our strategic plan is to be the 鈥済o to鈥� agency for any professional from any discipline who shares the Office of Children鈥檚 Services vision of 鈥淪afe Children, Strong Families.鈥� Our curricular array offers a broad spectrum of trainings. We emphasize family centered practice to encourage collaboration with families, tribes, communities, or any professional who share the responsibility of keeping children safe and families strong in Alaska.
NEWS & Stories
MSW student Keyshon China is dedicated to serving youth and underserved communities, gaining hands-on experience through 快盈v3's School of Social Work and various extracurricular organizations.
Ever since she was six years old, Panikaa Teeple, B.S.W. Social Work 鈥�21, knew that spreading love was her life鈥檚 purpose. Next year, Teeple will have the opportunity to spread love internationally as 快盈v3鈥檚 latest recipient of the Fulbright U.S. Student Program grant, which provides students in more than 140 countries the opportunity to pursue graduate study and research abroad.
快盈v3 alumna and associate professor Holly Martinson hopes the new Biomed U-RISE program "lights a fire" in Alaska's research community by empowering undergraduate students with lab experience, mentorship and financial assistance. Martinson and co-PI, Professor Tracey Burke, welcomed the first cohort this academic year and will soon open applications for cohort two.
Co-principal investigators Tracey Burke, Ph.D., professor in the School of Social Work, and Holly Martinson, Ph.D., associate professor in the WWAMI School of Medical Education, hope the program empowers more Alaskans to pursue an advanced biomedical, research-focused degree and contribute to the research community.
Alaska is tied for the highest number of female veterans in the United States, but many of them do not use services through the VA in Alaska. Alaska鈥檚 News Source spoke to 快盈v3 Assistant Professor and veteran, Vanessa Meade, about potential obstacles related to the issue.
Contact Us:
Phone: (907) 786-6720
Email: uaa.cwa@alaska.edu
Bragaw Building
1901 Bragaw Street, Suite 105
Anchorage, AK 99508
