From: CWLA Member Exclusives
Subject: Walker Trieschman Center

CWLA's Walker Trieschman Center (WTC) is a nationally recognized resource for high-quality professional development services and products. If you're not already familiar with this valuable professional development resource, we encourage you to find out more. WTC provides a number of services and activities for members including:

• Comprehensive professional development programs for the child welfare field, including CEOs, board members, managers and practitioners, professionals, foster parents, and other care givers.
  
  
• Program offerings such as retreats and seminars, a new teleconference series, training for both public and private agency supervisors and workers new to the field, as well as "train the trainer" programs so you can develop your own staff and volunteers.
  
  
• Two national conferences: Finding Better Ways (May, 2003) and Tools that Work (November, 2003).
  
  
• Technical assistance to help agencies to improve staff performance.
  
  
• A wealth of resource materials and curricula covering a broad range of child welfare services, such as:
  • The PRIDE Program for the recruitment, preparation, and selection of foster parents and adoptive parents;
    
    
  • A Tradition of Caring, for kinship caregivers; and several programs for supervisors and direct care professionals.
    
    
  • The training component of CWLA's Best Practices in Behavior Management initiative.
    
    
• CWLA's Workforce Development initiative to improve staff recruitment and retention efforts, aid with referrals, and promote legislative and regulatory policies that strengthen the child welfare workforce.