The Social Work Lens

Just like aviation, healthcare, and the nuclear industry, Child Welfare is a safety critical industry. High stakes, high consequence decisions are made by child welfare workers and caregivers everyday. Although we may not think about child welfare workers and caregivers in the same way we think about pilots, surgeons, and nuclear technicians, we should!

Join Pete Cudney and Cassie Gillespie from VT-CWTP as they interview Dr. Michael Cull from the University of Kentucky’s Center for Innovation in Population Health about his work adapting safety culture, a strategy used in other safety critical industries, to child welfare systems in general, and the VT child welfare system in particular.

Visit our website for show notes & resources: https://vermontcwtp.org/field-podcast/

Laura van Dernoot Lipsky is the founder and director of The Trauma Stewardship Institute and author of Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others, and The Age of Overwhelm. Widely recognized as a pioneer in the field of trauma exposure, she has worked nationally, and internationally for more than three decades.

Join Cassie Gillespie from VT-CWTP as she speaks with Laura about Trauma Stewardship and Trauma Exposure Response, specifically as it pertains to child welfare workers and caregivers.

Visit our website for show notes & resources: https://vermontcwtp.org/field-podcast/

Season 2 is coming... Listen for a sneak peek!

We are delighted to end our first season with our last caregiver spotlight episode! 

Join Sharon O’Neill and Janine Beaudry from the Vermont Child Welfare Training Partnership as they talk about Grief & Loss as it relates to kin, foster and adoptive families with Michelle Colburn, FSD Resource Coordinator.

We are delighted to share our first caregiver spotlight episode! This episode will focus on looking at Trauma and Self-Care through a caregiver lens.

Join Janine Beaudry and Sharon O’Neill from the Vermont Child Welfare Training Partnership as they talk with Cathy Frost-Brooks, adoptive parent, trainer, and FSD Resource Coordinator about taking care of yourself and your children, who have been impacted by trauma, through the years.

Join Kate Cunningham & Cassie Gillespie from VT-CWTP as they talk about Professional Dangerousness & Safety Culture in child welfare work.

Dr. James Metz and Tracey Wagner, Forensic RN  from the University of Vermont's Child Safe Program talk with Cassie Gillespie about Medical Child Abuse, formerly known as Munchausen syndrome by proxy.

Aron Steward PhD., Chief of Psychology for UVM Health Network’s Champlain Valley Physician’s Hospital talks with Tabitha Moore of CWTP about utilizing a Harm Reduction Approach in Child Welfare.

Dr. James Metz and Tracey Wagner, Forensic RN  from the University of Vermont's Child Safe Program talk with Cassie Gillespie about sentinel injures on children and TEN-4.

In today's digital landscape, rates of sexting and pornography use are on the rise amongst teenagers.  Join Cassie Gillespie & Pete Cudney from VT-CWTP as they talk with Su Robinson, LICSW about the prevalence, best practices and dangers associated with sexting and porn.