Strengths-Based Family Workers Credential (2023-2026)
Our Strengths-based Family Worker Credential educates workers on the value of using strengths-based language and skills to assist them to build trusting relationships. Our curriculum covers relevant and challenging topics that prove invaluable to workers like nonverbal communication, culture and organizational culture, assessment and measuring progress, family goal plans, the importance of self-care, problem-solving, referrals, ethics, boundaries, confidentiality, and other critical topics.
- Type Validation
- Level Foundational
- Time Months
- Cost Paid
Skills
- Assessments
- Collaboration
- Conflict Resolution
- Cultural Understanding
- Ethical Standards And Conduct
- Evidence-based practices
- Family Goal plans
- Home Visits
- Measuring Progress transitions
- Motivational Interviewing Techniques
- Professionalism
- Referrals
- Safety
- Self-care
- SMART Goals
- Sociological model
- Stage of change
- Strengths-based Communication
- Stress Management
- Systems Thinking
- Trauma-informed Care
Earning Criteria
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Complete 12 hours of Foundations of Strength-based practice. This course meets virtually via instructor-led Zoom sessions for four consecutive weeks and utilizes breakout rooms to allow for small group and partner interaction. Each Zoom session is three hours long. Pre-course work and post-course discussion takes place in Temple Harrisburg's online learning management system, Canvas.
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Complete 6 Core Content courses (44 hours) designed to reflect current, evidence-based content and practices that help professionals practice effectively in today’s environment. These newly improved content courses originated from the original SFW curriculum and through research and feedback from those in the field we have added and improved the content into the new design.
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Complete 21 hours of a SFW Practicum. The SFW Practicum course provides a highly interactive and supportive online community for professionals to demonstrate and enhance their strengths-based knowledge and skills. This practicum course is designed to give supervised and supported practical application of the previous coursework. This seven-week online course consists of weekly assignments, group discussions, and feedback from the instructor.
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Pass a National SFW Credential exam. The exam covers the knowledge and content learned throughout the 7 prerequisite courses. A score of 80% or higher on the exam must be obtained before access to the practicum is provided.