The web Browser you are currently using is unsupported, and some features of this site may not work as intended. Please update to a modern browser such as Chrome, Firefox or Edge to experience all features Michigan.gov has to offer.
New Supervisor Institute
Welcome to the resource page for the Child welfare portion of the New Supervisor Institute. On this page, you will find documents to support the training for new child welfare supervisors.
NSI Structure
- Week 1: Child Welfare Topics
- Week 2: Child Welfare Program Specific Training (Adoption, Children's Protective Services, Foster Care, and Licensing)
- Week 3: Leadership Topics -- Webinars (for MDHHS Supervisors Only)
- Week 4: Leadership Topics -- Classroom (for MDHHS Supervisors Only)
For registration questions, contact MDHHS-NewSupervisorInstitute@michigan.gov. MDHHS Supervisors seeking information regarding weeks 3 and 4 of the New Supervisor Institute should visit the Leadership Topics page.
Adoption
- Adoption Checklist
- Adoption Checklist Paperwork
- Adoption Flow Chart
- Adoption Performance Specification Sheet
- Adoption Placement Activity
- Adoption Projection Activity
- Adoption Supervisor Day 1 Quiz
- Adoption Supervisor Day 2 Quiz
- Assessment Awesomeness - supervisor version June 2017
- Assignment of Adoption Subsidy Cases & Changes to the Adoption Process Flow MiSACWIS Job Aid
- CAA Checklist
- CI 16-158 Revised Child Welfare Staff Qualifications FY 17
- Child Adoption Assessment - Annabel Thompson
- DHS-0602
- DHS-3600
- Disruption Plan
- Know Your Standards of Promptness
- Managing Financial Expectations
- Multiple Transitions Video - questions
- Policy Pros Exercise
- Policy Questions
- Working with the MDHHS Adoption Contract
Children's Protective Services
1 Foundations of CPS Practice
- CSA Mission and Principles
- Modified ISEP Supervisor DOW Checklist
- Stipulated Order Amending MISEP 3.2024
2 Structured Decision-Making for Supervisors
- Case Conference Tool – Safety Planning
- Parental Capacity Assessment
- Identifying and Mitigating Implicit Bias
- Buzzwords Activity
3 Supervising Investigations
- Coaching Worksheet
- SCP 2.2 Specialist Checklist
- Dispositional Findings Worksheet
- ISP Approval Checklist 2024
- SCP Version 2.4
4 Supervising Ongoing Cases
5 Reaching Out
- Reasonable Efforts – Child Welfare Information Gateway
- Reasonable Efforts to Avoid Out of Home Placement
- Case Conference Tool – Reasonable Efforts
- Transfer to Foster Care Checklist
6 Assessing Staff Performance
7 Supervisor Strategies
- Continuous Staff Development Activities and websites
- 5 Questions for Successful Teams
- How to Practice Loving Kindness Meditation
- Psychological Safety is the Key to Inclusion
CPS Week 2 Activity Log and Post-Training Assignments
- Week 2 Activity Log - CPS
- MiTEAM Assignment
- Fidelity Tool Training Assignment
- 20+ Questions to Get You Started
Child Welfare Topics
1 Time Management for Child Welfare Supervisors
2 Creating Office Culture
- Office Culture note pages
- Questions about Psychological Safety Answered
- Google ad Psychological Safety
- Spectrum of Reasons for Failure
- High Performing Teams Need Psychological Safety
- Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace
- Strategies for Learning from Failure
- Supervisor Self-Assessment
- CTAC CC-STS Self-Report Survey
- Self-Care Assessment Worksheet
- Self-Care Guide Test Resources
- Learning Style Inventory and Assessment
- Learning Style Inventory
- Learning Style Questionnaire
- Workplace Stress Survey
- Workplace Values Assessment
- Using the Secondary Traumatic Stress Core Competencies in Trauma Informed Supervision
- Psychological First Aid Field Operations Guide
3 Trauma-Informed Supervision
4 Data-Driven Decision-Making
5 Assessing Staff for Performance
6 Continuum of Care
7 Onboarding and Support of New Workers
- Creating An Onboarding Process - Silk Road
- Getting To Know Me
- New Hire Checklist
- Onboarding and Support of New Staff note pages
- Onboarding In A Box - Linked In
- Workbook 5 The First Six Months
8 Creating Support Plans
- Creating Support Plans note pages
- Seven Job Factors
- Supervision of CPS Workers
- Supervisor Combined Guidebook Appendix Webfile
9 Office of Family Advocate
10 ICWA-MIFPA for Supervisors
11 MiTEAM Fidelity Tool Training
Foster Care
1 NSI Introduction PowerPoint
2 NSI Policy Resource Manuals PowerPoint
3 NSI Collaboration PowerPoint
4 NSI CPS to FC PowerPoint
- Transfer Job Aids
- Placement Replacement PowerPoint
5 NSI Case Assignment PowerPoint
- CSA 12-166
- FC Caseload Ratios
- Improperly Assigned Field Worker Guide
- Reference Guide
- Worker Transfer Checklist
6 NSI DOC Case Payments PowerPoint
7 SDM Overview PowerPoint
- Job Aids ISP
- YAVFC Job Aids
- Job Aids USP
8 NSI ISEP PowerPoint
9 NSI Monitoring Compliance PowerPoint
- Job Aids
- FC Intake Log
- FC Supervisory 35 Worksheet - Individual Conference with Your Supervisor
- Setting Up Preferences for BOB
- Sup Trainee Binder General Unit Meetings
10 NSI Workload Organization for Supervisors PowerPoint
- Foster Care Supervisor Daily-Weekly-Monthly Tasks Job Aid
- Foster Care Supervisor Quarterly Tasks Job Aid