To meet state licensing requirements and guarantee your preparedness for employment, it's essential to complete the trainings outlined below. 

New Employee Training

You will receive an email letting you know that you are now enrolled in Gladney University's Learning Management System (LMS). All of the trainings below have been added to your account.  If you've completed any of these trainings elsewhere, provide a copy of the current certificate for consideration of waiver.   If you did not receive an email from Gladney University or you have questions about using the LMS, please email Nancy Robbins.

Orientation - Prior to Job Duties
1. Overview of Minimum Standards - Schedule with Kristen Slomka

(IL ONLY): Illinois Mandated Reporter Training (dcfstraining.org) 

(NJ ONLY) NJ Minimum Standards: 

(NJ ONLY) Understanding How to Identify & Report Child Abuse & Neglect

(NJ ONLY) Social Workers: Identifying and Responding to Victims of Human Trafficking in a Clinical Setting

(PA ONLY) Recognizing and Reporting Child Abuse: Mandated and Permissive Reporting in Pennsylvania Online Training

(PA ONLY) Supporting Children and Families


2. Philosophy Structure, Policies, Services, Programs
3. Needs/Characteristics of Children

Note: For 2026, staff are capped at 24 training hours annually  (unless it is their 1st year, as they will have more than 24 to start). You may take additional training annually, but Gladney will only cover up to 24 hours of training per year. If the training has a cost, it needs to be approved by the manager. State requirements: 
 
TX-20
NY/NJ-8
PA- 40/20
IL-30 (every 2 years)
DE-24
FL-20
NC-24
MO-20
 

Preservice - Within 90 Days

1. NCFA LMS - Best Practices in Home Study Assessment
2. SAFE Home Studies Training
3. Shadow 2 Home Studies
4. (NB Studies) Normalcy Training for Foster Parents
5. (NB Studies) EBI (Pathways) - 8 hours Register if in the Fort Worth area. If you are not local, please email Nancy Robbins to request the Virtual Pathways Training via Gladney University's LMS. 
6. (NB Studies) Mandatory Reporting: A Community Response Guide
7. CPR/First Aid
8. Cybersecurity Awareness Training Module 1 & Module 2
 
9. Suicide Prevention:
10. Hague Training 

11. Trauma (4 hours)

  • Trauma-Informed Care Training (2 hours)
  • Your choice for the remaining 2 hours:
    • Healing Attachment Wounds with EMDR (1.5 hours)
    • Managing Silent Symptoms of Secondary Trauma (1 hour)
    • Trauma Informed Care: Picky Eaters and Challenging Mealtime Behaviors (1 hour)
    • Trauma Informed Care: What Can We Do? (1.5 hours)
    • Trauma Informed Care: What is Trauma and How Does it Impact Us? (1.5 hours)

12. (NB Studies) Psychotropic Medication
13. (NB Studies) Runaway Prevention Training
14. (NB Studies) Preventing and Recognizing Youth Sexual Abuse
15. (NB Studies) Medical Consent (DFPS

16. (NB Studies) Communicable Diseases

17. (NB Studies) Emergency Preparedness

18. (NB Studies) Infant Care - Safe Sleep, Shaken Baby, Early Child Development

19. Cultural Competency (3 hours)

  • Turning the Mirror Inward(2.5 hours) *
  • Embracing the Heart, Mind, & Spirit of the Transracial Adoptee (.75 hours)
  • Building Confidence in your African American Child (.75 hour) 

20. Human Trafficking (2 hours)

  • HEART Human Trafficking Training for Health Care Practitioners (1.5 hour) 
  • Be the One (video at bottom right corner)
  • Tragedy to Triumph
  • Identifying and Responding to Victims of Human Trafficking in a Clinical Setting

21. Positive Adoption Language

22. Preparing Your Children for Older Adopted Siblings Introduction  

Thank you for your commitment to Gladney's standards and practices.