Course Benefits

What You Will Learn
  • What qualifies as a licensing inquiry and/or investigation?
  • What the process looks like for licensing inquiries
  • What does the process look like for investigations

What You Will Get
  • Preemptive strategies that can be taken to avoid a licensing inquiry or investigation
  • Practical tips to helps
  • Ideas and examples to of how to react/respond to a licensing inquiry and/or investigation

Course Curriculum

    1. Welome and definitions

      FREE PREVIEW

    2. How are you feeling?

    1. What About You?

    2. Preventitive - Shared parenting

    3. Why?

    4. Other ways to be preventative

    1. What is an incident and how to respond to it?

    2. Proactive - Communication

    3. Advice from the Field

    4. Process questions

    1. The Details for Inquiries and Investigations

    2. What are the differences?

    3. What is an accusation?

    1. Final Thoughts

    2. Final Assessment

    3. End of Course Evaluation

About this course

  • $12.00
  • 16 lessons
  • 0.5 hours of video content

Meet Your Instructor

Shelly Utzke, MAM

Statewide Director of Foster Care and DCS Adoptions

Before becoming the Statewide Director of Foster Care, Shelly served as a Foster Family Specialist, Coordinator, Supervisor, and then the Program Manager at Christian Family Care. Before her employment with CFC, she spent 14 years at A New Leaf serving youth and families. Shelly and her husband fostered children for 25 years and have adopted two children. Shelly earned her associate’s in Early Childhood Development, a bachelor’s in Psychology, and is close to completing her Master’s in Management.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Why should I take this course?

    This course is for parents and caregivers who are concerned and have questions about either the possibility of an investigation or are in the middle of an investigation currently

  • Will I receive a certificate of completion for the course?

    Yes! Every course comes with a certificate of completion that has been approved by the Arizona Department of Child Safety when the last lesson is reached. This certificate will have the learner's name, the title of the course, the credit hours, and the date of completion.

  • Can I watch the courses together with my spouse or do we each have to have our own log in?

    Just like our in-person courses, the pricing is based per participant. Each purchase should be logged under an individual’s name, and only that name will be tied to the proof of participation.

  • What is the format of the course content?

    Each of the courses are made up of a variety of modules with lessons within each. These lessons are made up of short videos to watch. Learners must complete the video before they can advance to the next lesson. There is also a variety of “process questions” throughout each lesson to help learners apply lessons from the videos. Each learner must also complete a final assessment quiz to receive a certificate.

  • Can I interact with other people/instructors in the course?

    Yes! Each lesson has a forum where learners can either post or answer a question for discussion to keep the learning going.