New Jersey § 30:4c-2

§ 30:4c-2.

a. There is established the New Jersey Child Welfare Training Academy in the Department

of Children and Families for the purpose of providing a training program to meet the needs of the child welfare

system Statewide. The training program shall provide: (1) pre-service and in-service training for public employees of the child welfare

system; (2) training opportunities for community-based entities and other child welfare system

stakeholders as designated by the commissioner; and (3) pre-service and in-service training for resource families. b. The academy shall be responsible for developing and managing the training activities

provided under this program, for which purpose it shall: (1) administer, coordinate and evaluate all training activities under the program; (2) seek to partner with social work and other professionals to ensure that the training

provided under the program reflects best practices; (3) develop training curricula, resources and products; (4) schedule and provide notice of training events and provide training materials

for those events; (5) employ and compensate training event instructors as necessary; (6) create mechanisms and processes to assess, identify and monitor training needs

for public employees of the child welfare system, including competency-based training; (7) create mechanisms and processes to evaluate the effectiveness of the training

provided under the program; (8) provide for the development of multimedia training tools to inform, educate and

train public agency staff, resource families and others in the child welfare system; (9) determine the minimum number of pre-service and in-service training hours required

of, and ensure the availability of sufficient training opportunities for, public agency

staff Statewide; and (10) conduct any other activities necessary to develop, implement and manage the training

program. c. The training provided to resource families pursuant to this section shall include

courses in the role of caregivers as part of the care and treatment of children requiring

out-of-home placement. A resource family parent shall be required to complete the number of hours of pre-service

and in-service training prescribed under the training program as a condition of licensure

under P.L.2001, c. 419 ( C.30:4C-27.3 et seq. ).