dswd academy
Vision: By 2028, the DSWD Academy shall be the entry for excellence in the Asia and Indo-Pacific Regions that will provide sustained high levels of social welfare and development practice for Social Workers, Social Welfare Assistants, Community Development Practitioners, and other paraprofessionals.
Mission: Provide globally competitive capacity building opportunities for professional development using both international and local resource materials on social welfare and development, and social protection
| TITLE OF TRAINING COURSE | TRAINING DESCRIPTION | TARGET PARTICIPANTS | SCHEDULE |
|---|---|---|---|
| Training on Social Work Case Management: Enhancing Working with Individuals | This training aims to strengthen the foundational knowledge, skills and attitudes of Social Workers through sharing experiences and practices in the application of concepts and theories in social work | Social Workers-Local Social Welfare and Development Office (LSWDOs), Center and Residential Care Facilities (CRCFs), Social Welfare and Development Agencies (SWDAs), Non-Government Organizations (NGOs) | BATCH 1 - 5 to 9 February 2024 |
| BATCH 2 - 15 to 19 July 2024 | |||
| Certificate Course on Basic Social Welfare Concepts: Enhancing Competencies of Paraprofessionals (Social Welfare Assistants (SWA) | This activity aims to enhance the competencies of the SWA in providing supports to the Social Workers in the delivery of programs and services | Social Welfare Assistant (non-social workers) from LGUs and social welfare agencies | 19 to 23 February 2024 |
| Life Skills Intervention Training | This training aims to enhance the competencies of the implementers by equipping children with necessary life skills to thrive and become successful | Social Workers from Local Social welfare Development Offices (LSWDOs) Bahay Pag-Asa Social Workers, and Houseparents | 3 to 7 June 2024 |
| Disaster Response and Crisis Management: Psychological First Aid | The second part of the training aims to build the competencies of frontline workers in helping clients (prioritizing children, women, and persons with disability) reduce stress symptoms and assist in a healthy recovery following a traumatic event, natural disaster, health emergency, or even a personal crisis in a gender-sensitive approach to support their recovery. | Social Workers from Local Social welfare Development Offices (LSWDOs) - Social Workers | DATE TO BE IDENTIFIED |
| Disaster Response and Crisis Management: Camp Coordination and Camp Management | The first part of the training aims to build the competencies of frontline workers in disaster response through simulation exercises in an actual evacuation facility during a disaster | Social Workers from Local Social welfare Development Offices (LSWDOs) - Social Workers | 28 to 31 May 2024 |
| House Parents' Capability Building | This training aims to improve the competencies of houseparents, as frontline service providers, in handling and managing children under their care. | Houseparents | BATCH 1 - 19 to 25 May 2024 |
| BATCH 2 - 9 to 13 September 2024 | |||
| Gender-Responsive Case Management | This course intends to enhance the skills of caseworkers in the use of GRCM as a case management model for victims and survivors of gender-based violence (GBV) | Local Social Welfare and Development Office (LSWDO), Social Welfare and Development Agencies, and DSWD Technical Assistance Providers | 3 to 7 June 2024 |
| Training on Integrated Electronic Case Management | This training teaches the social workers and the supervisors on utilizing the electronic case management system designed by UNICEF through PRIMERO. The attendees of this training should have a good grasp on the basic case management | Social workers | 28 to 31 May 2024 |
| Supervisors | 3 to 7 June 2024 | ||
| Training on Case Management for Adoption | This training aims to increase the knowledge and develop further the sills of Social Workers on Adoption be it local and inter-country adoption following the provision of the new Adoption law under the National Authority on Child Care. | Social Workers handling Adoption case s in the LGUs/LSWDOs | 11 to 15 November 2024 |
| A Community Development Training for Technical Assistance Providers/Practitioners | This course is designed to strengthen knowledge of the learners on the basic concepts and principles of community development necessary in becoming effective and transformative social development practitioners | Community Development Officers, LSWDO, MPDO, MLGOO, SWAs from non-KC areas identified by KC-NPMO | 15 to 19 April 2024 |
| 13 to 17 May 2024 | |||
| 3 to 8 June 2024 | |||
| Introduction to Social Work Concepts, Principles and Methodologies for Paraprofessionals | This course aims to introduce the basic social welfare concepts and principles that are necessary in the performance of their roles and responsibilities on SWD practice | Social Welfare Assistants (non-social workers) of the LGUs implementing SWD programs and services | 19 to 23 February 2024 |
| Executive Course on Social Welfare and Social Protection for Local Chief Executives (LCEs) | This course introduces concepts of social welfare and social protection to the LCEs given their strategic role in ensuring the implementation of social welfare an development programs in the local government | Local Chief Executives of the provinces, cities and municipalities | TO BE IDENTIFIED |
| Certificate on Basic Technical Writing: Gender-responsive Project Proposal Making | This course is designed to teach how to integrate the elements of a gender-responsive project design as reflected in the Harmonized Gender and Development Guidelines (HGDG) | Social Workers, program implementers | BATCH 1 - 17 to 22 June 2024 |
| BATCH 2 - 12 to 16 August 2024 | |||
| Capability Building on Children's Rights | The training aims to improve knowledge and understanding on children's rights and the importance of child protection within communities, institutions, and wider society | Social Workers, Social Welfare Assistants, Houseparents, and other SWD practitioners from LGUs, SDAs | 13 to 17 May 2024 |
| Pre-Marriage Counseling Training | This training enhances the competencies of pre-marriage counselor at the Local Government Units in conducting the Pre-marriage Orientation and Counseling (PMOC) Program | Pre-marriage counselors or potential RSW counselors or practitioners, and LSWDOs at the LGU | 7 batches from may to October 2024: Batch 1: 20 to 24 May 2024 |
| BATCH 2 - 24 to 28 2024 | |||
| BATCH 3 - 22 to 26 July 2024 | |||
| BATCH 4 - 26 to 30 August 2024 | |||
| BATCH 5 - 23 to 27 September 2024 | |||
| BATCH 6 and 7 - 7 to 11 October 2024 | |||
| Paralegal Training for Social Welfare and Development Practitioners | This training aims to develop and strengthen the participants knowledge of laws, procedures and processes involved in helping clients deal with legal concerns through simulation of the actual court processes leading to the accreditation of Social Work Managing Court Related Cases | Social Workers, Social Welfare Assistant and SWD Practitioners | BATCH 1 - 18 to 22 March 2024 |
| BATCH 2 - 3 to 8 June 2024 | |||
| BATCH 3 - 5 to 9 August 2024 | |||
| 14 to 18 October 2024 |