Foundations scheduling and attendance

This course will be offered 3 times a year,

 typically Winter, Spring, and Fall. Training sessions will run from 9:00 – 4:00 daily and will capitalize on interactive, cohort-focused learning. To ensure the best cohort learning environment, staff may not join a session that is already underway. Someone hired after a session begins will be enrolled in the subsequent session.

Foundations Onboarding Guide and On-the-Job Practice

On-the-Job Practice, organized within the Foundations Onboarding Guide, allows new employees to begin structured learning while they wait for the next classroom session. Through job shadowing, observation, peer mentoring, coaching, document review and documentation practice, new employees gain insight into the role and responsibilities of child protection and youth justice work. After each classroom session, further On-the-Job Practice is supported by twice-weekly coaching sessions, to help participants transfer their classroom and online learning to work in the office and community.

Performance Evaluation and Feedback

During this training period, it is the expectation that attending and participating in training is the new employee’s “caseload”. Given this, a significant portion of the initial evaluation – the 6 month probationary period – will be based on participation in training and efforts to transfer learning into the office and community. VT-CWTP staff will provide structured feedback to the training participant and the Supervisor following completion of Foundations session.