Social Media Usage and Ethics in Child Welfare is a three-hour training offering focused on structuring social media usage to maintain privacy, for the PCSA staff and for the families served. Topics will include the ethics of searching and engagement using social media as a tool while also being accountable to your agency's brand. During this workshop we will discuss ideas for documenting key information found in searches, sample messages and strategies for safe engagement, and how to protect yourself and your family from intrusion. Discussion will include how policy guides practice and how ongoing learning can be supported through training and supervision. Participants can expect lecture, group discussion, and breakouts.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Determine safe usage strategies of social media to maintain privacy
• Recall how online and virtual relationships are considered a part of the standards of ethical practice and professional conduct rule of “multiple relationships”
• Formulate ideas for modifications or additions of social media policy
• Consider how policy guides practice, and how practice is supported through supervision