New Jersey Statutes Title 30. Institutions and Agencies 30 § 4C-2.4

(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.

(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.