News & Announcements
October 2011
Supplemental Award for Tribal Child Welfare Education and Training The Children's Bureau has awarded $600,000 in supplemental funding to the NCWWI to support its ongoing American Indian Traineeship programs for BSW and MSW students, and provide for the development of follow-up residential training and coaching to tribal leaders who have completed the Leadership Academy for Middle Managers (LAMM).
Read more here.... Federal Trauma-focused CPS Practice Grant Awarded to NCWWI Traineeship Partner at the University of Montana The University of Montana (UM) School of Social Work has won a $3.2 million grant to address the problems of child abuse and neglect in Indian Country. The discretionary grant - Trauma-Informed & Trauma-Focused Practice in Child Protective Service (CPS) Delivery - will allow the National Native Children’s Trauma Center at UM and its partners to help at least three reservations in Montana during the next three years, bring pilot programs to three more reservations elsewhere in the nation and ultimately serve as a model for similar work throughout Indian Country. Read more here...
July 2011
NCWWI’s Leadership Academy Receives Prestigious National Training Award The Workforce Institute has received the National Staff Development and Training Association’s 2011 Quality Award for its outstanding performance in training for human services employees. This award recognizes the successful development and implementation of the Leadership Academy for Middle Managers (LAMM) and the Leadership Academy for Supervisors (LAS) as cutting edge, innovative approaches that have led to demonstrated quality improvements in participants’ learning, behavior and accomplishments.
Read more here... WHAT'S NEW - LEADERSHIP ACADEMY
In-person Leadership Academy for Middle Managers (LAMM):
The LAMM Information Packet is available HERE. To download a word copy of the application, please click HERE, or submit the application online HERE. Details about the nomination and residential training schedule is available HERE.
Online Leadership Academy for Supervisors (LAS):
In addition to the complete core curriculum, the 1st two Take the Lead modules have launched. Please click HERE to access more information, preview the training, and register. Click HERE to learn more about enrolling in a national LAS cohort so that you can move through the curriculum together with other supervisors. 
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