The Butler Institute Academy of Professional Coaching (APC) is designed to help you develop your coaching skills and provide the training you need to become a professional coach. By the end of the APC program, you’ll be ready to create and cultivate successful coaching relationships.
You’ll graduate the APC with the coaching training and mentor hours you need to apply for an Associate Certified Coach credential through the International Coaching Federation, the leading international credentialing organization for coaches.
When used strategically, social media is a powerful tool to increase awareness, spur engagement, and build influence. With so many platforms and more coming online each year, it can feel overwhelming to get started. How do we choose which ones to be on? How often should we post? What do we do if someone posts a disparaging comment? Join us to learn practical tips and tricks for leveraging social media to engage families, community partners, and the workforce. Who Should Attend: Leadership and staff responsible for communications and engagement at family resource centers, community-based organizations, child abuse prevention councils, and other child- and family-serving systems.
Colorado Child Welfare Attorney Academy Course Now Available
Interested in deepening your understanding about the roles and responsibilities of those involved in Colorado's child welfare judicial system and how to meaningfully engage families and work together with all partners? Explore these ideas and more in this comprehensive virtual learning experience!
Coaching is an essential professional development tool that helps to retain a highly skilled workforce. This series offers a low-cost approach to learn coaching fundamentals and begin integrating them into your organization.
Through this virtual, 5-module series, you will:
Engage in individual and collaborative learning with other professionals, and with the series facilitators, who are certified by the International Coaching Federation (ICF).
Gain the foundational knowledge and skills to begin coaching others.
Learn how coaching can transform your organization and workforce.
This session will explore the benefits of using imagery to help clients develop powerful insight. Much of our brain dedicates itself to visual processing. When we see an image, we immediately analyze it and finding the meaning within it. By incorporating imagery into coaching conversations, we can talk about our client’s motivations, values, needs and most of all, what is important to them.
GSSW’s Butler Institute has been selected as a key partner in an expanded role with the National Child Welfare Workforce Institute, which aims to strengthen child welfare programs through workforce development.
A recent study by the GSSW Butler Institute for Families explores how the economics of Colorado’s early childhood care and education industry impact its workforce, the state economy, and children and families.
In a community research partnership, the Butler Institute for Families at GSSW is working with Alaska’s Matanuska-Susitna (Mat-Su) Borough to improve its family visitation program for kids in out-of-home care.