SECTIONS 16210 - California Statutes

WELFARE AND INSTITUTIONS CODE

SECTION 16210

16210. (a) The department shall establish a Child Welfare Training
Advisory Board to oversee training programs as specified by this
chapter.
(b) The advisory board shall be composed of nine members,
consisting of representatives from child welfare, legal, judicial,
and medical disciplines, and representatives from the public sector,
who shall advise the director on the development of training programs
and materials and other matters as deemed appropriate by the
executive director. The board shall be appointed by the Director of
Social Services. The advisory board members shall have demonstrated
expertise in areas including, but not limited to, sexual, physical,
and emotional abuse of children; infant abuse; adolescent abuse;
treatment of physically abused, sexually abused, or emotionally
abused minors; and special needs of infants and minors.