Welcome to “Critical Reflective Child Welfare Decision-making: A Virtual Game Simulation”, an online educational research initiative we designed to help you learn about the child welfare assessment process.

This online platform includes two video simulations: 1) Choy family and 2) Andrews-Wilson family. During the simulated scenarios, you will be in the role of a child protection worker and be guided through to conduct the initial meeting with a family, make decisions in the assessment process, and reflect throughout and afterwards on your practice.

Each scenario will take approximately 45 minutes to complete. After completing the video simulation, you will complete a reflective activity to process what you have learned.

You are invited to go through each video simulation as many times as you would like – trying different decision-making processes and outcomes. Click on the case scenario to get started!

Barbara Lee
Assistant Professor
School of Social Work
University of British Columbia