SFCASA In-Person / Virtual Trainings
Continuing Education Options
Please use the same email that you shared in Advocate Link when you register.
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SFCASA Continuing Education Opportunities have Grown!
California CASA has collaborated with CollaborNation to host the E-Learning Center for CASA staff and volunteers to access and use across the state! This new online resource is available and live 24/7 with a growing catalog of recorded and/or interactive training opportunities that you can start utilizing to complete the mandated 12 hours of in-service training for CASA volunteers each year.
Simply click here to create an account, following the steps outlined in this guide. For a deeper dive into how to utilize the platform, please click here to download a short presentation on the topic. You can access California CASA’s E-Learning Center FAQ by following this link. To request CE credit:
1. log into A.L.
2. click on the Continuing Education box/link
3. Follow the prompts to request CE credit for the independent learning you have done!
REPLACEMENT BEHAVIORS: THE MEANING BEHIND BEHAVIOR
Monday, February 17, 2025, 6:00 - 8:00 PM on Zoom. (2 CE Credits) with Dr. Natalia Estassi
As CASA volunteers do you find yourself thinking about how to support youth with behavioral coping skills? In this training Natalia will explore this important aspect of your advocacy to understand and explore strategies to model and promote replacement behavior, which is the behavior you want to replace an unwanted target behavior when working with youth in foster care.
Register HERE
THE PATH TO RACIAL EQUITY: ADDRESSING DISPARITIES FOR TRANSITION GE YOUTH IN CHILD WELFARE VIRTUAL POLICY SUMMIT
Wednesday, February 26, 2025, 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM on Zoom
Join us for a virtual policy summit focused on actionable solutions to address racial disparities and disproportionalities for transition age youth in child welfare. The Alliance for Children's Rights report, Supporting Their Journey: The Path to Racial Equity in Child Welfare for Transition Age Youth, and accompanying policy and practice recommendations, builds on our first report, The Path to Racial Equity in Child Welfare: Valuing Family and Community, published in 2021, addressing racial disparities and disproportionalities in the child welfare system. This second phase of our Whole Families/Whole Communities campaign examines the racial disparities and inequities transition age youth, those aged 16-24, experience while in and exiting the foster care system and the ways in which those inequities are driven by systemic factors, such as implicit bias, socioeconomic inequality, and inadequate access to culturally responsive services. This virtual policy summit will focus on targeted policy and practice reforms aimed at combatting the impacts of systemic disparities and disproportionalities, fostering stability, and expanding economic and educational opportunities to improve the health and wellbeing of transition age youth. We will be joined by a lived experience expert sharing their insights on barriers and challenges transition age youth face. Participants will engage in breakout sessions to explore the supports and interventions needed for youth in foster care to thrive.
Registerr HERE
CYBER THREATS & YOUTH INTERNET SAFTEY from the FBI
Wednesday, February 26, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM on Zoom
The FBI will address common challenges in internet safety, with particular emphasis on those affecting minors. Discussion topics will include securing your online identity, the cybercrime ecosystem, frauds/scams and other online schemes, understanding threat actors and their tactics, sextortion and the targeting of juveniles, tips to safeguard minors, and cyber tools & resources.
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CSEC SUPPORT GROUP
Monday, February 24, 2025, 6-8p in person at SFCASA 1663 7th floor, Mission, SF, CA
If you serve a youth who is experiencing or at risk of CSEC involvement, please join this unique support group. We know that supporting these youth is very challenging for CASAs. During our time together, we will focus on supporting and learning from each other, reflection on points of advocacy, identification of next steps and resources. We will also learn about intervention curriculum that can be helpful for youth already engaged in CSEC. Dinner will be served!
Register HERE
NAVIGATING THE IEP PROCESS
Wednesday, February 26, 2025, 6:00 - 8:00 PM on Zoom
Join Educational Consultant Lorna Gilbert Ed.D to learn the tips and tricks of effectively navigating the IEP process for the youth you serve. This will be an interactive training where we can share our IEP challenges, successes and questions. You will leave this training with resources and strategies to successfully advocate for your youth in their IEP process.
Register HERE
CCN IN-PERSON HUDDLE
Update: March In-Person CCN Date Changed
Thursday, March 13, 2025, 6:00 - 8:00 PM @SFCASA Office - (2 CE Credits)
For March the CCN Huddle wants to do something special. On Thursday, March 13th, we will meet in person to be in community. Please register if you would like to participate. Please join us for drinks, pizza, and to meet other volunteers.
For questions please email Jennifer Moya: jennifer@sfcasa.org
Register HERE
