ADDITIONAL CONTINUING EDUCATION OPPORTUNITIES

You will need a minimum of 12 CE credits each year, 4 of which will be through SFCASA trainings. You are encouraged to take as many CEs as you’d like!

How to Receive Continuing Education Credit

To receive Continuing Education credit, for each item, email your responses to the following four questions to our Training Specialist: training@sfcasa.org and your Case Supervisor.

1. What is the title of the film/video/book?

2. What are the three most important things you learned?

3. How will you apply the knowledge to your CASA case?

4. Do you have any further questions around this topic?

Helping Teens through Anxious Times
1 CE Credit / Relevant Advocacy Area: Healthcare

Supporting Student Mental Health from a Distance
1 CE Credit / Relevant Advocacy Area: Healthcare

Trauma Informed Care Amidst COVID
1 CE Credit / Relevant Advocacy Area: Healthcare

Advocating for Special Education Needs During COVID
1 CE Credit / Relevant Advocacy Area: Education

Representing Youth in School Discipline Proceedings
2 CE Credits / Relevant Advocacy Area: Education

+Child development

Webinars
Teenage Brain, Alcohol, and Risky Behavior
1 CE Credit / Relevant Advocacy Area: Healthcare

Books
A Tribe Apart: A Journey into the Heart of American Adolescence, Hersch
3 CE Credits / Relevant Advocacy Area: Community Connections

Building the Bonds of Attachment, Hughes
3 CE Credits / Relevant Advocacy Area: Community Connections

Nobody Nowhere: The Extraordinary Autobiography of an Autistic Girl, Williams
3 CE Credits

Raising Blaze, Ginsberg
3 CE Credits

Real Boys, Pollack
3 CE Credits / Relevant Advocacy Area: Community Connections

Reviving Ophelia, Pipher
3 CE Credits / Relevant Advocacy Area: Community Connections

What Happened to Johnnie Jordan? The Story of a Child Turning Violent, Toth
3 CE Credits

Films & Documentaries
Bruce D. Perry: Social & Emotional Development in Early Childhood
1 CE Credit / Relevant Advocacy Area: Healthcare

First Impressions: Exposure to Violence on a Child's Developing Brain
2 CE Credits / Relevant Advocacy Area: Healthcare

Frontline: Poor Kids
1 CE Credit / Relevant Advocacy Area: Community Connections, Placement

Homeless: The Motel Kids of Orange County
2 CE Credits / Relevant Advocacy Area: Community Connections, Placement

PBS Frontline: Inside the Teenage Brain
2 CE Credits / Relevant Advocacy Area: Healthcare

Trauma, Brain & Relationship: Helping Children Heal
2 CE Credits / Relevant Advocacy Area: Healthcare

+Communicating with Young People

Webinars
Adolescent Focused Motivational Interviewing
1 CE Credit / Relevant Advocacy Area: Healthcare, Community Connections

Books
How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk, Faber & Mazlish
3 CE Credits / Relevant Advocacy Area: Community Connections

+CSEC

Webinars
CalSWEC Commercially Sexually Exploited Youth Awareness Training Module
2 CE Credits / Relevant Advocacy Areas: Community Connections, Education, Healthcare, Placement, Independent Living Skills

UC Davis Children’s Hospital CAARE Center: Becoming Trauma-Sensitive to Commercially Sexually Exploited Children and Youth (Topics 1 & 2, requires setting up an account)
2 CE Credits / Relevant Advocacy Areas: Community Connections, Education, Healthcare, Placement, Independent Living Skills

Books
Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking: Beyond Victims and Villains, Lutnick
3 CE Credits / Relevant Advocacy Areas: Community Connections, Education, Healthcare, Placement, Independent Living Skills

Katie.com: My Story, Tarbox
3 CE Credits / Relevant Advocacy Areas: Community Connections, Education, Healthcare, Placement, Independent Living Skills

Articles
DMST in the United States, Kotrla
1 CE Credit / Relevant Advocacy Areas: Community Connections, Education, Healthcare, Placement, Independent Living Skills

Services to DMST victims: Opportunities for engagement and support, Gibbs et al.
1 CE Credit / Relevant Advocacy Areas: Community Connections, Education, Healthcare, Placement, Independent Living Skills

Survivors’ Perspectives on Services and Treatment Needs following Commercial Sexual Exploitation during Childhood, O’Brien et al.
1 CE Credit / Relevant Advocacy Areas: Community Connections, Education, Healthcare, Placement, Independent Living Skills

The Voices of Survivors, Corbett
1 CE Credit / Relevant Advocacy Areas: Community Connections, Education, Healthcare, Placement, Independent Living Skills

Films & Documentaries
Hookers: A Documentary
1 CE Credit / Relevant Advocacy Areas: Community Connections, Education, Healthcare, Placement, Independent Living Skills

Human trafficking: Rachel Lloyd at TEDxUChicago 2012
1 CE Credit / Relevant Advocacy Areas: Community Connections, Education, Healthcare, Placement, Independent Living Skills

+education

Webinars
SFCASA ERH Training Part 1: Holding Education Rights for Foster Youth
1 CE Credit / Relevant Advocacy Area: Education

SFCASA ERH Training Part 2: Getting Started with Education Rights
1 CE Credit / Relevant Advocacy Area: Education

Advocating for Special Education Needs During COVID
1 CE Credit / Relevant Advocacy Area: Education

Back to School: Preparing Foster Youth for School Year Success
1 CE Credit / Relevant Advocacy Area: Education

Career Technical Education: Short-Term Programs into Living Wage Employment
1 CE Credit / Relevant Advocacy Area: Education

Education & Placement Stability: Understanding Best Interest Determination
1 CE Credit / Relevant Advocacy Area: Education

Foster and Probation Youth Education Needs and How to Address Them
2 CE Credits / Relevant Advocacy Area: Education

Financial Aid for Postsecondary Education
1 CE Credit / Relevant Advocacy Area: Education

How to Help Foster Youth Avoid the Remediation Trap & Achieve College Success
1 CE Credit / Relevant Advocacy Area: Education

Improving Educational Outcomes for Children with Disabilities in Foster/Kinship Care
2 CE Credits / Relevant Advocacy Area: Education

Promoting Education Rights & Ensuring School Stability for Foster Youth
2 CE Credits / Relevant Advocacy Area: Education

Representing Youth in School Discipline Proceedings
2 CE Credits / Relevant Advocacy Area: Education

Secondary Education Achievement: High School and Equivalency Tests
1 CE Credit / Relevant Advocacy Area: Education

Set Up for Success: Supporting Foster Youth College Transition
2 CE Credits / Relevant Advocacy Area: Education

Step-By-Step Guide to Completing the FAFSA for Foster Youth
2 CE Credits / Relevant Advocacy Area: Education

Books
Push Out: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools
3 CE Credits / Relevant Advocacy Area: Education

Articles
Georgia’s Separate and Unequal Special-Education System, The New Yorker Magazine, October 2018
1 CE Credit / Relevant Advocacy Area: Education

Films & Documentaries
Drop Out Nation
2 CE Credits / Relevant Advocacy Area: Education

Waiting for “Superman"
2 CE Credits / Relevant Advocacy Area: Education

+Family

Books
Children of Open Adoption and Their Families, Silber, K. & Dorner, M
3 CE Credits / Relevant Advocacy Area: Community Connections, Placement

Children with Parents in Prison: Child Welfare Policy, Program, and Practice Issues Beatty
3 CE Credits / Relevant Advocacy Area: Community Connections, Placement

Cold New World: Growing Up in a Harder Country, Finnegan
3 CE Credits / Relevant Advocacy Area: Community Connections, Placement

Finding Fish, Fisher
3 CE Credits / Relevant Advocacy Area: Community Connections, Placement

Films & Documentaries
Adopted: For the Life of Me
2 CE Credits / Relevant Advocacy Area: Community Connections, Placement

Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son about his Father
2 CE Credits / Relevant Advocacy Area: Community Connections, Placement

+Foster Care and Juvenile Justice Systems

Webinars
Alphabet Soup: Understanding Benefits for Children in Foster Care
2 CE Credits

Exploring the Office of the Ombudsperson for Foster Care and the Foster Youth Bill of Rights
2 CE Credits

Books
I Speak for This Child, Courter
3 CE Credits

No Matter How Loud I Shout, Humes
3 CE Credits / Relevant Advocacy Area: Juvenile Justice

Orphans of the Living: Stories of America's Children in Foster Care, Toth
3 CE Credits

Somebody Else ’s Children: The Courts, the Kids, and the Struggle to Save America’s Troubled Family, Huber & Wolfson
3 CE Credits

Articles
Crossover Youth and Gender, Flores
2 CE Credits

Foster Care as Punishment: The Reality of the new ‘Jane Crow’, The New York Times, July 2017.
1 CE Credit

When Should a Child Be Removed from His Parents?, The New Yorker, August 2017.
2 CE Credits

Films & Documentaries
Congratulations, You're On Your Own: Life After Foster Care
1 CE Credit

+LGBTQ

Webinars
Growing up Trans
2 CE Credits

Films & Documentaries
The F Word Series Online
2 CE Credits

+Mental Health

Webinars
Psychotropic Medication for Foster Youth: An Overview of the Legal Process
1 CE Credit / Relevant Advocacy Area: Healthcare

Psychotropic Medication for Foster Youth: How and Why CASAs Should Advocate
1 CE Credit / Relevant Advocacy Area: Healthcare

Books
An Unquiet Mind, Jamison
3 CE Credits / Relevant Advocacy Area: Healthcare

Cut, McCormick
3 CE Credits / Relevant Advocacy Area: Healthcare

Cutting, Levenkron
3 CE Credits / Relevant Advocacy Area: Healthcare

Healing the Shame That Binds You, Bradshaw
3 CE Credits / Relevant Advocacy Area: Healthcare

+Race

Books
A Hope in the Unseen, Suskind
3 CE Credits

Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation, Kozol
3 CE Credits

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Angelou
3 CE Credits

Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools, Morris
3 CE Credits

The Buffalo Soldier, Bohjalian
3 CE Credits

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures, Fadiman
3 CE Credits

The Unwanted, Nguyen
3 CE Credits

There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America, Kotlowitz
3 CE Credits

White Fragility, DiAngelo
3 CE Credits

Articles
Why America's Black Mothers are in a Life or Death Crisis, The New York Times Magazine, April 2018.
1 CE / Healthcare

Films & Documentaries

Separate and Unequal
1 CE Credit

Notes from the Field by Anna Deavere Smith
2 CE Credits

+Reproductive and Sexual Health

Webinars
CalSWEC online curriculum for Sexual and Reproductive Wellness in Foster Care:
Sexual and Reproductive Wellness Rights
1 CE Credit / Relevant Advocacy Area: Healthcare

Finding Resources, Safe Sex and Contraception Methods
1 CE Credit / Relevant Advocacy Area: Healthcare

Engaging with Young People about Sexual Wellness
1 CE Credit / Relevant Advocacy Area: Healthcare

SB 89 Implementation in the Bay Area: What can We Learn as a State?
1 CE Credit / Relevant Advocacy Area: Healthcare

Providing Comprehensive Sexual Health Education to Foster Youth: Lessons Learned from an LA Pilot
1 CE Credit / Relevant Advocacy Area: Healthcare

Webinars from the Department of Health & Human Services
Building a Safety Net for Teen Parents in Foster Care: California's Approach
2 CE Credits / Relevant Advocacy Area: Healthcare

CDSS: Healthy Sexual Development and Pregnancy Prevention for Youth in Foster Care
2 CE Credits / Relevant Advocacy Area: Healthcare

+Substance Misuse

Films & Documentaries
The Hungry Heart (2013)
2 CE Credits

+Trauma & Abuse

Webinars
A Home Within Webinar: The Impact of Trauma
2 CE Credits / Relevant Advocacy Areas: Community Connections, Healthcare

Trauma Informed Approaches for Individual, Organizational Resilience During COVID-19

Trauma Informed Care Amidst COVID
1 CE Credit / Relevant Advocacy Area: Healthcare

Books
Children Who See Too Much, Groves
3 CE Credits / Relevant Advocacy Area: Healthcare

Damaged, Glass
3 CE Credits / Relevant Advocacy Area: Community Connections, Placement

Ghost Girl: The True Story of a Child in Peril and the Teacher Who Saved Her, Hayden
3 CE Credits / Relevant Advocacy Area: Community Connections

Out of the Darkness: The Story of Mary Ellen Wilson, Shelman & Lazoritz
3 CE Credits / Relevant Advocacy Area: Community Connections

The Body Keeps Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, Van der Kolk
3 CE Credits / Relevant Advocacy Area: Healthcare

The Deepest Well: Healing the Long Term Effects of Childhood Adversity, Burke Harris
3 CE Credits / Relevant Advocacy Area: Healthcare

They Cage the Animals at Night, Burch
3 CE Credits Relevant Advocacy Area: Community Connections

Too Scared to Cry: Psychic Trauma in Childhood, Terr
3 CE Credits / Relevant Advocacy Area: Healthcare

Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others, van Dernoot Lipsky
3 CE Credits / Relevant Advocacy Area: Healthcare

Turning Stones, Parent
3 CE Credits / Relevant Advocacy Area: Community Connections

Articles
The Silence: The Legacy of Childhood Trauma by Junot Diaz, The New Yorker, April 2018.
1 CE Credit / Relevant Advocacy Area: Healthcare

+Youth Voices

Books
The Heart Knows Something Different! Teenage Voices from the Foster Care System, Desetta
3 CE Credits

Films & Documentaries

Kind Hearted Woman
2 CE Credits

ReMoved
1 CE Credit