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?
+New & recommended
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