Self Guided Continuing Education Opportunities

Continuing Education Options

HOW TO REQUEST CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDIT

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! The maximum amount of credit you can earn for one book/video/webinar is 3 CE hours.

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!

Please reach out to your Case Supervisor with any questions.

Anti-racism

Stamped from the Beginning: Disrupting Racism in Child Welfare 1 CE Credit

Racism in the Child Welfare System

2 CE Credits

Racism in the Child Welfare System: What's Next?

2 CE Credits

Systemic Racism

1 CE Credit

Implicit Bias

1 CE Credit

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

Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare, Roberts
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

“When the Welfare People Come”: Race and Class in the US Child Protection System, Lash

White Fragility, DiAngelo
3 CE Credits

Articles

A Case Study in Public Child Welfare: County-Level Practices that Address Racial Disparity in Foster Care Placement, Pryce et al.
1 CE Credit

Black Families Matter: How the Child Welfare System Punishes Poor Families of Color, Roberts.
1 CE Credit

However Kindly Intentioned: Structural Racism and Volunteer CASA Programs, Mulzer & Urs.
1 CE Credit

Prison, Foster Care, and the Systemic Punishment of Black Mothers, Roberts.
1 CE Credit

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

Films & Documentaries

“How to be Antiracist” by Ibram X. Kendi

“The difference between being "not racist" and antiracist” by Ibram X. Kendi

Separate and Unequal
1 CE Credit

Notes from the Field by Anna Deavere Smith
2 CE Credits

Child development

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

Body Safety
2 CE Credits/ Relevant Advocacy Areas: Reproductive Health, Child Development

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
1 CE Credit / Relevant Advocacy Area: Healthcare

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

Communicating with Young People

Webinars

Using Social Emotional Learning (SEL) to Support Foster Youth
2 CE Credits / Relevant Advocacy Area: Community Connections

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

Court Report Writing

Webinars
Court Report Writing

Guide for Court Reports in A.L.

CSEC

Webinars

CalSWEC CSEC 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

Foster Care Runaway Episodes and Human Trafficking
1 CE Credit / Relevant Advocacy Areas: Community Connections, Education, Healthcare, Placement, Independent Living Skills

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

Trauma in Education 2 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

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

Podcasts

Do No Harm Podcast
4 CE Credits

Webinars

PREA (Prison Rape Elimination Act) Training
2 CE Credits

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

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

Webinar handouts:

• Psychotropic Medication Roadmap for CASAs
• Psychotropic Medication Forms De-Coded
• Psychotropic Medication Flowchart
• JV-217 Guide to Psychotropic Medication Forms
• Effective Communication with Stakeholders
• Questions to Ask Team Members as a CASA
• Court Report Checklist

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

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

Body Safety
2 CE Credits/ Relevant Advocacy Areas: Reproductive Health, Child Development

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

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