Continuing education
SFCASA’s continuing education opportunities have grown!
California CASA has collaborated with CollaborNation to host the E-Learning Centerfor 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 hereto 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:
Log into A.L.
Please use the same email that you shared in Advocate Link when you register. It helps us to give you CE credit. Thanks!Click on the ‘Continuing Education’ box/link
Follow the prompts to request CE credit for the independent learning you have done!
California CASA Continuing Education Opportunities
Empowering Futures: Fundamental Financial Management Series:
Financial Literacy Part 1: Fundamental Financial Management
Monday, July 8, 2026, 12-1:30 PM, on Zoom. (2 CE Credits)
The first session in our series focuses on the essential building blocks of daily financial stability. We will explore the mechanics of effective budgeting and the importance of establishing a healthy relationship with banking institutions.
Financial Literacy Part 2: Advancing Financial Outcomes for Youth
Monday, August 5, 2026, 12-1:30 PM, on Zoom. (2 CE Credits)
Our second session shifts the perspective from immediate management to long-term growth. This webinar focuses on the mindset and habits required for asset building, beginning with the discipline of consistent saving and exploring various income-earning pathways.
SFCASA Continuing Education Opportunities
CASA COMMUNITY NETWORK HUDDLE - CCN VIRTUAL
Thursday, June 25, 2026, 6:00 - 7:00 PM on Zoom. (1 CE Credits)
The CASA Community Network (CCN) is a network for CASAs organized by CASAs and hosted by CASAs. We share, lean in and on, and support each other through events such as The Huddle. Sometimes we learn from expert guest speakers in continuing education sessions. In The Huddle, we learn from experts – ourselves – we have collective years of expertise among us. We are a network of support – who better understands the ups, the downs, the joys, the challenges than we do?
Register HERE
NAVIGATING RELATIONSHIPS TRANSITIONS Workshop with Dr. Natalia Estassi
Monday, June 29, 2026, from 6:00 - 8:00 pm on Zoom (2 CE credits)
As providers, we will learn different techniques on how to develop empathetic, respectful, and engaging, and professional relationships with our clients and other providers to best support our youth and their overall success. This includes understanding mental health, cultural sensitivity, and effective communication techniques, to most effectively work with providers and the system. This also includes having effective transitions, including becoming natural supports with our clients and letting them know that healthy relationships also shift.
RegisterHERE
EXPORING CULTURAL SENSITIVITY with Dr. Natalia Estassi
Monday, July 13, 2026, 6:00 - 8:00 PM on Zoom (2 CE Credits)
Practicing cultural sensitivity requires looking beyond one's own experience and approaching the experiences of others without judgement. Focusing on guidance and support on how CASAs can best manage in a culturally sensitive way to both be a curious learner AND share from your own life experience in a respectful and humble way. What is acculturation? Understand how as providers we better advocate can and provide cross-cultural services to our youth and families. Review the importance of role modeling, self-disclosure, and the importance of how to set necessary boundaries.
Register HERE
NEW ADVOCATE WORKSHOP CE
Wednesday July 22, 2026, 6:00 - 8:00 pm on Zoom (2 CE Credits)
Now that you have stepped into the CASA Role, this is an opportunity to reconnect with your training cohort and support each other as you get started on your case. We will share learnings together about first steps on the case, relationship building with the youth and the professionals, court reports, logs, CEs and more.
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HARM REDUCTION 101: MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEWING SKILLS AND PRACTICE with Joey Hess
Wednesday, July 29,2026, 6:00 - 8:00 pm on Zoom (2 CE credits)
This interactive training will provide space for participants to reflect on their own experience in putting harm reduction philosophy into practice, taking a deeper look at how harm reduction can be applied in their work with youth. Participants will have the opportunity to hone harm reduction and motivational interviewing skills, to reflect on successes and challenges of the work, get feedback on clinical questions and concerns, and to review real life scenarios that are common when working with youth.
RegisterHERE
CASA CONNECTIONS: SUPPORT GROUP FOR NATURAL SUPPORTS WHO ASSIST SCHOOL-AGE YOUTH
Wednesday, August 19, 2026, 5:30 to 7:30 PM, in-person @ SFCASA office (2 CE credits)
Join us for a collective discussion where Natural Support volunteers, who continue supporting youth after case dismissal, come together to share experiences and ideas. We will brainstorm best practices to support youth, up to 18 years old, whose dependency or juvenile justice cases have been dismissed. Current CASAs assigned to school-age youth with cases that will soon be dismissed are also welcome. The discussion will focus on immediate and ongoing considerations for youth exiting the foster care or JJ system prior to age 18, centered on educational advocacy, sustaining health & wellbeing, community connections, and a secure placement.
Light dinner will be served. Register HERE.
CASA COMMUNITY NETWORK HUDDLE - CCN VIRTUAL
Thursday, August 20, 2026, 6:00 - 7:00 PM on Zoom. (1 CE Credits)
The CASA Community Network (CCN) is a network for CASAs organized by CASAs and hosted by CASAs. We share, lean in and on, and support each other through events such as The Huddle. Sometimes we learn from expert guest speakers in continuing education sessions. In The Huddle, we learn from experts – ourselves – we have collective years of expertise among us. We are a network of support – who better understands the ups, the downs, the joys, the challenges than we do?
RegisterHERE