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!
ATTACHMENT AND TRAUMA
Monday, June 9, 2025, 6:00 - 8:00 PM on Zoom. (2 CE Credits) with Dr. Natalia Estassi
Establishing a healthy relationship with our youth and families is key to being effective in our roles. Many of our foster youth and families have Attachment disorders and traumatic pasts which can directly affect the therapeutic relationship.
Discuss the importance of understanding child abuse and trauma; its effects on attachments; and how unhealthy attachments affect our therapeutic relationship and work. Learn: how to recognize signs and symptoms and the overlap prevalence between Attachment and Trauma. Explore strength-based techniques and how to engage, facilitate, and empower our youth and families to facilitate change.
Register HERE
BODY SAFETY FOR CHILDREN 12 and under
Monday, June 16,2025, 6:00 - 8:00 PM on Zoom (2 CE Credits) with Vanessa Kellam
Children who have experienced trauma are extremely vulnerable to sexual exploitation and abuse. Join Vanessa Kellam from Health Connected as we learn how to engage with and support children around body safety and healthy relationships. This training is strongly encouraged for all CASAs serving youth 12 years and younger.
Register HERE
BODY SAFETY FOR CHILDREN Teens and TAY youth
Monday, June 23, 2025, 6:00 - 8:00 PM on Zoom (2 CE Credits) with Vanessa Kellam
Children who have experienced trauma are extremely vulnerable to sexual exploitation and abuse. Join Vanessa Kellam from Health Connected as we learn how to engage with and support children around body safety and healthy relationships. This training is strongly encouraged for all CASAs serving youth 12 years and older.
Register HERE
HARM REDUCTION 101: MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEWING SKILLS AND PRACTICE
Thursday, June 26, 2025, 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.
Register HERE
CASA COMMUNITY NETWORK - CCN IN-PERSON HUDDLE
Thursday, June 26, 2025, 6:00 - 8:00 PM @SFCASA Office - (2 CE Credits)
Please join us on Thursday, June 26 from 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM at the SFCASA for the CASA Community Network Huddle.
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?
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