Continuing education
SFCASA’s 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:
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!
SFCASA Continuing Education Opportunities
COUNTER TRANSFERENCE AND SELF AWARENESS with Dr. Natalia Estassi
Monday, April 27, 2026, 6:00 - 8:00 PMon Zoom. (2 CE Credits)
This training will discuss counter transference, a term Freud founded, and how it can both positively and negatively impact our work as providers. As a CASA, in hearing the losses and hardships of your youth, one is often triggered. Explore the importance of your own self-awareness to best guarantee one can remain effective as a provider. Learn ways to cultivate self-awareness and the importance of our own boundaries. Review the importance of self-care and barriers that can lead to burnout and vicarious trauma.
Register HERE
NEW ADVOCATE SUPPORT GROUP CE
Tuesday, May 5, 2026 6:00 - 8:00 PMon Zoom (2 CE Credits)
Now that you have stepped into the CASA Role, this is an opportunity to reconnect with your training cohort and others to 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. All new Advocates are encouraged to attend!
Register HERE
Fentanyl Awareness: Practical Tools for CASA Volunteers (California CASA)
Wednesday, May 6, 2026, 12:00 pmon Zoom. (1 CE Credits)
Gain essential information about fentanyl and other substances, including current trends, risk factors, and resources for having informed, supportive conversations with youth about safety.
Register HERE:
NAVIGATING RELATIONSHIPS TRANSITIONS with Dr. Natalia Estassi
Monday, May 11, 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 supprts with our client’s and letting them know that healthy relationships, also shift.
RegisterHERE
CASA CONNECTIONS: SUPPORT GROUP FOR NATURAL SUPPORTS WHO ASSIST JUSTICE-INVOLVED YOUNG ADULTS
Thursday, May 14, 2026, 5:30 to 7:30 PM, in-person @ SFCASA , 1663 Mission Street, Ste 700, SF (2 CE credits)
Join us for a collective dialog where Natural Support volunteers, who continue supporting justice-involved young adults after case dismissal, come together to share experiences and ideas. Through interactive discussions, we will share tools and insights needed to create a supportive environment that nurtures growth, resilience, and rehabilitation in justice-involved young adults. You will walk away from this forum with practical strategies to support youth and families navigating the juvenile justice system. A light dinner will be served.
Register HERE
CASA COMMUNITY NETWORK HUDDLE - CCN VIRTUAL
Thursday, May 14, 2026, 6:00 - 7:00 PMon 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
THE UPS & DOWNS OF THE CASA ROLE WORKSHOP
Monday, June 1, 2026 ,6-8 pm on Zoom (2 CE Credits) with Dr. Natalia Estassi
Navigating the challenges of being a CASA can be an emotional rollercoaster. If you serve a transitional age youth, and have felt disappointed, frustrated, and/or sad please know you are not alone! It is normal for Advocates to wonder if they have done enough, and even doubt themselves. Sometimes we find that we have to let go of the visions and dreams we have for our assigned youth, when things don't work out the way we had hoped. Please join us in conversation and learn how to navigate the letting go process, including establishing new expectations and boundaries with Dr. Natalia Estassi.
Register HERE
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