If you have not yet completed your 12 hours of continuing ed, you have until the end of the year. Please check your Training Log in Optima, or call the office to see where you stand on your hours.
CASA Book List
Earn three hours of in-service training credit for reading a book! Check out our Goodreads page for recommendations, and let us know if you have any recommendations of your own! (3 credit hours per book)
Abused and Betrayed
People with intellectual disabilities are sexually assaulted at seven times the rate of people without disabilities. It’s a crime that often goes unrecognized and unpunished. NPR has done a series on this epidemic. (Listen to each segment for a total of 1 credit hour)
All Children All Families
All Children All Families will be presenting an encore of their 2017 webinar presentations. In the link above there is also information regarding new articles relating to the LGBTQ community and what is happening in the current government climate.
Center for Juvenile Justice Reform Webinars
A variety of free online webinars.
Class Central
Take college level courses, mostly for free, on a variety of topics. CASA volunteers, if you find a topic that interests you, check with our office before registering to see if we will count it as in-service training credit.
KidsPeace now provides informative and insightful podcast episodes that tackle topics that may be useful in your case as well as your every day life!
Conversations with KidsPeace Podcast
Every kid needs a champion
Rita Pierson, a teacher for 40 years, once heard a colleague say, "They don't pay me to like the kids." Her response: "Kids don't learn from people they don't like.'" A rousing call to educators to believe in their students and actually connect with them on a real, human, personal level.
Healing Magazine
Magazine by KidsPeace Institute, available for free download. Back issues available (2 credit hours per issue)
Mental Health First Aid
Just as CPR helps you assist an individual having a heart attack, Mental Health First Aid helps you assist someone experiencing a mental health or substance use-related crisis. In the Mental Health First Aid course, you learn risk factors and warning signs for mental health and addiction concerns, strategies for how to help someone in both crisis and non-crisis situations, and where to turn for help.
pbs frontline presents: chasing heroin
A searing, two-hour investigation places America’s heroin crisis in a fresh and provocative light — telling the stories of individual addicts, but also illuminating the epidemic’s years-in-the-making social context, deeply examining shifts in U.S. drug policy, and exploring what happens when addiction is treated like a public health issue, not a crime.
pbs frontline presents: education of omarina
The Education of Omarina continues a story FRONTLINE has been following since 2012 — showing how an innovative program to stem the high school dropout crisis has affected one girl’s journey, from a public middle school in the Bronx to an elite New England private school, and now on to college.
PBS Frontline Presents: Poor Kids
Through the stories of three families told over the course of half a decade, FRONTLINE explores what poverty means to children in America.
pbs frontline presents: poverty, politics and profit
FRONTLINE and NPR investigate the billions spent on affordable housing, and why so few get the help they need.
talking to children about the shooting
In light of the recent events in Florida this article can be helpful to discuss with children about the impact of the school shooting and their understanding about what is going on in the world. This is provided by the National Child Traumatic Stress Network.
Texas Network of Youth Services
Texas Network is offering online training opportunities on a variety of topics that may be useful for your cases.
Training in Adolescent Brain Development: Implications for Youth Practice and Policy
One hour presentation, recommended by Judge Rogers.
Understanding the Non-Offending Parent
This PowerPoint gives an in-depth look at the role of the Non-Offending Parent. Through the information provided, you will learn more about the crisis of disclosure, possible non-offending parent’s responses, factors that impact a family’s response to child sexual abuse, adaptive family response vs. maladaptive responses, the role of denial, what is child sexual abuse, effects of child sexual abuse trauma model, and the reasons why children are resistant in telling. (1 credit hour)
