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JUVENILE JUSTICE 101
Thursday, April 4, 2024 6-8 PM on Zoom (2 CE credits) with Luna Robledo.
This training is intended for current and future CASAs matched with a young person in the juvenile justice system. If you serve a youth in the JJ system or accessing AB12 through Probation, please plan to attend this training. Serving a JJ youth has key differences in many areas including the team members, the court hearing types and procedures, the key advocacy areas, the resources available to the youth, and more. Additionally, the youth themselves tend to have different experiences and characteristics than their dependency-involved peers that are crucial to understand when connecting with a JJ youth in order to best serve them and their families. This training will dive into all the special considerations of working with a justice involved teen or young adult. Specific questions or topics you would like to discuss are welcomed prior to training, submit to Luna at Luna@sfcasa.org.
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BODY SAFETY FOR CHILDREN
Wednesday, April 10, 2024, 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.
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USING SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL LEARNING TO SUPPORT FOSTER YOUTH PART 2
Saturday, April 13, 2024, 10 am - 12 pm on Zoom with Allison Roeser
Social-emotional learning (SEL) is an integral part of human development that contributes to the well-being of our youth and us, as volunteers. The first SEL CE focused on self-awareness and self-management. In this CE, we will recap the basics of SEL and focus on the other three SEL competencies of social awareness, relationship skills and responsible decision-making. We will explore both the mindset and skill set of SEL. An SEL mindset will bring more ease to supporting your youth and the skill set will provide strategies you can apply immediately to increase connection. Participating in the first SEL CE is not a requirement for attending the second, everyone is welcome!
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THE UPS & DOWNS OF WORKING WITH PROFESSIONAL PROVIDERS
Monday, April 22, 2024, 6-8 pm on Zoom with Dr. Natalia Estassi
As providers, we will also learn different techniques on how to develop empathetic, respectful, engaging, and professional relationships with other providers to best support our youth and their overall success. This includes understanding mental health, cultural sensitivity, and effective communication techniques, in order to most effectively work with providers and the system including establishing expectations and boundaries with Dr. Natalia Estassi.
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UNDERSTANDING GRIEF
Wednesday, April 24, 2024, 12:00 PM on Zoom (2 CE Credits) presented by California CASA
Whatever the reason youth enter the foster system, the experience is often marked by sudden loss of parents, siblings, extended family, pets, school, home, friends, personal history, belongings, identity, control, and more. Many youth experience profound grief related to this loss, though the grief doesn’t always present in the ways we might expect. Further, because grief doesn’t have a specific timeline,- youth may experience feelings of grief and loss intermittently for years. Because the impact of grief can be so significant, it is crucial for the involved adults to navigate and support foster youth experiencing grief with sensitivity and understanding. This workshop will support attendees to understand the grief faced by foster youth, how it manifests, and what they can do to help and support youth who are navigating this complex emotional terrain. You’ll learn: - The expected and unexpected manifestations of grief for foster youth - How grief impacts foster youth - How to support foster youth who are navigating grief related to family separation, family loss, or death - What to say (and what NOT to say) to foster youth who are experiencing grief - Recognizing and supporting feelings of grief that may present at unexpected times (such as in a happy moment, when achieving a milestone etc.) - Practical tools for effectively supporting foster youth navigating grief. And more!
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COUNTER TRANSFERENCE AND SELF AWARENESS with Dr. Natalia Estassi
Monday, May 13, 2023, 6:00 - 8:00 PM on 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. Discussed will be the many environmental and social stressors we are facing today, this includes the COVID-19 pandemic and the racism pandemic, which will impact us in various ways. As a CASA, in hearing the losses and hardships of your youth, one is often triggered, especially in these difficult times. 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.
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NEW ADVOCATE WORKSHOP CE
Wednesday, May 15, 2024, 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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CCN - CASA COMMUNITY NETWORK HUDDLE
Tuesday, May 21, 2024, 6-8 pm (In Person at SFCASA Office)
Please join us for our first In person 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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Trainings are offered to inform your advocacy,
help you think creatively about your case,
and to build community.
SFCASA Advocates are required to earn 12 CE credits
per calendar year.
Please visit Continuing Education Opportunities for alternative options.
Do you have ideas for future CEs? Let us know by emailing training@sfcasa.org
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