Continuing Education

In-Service Training Opportunities

To maintain eligibility to work on a case as a CASA Volunteer, you must complete a minimum of 12 in-service hours of ongoing training per calendar year.

Below you will find a list of past training videos, as well as book and docu-series recommendations that you may utilize for Continued Education/In-Service credit.

Please remember to enter your training hours into Optima.

Brain Development & Interpersonal Relationships: Implications for IMH Work

The Center of Innovation

Training Description:

In this 3-hour 15 minute FREE virtual seminar, participants will explore how the quality of a young child’s early relationships has a significant impact on brain development and infant/early childhood mental health. Knowing how the brain develops and manages stress is helpful for working with caregivers to maximize children’s social and emotional development. In addition, the brain is able to rewire itself through neuroplasticity, which means that positive relationships can help heal trauma and rewire the brain.

This training is for community behavioral health providers, CYFD staff, and other community stakeholders who work with children, youth, and families.

Learning Objectives:

Participants will understand how relationships shape neurobiology and brain development.
Participants will understand the brain stem, limbic and cortical circuitries.
Participants will learn how the hemispheres, memory and mirror neurons contribute to a child’s mental health.
Participants will be able to discuss how a major component of our stress system is our arousal response.
Participants will be able to describe how positive relationships affect neuroplasticity and can rewire the brain.

Training Dates:

January 24th, 2025 8:45 AM - 12:00 PM MST

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Ripple Effect: Metaphors and Core Concepts for Understanding Trauma

Center of Innovation

Training Description:

This 2-day workshop presents an integrative framework for understanding and communicating across systems about how trauma can affect a child, a family, and a system. The Ripple Effect translates complex trauma concepts using metaphor, visual models, common language, and rich case examples.

Training Dates:

January 30th-31st | 9:00am-2:30pm MST

May 6th-7th | 9:00am-2:30pm MST

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Inclusive, Trauma-Informed Practices with Immigrants

The Center of Immigration and Child Welfare

Training Description:

This is a 5-module online asynchronous, self-paced course that explores how service organizations and practitioners can implement policies and practices to increase inclusivity of immigrant families, and how trauma-informed practice can be tailored to address the unique experiences of immigrant families. It also includes discussion of a model for implementing immigrant specialist navigators within organizations. This course is intended for leaders, frontline practitioners, and other professionals in organizations that serve immigrant families across a variety of community settings. It is available in English and in Spanish.

Training Dates:

Self-paced

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2025 Essentials of Child and Family Welfare for Programs and Providers Training

Corinne Wolfe: The Center for Child & Family Justice

Training Description:

Registration is now open for the 2025 Essentials training designed for beginners and people who have not attended before who need to learn more about the legal process in child and family welfare cases.

Training Dates:

All Day February 25th, 2025 and the Afternoon on March 4th, 2025