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.
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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.
Trauma, Maltreatment or ADHD? What Makes it Difficult to Tell in Young Children?
The Center of Innovation
Training Description:​​
n this 3-hour 15-minute FREE virtual training, attendees will explore the relationship between maltreatment, trauma, and the symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and how the similarities can make it difficult to differentiate between them. Certain environmental and social conditions can affect the appearance of ADHD symptoms.
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This training is for community behavioral health providers, CYFD staff, and other community stakeholders who work with children, youth, and families.
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Learning Objectives:
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Participants will learn about the relationship between maltreatment, trauma, and the symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
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Participants will learn that certain environmental and social conditions can affect the appearance of ADHD symptoms.
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Participants will recognize how play opportunities help to construct the social brain.
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Participants will be able to discuss how to support coordinated social behavior and resilience despite a label.
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Training Dates:
April 11th, 2025 8:45 AM - 12:00 PM MST
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How Music Enriches A Child’s Life: The Rhythm of Early Development
The Center of Innovation
Training Description:​​
In this 3-hour 15 minute FREE virtual seminar, participants will explore how music can help young children express themselves and share feelings, learn to empathize and trust others, reduce stress levels, and support brain integration. In addition, the seminar will provide a research review of music interventions to enhance dyadic therapy and improve attachment-related outcomes such as emotional co-regulation, mutual attunement, reflective functioning and parental sensitivity.
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This training is for community behavioral health providers, CYFD staff, and other community stakeholders who work with children, youth, and families.
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Learning Objectives:
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Participants will understand how the brain learns musical information very early in development.
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Participants will understand how language and music share some key elements such as pattern and rhythm.
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Participants will recognize how moving to a beat with another person can help build social-emotional skills.
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Participants will learn how music can be used to strengthen relationships and support children’s early learning.
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Participants will be able to discuss how music can be effective in dyadic therapeutic work to foster the parent’s attunement to the child’s experience.
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Training Dates:
May 2nd, 2025 8:45 AM - 12:00 PM MST
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Corinne Wolfe: The Center for Child & Family Justice
Training Description:​
In a balanced presentation that seeks to stimulate thought, Grace Allison draws heavily both on the latest research from academics, think tanks, the IRS and Treasury Inspector General for Tas Administration-- and on her daily representation over the past decade of New Mexico's low-income taxpayers, from Native Americans to very recent arrivals. ​
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Training Dates:
May 6th-7th | 9:00am-2:30pm MST
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Meeting ID: 998 8780 2820
Passcode: LOBOSLAW​​​
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.
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Training Dates:
May 6th-7th | 9:00am-2:30pm MST
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REGISTER HERE!​​​​
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.​
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Training Dates: Self-paced
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Module 1: Migration & Trauma
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Module 2: Historical & Political Contexts
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Module 3: Trauma-Informed Practices & Interventions with Immigrants
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Module 4: Immigrant-Inclusive Organizational Policies & Practices
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Module 5: Secondary Trauma Among Practitioners Working with Immigrant Populations
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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.​
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Training Dates:
All Day February 25th, 2025 and the Afternoon on March 4th, 2025
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REGISTER HERE!​​​​
Judge's Perspective: Preparing to Verbally Answer Questions in Court
National CASA/GAL Association
Judge's Perspective: Writing An Effective Court Report
National CASA/GAL Association
A View from the Bench: The Importance of Best Interest Advocacy
National CASA/GAL Association