Please complete THIS FORM to submit your independent study progress for your continuing education requirement of 12 hours each calendar year. Once received, CASA staff will enter your training into Optima where you can continue to track your total hours.
Contact Leah with any questions: leah@casafc.org or 920-257-4733 ext 107
Thank you for your commitment to continuous learning, and for your part in maintaining our compliance with the standards of the National CASA/GAL Association.
Independent Study Opportunities available on Netflix/Amazon Prime/Hulu/Showtime
*Round to nearest 15 minutes (.25 hours) *
For all opportunities listed, please look at ratings and/or watch trailers to determine any triggers
- 13th – Netflix, focus is Racism
- I Am Not Your Negro – YouTube, focus is Racism
- LA 92 – Netflix, focus is Racism
- Gracie’s Choice – Prime, focus is Adoption
- Instant Family – Prime and Hulu, focus is Adoption
- Hunger in America – Prime, focus is Poverty
- The Florida Project – Netflix, focus is Poverty
- Hillbilly Elegy a Ron Howard Film – Netflix, focus on Poverty and Addiction
- Owned: A Tale of Two Americas – PBS, focus on poverty and race
https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/documentaries/owned-a-tale-of-two-americas/
- Maid – Netflix Series, focus is Domestic Violence, Poverty, 9 hours total
- Private Violence – YouTube, focus is Domestic Violence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bw_yMvNxhEk
- Heroine – Netflix, focus is Opioid Addiction
- Dope Sick – Hulu, focus is Opioid Addiction
- Disclosure – Netflix, focus is LGBTQ
- The Life and Death of Marsha P. Johnson, focus is LGBTQ
- The Ride – Amazon Prime, focus is Foster Care/Trauma
- Short Term 12 – Prime, focus is Mental Health
- Kids Behind Bars: Life or Parole – Hulu series, focus on Trauma
- Cusp – Showtime documentary, focus on Teens/Sexual Trauma/Growing Up
Books (Receive 1 hour of learning time for each 100 pages)
- The Hate U Give – 4.5 hours of CE, focus is Racism, available in resource room
- Such a fun age – 4 hours of CE, focus on Privilege and Race, novel with humor available at Appleton Public Library
- There There – 3 hours of CE, focus is Cultural Competence, available in resource room
- Half and Half – 2.5 hours of CE, focus is Cultural Competence, available in resource room
- Evicted – 4 hours of CE, focus is Poverty, available in resource room
- Before We Were Yours, focus is Poverty/Trauma
- The Body Keeps Score, focus is Trauma, available in resource room
- What Happened To You, focus is Trauma, available at Appleton Public Library
- DopeSick, focus is Opioid Addiction, available in resource room
- Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents – 5 hours of CE, focus is Culture/Diversity
- The Sum of Us – 5 hours of CE, focus is Race
Webinars
- Strategies for Supporting Resilience and Healing in Victims of Child Maltreatment – 1 hour, focus is trauma-informed practices. Click HERE
- Restoring Trust After Childhood Trauma – Evidence-based Skills for Helping Children Heal – 1-1/2 hour, focus is trauma-informed practices. Click HERE
- Drug Identification and Recognition: The Opioid Crisis in America – 2 hours, self-paced course, focus is opioids. Click HERE.
- Trauma-Informed Practices – 45 minutes, focus is understanding trauma and some insight to trauma-informed care. This is introductory-level, and you will need to consider how to apply it in your role as an advocate. Click HERE.
Podcasts
- Child Welfare Information Gateway Podcast Series: This podcast series, produced on behalf of the Children’s Bureau, presents a series of interviews and group conversations intended to provide beneficial information for busy child welfare and social work professionals. Click HERE
- History. Culture. Trauma. Airs weekly on Thursdays at 11 AM on the VoiceAmerica Health and Wellness Channel. Featuring an episode with Agnes Woodward, in which she uses her knowledge of historical trauma and the healing power of the arts to raise awareness of the adversity Indigenous women face. Click HERE for this episode.