Moral Injury and Healing in Child Welfare

This online course from the University of Minnesota will provide you with the knowledge and confidence to develop your understanding of moral injury. Selected video-based instruction led by Dr. Haught will guide your learning experience. This self-paced course is divided into five learning modules on moral injury and healing for mental health, addictions, social work and child welfare professionals.

Register for this on-demand class here: https://online.umn.edu/courses/moral-injury-and-healing-child-welfare

Strategies for Building Belonging in Everyday Advocacy

You can watch a recording of the 2021 CASA Week training “Strategies for Building Belonging in Everyday Advocacy.” This training is provided by the Kentucky CASA Network and led by Dr. Adrianne Fletcher. It counts for 2 hours of CEU credit and fulfills your annual DEI training requirement.

Register here: https://bit.ly/casaweek21-buildingbelonging

You must obtain a password to view this training by emailing info@casaoflexington.org.

Please forward the certificate you receive after completing the training to office@casaoflexington.org.

How 'Shadow' Foster Care is Tearing Families Apart

It would take years before Molly and Heaven would learn that neither of them was ever in the foster system. Instead, caseworkers had diverted them to what some scholars call “hidden foster care” or “shadow foster care,” in which the legal protections of the formal system disappear. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/01/magazine/shadow-foster-care.html (CEU credit: 0.5 to 1.0 hours)

Updates on Psychotropic Medications in Children for DCBS

This training explains drug categories for psychotropic drugs. The training explores the reasons for prescribing and 'Deprescribing' psychotropic medications in foster care. It discusses scenarios when foster parents should advocate for their youth in their home on being prescribed too many medications and when to advocate for reduction. The training describes informed consent and how this pertains to psychotropic medication. http://centervideo.forest.usf.edu/video/jit/kentucky/psychomedtrainingdcbs/start.html (CEU Credit: 1 hour)

Learn About the Turpin Case in California, Where 13 Siblings Were Imprisioned For Decades

Read a 2018 Article from the New York Times, published shortly after authorities discovered the situation at the Turpin household: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/17/health/california-13-kids-siblings.html (Estimated CEU credit: 0.25)

Watch the 2021 episode of 20/20 about how one of the siblings escaped and reported what had been going on: https://abc.com/shows/2020/episode-guide/2021-11/19-2020-escape-from-a-house-of-horror-a-diane-sawyer-special-event (CEU credit: 1.0)

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