FREE!

Having the opportunity to be surrounded by those who understand your family’s journey is a vital experience. There is sometimes a lack of understanding for the intersecting experiences LGBTQ+ families face. Such families require environments that honor those experiences, as well as spaces that provide opportunities to connect with individuals from similar family types.

C.A.S.E. looks forward to providing that space for your family.

Each group will meet virtually via ZOOM on the third Thursday of each month.

Meeting dates: 10/24/24, 11/21/24, 12/19/24, 1/16/25, 2/20/25, 3/20/25, 4/17/25, 5/15/25, 6/19/25, 7/17/25, 8/21/25

FREE!

We’re excited to invite you to an insightful masterclass designed for non-profit and social service organizations, law enforcement, healthcare professionals,community leaders, educators, and anyone passionate about fostering safe and supportive environments. This masterclass will delve into the profound effects of trauma on individuals and communities, equipping you with the knowledge to build trauma-responsive communities that understand trauma, mitigate its impact, and facilitate healing and growth.

FREE!

Join us for a virtual gathering focused on empowering young individuals to take control of their financial future.

This free online event series is designed to provide parents (birth, bonus, foster, adoptive, kinship)with the tools and resources needed to guide their children toward financial independence.

Learn from financial experts, participate in interactive workshops, and connect with other parents who are passionate about helping their youth or young adult succeed. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to make a positive impact on the next generation!

FREE!

Supporting Financial Independence: A Free Webinar for Supportive Adults of Autistic Adults

Join us for a free two-hour training designed for supportive adults (SAs) of autistic adults who want to better assist their child or dependent in mastering the fundamentals of budgeting. This interactive webinar is tailored to provide practical strategies and tools you can implement right away to support financial independence.

Take a lesson in self-care and learn about anxiety in Partners in Parenting, an evidence-based program created for parents!

Justice in Aging’s Associate Litigation Director Carol Wong will join the Center for Medicare Advocacy’s upcoming webinar discussing the new appeal right, retrospective and prospective processes, and any updates or insights learned since the retrospective appeals became operational on January 1, 2025.

The appeals will allow certain hospital patients who are reclassified from inpatient to observation to appeal their status and potentially gain Medicare coverage of skilled nursing facility services that they otherwise would have to forgo or pay for out of pocket. Join class counsel as they review the new regulations and procedures, which are expected to become operational in early 2025. The webinar will review the basics of both types of new appeals (retrospective and prospective), who can appeal, and steps that people who think they are class members can take.

FREE!

We’re excited to invite you to an insightful masterclass designed for non-profit and social service organizations, law enforcement, healthcare professionals,community leaders, educators, and anyone passionate about fostering safe and supportive environments. This masterclass will delve into the profound effects of trauma on individuals and communities, equipping you with the knowledge to build trauma-responsive communities that understand trauma, mitigate its impact, and facilitate healing and growth.

Join us for a free webinar to explore the importance of prioritizing kinship care and learn strategies and tools for supporting kinship providers. 

Who should join?

Open to all audiences. This webinar will be especially helpful for child welfare professionals involved in recruitment, support, and retention of adoptive, foster and kinship families, as well as administrators who shape child welfare policies, procedures, and implementation.

What will I learn?

• The benefits of prioritizing kinship care and first placement with relatives and/or fictive kin
• Barriers relatives and fictive kin providers experience in the processes for first placement consideration, foster care/kinship licensing, fostering and adopting
• The impact of caregiver trauma and burnout on placement stability for relatives and fictive kin providers
• Strategies and tools for supporting kinship providers
• Hear from Ali Caliendo of Foster Kinship about her organization’s evidence-based Kinship Navigator Model and lessons learned in training, licensing, and supporting kinship providers
• Hear from Dawn Barton of South Carolina Department of Social Services about the agency’s work with this model and its efforts to prioritize kin-first placements

FREE!

When and how to effectively use a Private Investigator in child sex crimes or when a child goes missing.

When families are faced with dealing with a potential situation where a child might be being violated, or when a child goes missing or is caught up in a sex trafficking ring or victimized by a sextortion ring, families realize they are in crisis but may not understand how to effectively respond. It is often difficult to know who to turn to and how to locate an investigator that you can trust.

Lynda will talk about how to deal with a situation where a young person has disappeared voluntarily and involuntarily and how to successfully interact with authorities. We will explore case studies where young people have been groomed and seduced into sex trafficking and how a private investigator can assist a family in learning more about the individual, where they might be currently, and if they are currently being advertised in online sex ads.

Lynda will also discuss case-studies where an adult or young person is being exploited or black mailed online and what can be done about it. She will talk about how predators use specific apps and educate about how pedophiles and largescale foreign national rings are using social media to exploit and extort adults and teens. Most important she will talk about how to interact with a professional private investigator to understand the nature of the danger and track the illicit activity.

$23.00 – Base Price

Boundaries are the invisible line between the patient/ family and the healthcare provider. Professional boundaries may vary depending on the practice setting and license the professional holds. Maintaining boundaries involves understanding the importance of staying in the zone of helpfulness and the consequences of overstepping. This interactive program examines the ethical dilemmas that arise regarding boundaries and how our professional codes of ethics guide us in maintaining professionalism with empathy. Join us for a lively discussion on creating and maintaining the appropriate “zone” for your practice.

Healthy Alternatives for Little Ones (HALO) is a 12-unit holistic health and substance abuse prevention curriculum for children ages 3-6 in child care settings. HALO is designed to address risk and protective factors for substance abuse and other health behaviors by providing children with information on healthy choices. The program aims to help children understand the complexities of “health” and “healthy choices” by putting these abstract concepts into concrete terms they can understand. In HALO, health is defined as “growing bigger, stronger, and better able to think.”

Join us for an informative session learning about adoption & foster care options in Pennsylvania.

The information session can help you decide whether you are comfortable taking the next steps to become a licensed Diakon foster family. Sessions are offered without obligation; participants are not required to proceed following the presentation.

$21.00 – Base Price

Supervision is a key component to becoming an a successful independent practitioner. However, there are important aspects of supervision, both group and individual, that are necessary to make sure that your supervisee is prepared to work with the senior population. The challenges can be daunting and working with this population isn’t for everyone. It is important to dig deep into the challenges this population presents and the rewards you receive in the most creative manner . This will allow supervision to be most effective. Each participant will learn what is crucial to incorporate during supervision when working with a senior client.

FREE!

Over the past five years, Californians have watched the investigation and prosecution of a vast range of foreign national trafficking rings that are making millions of dollars by exploiting vulnerable people from foreign countries in our communities.

Five foreign national rings operating out of the Inland Empire, were so large they had over 50 different bank accounts and were buying and selling real estate to launder the money back to their homeland. The sex selling taking place is advertised online and the sex buying is conducted through a telemarketing center. One of these rings, placed more than 20,000 sex ads online and the victims were naïve and innocent immigrants who came into the U.S. legally but were exploited in ways hard to comprehend. Most were so afraid they would not cooperate. Most victims were in debt bondage and owed their captors money even after thousands of exploitative sexual encounters.

The increase in the number of undocumented individuals entering our communities has resulted in several large scale foreign national rings operating in the Inland Empire. We will look at the Paredes case study operating out of Colton, California where many unaccompanied young girls from Mexico were being trafficked in Southern California for the purpose of laundering the money back to organized criminal enterprises south of the border. This ring was led by a family Matriarch.

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This workshop is a hand on experience. Come ready to do some “work.” For this workshop, we will start to walk the walk, not just talk the talk. We will go over each of the 8 dimensions of wellness and suggested practices in theory AND each participant will be guided through creating a wellness plan that is realistic, sustainable, and addresses one component (their choice) of each dimension that can help them move towards their strongest self.

Fee: $50 – $99.99

Join us for an impactful workshop exploring the critical role of trauma-informed care in the justice system.

This webinar offers a roadmap for professionals eager to make meaningful changes within the justice system by embedding trauma-informed practices into everyday interactions and organizational structures.

Attendees will gain an understanding of how early traumatic experiences can disrupt brain development, influencing behaviors that often lead to justice system involvement. This workshop will review the bio/psycho/social impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and explore the transformative potential of trauma-informed responses to improve outcomes for affected individuals.

Human Relations Media: Ten Ways to Stay Safe on the Internet

This program teaches teens to understand and avoid the consequences of putting private personal information and photos on the internet. It encourages teesn to consider their posts before they click, protect their passwords, regularly monitor their online profiles and privacy settings, check tags in postings with other, and more. Teens are encouraged to be aware of tracking technologies, the dangers of texting and driving, anonymous apps, social network platforms, sexting, cyberbullying, and safe surfing/downloading practices.

 Students who attend both Human Relations Media services (Staying Safe Online and   Upstanding to Bullies) at Norwood Library will get $25 gift card. (1/28/25 and 2/4/25)

Registration opens 1/1/25, closes on 1/28/25.

Fee: $99.99

This webinar offers a roadmap for professionals eager to make meaningful changes within the justice system by embedding trauma-informed practices into everyday interactions and organizational structures.

Attendees will gain an understanding of how early traumatic experiences can disrupt brain development, influencing behaviors that often lead to justice system involvement. This workshop will review the bio/psycho/social impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and explore the transformative potential of trauma-informed responses to improve outcomes for affected individuals.

Join us for a live & interactive discussion with the author of Dementia Home Care, How to Prepare Before, During, and After.

This engaging session will share practical tips and strategies designed to alleviate the stress of dementia caregiving, drawing from Perkins’ extensive experience as a caregiver and author.

This live and interactive discussion is brought to you by RAZ Mobility and the Positive Aging Community.