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This course qualifies for CAMFT CEUs.   Direct support professionals are often the backbone of trauma-informed care, yet their own emotional well-being is frequently overlooked. This 2 hour training invites participants to explore the impact of unresolved personal trauma and vicarious trauma within their roles. Through critical reflection and interactive dialogue, participants will examine how their personal histories shape their professional presence, and how systems often perpetuate burnout by normalizing self-neglect among frontline staff. This session centers the caregiver by offering tools to recognize signs of trauma within themselves, prioritize self-healing without guilt, and adopt sustainable practices for resilience. Participants will walk away with a deeper understanding of the reciprocal nature of trauma-informed care—recognizing that to truly support others, they must first create space for their own healing. This training is a call to reimagine caregiving as a practice rooted in wholeness, visibility, and shared humanity. --- Instructor: Dr. Marya Wright, LCSW Marya Wright, DSW, LCSW, is a nationally recognized social work leader, consultant, author, and educator with deep expertise in child welfare, forensic social work, and culturally responsive clinical practice. She is the Founder and CEO of Marya Wright Consulting LLC, where she designs and delivers high-impact training and consulting services to agencies that support system-involved youth and families. Dr. Wright earned her Doctorate in Social Work from the University of Southern California, where her scholarship focused on promoting equity and justice within the child welfare system. She also holds a Master of Social Work from California State University, East Bay, and a Bachelor of Social Work from San Diego State University, both with specialized training in Child Welfare Services and Motivational Interviewing. With over a decade of clinical, academic, and courtroom experience—including her work as a qualified expert witness—Dr. Wright brings a uniquely intersectional and practice-informed perspective to continuing education. Her work emphasizes relationship-centered engagement, culturally responsive practice, and trauma-informed care. She currently teaches graduate-level social work courses at Cal State East Bay, where she focuses on generalist practice, human behavior, and advanced clinical approaches with children, youth, and families. Dr. Wright’s research and publications center on child sexual exploitation, foster care, and the impact of algorithmic decision-making in social services. She is an active member of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) and serves on the Board of Directors for the National Phi Alpha Honor Society. Her trainings equip licensed clinicians with evidence-informed tools and critical insights that strengthen their practice and improve outcomes for marginalized communities. --- Other Important Information: Accommodations: To request additional assistance or accommodations, please contact Brisa Romero, Training Assistant, at [email protected]. Grievances: To obtain the grievance policy or report a grievance please email Ivon Favela, Deputy Director of Training at [email protected] CE Certificates: Upon course survey completion, participants will be awarded CE certificates. Refund/Cancelation Policy: All requests for cancellation and refunds must be submitted in writing to [email protected] prior to the course date. Otherwise, no refunds will be allowed.  --- CE Statement: California Alliance of Child and Family Services (CACFS) is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and LEPs (Provider #1000075 ). This course meets the qualifications for 2 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. CACFS maintains responsibility for the program and all of its content. Read more

This course qualifies for GH CEUs.   Direct support professionals are often the backbone of trauma-informed care, yet their own emotional well-being is frequently overlooked. This 2 hour training invites participants to explore the impact of unresolved personal trauma and vicarious trauma within their roles. Through critical reflection and interactive dialogue, participants will examine how their personal histories shape their professional presence, and how systems often perpetuate burnout by normalizing self-neglect among frontline staff. This session centers the caregiver by offering tools to recognize signs of trauma within themselves, prioritize self-healing without guilt, and adopt sustainable practices for resilience. Participants will walk away with a deeper understanding of the reciprocal nature of trauma-informed care—recognizing that to truly support others, they must first create space for their own healing. This training is a call to reimagine caregiving as a practice rooted in wholeness, visibility, and shared humanity. --- Instructor: Dr. Marya Wright, LCSW Marya Wright, DSW, LCSW, is a nationally recognized social work leader, consultant, author, and educator with deep expertise in child welfare, forensic social work, and culturally responsive clinical practice. She is the Founder and CEO of Marya Wright Consulting LLC, where she designs and delivers high-impact training and consulting services to agencies that support system-involved youth and families. Dr. Wright earned her Doctorate in Social Work from the University of Southern California, where her scholarship focused on promoting equity and justice within the child welfare system. She also holds a Master of Social Work from California State University, East Bay, and a Bachelor of Social Work from San Diego State University, both with specialized training in Child Welfare Services and Motivational Interviewing. With over a decade of clinical, academic, and courtroom experience—including her work as a qualified expert witness—Dr. Wright brings a uniquely intersectional and practice-informed perspective to continuing education. Her work emphasizes relationship-centered engagement, culturally responsive practice, and trauma-informed care. She currently teaches graduate-level social work courses at Cal State East Bay, where she focuses on generalist practice, human behavior, and advanced clinical approaches with children, youth, and families. Dr. Wright’s research and publications center on child sexual exploitation, foster care, and the impact of algorithmic decision-making in social services. She is an active member of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) and serves on the Board of Directors for the National Phi Alpha Honor Society. Her trainings equip licensed clinicians with evidence-informed tools and critical insights that strengthen their practice and improve outcomes for marginalized communities. --- Other Important Information: Accommodations: To request additional assistance or accommodations, please contact Brisa Romero, Training Assistant, at [email protected]. Grievances: To obtain the grievance policy or report a grievance please email Ivon Favela, Deputy Director of Training at [email protected] CE Certificates: Upon course survey completion, participants will be awarded CE certificates. Refund/Cancelation Policy: All requests for cancellation and refunds must be submitted in writing to [email protected] prior to the course date. Otherwise, no refunds will be allowed.  Read more

This course qualifies for STRTP CEUs.   Direct support professionals are often the backbone of trauma-informed care, yet their own emotional well-being is frequently overlooked. This 2 hour training invites participants to explore the impact of unresolved personal trauma and vicarious trauma within their roles. Through critical reflection and interactive dialogue, participants will examine how their personal histories shape their professional presence, and how systems often perpetuate burnout by normalizing self-neglect among frontline staff. This session centers the caregiver by offering tools to recognize signs of trauma within themselves, prioritize self-healing without guilt, and adopt sustainable practices for resilience. Participants will walk away with a deeper understanding of the reciprocal nature of trauma-informed care—recognizing that to truly support others, they must first create space for their own healing. This training is a call to reimagine caregiving as a practice rooted in wholeness, visibility, and shared humanity. --- Instructor: Dr. Marya Wright, LCSW Marya Wright, DSW, LCSW, is a nationally recognized social work leader, consultant, author, and educator with deep expertise in child welfare, forensic social work, and culturally responsive clinical practice. She is the Founder and CEO of Marya Wright Consulting LLC, where she designs and delivers high-impact training and consulting services to agencies that support system-involved youth and families. Dr. Wright earned her Doctorate in Social Work from the University of Southern California, where her scholarship focused on promoting equity and justice within the child welfare system. She also holds a Master of Social Work from California State University, East Bay, and a Bachelor of Social Work from San Diego State University, both with specialized training in Child Welfare Services and Motivational Interviewing. With over a decade of clinical, academic, and courtroom experience—including her work as a qualified expert witness—Dr. Wright brings a uniquely intersectional and practice-informed perspective to continuing education. Her work emphasizes relationship-centered engagement, culturally responsive practice, and trauma-informed care. She currently teaches graduate-level social work courses at Cal State East Bay, where she focuses on generalist practice, human behavior, and advanced clinical approaches with children, youth, and families. Dr. Wright’s research and publications center on child sexual exploitation, foster care, and the impact of algorithmic decision-making in social services. She is an active member of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) and serves on the Board of Directors for the National Phi Alpha Honor Society. Her trainings equip licensed clinicians with evidence-informed tools and critical insights that strengthen their practice and improve outcomes for marginalized communities. --- Other Important Information: Accommodations: To request additional assistance or accommodations, please contact Brisa Romero, Training Assistant, at [email protected]. Grievances: To obtain the grievance policy or report a grievance please email Ivon Favela, Deputy Director of Training at [email protected] CE Certificates: Upon course survey completion, participants will be awarded CE certificates. Refund/Cancelation Policy: All requests for cancellation and refunds must be submitted in writing to [email protected] prior to the course date. Otherwise, no refunds will be allowed.  Read more

This course qualifies for CAMFT CEUs.   Institutional racism is a thread that has been woven into our country’s history and continues to be present today. Therefore, it is important to work in collaboration to increase our awareness and knowledge that relates to the ways in which institutional racism haunts our daily lives and interactions, including in the work we do so that we can truly hear the voices of those affected. Services typically serve the disenfranchised and those who have experienced generations of complex challenges, such as poverty, racism, and historical trauma. It is our responsibility to work towards increasing our understanding of how such complex issues, such as racism, continue to be a barrier in recovery and healing as it continues to impact systematically and individually. It is essential that we work as a community to reduce the likelihood of being complicit to systematic racism and continuing to perpetuate the cycles related to trauma and racism that continues to place marginalized populations in a further vulnerable state of living. --- Instructor: Jeanette Lopez-Urbina, LCSW Jeanette Lopez-Urbina, LCSW has worked in the mental health/social services field since the year 2000, in various settings in Northern and Southern California, including residential and community-based services, through services such as Wraparound, psychotherapy, and violence prevention work. Jeanette has worked extensively with youth and families, especially in the area of trauma, including supporting youth and families in specialized services that address gang involvement, sexual exploitation, immigration trauma, and issues related oppression, racism, and acculturation issues. Jeanette is a bilingual first-generation Salvadoran American practitioner who enjoys practicing mostly from a social justice, relational, and psychodynamic approach. She currently is the owner of a group Private Practice in Berkeley, is part-time faculty at the Wright Institute in Berkeley, and has been a lecturer at UC Berkeley’s School of Social Welfare. Jeanette provides trainings throughout the Bay Area on topics related to best practices in serving the Latine population, trauma informed care, and culturally responsive services.     --- Other Important Information: Accommodations: To request additional assistance or accommodations, please contact Brisa Romero, Training Assistant, at [email protected]. Grievances: To obtain the grievance policy or report a grievance please email Ivon Favela, Deputy Director of Training at [email protected] CE Certificates: Upon course survey completion, participants will be awarded CE certificates. Refund/Cancelation Policy: All requests for cancellation and refunds must be submitted in writing to [email protected] prior to the course date. Otherwise, no refunds will be allowed.  --- CAMFT Information:  California Alliance of Child and Family Services (CACFS) is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and LEPs (Provider #1000075 ). This course meets the qualifications for 2 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. CACFS maintains responsibility for the program and all of its content. Read more

This course qualifies for CAMFT CEUs.   Navigating the complexities of biological relationships can be a sensitive and challenging process for many adoptees. Adoptees may seek out connections with their first family members for a variety of reasons, and as adoption professionals, it is crucial to provide a safe and supportive space for the exploration of these relationships. Factors such as assessing safety, developing realistic expectations, gauging emotional preparedness, setting boundaries, planning contact, respecting privacy, and building open and honest communication will be discussed. --- Instructor: Dr. Chaitra Wirta-Leiker Dr. Chaitra Wirta-Leiker is a licensed psychologist, international/transracial adoptee of color, and an adoptive parent. She specializes in providing mental health support focused on adoption, trauma, and racial identity work through her private practice based in Denver, Colorado. She is a speaker and trainer at adoption agencies, camps, and conferences worldwide, the creator of the National Adoptee-Therapist Directory, and the author of “The Adoptee Self-Reflection Journal,” “The Adoptive Parent Self-Reflection Journal,” and the “Adoptees Like Me” illustrated series for elementary readers.           --- Other Important Information: Accommodations: To request additional assistance or accommodations, please contact Brisa Romero, Training Assistant, at [email protected]. Grievances: To obtain the grievance policy or report a grievance please email Ivon Favela, Deputy Director of Training at [email protected] CE Certificates: Upon course survey completion, participants will be awarded CE certificates. Refund/Cancelation Policy: All requests for cancellation and refunds must be submitted in writing to [email protected] prior to the course date. Otherwise, no refunds will be allowed.  --- CAMFT Information:  California Alliance of Child and Family Services (CACFS) is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and LEPs (Provider #1000075 ). This course meets the qualifications for 2 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. CACFS maintains responsibility for the program and all of its content. Read more

This course qualifies for CAMFT CEUs.   As we work in a field of providing therapeutic and supportive services to individuals and families who have and continue to experience individual, community, and historical trauma, we eventually become fatigued and experience traumatization from hearing the stories of others, witnessing the harm of our clients, and from feeling the weight of the sociopolitical factors that contribute to harm that reaches the communities that we are trying to heal. This traumatization is often referred to as secondary trauma and it may lead us to experience doubts about continuing in the work, we may engage in unhealthy coping skills, and we may feel that we must cope with our secondary trauma on our own. Many of us were drawn to this field because we wanted to contribute to the healing journey of communities that have experienced generations of trauma and grief and, often, we may not realize that as we do this work, our own personal stories, reactions, and identities may be impacting further our perspective and feelings about the work. Our internal process is vital to understand so that we can monitor our feelings, thoughts, reactions, and behaviors towards our clients’ stories. Having this self-awareness can assist us in monitoring, titrating, and managing our strong reactions towards the work so that we can reduce any overwhelming feelings, negative coping skills, and reduce our feelings or actual isolation that often occurs. --- Instructor: Jeanette Lopez-Urbina, LCSW Jeanette Lopez-Urbina, LCSW has worked in the mental health/social services field since the year 2000, in various settings in Northern and Southern California, including residential and community-based services, through services such as Wraparound, psychotherapy, and violence prevention work. Jeanette has worked extensively with youth and families, especially in the area of trauma, including supporting youth and families in specialized services that address gang involvement, sexual exploitation, immigration trauma, and issues related oppression, racism, and acculturation issues. Jeanette is a bilingual first-generation Salvadoran American practitioner who enjoys practicing mostly from a social justice, relational, and psychodynamic approach. She currently is the owner of a group Private Practice in Berkeley, is part-time faculty at the Wright Institute in Berkeley, and has been a lecturer at UC Berkeley’s School of Social Welfare. Jeanette provides trainings throughout the Bay Area on topics related to best practices in serving the Latine population, trauma informed care, and culturally responsive services.   --- Other Important Information: Accommodations: To request additional assistance or accommodations, please contact Brisa Romero, Training Assistant, at [email protected]. Grievances: To obtain the grievance policy or report a grievance please email Ivon Favela, Deputy Director of Training at [email protected] CE Certificates: Upon course survey completion, participants will be awarded CE certificates. Refund/Cancelation Policy: All requests for cancellation and refunds must be submitted in writing to [email protected] prior to the course date. Otherwise, no refunds will be allowed.  Read more