Catalyst Center Continuing Education Unit Store

This course qualifies for GH CEUs.   This training equips youth service providers with actionable strategies to bridge the gap between empathy and tangible support for children and families navigating trauma, instability, and systemic barriers. Drawing from real-world, cross-sector experience in youth development, behavioral health, and human services leadership, the session provides an in-depth exploration of how trauma manifests in behavior, how current systems often retraumatize, and how providers can use their existing tools and funding streams to create concrete, stabilizing supports. Participants will gain skills to recognize trauma-adaptive behaviors not as survival responses, not pathology, and will explore how to shift from siloed service delivery to integrated, community-rooted solutions. The training also includes practical guidance on identifying flexible funding opportunities through commonly under-leveraged eligible activities in state and federal grants. This course is especially relevant for professionals working within or alongside child welfare, juvenile justice, and family-serving systems. By centering a human-centered, trauma-informed lens, youth-serving professionals will leave with clearer strategies to advocate for systemic change while improving the therapeutic stability of the families they support. --- Instructor: Tekoah Boatner Tekoah Boatner is a board-certified Human Services Specialist, Certified Nonprofit Professional, and Project Management Professional with over 20 years of experience designing trauma-informed, healing-centered programs for system-involved youth. Through her work at TKB Strategies and All Voices Coaching, she supports providers in child welfare, juvenile justice, housing, and behavioral health sectors by offering scalable, culturally grounded solutions rooted in both research and lived experience. Tekoah regularly trains clinicians, frontline staff, and administrators on trauma, PACEs science, and systems change strategies, helping them integrate resilience-building practices into their work with disconnected and intersectional youth.       --- 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.   This training equips youth service providers with actionable strategies to bridge the gap between empathy and tangible support for children and families navigating trauma, instability, and systemic barriers. Drawing from real-world, cross-sector experience in youth development, behavioral health, and human services leadership, the session provides an in-depth exploration of how trauma manifests in behavior, how current systems often retraumatize, and how providers can use their existing tools and funding streams to create concrete, stabilizing supports. Participants will gain skills to recognize trauma-adaptive behaviors not as survival responses, not pathology, and will explore how to shift from siloed service delivery to integrated, community-rooted solutions. The training also includes practical guidance on identifying flexible funding opportunities through commonly under-leveraged eligible activities in state and federal grants. This course is especially relevant for professionals working within or alongside child welfare, juvenile justice, and family-serving systems. By centering a human-centered, trauma-informed lens, youth-serving professionals will leave with clearer strategies to advocate for systemic change while improving the therapeutic stability of the families they support. --- Instructor: Tekoah Boatner Tekoah Boatner is a board-certified Human Services Specialist, Certified Nonprofit Professional, and Project Management Professional with over 20 years of experience designing trauma-informed, healing-centered programs for system-involved youth. Through her work at TKB Strategies and All Voices Coaching, she supports providers in child welfare, juvenile justice, housing, and behavioral health sectors by offering scalable, culturally grounded solutions rooted in both research and lived experience. Tekoah regularly trains clinicians, frontline staff, and administrators on trauma, PACEs science, and systems change strategies, helping them integrate resilience-building practices into their work with disconnected and intersectional youth.       --- 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.   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 STRTP CEUs.   This course will take a deep dive into the difference between Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Expression (SOGIE), with a particular attention to SOGIEs outside the binary. We will discuss how internal bias can impact the well-being of LGBTQ+ in out of home care. This session will address California’s child welfare policies regarding the well-being of LGBTQ+ youth in care and provide practical strategies and tips on how to best implement those regulations. We will provide statistics around the prevalence of suicide and self-harm behavior among LGBTQ+ youth. These statistics will inform why it is so important to use the correct pronoun and name that a youth has chosen. Participants will be introduced to neo pronouns. It will also provide practical tips on how to have conversations with youth around their SOGIE. This course will discuss the mental and physical health of LGBTQ+ youth, as well as the intersection of SOGIE and race. This plenary will also provide resources for families who are struggling with the SOGIE of their children. --- 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 Department of Social Services to sponsor continuing education for Group Home Administrators (GH; Vendor ID: 2000083-730-2) and Short-Term Residential Therapeutic Program (STRTP; Vendor ID: 2000083-733-2) Administrators. This course meets the requirements for 6 hours of continuing education for STRTP Administrators (Course ID: 083-0643-37394). Read more