Hear the stories of Arkansans who have suffered from addiction — as well as the continued fight in the state to address issues surrounding opioid use, misuse and addiction.
Everything listed here will count toward your required 12 hours of continuing education, so please be sure to keep track of what you watch/listen to and the amount of time.
Documentaries
Adult adoptees seek their origins, illuminating the impact of secrecy in adoption over the course of a lifetime.
Each episode serves to bring awareness and education to the public about complex issues adoptees face.
A film about the importance of cultural connections for Native American foster youth.
This series about infant development covers the stages of learning, the importance of adult-child interaction and the challenges of becoming a parent.
Lisa Ling investigates what happens to a child after they’ve been removed from their family, the actions parents take hoping to reunify and how the system is holding up under the strain.
A transracial adoptee who finds her birth mother, and meets the rest of a family who didn’t know she existed, including her birth father. A story about identity, the complexities of trans-racial adoption, and most importantly, closure.
Language barriers and discipline problems contribute to a Wisconsin couple’s difficulty in bonding with the three Russian orphans they adopted.
One couple’s journey to adopt from foster care.
This short film depicts the positive impact foster care can have on both the child and the foster care parent.
Millions of U.S. children are taking psychiatric drugs, most never tested on kids. Good medicine – or an uncontrolled experiment?
An investigation into how and why meth use spiraled out of control and became the fastest-growing drug abuse problem in America.
A feisty foster kid’s outrageous scheme to be reunited with her birth mother has unintended consequences.
Tips to help you raise a happier, calmer child… and double your fun!
Poverty in America is probably not what you think. Emmy Award-winning producer Linda Midgett shows us in this groundbreaking documentary a new face of poverty in America. About 50 million people in the United States live below the poverty line and one in four American children lives in poverty. But what is poverty in America?
The Tom family adopted eleven children, most of whom had serious disabilities or diseases.
A 12-year-old girl working hard to overcome a troubling past and accept and embrace the love and possibility that now surround her.
An adoptee struggling with her “true” identity, the circumstances of her adoption and her estrangement from black culture, decides to make sense of her identity.
Cameras have been allowed into the yearly picnic where prospective foster parents get to see the children in a lively, social situation.
Explores what poverty means to children in America through the stories of three families.
A British documentary series about social workers in the child protection department in Bristol.
Follows Dorset County Council’s fostering service day-to-day work professionals do in helping the lives of children in care.
Seeks to raise awareness about the foster care crisis in Wisconsin and throughout our nation.
This documentary-style video chronicles the lives of three youth who aged out of care and what happened next.
CASA of NWA Training Videos
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Conversation starters for kids
Questions that get kids talking
Webinars
Focus Area: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Advocating for Indian Children: ICWA and the Role of CASA/GALs
Strengthening Families Using a Racial Equity Lens
Culturally Responsive Child Advocacy
Part 1: History of the Child Welfare System
Part 2: The Current State and Climate of the Foster Care System
Part 3: Understanding Racial Bias and the Impact on Families of Color
Part 4: Tools for Closing the Gap
All Children – All Families: Advocating for LGBTQ Youth
Part 1: Setting the Foundation for LGBTQ Inclusion
Part 2: Advocating for LGBTQ Youth
Part 3: Advocating for LGBTQ Youth in the Educational System
Focus Area: Permanency and Child Outcomes
Advocating for Trafficked and High-Risk Child and Youth Victims
Substance Use Disorders
Part 1: An Introduction to Substance Abuse as a Disorder
Part 2: A Family-Centered Approach to Understanding Impact
Part 3: Substance Use Disorders and Child Welfare
Focus Area: Self Care
2018
- EN: Navigating WomensLaw
- EN: Technology-Facilitated Abuse and Legal Remedies
- SP: El Maltrato a través de la Tecnología y Remedios Legales
- Requirements for Divorce (narrated in Spanish with English subtitles)
- Divorce: Documents and Notification (narrated in Spanish with English subtitles)
- The Divorce Process for Domestic Violence Survivors (narrated in Spanish with English subtitles)