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Online Continuing Ed Opportunities

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

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.

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Adult adoptees seek their origins, illuminating the impact of secrecy in adoption over the course of a lifetime.

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Each episode serves to bring awareness and education to the public about complex issues adoptees face.

All Episodes

A film about the importance of cultural connections for Native American foster youth.

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A look into the lives of two middle class black families as they navigate the ups and downs of parenting and educating their sons.

YouTube | Pluto tv | Tubi

This series about infant development covers the stages of learning, the importance of adult-child interaction and the challenges of becoming a parent.

Netflix

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.

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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.

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Language barriers and discipline problems contribute to a Wisconsin couple’s difficulty in bonding with the three Russian orphans they adopted.

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One couple’s journey to adopt from foster care.

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This short film depicts the positive impact foster care can have on both the child and the foster care parent.

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Millions of U.S. children are taking psychiatric drugs, most never tested on kids. Good medicine – or an uncontrolled experiment?

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An investigation into how and why meth use spiraled out of control and became the fastest-growing drug abuse problem in America.

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A feisty foster kid’s outrageous scheme to be reunited with her birth mother has unintended consequences.

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Tips to help you raise a happier, calmer child… and double your fun!

Fayetteville Library | Farmington Library

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?

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The Tom family adopted eleven children, most of whom had serious disabilities or diseases.

Fayetteville Library

A 12-year-old girl working hard to overcome a troubling past and accept and embrace the love and possibility that now surround her.

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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.

Fayetteville Library

Cameras have been allowed into the yearly picnic where prospective foster parents get to see the children in a lively, social situation.

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Explores what poverty means to children in America through the stories of three families.

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A British documentary series about social workers in the child protection department in Bristol.

Episode One

Episode Two

Episode Three

Follows Dorset County Council’s fostering service day-to-day work professionals do in helping the lives of children in care.

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Four teenaged Chinese adoptees now living in the United States, examine what it is like to come-of-age as a trans-racial adoptee in today’s America.

Pluto TV | Tubi

Seeks to raise awareness about the foster care crisis in Wisconsin and throughout our nation.

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This documentary-style video chronicles the lives of three youth who aged out of care and what happened next.

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