Self-Paced & Interactive Courses

CalTrin’s self-paced and interactive courses offer professionals a guided learning experience within the four pillars: Evidence-Based/Evidence-Informed Service Delivery, Direct Service Delivery Skills, Trauma-Informed Systems, and Management & Leadership Development. These courses are designed to fit your individual schedule and learning style. Select a topic and get started today!
Self-Paced Courses
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Protective Factors
Replay + Resources
Watch a replay and review resources from a previous training!
Microaggressions
Dive into the science behind microaggressions, exploring why they occur and how they manifest in the workplace. Learn key tactics to prevent them from influencing decisions and judgments, and understand their impact on marginalized individuals.
Direct Service Skills
Effective Feedback
Review and practice techniques for giving and receiving feedback in the workplace
Leadership Topics
Trauma-Informed Systems
Social Connections
CalTrin's Overview of the Protective Factor: Social Connections
General for All Evidence-Based Practices Protective Factors
Setting & Maintaining Healthy Boundaries
Research shows that healthy boundaries are a protective factor against the ill-effects of stressful work. This training provides strategies to set and maintain healthy boundaries.
Direct Service Delivery
Building a Resilient and High-Performing Organizational Culture
This training will support leaders in developing the vision, commitment, communication, and planning that allows organizations to move resilience training from well-being programs to longer-term initiatives that define and build organizational cultures
Leadership Topics
Intro to Parent Cafés
This foundational Be Strong Families presentation will cover basic knowledge and skills to bring Parent Cafés to life
General for All Evidence-Based Practices
Fatherhood: People, Places, and Purpose
This presentation will explore the stigmas associated with masculinity and the challenges men face in accepting help and embracing vulnerability, particularly with strangers.
Moving Beyond DEI 101
Join Dr. Dana E. Crawford for a dynamic and supportive training series focused on building skills to navigate tense cultural situations. This series is grounded in the Crawford Bias Reduction Theory & Training (CBRT), a clinical approach specifically designed to reduce bias, prejudice, and racism.
Direct Service Delivery Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Video Archive
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Learning to Talk About Anti-Asian Racism
This webinar will present the history of anti-Asian hate and the impact of such racial trauma on people, families, and communities.
Direct Service Delivery Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Assessing Protective Factors Impacts in Your Organization
In this session, we’ll briefly review the five Protective Factors and explore a free and public tool created by the Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP) to help assess individual and organizational impact for staff
What Works in Clinical Supervision? A Review of 21 Evidence-Based Strategies
This training will review the evidence of 21 clinical supervision strategies and consider their applicability within a child welfare context
Evidence-Based Practices
Use of Self-Assessment Tools in Coaching
Beyond the conversations, coaches often leverage assessments to provide additional insights and increase their clients’ self-awareness in various aspects such as priorities, values, needs, strengths, personality, behavior, and interpersonal preferences.
Management & Leadership
Verbal De-escalation: Foundational Skills in Effectively Managing Emotional Escalation
Verbal de-escalation is a set of practical skills that can lead to a safer, calmer workplace.
Direct Service Delivery
Concealed but Common: Perinatal Mood & Anxiety Disorders and How We Can Bridge the Gap
Discussion of parental mental health and strategies to provide more thorough and supportive services
General for All Direct Service Delivery
Parental Resilience
CalTrin's Overview of the Protective Factor: Parental Resilience
General for All Evidence-Based Practices Protective Factors
Fostering Tribal-County Collaboration: The Cahto-Mendocino Experience
This webinar will focus on the experience of the Cahto Tribe of the Laytonville Rancheria and Mendocino County to collaboratively develop their Comprehensive Prevention Plan
Leadership Topics
Evoking Transformation Through Trauma-Informed Coaching
In this session, we will discuss how trauma impacts the brain and the implications this has for us as coaches.
Leadership Topics Leadership & Management
Psychological Safety & Inclusive Workspaces
This session explores how psychological safety fosters inclusive, collaborative workplaces where every voice is valued.
Trauma-Informed Systems
Implicit Bias
This session starts off by diving into the science of why implicit biases happen and how they can show up in our workplace. We explore several mitigation tactics to prevent biases from showing up in our decisions and judgements in the workplace.
Direct Service Delivery
Strengthening Families’ Protective Factors: Focus on Parental Resilience
Promoting resiliency with children and families who have experienced adversity
General for All Evidence-Based Practices Protective Factors
Foundations of Gender Inclusion
Establishes basic understanding of gender diversity and approaches for application to professional practice
General for All Direct Service Delivery Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Resolve to Evolve with EQ: How the Soft Skills Can Help You Tackle Hard Situations
Leadership Topics
Strengthening Families’ Protective Factors: Focus on Knowledge of Parenting & Child Development
Exploring the physical, emotional, and sexual development of children
General for All Evidence-Based Practices Protective Factors
Strengthening Families’ Protective Factors: Focus on Social and Emotional Competence
Exploring the stages of emotional development of children
General for All Evidence-Based Practices Protective Factors
Introduction to Strengthening Families: Focus on the Protective Factors Framework
An introduction to Strengthening Families' Protective Factors series
General for All Evidence-Based Practices Protective Factors
Strengthening Families’ Protective Factors: Focus on Concrete Support in Times of Need
Helping parents understand that asking for help is a strength
General for All Evidence-Based Practices Protective Factors
Strengths-Based Leadership
Explore how to leverage your strengths, build a strengths-based team, and use strengths-based coaching
Leadership Topics General for All
Culturally Responsive Collaboration with Tribes to Enhance Positive Outcomes in Serving Native American Families
This training will assist staff who work in the primary prevention and child welfare fields to gain skills to work more effectively with Native American youth and families.
Direct Service Delivery Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
The Importance and Value of Coach Self-Awareness
Self-awareness is about understanding your own needs, desires, habits, and everything that makes you, you.
Working with Asian American Families: A Strengths-Based Approach
A broad overview of Asian American families and an examination of the strengths and stressors that affect family well-being
Direct Service Delivery
Leading Through Change
If you are a leader who is looking for tools and strategy to lead a team or organization through change initiatives – this workshop is for you!
Leadership Topics General for All
Cultural Considerations for Integrating Racial Socialization in TF-CBT for Black Youth & Families
This training provides an in-depth exploration of how racial socialization can be integrated into Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) to enhance culturally responsive care for Black youth and families healing from interpersonal and racial trauma
Trauma-Informed Systems Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Strengthening Families’ Protective Factors: Focus on Social Connections
Exploring the development of healthy social connections for children
General for All Evidence-Based Practices Protective Factors
From Zero to Thrive! Nurturing Resilience in Families from Pregnancy through Early Childhood
This webinar will introduce Zero to Thrive and the Strong Roots™ framework
Evidence-Based Practices
CalWORKs & CalFresh Racial Equity & Implicit Bias Statewide Initiative Information Session
This information session will provide an overview of the Racial Equity and Implicit Bias (REIB) Statewide Initiative, preview free resources, workshops, and learning opportunities, and explain how participants, including community partners, can enroll in sessions.
Direct Service Delivery Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
The Role of Accountability in the Coaching Process
Leaning into Resistance
Resistance can happen under many different circumstances. In this module, we will explore why resistance happens in the coaching context.
Psychological Safety: The Foundation for a Connected & Engaged Team
This training will discuss the impact of psychological safety on team dynamics, individual well-being, and the overall effectiveness of our services
Trauma-Informed Systems
Tribal Partnerships are Prevention
This workshop will discuss Tribes, Tribal sovereignty, and the array of services often provided by Tribes to their citizens
Direct Service Delivery
Multidimensional Family Therapy: The Proven Family-Centered Treatment for Youth
This presentation will describe the clinical model and evidence base of Multidimensional Family Therapy (MDFT)
Evidence-Based Practices
Historical and Racial Trauma
An overview of both historical and current day racial trauma, including how they affect child and family outcomes
General for All Trauma-Informed Systems Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Introduction to Motivational Interviewing
Introduction to the history and principles of Motivational Interviewing
General for All Evidence-Based Practices
Collaborative Leadership: Aligning Goals, Driving Results
Leadership is about more than just managing tasks or overseeing teams – it’s about providing direction, connecting people, aligning their efforts, and creating an environment where everyone works together to achieve big results
Leadership Topics
Social & Emotional Competence of Children
CalTrin's Overview of the Protective Factor: Social & Emotional Competence of Children
General for All Evidence-Based Practices Protective Factors
Be Well. Do Well. Stay Awhile: A Practical Approach to Workplace Resiliency
This training will focus on the Kempe Center's evidence-informed framework and strategies to build a positive work culture that helps to retain an engaged workforce
Leadership Topics
Hope 101
HOPE offers a paradigm shift in the way practitioners approach their work with families and children, from one that emphasizes deficits and problems, to one that actively seeks out strengths and assets.
Direct Service Delivery
Get Grant Ready
This training focuses on preparing nonprofits to secure funding through grants
Leadership Topics General for All Leadership & Management
Essential Employee Conversations - 2 Part Series
Effective communication is key to building strong teams, improving staff performance, and fostering a culture of trust and accountability. This two-part series provides supervisors, managers, and leaders with practical tools to give meaningful feedback and navigate difficult conversations with confidence.
Leadership & Management
HOPE in Administration & HOPE in Practice
Using HOPE as an antiracist framework to address disparities in your organization; analyzing policies through a HOPE-informed lens; crafting HOPE-informed intakes; increasing access to the 4 Building Blocks in your community; and HOPE-informed family interactions
HOPE General for All Direct Service Delivery
Opportunities for Expanding Parent Leadership
An interactive webinar on parent leadership, focusing on resilience, advocacy, and community action programs.
Direct Service Delivery
Pause, Reset, Nourish: A Framework to Foster Wellness in the Midst of Challenging Work
This training will explore the Pause, Reset, Nourish (PRN) framework
Trauma-Informed Systems
The Art and Science of Father Engagement Programming
This presentation will review the current state of research and practice in programmatic efforts to engage new and expectant fathers during the perinatal period
General for All Evidence-Based Practices
Culturally Responsive Family Engagement
How children develop within the context of their cultures, models of family engagement, and strategies for engaging families
General for All Direct Service Delivery Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Paternal Perinatal Mental Health: The Changing Face of New Fatherhood
This presentation will provide information regarding key issues and best evidence-based clinical practice regarding paternal perinatal mental health
General for All Direct Service Delivery
Leading Through Change
Explore change management and group development theory and how it can inform your process for leading change in the workplace
Leadership Topics Leadership & Management
Trauma-Informed Care 101: Understanding Your Role in Creating a Trauma-Informed Environment
Overview of trauma-informed care and its application across child- and family-service settings, including specific steps to create a trauma-informed approach at the agency level and how staff can apply trauma-informed principles.
Research & Practice Innovations in Healing Interpersonal & Racial Trauma for Black Youth & Families
This training explores the profound impact of interpersonal trauma on Black youth, with a focus on the compounding stress of race-related experiences such as microaggressions and vicarious trauma
Trauma-Informed Systems Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Understanding Compassion Fatigue and Secondary Traumatic Stress
Explore the emotional impact of trauma exposure on helping professionals
Compassion Fatigue Secondary Traumatic Stress General for All Trauma-Informed Systems
Exploring a Prevention Mindset
Explore a prevention mindset as you move upstream towards increased prevention work
General for All
Cultural Competence
Develop an understanding of inclusive language, learn to recognize and avoid microaggressions, and build intercultural competency skills.
CalKIDS Scholarships Overview: Early Wealth Accounts for the Families You Serve
This webinar provides essential information on the local, state, and federal Early Wealth Accounts available to California families, specifically the CalKIDS Program, the new 530A “Trump Accounts,” Local Child Savings Account (CSA) programs, HOPE Accounts, CalABLE, and the Beyond Covered initiative.
Functional Family Therapy: An Overview for Stakeholders and Providers
This presentation will provide the audience with a brief overview of the Functional Family Therapy model, the target population, expected outcomes, and implementation for success
General for All Evidence-Based Practices
Mental Health Matters in Early Childhood
An overview of the foundations of mental health in children 0-5
Trauma-Informed Systems
Strategies for Addressing Compassion Fatigue and Secondary Traumatic Stress
Strategies to help Supervisors and above address the professional well-being of staff members
Leadership Topics General for All Trauma-Informed Systems
Concrete Support
CalTrin's Overview of the Protective Factor: Concrete Support
General for All Evidence-Based Practices Protective Factors
Program Evaluation 101
Review key elements to create a plan, gather data that are both useful and meaningful, and share the results
Leadership Topics General for All Evidence-Based Practices
2024 Updates to the Protective Factors Framework
This training reviews updates to the Protective Factors Framework, including revised definitions and reframed action-oriented core values
Evidence-Based Practices Protective Factors
Foundational Skills in Making Conflict Work
How do we bring our teams together in the face of shifting mandates, resource shortages, and other stressors?
So You Want to Implement Motivational Interviewing…Now What?
Information on how to effectively implement Motivational Interviewing (MI)
General for All Evidence-Based Practices
Implementation of Brief Strategic Family Therapy
This brief introduction will describe the BSFT® model as a systemic therapy designed to restructure maladaptive family interactions underlying the problems of delinquent, drug using youth
General for All Evidence-Based Practices
Career-Sustaining Behaviors: Advanced Training on Secondary Traumatic Stress & Empathic Strain
This session explores how psychological safety fosters inclusive, collaborative workplaces where every voice is valued.
Trauma-Informed Systems
Debriefing and Mutual Support: Establishing and Embedding Communities of Support in Our Work
This training provides best practice recommendations for processing the distressing elements of our work. It also provides guidance on establishing communities of support and debriefing processes that consider critical incidents.
Trauma-Informed Systems
Overview of the Protective Factors
CalTrin's high-level overview of the five Protective Factors, designed for child- and family-serving professionals at all levels of Protective Factors knowledge or experience
General for All Evidence-Based Practices Protective Factors
Knowledge of Parenting & Child Development
CalTrin's Overview of the Protective Factor: Knowledge of Parenting & Child Development
General for All Evidence-Based Practices Protective Factors
Addressing Implicit Bias
This training will help participants to understand and address implicit biases, including where they come from and how they show up within our daily interactions with children, families, and others
General for All Direct Service Delivery Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Empathic Strain & Secondary Trauma 101: Understanding the Essentials
This session explores the impact of empathic strain and secondary trauma exposure on the physical and emotional well-being of helping professionals
Trauma-Informed Systems
Introduction to California's Family First Prevention Services Program (FFPS)
Foundational information about FFPS and the opportunities it will provide to support and strengthen families within the prevention continuum
Family First Prevention Services Program, Family First Prevention Services Act, FFPS, FFPSA
Introduction to Child Trauma
Foundational training on child trauma, including a review of the prevalence, characteristics, and impact of trauma on children and their families
Trauma General for All Trauma-Informed Systems
Trauma, Parenting, and Challenging Behaviors (Adolescent)
An overview of adolescent trauma and its impact on development as well as a review of practical applications surrounding collaborating with and supporting caregivers of traumatized adolescents
Trauma, Parenting, and Challenging Behaviors (School-Age)
An overview of school-age trauma and its impact on development as well as a review of practical applications surrounding collaborating with and supporting caregivers of traumatized school-age children