WHEN: Wednesday, April 23rd from 9:00-10:30am PST/11:00am-12:30 CST/ 12:00-1:30pm EST

WHERE: Zoom

COST: FREE!

Academy Open House

Calling all mental health clinicians and their organizations to hear more about the new C.A.S.E. Academy for Elevating Clinical Practice in Permanency.

Need more tools in working with those challenged with mental health and behavioral concerns for those raised in foster care, adopted or being raised by relatives?

Know what to do in a crisis with these children and their families?

Come to a free training chock full of Tips and Strategies to Managing Crisis with Children who have experienced loss and trauma. The training is hosted by the C.A.S.E. Academy, led by the Director, Laura Ornelas, LCSW and includes a virtual Open House of the C.A.S.E. Academy. Hear about the one of a kind Academy offerings that uniquely equip mental health clinicians with specialized skills to work with this population, including newly released videos and courses led by our amazing faculty that you will get to meet! 

 ABOUT THE PRESENTER:

Laura Ornelas, LCSW is a licensed clinical social worker, with a master’s degree in social work from the University of Southern California. She has been working in the field of foster care and adoption for 30 years and has been instrumental in the startup of multiple programs throughout California. She has been immersed in all angles of child placement and public and private adoptions in Los Angeles, and has worked with children of all ages, specializing in the birth-to-5 population, as well as with widely diverse families. After a decade of child placement work, Laura was inspired to support families post placement on their lifelong journeys. For nearly a decade, Laura served as the Regional Director of Mental Health Services for Kinship Center, during which time she designed and oversaw specialty mental health clinics for children who had been adopted and/or were being raised by kinship caregivers. Having studied with the leaders in attachment and trauma-informed care, she created a powerful clinical model rooted in relationship-based healing. In 2018, Laura was asked to join the team at C.A.S.E. to  launch the C.A.S.E. Academy – Elevating Clinical Practice In Permanency for mental health professionals. Laura educates parents and professionals across the country about the effects of ruptures in relationships and best practices in child welfare and adoption. A seasoned and respected trainer, Laura has also written several works, including Effectively Addressing Mental Health Issues in Permanency-Focused Child Welfare Practice (Child Welfare Journal), Attachment Through the Senses (Fostering Families Today) and numerous white papers, including Childhood Trauma: A Multi-Dimensional Approach and Yoga as Trauma Treatment for Children. She is also a contributing curriculum developer and master trainer for ACT: An Adoption & Permanency Curriculum for Child Welfare and Mental Health Professionals and Pathways to Permanence 2: Parenting Children Who Have Experienced Trauma and Loss. Most recently, Laura was the lead writer and trainer of trainers and consultant for the federally funded NTDC, the National Training and Development Curriculum for foster and adoptive parents. Laura remains passionate about broadening collective understanding of children’s development to include loss, trauma, attachment, and intersecting identities.