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Continuing Education

Reveal Podcast: Cashing in on Troubled Teens

How the country’s biggest psychiatric hospital chain is profiting off kids trapped in a broken child welfare system.

Getting Curious podcast: Who Does America's Child Welfare System Serve?

Dorothy Roberts discusses how this system operates; who it most harms; and what it has to do with mass incarceration, police brutality, and centuries’ worth of inequities in this country.

CASA on the Go Podcast

Provided by Texas CASA, this continuing education podcast connects CASA volunteers with engaging and relevant training designed to help strengthen advocacy for children and families.

IEP Meeting Tips for Kids of Color

Meant for parents but useful for educational advocates, this resource helps you understand how to advocate for a child of color in IEP meetings with tips about documentation, goal setting, and next steps.

Kansas foster care providers working to address children's mental health needs

Amid a statewide mental health crisis, vulnerable children and teens in the state foster care system have been hard-hit by a scarcity of resources.

Opeeka Podcast

Opeeka believes the goal of using technology is to make life easier, more productive as well as increasing health & wellness. 

What's Not on the Test: The Overlooked Factors That Determine Success

A look at why the lives of high school graduate and GED test takers' lives vary so drastically when their test scores are roughly equal.‍

Zipcode Destiny: The Persistent Power Of Place And Education

Raj has found that early variables in your life, from the quality of your kindergarten teacher to the neighborhood you grew up in, can have lasting effects. And those effects often result in dramatically divergent outcomes in different parts of the country.

Caught with Kai Wright, WNYCS Studios Podcast

All kids make mistakes. But depending on your zip code, race, or just bad luck, those mistakes can have a lasting impact. Mass incarceration starts young. In Caught: The Lives of Juvenile Justice, hear from kids about the moment they collided with law and order, and how it changed them forever.

Changing the Face of Foster Care, Children’s Bureau Podcast

A conversation about comprehensive change of foster care.

Being Well: Understand the Stress Response with a Focus on the Flight Response

 Dr. Rick and Forrest discuss understanding the flight response to stress, which includes feelings of anxiety and fear, avoidant behavior, and an underlying sense of insecurity.

Being Well Podcast: Managing The Fight Response: Anger, Repression, and Self-Regulation

They explore anger, repression, and the balance of self-expression and self-regulation before talking about how we can claim the adaptive aspects of the fight response without falling prey to its more problematic aspects.

Being Well Podcast: Creating an Abundance Mindset

What a scarcity and an abundance mindset is, what some sources of scarcity are, and how we can move toward creating an experience of abundance.

Being Well Podcast: Fierce Self-Compassion with Dr. Kristin Neff

A pioneer in the field of compassion research, Dr. Kristin Neff, joins the show to explore the fierce side of self-compassion, including how it can help us draw healthy boundaries, take necessary action, and stand against injustice.

Being Well Podcast: Discovering Your Attachment Style

In this episode, Forrest and Dr. Jennie Rosier explore what attachment theory is, how we can identify our attachment style, and what we can do to build a healthier relationship with our own style and that of others.

Being Well Podcast: Childhood Trauma with Dr. Bruce Perry

Dr. Bruce Perry joins Dr. Hanson and Forrest to discuss the incredible impact of childhood experiences, the fuzzy distinction between trauma and stress, and what we can do to heal from those experiences.

Why We Should Seek Beauty in the Everyday Life (The Science of Happiness Podcast)

What happens when we intentionally look for beautiful things in our day-to-day lives? We explore a lab-tested practice shown to help you feel happier.

When It’s Hard to Connect, Try Being Curious (The Science of Happiness Podcast)

When we're more curious, we are more likely to be happier and have stronger relationships. Try deepening your curiosity with these science-backed practices from author Scott Shigeoka.

Where to Look for Joy (The Science of Happiness Podcast)

How can we feel more moments of joy? We explore the science of joy and how we can cultivate it in our everyday lives, with poet Ross Gay and psychologist Philip Watkins.

How to Stick to Your Resolutions in 2024 (The Science of Happiness Podcast)

We explore how the science of behavior change can help us form new habits and be happier while doing it.

Uniquely Human - The Podcast

Uniquely Human: The Podcast expands the conversation on autism and neurodiversity by amplifying the voices of autistic individuals and thought leaders in providing insightful, cutting-edge and practical information about the autistic experience.

The Child Psych Podcast

The ChildPsych Podcast brings to you the top parenting & mental health experts in the world. Designed to educate and inspire you with current research &  concrete strategies that foster resiliency & healing in children and teens. Most importantly we’re here because we need to raise a generation of children who don’t need to recover from their childhoods.

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