Movies

Explore a variety of movies that represent some of the family dynamics, circumstances, or themes that may relate to the work that you do as a CASA Advocate. The following are movies and documentaries that are currently streaming on Netflix and can count toward your continuing education hours. If you watch something that you think can count towards your hours but is not on this list, please feel free to let your supervisor know and suggest it to us.

  • Movies and documentaries count as 2 hours. Check in with your supervisor regarding credits for multiple TV show episodes.

  • To get credit for continuing education, report it to your supervisor or enter it in Optima as a Training Log.

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Traumatized, violent, and yearning for love, 9-year-old Benni bonds with a gruff mentor as a child services worker struggle to find her a home.

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Fleeing in the night with Maddy, Alex seeks help from social services and lands a job with Value Maids, only to find her problems are just beginning.

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A loyal sister struggles to stay afloat while driving her heroin-addicted brother to a detox center and looking after his 2-year-old daughter.

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Hardened by years in foster care, a teenage girl from Brooklyn's Brownsville neighborhood decides that joining the all-boys wrestling team is the only way back to her estranged father.

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Ellen, a 20-year-old with anorexia nervosa, goes on a harrowing, sometimes funny journey of self-discovery at a group home run by an unusual doctor.

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A documentary that explores how drugs like Adderall offer students, athletes, coders, and others a way to do more – faster in better in a hyper-competitive world.

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A boy's murder and the trials of his guardians and social workers prompt questions about the system's protection of vulnerable children.

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From nature to nurture, this docuseries explores the groundbreaking science that reveals how infants discover life during their very first year.

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Using breakthroughs in technology and neuroscience, this series examines how the environment affects infants – and how infants can affect our future.