Training Class Details
Class Title: Artificial Intelligence (AI): Legal, Ethical, and Practical Issues when Supporting Care of System-Involved Youth and Families-3 CAMFT CE Credits
Class Date: Thursday, November 5, 2026
Class Time: 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Availability: Employees and Eligible Participants
Available spaces: 2
Class Location: Webinar: Access details will be emailed the business day before the training.
[ Online ]
[ Online ], CA 94618
Class Trainers: Rachel Michaelsen
Class Description:


Training Summary: There are many legal and ethical consideration regarding use of AI in work with youth involved in child welfare. The training will address how AI has already been adopted for all kinds of healthcare and mental health care services. Use of AI in these contexts offers many benefits, risks, and unknowns. In this course, participants will learn what AI is and is not. Additionally, participants will learn ways it can be legally and ethically used administratively and applied in care to foster youth, known risks and benefits of using AI.

Training Objectives: 

By the end of the training participants will be able to

  • List two benefits and two risks of using AI in their work with system-involved youth.
  • Describe three ethical issues that can arise when using AI in their work with youth and families.
  • Describe three legal issues that can arise when using AI in their work.
  • List at least three practices to assure the legal and ethical use of AI in work with system-involved youth.

How can participants utilize their new skills and knowledge after the training to reinforce their learning?

  • Assess current use of AI in work with foster youth to determine if they are engaged in any unethical or illegal practices
  • Determine steps to ensure their use of AI in work with foster youth meets legal and ethical standards in their work with system-involved youth. 

Instructor Bio

Rachel Michaelsen, LCSW, is a clinical social worker who has worked in HMOs, public agencies, and private practice as both a mental-health provider and a supervisor for over thirty years. She has taught courses in DSM-5, clinical supervision, law and ethics, childhood psychopathology, time management, vicarious traumatization and energy psychology at universities, conferences, and mental-health agencies.

Steve Freedkin is an independent technology professional whose services include Internet security, technical support, Web-site development and management, SEO (online promotion of Web sites), social-media management, audiovisual production and streaming, and other computer-related services, primarily for psychotherapists in private practice and other small businesses and organizations.


See full Continuing Education (CE) information here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EwDiMO1rurdWG62QwDl9EZvlNebO_Z4x/view?usp=drive_link