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NATC Courses

ASTA is providing the following eLearnings below which are currently unavailable through the National APS Training Center (NATC) due to their Learning Management System (LMS) being down.

NATC - APS Overview (California)

Course Description: This course covers the fundamentals of APS to enhance your work in serving people who have experienced abuse, neglect, and exploitation.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Describe the people APS serves.
  2. Identify APS roles and responsibilities.
  3. Recognize the types of referrals that APS investigates.
  4. Recognize the steps of APS referrals.
  5. Apply key terminology used in APS.

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NATC - Financial Exploitation (California)

Course Description: This course will teach you the necessary components for effective financial exploitation investigations. You will learn the indicators of financial exploitation, understand decision-making capacity and undue influence related to financial exploitation cases, and examine how to implement the essential steps for a financial exploitation investigation.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Recognize situations where financial exploitation may be occurring.
  2. Identify indicators of financial exploitation
  3. Recognize the impact of undue influence on decision-making.
  4. Select the components of financial decision-making ability.
  5. Identify key investigation steps in financial exploitation cases.

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NATC - Case First Steps and Professional Safety

Course Description: This course is designed to show you how to effectively collect information from an initial report and then develop a plan based on that report. The course also emphasizes the need to anticipate and plan for professional safety issues that could be encountered, along with steps anyone can take to remain safe in the field.

Learning Objectives: 

  1. Identify the goals of the intake process.
  2. Evaluate information received in the initial report.
  3. Identify safety protocols for working in the community.
  4. Identify methods of working with a client’s fears and concerns.
  5. Recognize potentially dangerous situations in order to remain safe.

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