This webinar will explore the intersection of family economic instability and involvement with child welfare and the potential for recrafting how families and children are supported. There is a growing body of evidence showing the associations between economic hardship, cumulative material hardship and income shocks with child abuse and neglect and child protective services involvement.… Read More »National CASA Webinar: Economic and Concrete Supports as Core to Family and Child Well-being

Data on Native American youth, including adolescent populations, adolescent development, and common behaviors. Information on how Native American youth differ from non-native youth in areas such as cultural identity and family history. Trauma, including historical, intergenerational, and adolescent traumas will be addressed, as will barriers to treatment. Webinar will conclude with culturally- and age-appropriate suggestions… Read More »National CASA Webinar: Substance Use among Native American Youth

Medical marijuana has become a trending topic among our CASA cases. Join us if you are interested in learning more about practices surrounding medical marijuana or if you have experience with the medical marijuana process that you can share.

Poverty is a common thread across the lives of the children and families involved in the child welfare system. Its impact can have deep and long lasting impact and consequences. In most states, neglect cannot be established if failure to provide for a child’s needs is due only to poverty. Poverty may still contribute to… Read More »National CASA/GAL Book Club: “Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive”

This presentation seeks to engage with parents and caregivers of young people of all ages to help identify and build youth resiliency skills. During the event, all attendees will learn, use, and practice youth resiliency skills to be proactive in young people’s lives. We know that this is a stressful time for everyone, especially youth,… Read More »Community Training: Prevent+Ed Building Resiliency Skills in Kids of All Ages: A Parent/Caregiver Approach

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Join us for a Zoom In-Service as Julie Hook from HOPE Coalition shares some of the challenges our youth are facing when it comes to making positive choices. Terisha Friedmann with Certified Peer Specialists will then share some of the barriers that adults are facing in our community who are struggling with substance use disorder.

This one-hour training is designed for professionals and anyone else working with individuals who are at risk of experiencing or witnessing a heroin/opioid overdose. Topics include a discussion of opioid use disorder (OUD) as a brain disease, the landscape of the opioid epidemic, and how to have conversations about overdose prevention and naloxone distribution. This… Read More »Community Training: Prevent+Ed Overdose Prevention and Naloxone Training

This webinar will explore the current state of Family First implementation related to prevention services. Family First remains the most important transformative child welfare policy of the 21st century. Approximately 20 Prevention Plans have been approved to date with a similar number submitted awaiting approval. Implementation varies across the country though several themes are emerging… Read More »National CASA Webinar: Family First: Implementation Updates and Emerging Considerations

Join Maryland CASA Association for its virtual spring institute, The Intersections of Childhood Adversity & Racial Trauma. Spanish Translation Services will be available at all sessions. This all-day virtual institute hosted by Maryland CASA Association will bring together professional and volunteer child welfare advocates from across the state of Maryland and the country to engage in… Read More »Maryland CASA Association: The Intersections of Childhood Adversity & Racial Trauma

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Angie will host the quarterly Fostering Futures Recap on 4/13/22 at 6PM. If you are working with an older youth (14+), join your fellow CASA volunteers for a discussion on engaging youth in their goal planning process.