What Are CASA Coffees & Why Should You Attend? It’s a chance to network & stay connected with your fellow CASA volunteers & the staff. Earn in-service hours. For current CASA volunteers (both with or between active cases). 2nd Friday of every month from 8-9AM. Held at each CASA office (Hermann, Owensville, and Union) Hermann… Read More »Monthly CASA Coffee Networking Meeting for Volunteers & Staff
Our next CASA Book Club selection is Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver. Learn more about the book by clicking HERE. We will meet on Monday, 5/15/2023 at 5:30PM to discuss this novel. RSVP to ashley@casamideastmo.org.
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, risk factors and harm reduction strategies, and how to respond to an… Read More »Community Training: Overdose Prevention and Naloxone Training
The Missouri Juvenile Justice Association is holding their Spring Conference Wednesday, 5/24/23 through Friday, 5/26/23 at the Renaissance St Louis Airport Hotel 9801 Natural Bridge Road St. Louis, Missouri 63134. Learn more about the conference and training sessions HERE! Scholarships are available for this conference, but are due by 3/1/2023. If interested in attending this… Read More »MJJA 2023 Spring Conference
Prevent+Ed is hosting an in-person Youth Mental Health and First Aid Training on 5/25/2023. YMHFA is designed to teach parents, family members, caregivers, teachers, school staff, peers, neighbors, health and human services workers, and other caring citizens how to help an adolescent (age 12-18) who is experiencing a mental health or addictions challenge or is… Read More »Community Training: Youth Mental Health First Aid Training (In-person)
What Are CASA Coffees & Why Should You Attend? It’s a chance to network & stay connected with your fellow CASA volunteers & the staff. Earn in-service hours. For current CASA volunteers (both with or between active cases). 2nd Friday of every month from 8-9AM. Held at each CASA office (Hermann, Owensville, and Union) Hermann… Read More »Monthly CASA Coffee Networking Meeting for Volunteers & Staff
From June 9-12, 2023, National CASA/GAL will hold our third annual Walk Run Thrive – the national walk/run event aimed at raising awareness and support for National CASA/GAL and our nationwide network. This year, there will be multiple ways to engage: Join us virtually: Walk, run, bike or roll in your own community, at your own pace and on your… Read More »National CASA: Walk Run Thrive Event
National CASA/GAL Association for Children is pleased to announce its 2023 Annual Conference, which will offer an opportunity to bring our network together for learning and professional development, in-person and virtual networking and collaboration, celebration of our 2023 Awards of Excellence recipients. The National CASA/GAL Association’s 2023 Annual Conference, “Strong Families. Strong Futures.” will be… Read More »National CASA Conference: Strong Families. Strong Futures
Teen Institute is back! Since 1980, PreventEd has led Teen Institute (TI). It’s a powerful 4-day retreat that equips high school students to prevent substance misuse among their peers. Teen Institute 2023 is June 12th-15th at Pallottine Renewal Center in Florissant. For more information, please contact Joy Carter or Kristin Bengtson or call us at 314-962-3456 ext 355. Teen Institute costs… Read More »Youth Opportunity: Teen Institute 2023
This a FREE event, grant funded by Juvenile Office Performance Standards Education Initiative. Ms. Shirley Crenshaw, MSW, LCSW has over 28 years of experience working in the child welfare world in St. Louis and surrounding areas. Currently, Ms. Crenshaw works individually and in group settings on specific cases of children with severe trauma and behaviors.… Read More »Community Training: Shirley Crenshaw, MSW, LCSW Working with Children with Trauma and Attachment Disturbances
Mid-Mo Addiction Awareness Group (MAAG) hosts Substance Use Disorder Awareness Walks in many communities. Not only to raise awareness but to come together and be a voice for the voiceless. MAAG's Mission is to shed light on substance use disorder by raising awareness, increasing education, and stopping the stigma. MAAG is passionate about helping those… Read More »MAAG SUD Awareness & Recovery Walk- Owensville
Update: this training has reached capacity. If interested, you can still register to have your name added to a waitlist. Missouri KidsFirst is hosting a virtual booster session to provide skills to professionals working with victims of abuse and their families to mitigate the impacts of secondary trauma exposure and build resiliency of individual team… Read More »Community Virtual Training: Addressing Secondary Trauma