PRE-SERVICE TRAINING

Pre-Service Training

These links are used in conjunction with the pre-work instructions (yellow pages) during training. Follow the instructions to match links with associated pre-work readings.

Intro Session

What Is a CASA? Information Session Video
Make a Lifelong Difference

Session/Tab 1

CASA 101: What Does a CASA Volunteer Do?
WHO Child Maltreatment
CASA Founder Judge David W. Soukup
John's Story
Research and Effectiveness
ReMoved #3 - Love Is Never Wasted

Session/Tab 2

Navigating Your Child Welfare Case
How Brains Are Built: The Core Story of Brain Development
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
8 Stages of Development by Erik Erikson
Attachment Theory: How Childhood Affects Life
Interviewing a 4-Year-Old Child - Part 1
Interviewing a 4-Year-Old Child - Part 2
Optima Training Environment

Session/Tab 3

Supporting Children of Parents with Mental Illness
Get Smart About Drugs
How Addiction Affects Our Children
State of Addiction: Children Living with Addicted Parents
Optima Training Environment
Mandated Reporter Training

Session/Tab 4

Talk Poverty Data
Tour Poverty USA
SPENT
Verna Myers: How to Overcome Our Biases?
Implicit Bias Test
Implicit Bias | Countermeasures
People In Need Directory
Optima Training Environment

Session/Tab 5

Optima Training Environment
Why We Stayed
First Impressions: Exposure to Violence and a Child's Developing Brain
ReMoved
How Childhood Trauma Affects Health Across a Lifetime
How Resilience Is Built
Optima Training Environment

Session/Tab 6

Optima Training Environment
Stories of Aging Out - Baily's Story
Promoting Brain Gains for Youths Emerging from Foster Care
Randy's Story
Learning About Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity & Expression
SOGIE - Glossary (PDF)
Bias Free Advocacy (begin at 1:50 min)