CASA Help Guides
Podcast: The Secret Sauce (Relationships!) with Keri Richmond
Strengthening Advocacy Through Education
Research shows that maintaining birth parent connections is beneficial in many ways for children living in foster care. Regardless of the case plan, understanding their origins and cultivating meaningful relationships with biological relatives can provide children...
My CASA Journey – Maintaining Sibling Connections
The importance of maintaining sibling connections is well known. The reasons they are not kept together when removed from their home may not be as well understood. One of the most common reasons for separation is the lack of foster homes that can accommodate sibling...
In The Spotlight – “By Their Side” Podcast
VOICES is thrilled to announce the launch of our new podcast series, ‘By Their Side!’ Join us as we engage industry professionals in candid discussions on topics such as trauma, attachment, and effective advocacy strategies. Listeners can tune in monthly to gain...
Podcast: Strengths-Based Strategies for Supporting Children in Crisis with Kevin Powell, Ph.D.
Podcast: Nurturing Birth Parent Connections with Ashley Mitchell
Podcast: Fostering Healing Through Connection with Dafna Lender, LCSW
My CASA Journey (Feb 2024)
As a CASA Volunteer, you never know what unique needs you uncover as you get to know your appointed child. Sometimes it is identifying the gaps such as a bank account for a minor or a kinship placement that is low on diapers. Or unique situations such as the child who...
Strengthening Advocacy Through Education
Many people have heard of the fight, flight, freeze, or fawn phenomenon. This survival instinct was developed over time to protect ourselves and ensure the continuation of the human species. But what happens when this instinct becomes maladaptive? Children who have...