On-Going Training Opportunities for Active CASA Volunteers
Overview
In order to maintain eligibility to work on a case as a CASA advocate, volunteers must complete a minimum of 12 hours of on-going training per calendar year. CASA of Adams and Broomfield Counties often partners with other agencies and stakeholders to provide CASA Volunteers with an array of on-going training opportunities.
Check here regularly for a list of training opportunities. You can also check with your Volunteer coordinator for additional training opportunities.
Continuing Education Review Form
Online Podcast Training
Check here regularly for an updated list of online training opportunities.
ONLINE PODCAST TRAININGS
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
The Impact of Trauma on Women and Girls Across the Lifespan
Recurring Training
Check here regularly for an updated list of regular recurring training opportunities.
- Broomfield Best Practice Courts Brown Bag Training
When: Second Wednesday of Every Month
Where: Broomfield Courthouse, 17 DesCombes Drive in the Downstairs Jury Room, Broomfield, CO
Time: 12:00 PM
Registration Fee: FREE - Bring Your Own Lunch
Topics will vary each month and include: Probation & Assessments, Health & Human Services, etc.
Please RSVP to Chris Hanson at Chris@casa17th.com .
Upcoming Training Opportunities
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD): When Good Parenting Doesn't Work
When: Thursday, February 16, 2012
Where: Adams County Economic Development Office, 12200 Pecos Street, Suite 100, Westminster, CO
Time: 6:00 - 9:00 PM
Registration Fee: FREE - Dinner Will Be Served
Attendees will...
- Learn how Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders are recognized and diagnosed.
- Begin to understand children with FASD and other pre-natal exposures.
- Focus on interventions that successfully affect the behavior of children with FASD.
- Learn why traditional parenting methods may cause more difficult behavior.
- Hear new ways to create more positive outcomes with your child.
- Learn to identify appropriate educational interventions.
Please RSVP to Christy at Christy@casa17th.com
- Working With Talented & Gifted Children
When: Thursday, February 23, 2012
Where: Adams County Courthouse - Law Library (1st Floor), 1100 Judicial Center Drive, Brighton, CO
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Registration Fee: FREE
Tristan Koberg, a volunteer & intern, will be presenting on Working with Talented & Gifted Children. This training will cover advocating for talent & gifted youth & signs to look for to see if a child falls in this category. We recently had a case with a child diagnosed with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, in a review of the file it was determined that this child had a very high IQ but no one had ever advocated for a talented & gifted program for this child. Some children have delays in some areas but excel in others. Kids in foster care are sometimes seen as behavior problems when in reality they are not being challenged enough in areas they excel in.
Volunteers in attendance will receive 1.5 hours of continuing education credit for 2012.
Please RSVP to Christy at Christy@casa17th.com.
When: Saturday, February 11, 2012
Where: Adams County Economic Development Office, 12200 Pecos Street, Suite 100, Westminster, CO
Time: 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Registration Fee: FREE
Lori Knight will be leading a panel of sexual offenders. The panel will be discussing treatment and management of sexual offenders, grooming behaviors of offenders and prevention efforts. All volunteers who are assigned to sexual abuse cases are highly encouraged to attend this panel. Lori will also discuss the support needed for the child(ren) and family in sexual abuse cases and current treatment and research in this area.
Please RSVP to Christy at christy@casa17th.com.
- Metro Collaborative CASA Training
When: Saturday, March 3, 2012
Where: Mile High Church Community Center, 9079 W. Alameda Ave., Lakewood, CO
Time: 8:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Registration Fee: FREE
CLICK HERE FOR A DOWNLOADABLE FLYER
CLICK HERE FOR A DOWNLOADABLE REGISTRATION FORM
Please RSVP directly to Jaime Weibel at jaime_weibel@adv4children.org .
Please indicate you are affiliated with CASA of Adams & Broomfield Counties.
Book Club... All Volunteers are Invited!
The Morning Book Club will meet at the Brunner Farm House, 640 Main Street, on the NE corner of Midway Blvd & Main St in Broomfield on the 1st Monday of the first Monday of February, March, May, June & October from 9 – 11am.
Please RSVP to Christy@casa17th.com to attend these meetings.
The Evening Book Club will meet at Adams County Economic Development, 12200 Pecos Street, Suite 100, Westminster on the 2nd Tuesday of March, May, June, September & October & on the 3rd Tuesday in February from 6 – 8 pm.
Please RSVP to Christy@casa17th.com to attend these meetings.
The Dinner & A Movie Club will meet on the 2nd Tuesday of January, April, August & November at Adams County Economic Development, 12200 Pecos Street, Suite 100, Westminster from 6 – 9 pm.
Please RSVP to Christy@casa17th.com to attend these meetings.
All meeting will include a networking & socializing time to meet & talk with CASA volunteers & staff & to discuss case issues or concerns.
UPCOMING DATES....
February 6th (am) & February 21st (pm)– Book Club – Sickened, by Julie Gregory
 A young girl is perched on the cold chrome of yet another doctor’s examining table, missing yet another day of school. Just twelve, she’s tall, skinny, and weak. It’s four o’clock, and she hasn’t been allowed to eat anything all day. Her mother, on the other hand, seems curiously excited. She's about to suggest open-heart surgery on her child to "get to the bottom of this." She checks her teeth for lipstick and, as the doctor enters, shoots the girl a warning glance. This child will not ruin her plans.
March 5th (am) & March 13th (pm) – Book Club – The Language of Flowers: A Novel by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
 A mesmerizing, moving, and elegantly written debut novel, The Language of Flowers beautifully weaves past and present, creating a vivid portrait of an unforgettable woman whose gift for flowers helps her change the lives of others even as she struggles to overcome her own troubled past.
The Victorian language of flowers was used to convey romantic expressions: honeysuckle for devotion, asters for patience, and red roses for love. But for Victoria Jones, it’s been more useful in communicating grief, mistrust, and solitude. After a childhood spent in the foster-care system, she is unable to get close to anybody, and her only connection to the world is through flowers and their meanings.
Now eighteen and emancipated from the system, Victoria has nowhere to go and sleeps in a public park, where she plants a small garden of her own. Soon a local florist discovers her talents, and Victoria realizes she has a gift for helping others through the flowers she chooses for them. But a mysterious vendor at the flower market has her questioning what’s been missing in her life, and when she’s forced to confront a painful secret from her past, she must decide whether it’s worth risking everything for a second chance at happiness.
April 10th (pm) – Dinner & A Movie – From Place to Place
 Despite being let down and left behind by America’s foster care system, From Place to Place follows plucky underdogs Mandy and Raifas they set out to change the system that raised them.
What would you do without your family? What if you were all alone in the world? The feature documentary From Place to Place tells the story of the invisible children who grow up in America’s foster care system. For the first time, Mandy, Micah and Raif find their voice after being hurt, lost and silenced by the system that was supposed to take care of them. The film follows their lives for over two years as they struggle to make it on their own, find their voice and impact the system. By looking at the effects on a few individuals, the film makes the problem real. Statistics take on names and faces. Raif hits the streets in search of love and happiness, Mandy passes the GED and goes to college, and Micah is sentenced to three years in jail. The first half of the film provides an intimate and unprecedented glimpse into life post-foster care.
The second half of the film takes an unexpected turn when Mandy and Raif are invited to Washington DC to present their stories to The Senate Caucus on Foster Youth. Never given a reason to believe in themselves, they have no idea what effect their stories will have. At the Caucus event, Raif and Mandy talk about their foster care experiences and ideas for how the system can change. Their words are lightning bolts of revelation. The power of their voice sets in motion a chain of events that culminates with The Senate Caucus on Foster Youth announcing a Call to Action for comprehensive reform to America’s foster care system.
The film concludes with Mandy and Raif traveling from place to place, spreading their message and leading efforts to radically reform America’s foster care system. Raif realizes that he has helped other people and Mandy transforms into a confident woman. From Place to Place provides their voice volume to make a difference.
May 7th (am) & May 8th (pm) – Book Club – An Invisible Thread by Alex Tresniowski
 Hi, my name is Laura Schroff, and An Invisible Threadis the story of my friend, Maurice, and me. We met on 56thstreet in Manhattan in 1986, when I was a 35-year-old single, successful ad sales executive, and he was an 11-year-old homeless panhandler. He asked me for spare change; I ignored him and kept walking. But something made me stop, and turn around, and go back to him, and that day I took him to lunch at McDonalds. We met the Monday after that, and the following Monday, and every Monday for the next four years, and hundreds of times after that. Today, 25 years later, we are still great friends.
An Invisible Threadis the story of how Maurice changed my life, and I his. It is the story of how two people who needed each other somehow became unlikely friends, against all odds. It is the story of the mysterious, unseen connections that exist between people who are destined to meet—and how, if only we open our eyes and our hearts to them, these connections can be the great blessings of our lives.
Other Suggested Reading That Counts Towards Your Required Continuing Education
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