Webinars

Apr 29

Written By Alex Lucke

CASA Essex Hosted

Added to Advocacy Skills: Info Session: embrella (January 2025) 25-minute video training by Chanel Dupree on services and role played by embrella supporting children and families
Added to Advocacy Awareness: What To Do When a Child Goes Missing (January 2025) 39-minute video training by Natalie Deo and Leslie Sena of CASA Essex and information on the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children

Added to Educational Advocacy: Job Corps Info Session (October 2023) 40-minute video info session by Jordan Wood, Admission Counselor at Edison Job Corps program
Added to Advocacy Awareness: Remove the Target - Keeping Foster Youth Out of the Child Trafficking Crosshairs (Password: casa2021) (June 2023) 1-hour video of a content-heavy workshop by Natalie Deo of CASA Essex
Added to Advocacy Awareness: New Jersey Child Assault Prevention Program (NJCAP) (April 2023) 30-minute video by Kathy Kronick of NJCAP that empowers children with prevention strategies to stay safe, strong and free
Added to Educational Advocacy: Pathways to Academic and Career Exploration to Success (PACES) (March 2023) - 30-minute video by Frances Anyanwu of PACES
Added to Advocacy Awareness: Drugs Abuse Trends in New Jersey (February 2023) - 1-hour (runs over) training by Natalie Deo of CASA Essex addressing biases about drug use and abuse, addiction, substance use disorder, treatment
Added to Advocacy Skills: Back to Basics: A CASAs Guide to Who Does What (January 2023) 30-minute (runs over) training by Soon Benham and Natalie Deo of CASA Essex

Psychotropic Medications & Other Treatment Modalities (September 2022) 90-minute CASA College video by Dr. Mark Rothman where he goes through symptoms of different psychiatric diseases and the use of medication in treating them and medication side effects
Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS) (July 2022) 30-minute training video by Natalie Deo of CASA Essex for undocumented youth that enter foster care it can provide a way to permanent resident status. Information for limited education purposes only.
2nd Annual Advocate Symposium (June 2022) 80-minute training on Being a Mindful and Effective CASA Worker by Kalphria Wilson and Michelle Collins of Ase Therapy and Services on how to put mental health first when working as an advocate
The CASA Elevator Pitch (June 2022)
Building & Sustaining Partnerships with DCPP (May 2022)
Supporting LGBTQ+ Youth in Foster Care (April 2022)
Case Timeline & Case Tracks (March 2022)
Building Rapport (February 2022)

Added to Fostering Futures I: CASA College: Aging Out Resources (April 2024) 1 hour 15-minute CASA College presentation by Jennifer Marsden-Beukas o supporting youth aged 14+ who will be transitioning out of foster care while still under the guardianship of the state
Added to Advocate Skills: CASA College: Children’s System of Care (February 2024)

NJ Youth Transition Conference 2022 (November 2022)
Starts with changes in the law for COVID-19 impacts: Disability Rights New Jersey Presentation (March 2022) - 1 hour
Research report: The Effects of Child Poverty Reductions on Child Protective Services Involvement and Placement into Out-of-Home Care - January 2022, 90 minutes, National CASA training, presented by academics. Presents case study that show value of CASA

General child caregiver info: Take a Stand, Lend a Hand: Bullying and Cyberbullying 101 September 2021, 1 hour, on National CASA, taught by staff in SC CASA, could be useful to an advocate who has a child is being bullied.
Added Male Survivors org to Youth Resources Safety section - Trafficked Boys: Invisible Victims of Human Trafficking - April 2021, on nationalcasagal.zoom.us, 65 minutes, by Amanda Corbin, VP of Operations at Trafficking in America Task Force, Inc. - The guts of the presentation is a video of Jerome Elam giving a presentation for the Coalition to End Sexual Exploitation. He is a trafficking survivor and CEO of the Trafficking in America Task Force. Very good presentation on the issues of boys being trafficked. This part of the video goes from about the 8 minute to the 33 minute marker.