Webinars

Apr 29

Written By Alex Lucke

CASA Essex Hosted

2025

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

2023

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

2022

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 [useful to list the diseases he covers here?]
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. (is this still current?)
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)

2021

Good News Story 2021 (December 2021)
NJ Physicians Advisory Group - Financial Literacy for Teens (November 2021)
Wynona’s House Child Advocacy Center (November 2021)
Back to Basics with Optima (October 2021)
The Ins and Outs of Aging Out (July 2021)
Caring Contact: Hotline Awareness (July 2021)
Who’s Who in the Child Welfare System (June 2021)
The Who, What and Why of DCP&P (April 2021)
Virtual Advocacy (March 2021)
Maximizing Court Reports (February 2021)
Peer Coordinator Info Session (January 2021)
2021 Top 10 Kick Off (January 2021)

On-Demand Library

2024

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)
?? Question if this is still up to date - it was recorded right before a new state program was supposed to begin: Resources and Training regarding Children with Problematic Sexual Behaviors (from the January Policies & Practices Roundtable 2024) - Passcode: !*@FCA6F - 45 minute webinar by CASA NJ given by Dr. Nydia Monagas on the NJ Statewide framework for working with children with PSBs (Problematic Sexual Behaviors). Material from www.ncsby.org - National Center on the Sexual Behavior of Youth

2023

Special Considerations for LGBTQI+ Children and Youth (March 2023)
CASA College: Recognizing Complex Family Dynamics (February 2023)
CASA College: Substance Abuse and Bias in Treatment (January 2023)

2022

NJ Youth Transition Conference 2022 (November 2022)
Should be updated, has a lot of outdated stats and history: CASA College: DCPP and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Initiatives (November 2022) - almost 2 hours
Starts with changes in the law for COVID-10 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

2021

Duplicate of other training?: Racism, Anti-Racism, and the Social Ecology - December 2021sponsored by Children’s Trust Fund Alliance, Strengthening Families Networking Webinar, all their webinars are on their website here, important topic but we have more specific training on this topic for our advocates
Out of Date: Changes to Dependency Proceedings in the Age of Covid-19 - December 2021, National CASA, going remote etc. multiple presenters include Angie Waters of CASA NJ
Is this still up to date? - Kinship Placement and Family Resources - Passcode: %qW4s6@% December 2021, 90 minutes, Lori LaPoff and others of NJ DCF presenting, about new legislation to prefer kinship placements over adoption by non-family. Info on considerations of where kids get placed with respect to the new law passed in 2021 and the legal implications of different kinds of placements.
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. Probably other resources online that can be easily googled. Not CASA specific but our kids are vulnerable.
Maybe obvious info - Drug Endangered Children and Human Trafficking July 2021,1 hour - on National CASA - Part 3 of a 4 Part series taught by National Alliance for DEC (Drug Endangered Children) - goal to identify the intersection of human trafficking, substance use disorder and drug endangered children - advance awareness and ability to identify these scenarios
Add to Skills training track? - Drug Identification and Trends - June 2021 1 hour - on National CASA - Part 2 of a 4 Part series presented by National Alliance for DEC (Drug Endangered Children) - basic info on types of drugs and what they look like - Offered on the DEC website for $49 - seems like a good overview of what to keep an eye out for in a child’s home
Broken Link to nationalcasagal.zoom - Human Trafficking: Impact of Pornography on Youth - May 2021
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. There may be a more up-to-date talk from him.
Out of Date: DCF Kinship Placement Initiative Webinar - March 2021, on casaofnj.org, 1:48:12 starts at 6:30, about a DCF objective due 12/31/2021