CASA Story Program Portal Resources + Upcoming Trainings

Introduced last month, the CASA Story is our strategy for a successful 90th Legislative Session in 2027 – using one unified, compelling story to align our local and state advocacy efforts. Together, we’ll educate our legislators about the realities of the changing child welfare system and, most importantly, the critical, stabilizing role that CASA plays – all through storytelling anchored in local program impact.

Resources:
Our CASA Story Program Portal is live, and April content is ready to go! This is your one-stop shop for all things CASA Story. Here’s what you’ll find.

• Communication Tools
  • Monthly Social Media Posts (4 per month)
  • The monthly toolkit includes graphics and copy for each post. The last post of the month is customizable for your program.
  • Monthly Media Alert (1 per month)
  • April’s media alert is focused on Child Abuse Prevention Month. It highlights where you need to customize it with your program information and offers three ideas to engage media. 
  • Stock Images

• Public Policy Tools
  • Customizable One-Pager
  • Talking Points and Supporting FAQs
  • Legislative Checklist
  • Mock Meeting Role Playing

• CASA Story 101 Webinar
  • This includes a demo on how to use and customize all of the communication tools and one pager.

Online Role-Playing Office Hours: 
This one-hour session gives participants a chance to have a practice meeting with a legislator where you’ll talk through the CASA Story. We’ll use breakout rooms in Zoom to work in small groups. Anyone is welcome to join. 

• 4/16, 1pm – 2pm Register for Zoom
• 5/1, 1pm – 2pm Register for Zoom
• 5/8, 9am – 10am Register for Zoom

Meetings with Legislators:
Our Public Policy Team – Ana O’Quin, Public Policy Director, and Stephanie Battaglia, Public Policy Specialist, are working on our proposed meeting strategy for each program in alignment with their region and legislators. Spring meetings with legislators will focus on education and relationship building. Fall meetings will focus on public policy priorities and start laying the groundwork for funding asks. If you have a preference for spring vs. fall based on meeting topic, please let us know at publicpolicy@texascasa.org. More to come later this month on this!

Share Your Story:
Our Communications team would love to highlight your stories of impact throughout the CASA Story campaign. You can send us the completed story or simply share the idea with us, and we’ll take it from there. Please email communications@texascasa.org. Here are the types of stories we’re hoping to feature.

• How CASA volunteers change lives
• Your experience with the rollout of CBC
• Your experience seeing and managing more severe cases

Thank you for everything you do to support the volunteers and children you serve. You are changing lives every day. Wishing you a wonderful month ahead!