Each year, Texas CASA provides a training for local CASA program board members to meet the required board training. This year’s will be broken into three trainings.LBOD #1: The Future of Work

Watch Now

by Lauren Paver, Higher Order Consulting

The future of work is not really in the future, it is here, now. The implications for CEOs and Board of Directors reach far and wide. Learn more about what the future of work is, how employers are adapting, and practical strategies to evolve the work of the Board to best support the organization amidst significant strategic and cultural shifts.

LBOD #2: Guiding Principles & CFE

Watch Now

This training meets the requirement for board members in Standard 2. Guiding Principles provides best-interest advocacy for children as reflected in these guiding principles, which recognize the importance of child safety, family preservation and reunification, equity, diversity, inclusion and collaboration.

Collaborative Family Engagement (CFE) is a team-based approach between local CASA programs and CPS, as well as SSCCs, to engage, find and work with family members and fictive kin in the creation and development of a lifetime network for young people in the foster care system. One of the goals of CFE is to help children achieve strong connectivity and permanency faster, preferably with relatives or other trusted loved ones. In collaboration with the Department of Family & Protective Services (DFPS), local CASA programs and community partners, we are working to ensure that every child in foster care has the opportunity for lifelong connections.

 

LBOD #3: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Setting the Tone at the Top

Watch Now

Recent events, including protests for social justice, are a glaring reminder that inequity is present today in our communities, institutions, and even in nonprofit boardrooms across the social sector. To course correct, nonprofit boards have a responsibility to set the tone at the top!

In this training we will lay a foundation for advancing your DEI work, by exploring:

  • How unconscious bias shows up on boards and in nonprofit organizations
  • Challenging internal assumptions
  • Developing action steps that are specific to your work
  • Creating an authorizing environment
  • Applying an equity lens to your work

FY23 LBOD Training

Each year, Texas CASA provides a training for local CASA program board members to meet the required board training. This year’s will be broken into three trainings.LBOD #1: The Future of Work Watch Now by Lauren Paver, Higher Order Consulting The future of work is not really in the future, it is here, now. The implications for CEOs and Board … Read More

ODM Lightning Training

View Now The CASA network in Texas will transition to Salesforce Lightning for our ODM at the end of 2022, which is a more intuitive version of Salesforce. Suzanne Alston provides this online training on using the new Salesforce Lightning to ease the transition. The webinar has been broken out by topic, and includes how to access grant information, RFRs, … Read More

Strengthening Families Using a Racial Equity Lens Training

View Now The Volunteer Coaching and Advocacy team hosted a courageous conversation with special guests from the Center for the Study of Social Policy. Dr. Charlyn Harper Browne and Cailin O’Connor led a diversity and equity webinar with focuses on: shared definitions and common language, understanding the social-ecology model of racism and anti-racism, and the impact of chronic environmental stress … Read More

Quality Assurance Preparation Training FY 2024

The Quality Assurance Preparation Training for FY2024 includes a webinar and multiple resources: The FY24 QA Readiness Guide –  The guide provides all of the information needed to prepare your CASA program for a quality assurance review. Additionally, it includes a complete overview of the quality assurance process and a list of all monitored standards and requirements. FY24 Self Audit Checklist … Read More

FY2022 Local Board of Director Training Series

In FY22, Local Board of Directors training is being offered virtually to local CASA programs board members to meet the Texas CASA standard training requirement. Each CASA program will meet the requirement by ensuring a board member views each of the three trainings offered and completes a short review question survey at the conclusion of the training. Each training will be … Read More