Save the Date for Volunteer Power Unleashed Summit 2024

Recruiters mark your calendar for the Volunteer Power Unleashed Summit 2024: Unlocking the Recruitment Code! The event will be held February 28-29 at the Embassy Suites by Hilton San Antonio Landmark. The cost is $50 per person and registration is limited to four people per program. This year, we encourage programs to invite one volunteer that has helped with recruitment efforts to attend the summit. Registration opens on December 5! Stay tuned for more details.

New Monthly Feature! Recruitment Bounty: A Treasure Trove of Tips

We are excited to showcase a new feature in Inside CASA, Recruitment Bounty: A Treasure Trove of Tips, which will be included in the first edition each month. This section will include ideas and tips related to recruitment and awareness to help spark creativity and grow your skills. We encourage you to take these tips and see how you can implement them in a way that works for your program. Check out the first tip by clicking the link below! 

Meet Sub Uppaluri, New Texas CASA Data Manager

Sub Uppaluri comes to Texas CASA with over 18 years of IT experience having previously worked as IT Manager at Medtronic, a large medical device company. He has a strong background in consulting with experience focused on Data Transformations, ERP implementations, business intelligence and analytics. He also has extensive experience managing projects, building relationships with stakeholders and establishing project and architectural roadmaps.

Commercial Sexual Exploitation Identification Tool (CSE-IT) Training 

If you're looking to expand your support for youth at risk of being trafficked, join Texas CASA for the next CSE-IT screening tool training. The CSE-IT tool enhances users ability to identify children and youth who have experienced this form of abuse. Developed with the input of survivors and service providers, this evidence-based tool has been validated with data from a 15-month pilot to ensure that it accurately identifies youth who have clear indicators of exploitation. 

STAR Presents: Finding Your Resilience 

Advocate Supervisors, please join us for the last STAR monthly zoom of the year on November 27 from 12 – 1:30 p.m. for a presentation on resiliency with special guests, Dr. Cynthia Lietz and Breanna Carpenter from Arizona State University. In this presentation, you will learn about the 10 most important research-based strengths that activate resilience in the people you serve and even in yourself, as you seek to be a change agent.

New Podcast Episode on Partnering with Attorney Ad Litems

What can CASA advocates do to build effective working relationships and increase collaboration with attorney ad litems? For this conversation, we’re honored to be joined by the deeply insightful Lori Duke, Clinical Professor and Co-Director of the Children’s Rights Clinic at the University of Texas School of Law. Lori shares strategies and best practices for collaborative child advocacy gathered from her immense experience representing children and youth. 

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