Legislative Priorities Survey from Texas CASA's Public Policy Team Open Until April 6

Texas CASA’s Public Policy Team invites all local CASA program staff, volunteers, and board members across Texas to take part in our Legislative Priorities Survey. As we begin preparing for the 90th Texas Legislative Session in January 2027, we’re gathering ideas, feedback, and proposals to help shape Texas CASA’s legislative priorities.

Your perspective is important to this process. This survey is an opportunity for those working directly with children and families to share insights about the policies and issues that matter most to the CASA community. 

Texas CASA is excited to invite you to two upcoming virtual opportunities to support your engagement in the CASA Story — our unified storytelling campaign for all 74 local CASA programs that will set us up for a successful 2027 Legislative Session. We created the CASA Story to elevate your local impact stories, increase legislative engagement at the local level, and build confidence across the CASA network. These sessions are designed to help you feel prepared and supported as you share your CASA Story and connect with your legislators. 

Child Abuse Prevention Month is one of our biggest opportunities to step up and educate our friends, families, and neighbors about child abuse and neglect, and how we individually and collectively can help prevent it. To help your program make the most of this opportunity, Texas CASA has created a toolkit that contains a variety of resources, templates, media, and community outreach tips to further your program’s message. In addition, you can find prevention centers and services in your county on the DFPS Family Support Services website.

We are so excited for the upcoming in-person STAR training on April 16-17 in Dallas! This Strength-Based Supervision Training for Volunteer Retention is developed specifically for Advocate Supervisors. We are happy to host this training and provide a space for networking and learning with supervisors from across Texas.

When: Thursday, April 16 (10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.) and Friday, April 17 (9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.)  

Where: CASA of Dallas County  

Registration Fee: $50 
*Space is limited and registration closes April 8

Includes: Thursday lunch and afternoon snack; Friday light breakfast and grab-and-go lunch 

Children and youth with strong, engaged support networks are far less vulnerable to exploitation and trafficking. Traffickers target isolation — so our advocacy must intentionally rebuild and strengthen connections when they have been broken. Collaborative Family Engagement (CFE) is a practical strategy that helps do exactly that when screening tools like CSE-IT indicate risk.

Read the full article below to learn more about how CASA programs can respond using CFE after a CSE‑IT concern.

Many leadership and young professional courses hosted by local Chamber of Commerce organizations have leaders from non-profits speak during their service training days. See if you can snag an invite to talk about CASA to emerging leaders in your community. If there isn’t a leadership program in your city or county, tag team with another program in your region.

We want to hear from you! The Texas CASA Communications team wants to tell stories of your success.

Have an inspiring volunteer or staff story to share? Send us the story, or even just the idea, and we will help shape it for the network and the wider community.

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