E-LEARNING
CURRENT ADVOCATES
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RESOURCES FOR MORE INFORMATION
- View National CASA’s Advocacy Resources for additional topics and resources relevant to your advocacy.
- Nominate A CASA Instructions
- Abilene Categorized Resource List- 2022
Taylor County Standing Orders
- View Taylor County’s standing order on Psychotropic Medications- Standing Order Psychotropic Drugs
- See Big Country CASA’s Psychotropic Medication Roadmap for Volunteers.
COLLABORATIVE FAMILY ENGAGEMENT – TEXAS CASA
STRESS, TRAUMA & ADVERSE CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES
- National Child Traumatic Stress Network
- Secondary Traumatic Stress
- Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES)
- How severe, ongoing stress can affect a child’s brain
- The Body Remembers
- Treating Childhood Trauma – Oprah Winfrey
- Relational Trauma and Traumawise Care – understanding how relational trauma impacts the whole child – Dr. David Cross
LOCAL RESOURCES & MENTAL HEALTH
- Betty Hardwick Center
- Mental Health America
- National Suicide Hotline: 1-800-273-8255 OR 911
- Texas Mental Health Guide
- Regional Victims Crisis Center
- Social Emotional Learning – Communities in Schools Research Brief
- On the Road Lending Program Information – English Brochure, Spanish Brochure
PARENTING & PHYSICAL HEALTH
- Helping Through Intervention Website
- Healthy Texas Women
- NPR – Why do Children in Foster Care Become Pregnant at a Much Higher Rate?
- Pregnancy Resource of Abilene
DEPARTMENT OF FAMILY AND PROTECTIVE SERVICES
- Ombudsman Foster Care Facility Flyer
- 28 Ways to Help CPS – Faith Based Unit
- Kinship Manual
- Child Protective Services Handbook
- Mandatory Reporter Training: Training on Reporting Suspected Abuse or Neglect of a Child (state.tx.us)
DRUG & ALCOHOL ADVOCACY RESOURCES
HOMELESSNESS
AGING OUT
EDUCATION
- Foster Care & Student Success
- Educational Advocacy Guidebook (2018 Update)
- Trust Based Relational Intervention *CEU
Abilene FOOD BANKs
Activities for Children in Abilene
IN-SERVICE TRAININGS
Explore a variety of topics on CASA College!
Explore the wide range of trainings available at Gladney University: Gladney University | I Am Gladney
STRESS, TRAUMA & ADVERSE CHILD EXPERIENCES
- Nadine Burke Harris TED Talk
- Texas Victim Assistance Training (TVAT) – This training will provide the necessary tools for providing consistent and appropriate services to crime victims and how to work collaboratively with partner agencies.
- National Center for Missing and Exploited Children Safety Training – Read up on how to help prevent cyberbullying, sexting and other types of risky online behavior in children and teens. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children has provided a website to help educate adults and children on these risks. You may count research as continuing education credit.
- Building Trauma-Informed Services for Children, Youth, and Parents Impacted by Domestic Violence – This is a 10-part recorded webinar series that can be accessed at any time. Topics include: Children and Domestic Violence, Caring for Others While Caring for Ourselves, Children Grow in the Context of Their Relationships, Understanding Children’s Responses to DV and Other Trauma, Responding to the Needs of Children and Families Impacted by DV, Engaging and Supporting Parents.
- TBRI Introductory Training– TBRI® is an attachment-based, trauma-informed intervention that is designed to meet the complex needs of vulnerable children. TBRI® uses Empowering Principles to address physical needs, Connecting Principles for attachment needs, and Correcting Principles to disarm fear-based behaviors. While the intervention is based on years of attachment, sensory processing, and neuroscience research, the heartbeat of TBRI® is connection.
- TBRI An Overview: Putting the Pieces Together – This short video explains the principles and concepts behind Trust-Based Relational Intervention®, a proven method for enriching the lives of at-risk, vulnerable children, adolescents, and their families. Trauma can impair language, sensory processing, and coping skills, and can lead to perplexing behaviors that are often mistaken for aggression or mental illness. This video features world-renowned experts who share research that documents how consistently positive experiences with loving caregivers can re-wire a child’s brain for lasting change. Learn more at http://child.tcu.edu.
MENTAL HEALTH
- Everything you know about addiction is wrong – TED Talk – What really causes addiction? How can we overcome it? Johann Hari has seen our current methods fail first hand and began to wonder why we treat addicts the way we do.
- DFPS Psychotropic Medication Training – This training explains Child Protective Services’ expectations for the safe and effective use of psychotropic medications by children in DFPS conservatorship. This training will help you to understand the expectations and policies regarding medications administered to children.
BOOKS & Blogs TO READ
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- Big Country CASA Library and Recommendations
- Kate Murphy with Texans Care for Children – Articles and blogs on various child welfare topics
EDUCATION on Disabilities
HUMAN TRAFFICKING
- Be The One – Human trafficking is a media buzzword that often conjures images of brothels in Thailand or confusion with the ongoing immigration debate. This innovative digital training tool cuts through the confusion, arms the viewer with an understanding of what human trafficking is and is not and helps them recognize that this is a Texas problem with Texas buyers, sellers, and victims. Most of all, it challenges Texans to change the culture in which we live from one that identifies with and honors perpetrators to one that provides safety, security, and genuine reintegration for the survivors of trafficking.
- Exploited – Crimes Against Humanity – Exploited – Crimes Against Humanity (exploitedcrimes.com)
FOSTER CARE
- Josh Shipp TED Talk
- Podcast: Engaging Youth in Foster Care – As the youth in care begin to develop their own sense of self and independence, you may experience difficulty engaging them to participate in their case plans or helping them realize the impacts their decisions may have on their long-term future.
CHILD WELFARE INFORMATION GATEWAY LIBRARY
The Relationship between Substance Use Indicators and Child Welfare Caseloads. Revised March 9, 2018.
ASPE Research Brief.
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U. S. Department of Health and Human Services.
2018
Reimagining Overrepresentation Research: Critical Reflections on Researching the Overrepresentation of First Nations Children in the Child Welfare System.
Sinha, Vandna. Delaye, Ashleigh. Orav-Lakaski, Brittany.
2018
Journal of Law and Social Policy
28(2)p. 10-37
Secondary Traumatization in Caregivers Working With Women and Children Who Suffered Extreme Violence by the “Islamic State.”
Denkinger, Jana K. Windthorst, Petra. Rometsch-Ogioun El Sount, Caroline. Blume, Michael. Sedik, Hes. Kizilhan, Jan I. Gibbons, Niamh. Pham, Phuong. Hillebrecht, Jennifer. Ateia, Nora.
2018
Frontiers in Psychiatry
9(234)p. 1-14
Interrupted childhoods: Over-representation of Indigenous and Black children in Ontario child welfare.
Ontario Human Rights Commission.
2018
Child Welfare Scorecard: Outcomes Summary by District [Oregon]. April 2018.
Oregon Department of Human Services.
2018
Training the Future Child Health Care Workforce to Improve the Behavioral Health of Children, Youth, and Families: Proceedings of a Workshop.
Olson, Steve. Tracey, Sarah M.
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.). Forum on Promoting Children’s Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Health.
2017
ADOPTION / FOSTER CARE
Foster Care: Additional Actions Could Help HHS Better Support States’ Use of Private Providers to Recruit and Retain Foster Families: Highlights of GAO-18-376, a Report to Congressional Requesters.
GAO Highlights ; Highlights of GAO-18-376
United States Government Accountability Office.
2018
Foster Care: Additional Actions Could Help HHS Better Support States’ Use of Private Providers to Recruit and Retain Foster Families.
GAO report to Congressional Requesters ; GAO-18-376
United States Government Accountability Office.
2018
How Adoption Professionals Can Support Adult Adoptees’ Search for Information.
Jarema, Rhonda.
2017
Adoption Advocate
(104)
FY2017 Foster Care Scorecard [New York City]. Updated: September 12, 2016.
New York City Administration for Children’s Services.
2016
CHILD MALTREATMENT / CHILD PROTECTION
Parental Substance Use in New Hampshire Who Cares for the Children?
Carsey Research Regional Brief #53; Spring 2018
Smith, Kristin.
Carsey School of Public Policy, University of New Hampshire.
2018
Protocol for the economic evaluation of a complex intervention to improve the mental health of maltreated infants and children in foster care in the UK (The BeST? services trial).
Deidda, Manuela. Boyd, Kathleen Anne. Minnis, Helen. Donaldson, Julia. Et Al.
2018
BMJ Open
8(3)9 p.
Oregon Differential Response: Final Evaluation Report, June 2017.
Fuller, Tamara. Braun, Michael T. Chiu, Yu-Ling. Cross, Theodore P. Nieto, Martin. Tittle, Gail. Wakita, Satomi.
Children and Family Research Center.
2017
COMMUNITY-BASED SERVICES
A Space to Thrive: Young women in poverty say why they need integrated support, advocacy and education services of their own. Justice for Girls Community Consultation Report.
McIntosh, Tracey. Stanhope, Carly. Et Al.
Justice for Girls Outreach Society.
2018
COURTS / JUDICIAL
International Perspectives on Child-responsive Courts.
Berrick, Jill Duerr Dickens, Jonathan. Pösö, Tarja. Skivenes, Marit.
2018
International Journal of Children’s Rights
26(2)p. 251-277
GENERAL
Exploring Early Childhood Care and Education Levers to Improve Population Health: Proceedings of a Workshop.
Wizemann, Theresa M.
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.). Roundtable on Population Health Improvement.
2018
The Opioid Epidemic and Its Effects: A Perspective on What We Know from the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland.
Fee, Kyle.
Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland.
2018
Hunger Doesn’t Take a Vacation: Summer Nutrition Status Report 2018.
Anderson, Signe. Rosso, Randy. Boyd, Alex. FitzSimons, Crystal. Anderson, Signe.
Food Research and Action Center.
2018
Now, Now, Now: Mental Wellness for Indigenous Youth in the Champlain Region.
Toupin, Lynne. Chase, Carlie.
Interlocus Group, Inc.
2017
Hunger Doesn’t Take a Vacation: Summer Nutrition Status Report 2017.
Hayes, Clarissa. Rosso, Randy. Anderson, Signe. FitzSimons, Crystal.
Food Research and Action Center.
2017
Hunger Doesn’t Take a Vacation: Summer Nutrition Status Report 2016.
Hayes, Clarissa. Rosso, Randy. Anderson, Signe. FitzSimons, Crystal.
Food Research and Action Center.
2016
