​How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime - Nadine Burke Harris:  

Childhood trauma isn’t something you just get over as you grow up. Pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris explains that the repeated stress of abuse and neglect has real, tangible effects on the development of the brain. This unfolds across a lifetime, to the point where those who’ve experienced high levels of trauma are at triple the risk for heart disease and lung cancer.  (15 minutes).

 

The mysterious workings of the adolescent brain - Sarah-Jayne Blakemore: 

Why do teenagers seem so much more impulsive, so much less self-aware than grown-ups? Cognitive neuroscientist Sarah-Jayne Blakemore compares the prefrontal cortex in adolescents to that of adults, to show us how typically “teenage” behavior is caused by the growing and developing brain. 

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Opioid epidemic leaving grandparents to raise grandchildren

A 60 Minutes segment on the opioid epidemic leaving grandparents to raise grandchildren.

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CASA and Foster Parent Training: Basic Education Rights Enrollment Rules

Previously, we hosted Educational Advocacy Trainings around the State of Indiana with the Indiana Youth LAW Team due to a grant they received.  They were able to secure another grant about 2 years ago and used the funds to create 9 videos for us to use for in-service training for our volunteers. If you watch all 9 videos you can get 1.5 hours of CT training credit. 

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National Children's Advocacy Center (videos and webinars)

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Foster Success Introduction Webinar

Passcode: A5Xgry0*

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Optima Training Video​

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​Misc. Trainings

 Riley's Section 2: Growth and Development

(required reading for all volunteers)

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​DCS Family Preservation Services

​This is a required training so please watch this 30 minute training if you have not done so already. Once completed log into Optima as follows: log 0.5 hours, choose DCS Family Preservation Services for the Topic and School of Social Work, IU for the Trainer.

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IYI Training Opportunities (Ongoing)

Indiana Youth Institute provides critical data, capacity-building resources and innovative training for people and organizations that impact the healthy development of Indiana’s children and youth. 

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Netflix

13th

• A documentary about the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery (1hr 40mins)​

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The Fosters

• A multi-ethnic family mix of foster, adopted, and biological kids are being raised by two moms. (4 seasons, each episode is about 40 minutes long, however this will count for 2 hrs CT (so even if you watch all 4 seasons, you'll only get 2hrs). About: foster care, adoption, interracial adoption, LGBT families. 

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Daughters

• ​A documentary about four young girls that prepare for a special Daddy Daughter Dance with their incarcerated fathers, as part of a unique fatherhood program in a Washinton, DC, jail. (1 hour 47 minutes)

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CASA Library

Check out the following books from our office library. 

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Let us know if there's a book you're interested in reading or if you've read a book not on this list that you want other volunteers to read. We can request the book from the publisher to add to our library. 

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• The New Jim Crow by Alexander, Michelle

• No Such Thing as a Bad Kid by Appelstein, Charles

• The Gus Chronicles I: Reflections from an Abused Kid by Appelstein, Charles

• The Gus Chronicles II: Reflections from a Kid Who Has Been Abused by Appelstein, Charles

• How Emotions are Made by Barrett, Lisa Feldman

• The Journey of Greatness & How to get there by Benshea, Noah

• In Search of Respect by Bourgois, Phillippe

• The Orchid and the Dandelion by Boyce, W. Thomas 

• Promoting Positive Youth Development by Bowers, Edmond, and others

• Hope's Boy by Bridge, Andrew

• I'm Still Here - Black Dignity in a World made for Whiteness by Brown, Austin Channing 

• Believable Hope: Five Essential Elements to Beat Any Addiction by Cartwright, Michael

• Advocating for Nonresident Fathers in Child Welfare Court Cases by Center on Children and Law

• Bouncing Back by Ceridian Corporation

• Garbage Bag Suitcase: A Memoir by Chefalo, Shenandoah

• No Equal Justice - Race and Class in the American Justice System by Cole, David

• Nessy's New Home by Cook, Marcy

• Working with Substance Abusing Youths: Knowledge & Skills for Juvenile Probation & Parole Professionals by Crowe, Ann, MSSW

• The Road to Whatever by Currie, Elliott

• Child Abuse, What you need to know by Daly, Evin M

• The End is The Beginning by DeGasperis, Armond

• One kid at a time byDekker, Jake

• The Making of a Racist by Dew, Charles

• The Language of Flowers by Diffenbaugh, Vanessa

• Invisible Child by Elliot, Andrea

• The Silent Cry - Teen Suicide and Self-Destructive Behavior by Esherick, Joan

• The Christmas Candle by Evans/Collins

• Heroin: Drug of Sorrow - CD - Video by Gadd, Hannah

• Book of Metaphors Vol II by Gass, Michael 

• Hunger - A Memoir by Gay, Roxane

• Transforming the Difficult Child by Glasser, Howard and Easley, Jennifer

• Samuel T. Moore of Corte Magore by Gould, Tonya Allen

• The Explosive Child by Greene, Ross W. 

• Red Clay and Vinegar by Griffith, Naomi Haines

• Hope Rising: How the Science of HOPE Can Change Your Life by Gwinn, Casey, J.D. & Hellman, Chan, Ph.D

• The Night Dad went to Jail by Higgins, Melissa

• Bully: An Action Plan for Teachers, Parents, & Communities to Combat the Bullying Crisis by Hirsch, Lee & Lowen, Cynthia

• And the Mountains Echoed by Hosseini, Khaled 

• A Thousand Spendid Suns by Hosseini, Khaled 

• Feeling Good - 100 Ways by Jacobbi, Marianne

• The Other Talk by Kiely, Brendan

• I am the parent of a non-binary child by Knoppow, Susan

• Being Jazz by Jennings, Jazz

• Amazing Grace by Kozol, Jonathan

• Savage Inequalities by Kozol, Jonathan

• A Path Appears by Kristof, Nicholas D., WuDunn, Sheryl

• Testimonies from our imprisioned sisters by Lamb, Wally

• Veterans and Families' Guide to Recovering from PTSD by Lanham, Stephanie Laite

• Runaway Diary of a street kid by Lau, Evelyn

• The Fights we Fought have Brought Us Here by Louisville Story Program 

• Processing the Experience by Luckner, John and Nadler, Reldan

• The Other Wes Moore by Moore, Wes 

• Breaking Night bu Murray, Liz

• Gender by National Geographic (magazine)

• Becoming Nicole by Nutt, Amy Ellis

• Windows to our Children by Oaklander, Violet

• A child called "It" by Pelzer, Dave 

• Help Yourself by Pelzer, Dave 

• The Lost Boy by Pelzer, Dave 

• A Man named Dave by Pelzer, Dave 

• 1-2-3 Magic for Kids by Phelan, Thomas and Lewis Tracy 

• Dream Land by Quinones, Sam

• How Full is your Bucket by Rath, Tom and Reckmeyer, Mary

• Three little words by Rhodes-Courter, Ashley

• Mega Skills - How Families can help children succeed by Rich, Dorothy

• Robbie's Tale through Foster Care (Adult Guide) by Robe Communications

• Robbie's Tale through Foster Care (Book for Child) by Robe Communications

• Robbie's Tale through Foster Care (Activity Book) by Robe Communications

• Fragments:  A Post-Traumatic Paradigm by Roche, K.D. 

• Bedlam - An Intimate Journey Into Americas Mental Health Crisis by Rosenberg, Kenneth Paul 

• The Body Remembers by Rothschild, Babette

• The Women Who Raised Me by Rowell, Victoria

• Reefer Sanity: Seven Great Myths About Marijuana by Kevin A. Sabet, Ph. D. 

• Intersections of Gender, Race and Class by Segal, Marcia T., Martinez, Theresa A. 

• Parenting your Out of Control Teenager - 7 Steps by  Sells, Scott

• Delinquency and Juvenile Justice in American Society by Sheldan, Randall

• Your child says she's trans, she wants hormones and surgery by Singal, Jessie

• Sweet Pea & Sugar Tea's Country Family Adventure Vol. 1 by Smith, Tytianna N. M. W. 

• Sweet Pea & Sugar Tea's Country Family Adventure Vol. 2 by Smith, Tytianna N. M. W. 

• Sweet Pea & Sugar Tea's Country Family Adventure Vol. 3 by Smith, Tytianna N. M. W. 

• Sweet Pea & Sugar Tea's Country Family Adventure Vol. 4 by Smith, Tytianna N. M. W. 

• Far from the Tree (Young Adult Version) by Solomon, Andrew

• Far from the Tree by Solomon, Andrew

• Crazy Love by Steiner, Leslie Morgan

• Just Mercy by Stevenson, Bryan

• Newjack by Ted Conover

• Overcoming Prison and Addiction by Terry, Charles

• When Love is Not Enough - Parenting with RAD by Thomas, Nancy 

• The Deeper Roots by Tubbs, Michael 

• Unchained - Our Family's Addiction by Vericker, Nancy M. and Vericker, JP 

• Choose to Love by Wanzer, Kevin

• A Question of Balance-Decision making for Casa/GAL Volunteers by Ward, Janet

• The Song Poet by Yang, Kao Kalia

• Amaya & The Courthouse Mouse by Zolman, Bria

• The Holy Bible 

• Child Catcher By Andrew Bridge

• The Glass Castle, By Jeannette Walls

• The LIghthouse Effect, By Steve Pemberton

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CASA Library Movies 

• Cyberbully

• Bully

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