National CASA Training Videos:
View sample interactions between a volunteer and a child. Each Flash file contains two versions of the same video. In the first version you’ll be able to observe and take your own notes about strategies you see the volunteer using. In the second version, you’ll be able to compare the notes you took with notes taken by an experienced CASA/GAL volunteer supervisor |
Children's
Defense Fund:
The CDF's mission is to Leave No Child Behind®
and to ensure every child a Healthy Start, a Head
Start, a Fair Start, a Safe Start, and a Moral
Start in life and successful passage to adulthood
with the help of caring families and communities. |
Administration
for Children & Families (ACF):
This site provides online fact sheets that describe
ACF-funded activities, projects, shelters, resource
centers, community/school-based programs, Head
Start, welfare reform, and much more. |
| Administration
for Children & Families (ACF)Children's Bureau: |
The
Annie E. Casey Foundation:
The primary mission of the Foundation is to foster
public policies, human service reforms, and community
supports that more effectively meet the needs
of today's vulnerable children and families. |
American
Humane Association:
American Humane Association is an organization
working to prevent cruelty, abuse, neglect, and
exploitation of children and animals. |
| American
Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC) |
Child
Abuse Prevention Network:
This site is for professionals in the field of
child abuse and neglect. They provide unique and
powerful tools for all workers tosupport the identification,
investigation, treatment, adjudication, and prevention
of child abuse and neglect. |
Child
Trauma Academy CIVITAS Child Trauma Programs:
Central to the Child Trauma Academy is its mission
to improve the systems that educate, nurture,
protect, and enrich children. |
Child
Welfare League of America (CWLA):
CWLA is an association of public and private
nonprofit agencies that assist abused and neglected
children and families through a wide range of
services. |
Kempe
Center:
This site was designed to provide a clinically
based resource for training, consultation, program
development and evaluation, and research regarding
all forms of child abuse and neglect. |
Missing
& Exploited Children's Training Programs:
Serves law enforcement, social workers, prosecutors,
judges, probation officers, and elected officials. |
National
Center for Missing & Exploited Children:
The National Center for Missing and Exploited
Children website offers success stories, educationalresources,
and current events. |
National
Children's Advocacy Center:
This agency provides prevention, intervention,
and treatment services to physically and sexually
abused children and their families within a child-focused
team approach. |
National
Clearinghouse for Child Abuse & Neglect (NCCAN):
NCCAN is a national resource for professionals
seeking information on child maltreatment, all
aspects of child abuse and neglect, prevention
identification, treatment of child abuse, andother
child welfare issues. |
| National
Sex Offender Registry |
Prevent
Child Abuse (PCA):
PCA is a nationally recognized organization for
the prevention of child abuse through media, training,
and technical assistance. |