Maryland Casa Association

Maryland Casa continued to provide its core services, including training and technical assistance, public awareness communication, legislative awareness and new program development. Maryland Casa provided monthly live webinars and increased this number to three per month in march in response to the pandemic. Topics included educational advocacy, communicating with children and youth, housing options for aging out youth, advocating for children with disabilities, etc., as well as several webinars on covid-related topics. Maryland Casa also hosted a screening of a documentary on an innovative family court model and launched a diversity, equity and inclusion initiative, with in-person trainings across the state for Casa staff and board members, webinars on race equity in child welfare and talking with youth about race, and developed a toolkit with resources for Casa volunteers and youth. Maryland Casa increased the number of on-demand courses in its online training academy to twelve. Maryland Casa conducted public awareness campaigns via social media continued schedule o