As a CASA volunteer, it is your responsibility to advocate the best you can for the foster youth that you serve - but your responsibility extends beyond advocating for the kids. Your CASA youth need you to be well! They need you to be your best self and be able to stay calm, especially when they can't. As a CASA volunteer, it is also your responsibility to take care of yourself in order to be your best self for your youth.

Do you want to learn how to enhance your advocacy?

Are you familiar with how vicarious trauma and compassion fatigue can threaten your capacity to be there for your kids?

Do you want to learn how to help buffer the effects and promote longevity as a CASA?

Join VOICES and Kelly Lubeck, MPH, RYT, a public and holistic health and wellness coach and healing practitioner, as she discusses why it is vital for CASAs to take care of themselves in order to be the best advocates they can. This training will specifically include a conversation around the connection between trauma, stress, and health, how the nervous system responds to demands and stressors, and realistic, applicable components of self-care that CASAs can incorporate into their advocacy right away to ensure they have the capacity to be their best selves for their youth.

This webinar will also explain why there is a "cost to caring" in advocacy - also known as compassion fatigue - and what CASAs can do to prevent and buffer symptoms. Those in attendance will walk away with simple and concrete ways to support themselves as well as tools to use to teach their CASA youth how to support their own well-being. If your goal is to enjoy years of being a CASA - and help change the lives of many - you do not want to miss this opportunity!

This training is put on by VOICES for CASA Children.