Pre-Service Training

Welcome to CASA of Baltimore County's Pre-Service Training!

Before you begin, please be sure you have submitted an application, completed an interview, and been accepted to training. To get started, please visit Become a Volunteer. If you have questions about the process, please contact our Advocate Coordinator, D'Aja Joyner, at djoyner@casabaltco.org.

Welcome to the Pre-service Training for CASA of Baltimore County! Below, you will find each Lesson's online component ("foundational course"), videos, hand-outs and Facilitator information. Many of the sessions have pre-work in a Reflection Question Form, to be submitted before each session. PLEASE NOTE: All Pre-Work must be submitted to the instructor by noon on the day of the online session. Below is the schedule of all in-person and online meetings - invitations to each online session will be emailed the day before.

If you have any questions about a specific session, please email the facilitator for that session at the email address provided below. We look forward to working with you!

**The FIRST and LAST sessions will be IN-PERSON at the CASA office:

102 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Ste. 101, Towson, MD 21204.

All other sessions will be online via Zoom.

 

UPCOMING TRAINING DATES

January-February Training Class

Orientation

FACILITATOR: Jennifer Stine, Executive Director

Tuesday, January 21, 2025, 6:30-8:00pm (IN-PERSON)

Lesson 1 - Overview

FACILITATOR:  Jennifer Stine, Executive Director

Thursday, January 23, 2025, 6:30-8:00pm

Lesson 2 - The Bleux Case

FACILITATOR: Ellen Franklin, Advocate Supervisor

Tuesday, January 28, 2025, 6:30-8:00pm

Volunteer Panel

FACILITATOR: Lenae Ray, Advocate Supervisor

Wednesday, January 30, 2025, 6:30-8:00pm

Lesson 3 - The Greene Case

FACILITATOR: Gretchen Rockafellow, Advocate Supervisor

Tuesday, February 4, 2025, 6:30-8:00pm

ACEs Training

FACILITATOR: Joanne Lindsay, Advocate Supervisor

Thursday, February 6, 2025, 6:30-8:00pm

Lesson 4 - The Amarillo Case

FACILITATOR: Helen-Marie Robertson, Advocate Supervisor

Tuesday, February 11, 2025, 6:30-8:00pm

Lesson 5 - The Redd Case

FACILITATOR: Rebecca Behnke, Advocate Supervisor

Thursday, February 13, 2025, 6:30-8:00pm

Post Training Panel & Optima Training

FACILITATOR: Karen Coleman, Program Director

Tuesday, February 18, 2025

Note: The post-training panel and Optima training will run from 6:00-8:00pm (IN-PERSON)