We are pleased to share with you the refreshed Volunteer Pre-Service Training Manual and Facilitator Guide. As we updated these materials, we sought to fully embed Collaborative Family Engagement (CFE) concepts and tools throughout the training, shift language so it reflects the reality of community-based care and other developments in the Texas foster care system and ensure that our training content is grounded in the most current data and statutes.

We are deeply grateful to the working group who helped guide this refresh project, including CASA of the South Plains, Voices for Children, Williamson County CASA and CASA of Galveston County as well as to the Texas CASA Collaborative Family Engagement Team for their time, insights and thoughtful contributions to this process. We also extend our sincere thanks to all who shared feedback and ideas to help ensure these updates will best serve children and families across Texas.

Thank you for the extraordinary passion and skill you bring to preparing and supporting new CASA volunteers across Texas. We hope these updates will serve to strengthen the powerful work you do every day.

volunteer pre-service

facilitator guide