The CASA Volunteer Role
What is Educational Decision Maker?
This should be reached in order for a case to close out of supervision
What is permanency?
What interest is the CASA supposed to be working in for the child?
This is a way to gage our engagement and feelings towards a situation
What is the window of tolerance?
This is the outdated term for violence experienced between couples
What is domestic violence?
How many areas of advocacy are there?
The first goal for families is always
What is reunification?
MSL is the acronym for
What is minimum sufficient level of care?
The age in which kids have a say in the medical and mental health treatment and medications
What is fourteen?
This is the minimum wage in PA
What is 7.25 an hour?
What is the advocate?
What is disparity?
What is the deficits lens?
The term for placement in the most home like setting possible
What is least restrictive placement?
The term for decisions that are not always ideal but are necessary
What is forced choice?
This is the child welfare agency
What is CYS or CYF?
What is the term for the rarely used permanency outcome?
The three possibilities for rating compliance in court
What is substantial, moderate, and minimal?
These are systemic challenges that may impact families abilities to access healthcare
What is insurance, transportation, placement stability, lack of services and waiting lists, stigma, culture, and professional turnover
The new and more accepted term for "relapse"
What is reoccurrence?
What is adjudicated?
What are the laws that outline CASA's authorities and responsibilities in PA?
What is the PA Code, the Juvenile Act, and the Juvenile Court Judges’ Commission’s standards for CASA?
What is abuse, neglect, culture, trauma, disrupted attachment, medical needs/conditions, developmental needs/conditions?
What is resilience?
What is a neurological basis and treated as a medical diagnosis?