CASA Advocacy

The CASA Volunteer Role

100

EDM is the acronym for

What is Educational Decision Maker?

200

How many areas of advocacy are there?

What is five?

300

The court report is written by

What is the advocate?

400

This is the child welfare agency

What is CYS or CYF?

500

This is the legal term for children who's custody is transferred the the agency, making them eligible for a CASA

What is adjudicated?

Child Welfare Law and the Child Welfare System

100

This should be reached in order for a case to close out of supervision

What is permanency?

200

The first goal for families is always

What is reunification?

300

This is the term used to describe a difference in the level of treatment, permanency, and outcomes

What is disparity?

400

What is the term for the rarely used permanency outcome?

What is APPLA (Another Planned Permanent Living Arrangement)?

500

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?

The Well-Being of a Child

100

What interest is the CASA supposed to be working in for the child?

What is the best interest?

200

MSL is the acronym for

What is minimum sufficient level of care?

300

Which lens should we as CASA NOT view the families through

What is the deficits lens?

400

The three possibilities for rating compliance in court

What is substantial, moderate, and minimal?

500

These things can impact a child's "typical" development

What is abuse, neglect, culture, trauma, disrupted attachment, medical needs/conditions, developmental needs/conditions?

Trauma, Resilience, and Mental Health

100

This is a way to gage our engagement and feelings towards a situation

What is the window of tolerance?

200

The age in which kids have a say in the medical and mental health treatment and medications

What is fourteen?

300

The term for placement in the most home like setting possible

What is least restrictive placement?

400

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

500

This is not a character trait you are born with but rather one you develop

What is resilience? 

Poverty, Substance Use, and IPV

100

This is the outdated term for violence experienced between couples

What is domestic violence?

200

This is the minimum wage in PA

What is 7.25 an hour?

300

The term for decisions that are not always ideal but are necessary

What is forced choice?

400

The new and more accepted term for "relapse"

What is reoccurrence? 

500

Substance Use Disorders are decided on this basis and should be treated in this way

What is a neurological basis and treated as a medical diagnosis?