Lesson series
Session 8: Case Monitoring, Advocacy for Justice-Involved Youth, and Next Steps
Estimated Completion Time: 3 hours
In this final session, participants apply their learning by working through a series of updates to the Marky Greene case from Session 4. Participants engage in a structured case monitoring simulation, repeatedly moving through the CASA cycle: gathering information, advocating for the child, facilitating services, monitoring progress, and updating court recommendations. As the case develops, they must assess changes in safety, stability, and well-being, and determine appropriate next steps grounded in evidence.
Separately, participants examine how CASA volunteers adapt advocacy practices when working with justice‑involved youth. This includes maintaining appropriate role boundaries, supporting honesty without enforcement, and understanding how advocacy shifts when youth are involved with the juvenile justice system rather than dependency.
The session concludes with peer discussion on the course competencies and structured reflection on challenges they may face in real child welfare and justice-involved youth cases, reinforcing the importance of objectivity, self‑awareness, and sustained monitoring over time.
In this final session, participants apply their learning by working through a series of updates to the Marky Greene case from Session 4. Participants engage in a structured case monitoring simulation, repeatedly moving through the CASA cycle: gathering information, advocating for the child, facilitating services, monitoring progress, and updating court recommendations. As the case develops, they must assess changes in safety, stability, and well-being, and determine appropriate next steps grounded in evidence.
Separately, participants examine how CASA volunteers adapt advocacy practices when working with justice‑involved youth. This includes maintaining appropriate role boundaries, supporting honesty without enforcement, and understanding how advocacy shifts when youth are involved with the juvenile justice system rather than dependency.
The session concludes with peer discussion on the course competencies and structured reflection on challenges they may face in real child welfare and justice-involved youth cases, reinforcing the importance of objectivity, self‑awareness, and sustained monitoring over time.