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Understanding and Advocating for Children Impacted by Trauma and Hidden Disabilities (DEI)Join our friends at the Mercy Home for Boys and Girls for this extremely beneficial training on Understanding and Advocating for Children Impacted by Trauma and Hidden Disabilities (DEI)
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This training will allow participants to gain a deeper understanding of how poverty often reinforces other issues such as exposure to violence, complex trauma, homelessness, and substance misuse and how living in poverty can impact the most vulnerable families in communities we serve.
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Challenging Relationships with FoodIn this session, participants will explore how trauma can impact the food choices and habits of youth. Understanding the link between trauma and food preferences is crucial in providing effective support.
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Messages Matter Implicit Bias, Personal Mindset and the Child Welfare SystemThis presentation focuses on Implicit Bias, Personal Mindset and the Child Welfare System. As a participant, you will consider the messages you learned about people and the interacting systems that shaped your internal wiring, and contributed to your decision making around safety, and wellbeing.
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Heroes, Villains, and HealingSuperheroes can be used to help survivors understand the healing process. Using DC comic superheroes and villains, author and survivor of childhood sexual abuse explains the effects of hypervigilance, perfectionism, and cognitive behavior therapy in their connection to Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and strategies to help survivors begin the process of healing.
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Defining and Recognizing Vicarious Trauma, Compassion Fatigue, and BurnoutThe Illinois Association of Court Appointed Special Advocates (IL CASA) gratefully acknowledges the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Office for Victims of Crime, for allowing us to reproduce, in whole, a series of 4 customized 90-minute virtual trainings on compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, and burnout, the first of which is Defining and Recognizing Vicarious Trauma, Compassion Fatigue, and Burnout.
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Defining and Recognizing Personal and Organizational ResilienceThe Illinois Association of Court Appointed Special Advocates (IL CASA) gratefully acknowledges the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Office for Victims of Crime, for allowing us to reproduce, in whole, a series of 4 customized 90-minute virtual trainings on compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, and burnout, the third of which is Defining and Recognizing Personal and Organizational Resilience. This video was prepared by the Office for Victims of Crime.
Our impact this year has changed our community!
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Children Served in FY23
9,778
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Volunteer Hours in FY23
410,640
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Volunteer Advocates in FY23
3,515
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Number of New Children Served in FY23
2,727
Thank you to our generous sponsors:
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National CASA
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Illinois DCFS
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The Office of Illinois Courts
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Illinois Attorney General