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Maryland CASA Association is excited to invite CASA volunteers, staff and board members, as well as attorneys representing children and child welfare workers to attend our 6th Annual Maryland CASA Conference. This year’s conference will be a day of informative workshops, inspiring guest speakers and networking opportunities. You don’t want to miss it! Check out the information below and register today!
Date: Saturday, March 31, 2012
Time: 8:30 a.m. - 3:45 p.m.
Location: Judiciary Education & Conference Center, 2011 Commerce Park Drive, Annapolis, MD 21401
Keynote Speaker
Tonier Cain, Team Leader,
National Center for Trauma-Informed Care
Tonier “Neen” Cain was the subject of the 2010 award-winning documentary, Healing Neen. After surviving a childhood of abuse and neglect, Tonier lived on the streets for two nightmarish decades. Tonier hustled on the streets of Annapolis, Maryland, desperately feeding an insatiable crack addiction and racking up 83 arrests along the way. Rapes and beatings were a routine part of life; home was underneath a bridge or inside the locked cage of a prison. In 2004, pregnant and incarcerated for violation of parole, she was provided with the opportunity to go to a community trauma, mental health and addictions program.
Feeling safe for the first time in her life, Tonier confronted the haunting childhood memories that she tried to numb with drugs: filth and chronic hunger, sexual assaults by neighborhood men, routine physical and mental abuse dished out by her drunken mother. Realizing for the first time that she had been a victim, she began to heal and reclaim power over her life, embarking on a remarkable “upward spiral” that has no limit. Today, Tonier is the Team Leader for the National Center for Trauma-Informed Care, dedicating her life to being a voice for those still lost and still silent. Traveling the country to give speeches to professionals and work one on one with women in prisons and hospitals, Tonier is transforming her own life while helping others to embrace her motto “where there’s breath, there’s hope.”
Conference Schedule
| Time |
Workshop |
Title |
| 8:30 – 9:00 |
Registration & Continental Breakfast |
| 9:00 – 10:15 |
Keynote Speaker |
Tonier Cain, Healing Neen |
| 10:15 – 10:30 |
BREAK |
| 10:30 – 12:00 |
Workshop 1A |
Understanding IEPs & How to Get Services for Your CASA Child
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| Workshop 1B |
Helping Foster Youth Plan for After High School
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| Workshop 1C |
Juvenile Masters Panel |
| Workshop 1D* |
Volunteer Retention & Motivation
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| 12:00 – 12:30 |
Lunch |
| 12:30 – 2:00 |
Workshop 2A |
Substance Abuse
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| Workshop 2B |
Financial Literacy for Transitioning Youth |
| Workshop 2C |
Veteran CASA Volunteer Panel
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| Workshop 2D* |
Volunteer Recruitment
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| 2:00 – 2:15 |
BREAK |
| 2:15 – 3:45 |
Workshop 3A |
Sexual Development of Children
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| Workshop 3B |
Boundaries with CASA Youth
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Workshop 3C
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Foster Youth Panel
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| Workshop 3D |
Cultural Competency
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*THESE WORKSHOPS ARE FOR STAFF & BOARD MEMBERS ONLY |
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This conference is for volunteers, staff and board members of CASA programs affiliated with Maryland CASA Association, attorneys representing children under contract with Maryland Legal Services, and child welfare professionals employed by the Department of Human Services only.
Registration
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Note that spaces will be filled on a first come, first served basis as registrations and payments are received. |