The Volunteer Resources page is your central hub for everything you need to excel as a CASA Volunteer. Here, you’ll find training materials, advocacy tools, helpful guides, and program updates—all designed to support your critical role in ensuring children in foster care have a voice and receive the stability and care they deserve. Your dedication is making a lasting impact!
CASA Cares Fund
CASA SWMI volunteers can request support through the CASA Cares Fund to meet children’s needs. Learn about eligibility, request procedures, and approval guidelines.
Advocate Training & Continuing Education Resources
A curated hub of continuing education resources for CASA advocates—featuring free training, TED Talks, podcasts, books, and videos to strengthen your advocacy skills.
Resources that Help Families
Explore trusted local resources for CASA families and advocates in Berrien and St. Joseph counties. Includes assistance with food, childcare, healthcare, and foster support services.
Child Education and Activity Resources
Explore a wide range of free, interactive educational resources for kids of all ages. Includes audiobooks, games, virtual tours, science projects, language tools, and learning activities by grade.
TBRI Training
With support from Lakeland Spectrum Health, CASA offers Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI) training and personalized consultations to help volunteers build trust with children and families.
CASA Volunteer Manual
As a CASA volunteer, you join a national movement of advocates making a difference in the lives of children in foster care. This manual offers guidance, support, and inspiration for your journey.
Before beginning their advocacy work, volunteers complete a comprehensive training program that includes both in-classroom sessions and self-paced learning. Led by local CASA facilitators, this training provides a supportive environment to develop knowledge in child welfare, judicial practices, and effective advocacy. With this preparation, volunteers are ready to make a difference as soon as they are assigned to a child.