Tips to Help You Support Quality Volunteer Advocates

The current Everyone Ready guide, Budgeting for a Volunteer Program, offers a tool that will assist executive staff and boards to effectively and accurately determine the resources needed to support a highly trained professional volunteer staff. This guide is for any CASA/GAL executive director, board or staff member responsible for developing the program's annual budget. The guide features advice from professionals regarding how to allocate funding after you determine what it costs your program to support quality volunteer advocacy. This guide will be featured until March 15, 2010, after which time it will be moved to the Everyone Ready archive section of the website. Not yet connected to Everyone Ready? It's as easy as 1-2-3! Register for access, and within 48 hours you will receive approval.

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New Webinar: How to Construct Surveys That Count

Surveys that are purposefully developed, have clear goals, are properly planned and ask the right questions can provide you with valuable information about your organization. Survey Says…How to Construct Surveys That Count is a 60-minute webinar hosted by Joni Tamalonis, National CASA’s evaluation specialist. This webinar is for any CASA/GAL staff member responsible for measuring program effectiveness. After attending this webinar, you will be able to determine when surveys should be used to gather information; describe the survey planning process and standard timeline; identify various types of survey questions; and construct a quality survey. The webinar will be offered only once on March 16, 2010, at 11:00 a.m. PT. Register for access.

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Standards, Self-Assessment and Volunteer Training

The self-assessment process provides an opportunity to reflect on how CASA/GAL programs incorporate National CASA standards into their day-to-day operations. Jennifer King, program operations director of Georgia CASA, Inc., examines some of the language in the standards around training. These standards offer a prime example of the confluence between a program's daily operations, the requirements set forth in the standards and a volunteer's capacity to provide effective advocacy for children. Read the full article. 

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