INTERVIEW SKILLS - TALKING WITH CHILDREN
As a CASA Volunteer, you communicate with children, their families, caseworkers and others involved in the case.
Knowledge about communication is important to the specific ways you will gather information from children. Some children can talk about their situations and their wishes, but other children do not have verbal and developmental skills sufficient to express their needs and wishes.
View sample interactions between a volunteer and a child. Each flash file contains two versions of the same video. In the first version, you'll be able to observe and take your own notes about strategies you see the volunteer using. In the second version, you'll be able to compare the notes you took with notes taken by an experienced CASA volunteer supervisor.
Interview skills talking with a 4-year-old child: Observe some of the strategies and techniques that a volunteer may wish to use in order to break the ice with a caregiver and a pre-school-aged child.
Interview skills talking with a 10-year-old child: Observe some of the strategies and techniques that a volunteer incorporates as she attempts to build rapport with a pre-teen youth.
Don't forget to complete your continuing education credit report for each training you complete. This will help to ensure that you are receiving credit for any training hours completed and that those hours are applied to your 12 hours per year in-service requirements.