Advocacy at the Core: 2025 Kentucky CASA Conference

Advocating with Purpose, Pursuing Excellence

November 17-18, 2025 - Covington, KY

Call for Sponsors

What is Advocacy at the Core: 2025 Kentucky CASA Conference?

The Kentucky CASA Network will host a statewide conference in Covington, Kentucky this fall. Volunteers, staff, and board members from local CASA programs throughout the state will be the primary audience, although stakeholders and guests will also be invited. The majority of attendees are expected to be CASA volunteers, who directly advocate for children experiencing abuse, neglect, or dependency. Conference attendees will gain knowledge, skills, and understanding aimed at enhancing and supporting the best interest advocacy provided to children served by CASA volunteers. This year’s event will provide sessions centered around the core model of CASA best interest advocacy.

  • Learn: Increase information gathering skills utilized during best interest advocacy
  • Engage: Enhance knowledge and skills utilized when developing relationships with abused, neglected, and dependent children; topics may include home visit best practices and strategies for successfully engaging with specific populations
  • Recommend: Increase understanding of services available in communities, which services and supports are most effective for supporting the safety and permanency of children, and how to clearly articulate recommendations for these services and supports to judges in the dependency, neglect, and abuse dockets
  • Collaborate: Provide updates on trends in local child welfare and court practice/policy, enhance understanding of the court process, and gain best practices for collaborating with stakeholders to meet children’s needs
  • Report: Enhance court report writing and case monitoring skills

CASA staff, directors, and board members will have access to the above-mentioned sessions and will gain specific skills relevant to their roles, such as recruiting, supporting, and retaining volunteers, and operating and governing an efficient and highly effective CASA program. The conference will provide attendees with plenary and breakout sessions from local and national trainers, an awards luncheon honoring advocates throughout the state, and plenty of networking opportunities.

What is CASA?

Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) volunteers are community-based advocates who are appointed by judges to serve in child abuse and neglect cases. Once assigned to a child, the volunteer researches the child's case, reviews documents, interviews relevant people, and makes a report to the court as to what is in the best interest of the child in terms of services, placement, visitation, reunification, and permanency. CASA volunteers are objective community members who are not part of the child welfare system. They focus their efforts solely on gathering information and making recommendations regarding children in abuse, neglect, or dependency cases.

About the Kentucky CASA Network

The Kentucky CASA Network (KCN) is the principal organizer of Advocacy at the Core: 2025 Kentucky CASA Conference. The KCN is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, governed by a board of directors, that provides ongoing development, training, technical assistance, and resources to local CASA programs across the Commonwealth. Currently, the KCN is an association of 18 programs, covering 97 of Kentucky’s counties. 1,360 CASA volunteers served nearly 3,400 abused and neglected children in 2024. The KCN, as well as all local CASA programs, are governed by Kentucky Revised Statutes (KRS 620.500-550).

CASA programs in Kentucky are part of a larger national network. The National CASA/GAL Association for Children is a national organization advocating for abused and neglected children in the court system and in foster care. There are more than 900 local CASA programs across the country receiving technical assistance and training from National CASA/GAL. The KCN and all local CASA programs are members of the national association.

Available Sponsorships

  • $10,000 - Platinum Presenting Sponsor (1 available)

    Company/agency logo featured in Whova conference app, on conference website, and in conference program with written and verbal recognition during all plenary and breakout sessions. Opportunity to speak about organization during opening plenary session. Social media recognition and promotion of sponsorship. Exhibit space available upon request. 5 complementary registrations included.

  • $7,500 - Awards Dinner Sponsor (1 available)

    Company/agency logo featured in Whova conference app, on conference website, and in conference program with written and verbal recognition during awards dinner. Opportunity to speak about organization during dinner. Social media recognition and promotion of sponsorship. Exhibit space available upon request. 3 complementary registrations included.

  • $5,000 - Luncheon Sponsor (1 available)

    Company/agency logo featured in Whova conference app, on conference website, and in conference program with written and verbal recognition during luncheon. Opportunity to speak about organization during luncheon. Social media recognition and promotion of sponsorship. Exhibit space available upon request. 3 complementary registrations included.

  • $4,000 - Silver Sponsor (2 available)

    Company/agency logo featured in Whova conference app, on conference website, and in conference program with written and verbal recognition during all plenary sessions. Social media recognition and promotion of sponsorship. Exhibit space available upon request. 3 complementary registrations included.

  • $3,000 - Technology Sponsor (2 available)

    Company/agency logo featured in Whova conference app, on conference website, and in conference program. Social media recognition and promotion of sponsorship. Exhibit space available upon request. 2 complementary registration included.

  • $2,500 - Bronze Sponsor (3 available)

    Company/agency logo featured in Whova conference app, on conference website, and in conference program. Social media recognition and promotion of sponsorship. Exhibit space available upon request. 2 complementary registrations included.

  • $1,000 - Advocate Engagement Sponsor (multiple available)

    Company/agency logo featured on conference website and in conference program. This sponsorship covers the cost of 5 CASA volunteers to attend the conference. 1 complementary registration included. Exhibit space to be purchased separately.

  • $750 - Board Governance Track Sponsor (multiple available)

    Company/agency logo featured on conference website and in conference program. 1 complementary registration included. Exhibit space to be purchased separately.

  • $500 - Breakout Workshop Sponsor (multiple available)

    Company/agency name featured on conference website and in conference program. 1 complementary registration included. Exhibit space to be purchased separately.

  • $300 - For-Profit Exhibitor; $225 - Nonprofit Exhibitor (multiple available)

    Company/agency name featured in conference program. Exhibit space includes a table and two chairs in a designated area outside of the ballroom. Attendees will be encouraged to visit exhibits throughout the day. There is limited exhibition space and approval will be on a first-come first-serve basis.