Closing

The speaker emphasizes the importance of combining knowledge from developmental psychology class, practical training from CASA, and personal experiences with children in foster care to understand child development and support youth effectively. They highlight how seeing trauma through academic and real-world perspectives alters perceptions and enhances advocacy efforts. They express gratitude for the impact of CASA and developmental psychology on their perspective. So, with all that said, we'd like to close by just pointing out that our developmental psych class really gave you the science and the concepts that we have, but training through CASA really gave us the practice and the perspective of how it really plays out into children's lives, especially those in foster care. And then our personal experiences with the children will really give us the human connection and the heart of the advocacy. So, with all that said, seeing trauma through both academic and real-world lens change how we think about child development and what it means to support youth in foster care. We'd like to thank you for listening, and we hope that you can see how much that CASA and developmental psychology really change our perspective.