Welcome, current CASA volunteers! In addition to the CASA newsletter mailings, we hope this page will serve as a valuable resource for you. If you have any questions about the information listed here, or would like to see additional pieces added, please contact the office.
Continuing Education Opportunities
Thursday, June 20th
Foster Youth Education Rights
12:00 – 2:30 pm
McCourtney Juvenile Justice Center
Room 1156
Presented by: Paige Fern, The Alliance for Children’s Rights
Friday, June 21st
USA (Uninterrupted Scholars Act) & Education Rights of Foster Youth
12:00 – 1:30 pm
Edelman Children’s Court
CASA Conference Room
Presented by: Deborah Cromer, CLC
Thursday, June 27th
Dependency 101
12:00 – 2:00 pm
Edelman Children’s Court
CASA Conference Room
Presented by: Commissioner Marilyn K. Martinez
Thursday, June 27th
Regional Center Training
12:00 – 2:00 pm
McCourtney Juvenile Justice Center
Room 1156
Presented by: Latonia Rogers
Wednesday, July 17th
Big Mama’s Chair: Working with Families of Color
11:00 am – 2:00 pm
Edelman Children’s Court
CASA Conference Room
Presented by: LaDonna Wattley, Wattley Training Institute
CASA Pre-service Training Manual (updated October 2012)
2013 Court Holidays
Please remember the courts will be closed on the following holidays:
Thursday, July 4 – Independence Day
Monday, September 2 – Labor Day
Monday, October 14 – Columbus Day
Monday, November 11 – Veterans Day
Thursday, November 28 – Thanksgiving Day
Friday, November 29 – Day after Thanksgiving
Wednesday, December 25 – Christmas Day
CASA Lending Library
Our CASA Library is now located at the front of the office! When borrowing from the CASA Lending Library, please sign out the material on the log. When returning material, please note the return date on the log.
Remember, other CASAs may be in need of the same information for their CASA child, so please return all material ASAP! Thank you.
Suggested Reading
- Lauri Burns, Punished for Purpose.
- Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
- C. Seymour & C. Beatty, Parents in Prison: Children in Crisis. As Issue Brief.
- J. Bradshaw, Healing the Shame That Binds You.
- J. Briere, Child Abuse Trauma: Theory and Treatment for the Lasting Effects.
- G. Courter, I Speak for This Child.
- Al Desetta (Ed.), The Heart Knows Something Different! Teenage Voices from the Foster Care System.
- Roddy Doyle, The Woman Who Walked into Doors.
- A. Faber & E. Mazlish, How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk.
- W. Finnegan, Cold New World: Growing Up in a Harder Country.
- A.Q Fisher, Finding Fish.
- J. Fitch, White Oleander.
- T. Grandin, Thinking in Pictures.
- T. L. Hayden, Ghost Girl: The True Story of a Child in Peril and the Teacher Who Saved Her.
- P. Hersch, A Tribe Apart: A Journey into the Heart of American Adolescence.
- E. Humes, No Matter How Loud I Shout.
- K. R. Jamison, The Unquiet Mind.
- M.B. Jennings, They Cage Animals at Night.
- S. Kaysen, Girl Interrupted.
- B. Kingsolver, The Bean Tree.
- B. Kingsolver, Pigs in Heaven.
- M. Parent, Turning Stones.
- D. Pelzer, A Child Called “It”.
- D. Pelzer, The Lost Boy.
- D. Pelzer, A Man Named Dave.
- M. Pipher, Reviving Ophelia.
- K. Silber & M. Dorner, Children of Open Adoption and Their Families.
- L. Terr, Too Scared to Cry.
- J. Toth, Orphans of the Living.
- D. Williams, Nobody, Nowhere.
