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Events
None scheduled.
Conferences
None scheduled
In-services
Date: Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Time: 3:30pm-5:00pm (NEW TIME)
Location: CASA Conference Room, Monterey Park
Topic: "Talking to Children about Court and Placement: Simple but
not Easy"
Presented by: Tom Lyon, JD, PhD, USC Law and Psychology Professor.
Date: Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Time: 12:00pm-1:30pm
Location: CASA Conference Room, Monterey Park
Topic: "Mental Health Consequences of Obesity in Foster Youth"
Presented by: Dr. Michael Weinraub, Children's Court Pediatrician
Date: Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Time: 12:00pm-1:30pm
Location: CASA Conference Room, Monterey Park
Topic: "The Benefits of Early Childhood Education"
Presented by: Jenny Serrano, Project Specialist - Foster Care Initiative Los
Angeles Universal Preschool (LAUP)
Court Holidays
Please remember the courts will be closed on the following holidays in 20:
2007:
- Friday, November 23, Day after Thanksgiving
- Tuesday, December 25, Christmas
2008:
- Tuesday, Jan 1 – New Year’s Day
- Monday, Jan 21 – Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday
- Tuesday, Feb 12 – Lincoln Day
- Monday, Feb 18 – President’s Day
- Monday, March 31 – Cesar Chavez Day
- Monday, May 26 – Memorial Day
- Friday, July 4 – Independence Day
- Monday, Sept 1 – Labor Day
- Monday, Oct 13 – Columbus Day
- Tuesday, Nov 11 – Veteran’s Day
- Thursday, Nov 27 – Thanksgiving Day
- Friday, Nov 28 – Day after Thanksgiving
- Thursday, Dec 25 – Christmas Day
Lancaster Updates
Check back for updates in the future, or contact the Lancaster Office at 661.945.6483
for more information.
Additional Resources and Opportunities
CASA Lending Library
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
- Maya Angelo, 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.
Resourceful Links for CASA Volunteers
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