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Conferences
April 16-19, 2010
29th Annual National CASA Conference
Atlanta, GA
casanet.org/conference
In-services
Thursday, March 18, 2010
March In-Service
CASA Conference Room 12:00-1:30 p.m.
Presenter: Comissioner Jacqueline Lewis
Court Holidays
Please remember the courts will be closed on the following holidays:
2010:
- Friday, Jan 1 – New Year's Day
- Monday, Jan 18 – Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday
- Wednesday, Jan 20 – Court Closure
- Friday, Feb 12 – Lincoln Day
- Monday, Feb 15 – President’s Day
- Wednesday, Feb 17 – Court Closure
- Wednesday, Mar 17 – Court Closure
- Wednesday, Mar 31 – Cesar Chavez Day
- Wednesday, Apr 21 – Court Closure
- Wednesday, May 19 – Court Closure
- Monday, May 31 – Memorial Day
- Wednesday, Jun 16 – Court Closure
- Monday, Jul 5 – Independence Day
- Monday, Sep 6 – Labor Day
- Monday, Oct 11 – Columbus Day
- Thursday, Nov 11 – Veterans Day
- Thursday, Nov 25 – Thanksgiving Day
- Friday, Nov 26 – Day after Thanksgiving
- Friday, Dec 24 – Christmas Day
- Friday, Dec 31 – New Year's Day (2011)
Court Closure Days
Due to the ongoing statewide financial crisis, and pursuant to state law enacted in 2009,
Superior Courts throughout California will be closed Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009, and closed
the third Wednesday of every month through June 16, 2010.
All Superior Court offices, self-help programs and CASA of Los Angeles will be closed. People having business
with another agency in a courthouse on that day should contact that agency. The court
closure days are to be treated as a court holiday per Government Code section 68106 for the
purposes of scheduling hearings and calculating filing deadlines.
Court closure dates are as follows:
- Wednesday, March 17, 2010
- Wednesday, April 21, 2010
- Wednesday, May 19, 2010
- Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Antelope Valley Updates
Check back for updates in the future, or contact the Antelope Valley Office at 661.945.6483
for more information.
Additional Resources and Opportunities
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
- 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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