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Conferences
2011 Annual Conference in March 19-22, 2011
30th Annual National CASA Conference
Chicago, IL
http://www.casaforchildren.org/site/c.mtJSJ7MPIsE/b.5405963/k.A2FE/Annual_Conference.htm
In-services
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Inservice- "Working Affirmatively with LGBTQ Youth"
Monterey Park CASA Conference Room 12:00-1:30 p.m.
Presenter: Michael Ferrera, Executive Director at LifeWorks Mentoring
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Inservice- "Dependency Law Update"
Monterey Park CASA Conference Room 12:00-1:30 p.m.
Presenters: Commissioner Jacqueline Lewis and Commissioner Anthony Trendacosta
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Inservice- "Collaborating with Regional Center"
Antelope Valley CASA Law Library 12:00-1:30 p.m.
Presenter: Latonia Rogers, Branch Manager of North Los Angeles Regional Center
Court Holidays
Please remember the courts will be closed on the following holidays:
2010:
- 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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