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Events
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Volunteer Appreciation Luncheon
11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., Luminarias Restaurant
Monday, December 7, 2009
CASA Holiday Party
4:00-7:00 p.m., Children's Bureau
Conferences
April 16-19, 2010
29th Annual National CASA Conference
Atlanta, GA
casanet.org/conference
Tuesday, November 9, 2009
New Beginnings Partnership Conference
LA Convention Center
In-services
Date: Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Time: 12:00pm-1:30pm
Location: CASA Conference Room, Monterey Park
Topic: Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
Presented by: Dr. Michael Weinraub, Pediatrician, Juvenile Court Mental Health
Date: Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Time: 12:00pm-1:30pm
Location: CASA Conference Room, Monterey Park
Topic: The Nuts & Bolts of Regional Centers
Presented by: Brian Capra, Regional Center Specialist, Public Counsel and Katie Hornberger,
Disability Rights California
Date: Thursday, June 25, 2009
Time: 12:00pm-1:30pm
Location: CASA Conference Room, Monterey Park
Topic: Independent Living Program (ILP)
Presented by: Michael Pearson, Transition ILP Coordinator, DCFS
Date: Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Time: 12:00pm-1:30pm
Location: CASA Conference Room, Monterey Park
Topic: Transitioning Foster Youth -- Early Intervention Program
Presented by: Karla Penuelas, Staff Attorney & Gina Peralta, Social Worker/Public Counsel
Law Center
Date: Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Time: 12:00pm-1:30pm
Location: CASA Conference Room, Monterey Park
Topic: California Youth Connection (CYC), Empowering Youth to Advocate for Themselves,
and Ways to Get Involved with CYC
(CYC is a youth driven and focused organization that empowers current and former foster
youth to advocate for changes in the foster care system and social work practice.)
Presented by: Jacque Lyn Lindeman, MSW, Southern Region Supervisor, California Youth Connection
Court Holidays
Please remember the courts will be closed on the following holidays:
2009:
- Thursday, Jan 1 2009; New Year's Day
- Monday, Jan 19 – Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday
- Thursday, Feb 12 – Lincoln Day
- Monday, Feb 16 – President’s Day
- Tuesday, Mar 31 – Cesar Chavez Day
- Monday, May 25 – Memorial Day
- Friday, Jul 3 – Independence Day
- Monday, Sep 7 – Labor Day
- Monday, Oct 12 – Columbus Day
- Wednesday, Nov 11 – Veteran’s Day
- Thursday, Nov 26 – Thanksgiving Day
- Friday, Nov 27 – Day after Thanksgiving
- Friday, Dec 25 – Christmas Day
Limited Court Operation Days
Responding to the statewide financial crisis, the Los Angeles Superior Court will substantially reduce its operations and furlough employees the third Wednesday of each month, beginning July 15, 2009. These dates include:
- July 15, 2009
- August 19, 2009
- September 16, 2009
- October 21, 2009
- November 18, 2009
- December 16, 2009
- January 20, 2010
- February 17, 2010
- March 17, 2010
- April 21, 2010
- May 19, 2010
- June 16, 2010
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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