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Continuing Education Opportunities
Please check back for updates, or call our office at 323.526.6666 for more information.
In-services
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
12:00-1:30 p.m.
Foster Care Benefits
McCourtney Juvenile Justice Center- Law Library Room 1142
Presented by: Rachel Brewer, Loyola Law School Public Interest Fellow
Location: McCourtney Juvenile Justice Center
1040 W. Avenue J, Law Library Room 1142
Lancaster, CA 95354
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Working with Regional Center
Monterey Park CASA Conference Room
12-1:30 p.m.
Presented by: Connie Chu and Brian Capra, Disability Rights California
Location: Edmund D. Edelman Children's Court
CASA Conference Room
201 Centre Plaza Drive, Room 1100
Monterey Park, CA 91754
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
In-Service on Drug Court
Monterey Park CASA Conference Room
12-1:30 p.m.
Presented by: Commissioner Stephen Marpet
Location: Edmund D. Edelman Children's Court
CASA Conference Room
201 Centre Plaza Drive, Room 1100
Monterey Park, CA 91754
Court Holidays
Please remember the courts will be closed on the following holidays:
2011:
- Monday, July 04, 2011 – Independence Day
- Monday, September 05, 2011 – Labor Day
- Monday, October 10, 2011 – Columbus Day
- Friday, November 11, 2011 – Veterans Day
- Thursday, November 24, 2011 – Thanksgiving Day
- Friday, November 25, 2011 – Day after Thanksgiving
- Monday, December 26, 2011 – Christmas Day
Click Here to view future court holidays.
Antelope Valley Updates
Check back for updates in the future, or contact the Antelope Valley Office at 661.723.2272
for more information.
Conferences
2012 Annual Conference
31st Annual National CASA Conference
June 9-12, 2012
Washington, D.C.
Click here 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 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.
Resourceful Links for CASA Volunteers
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