Welcome, current CASA volunteers! In addition to the CASA newsletter mailings, we hope this page will serve as a valuable resource for you. If you have any questions about the information listed here, or would like to see additional pieces added, please contact the office.

Continuing Education Opportunities

Please check back for updates, or call our office at 323.526.6666 for more information.

Court Holidays

Please remember the courts will be closed on the following holidays:

Friday, March 30, 2012 – Cesar Chavez Day
Monday, May 28, 2012 – Memorial Day
Wednesday, July 4, 2012 – Independence Day
Monday, September 3, 2012 – Labor Day
Monday, October 8, 2012 – Columbus Day
Monday, November 12, 2012 – Veterans Day
Thursday, November 22, 2012 – Thanksgiving Day
Friday, November 23, 2012 – Day after Thanksgiving
Tuesday, December 25, 2012 – Christmas Day

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.

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

• Lauri Burns, Punished for Purpose.
• 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.