by CASA of Los Angeles | Apr 30, 2014 | Press Releases
Los Angeles, CA, April 29, 2014 — The LA Women’s Circle of Giving (LAWCOG) has announced that CASA of Los Angeles will be one of the recipients of its first annual giving cycle, receiving a grant of $30,000. CASA’s mission is to mobilize community volunteers to...
by CASA of Los Angeles | Apr 11, 2014 | Press Releases
CASA of Los Angeles Names Helen Louise Schwartz As Its 2014 “Volunteer Of The Year” Los Angeles, CA, April 10th, 2014 — CASA of Los Angeles is very proud to announce that one of its most dedicated volunteers, Helen Louise Schwartz, has been named “Volunteer of...
by CASA of Los Angeles | Mar 31, 2014 | News
Article originally appeared in the Park Labrea News on March 27, 2014. By Aaron Blevins For more than 350 high school girls in the Los Angeles County foster care system, Saturday is primed to be a day of glitz and glamour, as volunteers will be tending to their every...
by CASA of Los Angeles | Mar 31, 2014 | News
Article originally appeared on Zev’s Blog on March 27, 2014. By Zev Yaroslavsky It was an invitation that another teenager might have taken for granted. Alexx Solyom had been asked to her first winter formal, a masquerade ball in January at Pasadena’s posh...
by CASA of Los Angeles | Mar 23, 2014 | News
Article originally appeared on The Chronicle of Social Change on March 18, 2014. By Georgette Todd Prom season is now underway, and one Los Angeles business is making sure that foster girls will be properly supported in this teenage rite of passage. Since 2010, bra...
by CASA of Los Angeles | Mar 2, 2014 | News
This story aired on Univision 34 KMEX on Friday, February 21 and Saturday, February 22, 2014. Click here to view.
by CASA of Los Angeles | Feb 25, 2014 | News
Article originally appeared in the Culver City News on February 21, 2014. In honor of African-American History Month the Mayme Clayton Library & Museum, located at 4130 Overland Ave. in Culver City, will host CASA’s (Court Appointed Special Advocates) Superhero...
by CASA of Los Angeles | Nov 27, 2013 | Stories
What’s one more person when you’re cooking Thanksgiving dinner for 65 people? To Anita Davis, it’s a really big deal this year, because that one person is her 12-year-old grandson, Jason. For almost all of the last two years, Jason had been living in...
by CASA of Los Angeles | Nov 6, 2013 | Stories
In July 2013, the FBI conducted a national sex-trafficking sting, dubbed “Operation Cross Country,” targeting underage victims of prostitution. The three-day raid rescued more than 100 teens, some as young as 13, including two in Los Angeles. The operation...
by CASA of Los Angeles | Oct 25, 2013 | News
Article originally appeared in LA Parent, October 25, 2013 I am a CASA, a Court Appointed Special Advocate, and I advocate for abused and neglected children in the foster care system. The CASA program was established 35 years ago in Seattle, by dependency judge David...
