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CASA Volunteers Make A Difference In Foster Care

Article originally appeared in the Long Beach Grunion Gazette on June 19, 2014. By Sarah Whiteford Most volunteer work involves cooking, cleaning or raising money for an organization, but not very many volunteers can say they have provided emotional and educational...

Circle of Giving Grants Inaugural Gift

Article originally appeared in the Palisadian-Post on June 5, 2014. Throughout the year, women from the Palisades and surrounding areas have gathered together in local living rooms to create the LA Women’s Circle of Giving, pooling their charitable dollars to make a...

Advocate is out ‘for the child’

Article originally appeared in the Antelope Valley Press on March 30, 2014. By Julie Drake LANCASTER – Sallie Jones wasn’t ready to retire when a health issue forced her to leave her career of 35 years. So perhaps it was serendipity when she stumbled onto...

There’s No Cramping Their Style

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...

A Cinderella Moment

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...

Helping Children Focus of Dinner

Article originally appeared in the Antelope Valley Press on March 10, 2014. By: Alisha Semchuck LANCASTER – Court Appointed Special Advocates ensure that abused and neglected children in their charge have a place to call home and a bed of their own. More than...