Download or read book Court Appointed Special Advocates written by Mercedes Lawry and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Court Appointed Special Advocates A Voice for Abused and Neglected Children in Court written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention offers the full text of an article entitled "Court Appointed Special Advocates: A Voice for Abused and Neglected Children in Court." The article discusses the history of the court appointed special advocate (CASA) program, how the program helps, the role of CASA, and training.
Download or read book CASA Court Appointed Special Advocate for Children written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Casa a Child s Voice in Court written by California. Dependency Court (Alameda County) and published by . This book was released on 1990* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book One Child at a Time written by Yolanda Bryant and published by Freeze Time Media. This book was released on 2014-12 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When children are taken from their family, due to abuse or neglect, they enter the custody of social services and are put into a foster home. Some of these children are lucky enough to be given a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA). "One Child at a Time: The Mission of a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA)" shares the experiences of CASAs working to give children a voice in court, and a chance to return to a safe home, or to find a new forever home. First, you will meet Kelly, an engaging three-year-old that told her CASA the first time they met, "The people came and took me away from my mommy and daddy. I was crying and crying. I had to go and see a doctor. The doctor gave me a stuffed animal to make me feel better, but it didn't help." The words of this small child floored the author. She seemed to have a better understanding of her feelings than many children much older. It's no wonder that the author would become Kelly's biggest advocate. The second section of the book is a compilation of experiences and feelings from a variety of CASA volunteers. All kinds of people do this work; the only requirement is a love for children. Volunteers are trained for two weeks before starting a case. Along the way, when questions or concerns arise, each volunteer has a supervisor from the CASA office that they can turn to for advice and a listening ear. The joy of seeing a child find the happiness and security each one deserves is an experience that fills a CASA's heart with their own joy and happiness. It is the reason CASAs become hooked from the moment they take a case and meet their children.
Download or read book Court Appointed Special Advocates in the Rural South written by Shanna N. Felix and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author's abstract: Children in the court system who are abused or neglected are mandated by the federal Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA) to have special legal representation in the form of a Guardian ad Litem (GAL). A GAL can be a staff attorney or he or she can be a volunteer layperson (known as a Court-Appointed Special Advocate, or CASA) who has undergone the GAL training. In some states, the CASA volunteer can be a substitute for the GAL, while in other states (like Georgia) the CASA is appointed by the judge as a complement to the staff attorney. To date, there has been very little research evaluating the fidelity of CASA programs where they are implemented, nor has there been much research on the CASA program more generally. Therefore, this study evaluates the fidelity of a rural CASA branch using the Justice Program Fidelity Scale (JPFS; Miller & Miller, 2015) and interview data from 12 CASA volunteers, along with local CASA program statistics and training materials. The CASA program evaluated for the present study scored an 85.64% on the JPFS using combined scores from two researchers. Implications for rural areas, including implications specifically for a judicial circuit with no dedicated specialty judge for cases involving abused or neglected children, are discussed.
Download or read book Court Appointed Special Advocates written by Mercedes Lawry and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Advocating for the Child in Protection Proceedings written by Donald N. Duquette and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No descriptive material is available for the title.
Download or read book CASA Court Appointed Special Advocate for Children a Child s Voice in Court written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book CASA written by and published by . This book was released on 1999* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Web site for Douglas County CASA, a Lawrence, Kansas-based affiliate of a national program of court appointed special advocates (CASA Volunteers) trained to speak up for the best interests of abused and neglected children in the courts.
Download or read book Roles of children s attorneys and court appointed special advocates in child abuse and neglect proceedings written by Jennifer Lynn Webster and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Oregon s Court Appointed Special Advocates CASA written by Oregon Commission on Children and Families and published by . This book was released on 1998* with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book CASA Court Appointed Special Advocate for Children written by and published by . This book was released on 1990* with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Abused Child written by United States. Children's Bureau and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book CASA Court Appointed Special Advocate for Children written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book There Must Be a Witness written by Sue Bell Cobb and published by NewSouth Books. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: True child advocates are not born, they are forged out of frustration and faith. There Must Be A Witness profiles a group of child advocates in Alabama who have devoted themselves to help children thrive—and by extension, to better meet the needs of their communities. This collection of stories, narrated by Sue Bell Cobb, the state’s first female Chief Justice and a former juvenile court judge, draws back the curtain on what drives such advocates. In the case of Liz Huntley, a prominent Birmingham lawyer, and Roberta Crenshaw, a former prison lay counselor, advocacy grew out of enduring the most horrific abuse. For Jannah Bailey, the director of Child Protect, her calling has always been to stand between children and violence. Cobb’s own life of advocacy stems from what she saw in courtrooms across Alabama. As a jurist she was bound to serve the law, but as an advocate she championed some of the state’s most sweeping child policy reforms in recent decades, including a toe-to-toe fight with back-slapping tobacco company lobbyists. Along the way she was humbled by the inspiring group of child advocates she met digging firebreaks against poverty, child abuse and neglect, inadequate medical care, and shortcomings in education. Collectively, the stories included in this volume call us to stand witness and testify to policymakers on behalf of children—to insist that government be used as a force for good in people’s lives.
Download or read book National Directory of Programs Providing Court Representation to Abused and Neglected Children written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
