MENTORING MEETINGS
CASA of Williamson County is excited to announce we are now offering TWO variations of Mentoring Meetings! On the ODD months, we will offer a structured, informational meeting including a guest speaker related to a local agency or resource. On the EVEN numbered months, one of our very own, Marilynn Hertz, will be hosting a Networking Group, offering a more relaxed environment and allowing for seasoned CASAs to support our newer ones.
Keep a lookout in your email and snail mail boxes for specifics each month or contact our office for more information!
CASA of Williamson County is excited to announce we are now offering TWO variations of Mentoring Meetings! On the ODD months, we will offer a structured, informational meeting including a guest speaker related to a local agency or resource. On the EVEN numbered months, one of our very own, Marilynn Hertz, will be hosting a Networking Group, offering a more relaxed environment and allowing for seasoned CASAs to support our newer ones.
Keep a lookout in your email and snail mail boxes for specifics each month or contact our office for more information!
Illinois CASA Advocate Network (ICAN)
ICAN is free for all CASA Advocates to receive. CASA Advocates are allowed to count one hour of in-service training for each reading of these quarterly newsletters, and you can count one hour of in-service training for reading the local newsletter as well. Due to budget constraints, the local CASA will not be able to send quarterly newsletters for the near future. We plan to produce and distribute newsletters every four months. For that reason, the ICAN newsletter will help keep you "plugged in".
CASA Volunteers: Don't forget you can also go to www.illinoiscasa.org for additional training and informational materials.
To all our CASA Readers:
The inspiring book One Kid at a Time is offered to CASA advocates online for reading and in-service training credit. We also have a copy in the office for you to borrow. Written by Jake Dekker, this book chronicals Mr. Dekker's adoption of a troubled 10 year old foster child. This child had been abused, abandoned, neglected, over-medicated, and described to Mr. Dekker as a "thrown away" kid. CASA volunteers can read this book free at jakedekker.com/casa.
Some of our Available Books in the CASA Library Available to CASA Volunteers:
A child's Journey Through Placement
Vera I. Fahlberg, MD
A Life Without Consequences
Stephen Eliott
A Man Named Dave
Dave Pelzer
Advocate, The
William J. O'Shea
All God's Children
Fox Butterfield
Amazing Grace
Jonathan Kozol
"And Don't Call Me a Racist" -Treasury of Quotes
Ella Mazel
Angela's Ashes
Frank McCourt
Another Place at the Table
Kathy Harrison
Blackbird -- A Childhood Lost and Found
Jennifer Lauck
Child Welfare: Journal of Policy and Practice
Claiming Georgia Tage
Gigi Amateau
Dare to Wear Your Soul on the Outside
Gloria Burgess
For Women Only
Tina Coonce
Fundraising for Social Change
Kim Kleim
Helping Children Cope with Separation and Loss
Claudia Jewett Jerratt
How to Keep Your Life in Focus
Garth W. Coonce
Just for Now: Children & People of the Court
Child Advocacy, Inc.
Life in the Right Seat
Tina Coonce
Lighting the Way - Volunteer Child Advocates Speak Out
National CASA of Williamson County
Meth Conferenace - Two Disc DVD Set
Miracle of Total Committment, The
Garth W. Coonce
Nature of Nuture--Biology, Environment & The Drug Exposed Child, The
Ira J. Chasnoff, MD
No Matter How Loud
Edward Humes
Sibling Abuse, 2nd Ed.
Vernon R. Wiehe
Social Work Interview, The
Alfred Kadushin
Somebody Else's Children
John Hubner & Jill Wolfson
Someone There for Me - Everyday Heroes Through the Eyes of Teens in Foster Care
National CASA of Williamson County
Street Drugs - Drug Identifier
Surviving the Storm
Julia S. Charles
Teachable Moments
Steve L. Robbins
Teaching Our Kids to Kill
Lt. Col. Dave Grossman & Gloria DeGaetano
Too Scared to Cry
Understanding Child Abuse & Neglect, 4th Ed.
Cynthia Crosson-Tower
Way We Never Were, The
Stephanie Coontz
Way We Really Are, The
Stephanie Coontz
What Children Can Tell Us
James Gambarion, Frances M. Stott, & Faculty of the Erikson Institute
What it Means to Love You
Stephen Elliot
When Home is No Haven
Albert J. Solnit, Ruth Lord, & Barbara F. Nordhaus
Where the Heart Is
Billie Letts