Mika Carroll Professor Katz Paper 1 September 11, 2013 Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) Growing up I never understood why my sister and I were so different, at least in my dad’s eyes. The most painful thing was I knew that he loved my sister more than me. When I was bad I got a beating; when my sister was bad, I still got a beating. My mom would always be there to save me even though she knew it would cause a huge fight with my dad. Fortunately my mom was a smart woman and she divorced
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The Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) is a national association in the United States that supports and promotes court-appointed advocates for abused or neglected children. CASA is an organization widely known to empower people across local communities to volunteer as advocates for children who have become victims of the court system. The CASA Superhero run created in 1994, is designed to fundraise and bring awareness to the members of Henrico, Chesterfield and Richmond communities encouraging
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Kathleen Fritz came to speak to us over the organization called CASA. Not to be confused with CAASA. The organization Kathleen works for is called Court Appointed Special Advocate. Kathleen has a bachelor’s degree in social work and is the CASA coordinator. The three competencies I will be relating the information she shared with us are, competency 3, 6, and 7. Competency 3 is to advance human rights and social and economic justice. Competency 6 is to engage with individuals, families, groups, organizations
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advocacy organizations who promote the optimal development of children. An individual or organization engaging in advocacy typically volunteer to protect children’s rights which may be abridged or abused in a number of areas. (Weinzweig, 2004) A child advocate not only provides a child with a safe haven, they also provide a voice when the child is not loud enough. Child Advocacy services can usually be sought after through the help of a case manager. In Colorado, when a child is placed in foster care,
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This report was prepared by Diane Polce, Court Appointed Special Advocate, and is of a confidential nature, for the benefit of the Court and may be distributed to parties to the proceeding only. |PETITION NUMBER: 0000551-2013 |JUDGE: Hon. Judge Irvine | |J NUMBER: 51-FN-OOO911-2013 | | |DHS NUMBER:
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Objective: Put on a BR Dodgeball tournament with U-High to raise money for CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates), which is a national association that supports and promotes court-appointed advocates for abused or neglected children in order to provide children with a safe and healthy environment in permanent homes. Secondary Objectives: Promotion: The message I want to convey through this event is to help U-High raise money for CASA in an extremely fun manner. I want a lot of people to join in on this
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Iceberg in Society In 2009, it was documented that nearly 763,000 children reported multiple times that they had been abused and an estimated 702,000 children came forward with one claim (Unknown. 2011). These numbers only represent the children to whom that are strong enough to tell someone and hope for some change. No one really knows how many children are abused throughout his or her life. This is such a huge epidemic today that it can be compared to an iceberg; small amount of the ice you
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Best Practices Juliet Walls Utilization of Community Resources An organization must have policies and procedures to run effectively and serve its mission to the community. Training employees and volunteers on policies and procedures is important to keeping the integrity and competency of an organization. How an organization manages the logistics and how the community perceives them is a huge factor in the success and effectiveness of an organization. One of the community organizations
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Special Populations BSHS/402 Case Management Special Populations For this paper, the writer will select one special population that she believes she wants to work with and assist. The first step involves discussing the populations reviewed and the one selected as well as why the selection was made. The writer will discuss why the interest formed on that specific area and what she thinks she would bring to helping that would benefit this specific population. Special populations include
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Sonia Espitia Biography Counseling 104 04/18/11 Merriam Webster defines success as a” Noun, an obsolete outcome, result, degree or measure of succeeding, favorable or desired outcome; also the attainment of wealth, favor or eminence, one that succeeds.” However, one of my personal favorite definitions of success, is a quote I came across a while back by an unknown author, and it states, “ If success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world, but it does not feel good in your heart
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