Carson City CASA to host volunteer information hour this Thursday and again May 16
Submitted by Carson Now Reader on Tue, 05/07/2019 - 11:47am
Event Date:
Repeats every week until Thu May 16 2019 .
May 9, 2019 - 5:00pm
Event Date:
May 16, 2019 - 5:00pm Every child needs a hero, but abused children need superheroes! Court Appointed Special Advocates, also known as CASA, will hold information hours on Thursday, May 9 and again Thursday, May 16 in Carson City.
Come get your questions answered first and then hang out afterward as new volunteer training will begin. See first hand how the organization works. Both meetings begin at 5 p.m.
We’ve heard a million times that kids are sponges, absorbing all that they see and hear. That includes the good, the bad and the ugly. It makes sense that they want to imitate one of the good guys in a show or cartoon. To a child, a superhero is magical. A superhero is powerful! A superhero can help keep them safe.
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Each year, approximately 780,000 children in the United States are caught up in the court and child welfare maze because they are unable to live safely at home. Imagine what it would be like to lose your parents, not because of something you did, but because they can’t — or won’t — take care of you.
Now, coming into these children’s lives come dozens of strangers: police, foster parents, therapists, social workers, judges, lawyers, and more. Hopefully, one of these strangers is a CASA volunteer.
Do you know the best way that you can represent children in foster care? Be a Superhero! Become one of our CASA Volunteers and speak up for a child’s best interests.
CASA is the only volunteer organization that empowers everyday citizens as officers of the court. In an overburdened social welfare system, abused and neglected children often slip through the cracks among hundreds of current cases. CASA volunteers change that.
Appointed by judges, CASA volunteers typically handle just one case at a time — and commit to staying on that case until the child is placed in a safe, permanent home. While others may come and go, CASA volunteers provide that one constant that children need in order to thrive.
We need Superheroes like you! Currently there are over 100 children in Carson City alone that are navigating the child welfare system. They’re scared and they don’t know what’s going to happen next. They need a powerful advocate, someone who will speak up for them and get to know them and their story.
Our CASAs undergo 30 hours of training, helping you become familiar with the child welfare process, child development, mental health and substance abuse issues to name a few. Our CASAs just don’t meet with their child on a Thursday at 3 p.m. They take that child to a baseball game, they’ll meet with the child’s teachers to better understand why they might be struggling with math and they go to Court letting the Judge know just what this child needs to thrive.
CASAs advocate for families and we want to keep families together. Sometimes that doesn’t happen and then that child will need a superhero to help them figure out those next steps.
Please contact Carson City CASAs Executive Director Melanie McCormick about how you can get involved and change a child’s life. We need volunteers more than ever as there are children sitting in foster care without a CASA advocate.
CASA of Carson City is located at 1539 E. 5th Street in Carson City. The phone number (775) 291-7069. You can email MelanieMcCormickCASA@outlook.com. Please call ahead of time to schedule an appointment to stop by as many times we are out in the community.
"To give a child a CASA is to give them a voice. To give them a voice is to give them hope. And to give them hope is to give them the world. I believe that with all my heart." — Pamela Butler, former foster youth.
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