Superheroes sought: Carson City CASA hosts information hour, training this Thursday
Submitted by Carson Now Reader on Mon, 07/08/2019 - 12:28pm
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Repeats every day until Fri Jul 12 2019 .
July 11, 2019 - 5:30pm
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July 12, 2019 - 5:30pm Every child needs a hero, but abused children need Superheroes. 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.
Do you know the best way that you can represent children in foster care? Be a Superhero and become one of our Court Appointed Special Advocate volunteers and speak up for a child’s best interests.
There will be a CASA volunteer information this Thursday, July 11, 2019, 5:30 p.m. at the CASA Office, 1539 E. 5TH Street, Carson City. (Turn into the Juvenile Court parking lot and drive straight to the back.)
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 3:00pm. 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.
Melanie McCormick - Executive Director
CASA of Carson City
1539 E. 5TH Street
Carson City, NV
(775) 291-7069
MelanieMcCormickCASA@outlook.com
"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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