AUGUST 12th, 2017 was great and thank you!!
She went to the judge with statements from counselors, facts that were ignored in the past and convinced the treatment facility into giving me a criminal lie detector test to help prove my innocence. She stood before the court and told the judge all she has discovered. I was released the next day and returned home to my father! If not for my casa advocate, I would still be in a sexual abuser treatment facility and endure a label I did not deserve.
She took time to listen, put the facts into a timeline, check out the facts and did the work no one else wanted to do.
CASA for KIDS makes this kind of hope possible every day by recruiting, training and supporting 30 of the 77,000 court-appointed special advocates like Maura who stand strong for more than 234,000 children in foster care nationwide. You can stand strong for abused and neglected kids today by making a contribution to the CASA for KIDS.
Come and support those who fight child abuse.
- “When my parents and aunt got in a fight, my aunt accused me of fondling her three year old daughter. I was nine years old.”
I was taken from my home and my parents and sent to Juvenile lock-down. I spent 77 days there and was not allowed around any other kids and every time I attended court, I had to wear shackles and handcuffs—at nine!!!
I also spent the next year in counseling. I told everyone I did not do it, but NO one listened. Finally the case was dismissed and I was allowed to go live with my mother.
Three years later; someone reported my mother for doing meth and I was once again placed in the system. I was transported to a sexual abuser treatment facility because of my history. My CASA worker was the only person in my world who took the time to listen to my story and check it out. She spent hours of research, called every worker, counselor and others who had treated me at the time. Every child deserves an advocate like Maura, but the majority of foster children in the U.S. – 400,000 of them – have no one.
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She went to the judge with statements from counselors, facts that were ignored in the past and convinced the treatment facility into giving me a criminal lie detector test to help prove my innocence. She stood before the court and told the judge all she has discovered. I was released the next day and returned home to my father! If not for my casa advocate, I would still be in a sexual abuser treatment facility and endure a label I did not deserve.
She took time to listen, put the facts into a timeline, check out the facts and did the work no one else wanted to do.
CASA for KIDS makes this kind of hope possible every day by recruiting, training and supporting 30 of the 77,000 court-appointed special advocates like Maura who stand strong for more than 234,000 children in foster care nationwide. You can stand strong for abused and neglected kids today by making a contribution to the CASA for KIDS.
Come and support those who fight child abuse.
Look at what one of our foster kids say about CASA:
Go to www.texascasa.org and watch the video to find out how CASA speaks up for a child or call us at 903-737-4346!
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We have reached a time to prepare the children we work with for
the future, for their future, and for success.
To do this we must look to the past and children who are out of
foster care now, but spent long days, months and years, and in paralyzing
fear for their future while in foster care and for years afterward.
Using a study done by The Casey Family Program (www.casey.org) and Texas CASA
data from hundreds of former foster care individuals, and on top of our already arduous
40 hour training program, we are implementing a program called Seven Steps to
Permanency.
This program targets a population that may seem small in numbers
until you look at the percentage of children who are in poverty, under educated,
incarcerated and homeless. You then see that of these people, 50 to
60 percent were in foster care at one time in their childhood.
This is an appalling statistic!
Through education of CASA Volunteers, foster parents, Texas
Child Protective and Regulatory Services as well as local school personnel, we can
empower foster children to overcome barriers to self-sufficiency, provide
educational opportunities for higher learning and give these children tools they
will need to face economic, physical and educational challenges.
Our plan is to offer interactive classes for all key personnel on
an eight week round robin schedule, one that they would be able to enter at any
time and continue until finished.
Missed classes would be made up or accessed on the website
and college credit will be issued through our local Paris Junior College and
will fulfill CEU’s and TEU’ s needed by nursing and social services
systems.
This will begin with advertising in March 20th at 11 am, continuing classes thru 4 eight week sessions (32
weeks) and ending with a day of sharing and discussion panel at our local Civic
Center.
These classes will result in measurable outcomes for foster
children. Number one will be higher number of foster children returned to their
“homes”, relatives, fictive kin or community. Number two will be a higher
number of foster children finishing high school and enrolling in college or
trade schools and number three will be former foster children employed in our
community.
This will be a year long educational project with follow-up with foster
children for three years. We will use existing staff at CASA for KIDS and time will
be paid separate from our payroll that presently comes from Victims of Crime monies
from the State of Texas. Tracking these children will be done on the program in a follow-up system.
the future, for their future, and for success.
To do this we must look to the past and children who are out of
foster care now, but spent long days, months and years, and in paralyzing
fear for their future while in foster care and for years afterward.
Using a study done by The Casey Family Program (www.casey.org) and Texas CASA
data from hundreds of former foster care individuals, and on top of our already arduous
40 hour training program, we are implementing a program called Seven Steps to
Permanency.
This program targets a population that may seem small in numbers
until you look at the percentage of children who are in poverty, under educated,
incarcerated and homeless. You then see that of these people, 50 to
60 percent were in foster care at one time in their childhood.
This is an appalling statistic!
Through education of CASA Volunteers, foster parents, Texas
Child Protective and Regulatory Services as well as local school personnel, we can
empower foster children to overcome barriers to self-sufficiency, provide
educational opportunities for higher learning and give these children tools they
will need to face economic, physical and educational challenges.
Our plan is to offer interactive classes for all key personnel on
an eight week round robin schedule, one that they would be able to enter at any
time and continue until finished.
Missed classes would be made up or accessed on the website
and college credit will be issued through our local Paris Junior College and
will fulfill CEU’s and TEU’ s needed by nursing and social services
systems.
This will begin with advertising in March 20th at 11 am, continuing classes thru 4 eight week sessions (32
weeks) and ending with a day of sharing and discussion panel at our local Civic
Center.
These classes will result in measurable outcomes for foster
children. Number one will be higher number of foster children returned to their
“homes”, relatives, fictive kin or community. Number two will be a higher
number of foster children finishing high school and enrolling in college or
trade schools and number three will be former foster children employed in our
community.
This will be a year long educational project with follow-up with foster
children for three years. We will use existing staff at CASA for KIDS and time will
be paid separate from our payroll that presently comes from Victims of Crime monies
from the State of Texas. Tracking these children will be done on the program in a follow-up system.