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Our Mission:
Chaves County CASA
is Court Appointed Special Advocates, a non-profit agency that
provides a powerful voice for children.
Our
Vision:
CASA believes that every child should have a
safe, loving and forever home.
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September - Reana Gonzales
“Reana has lots of passion,” says Coordinator Pat
Coronado. “Because of her own personal life experience, she
passionately advocated for a 2 year old little girl who was
found in a filthy home filled with IV needles. The parents
were absent and the maternal grandmother is schizophrenic as
well as drug addicted. Reana advocated hard for a permanent
placement with great family members in Santa Fe.”
October - Janet
Sanders
Janet is Old Faithful. What on earth
would we do without her helping with our Leadership Program?
Daniel Chacon, Leadership Facilitator says of Janet, “She’s
awesome! The kids love her. She takes planning and leadership
roles as a mentor and has been the real key to our
success.”
November - Jerry
Alm
Coordinator Theresa Kyser loves Jerry. “I
like that - bless his heart - he is so unassuming. He met the
kids and within five minutes he had these sullen kids opening
up to him. Yet he knew his boundaries and didn't’t push them.
He has slowly allowed them to open up to him by respecting
their position on things. …And he has a wicked sense of
humor.”
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Welcome to our new trainees!
Pictured are Debbie Luevano, Renee Hernandez,
Sharon Metcalf, Rachel Tutor, Hon. Charles Currier, Janie
Mealand, Daniel Chacon, and Whitney Bryant.
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Great news!!
We just received a grant
through the county to provide Intensive Youth Advocacy for
high risk kids. We have expanded our offices to the #300 space
across the hall, where we will be offering educational
support, art classes, physical education, life skills, and an
entire array of family services for our kids.
Graduation for the Leadership class
will be November 16th at 6:00 at Westminster Presbyterian
Church. We continue to be grateful to Westminster and its ally
churches for their support and great
cooking.
Girls Circle Graduation will
be November 27th at 5:30 in the new CASA Youth Offices across
the hall in #300.
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Welcome new staff members Reana Gonzales,
Debbie Luevano, and Whitney
Bryant.
Congratulations to Josefa
Barraza who was named the Lead In-Home Services
Provider and to Amanda Lueras, who is the
Lead On-Site Services Leader.
Thanks to Pat
Coronado for leading a statewide training for
programs who are starting Supervised Visitation
Programs.
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There is no waiting list right
now, so please send referrals for this valuable service our
way. Life Skills is for youth 5 through 18 who need counseling
in like skills, grief management, anger management, goal
setting, personal responsibility, etc… Bilingual counselors
are available.
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o November 6th - 9:00 AM Winter
Wonderland Kickoff, 1st National Bank
o 7th - Go Vote!
o 7th
- Abuse & Neglect Docket
o 8th - Abuse & Neglect Docket
o 10th Office Closed - Veteran’s Day
o 15th - Brown Bag -
John Halvorson - DWI
o 16th - Leadership Class Graduation
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23rd & 24th - Office Closed - Happy Thanksgiving
o 24th -
Holiday Appeal Kickoff
o 27th - Girls Circle Graduation
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29th - Brown Bag with Virginia and Ginger of CYFD
o 30th -
Winter Wonderland Event - 5:00
o December 1st -
Foster Kids Christmas Party - 6:00 - Country Club Church of Christ
o December 7th - Christmas Get-Together with Judge Currier
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Comfy couches or chairs or folding
sport chairs for our new Youth area Sports
equipment - A standing punching bag - balls
School supplies for our Intensive Youth
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Great News!!! Our CASAKids
Store now has its own space in our old youth office. Come
and see it. We accept new and unused items to support our CASA
kids.
We received amazing donations of quilts and fleece
blankets. All advocates are invited to come pick some out for your
CASAKids.
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