Raising Awareness for CASA Glynn: Court Appointed Special Advocates for Children
Presentation Format
Poster
Intended Audience
All Audiences
Presentation Description
Our collaboration with CASA Glynn is a partnership that spans two semesters. We first started working with this organization in fall as part of Dr. Mannahan’s Introduction to Human Services course. We found the work so compelling that we continued through the spring semester as part of our Senior Capstone Practicum course while adding a few new team members along the way. Casa Glynn advocates and serves as a voice for the more than 150 children in the foster care system in our community. We aimed to accomplish three goals in our partnership with CASA Glynn. First, we sought to raise awareness in the community of the importance of CASA and the organization’s goals. Second, we worked to recruit community volunteers to become court appointed special advocates. Third, we worked to raise money for the organization to help them serve the children in our community.
Two members of this team, Stephanie Coffey and Miranda Quinones, continued their diligent work with this community partner after the course ended completing the rigorous 8-week training program to become CASAs. A CASA is a trained community volunteer who is appointed by the juvenile court judge to speak for the best interest of an abused or neglected child in court proceedings, usually in cases where the child has been removed for protection from the care of his or her parents. The CASA makes independent recommendations to the court for services, and monitors the case to ensure the child is placed in a safe, permanent home as quickly as possible. Stephanie and Miranda continue to make a difference in our community through a long-term commitment that began as a service-learning project.
Location
Embassy Suites Hotel
Start Date
4-13-2016 5:00 PM
End Date
4-13-2016 7:00 PM
Recommended Citation
Mannahan, Kimberly Kinsey, "Raising Awareness for CASA Glynn: Court Appointed Special Advocates for Children" (2016). Gulf South Summit on Service-Learning 2016. 36.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/gss/2016/2016/36
Raising Awareness for CASA Glynn: Court Appointed Special Advocates for Children
Embassy Suites Hotel
Our collaboration with CASA Glynn is a partnership that spans two semesters. We first started working with this organization in fall as part of Dr. Mannahan’s Introduction to Human Services course. We found the work so compelling that we continued through the spring semester as part of our Senior Capstone Practicum course while adding a few new team members along the way. Casa Glynn advocates and serves as a voice for the more than 150 children in the foster care system in our community. We aimed to accomplish three goals in our partnership with CASA Glynn. First, we sought to raise awareness in the community of the importance of CASA and the organization’s goals. Second, we worked to recruit community volunteers to become court appointed special advocates. Third, we worked to raise money for the organization to help them serve the children in our community.
Two members of this team, Stephanie Coffey and Miranda Quinones, continued their diligent work with this community partner after the course ended completing the rigorous 8-week training program to become CASAs. A CASA is a trained community volunteer who is appointed by the juvenile court judge to speak for the best interest of an abused or neglected child in court proceedings, usually in cases where the child has been removed for protection from the care of his or her parents. The CASA makes independent recommendations to the court for services, and monitors the case to ensure the child is placed in a safe, permanent home as quickly as possible. Stephanie and Miranda continue to make a difference in our community through a long-term commitment that began as a service-learning project.
Program Abstract
Casa Glynn advocates and serves as a voice for the more than 150 children in the foster care system in our community. We aimed to accomplish three goals in our service-learning project (1) we sought to raise awareness in the community of the importance of CASA and the organization’s goals, (2) we worked to recruit community volunteers to become court appointed special advocates, and (3) we worked to raise money for the organization to help them serve the children in our community.