Help a child! CASA orientation comes to FP Library on Thursday 12-2

By June Schmidt, TME

You can make a difference in the life of a child right here close to home. There are abused, abandoned and neglected children who desperately need someone to stand up for them.

Would you like to become a Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) volunteer to help? As a sworn officer of the court, a CASA volunteer provides the juvenile court judge or referee an independent assessment of the child’s circumstances. To volunteer you must be 21 years of age or older, able to communicate well and be willing to commit 8-16 hours a month to a child.

Find out everything you need to know about how you can help at a Volunteer Orientation to be held Thursday, July 21 at the Frazier Park Library from noon to 2 p.m.

Call Nancy Garcia at 661.631.2272 to RSVP or visit www.kerncasa.org for details. If you can’t make it to this event there will be additional orientations this month in Bakersfield: Friday, July 22 and Saturday, July 30, 11 a.m., at the Southwest Branch Library . Summer training for volunteers begins on Monday, July 25.

This is part of the July 15, 2016 online edition of The Mountain Enterprise.

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