CASA of the Alapaha Judicial Circuit 1st Thursday

CASA of the Alapaha Judicial Circuit with Evelyn Fox, Deborah Raines, and Berrien High AP Art Class painting faces on children during Nashville's 1st Thursday.

Health At School: A Hidden Health Care System Emerges From The Shadows

A vast array of child health professionals—99,000 counselors; 56,000 nurses; 30,000 school psychologists; 15,000 social workers; and smaller numbers of dental hygienists, dentists, physicians, and substance abuse counselors—provide care to children and adolescents at school. However, most thought leaders in child health know little about this "hidden" system of careor are skeptical about its capacity to contribute to children’s well-being. Increased interest in prevention and chronic disease management, powered by escalating concern about childhood overweight, might end the isolation of school health programs and link them more effectively to community-based prevention programs and health care services.

Full Article: http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/full/26/2/409

Flatlanders Fall Frolic

Lanier County Family Connection will be featuring CASA of the Alapaha Judicial Circuit at the annual Flatlanders Fall
Frolic on Saturday, September 4th, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m at the Lakeland Threate Center.

CASA will be recruiting volunteers, selling raffle tickets for the playhouse, and Lanier 4-H will be painting faces on the children. The 6 x 8 ft Playhouse was built and donated by Kirby Sapp of Lakeland and will be on display at the Lanier County Courthouse. The raffle tickets are $5.00 each and we will raffle the playhouse on December 2nd, at the Christmas Parade in Lakeland.

If you would like to help at the Flatlanders Fall Frolic and/or help with raffle tickets, please let me know. We would love to have your support for our CASA program.

We are also taking orders for CASA T-shirts at this time. The T-shirts are $12.00 each. Please let Elaine Dounglas Grice know if you would like to purchase a T-shirt by Thursday, September 2nd. elaine.douglas@berrien.k12.ga.us (P) 229-686-6576.

CASA Inservice Training

Inservice training for CASA Volunteers on Report Writing - Monday, October 4th, 5:30 - 7:30 at the Berrien County Collaborative's YES Center. This will count towards your inservice hours. Please RSVP Elaine Grice at elaine.douglas@berrien.k12.ga.us.

Invest in the prevention of child abuse and neglect in your community today!

If you would like to invest in the life of child that has been neglected and or abused, please go to CASA of the Alapaha Judicial Circuit blog and click on the Donate link on the top right hand side of the page. You may indicate where you would like your investment to go.

If you would like a list of other initiatives and programs, please go to www.berriencountycollaborative.com and click on the Initiatives link or contact Elaine Douglas at 229-686-6576 or elaine.douglas@berriencountycollaborative.org.

CASA of the Alapaha Judicial Circuit CJCC Approval

CASA of the Alapaha Judicial Circuit has been approved as a Local Victims Assistance program by Georgia's Criminal Justice Coordinator Council for Atkinson, Berrien, Clinch, Cook, and Lanier counties and is eligible for 5% funding.

What does 5% Certification mean for CASA of the Alapaha Judicial Circuit?

Certification Program Overview

The Criminal Justice Coordinating Council is responsible for promulgating rules governing the approval of victim assistance programs in Georgia. Those rules are designed to encourage local innovations in development of victim assistance, and provide the minimum standards necessary for certification of these programs. Certification permits local victim assistance programs to request funding through their County Board of Commissioners from a fund derived from a five percent penalty added to fines in all criminal and criminal ordinance cases, specifically to fund victim assistance programs. Where the County Commission does not participate in victim assistance, the five percent penalty must be paid over to the District Attorney to fund victim assistance in that Judicial Circuit. For more info, please go to: http://cjcc.ga.gov/

New Georgia Child Abuse and Neglect Rankings

Click the following link for newly released child abuse and neglect state rankings for Georgia.

Rankings 2005 - 2008