Congratulations to
Alice Boyle,
Colorado CASA of
the Year!
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On Friday, October 16, 2009 CASA Volunteer Alice Boyle was the
recipient of the Colorado 2009 CASA Award for Volunteer of the
Year. Honored for her outstanding service as a Colorado Court
Appointed Special Advocate (CASA), she has worked as a CASA
volunteer at A Kid’s Place for 12 years.
For 7 of her 12 years, Boyle has served as a volunteer
advocate with a young boy with special needs. He was only three
with big blue eyes and an engaging smile when she was assigned
to his case. Over the years she followed the boy through
various residential treatment centers and numerous foster
homes. Cited for her commitment to the young child, Alice
commented, “If we can just see beyond the chaos of a household
to the innate innocence of a troubled child who is yearning for
some calm, some semblance of normalcy, then we can set about
doing the impossible.” She maintains that troubled children
long for someone to trust, someone to count on, someone who can
bring them a measure of peace and compassion. In accepting the
statewide award, Alice said that she always believed it is an
honor and a privilege to earn the trust of an abused and
neglected child who allows a volunteer to enter his life. “It’s
a blessing for us both,” she said.
We congratulate Alice and thank her for volunteering for CASA
during our very first recruiting class. Her work has been an
immense benefit to abused and neglected children of Weld County.
A Kid’s Place was founded in 1995 by the
Weld County Child Abuse Coalition as the child abuse assessment
center for Weld County.
In 1989, United Way of Weld County undertook a needs
assessment to identify significant community health and human
service problems within Weld County. Gaps in service delivery
and agency coordination in the child abuse arena were the most
critical issues identified by this community-wide evaluation
process.
The Weld County Child Abuse Coalition was formed under
the auspices of United Way to create solutions to these needs.
Pilot projects of the Coalition would be formed as internal
programs of United Way until they could be evaluated for
effectiveness and then developed into separate non-profit
agencies. The Child Advocacy Center (CAC) and Court Appointed
Special Advocate (CASA) programs are both such programs.
The CAC was formed in 1995 to reduce
trauma to victims of child abuse by providing a
multidisciplinary response in a neutral, child-friendly
environment.
CASA of Weld County was created in 1997 to train
community volunteers to speak for the best interests of abused
and neglected children within the court system and to advocate
for timely case resolution.
In July of 2000, CASA merged with A Kid’s Place. This
merger enables us to provide a continuum of services to the
abused and neglected children involved in the criminal and
Dependency and Neglect court system.
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Thanks to the following restaurants for being a “Dining Out for
Kids” Sponsor!
Texas Roadhouse
Applebee’s
Chili’s
The HobKnobber Tavern
Meme’s Brick Oven Pizza
Coldstone Creamery
Johnny Carino's
Rio Grande
CiCi’s Pizza
*Please contact us for more information about sponsoring a
“Dining out for Kids” Event!
director@akidsplace.org
A Kid’s Place is now recruiting Court Appointed Special
Advocates (CASA’s)
Click here to start making a
difference
in a child’s life TODAY!
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Goldfish Food
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Popcorn kernels
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Popcorn oil
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Diapers
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Bottled water
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Handheld games for older children
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Juice Boxes
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Reams of photocopy paper
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Boxes of crayons
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Individually packaged snacks for
children
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Legal pads
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New books for young children –
Spanish and English
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For Goodness Sake
is a consortium of four agencies that have come together to
enhance each agency's mission in the community. We agree
to non-duplication of services, to make appropriate referrals,
to write grants together, to share equipment when feasible, and
to collaborate to produce one or more large fundraisers each
year.
The For Goodness Sake consortium
includes the following agencies:
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A Kid’s Place
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A Woman’s
Place
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To report
suspected child abuse or neglect call 352-1551
En • dow • ment
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1:
a
charitable savings account
2:
a
lasting gift
3:
a
permanent fund
4:
a
repository for other current or deferred gifts
5:
a
source of future income
6:
a
memorial or legacy
7:
a
charity’s
best friend
Our endowment fund at the Community
Foundation Serving Greeley
and Weld County will provide us
with financial security in the future.
Please contact us to learn more
about our fund and the ways in which you can support us
A Kid's Place is dedicated
to making a difference in the life of
one kid at a time. Please learn about our children and consider
helping our effort - somehow, someway, you can also make a
difference. Remember, our kids are the victims of circumstances not caused
by them - they are the innocents who are caught-up in the
court-system. Please help ... it
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