2012 annual report - CASA of Los Angeles

2012 Annual Report
July 1, 2011 to June 30, 2012
OUR mission
and vision
CASA of Los Angeles’s mission is to mobilize community volunteers to advocate
for abused and neglected children. It is driven by the belief that all children are
entitled to stable, safe, permanent homes, with loving parents—biological or
adoptive—or caring guardians.
CASA of Los Angeles recruits, trains, and guides Court Appointed Special
Advocates (CASAs) to work with each child individually and make sure they
get the support they need by:
• Investigating the circumstances of the child’s life
• Advocating for the child’s best interests in the court and in the community
• Being a voice for the child
CASA of Los Angeles is the only local agency with volunteers appointed by
the dependency court to advocate for children. Its vision is a Los Angeles in
which every foster child has an advocate and the opportunity to thrive.
Dear Friends
It’s often noted that there’s a timeless quality to Court Appointed Special Advocates, or CASAs—that their
only interest is in advocating for what’s best for children in the child welfare system. It’s what has made
CASA of Los Angeles an indispensable partner not only to those children but also to judges, lawyers, social
workers, foster parents, prospective adoptive families, and the larger community for more than 30 years.
But of those 30+ years, a handful stand out as truly extraordinary, as turning points in the history of CASA
of Los Angeles and the pursuit of its mission.
One is, of course, 1978, when the organization was founded—it was one of the first CASA programs in
the country. Another came in 1983, when a public-private partnership between the court and the nonprofit
Friends of Child Advocates was launched; private fundraising would grow the program exponentially in the
ensuing decades. And an entirely different kind of turning point took place in 2010 when, overnight, CASA
of Los Angeles lost more than half of its staff to cuts in the superior court’s budget. At the time, some
worried that the organization might never be the same again.
Then came fiscal year 2012, when, just two years removed from that cataclysm, CASA of Los Angeles didn’t
just return to its previous form, it greatly improved upon it. In this very special year, among numerous
achievements, CASA of Los Angeles recruited and trained a record number of new volunteers. It nearly
doubled support from private donors and exceeded its fundraising goal by more than twenty percent. It
launched a new Early Childhood Initiative to make sure the youngest children with complex needs were
assigned to CASAs as early as possible. And it increased the total number of children it served by more
than ten percent—the biggest margin in seven years.
Indeed, 2012 was the year when a new CASA of Los Angeles came into being, when a new resilience was
manifest, and when volunteers, donors, staff members, and partner agencies all revised their expectations
of the agency permanently upward.
But for all the growth and success that CASA of Los Angeles experienced in 2012, the year must be
understood for what it was in the larger sense: just the beginning. For the most enduring lesson from this
period of transition is that success ultimately depends on a commitment to embracing constant change.
Thanks to that commitment—which you have so kindly made along with us—CASA of Los Angeles and
the children it serves now enjoy an even brighter future, the evidence of which we look forward to
sharing with you for many years to come.
Thank you for your support,
Dilys Tosteson Garcia
Bruce Herron
Executive Director
President, Board of Directors
Janet Blair, a CASA of Los Angeles
volunteer since 2007, had never
been asked to participate in a
meeting like the one she attended
in July 2011 on behalf of Justice,
now known as Sade. She started
by showing pictures she had
taken of the girl over the
previous eight months.
Blair printed and bound the photos shortly
after Justice went to live with Jessica and
Michael Alabi. Besides humanizing the child
for the court, the photos help fill in gaps
in the girl’s personal history.
A Voice for Justice
One little girl’s move from a medical group
home to a loving adoptive family might not
have happened if a CASA hadn’t spoken up.
Of the many things Court Appointed Special Advocates
(CASAs) do for kids in the child welfare system, attending
“presentation meetings”—where prospective adoptive
parents first learn of a child’s medical conditions—is
almost never one of them.
But just before one of these meetings, in July 2011, an
adoptions worker for the LA. County Department of
Children and Family Services approached Janet Blair, then
a three-and-a-half-year volunteer for CASA of Los Angeles,
about attending on behalf of the fourteen-month-old
girl, Justice, to whom Blair had been recently assigned.
“I didn’t realize what a presentation meeting was,
so I went in there kind of in the dark,” Blair says.
“There were about a dozen people, from social
workers to psychologists, and they seated me right
next to the physician.”
Blair wasn’t only Justice’s CASA; she had recently retired
from a nearly 30-year career as a pediatric occupational
therapist in the special education system. She had a deep
understanding of early childhood development, and she
thought she might be asked to help translate some of the
medical jargon into layperson’s terms.
For more than an hour, the doctor read from the little
girl’s medical record. Blair kept her eyes on the faces
around the table. It wasn’t going well.
“In those meetings, nobody but the physician has anything
other than a minor role,” Blair explains. “It’s really about
getting to know the medical history of the child, and the
doctor was using the most stark, technical terms. Unless
you had worked in a neonatal intensive care unit, you
would have been terrified by what you heard. I was afraid
the parents were going to run for the door.”
Justice had been born prematurely—at just 24 weeks—
and, after spending six months in the hospital’s neonatal
intensive care unit, she had been transferred to a medical
group home for intensive follow-up.
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“It’s one thing to hear about a child,” Jessica says, “but
when we met her, she was amazing.”
By September 2011, Justice was living with the Alabis, and
Blair continued to do the core work of a CASA on her
behalf—observing therapeutic sessions, helping Michael
and Jessica navigate the complex of service agencies to
ensure Justice was receiving the support she needed, and
getting to know the Alabis to make sure they would be
successful adoptive parents.
Sade’s development while living with her adoptive family illustrates why CASA of Los Angeles
redoubled its commitment to children ages 0 to 5 in 2012 by launching the Early Childhood
Initiative. “She’s very proactive and social now,” Michael says. “She loves being listened to.”
“She had come into the world very early, yes, but I felt this
was only one side of the story,” Blair says. “So at one point
I turned to the adoptions worker and asked, ‘Has anyone
here besides me seen this child yet?’ She said no, so I said,
‘Well, let me tell you a little bit about this girl.’”
Besides first-hand observations from her visits with Justice,
Blair had pictures—lots of them. Because kids under 4
aren’t mandated to be in court, one of the things CASAs
do for the youngest children is document through
photographs how they are doing developmentally. Blair
took photos every two weeks and even tracked down a few
pictures from Justice’s time in the hospital.
Meanwhile, Blair was enrolled in CASA of Los Angeles’s
very first Early Childhood Training, which equips
CASAs with the knowledge to help all stakeholders
see young children’s cases through a developmental
lens. (See page 4 for more information about the Early
Childhood Initiative.) For all her years in early childhood
development, she had spent most of them in physical
medicine and rehabilitation, so there was still plenty
she could learn, particularly in the area of infant
mental health.
“After learning more about that critical window of the
first 18 to 24 months, when a child needs to form a secure
attachment, suddenly I had a new appreciation of how far
Justice had come,” she says. “When I first met her she was
extremely serious, very cautious. But when she went to
live with the Alabis, her temperament changed from week
to week. She just lit up, and this happy, shrieking little
toddler emerged.”
“I pulled out the photo album and said, ‘Look, I’m
growing, I’m thriving, I’m moving along developmentally,
and I look really cute. I’m a nice little kid,’” she explains.
“My job was to be a voice for Justice, and in this case my
role was to balance out the report that the poor doctor
was obligated to present. That’s only fair.”
Which gives something of a double meaning to the idea
that CASAs give a voice to foster children. It could be said
that CASAs also give them an audience.
Everyone in the room spent time with the photo album,
and by the end of the meeting, the prospective adoptive
parents, Michael and Jessica Alabi, agreed to think about
it. Within a couple weeks, they had arranged to visit
Justice at the group home. And there they immediately
expressed an interest in adopting her.
Justice’s adoption by the Alabis was finalized in December
2012. Around the same time, they legally changed her first
name to Oluwasade, Nigerian for “God made this crown.”
They call her Sade for short.
CASA of Los Angeles
Advocates for the Neediest
Children in the Foster
Care System
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“She’s very proactive and social now,” Michael says. “She
loves being listened to.”
And now Justice is her middle name.
Age birth to 5: 19%
Age 6 to 11: 24%
Age 12 to 15: 31%
Age 16 to 18: 19%
18 and above: 7%
African American: 41%
Asian/Pacific Islander: 2%
Hispanic/Latino: 31%
Multi-racial: 10%
Native American: 1%
Undetermined: 4%
White/Non-Latino: 13%
Standout Achievements
from 2012
From new people and new programs to
better training and better technology, fiscal
year 2012* was a turning point in the creation
of a new, more entrepreneurial CASA of
Los Angeles. Following are examples from
across the spectrum of improvements.
Provided Intensive Advocacy
Services to 632 Children—an
11% Increase
Perhaps no achievement better illustrates
what a standout year 2012 was. In the seven
previous fiscal years, CASA of Los Angeles
had never advocated for as many as 600
children or posted an increase in children
served of 10% or more annually. But in 2012,
it both broke the 600 barrier and advocated
for 11% more children than in 2011, while
laying the groundwork for more impressive
growth in 2013 and beyond. It also provided
comfort and encouragement to 6,000 children
on the days of their court appearances
through Shelter Care, and it helped 350
teenage girls in foster care attend their
school proms through the annual Glamour
Gowns event, in March.
More than 350 teenage girls attended
the annual Glamour Gowns event.
Recruited and Trained
141 New Volunteers—a 48% increase
By hosting more trainings at its own offices, introducing
trainings at off-site locations, and offering participants
daytime, evening, weekend, and online training options,
CASA of Los Angeles recruited very nearly 50% more
volunteers than in fiscal year 2011. In addition, by
halving the attrition rate of existing volunteers, it
increased total volunteer enrollment to more than
400 men and women.
Rolled out the Early
Childhood Initiative
CASA of Los Angeles dramatically expanded its
work with children ages 0 to 5 in fiscal year 2012
by launching the Early Childhood Initiative, a
comprehensive strategy to help all stakeholders view
foster children through a developmental lens and help
the youngest kids with complex needs get assigned to
CASAs as early as possible. Besides providing in-depth
training to CASAs in early childhood development,
Sade Alabi is one of nearly 120 children
ages 0 to 5 who benefited from CASA of
Los Angeles’s intensified commitment to
early childhood development in 2012.
(See her story on page 2.)
Ramped up Program Evaluation
With the help of the USC School of Social Work, CASA
of Los Angeles initiated a new long-term process for better
evaluating the goals and outcomes of its children’s cases.
Early results provided plenty of useful data, including those
showing that volunteers most frequently work with their
children in three key areas: achieving permanency through
adoption or reunification, educational issues, and
mental health.
* July 1, 2011 to June 30, 2012
Louis Bieschke, CASA of Los Angeles’s Outreach Manager,
conducts a training for new CASAs.
the initiative provides new protocols for assessment
and communication, places Early Childhood Liaisons
in select courtrooms to facilitate referrals, and
helps judges, lawyers, and social workers recognize
developmental red flags in foster children. Though
the first training was held more than six months into
the fiscal year, referrals of children age 0 to 5 quickly
jumped more than 28% from 2011.
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Expanded Outreach Activities
By the close of fiscal year 2012, CASA of Los Angeles averaged
more than a dozen outreach events per month, from presentations
for waiting juries, partner agencies, religious congregations,
and civic organizations to tabling at health and resource fairs,
ministry events, and cultural festivals. It also made strides
toward increasing volunteer diversity by creating new outreach
committees, such as the Quarterback Club, which is developing
strategies for recruiting and training more male CASAs.
Jason Roach, a CASA of Los Angeles volunteer since 2011, shown in
the courtroom of Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Margaret S. Henry,
is a Court Appointed Special Advocate, a Peer Coordinator, and
a member of the Quarterback Club.
Advanced a New Flexible Coaching Model
CASA of Los Angeles continued making improvements to
volunteer services to achieve higher service levels. Following
the example of sister programs that serve more than 1,000
children per year, it recruited seasoned volunteers and trained
them as Peer Coordinators to provide additional support to
Court Appointed Special Advocates, helping it serve more
children without increasing staff.
Invested in New Technology
CASA of Los Angeles launched a comprehensive,
three-year program to modernize its technology. It
installed a proprietary server, a local area network, an
Outlook-based email system, and Skype technology for
meetings. In addition, it migrated off the court’s phone
system, installing its own, dedicated phone system, and
integrated the Monterey Park and Antelope Valley offices’
phone and computer systems, which had previously
run independently of each other. Next steps include
implementing a new document management system
and a new online volunteer management system.
Grew and Diversified the Board
of Directors
CASA of Los Angeles recruited eight new board
members in 2012, expanding its professional
knowledge and fundraising capability. New members
bring expertise and relationships in finance, law,
wealth management, education, and technology.
Executive Director Dilys Tosteson Garcia
speaks at an event in 2012.
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Strengthened Staff Expertise and
Improved Support of Volunteers
The creation of a new CASA of Los Angeles gained
momentum in fiscal year 2012 with the recruitment
of new staff leaders, such as an Operations Director,
a Program Director, and an Outreach Manager, as
well as the revamping of the Director of Volunteer
Services position. And to help fund further
investments in expertise and improved productivity,
CASA of Los Angeles retained several key
fundraising consultants, including an Interim
Development Director, an Events Manager,
and two Grants Writers.
Raised $2.4 Million—22% over Goal
Against the backdrop of the expiration of its federal earmark
grants, CASA of Los Angeles laid the groundwork for a new,
more robust fundraising program, nearly doubling private
support and raising almost $700,000 more than it did in fiscal
year 2011. Foundation grants exceeded $1,000,000 and individual
and corporate donations totaled over $600,000, thanks in part to
several creative fundraising efforts, including the Mother’s Day
Non-Event, which raised $95,000.
Statement of Activities and Changes in Net Assets
For the years ended June 30, 2012 and June 30, 2011
June 30, 2012 June 30, 2011
Temporarily Temporarily
Unrestricted restricted Total Unrestricted restricted Total
Support and revenue:
Support:
Contributions, individuals $ 467,708 $ - $ 467,708 $ 202,359 $ 19,183 $ 221,542
Contributions, foundations 392,932 657,850 1,050,782 575,566 5,000 580,566
Contributions, corporations 53,240 - 53,240 36,323 10,750 47,073
Grants, government 789,113 - 789,113 855,723 - 855,723
Donated rent 32,200 - 32,200 32,200 - 32,200
Special events, net of expenses
of $20,186 and $16,071, respectively 35,428 17,500 52,928 18,859 - 18,859
Total support 1,770,621 675,350 2,445,971 1,721,030 34,933 1,755,963
Revenue:
Interest income Other income - 678 - - - 678 963 10,870 - - 963
10,870
Total revenue 678 - 678 11,833 - 11,833
Net assets released from restrictions:
Satisfaction of program restrictions 354,576 (354,576) - 70,218 (70,218) -
Total support and revenue 2,125,875 320,774 2,446,649 1,803,081 (35,285) 1,767,796
Expenses:
Program services 1,269,157 Management and general 393,993 Fundraising 397,496 - 1,269,157 1,146,970 - 393,993 278,219
- 397,496 245,087 - 1,146,970
- 278,219
- 245,087
Total expenses 2,060,646 - 2,060,646 1,670,276 - 1,670,276
Change in net assets 65,229 320,774 386,003 132,805 (35,285) Net assets, beginning of year 391,955 Net assets, end of year $ 457,184 97,520
96,816 488,771 259,150 132,101 391,251
$ 417,590 $ 874,774 A full copy of the Fiscal Year 2012 audit is available at www.casala.org.
CASA volunteers donated more than 90,000 hours of service in Fiscal Year 2012, valued at $2,232,000.
Including this donated service, 81.6% of CASA’s expenditures were devoted to program activities.
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$ 391,955 $ 96,816 $ 488,771
Statement of FINANCIAL POSITION
For the years ended June 30, 2012 and June 30, 2011
ASSETS
June 30,
2012 2011
Current assets:
Cash and cash equivalents $ 742,365 $ 408,647
Grants receivable 230,762 206,559
Prepaid expenses 9,177 6,026
Total current assets Furniture and equipment, net of accumulated
depreciation of $54,149 and $52,915, respectively 982,304 621,232
38,280 $ 1,020,584 -
$ 621,232
LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS
Current liabilities:
Accounts payable and accrued expenses $ 121,726 $ 97,089
Accrued vacation 24,084 35,372
Total current liabilities 145,810 132,461
Net assets:
Unrestricted Temporarily restricted 457,184 391,955
417,590 96,816
874,774 488,771
$ 1,020,584 $ 621,232
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Our Volunteers
Paula Hollins has been a CASA
volunteer since 2009.
Allison Addante
Arcola Aikens
Olivia “Lee” Alessandra
Berenice Alfaro
Carol S. Allen
Scott Allen
Natalie Allen-Wriggle
Michael Almazar
Dee Ann Alongi
Judith Alves
Brandee Anderson
Jim Anderson
Tina Marie Angulo
Mindy Applebaum
May Masako Arakaki
Anita Aratow
Rosa Arevalo
Robert “Bert” Marley Argo
Barbara Arlow
Trudy Armer
Susana Arroyo
Heidi Ashcraft
Elena Avila
Franziska Balcaen
Barrie Lynn Barash
Emma Barrientos
Tracy Baum
Judith Beckmen
Christine Beilinson
Dale Scott Beldin
Mary Ann Bell
Thomas Bell
Corinne Bennett
Ellen Eisenberg Berlin
Denise Bieker
Louise W. Bieschke
Renne Bilson
Pamela Bingham
Pamela Bjorklund
Janet Blair
Roberta S. Bloom
Maruzella Bognoli
Sarah Bojorquez
Douglas Borsom
Karen Bowles
Leah Bowman
Lauraine Braithwaite
Susan Brandler
Nancy Brashears
Irma Breslauer
Sandy Breuer
Janette R. Brice
Jayelin Broussard
Carol Raines Brown
Rhonda Lee Brown
Susan Lynn Brown
Barbara A. Bruner
Betsy Burch
Carolyn Burtch
Karen Olson Butler
Heather Ann Mack Butterfield
Gayle Byrne
Andrea Hein
Marsha Heller
Samuel Kevin Herod
Michael Bruce Herron
Laura Hertz
Katherine Hill
Barbara Jean Hodges
Abbe Hofstein
Paula Rene Hollins
Christine Hood
Elizabeth Hook
Alice Horevitz
Mary Jane Horton
Margaret Katherine (Peggy) Huber
Ella Marie Hudson
Rosemary Hutton
Titus Ibeh
Karen Ilich
April Jacobs
Lynn James
Linda Jenson
Darlane Jespersen
Dana Johnson
Delphia Jones
Linda Jones
Sallie Jones
Sheryl Jones
Patricia Kaplan
Nirja Kapoor
Deborah Wick Keen
Julie Kelleher
Jacqueline Keller
Seema Khan
Angie Kim
Nahae Kayden Kim
Llonald King
Nancy King
Inta Kipper
Richard Kipper
Linda Klein
Jeffrey Russell Knight
Wendy Koro
Susan A Kowalski
Gail Krieger
Sharon Krischer
Frances Kristof
Maria Alejandrina Ku
Joseph Kuban
Lori Kupfer
Kimberly Landis
Susan Lau
Jennifer Laughlin
Sherry Lawrence
Joan Lee
Linda Levine
Michael Levine
Janet Licht
Ashley Williams Loeb
Adriana Lopez
Susan Lord
Lise Lovato
Diana P. Love
Margaret (Peggy) Byrnes
Martha Byrnes
Monica R. Byrnes
Lennora “Lynn” Calica
Joyce Campbell
Sarita Carden
Gail Carp
Rosa Carreon
Valerie Carrigan
Nancy Cadigan Casden
Virginia Casimiro
Rosalie Cauley
Rita Cazares
Janet Charlin
Joan Chlebowski
Pek Ean Chong
Alfred “Chris” Christophersen
Mary E. Christophersen
Paulette Chulack
Mary Anne Cogbill
Edward Cohan
Claire Coleman
Kim Cooper
Stephen Cooper
Denise Cortes
Lauren Costa
Syndi Croad
Joe Cruz
Patricia Cuocco
Martin Natkin Daniel
Karen Darling
Meghan Daum
Blanca Flor Delao
Maria Teresa Delgado
Marie-Helene Demers
Barbara Dixon
Charles Dodson
Chelsey Doust
Laurie Dressler
Amanda Duggan
Daniel Duncan
Lesley Dunlap
Tashea Dunn-Stevenson
Randall Duran
Katharine Durham
Julie Dwyer
Carol Easton
Sharon R. Ellingsen
Theresa Emerick
Beatrice Dale (Bebe) Emerman
Rosemary Enzer
Arnold Mike Epstein
Laura Evans
Beverley-Jo Farzin-Nia
Samantha Feld
Karin Barter Fielding
Carolyn Finkenbeiner
Shannon Fisher
Brenda Flores
Sylvia Foos
Shirley Ford
Stephen Forstadt
Susan Forstadt
Arlene Forster
Michele Foster
Mariann Fragner
Patricia Franklin
Betty Freitag
Simone Friedman
Lynne Gabriel
Brian Gadinsky
Linda Galati
Dana Galen
Karen Garipay
Toska Garner
Catherine Garraway
Pauline A. Garstka
Eileen Gates
Suzanne Geary
Rita Ann Giamaniaro
Judy Gish
Betsy Gleijeses
Phyllis Elaine Glock
Sherry Goddard
Gloria Gonzales
Janice Ruth Goodman
Gale Lynn Gordon
Melinda Grace
Judith Graham-Johnson
Ariel Greenspun-Gale
Sharon Griffing
Sandra H. Guerrero
Lori Haas
Lauri Halderman
Danielle Hanne
Pamela Haring
Maithe Harispe
Susan “Blair” Harless
Alvin Jay (A.Jay) Harman
Rayna Harman
Elton Harps
Kay Harter
Darris Hatch
Ina Haugen
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Maureen Lucas
Charlotte Luey
Dolores Lyons
Rebecca Lyons
Lara Mackey
Joan Elizabeth MacLaughlin
Kathleen Malone-Biener
Julie Marcus
Teri Marias
Stacy Marteeny-Haus
Birdie Martin
Amanda Martindale
Xiomara Matus
Carolyn Mazza
Nina Stern McCullaugh
Carolyn McGee
Elois McGehee
Catherine McMahon
Anissa McNeil
Marcus Mendez
Jose Maria Mesa
Janice McCoy Miller
Anne Mirisch
Venezia Mojarro
Linda Mokler
Elizabeth Rizzo Moore
Hitochi Morimoto
Melinda Murphy
Abby Myerson
Judy Nagy
Eunice Elizabeth Nash
Kathy Nauman
Martha Needelman
Maria Nelson
David Neuman
Linda Nichols
Nadeen Nissley
Claude Carlyne Nuckols
Carolina Oaxaca
Amber O’Hara
Natalia Olarte
Paula Olivares
Judith “Judi” Olson
Hilarie Ormsby
Michelle Oyler
Deborah Pack-Garcia
Kathleen “Kathy” Palen
Chantel Paniagua
Carmen Paparella
Marsha Parkhill
Hethie Parmesano
Nancy Jo Paul
Toni Peck
Robert Perkins
John Peterson
Peter Earnest Petzold
Melinda Pike
Jacquelyn Pinder
Griselda Pineda
Beth Pineles
Karen Pines
Lynn Pittenger
Chris Plewa
Madeleine Poiesz
Pamela Potts
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Ann Ralston Pratt
Charles Hammoud Pratt
Sandra Burton Price
Natasha Prime
Gayle Prince
Carol Pursuit
Sister Mary Quinn
Eva Ramirez
Manuel Ramirez
Donna Ramos
Ellen Rand
Rebecca Rankin
Marlene Rapkin
Cecilia Raymundo
Richard Saintcroix Redman
Sue Redman
Susan Reinford
Debbie Richardson
Thomas Richardson Jr.
Virginia Richie
Mary Lynn Richmond
Roger Alan Ridlehoover
Jason Roach
Whinira Robinson
Nita Ann Rodriguez
Ronaele Rose
Judith Rosen
Kimberly Lund Rosenfield
Alissa Okuneff Roston
Merle Don Rothman
Taryn Rudow
Carol Rush
Laura Anne Saade
Jerri Lee Safron
June Solnit Sale
Helen Louise Schwartz
Hana Scott-Suhrstedt
Alisa Scrafield
Rebecca (Becki) Sellnow
Eileen Sheiniuk
Amy Shim
Alfred Sicard
Daniel Silva
Lisa-Marie Silver
Jenny Silverman
Rosario Simpson
Loren Michael Singer
Marion Snedeker
Sandra Solis
Joanne Solov
Edina Somlai
Cristina Soriano
Jaren Sorkow
Christine Soto
Ronald Sparks
Martin Jeffrey Spear
Cheryl Spencer
David Stein
Philip Jay Stein
Morley Anthony Stern
Monique Stevens
Ronald Wendell Stewart
Kira Stiglich
Rosemary Stocksdale
Marcia Strauss
Virginia Stringer
Elizabeth Sturgeon
Joyce Angeline Sutedja
Judith A. Sweet
Armin Szatmary
Sandra Joy Tamkin
Vanessa Taylor
Janice Tecimer
Mary Jo Thatcher
Sue Thompson
Victoria Thompson
Katherine Todd
Janet Todosychuk
Tobhiyah (Tobi) Tommaney
Kenneth Topolsky
Christa Toro
Karen Joan Travis
Reva M. Trevino-Martinez
Robert Turbin
Raymond Turchin
Kimberly Turner
Richard Ur
Jennifer Valentine Sperber
Kay Van Horn
Jane Van Stedum
Cheryl VanDenberg
Michelle Estrada Vasquez
Tamara Vegos
Claudia Vides
Celeste Vos
Mary Lou Walbergh
Phil Ward
Linda Weber
Judith R. Weinstein
Charles Welde
Cindy Wexler
Sheila Whalen
Maureen Wharton
Katalina Whitman
Ann-Jeanette (Angie) Whitmarsh
Alison S. Wilcox
Bill Willen
Kristine Williams
Melanie Williams
Susan M. Williams
Tania Williams
Jean Ann Wilson
Patricia Winters
Leina Wong
Nancy Wright
Carol Younger-Lewis
Jean Youngquist
Judy Zaidner
Maryam Zand
Harriet Zaretsky
Marie Zondler
Betty J. Zupancic
Tami Zussman
Glamour Gowns Committee
Jennifer Parker-Stanton, Chair
Michaela Pereira, Co-Chair
Karen Braverman-Freeman
Kristen DeLeo
Carolyn Dessert-Lauterio
Brenda Galloway
Stacy Horn
Sue Marshall
Tracee Maxwell
Sandi Romero-Boada
Joanne Solov
Lauren Tobin
Cortez Wilks
Christine Yick
volunteer
demographics
African American: 10%
Asian/Pacific Islander: 3%
Hispanic/Latino: 10%
Multi-racial: 5%
Native American: <1%
Undetermined: 6%
White/Non-Latino: 65%
21-29: 5%
30-39: 10%
40-49: 14%
50-59: 20%
60+: 48%
Undertermined: 3%
Female: 84%
Male: 16%
Our DONORS
$100,000 and over
The Ahmanson Foundation
Ralph M. Parsons Foundation
U.S. Department of Justice
Anonymous
$25,000 - $99,999
Administrative Office of the Courts/
Judicial Council of California
Atlas Family Foundation
BCM Foundation
Carl & Roberta Deutsch Foundation
Liza & Bernard Given
The Mark Hughes Foundation
Los Angeles Superior Court,
Juror Donations
Maureen & Robert Lucas
Bowen H. & Janice Arthur McCoy
Charitable Foundation
Rose Hills Foundation
SHARE, Inc.
Anonymous
$10,000 - $24,999
Crail-Johnson Foundation
Tama & Paul Deitch
Carrie Estelle Doheny Foundation
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Greater Los Angeles Association of
Legal Administrators
The Green Foundation
William H. Hurt Foundation
J.B. & Emily Van Nuys Charities
Children’s Court Parking Revenue
Trust Fund
McMillen Family Foundation
Melinda Lerner Powell & John Powell
Kyle Rudow Memorial Fund
Sacchi Foundation
Tracy Seretean
Inta and Richard Kipper are
CASA of Los Angeles donors; they’ve
also been volunteers since 2009.
$5,000 - $9,999
Hon. Michael D. Antonovich/
Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors
Frances & Benjamin Benenson
Foundation Inc.
Kathryne Beynon Foundation
Albert & Elaine Borchard Foundation, Inc
Rhea Perlman & Daniel M. DeVito
Winifred & Paul Dooley
Frandzel Robins Bloom & Csato LC
Susan F. & Michael Bruce Herron
Kappa Alpha Theta - Loyola Marymount
University Zeta Omega Chapter
Kappa Alpha Theta - USC Omicron Chapter
Lori Stockton Kozak & Gerald Kozak
Anna & Raymond P. Randall
James M. Rishwain Jr.
Marilyn & Steven N. Bloom
Judith A. Sweet
Valley Community Legal Foundation
of San Fernando
Linda Weber
Frederick R. Weisman Philanthropic
Foundation
Stephen Henry & Harriet Zaretsky
$2,500 - $4,999
Allison & Frank Addante
Barbara Arlow & Gerald Pease
Charles Jeff Biederman
Brentwood Presbyterian Church
Paulette & Christopher Chulack
Cathleen M. Cobb
Jeremy Davies
Mary Dekernion
Jacquie & Peter B. Dolan
Rachel Dworkin
The Elizabeth Foundation
Rhonda Fleming Foundation
Jane & Jeffrey Gale
Dilys Tosteson Garcia & Lola Jackson
Deborah Greaves
Ariel Greenspun-Gale
Andrea Hein
In-N-Out Burger Foundation
Kappa Alpha Theta - Pepperdine Zeta
Phi Chapter
KLM Foundation
Pamela Kung Nabel & Dan D. Nabel
Nancy & Michael E. Pappas
Cristine Reynaert
Frances H. & Roger Ridlehoover
Alissa Okuneff Roston
Marcie Rothman
Dr. Daniel Rovner
Jerri Lee & Marshal Safron
Dr. June Solnit & Samuel Sale
Nadya Scott
Iris & Dr. Anthony Shaw
Daniel Silva
Leonard & Ethel Smith Charitable
Foundation Inc
Joanne & Lessing C. Solov
Bradley Thomas
Patricia Y. & Hon. Anthony Trendacosta
Ralph Walter
Wella Corporation
Nancy & Al Wright
Jean & Robert Youngquist
$1,000 - $2,499
Angels Baseball Foundation
Judith & Thomas Beckmen
Christine & Marc Beilinson
Renne & Bruce Bilson
Roberta S. & Ronald A. Bloom
Bobbi Buffington
Elsie & Lyle Cripe
Madeline R. Cripe
Dr. Areta & Dr. Clarence R. Crowell
Lynn Hopton-Davis & Greg Davis
Janet & Edgar Davis
Eva & Terrence D. Dibble
Karin Barter Fielding & Jonathan E. Fielding
Betty & Thomas Freitag
Betsy Gleijeses
Marti Reeder Hedge & Robert J. Hedge
Michele M. & Jeffrey E. Hilland
Nancy Stark & Stanley Iezman
Margaret Johnson
W. M. Keck Foundation
Law Advocates of Los Angeles
Bonnie & John Ledyard
Aaron Leon
Joan & Frances MacLaughlin
Susan & Dr. Clifford Marshall
Laurie & Thomas E. McCarthy
The Claire & Theodore Morse Foundation
Michelle Murphy & Robert Perkins
Martha Needelman
Dr. Hethie & Phillip Parmesano
Nancy Jo & Jeffrey W. Paul
Simone & Patrick Purcell
Marlene & Michael Rapkin
Lois Rosen
Rotary Club of Lancaster West
Robyn Samuels & Dr. Bruce A. Shragg
Solvay Pharmaceuticals Settlement Fund
Southern California MG Owners Club
Victoria & James Spader
Christine Spagnoli
Anneli & Mark Stone
Janice & Timur Tecimer
Sue Tsao
Watson Land Company
Cindy & Robert Wexler
Women’s Canadian Club of Los Angeles
Elizabeth Goldsmith Zaillian
Anonymous
$500 - $999
Berle H. Adams Foundation
The Allstate Foundation
Jeffrey Beckmen
Jane & William Bemis
Joyce & David Campbell
Irene & Carl Carande
Zoanne S. & David G. Carney
Cars 4 Causes
Susan & Peter Csato
Joan Doren
Ann DuPuy
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Rose-Marie Browning
& Michael G. Fletcher
Ford & Serviss, LLP
Greenberg Traurig
Joanne Hoffman
Hoffman, Sabban & Watenmaker
Kirk Austin Hornbeck, Jr.
Hunton & Williams
Inta & Richard Kipper
Richard Kurland
Gayle & James B. McKenna
Jonathan Miller
A. Peta & Christopher M. Noble
Pam & Gerald Offsay
Eleane & John Pang
Char & Daniel J. Partelow
Judith E. & John G. Peetz, Jr.
Bruce Poltrock
Karl Primm
Suzette Ramirez-Carr
Jeffrey Richmond
Warren Riley
Roll Giving & Paramount Community
Giving
Alfred Sicard
Patricia & Richard Sinaiko
Linda Jeanne Smith
Karen Stephenson & Laurence G. Solov
Spelling Communications
State Farm Companies Foundation
Susan R. Stockel
Carol Vernon
Mary Lou & Richard Walbergh
Wescom Credit Union
Rosalie Ann & John B. Wider
Alison S. & Brian Wilcox
Dr. Tony Wu
Marie Yusem
Mark Zarem
$250 - $499
Linda & Andrew K. Alper
Joan & Marshall J. August
Aline Bakewell
Brad Becker
Joni & Miles Benickes
Bruce D. Bertz
Denise Bieker
Fern & Morris J. Bloom
Jay I. Bloom
Claudia Bright
Raquel Brigham & Quentin Brown
Pamela Carter
Rita Cregg
Marion & Scott Darling
Ron DeFrees
Delta Prime Management Consulting
Diane Dinow
Barbara Ross & Allen L. Drapkin
Dorothy A. Dunn
Noel Ellman
Employees Community Fund of the
Boeing Company
Shirley & William Ford
Fraternal Order of Eagles
Linda Gach Ray
Robert Gonzales
Debra Gray
Maureen & Lawrence S. Grosberg
Linna Hanson
Shelli Herman
Elona Hess
Willmore Holbrow
Kelly Hu
Danica Jamison
Linda Jenson
Dr. Toni Cavanagh Johnson
Sallie Jones
Connie & Stephen Kemp
Kroger
Karon & Thomas R. Larmore
Joan & Roger Lee
Tricia Legittino
Linda Levenson
Cynthia Lynn
Marge Colyear MacLaughlin &
Hon. William A. MacLaughlin
John Mavredakis
Anne B. McCoy
Patrick Meyers
Eileen Susan Miller
Dr. Marilynn W. Moore
Myrtle Nelson
Joyce Patton
Pincus Communications, Inc.
Jack Ridlehoover
Rita & Terrence Roberts
Pauline & Thomas Robins III
Wendy & Kenneth A. Ruby
Mariette T. & Alexander Sawchuk
Phillippa Scott
Karen Seabrook
Rachel & Todd Phillip Slavkin
Phyllis Spierer
Marcia & Sheldon Strauss
Third Street Investment Company
Catherine Tober
Kay & Richard Van Horn
Robin & James Walther
Rachel & Eric Ward
Andrew Watts
Lisa & Craig Welin
Patricia & William J. Young
OUR BOARD AND STAFF
Fiscal Year 2012 Board of Directors
Fiscal Year 2012 Staff
Michael Bruce Herron, President
Roger Alan Ridlehoover, President-Elect
Patricia Y. Trendacosta, Past President
Ralph Walter, Treasurer
Joanne Solov, Secretary
Michael E. Pappas, Governance Chair
Frank Addante
Charles Jeff Biederman
Steve Bloom
Cathleen M. Cobb
Deborah Greaves
Lynn James
Sue Marshall
Anissa McNeil
Raymond P. Randall
Cristine Reynaert
James M. Rishwain Jr.
Daniel Silva
Anneli Stone
Jean Youngquist
Jacquie Dolan, Founding President
Jennifer Parker-Stanton, Glamour Gowns Chair
Dilys Garcia, Executive Director, ex officio
Rosa Arevalo, Senior Program Coordinator
Louise Bieschke, Outreach Manager
Lesley Bois, Senior Program Coordinator
Sarita Carden, Program Director
John Charnay, Development Director
Yesenia Collier, Program Assistant
Lynne Gabriel, Volunteer Services Director
Dilys Tosteson Garcia, Executive Director
Yael Gittleman, Development Coordinator
Lauri Halderman, Senior Program Coordinator
Danica Hartshorn, Volunteer Services Coordinator
Elizabeth Hook, Senior Program Coordinator
Dana Johnson, Senior Program Coordinator
Linda Jones, Senior Program Coordinator
Adriana Lopez, Program and Volunteer Services Assistant
Jasmine McClendon, Senior Program Coordinator
Carolyn McGee, Senior Program Coordinator
Melvy Murguia, Business Manager
Melinda Murphy, Program Supervisor
Johanna Neumann, AmeriCorps Volunteer
Ruth Paniagua, Volunteer Services Associate
Lorena Parra, Development Coordinator
Angela Penaredondo, Program Assistant
Jaren Sorkow, Volunteer Services Director
Monique Stevens, Assistant Program Director
Kurt Swanson, Operations Director
Tania Williams, Administrative Assistant to the Executive Director
Ralph Walter is Treasurer of the Board of Directors and has
been a board member since 2009.
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Step Up
Your Support
of CASA OF
Los Angeles
Consider the many ways that you,
your friends and relatives, and
your employer can help CASA of
Los Angeles achieve its vision of
providing an advocate to every
child who needs one.
• Make CASA of Los Angeles’s life-changing work
part of your legacy through a planned gift. Include
CASA of Los Angeles in your will or trust or name
it as a beneficiary of your retirement account or
life insurance policy.
• Multiply your donation by taking advantage of—
or starting—your employer’s matching-gift program. Check with your human resources department.
• Honor special people and special occasions with
tributes and memorial gifts. Your donation will be
acknowledged with a CASA card sent to your
honoree or their loved ones.
• Help meet CASA children’s basic needs by making
an in-kind gift of dental/medical/legal services, school
supplies, books, toys or gift cards. The CASA of Los
Angeles office also gratefully accepts donations of
office supplies, new computers, and auction items.
• Save on capital gains taxes by making a gift of stock.
Instructions for making a stock donation are on the
CASA website, or call the Development Department
for assistance.
Donate online at www.casala.org, by phone at 323.859.2888, or by mailing a check to CASA of Los Angeles,
Development Department, 201 Centre Plaza Drive, Suite 1100, Monterey Park, CA 91754-2142.
CASA of Los Angeles is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. All gifts are tax deductible. CASA’s Tax ID number is 95-3890446.
www.casala.org
All photography by Denise Malone, except inside front cover and inside back cover.
MAIN OFFICE
CASA of Los Angeles
201 Centre Plaza Drive, Suite 1100
Monterey Park, CA 91754-2142
Phone: 323.859.2888
Fax: 323.264.5020
For more information about CASA
volunteering in Los Angeles
email [email protected].
© 2013 CASA of Los Angeles
ANTELOPE VALLEY OFFICE
CASA of Los Angeles
1040 West Avenue J, Room 1153
Lancaster, CA 93534-3329
Phone: 661.723.CASA(2272)
Fax: 661.723.2219
For more information about CASA
volunteering in the Antelope Valley
email [email protected].