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CASA Library

 

The CASA library is a resource for CASA volunteers and CASA kids. CASA volunteers can use these books and videos to get their continuing education hours. Our loan time is 3 weeks. To check out a book or video, please come in to the CASA office and fill out the orange form in the library area. 

 

For every 100 pages that you read, you earn one hour towards your continuing education requirement.

 

Scroll all the way down for videos.

 

TITLE

AUTHOR

A 2nd Helping of Chicken Soup for the Soul

Jack Canfield, et al

A Child Called "It"

Dave Pelzer

A Kind And Just Parent

William Ayers

A Life Without Consequences Stephen Elliot

A Man Named Dave

Dave Pelzer

Angela's Ashes: A Memoir Frank McCourt

A Question of Balance: Decision Making for CASA/GALs

Janet L. Ward

A report on the unmet needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender adolescents in foster care

Various

A Second Chicken Soup for the Woman's Soul

Jack Canfield, et al

A Terrible Thing Happened

Margaret M. Holmes

A Yellow Raft in Blue Water

Micheal Dorris

An Elephant in the Living Room: The Children's Book

Jill Hastings, M.S. and Marion Typpo, Ph.D

Assessing the Long Term Effects of Foster Care: A Research Synthesis

Thomas McDonald, Reva Allen, Alex Westerfelt, Irving Piliavin

Attention Deficit Disorder

Elaine McEwan

Attention Deficit Disorders

Mary Fowler

Beyond the Best Interests of the Child

J. Goldstein, A. Freud, A. Solnit

Beyond the Waves Elizabeth Marek

Building a Home Within: Meeting the Emotional Needs of Children and Youth in Foster Care

Toni Vaughn Heineman, Diane Ehrensaft

California Juvenile Laws and Rules

N/A

California Mental Health Law

S. Behnke, J. Pries, R. Todd Bates

Chicken Soup for the Pet Lover's Soul

Jack Canfield, et al.

Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul

Jack Canfield, et al.

Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul II

Jack Canfield, et al

Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul III

Jack Canfield, et al

Children Who Shock and Surprise: A Guide to Attachment Disorders

Elizabeth Randolph, MSN, PhD

Children: The Challenge

Rudolf Dreikurs, M.D./Vicki Soltz, R.N.

CWLA Best Practice Guidelines: Serving LGBT Youth in Out of Home Care Shannon Wilber, Caitlin Ryan, and Jody Marksamer

Developmental Disabilities & Child Welfare

Ronald Hughes, Judith Rycus

Don't Sweat The Small Stuff, And It's All Small Stuff

Richard Carlson, PH.D

Drugs and Youth: An Information Guide for Parents and Educators

Bill Lockyer, Attorney General

El Nino

Douglas Anne Munson

Everything You Never Wanted Your Kids To Know About Sex (but were afraid they'd ask): The Secrets to Surviving Your Child's Sexual Development from Birth to the Teens Justin Richardson, M.D., and Mark Schuster, M.D., Ph.D

Family Bonds: Adoption and the Politics of Parenting

Elizabeth Bartholet

Finding the Right Spot: When Kids Can’t Live With Their Parents Janice Levy
First Person Plural: My Life as a Multiple Cameron West, Ph.D

Foundations of Child Advocacy

Eds. Donald Bross  and Laura Freeman Michaels

Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A.

Jonathan Katz

Give Them Roots, Then Let Them Fly:Understanding Attachment Therapy

Carole A. McKelvey, M.A.

Healthy Parenting: How Your Upbringing Influences the Way You Raise Your Children, and What You Can Do to Make It Better for Them Janet G. Woititz, Ed.D.

Helping Children Cope With Separation and Loss

Claudia L. Jewett

Helping Your Child Succeed in School

 N/A

Help Yourself: Celebrating the Rewards of Resilience and Gratitude Dave Pelzer

Holes

Louis Sachar

Homecoming

Cynthia Voigt

Hope's Boy: A Memoir Andrew Bridge

I Speak For This Child

Gay Courter

It's Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex & Sexual Health Robie H. Harris
Lifeskills for Adult Children Janet Geringer Woititz, Alan Garner

Lighting the Way: Volunteer Child Advocates Speak Out

Edited by National CASA Association

Maintaining Family Ties: Inclusive Practice in Foster Care

Sally E. Palmer

Maybe Days: A Book for Children in Foster Care

J. Wilgocki and M. Kahn Wright

Me & Emma Elizabeth Flock

My Body is Private

Linda Walvoord Girard

My Foster Family: A Story For Children Entering Foster Care Jennifer Levine

Mythbusting

Kathleen McNaught

No matter How Loud I Shout: A Year in the Life of Juvenile Court

Edward Humes

No Place for Children: Voices from Juvenile Detention

Steve Liss

Nobody's Children: Abuse and Neglect, Foster Drift, and the Adoption Alternative

Elizabeth Bartholet

On Their Own: What Happens to Kids When They Age Out of the Foster Care System

Martha Shirk and Gary Stangler

Orphans of the Living

Jennifer Toth

Our Last Best Shot

Laura Sessions Stepp

Outgrowing The Pain

Eliana Gil

Parental Lack of Supervision: nature and Consequence of a Major Child Neglect Problem Mary Anne Johnson
Parent in Control: Restore order in your home and create a loving relationship with you adolescent Gregory Bodenhamer

Places to Go with Children in Northern California

Elizabeth Pomada

Power Source: Facilitator's Manual Bethany Casarjian and Robin Casarjian
Power Source: Taking Charge of Your Life Bethany Casarjian and Robin Casarjian

Practical Tools for Foster Parents

Eds:Temple-Plotz, Stricklett, Baker,  Sterba

Real Boys

William Pollack, Ph.D.

Real Boys Voices

William S. Pollack

Rebuilding Children's Lives: A Blueprint for Treatment Foster Parents

Christina Baker, Ray Burke, Ron Herron & Mariam Mott

Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Mary Pipher

She's come Undone

Wally Lamb

Silent Children

Ramsey Campbell

Somebody Else’s Children: The Courts, The Kids, and The Struggle to Save America’s Troubled Families John Hubner and Jill Wolfson
Something is Wrong at My House: A Book About Parent’s Fighting Diane Davis

Somewhere A Child Is Crying

Vincent J. Fontana, M.D.

Taking Charge of ADHD

Russell A. Barkley, Ph.D.

Teenagers with ADD :A Parent's Guide

Chris A. Zeigler Dendy, M.S.

Tender Mercies: Inside the World of a Child Abuse Investigator

Keith N. Richards

The ADHD Parenting Handbook

Colleen Alexander-Roberts

The Best Interests of the Child: The Least Detrimental Alternative

J. Goldstein, A. Solnit, S. Goldstein, A. Freud

The Broken Cord

Michael Dorris

The Child's Attorney: A Guide to Representing Children......

Ann M. Haralambie

The Deeply Moving Account of a Psychologist's First Multiple Personality Patient Trula Michaels LaCalle, Ph.D

The Foster Care Crisis: Translating Research into Policy and Practice

Eds. Patrick A. Curtis, Grady Dale Jr., and Joshua C.Kendall

The Glass Castle Jeannette Walls

The Healing Power of the Family

Richard J. Delaney

The Heart Knows Something Different: Teenage Voices From the Foster Care System

Youth Communication

The Heart of a Woman Maya Angelou

The Lost Boy - A Foster Child's Search for the love of a Family

Dave Pelzer

The Myth of the Bad Mother

Jane Swigart

The Open Adoption Book

Bruce M. Rappaport, Ph.D.

The Optimistic Child: A Revolutionary Program that Safeguards Children Against Depression & Builds Lifelong Resilience

Martin E.P. Seligman, Ph.D. 

The Sexualized Child in Foster Care: A Guide for Foster Parents and Other Professionals

Sally G. Hoyle

The Silent Children: A Book for Parents About the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse Linda Tschirhart Sanford
The Social Context of Child Abuse and Neglect Leroy H. Pelton
The Star: A Story To Help Young Children Understand Foster Care Cynthia Miller Lovell