Food/Nutrition
Abuse
Child Care
LGBTQ
Health
For Teens
Dental
Education
Self Help
Housing
Immigration
Assistance
Foster Care/Adoption
Hotlines
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Bullying- 1-855-201-2121
Child Abuse Hotline- 1-877-652-2873 (1-877-NJABUSE)
Domestic Violence- 732-249-4504 or 1-800-572-7233 (1-800-572-SAFE)
Division of Addiction Services Hotline- 1-800-238-2333
Post Partum Depression- 1-800-328-3838
Runaway/Homeless Shelters- 1-800-786-2929 (1-800-RUNAWAY)
Sexual Assault Hotline- 1-800-601-7200
Suicide Prevention Hotline- 1-800-273-8255 (1-800-273-TALK)
Continuing Education for Volunteers
CASA volunteers are responsible for completing 12 hours of continuing education each year. The books, articles and movies listed below all qualify for continuing education credit, as do the CASA Cafe events organized by CASA of Middlesex County. This list is not exhaustive. Talk to a staff member if you have any questions about what qualifies as continuing education. When you complete continuing education hours please record them in Optima.
Books
Abused, L.L. Bartlett and Lorraine Bartlett
A Child Called It, Dave Pelzer
A Piece of Cake, Cupcake Brown
Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration, Emily Bazelon
Close up, Szabina Dudevszky
Crank, Ellen Hopkins
Damaged, Cathy Glass
Do Father’s Matter, Paul Raeburn
Educated: A Memoir, Tara Westover
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, Matthew Desmond
Finding Anna, Trish Kaye Lleone and Doris Parker Roberts
Glass, Ellen Hopkins
Growing up with a Schizophrenic Mother, Margaret, J. Brown
Healing the Incest Wound, Christine A. Courtois
Hear These Voices, Anthony Allison
Impulse, Ellen Hopkins
In Their Own Voices, Rita James Simon
Loud in the House of Myself, Stacy Pershall
No Such Thing as a Bad Kid, Charles D. Appelstein
One Kid at a Time, Jake Dekker
One Small Boat, Kathy Harrison
Orphan Train, Christina Baker Kline
Stop Crying, Kooper Salmo
That Mean Old Yesterday, Stacey Patton
The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog, Bruce D. Perry and Maia Szalavitz
The Deepest Well, Nadine Burke Harris
The Foster Parenting Toolbox, Kim Phagan-Hansel
The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls
The Lost Children of Wilder, Nina Bernstein
Three Little Words, Ashley Rhodes-Courter
To the End of June, Cris Beam
LGBTQ Books
Non-fiction: https://www.charisbooksandmore.com/glbtq-youth
Fiction: https://www.abebooks.com/books/features/pride/30-LGBT-YA-books/
For Parents: https://bookriot.com/books-for-parents-of-lgbt-kids/
For Children: https://www.readbrightly.com/9-great-lgbtq-books-kids/
For educators: https://libguides.spsd.org/lgbtqeducation/educatorbooks
https://www.amazon.com/Stars-Sky-Fish-Sea/dp/155152709X
Movies
Adopted (2008)
An American Crime (2007)
Antwone Fisher (2002)
Canvas (2006)
Children of the System (TV show) (2014)
From Place to Place (2011)
Gracie’s Choice (2004)
Homeless to Harvard (2003)
L.I.E. (2001)
My Flesh and Blood (2003)
Of 2 Minds (2012)
Postcard to Daddy (2010)
Precious (2009)
Sexy Baby (2012)
Short Term 12 (2013)
Sybil (1976 or 2007)
The Dark Matter of Love (2012)
The Heart is Deceitful Above all Things (2004)
The Ride (2020)
What about Father’s? (2012)
