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About Family Advocates
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The CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocate) program is committed to the protection and healing of abused and neglected children who have been placed in foster care and referred to us by the courts. CASA appoints a trained volunteer (called a Guardian ad Litem) and a volunteer attorney to the child.
A CASA volunteer is the sole adult charged with the responsibility of researching the child’s background and reporting those findings to the court. The judge uses the report to make a sound decision about that child's future. Funding for CASA comes from the state, county, Idaho Supreme Court, United Way, and the community.
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The Families First program is a voluntary home-based parent education service. Parent educators visit families at home with specialized activities to help parents learn about child development, nutrition, health care, and effective parenting skills.
The primary goal of the Families First program is to help parents keep their families whole and healthy and give their children the best possible start in life.
We use the Parents as Teachers (PAT) curriculum for children ages 0-5 and the Family Outreach curriculum for children ages 6-12. We receive federal, state, United Way and community funding for this program.
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The Idaho Parent Information Resource Center (PIRC) project is a collaboration of five Idaho agencies, with Family Advocates as the lead agency. Each organization, while unique and self-supporting, provides parent education services similar to those offered by the Families First program.
This collaboration serves 34 counties in Idaho. We produce a newsletter sent out to over 1500 families, maintain a web site with parenting helps (IdahoPIRC.org), and administer the U.S. Department of Education grant that funds this project. PIRC sites around the state are located in Coeur d'Alene, Pocatello, Idaho Falls, and Caldwell.
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Please Read to Me is a literacy project with a goal to encourage and enhance reading skills by putting age appropriate books into the hands of children served by Family Advocates.
When visiting their families in their homes, our parent educators educate parents on the importance of reading to children and deliver one book a month for each child in the families they visit, to build a “library” for each child.
Each child in the CASA program also receives books when they are visited by their Guardian Ad Litem. GAL's also receive training on how to read to children in order to instill a life-time love of reading in the children they serve.
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Love & Logic is a parenting philosophy developed over 30 years ago by Jim Fay and Foster Cline. It is a parenting philosophy of raising and teaching children, which allows adults to be happier, empowered, and more skilled in their interaction with children.
With Love & Logic, your children will learn how to live with the consequence of their actions, avoid blaming others for their problems, and make wise decisions. Fay and Cline believe that Love allows children to grow through their mistakes and Logic happens when we allow them to live with the consequences of their choices.
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