Are You a CASA?

December 4, 2010

Hello, again, my friends,

I know I just wrote to you, but after a recent conversation with Cindy Hiott, our state Community Service Chair, we decided to ask you for some help. We would like to find out how many retired teachers who are members of Indiana Retired Teachers Association are also serving as a CASA—a court appointed special advocate. We would like for you to survey your members in whatever way you choose, and to let us know the numbers who are a CASA. If they do not object, we would like to have their names also.

We understand that this can’t be done quickly and hope to collect the information over the next few months. Perhaps you can survey your members as you send out notices for the next meeting, at the meeting, or when you contact them to remind them of volunteer hours or attending the legislative luncheon on February 14.

This will help us in several ways. You may know that the Chief Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court supervises CASA. He is very interested in the program, and very supportive of our association’s partnership with CASA.

The information will help us in another way—in asking the legislature to recognize that we are still giving back to our communities. Every tool that we can utilize can help when we testify during the legislative session.

Finally, we have been recognized several different times by our affiliate, the National Retired Teachers Association, and this would give us information to prepare another application for a national award.

If you can help us with this project, please send the information that you gather to jgreen@retiredteachers.org. Cindy and I thank you for your effort on this project.

Sincerely,
Nancy Tolson, President
Cindy Hiott, Chair of Community Service Committee