As the Hartford Courant recently described, Connecticut CASA has expanded to the Hartford area/statewide.

The article also notes recent additions to the organization's Board:

*Linda Mayes, MD (who directs the Yale Child Study Center);

*Brent Peterkin (who has led Project Longevity, among other endeavors); and

*Merle Berke-Schlessel (who led the United Way of Coastal Fairfield County for nearly two decades).

Join Connecticut CASA for an April 17, 2024 Benefit, featuring the outstanding Shades of Yale a cappella group on Wednesday, April 17, from 5:30-7 p.m. at the Cohen Auditorium of the Yale Child Study Center, 230 South Frontage Road.

A first-year student at Yale has launched a nonprofit venture to support youth development through basketball in his hometown of Goma, Congo.  A fiscally sponsored project of Dwight Hall, it's called the Jeannot Basima Basketball Camp and Foundation.  See the web page here.

In addition, here is a powerful 40-minute documentary, filmed in 2019, that includes glimpses of Jeannot when he was age 14, finishing his 8th-grade year at New York Military Academy after growing up in Goma.  (He later moved to a high school in Maryland, and then in summer 2023 returned to Goma for the first time in five years before arriving in New Haven for the fall 2023 semester.)

Thanks to the Amour Propre Fund/LindyLee Gold, President, among other key partners/donors, Connecticut Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) is able to match up to $15,000 in donations during this Giving Season--through December 31.

We are grateful to everyone who supports this work for children--at whatever level, anytime!  Please consider donating here.  Connecticut CASA also invites contributions via check or donor-advised funds; there are many ways to help this lean organization extend its reach.

Nodding to a recent Dalio Education-commissioned report on "Connecticut's Unspoken Crisis" of "disconnected" or "at-risk" individuals ages 14-26, my recent opinion piece appeared in the Connecticut Mirror and the New Haven Register, among other Hearst CT Media outlets.