The Texas Tech Miller Girls and Alpha Gamma Rho are Proud to Present:
Smokey's True to Texas Music Fest
Benefitting CASA of the South Plains and The Texas Boys Ranch of Lubbock
About The Charities
CASA of the South Plains
The Texas Boys Ranch of Lubbock
CASA stands for Court Appointed Special Advocates. The CASA Advocate is appointed by a judge to advocate, or speak for, a child or children in foster care.CASA began in 1977 when a judge in Seattle decided he was uneasy about making quick decisions that would affect children for the rest of their lives. The judge launched a program to train and appoint community volunteers to research the cases of children who had been removed from their homes for various reasons. Today, there are almost 955 CASA programs across the nation with 70,000 volunteers.
A Lubbock County Judge first appointed a CASA advocate to serve as an abused child's advocate in October 1993. Since that time, more than 5,000 children have been provided more than 1,000 advocates.
Since its founding 37 years ago, Texas Boys Ranch has been giving young children the chance to grow and develop into productive men and women. To date over 900 children from more than 125 Texas communities and representing a variety of backgrounds and circumstances have called Texas Boys Ranch home. Some came because they literally had no place else to go; they were homeless. Others came through referral from social workers, seeking to remove them from home environments of abuse or neglect. These young people at Texas Boys Ranch are given a renewed opportunity, no matter their previous circumstances.
Saturday May 3, 2014
Smokey's True to Texas Fest 2014
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