2011 SFCASA Board of Directors Luncheon
SFCASA Celebrates 20 years with the 2011 Board of Directors Luncheon.
March 23, 2011
11:30am - 1:30pm
Four Seasons Hotel, Market Street, San Francisco
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Ashley Rhodes-Courter
2011 SFCASA Featured Speaker
San Francisco CASA is pleased to have featured Ashley Rhodes-Courter at our luncheon celebrating 20 years in San Francisco. She is a leading example of the impact that one consistent and caring adult can provide to a vulnerable child in their search to find a loving “forever” home.
Ashley spent nine years of her life in fourteen different foster homes. With sharp memories of the bureaucratic details and emotional chaos that made up her childhood, her memoir Three Little Words reveals what it means to be an “orphan” in modern America. Ashley’s story is one of grit and determination-and numbers you won’t believe: seventy-three child welfare administrators, forty-four caseworkers, twenty-three attorneys, nineteen foster parents, seventeen therapists, three abuse registry workers, four judges, and, one Guardian ad Litem, (a type of CASA Volunteeer) who, in Ashley’s own words, is the one “who made the greatest difference in my life." Ashley recalled, “After going through over 80,000 documents involving my case plans, one of the papers listed me as having blue eyes. I have brown eyes. I have come to believe that every child in the foster care system deserves someone in their life that knows the color of their eyes.”
We were honored to have the talented and inspirational journalist, Belva Davis, host the day’s program.
Listen to the podcast of the interview with Ashley and SFCASA Program Director, Maya Durret about the Ashley's book and the need for the community to support CASA programs.
Read the Press Release for the event.
SFCASA gratefully acknowledges
our 2011 Luncheon Sponsors
(as of February 1, 2011)
Platinum Sponsor
Christine & Ravi Mohan
Gold Sponsors
Bank of the West
Ernest A. Bates, MD: American Shared Hospital Services
Crown I Toto Family
McKesson
Silver Sponsors
Lisa Auer & Peng Ngin
Michelle Banks I Gap Inc.
Belrad Group
DLA Piper US LLP
Duane Morris
First Republic Bank
Fremont Group
Jennifer & Abe Friedman
LeeAnn & Michael Napolitana
Gail & Bernard Nebenzahl
Pamella Olson
Lyn Pannone & Stephen Nadeau
Winston & Strawn LLP
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