Entries by admin

Being a CASA volunteer helped Pete King find a new level of work life balance

As an engineer who enjoys spending his days planning, organizing, scheduling and connecting people around one goal or project, Pete King says his work life blends easily with role as a CASA volunteer. It’s a volunteer opportunity he heard about 20 years ago, but with young children and a full-time career, it wasn’t the right […]

Being a CASA volunteer helped Pete King find a new level of work life balance

As an engineer who enjoys spending his days planning, organizing, scheduling and connecting people around one goal or project, Pete King says his work life blends easily with role as a CASA volunteer. It’s a volunteer opportunity he heard about 20 years ago, but with young children and a full-time career, it wasn’t the right […]

Combining Full-Time Work with Vital Volunteering for NH’s Children

For the past 12 years, Mike LaRoche has been changing the lives of New Hampshire’s abused and neglected children while working full-time as a busy sales representative. Mike is one of more than 600 Court Appointed Special Advocates across the state who volunteer to speak up for the best interests of victimized children in New […]

BIA of NH & CASA of NH Announce Partnership

The Business & Industry Association of New Hampshire (BIA) and Court Appointed Special Advocates of New Hampshire (CASA) announced a new partnership to provide greater exposure for CASA and its important work to protect the best interests of abused and neglected children in New Hampshire’s family courts. CASA of NH is a statewide nonprofit that […]

Adoption Day for Grayson

For the Sillanpaa family,  Sept. 23, was no ordinary day. It was adoption day for 6-year-old Grayson who made a grand arrival to the court house … in a dump truck! It was the truck enthusiast’s one wish for that day. His mom, Airial Doubleday Sillanpaa says Grayson was not the first child they adopted, […]

Retirees Provide a Vital Voice for NH’s Abused and Neglected Children

After Seacoast New Hampshire resident Dean Plager retired, he enjoyed spending more time sailing, but he also felt a need to give back to society. He read an article about a local woman who was advocating for abused and neglected children as a volunteer with CASA of NH. “It hit home for me because I […]

NH’s Judge Susan Carbon Wins National CASA Judge of the Year Award

The Honorable Susan B. Carbon of the 9th Circuit Court Family Division in Manchester has been named the 2020 judge of the year by the National Court Appointed Special Advocate/Guardian Ad Litem Association for Children. The announcement was made at the organization’s virtual Awards of Excellence ceremony on Oct. 21. The National CASA/GAL Association’s Honorable […]

2020 Community Partner Award: Steve Friedman

Community Partner Award Our Community Partner Award highlights CASA’s valuable community partners for their support, engagement and resources that they have contributed to furthering the mission of the work we do. CASA recognizes that we have broad and deep support from the New Hampshire community but we seek to acknowledge those people and companies who […]