Resources
Find a Lawyer in Texas -> http://www.texasbar.com/am/template.cfm?section=Advanced_Search
Child Protection Court Dockets -> http://www.courts.state.tx.us/cpdockets/Courts.aspx
CASA Resource Manual -> View manual broken down into units that can viewed as pdfs.
Library - CASA Resources
Community Services Abuse
- Abuse Recovery Center: 936-756-3020 Crisis Intervention/Anger Management/Domestic Abuse
- Children's Safe Harbor: 936-441-2992 Assistance to child abuse victims and non-offending family members
- Montgomery Co. Women's Center: 281-292-4155 Individual and group counseling for victims of domestic violence
- TDPRS (CPS): 936-756-1551
- TDPRS Hotline to report abuse: 1-800-252-5400
Child Counseling
- Montgomery Co. Youth Services/Counseling: 936-756-8682 Serves youth ages 7-17
- Montgomery Co. Youth Services/Fairway Home: 936-856-8015 Temporary Residential Care (3 days) Ages 10-17
- Tri-County MHMR (Mental Health/Mental Retardation Services): 936-525-2700 Emotional/behavioral/mental disorders- Ages 1-18
Food Stamps
- Texas Department of Human Services: 936-539-1161 TANF (Temporary Assistance to Needy Families)- Indigent health care- Medicaid services
Food Pantry
- First Christian Church: 936-756-3554
- Montgomery Co. Emergency Assistance: 936-539-9211 Magnolia: 281-259-8452 New Caney: 281-577-8979 The Woodlands: 281-292-4155
- Montgomery Co. Food Bank: 936-539-6686
- Salvation Army: 936-760-2440
Legal Assistance
- Gulf Coast Legal Foundation: 1-800-733-8394 Civil law services to indigent population in gulf coast region of Texas
- Houston Lawyer Referral Services, Inc.: 1-800-289-4577 Offers low fee panel for income eligible citizens
The Myth of Best Interest: Why Good Intentions are not Good Enough
By Jane Malpass and Jane Thompson
No one to Call Me Home
By Rev. James J. Close
Every Childs Deserves a Champion
By Bob Danzig
The Nature of Nurture: Biology, Environment, and the Drug-Exposed Child
By Ira J. Chasnoff
A Child Called "It"
By David Pelzer
Odd Girl Out: Girls Write About Bullies, Cliques, Popularity, and Jealously
By Rachel Simmons
Someone There for Me: Everyday Heroes Through the Eyes of Teens in Foster Care
Young Children in Foster Care
By Silver, Amster, and Haecker
Somebody Else's Children
By John Hubner and Jill Wolfson
"No Speed Limit: The Highs and Lows of Meth"
"Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City"
"On Their Own: What Happens to Kids When they Age Out of the Foster System?"
"No Matter How Loud I Shout: A Year in the life of a Juvenile Court"
"Meth: America's Home-Cooked Menace"
"A life without Consequences"
"The Battered Child"
"Shattered Bonds: The Color of the Child Welfare"
"On Their Own: What Happens to Kids when they Age out of the Foster Care System"
"I Speak for this Child: True Stories of a Child Advocate"
"Building the Bonds of Attachement: Awakening Love in Deeply Troubled Children"
"Beyond the Foster Care System: The Future for Teens"
"When Drug Addicts Have Children: Reorienting Society's Response"
"My Dad Loves Me, My Dad has a Disease: A Child's View Living with Addiction
"Suffer the Children: A Pediatrician's Reflections on Abuse"
"No Such Thing as a Bad Kid: Understanding and Responding to the Challenging Behavior of Troubled Children and Youth"
"The Star: A Story to Help Young Children Understand Foster Care"
"Wasted: The Plight of America's Unwanted Children"
"It Will Never Happen to Me: Growing up with Addiction as Youngsters, Adolescents, Adults"
"Another Place at the Table"
"Finding the Right Spot: When Kids Can't Live with Their Parents"
"Girlhood"
"I have Roots & Branches"
There is also an assortment of National CASA publications and government publications and magazines. www.casanet.org/library
Some titles are:
"Sticking Together: Kinship Care and Financial Care"
"New Directions From the Field- Victims Rights"
"What Can we Do About Child Abuse?"
"Decision Making for CASA/GALS: A Question of Balance"