Bring your gently used CHILDREN'S/YOUNG ADULT books to any of the THREE Tamraloo locations (Studio E, Studio T, or 12 Bridges) as a donation to our BOOK DRIVE! With the celebration of the new tutoring space and National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), November has become the month we collect books and hand them off to a local non-profit that needs them! This year our Beneficiaries are the childen at Child Advocates of Placer county. They help children from birth to 18 years, but their focus for the reading program is 4–12-year-olds.

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Want to help but don't have children that age anymore? Their Events & Office coordinator has some ideas for you: 

1. Sloth slept on

2. Magic Tree house books 1-4

3. Will you please go now = Dr. Seuss

4. Slowly, slowly, slowly said the sloth

5. Adventures of Biscuit

6. Harry Potter Series for our boys in a group home.

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Child Advocates of Placer County trains community volunteers to be Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASAs) for foster youth and probation youth, and to be Mentors for at-risk youth, former foster youth, and struggling families. The primary goals for CASAs and Mentors is to help youth find educational success and

secure housing, and transition into successful adults, while also breaking the intergenerational trend of child abuse.

CASA volunteers are sworn Officers of the Court whom we assign to foster children (ages 0 to 18)

through a court order. This order gives the CASA the authority to meet weekly with a foster youth,

interview all parties to the action (parents, social workers, teachers, therapists, attorneys, etc.), and

serve the youth through by reviewing the child’s situation and needs, identifying resources and

services for the child, communicating the child’s wishes, best interests, and unmet needs to the court,

and ensuring that court orders are carried out.