Community Corner
Lawrence Greenberg Joins the Board of Trustees of CASA for Children of New Jersey
Lawrence Greenberg, of Newton, PA, was appointed in July to the Board of Trustees of Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) for Children of New Jersey. Mr. Greenberg is helping to organize an event (to be held on September 26, 2013, at The Park Savoy Estate) to benefit children removed from their homes because of abuse or neglect. CASA programs and their volunteers step in to help protect the safety and welfare of these children in both the judicial and child welfare systems.
Over 13,000 New Jersey children – victims of physical, sexual and emotional abuse, neglect and/or abandonment – have been removed from their homes and currently live in foster care, group homes or residential treatment facilities. CASA programs recruit, screen, train and supervise 1,400 judicial volunteers to advocate on behalf of 3,000 of these children across the state’s 21 counties each year.
As a Trustee of CASA of New Jersey, Mr. Greenberg will help to ensure that CASA programs and their volunteers across the state have the resources and training they need to serve greater numbers of these vulnerable children.