The Central Missouri Child Advocacy Law Center Main Directory has more information about this organization, plus links for our own pages: Child Advocacy News; Guardian Ad Litem Standards; Guardian Ad Litem Handbook; and Missouri Law relating to GALs and CASAs.
Persons in the area of Rolla and Phelps County, Missouri, may also want to look at the Rolla/Phelps County Area Resources Page, which has contact information and web-links for local resources related to child advocacy, child abuse/neglect, domestic violence, social services, emergency services, and legal services.
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The ABA Child-Court Internet Mailing List - "This forum will discuss efforts to improve the court process for child abuse and neglect proceedings and related cases. It will be available for discussion among those working with the 47 state and District of Columbia court systems that are participating in the federally-funded (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Children's Bureau) Court National Improvement Initiative, plus other interested organizations and individuals. This is a Closed list." Although this is a Closed List, the term "other interested organizations and individuals" seems to be interpreted to include GALs, CASAs, and others who work with children in the court system, even if not directly involved with a state court improvement project. Also, I have been advised that "the group is not just for the discussion of the court reform projects, per se, but [also] the reform issues being addressed by the projects. For example, there was some discussion [...] about strategies for achieving better legal representation of the parties, as well as what actually constitutes good legal representation. In fact, the child-court group is to discuss all areas of court improvement, including improvements in the quality of legal representation." Here are links for more info or to subscribe to the child-court mailing list.
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Update Announcement: 02 November 2002
These pages are way out of date, last updated in 1997. Nevertheless, they are still getting about 3500 hits per year (9000 for this links page!), and a few of those people tell me the links are helpful to them. So, rather than just deleting the site, I am leaving it up but am removing all of the email links (which mostly result in massive quantities of spam for me) and some obviously outdated info. I will also put in notices like this one on each of the main index pages, just for those people to whom the lack of recent updates is not otherwise obvious. If you really really really need to contact me, there will be a graphic with my email address on the Feedback page.
I do not plan any further updates to these pages. As I go through them making the changes mentioned above, I will delete any information that I know to be outdated, but I am not going through to citecheck every page. Please keep in mind that all of the content here was created at least five years ago, and check carefully to see what may have changed since then. There will be one exception: someone sent me a new set of GAL standards for the state of South Carolina, and I intend to add those to the page of GAL Standards. I will continue to add any other GAL standards that are sent to me, although the update may not always be very prompt.
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