CASA seeks community volunteers
Are you interested in helping children in the foster care system? Hudson County CASA is currently recruiting volunteers to advocate for the best interests of abused and neglected children. CASA works through trained community volunteers to ensure that needed services and assistance are made available to children while helping to move them toward safe and permanent homes.
CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) and its volunteers speak for children in court, serve as fact-finders for the judges, and safeguard the interests of the children while they are in the foster care system.
Information sessions regarding the program and the role of its volunteers will be held on Tuesday, March 8 from 6 pm. To 7 p.m. in Room No. 400 of the Hudson County Administration Building at 595 Newark Ave., Jersey City.
Hudson County has nearly 700 children in foster care. Most have been removed from their homes for abuse or neglect.
For further information, please call (201) 795-9855, e-mail mveenhof@hudsoncountycasa.org, or visit the website at www.hudsoncountycasa.org.
Correction
A caption that ran in several of our editions last week with a story about accreditation for the county’s psychiatric hospital inadvertently labeled a photo of Freeholder Doreen DiDomenico, who chairs the freeholders’ Health Committee, as County Health and Human Services Director Carol Ann Wilson.
NJ Blood Services seeks volunteers
NJ Blood Services, which supplies blood products and services to 60 hospitals throughout the state, is in need of volunteers to work blood drives. The blood service volunteer is an integral member of the collection team whose task it is assist donors with registration, escorting and canteen duties, and to watch for post donation reactions. Volunteers should have the ability to relate to the public, perform different jobs as needed, and have the willingness to follow the rules.
For additional information contact R. Jan Zepka, manager of Community Relations, at (732) 616-8741 or rzepka@nybloodcenter.org.
NJMC announces First-Sunday-of-the Month Walk
NJMC and BCAS will hold their First-Sunday-of-the-Month Walk free two-hour walk on Sunday, March 6 at 10 a.m. at Mill Creek Marsh in Secaucus. They’ll meet at Mill Creek Marsh at 10 a.m. (directions are on meadowblog.net in the left-hand column), or you can also meet them at the visitors’ parking lot at DeKorte Park in Lyndhurst by 9:30 a.m. and we can carpool. The walk is run by the New Jersey Meadowlands Commission and the Bergen County Audubon Society. Check meadowblog.net for last-minute weather updates. You will have to sign a standard liability release for this event. To RSPV, contact Don Torino of the BCAS at greatauk4@aol.com or (201) 636-4022.