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CASA Nostra Podcast
by Lisa Patten
CASA Nostra, read aloud by Lisa Patten, a Court Appointed Special Advocate in Texas. Each episode is one of my essays about what happens inside the child welfare system: the courtrooms, the home visits, the goodbyes, and what it takes to keep showing up for kids in foster care. Every identifying detail is changed or invented to protect the children and families I serve. texascasa.substack.com
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When the Plan Falls Apart in the Courtroom
After more than a year on this case, the family and every legal party had agreed on a plan to send two children home to their family. Then, at the final hearing, the children's attorney changed his mind, and the judge turned to me. This is the story of what I said when the notes in my hand could…
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She Runs. She Leaps. I Catch Her.
Every identifying detail in my writing is changed or invented. Here's how and why. In this episode, I read my essay "She Runs. She Leaps. I Catch Her." It follows one visit with a three-year-old girl on my CASA case, three days after she moved into a new foster home. She greets me at the door…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
CASA Nostra, read aloud by Lisa Patten, a Court Appointed Special Advocate in Texas. Each episode is one of my essays about what happens inside the child welfare system: the courtrooms, the home visits, the goodbyes, and what it takes to keep showing up for kids in foster care. Every identifying detail is changed or invented to protect the children and families I serve.
texascasa.substack.com
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Lisa Patten
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CASA Nostra, read aloud by Lisa Patten, a Court Appointed Special Advocate in Texas. Each episode is one of my essays about what happens inside the child welfare system: the courtrooms, the home visits, the goodbyes, and what it takes to keep showing up for kids in foster care. Every identifying...
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CASA Nostra Podcast is created and hosted by Lisa Patten.
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