<div dir="ltr"><h1 class="gmail-pageHead-headline gmail-text--pageTitle" style="margin:0px 0px 8px;padding:0px"><font size="2" style="font-weight:normal">We have an interesting speaker discussing a very important topic this month. Please attend if you can.</font></h1><div><br></div><div>Aaron Goode, HAC</div><div><br></div><div>____________________________________________________</div><div><br></div><h1 class="gmail-pageHead-headline gmail-text--pageTitle" style="margin:0px 0px 8px;padding:0px"><a href="https://www.meetup.com/cthumanist/events/280470703/">https://www.meetup.com/cthumanist/events/280470703/</a><br></h1><div><br></div><h1 class="gmail-pageHead-headline gmail-text--pageTitle" style="margin:0px 0px 8px;padding:0px">Monthly Meeting: A Voice for Vulnerable Children, the CASA Approach</h1><h1 class="gmail-pageHead-headline gmail-text--pageTitle" style="margin:0px 0px 8px;padding:0px">Sept. 20, 2021, 7pm (on Zoom)</h1><div><img src="cid:ii_ktj5ookj0" alt="Screenshot 2021-09-13 5.25.51 PM.png" width="478" height="339"><br></div><h3 style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Fira Sans","Droid Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;letter-spacing:-0.02em;line-height:1.2;font-size:1.6875em;clear:both;margin:1rem 0px;color:rgb(17,17,17)"><div class="eventPageHead gmail-stripe" id="eventPageHead--qxtslryccmbbc" style="border-top:1px solid rgba(46,62,72,0.12);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin-bottom:0px;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(46,62,72,0.12);color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:"Graphik Meetup",-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal"><div class="gmail-bounds gmail-bounds--wide" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;max-width:1100px;width:1100px"><div class="gmail-pageHead--wrapper" style=""><div class="gmail-pageHead" style="margin:24px 20px"><div class="gmail-flex gmail-flex--column gmail-atMedium_flex--row gmail-flex--alignBottom gmail-pageHead-pageTitle" style="display:flex;box-sizing:border-box;height:auto"><div class="gmail-flex-item gmail-flex-item--2 gmail-pageHead--titleArea" style="box-sizing:border-box;width:auto;min-width:0px;padding-left:0px"><div class="gmail-flex gmail-flex--row gmail-flex--alignCenter event-host-info" style="display:flex;box-sizing:border-box"><div class="gmail-flex-item gmail-flex-item--shrink" style="box-sizing:border-box;width:auto;min-width:0px;padding-left:0px"><span class="gmail-visibility--a11yHide" style="display:inline;color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none;background-color:rgb(210,218,225);background-position:50% 50%;font-size:0px;vertical-align:middle;white-space:nowrap;border-radius:999px;box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-size:cover;border:0px;overflow:hidden;padding:0px;width:1px;height:1px"><a class="gmail-avatar gmail-avatar--person gmail-avatar--noPhoto" role="img" aria-label="richard.s" href="https://www.meetup.com/cthumanist/events/qxtslryccmbbc/attendees/" style="display:inline-flex;color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none;background-color:rgb(210,218,225);background-position:50% 50%;font-size:0px;vertical-align:middle;white-space:nowrap;border-radius:999px;box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-size:cover">richard.s</a></span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Details</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></h3><h3 style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Fira Sans","Droid Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;letter-spacing:-0.02em;line-height:1.2;font-size:1.6875em;clear:both;margin:1rem 0px;color:rgb(17,17,17)"><div class="gmail-bounds gmail-bounds--wide" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;max-width:1100px;width:1100px;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:"Graphik Meetup",-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal"><div class="gmail-flex gmail-flex--column gmail-atLarge_flex--row gmail-atLarge_flex--rowReverse" style="display:flex;box-sizing:border-box;height:auto"><div class="gmail-flex-item gmail-flex-item--2 eventContent" style="box-sizing:border-box;width:auto;min-width:0px;padding-left:0px"><div class="gmail-chunk"><div class="eventContent"><div class="gmail-chunk event-description--wrapper"><div class="event-description gmail-runningText" style="overflow:hidden"><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;max-width:40em;word-break:break-word">This is our monthly meeting, held on the third Monday of the month. The main program is announced closer to the date of the meeting.<br>Guest Speaker Josiah Brown, Executive Director of Connecticut CASA (<a class="gmail-link" href="ht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