[Hac-announce] HAC Monthly Meeting, Sept 20 -- Supporting Children in the Foster/Legal System, the CASA Approach

[Aaron Goode]

We have an interesting speaker discussing a very important topic this
month. Please attend if you can.

Aaron Goode, HAC

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https://www.meetup.com/cthumanist/events/280470703/

Monthly Meeting: A Voice for Vulnerable Children, the CASA ApproachSept.
20, 2021, 7pm (on Zoom)
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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.
Guest Speaker Josiah Brown, Executive Director of Connecticut CASA (
https://www.connecticutcasa.org/)

Josiah H. Brown is a nonprofit professional with experience in university
administration, public schools, philanthropy, government, and community
partnership. He is (effective July 1, 2021) executive director of
Connecticut CASA (https://www.connecticutcasa.org/) -- after having in 2019
launched CASA of Southern Connecticut, part of the national CASA network
for children facing abuse and/or neglect and in need of court-appointed
special advocates. Before, he was the first associate director of the
Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute. He worked with New Leaders for a summer
during its start-up, responsible for researching prospective partner
cities. Previously, he was chief of staff to the president of the New
School in New York City. In earlier roles, Brown was an aide to U.S.
Representative Rosa DeLauro and to the director of a foundation-sponsored
center at Columbia University. He worked for UConn Upward Bound and
ConnPIRG and has volunteered with various urban youth organizations and
public schools--including as a member of the New Haven Public Schools'
Community Engagement Team.

As a volunteer, he is a former president of Domestic Violence Services of
Greater New Haven. He is a founding board member of, and now chairs, the
Literacy Coalition of Greater New Haven. He coaches youth basketball during
winter. At Yale, since 2008 he has been an associate fellow of Saybrook
College and adviser to students there. He is an occasional contributor to
the Good Men Project, New Haven Independent, and Times of India, and to a
blog at www.josiahbrown.org.

He has a B.A. with distinction in history, magna cum laude, from Yale and a
master’s in public policy from Harvard.

He and his wife, Sahar Usmani-Brown, live in New Haven with their two
children.
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