In I Speak For This Child, best-selling novelist Gay Courter recounts her experiences as a Guardian ad Litem, a volunteer court-appointed advocate for children involved in Florida's court system. Following her first tentative approach to her local Court Appointed Special Advocates program to her more determined efforts, we get an insider's glimpse on this hidden world and learn what it takes to ensure that America's most vulnerable citizens are treated with care and respect. Courter's story is both heartbreaking and heartwarming, and is an inspiration for anyone who has ever looked up from a newspaper and wondered, "What can I do to help?"
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Advocate's Review:
I Speak for This Child: True Stories of a Child Advocate Having been a child advocate, this book is more than the journey of one child advocate. From beginning to end, the author informs the reader of how she dealt with certain challenges, and how a child advocate can do more for a child in foster care than they realize.
As a child advocate this book really puts child abuse by our system in prospective!:
This is the best book I have ever read by a child advocate. Our system does not do right by abused children. If we don't get our system in better shape all these foster children will be in our prison system. And did you know it cost more to pay for prison than it does college!! Thanks Gay and keep up the great undying work you do!!! P.S. Everyone in the GAL office in Putnam County is reading your book and Ashley's
This book changed my life.:
As a freshman in college, I stumbled upon this book in the library, and soon after dedicated myself to improving the child welfare system. Courter's account is incredibly inspiring, emphasizing the responsibility we all have to speak up for kids who have been wronged by our systems. I have now been a court appointed special advocate myself, and it is the most heartbreaking (but rewarding!) volunteer experience of my life. If you're looking for a book that will be difficult to put down, and stories of... more info
A look into the life:
I picked up the book by Gay Courter and could not put it down. Inspiring! I can't say enough about it!
