Ville Platte Rotary: CASA vital to care of youth in foster care

By News Staff on Monday, March 31, 2025
  • ROTARIANS LEARN ABOUT CASA - Alisha Arvie (center) shared the importance of the CASA organization to those youth in foster care during the March 25, meeting of the Ville Platte Rotary Club. She is shown with Rotary President Bob Manuel (left) and Rotarian Linda Fontenot (right). (Gazette photo by Heather Bogard)
    ROTARIANS LEARN ABOUT CASA - Alisha Arvie (center) shared the importance of the CASA organization to those youth in foster care during the March 25, meeting of the Ville Platte Rotary Club. She is shown with Rotary President Bob Manuel (left) and Rotarian Linda Fontenot (right). (Gazette photo by Heather Bogard)

    By: HEATHER BOGARD Associate Editor Rotarian Linda Fontenot welcomed Alisha Arvie, Community Outreach Coordinator for CASA of St. Landry-Evangeline, as the guest speaker at the Tuesday, March 25, meeting of the Ville Platte Rotary Club. CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocate) is a national volunteer movement that began when Judge David Soukup in Seattle, Washington, decided he needed to know m…