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| I Speak for This Child: True Stories of a Child Advocate | 
 enlarge | Author: Gay Courter
Publisher: Backinprint.com
Category: Book
List Price: $23.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 268320
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 420
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 1.1
ISBN: 0595168396
Dewey Decimal Number: 361
EAN: 9780595168392
ASIN: 0595168396
Publication Date: February 2001
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Product Description
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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Read this book! September 22, 1999
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
This chronicle of the author's experiences as a Guardian Ad Litem in Florida will alternately enlighten you, frustrate you, inspire you, and make you angry. Much, I would expect, like being a Guardian. Besides giving others a blueprint on "how to help," and serving as an education on some of society's problems that most people wish they could ignore, this book is great reading, chock full of emotionally-involving, often heart-rending stories. Prepare to be engrossed.
A look into the life November 24, 2002
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I picked up the book by Gay Courter and could not put it down. Inspiring! I can't say enough about it!
This book changed my life. June 3, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
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 kids who are difficult to turn your back on, then this book is for you.
As a child advocate this book really puts child abuse by our system in prospective! April 7, 2008
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
Advocate's Review August 2, 2008
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.
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