Chatham-Savannah Citizen Advocacy Records
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Chatham-Savannah Citizen Advocacy Records

Descriptive Summary

Title: Chatham-Savannah Citizen Advocacy Records
Creator: Chatham-Savannah Citizen Advocacy
Inclusive Dates: 1985-2015
Language(s): English
Extent: 8 Linear Feet
Extent: 30 item(s)
Extent: 3 oversize_folders
Collection Number: RBRL390
Repository: Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies
Abstract: The Savannah branch of the Georgia Advocacy Office was established in 1978. In 1983, Chatham-Savannah Citizen Advocacy became an independent nonprofit organization after securing its own 501(c)(3) status. The records in this collection consist of administrative records, photographs and documents on past events, the files of former Coordinator and Executive Director Tom Kholer; ended Advocate/Protege case files; artifacts, photographs; audiovisual material; and other materials documenting the organization, its advocacy principles, and programming.

Collection Description

Historical Note

In 1975, the Developmental Disabilities Services and Facilities Construction Act required every state to establish protection and advocacy offices to support individuals with disabilities. While many states responded by creating legal aid or case management agencies, Georgia chose a different path by investing in citizen advocacy. This decision led to the creation of the Georgia Advocacy Office in 1977, with a mission to "provide protection of and advocacy for people being abused, neglected, or excluded because of disability."

The Savannah branch of the Georgia Advocacy Office was established in 1978. In 1983, Chatham-Savannah Citizen Advocacy became an independent nonprofit organization after securing its own 501(c)(3) status. CSCA has three full-time staff members governed by a Board of thirteen local citizens. CSCA is a community-based non-profit dedicated to a single mission: "to recruit, match and offer training to private citizens who become advocates."

According to CSCA, there are two key principles in citizen advocacy matches: "1) Each citizen advocacy relationship is freely given, 2) Each citizen advocate is independent of human services, the citizen advocacy office, and, if necessary, his or her advocacy partner's family." This independence from human services empowers advocates to speak on behalf of their protégés with clarity and freedom.

Scope and Content

The Chatham-Savannah Citizen Advocacy Records document board minutes and correspondence, financial records, annual and monthly reports, advocacy orientation materials, and other administrative records; photographs and documents on past events; notes, correspondence, and research files of former Coordinator and Executive Director Tom Kholer; ended Advocate/Protege case files; artifacts, photographs; audiovisual material; and other materials documenting the organization, its advocacy principles, and programming.

Organization and Arrangement

This collection is arranged in six series: Series 1. Administrative Records, Series II. Director's Files, Series III. Case Files, Series IV. Artifacts, Series V. Photographs, Series VI. Audiovisual.

Administrative Information

Conditions Governing Access

This collection contains matched case files (Series III. Case Files) that have been restricted until January 2100 to safeguard information that identifies private individuals unless given written permission by the CSCA for access.

Financial records pertaining to bank statements and deposits have also been restricted.

Preferred Citation

Chatham-Savannah Citizen Advocacy Records. Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies, University of Georgia Libraries, Athens, Georgia, 30602-1641.

General Notes

The inventory of this collection uses terms that could be considered ablelist or otherwise offensive. These descriptors reflect historical usage of the term or the intent of the records' creators, not intervention on the part of the archivists or the Russell Library. This language has been retained in order to illustrate the historical context in which the records were created.

Related Materials and Subjects

Subject Terms

Series Descriptions and Folder Listing

 

I. Administrative Records

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R I. 0101Board [1 of 2], 1982-2002
R I. 0102Board [2 of 2], 1982-2002
R I. 0103Board - Board Member Info/Correspondence, 1982-2012
R I. 0104FY14 Monthly Reports, 2013-2014
R I. 0105Monthly Reports, 2014
R I. 0106FY16 Monthly Reports, 2015-2016
R I. 0107Monthly Reports, 2016
R I. 0108FY18 Monthly Reports, 2017-2018
R I. 0109FY14 Board Meetings, 2013-2014
R I. 0110FY15 Board Meetings, 2014-2015
R I. 0111Board Meeting, 2015-2016
R I. 0112Board Minutes, 2015-2016
R I. 0113Board Minutes, 2016-2017
R I. 0114FY18 Board Meetings, 2017-2018
R I. 0115Historic Board Minutes, 1993-1995
R I. 0116Internal Evaluations, 1983-2008
R I. 0117Internal Evaluations - Program Eval Committee, 1992-2008
R I. 0118Evaluation and Planning Subcommittee, 1993-1994
R I. 0120FY14 GAO [Georgia Advocacy Office]Training Receipts, 2013-2014
R I. 0121Savannah Station Lease Contract, 2014-02-13
R I. 0124Past Financials, 1988-1994
R I. 0125Expenditure Reports, 2013-2014
R I. 0127Ended Matches, 2013-2022
R I. 0128FY15 Ended Matches, 2014-2015
R I. 0129FY16 Ended Matches, 2015-2016
R I. 0130Training Events [1 of 2], 1985-2007
R I. 0131Training Events [2 of 2], 1985-2007
R I. 0132Orientation Material, 1978-2000
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I. 0201Orientation Training - Vignette Copies, 1980-2007
I. 0202Citizen Advocacy Principles, 2006
I. 0203Personal Emergency Preparedness
I. 0204Advocate Training - Affection, Protection, Connection
I. 0205[Training Material] [1 of 2], 1984-2008
I. 0206[Training Material] [2 of 2], 1984-2008
I. 0207Social Role Valorization, 2014
I. 0208Building Creative Tensions, 1982
I. 0209[Community Communication], 1988-2008
I. 0210Letters Re: Funding Cuts, 1991
I. 0211Advocate Testimonies Atlanta Hearings 1994, 1980-2008
I. 0212Advocate Testimonies Atlanta Hearings 1994 - Letters of Advocacy, 1980-1994
I. 0213Out of the Nursing Home, 1992-1994
I. 0214Citizen Advocate Stories [1 of 3], 2006-2010
I. 0215Citizen Advocate Stories [2 of 3], 2006-2010
I. 0216Citizen Advocate Stories [3 of 3], 2006-2010
I. 0217[Citizen Advocate Stories], 1986
I. 0218Past Events, 1994-2019
I. 0219Past Events - Annual Meeting Programs, 1991-2011
I. 0220Annual Meeting
I. 0221Annual Meeting
I. 0222Annual Meeting
I. 0223Annual Meeting, 1985
I. 0224Annual Meeting, 1991
I. 0225Annual Meeting, 1991
I. 0226Covered Dish Supper
I. 0227Covered Dish Supper
I. 0228Covered Dish Supper, 1996
I. 0229Covered Dish Supper, 1997
I. 0230Open House, 1990
I. 0231[Storyteller Meetings], 1994-1996
I. 0232Storyteller Meeting
I. 0233Unity Festival, 2000
I. 0234Heather Mullis Housewarming, 2001
I. 0235Sanctity of Life September 17 - 21, 2007 Nazareth, KY, 1982-2008
I. 0236Food for Thought
I. 0237[Event Flyers], 2006-2007
I. 0238Photographs, 1978-1985
I. 0239Photographs, 1984-1987
I. 0240Photographs, 1985-1990
I. 0241Photographs, 1987-1990
I. 0242Photographs, 1989-1992
I. 0243Photographs
I. 0244Photographs
I. 0245Photographs
I. 0246Photographs and Negatives
I. 0247Historical Photographs
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I. 0301Matched Pairs
I. 0302Darcy Elks
I. 0303Tony Heidt and Morton Shapiro
I. 0304[Handwritten Notes on Planning Workshop]
I. 0305[Miscellaneous Papers], 1985-2022
I. 0306Negatives
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I. 0401Overhead Transparencies
I. 0402Citizen Advocacy Assorted Overheads
I. 0403Citizen Advocacy Assorted Overheads - Vignettes
I. 0404Citizen Advocacy Assorted Overheads - Personal Stories, 1980-1988
I. 0405Citizen Advocacy Assorted Overheads - Quotes, 1985-1988
I. 0406Citizen Advocacy Assorted Overheads - How To
I. 0407Citizen Advocacy Assorted Overheads - Themes in Your Community
 

II. Director's Files



A. Tom Kohler

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II. A. 0101[Correspondence] [1 of 2], 1983-2008
II. A. 0102[Correspondence] [2 of 2], 1981-2017
II. A. 0103Citizen Advocacy , 1988-2001
II. A. 0104Balagon Sparks, 2003-2012
II. A. 0105Miscellaneous, 1979-1985
II. A. 0106Miscellaneous Photographs and Documents, 2005
II. A. 0107[Mouth Magazine], 1994-2007
II. A. 0108Reflections, 2007
II. A. 0109Slammed, 2008
II. A. 0110CAPE Standards for Citizen Program Evaluation
II. A. 0111[Various Articles], 1988-1998
II. A. 0112Unidentified Tom Kohler Notes
II. A. 0113[Handwritten Notes]
II. A. 0114[Handwritten Notes - Composition Notebook]
II. A. 0115Notes - McKnight, Mount, O'Brien August '87, 1982-1999
 

IV. Artifacts

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IV. 0101 Annual Meeting Guestbook, 1999-05
IV. 0102Annual Meeting Guestbook
IV. 0103"Waddie Welcome and the Beloved Community" Book Launch Party Guestbook, 2005
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IV. 0201The NOT Oyster Roast Event Sponsors Vinyl Banner, 2021-02-21
IV. 0202Oysters on the Bluff Event Sponsors Vinyl Banner, 2022-01-30
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IV. 03Vinyl Banner
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IV. 04Vinyl Banner
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IV. 05Vinyl Banner
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IV. 06Rolodex
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IV. 07Board Retreat Graphic Facilitation, 2019-02-09
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IV. 08Graphic Facilitation from New Advocate Orientation, Finance Meeting, 2019-2020
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IV. 09Board Retreat Graphic Facilitation, 2019-2021
 

V. Photographs

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V. 01Slides of a Storyteller Meeting, Circle of Friends, and Advocate Pair Clete/Sammy
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V. 02Slides of Annual Meetings, 1999-2001
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V. 03Slides of Annual Meetings, Unlabeled Photographs, Mr. Welcome's Story, 2001-05-2002-05
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V. 04Unidentified Slides, Negatives
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05Framed photograph Jeanine Goffinet - Adv, Aspen Suierro - protégé
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06Framed photograph Neel Foster - advocate, Loretta Washington - protégé, 2003
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07Framed photograph Susan Earl - advocate, 2004
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08Framed photograph Frank Ellis - advocate, James Kelly - protégé, 2005
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09Framed photograph Sherry Erskine - advocate, Sally Hearn - protégé, 2003
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10Framed photograph Mae Ola Mason - advocate, Tasha Rivers - protégé, 2002
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11Framed photograph, 2005
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12Framed photograph Henry Brown - advocate, Hilard Tyson - protégé, 2005
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13Framed photograph Tania Sammons - advocate, Heather Mullis - protégé, 2004
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14Framed photograph Margaret Conner - advocate, Carol Barham - protégé, 2008
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15Framed photograph Chuck Jones - advocate, Jafari Grant - protégé, 2002
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16Framed photograph BJ Lowenthal - advocate, Billy Glisson - protégé, 2009
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17Framed photograph Mylene Dempsey - advocate, Brenda Gasper - protégé, 2008
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18Framed photograph Lavinia Maddox and Kathy Looper, 2003
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19Framed photograph Patrick Lyons - advocate, Burke Whitney - protégé, 2004
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20Framed photograph Kim Abbott - advocate, Wayne Daughtry - protégé, 2005
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21Framed photograph Nancy Adams - advocate, Barta Griner - protégé, 2002
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22Framed photograph Soloman Amusan - advocate, Nakia Smalls - protégé, 2008
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23Framed photograph Sheldon Tenenbaum - advocate, Gary Foss - protégé, 2005
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24Framed photograph Michelle Karner - advocate, Jessica Feucht - protégé, 2009
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25Framed photograph Al Chassereau - advocate, Don Jordan Chassereau - protégé, 2009
 

VI. Audiovisual

Audiovisual recordings can be accessed at: https://bmac.libs.uga.edu/Detail/collections/4034

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