The 19th Annual Conference

The CASA Story

Keynote Speaker

We are very pleased to announce that this year’s Keynote Speaker for our conference will be Naomi Haines Griffith. Ms. Griffith grew up in Alabama and Mississippi. She holds a B.S. from the University of North Alabama, an M.A. from George Peabody College of Vanderbilt University, and a Masters in Social Work from the University of Alabama. After teaching for several years, she worked in the North Carolina and Alabama child welfare systems from 1966-1984 when she became Executive Director of PACT, a pioneer child abuse prevention agency she helped to found. Naomi is presently president of her consulting company, Red Clay & Vinegar, based in Nashville, TN. She is the author of Red Clay and Vinegar: Looking At Family Through the Eyes of a Southern Child and co-author of The Unkindest Cut: The Emotional Maltreatment of Children.