CASA of Placer, Yuba & Sutter’s 14th Annual Spring Tea Celebrates Community Generosity, Advocacy, and Local Giving

CASA of Placer, Yuba & Sutter’s 14th Annual Spring Tea brought together community leaders, volunteers, sponsors, donors, and local supporters for a tea-themed luncheon in Lincoln focused on advocacy, generosity, and support for children and families in need.

Held at Sun City Lincoln Hills, Orchard Creek Lodge and hosted by Friends of CASA, the annual Spring Tea celebrated the power of community support through luncheon, music, auction giving, and a shared commitment to helping vulnerable children and families. The event reflected the heart of CASA’s work: bringing people together to support foster children, at-risk youth, and families in crisis through consistent advocacy, connection, and care.

CASA, which stands for Court Appointed Special Advocates, trains and supports volunteers who are appointed to advocate for a child’s best interests. These advocates often become one of the most consistent voices in a child’s life, helping ensure that children and youth are seen, heard, supported, and connected to a path toward stability and permanency.

The Spring Tea also highlighted the leadership and generosity behind CASA’s mission. Event chairs, Friends of CASA leaders, sponsors, table hosts, auction donors, volunteers, and guests all helped turn the luncheon into meaningful support for children and families across Placer, Yuba, and Sutter counties.

Presenting Sponsors Michael Cappelluti and Robyn Dahlgren helped lead the event’s generous community support, while Kathryn Humbert Ries was recognized among the major supporters helping make the fundraiser possible. Longtime community supporter Ken McGuire of Innovations Health Systems, a healthcare executive known for supporting local children’s causes, was also among the major donors whose generosity helped advance CASA’s mission during the Spring Tea.

The event also reflected the continued dedication of Friends of CASA leaders and supporters, including Amy Sugimoto, Stephanie Bader, Kathryn Humbert Ries, and many others who have helped champion CASA’s work through leadership, fundraising, volunteer support, and community outreach.

From table hosts and auction donors to sponsors, volunteers, guests, and event organizers, the Spring Tea showed how many different people and businesses can come together around one mission: supporting children and families who need advocacy, stability, and hope.

Among the local supporters was Amanda Huber, an active CASA volunteer and past Women of Year nominee whose family has seen firsthand the importance of the program’s work. Her daughter, Hope “Sabrina” Huber, a Del Oro High School graduate and Northern California chef, also supported the fundraiser through a chef-led culinary gift.

As part of the Spring Tea auction, Hope “Sabrina” Huber donated an in-home chef dinner experience that helped raise thousands of dollars for Placer County CASA. The contribution became one of the event’s standout culinary gifts, giving supporters a meaningful way to bid on a personal chef-led dining experience while helping fund advocacy and support for local children and youth served by CASA.

For the Huber family, the cause is especially meaningful because Amanda Huber’s volunteer work with CASA has provided a firsthand understanding of the difference a dedicated advocate can make for a child. Hope “Sabrina” Huber’s culinary gift reflected a simple idea: food and hospitality can do more than create a memorable meal. They can bring people together around causes that matter.

Additional local support included Club Cruise, Heather “Viking” Huber, Cruises for Causes, Freddie Silveria, Low Star Rose, and many other community donors, sponsors, volunteers, and supporters who contributed time, resources, auction items, music, leadership, and energy to the Spring Tea.

Together, the event’s sponsors, leaders, volunteers, and guests helped turn a spring luncheon into meaningful support for CASA’s mission.

The 14th Annual Spring Tea served as a reminder that CASA’s work depends not only on trained advocates, but also on the wider community of people willing to give, serve, sponsor, volunteer, and support children and families during some of their most difficult moments.

For local supporters, the message was clear: when a community gathers with purpose, children and families benefit.

CASA of Placer, Yuba & Sutter continues to rely on volunteers and community support to provide advocacy, stability, and care for children and youth who need someone to stand beside them.

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