Park Cities-area students have been lending helping hands to Dallas CASA this spring.

Dallas CASA provides volunteers who serve as advocates for abused and neglected children who’ve been removed from their home.

Members of the Acts of Random Kindness Club, including Ava Olivo, collected summer toys, coloring books and markers, so that foster children in protective care will have something to call their own. Club members delivered the items in May.

And then members of Highland Park High School’s long-standing Dallas CASA Club brought a check for $3,100 to the Dallas CASA board meeting Tuesday. The check was presented by members Ben Kroencke and Rosie Johnston with their club sponsor Mindy McMinn, a guidance counselor at the school. Funds raised by the club will allow Dallas CASA to recruit, train and supervise more volunteer advocates.