Why every child in need deserves an advocate
A child with a CASA volunteer is more likely to find a safe, permanent home.
Children with a CASA volunteer get more help while in the system.
Children with a CASA volunteer are better represented in courts.
Children with CASA volunteers do better in school.
Children with a CASA Volunteer score better on nine protective factors than children without a CASA.
*Source of information: National CASA
- More likely to be adopted
- Less likely to re-enter foster care
- More likely to have a plan for permanency, especially children of color
Children with a CASA volunteer get more help while in the system.
- Because of your personal attention, more services are ordered for the children
Children with a CASA volunteer are better represented in courts.
- CASA volunteers reduce the time needed by lawyers
- CASA volunteers are more likely than paid lawyers to file written reports
- Highly effective in having their recommendations adopted by the court CASA/GAL Best Interest Advocacy Research
Children with CASA volunteers do better in school.
- More likely to pass all courses
- Less likely to have poor conduct in school
- Less likely to be expelled
Children with a CASA Volunteer score better on nine protective factors than children without a CASA.
- Neighborhood resources
- Interested adults
- Sense of acceptance
- Controls against deviant behavior
- Models of conventional behavior
- Positive attitude towards the future
- Valuing achievement
- Ability to work with others
- Ability to work out conflicts
*Source of information: National CASA
