Why does a child need a CASA volunteer?
When the court is making decisions that will affect a childs future, the child needs and deserves a spokesperson — an objective adult to provide independent information about the best interests of the child. While other parties in the case are concerned about the child, they also have other mandates or interests. The CASA is the only person in the case whose sole concern is the best interest of the child. CASA volunteers are assigned one case at a time — one CASA per family to provide each child in that family with a voice in court. A CASA gives individual attention to each case. An abused or neglected child has come from a world of chaos and instability. For the child, there is fear: fear of being hurt; fear of being alone; fear about the future. For the children who are removed from their home, there can be many changes in schools and in foster or relative home placements before a decision is made in regard to where the child should be placed permanently. A CASA volunteer can be th
