A CASA volunteer is able to spend as much time as is necessary to gather information about the child and the child’s familial system. A CASA serves at the request of a judge and provides a report on the best placement for a child. If a court had to pay an attorney to do this […]

Social workers generally are employed by state governments and sometimes work on as many as 60 to 90 cases at a time; they are frequently unable to conduct a comprehensive investigation of each case. The CASA volunteer has more time and a smaller caseload (average of 1-2 cases) to investigate a case. The CASA volunteer […]

When the court is making decisions that will impact a child’s 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, those parties also have other interests. The CASA volunteer is the […]

A trained CASA volunteer gathers information for the court and recommends, to the judge, what the child needs, The CASA volunteer also recommends what is in the child’s best interest for a safe, nurturing and permanent home. This recommendation comes in the form of a formal report that is given to the judge to aid […]