Children with CASA volunteers may receive more court-ordered services because of the volunteer's detailed knowledge of the child's circumstances.
By helping to reduce time spent unnecessarily in foster care, CASA programs can reduce child welfare costs. On September 30, 2008, an estimated 463,000 children were in foster care, at an estimated...
Low caseloads of CASA volunteers mean the courts can make better decisions for children. They handle just one or two cases at a time so that they can give each child's case the sustained,...
CASA volunteers are typically appointed to more complex children's cases-those where there are multiple risk factors which must be fully understood in order to make a placement decision that...
