CASA OF SOUTH TEXAS
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Mission Statement
CASA of South Texas is the voice for abused and neglected children who have been removed from their homes in Atascosa, Frio, Karnes, La Salle and Wilson Counties. Trained community CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) volunteers work to ensure each child has a safe, loving and permanent home.
About This Cause
Every day, abused and neglected children in our community are taken from their homes by Child Protective Services and placed into temporary foster care because their parents cannot – or will not – take care of them. CASA volunteers work to help these children find safe, permanent and loving homes where they can thrive. Each volunteer advocate is specially trained to be a powerful voice for these children’s bests interests. CASAs are ordinary people who do extraordinary things for some of our community’s most vulnerable children. An abused or neglected child enters a real-life courtroom through no fault of his or her own, and judges have a very limited time frame in which to determine that child’s future. CASA volunteers can provide judges with the information they need to make the best decision for that child. The child, whose very life hinges on the judge’s decision, is the one with the most at stake yet the one least able to speak out for himself! CASAs are the voice of the child. With no allegiance to any particular agency, oblivious to caseloads and financial constraints, a CASA volunteer makes things happen. A CASA brings continuity to cases for abused children on their journey to a forever home. CASA of South Texas provides independent and exclusive advocacy for abused children. The results are dramatic. Studies show that when a child has a CASA, 95% are more likely to be adopted or reunified with his family rather than languish in long-term foster care, and 90% of those do not reenter the child welfare system. A child with a CASA may also receive more court-ordered services such as counseling, health care or education because of the volunteer’s detailed knowledge of the child - and furthermore those services can be more carefully targeted so that taxpayer dollars are used more effectively. CASA volunteers make sure that the abuse and neglect the children originally suffered at home does not continue as abuse and neglect at the hands of the system.