CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) are trained community volunteers appointed by a Judge to speak up for abused and neglected children in court.

All children have a right to a home with loving people to care for them. But, each year in the United States, millions of children are abused, neglected or abandoned by their families. Many of them are removed from their homes and placed in foster care or institutions.

Once in court it is up to a judge to decide their future. Should they remain in foster care? Be reunited with their parents? Or be adopted?

In some cases, many children also become victims a second time, lost in an overburdened child welfare system that cannot pay close attention to each child whose life is in its hands.

That's where CASA comes in.

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