Volunteer

One Caring Adult Can
Change a Child’s Life

Training sessions are held approximately 4 times per year, based on existing need. After going through our 30-hour Pre-Service Advocate Training, you will be sworn in by our judge. Once sworn in as a volunteer advocate, you will be assigned to monitor a child’s case throughout its duration. Staying with the case until it closes can be an essential role. Many times, YOU the CASA is the only constant in the child’s life during this traumatic time.

Volunteer

One Caring Adult Can
Change a Child’s Life

Training sessions are held approximately 4 times per year, based on existing need. After going through our 30-hour Pre-Service Advocate Training, you will be sworn in by our judge. Once sworn in as a volunteer advocate, you will be assigned to monitor a child’s case throughout its duration. Staying with the case until it closes can be an essential role. Many times, YOU the CASA is the only constant in the child’s life during this traumatic time.

Requirements

To become an advocate

  • Must be 21 or older

  • Participate in an interview & pass a background check

  • Attend in-service training & receive direct supervision & guidance from program staff

  • Attend approximately 30 hours of pre-service training
  • CASA/GAL volunteer spend on average 5-15 hours a month advocating for a child (an average case is 3 years)
  • Follow guidelines established by the National CASA association
  • CASA/GAL volunteer spend on average 5-15 hours a month advocating for a child (an average case is 3 years)

  • Volunteers must be available for case assignment & to accept cases unless other arrangements have been made

Requirements

To become an advocate

  • Must be 21 or older

  • Participate in an interview & pass a background check

  • Attend in-service training & receive direct supervision & guidance from program staff

  • Attend approximately 30 hours of pre-service training
  • CASA/GAL volunteer spend on average 5-15 hours a month advocating for a child (an average case is 3 years)
  • Follow guidelines established by the National CASA association
  • CASA/GAL volunteer spend on average 5-15 hours a month advocating for a child (an average case is 3 years)

  • Volunteers must be available for case assignment & to accept cases unless other arrangements have been made

There’s No Place Like Hope.

We train and support dedicated community volunteers who serve as court appointed adovcates to protect a child’s right to a safe and permanent home.

What will you do?

As a CASA volunteer, you will form a unique relationship with your assigned child and become the best-equipped person in that child’s life to understand their needs. You will review records, research information, and talk to the foster parents, case workers, and others involved in all aspects of the child’s life. It is also very important to appear in court on the scheduled court dates. Using the captured information, the advocate will write reports and submit them for the judge’s review. The judge uses these reports to help her/him determine the best course of action for the child. Your reports can determine whether a child gets to finally be reunited with their parents, which is ALWAYS our ultimate goal.

Hear what our advocates are saying…

“Because I have the opportunity to make a difference in the life of a child that needs me. You enter into their life when their world has been turned upside down and simply say I care and I am going to be here for you. And then you show up. For 5 whole years now and I would not change a thing.”

5 year CASA Advocate
“I volunteer because it gives my life meaning and allows me to contribute to something bigger than myself. I am a child of the foster care system and wish I had a person that cared for me as I am about to take care of these kids that I know first hand needs me.”
1 YEAR CASA Advocate

Upcoming CASA Training Schedule

1st & 5th weeks are in person. All other weeks are on zoom

FALL 2026

Sept 14 – October 26, 2026
From: 6:00 – 8:00 pm
Swearing-in on:
October 27, 2026 at 8:30 am

WINTER 2027

Begins Jan 18, 2027
From: 6:00 – 8:00 pm
Swearing-in on:
February 23, 2027 at 8:30 am

SPRING 2027

Begins April 12, 2027
From: 6:00 – 8:00 pm
Swearing-in on:
May 25, 2027 at 8:30 am