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Did You Know?
It costs $250 to initially train a CASA volunteer and $1070 to provide a CASA volunteer to one child.
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Every year, hundreds of children are abused and/or neglected by the very people they trust and depend on to protect and love them. Because these parents are unable or unwilling to care for their children, these helpless children end up in foster care or group homes. Eventually they end up in the juvenile court system where it is up to a judge to decide their future. Will they be reunited with their parents? Will they live in foster care? Will they be adopted? It is all under the discretion of the judge.
Fortunately, Court Appointed Special Advocates, CASAs are there to help in the judge’s difficult decision. These extraordinary volunteers all have one thing in common, love and concern for children. They interview the child, research their case, and speak with the best interest of the child in mind to the judge making recommendations about the child’s future.
The Court Appointed Special Advocates Program for the Ogeechee Judicial Circuit, Inc. is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to recruit, screen, train and supervise community volunteers to advocate for the best interests of abused, and/or neglected children. CASA Ogeechee serves Bulloch, Effingham, Jenkins and Screven Counties.
CASA Ogeechee
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You can make a difference by using this form to make a secure, tax-deductible donation that will fund our work advocating for abused and neglected children. The median cost to provide a CASA volunteer to one child is $1,070 per year. That's just $89 per month.
$50, $100, $250, $500, $1,070 or any amount you can give will help give a child a voice.
To make a donation, please contact CASA Ogeechee at 912-764-4849.
Child Abuse & Neglect in Georgia
Every fifteen minutes, a child is the victim of abuse in Georgia.
How Successful is CASA?
In fiscal year 2009, over 237,095 children were served by over 70,919 CASA/GAL volunteers who donated over 6.0 million hours to making a lifelong difference in the lives of abused and neglected children.
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Our Mission
CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocate) programs recruit, screen, train and supervise community volunteers to advocate for the best interests of abused and neglected children involved in Superior Court deprivation proceedings in Bulloch, Effingham, Jenkins and Screven Counties.
Our Purpose
CASA volunteers provide a voice for children in court by making sure their best interests are considered by the courts, social service system and community service providers, thus assuring the child’s right to an appropriate placement and permanent home.
“If we don't stand up for children, then we don't
stand for much.”
-Marian Wright Edelman
"I set out to change a child's
life and realized I'd changed
my own."
-Kris Gonzales, CASA
volunteer
“To give a child a CASA volunteer is to give them hope, and to give them hope is to give them the world.”
-Pamela Butler, former foster
child.