1. Impacting your community one child at a time
September 28, 2017
C.A.S.A.
Of South Central Missouri

2. What is CASA of South Central MO?
CASASCMO is a 501 (c) (3) non profit organization
Funded by donations and grants
“Investors”
Governed by a Board of Directors
7 current employees
4 Full-time
3 Part-time

3. Mission
Advocate for timely placement of abused or neglected children in safe permanent homes.
Advocate for the highest quality of care while children are under the courts jurisdiction.

4. C.A.S.A. Court Appointed Special Advocates Community Advocacy Service
Ambition

5. C.A.S.A.
WHO
Community
Advocacy
Service
Ambition
WHAT
WHY

6. Community Geographical Social Collaborative Shared Place Shared Values
Shared Objectives

7. Community – Geographical
Same place or shared space
25th Judicial Circuit (Maries, Phelps, Pulaski, and Texas Counties)

8. Community - Geographical
National Program
Missouri CASA
Circuits/ Counties
CASA of South Central Missouri

9. Community – Social Common attitudes, interests, and goals
What goals do we have for our children?
Love, protect, and cherish children

10. Community – Collaborative
Common objectives
Judge Soukup (1977)
Cases are complicated
A member of the community works with members of the court and CD

12. Advocacy – What do we do? What does a CASA Volunteer do?
Who do they talk to?
What do they do for a child?

13. Advocacy vs. Mentoring Courtroom Advocacy Being a mentor
Fostering Futures Training
Longevity and aging out

14. Service Making oneself available and at another’s disposal
Program, child, and community
Transcends one child
What can 200 kids do?

15. Ambition As a program As a volunteer As a child 2020 goal
Consistency, hope, and advocacy
As a child
Rise above the past and give back to the community

16. Today
CASA of South Central MO has 88 volunteers and served 200 children in the 25th Circuit in 2016.
There are normally between children in the 25th Judicial Circuit (477)
There are now around 1000 programs nationwide that recruit, train and support volunteers in 50 states and the US Virgin Islands.

17. Support
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