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About Our Organization
About Our Local Program
The Fifth Judicial District CASA Program serves eight counties within South Central Idaho; Blaine, Cassia, Camas, Jerome, Minidoka, Gooding, Twin Falls and Lincoln.
Our program served 626 children in the year 2008. These children all are victims of abuse and or neglect.
It is our Programs purpose to recruit, train and support community volunteers so that they may advocate for the best interest of our most vulnerable members of our communities, children in the Child Protection system.In the life of a foster child homes change, foster parents change, schools change even community’s change, but the CASA VOLUNTEER DOES NOT! We work hard as a program to provide one CASA for one CHILD.
Our Program is supported by the state, grants, fundraisers and donors from across the Magic and Wood River Valley’s.
We have been fortunate to have a committed Board of Directors and communities that care about our children.
We would like to think this terrible thing called CHILD ABUSE doesn’t happen in our area, but it does. The issue is growing as our economy falls. Please consider Standing up for a Child and be a supporter, Guardian ad Litem Volunteer, or even belter, BOTH!
About National CASA
On any given day, 500,000 children in the US are living in foster care because they cannot live safely at home. But only half of these kids have someone who speaks out just for them—a Court Appointed Special Advocate, or CASA volunteer.
CASA volunteers (sometimes called Guardians Ad Litem, or GAL volunteers) are appointed by judges to be the independent eyes and ears of the court, watching over and advocating for a child until the child is placed in a safe, permanent home.
The National CASA Association links a network of 954 local CASA programs in 49 states. Last year, 59,000 CASA volunteers served 240,000 children and youth living in foster care, getting them into safe, permanent homes sooner and saving taxpayers an estimated $582 billion. It’s a huge return on a very modest investment—the cost to give a kid a CASA volunteer is just $950 a year.
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