You Can Make a Difference in the Life of a Child!

Every year, thousands of children in Texas are removed from their homes because of evidence of abuse and neglect. They are uprooted from the only family they've known, taken out of schools and away from friends. In short, their worlds are turned upside down. Going through the child welfare system is a scary process and no child should do it alone.

Texas CASA Supports Local Programs

Texas Court Appointed Special Advocates^® and its 69 local programs of the Texas CASA network work to ensure that every child who needs an advocate to speak for his or her best interests before the courts has a caring, trained adult to help them with this difficult period of his or her life.

What A CASA Volunteer Does

CASA volunteers are appointed by judges to watch over and speak up for abused and neglected children to make sure they don't get lost in the overburdened legal and social service systems or languish in the foster care system. CASA volunteers stay with each child until he or she is placed in a safe, permanent home and the case is closed. For many abused children, their CASA volunteer is the one constant in their lives and often, the one adult who cares only for them.

Texas CASA offers important leadership and support to local programs in a variety of ways: through training and technical assistance, advocacy and grants and resource development.

You Can Speak Up For Abused Children

Make a difference in the lives of abused and neglected children. Consider becoming a CASA volunteer or volunteering in other ways for your local program. Consider a gift to your local program or to Texas CASA to support the important work of giving a voice to children, who often have no voice. To learn more and hear from our volunteers, go to, www.BecomeACASA.org

Make a Difference to Children ACROSS Texas by making a donation.

A special "Thanks!" To the Wal-Mart Foundation
for selecting Texas CASA to participate in
the Associate Choice Program!
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