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CASA for Children is a non-profit organization that works through community volunteers to help foster children from Monmouth County who have been removed from their homes because of extreme parental abuse, neglect, or abandonment. CASA works to help ensure these children receive the services they need, that their cases don't languish in the child welfare system, and that they're protected from any further risk of abuse or neglect while in placement all while helping them move toward safe and permanent homes.
CASA volunteers provide a voice in court for children in foster care and establish a unique and supportive relationship with their child to assist them in achieving safe, permanent homes and key life skills. CASA of Monmouth was born from a desire to provide foster care children with a consistent adult in what can easily become a whirlwind of attorneys, social workers, and related professionals.
CASA volunteers are appointed by judges to watch over and advocate for abused and neglected children, to make sure they don’t get lost in the overburdened legal and social service system or languish in inappropriate group or foster homes. Volunteers stay with each case until it is closed and the child is placed in a safe, permanent home. For many abused children, their CASA volunteer will be the one constant adult presence in their lives.
Independent research has demonstrated that children with a CASA volunteer are substantially less likely to spend time in long-term foster care and less likely to reenter care.
