Our Mission:

CASA of Linn County, Inc. is a non-profit organization that supports volunteers who advocate for the best interest of abused and neglected children under the protection of the Juvenile Court.

Our purpose is to secure a safe, permanent home for every child in foster care as quickly as possible.

They Are Who We Are For

Our children need to do more than survive. They need to thrive in the safety of a living family throughout their childhood.

When a child cannot live safely at home a CASA will help ensure their safe passage out of foster care.

A CASA is specially trained to know what is in a child’s best interest and how to get the child’s needs met.

Invest in the Life of a Child.

Every child in the foster care and child welfare system should have a CASA volunteer.

You can help in this mission by becoming a Court Appointed Special Advocate, a Connection Volunteer or by providing critical financial support.

Help protect a child’s rights

Society has a fundamental obligation to ensure that the basic rights and needs of every child are met. This is about ensuring that every child has the right to learn, and grow, and be treated with dignity and respect.

CASA volunteers are a formidable force that fight for these rights. There is no one else like a CASA volunteer.

We won’t rest until every child has a CASA

Last year in Linn County, 607 children were victims of child abuse and neglect resulting in 242 being removed from their home and placed in foster care.

A force of more than 70 advocates served 188 of these children.

There are more than 150 children on the waiting list for a CASA.

Volunteer Today!

I am For the Child

For the child who has suffered in an abusive home, enters the foster care system which places her in three or four different homes in just a few months.

Or the siblings who lost their mother to incarceration and are split up and living on different sides of the county.

The child who has been in 4 schools in 2 years and is surrounded again, by strangers.

I am for them, I am a CASA, I am you.