Consider supporting CASA

Editor,

For many children in foster care, this holiday season will be the first one they spend away from the home they’ve known, their siblings, extended family, and friends.

Imagine how difficult it must be living in a different home, with new people all around you, not knowing how long you will be there.

It must be difficult for them to build relationships with the new people in their lives and adjust to different holiday traditions.

However, volunteer CASAS, or Court Appointed Special Advocates, help children and teens navigate life in the foster care system.

They get to know the child, and often are the only consistent adult presence in the child’s life.

More than mentors, CASA volunteers provide information to Juvenile Court judges that helps them make better-informed decisions in a foster child’s case.

We at CASA of Tulare County recruit, train, and support CASA volunteers, and are immensely grateful to them for their compassionate service and dedication to foster youth.

This holiday season, please consider making a taxdeductible gift to CASA of Tulare County so that we may recruit and train more CASA volunteers, and give more foster youth the priceless advocacy they need and the attention they deserve.