Court Appointed Special Advocates Program, Inc.

I am for the child

aka CASA of Contra Costa County   |   Concord, CA   |  http://www.cccocasa.org/

Mission

The Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) program recruits, trains, and supports volunteer advocates as a powerful voice for the best interest of abused and neglected children during the court process, in order to help every child ultimately thrive in a safe and permanent home and complete their education.

Ruling year info

1983

Executive Director

Ann Wrixon

Main address

2151 Salvio St., Ste. 295

Concord, CA 94520 USA

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Formerly known as

Court Appointed Special Representatives

EIN

94-2897531

NTEE code info

Children's and Youth Services (P30)

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Communication

Programs and results

What we aim to solve

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

Foster children often do not have good outcomes, but that is not true for foster youth with a CASA volunteer advocating for them. CASA youth graduate from high school, go to college, and have regular medical and dental care. Unfortunately, CASA does not serve all 1,200 foster children in the county. Our goal is to serve 400 foster children a year by 2021. In the first year of our expansion we increased the number of foster youth served by 20% to 172. This year we will increase that number by 32% or 227 youth served.

Our programs

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?

Expansion Program

In FY 2016-17 the Board of Directors committed to a plan to increase the number of foster children served from 144/year to 400/year. In the first year of the program, CASA served 174 foster youth. In FY 2017-18 we will serve 227.

Population(s) Served

Where we work

Affiliations & memberships

National CASA 2018

Videos

Our results

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.

Number of foster youth in Contra Costa County with a CASA volunteer

This metric is no longer tracked.
Totals By Year
Related Program

Expansion Program

Type of Metric

Output - describing our activities and reach

Direction of Success

Increasing

Context Notes

Foster children with a CASA volunteer have better outcomes than foster children without a CASA advocate. CASA is working to increase the number of foster children with a CASA volunteer.

Goals & Strategy

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.

Charting impact

Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.

CASA aims to be providing services to 400 foster children and youth a year by fiscal year 2021. The following are our service goals for each year:

Fiscal year 2016-17: 172 foster youth served
Fiscal year 2017-18: 227 foster youth served
Fiscal year 2018-19: 285 foster youth served
Fiscal year 2019-20: 341 foster youth served
Fiscal year 2020-21: 400 foster youth served

CASA plans an expansion of both our outreach and our training programs so that we are able to train 160 new CASA volunteers each year, which will allow us to reach the goals we have set.

The communication and outreach program will include the following new strategies:
1. Paid and donated online ad program
2. Paid and donated radio ads
3. Speaking engagements to community groups/radio and TV broadcasts
4. Paid advertising on Volunteer Match
5. Consistent branding and messages across all channels

The organization will continue to use other proven strategies such as newspaper and magazine ads, and articles, and recruitment through current volunteers.

In addition, we are restructuring our training so that some of the training is done online, which will allow more volunteers to participate, and we are adding both information and training sessions.

The organization has the staffing, and technical infrastructure to meet these goals. The plans have been developed and the staff is capable of implementing the programs and monitoring their success.

Our new communications and outreach strategy coupled with the restructuring of our training allowed us to serve 20% more foster children in fiscal year 2016-17. In fiscal year 2017-18, CASA will serve 30% more foster children than in fiscal year 2016-17.

Financials

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Operations

The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.

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Court Appointed Special Advocates Program, Inc.

Board of directors
as of 01/22/2020
SOURCE: Self-reported by organization
Board chair

John Witaschek

Director of WW Enterprise Channels, SanDisk

Term: 2014 - 2019

David Fleisig

Retired Attorney

Susan Burnett

Semi-Retired Commercial Real Estate Appraiser

Vicki Hughes

Retired

Dan Ashley

Television News Anchor

Judy Castro

Leadership and Change Management Consultant

Mark Hughes

Sr. Vice President of Strategic Initiatives, Versa Engineering & Technology

Mindy Murphy

Non-practicing CPA

Robin Pearson

Attorney, founder and owner of Pearson & Schachter

Malcolm Sher

Mediation Attorney

Kristine Duffield

Former Teacher

Phillip McCleod

Retired

Board leadership practices

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  • Board orientation and education
    Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes
  • CEO oversight
    Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes
  • Ethics and transparency
    Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes
  • Board composition
    Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes
  • Board performance
    Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Yes