Columbia Gorge CASA

Spring Volunteer Training
Begins May 2013

Change a child's life in 2013. Become a child advocate!

Join over 45 committed and caring Gorge residents who are currently CASA volunteers.

For more information, click on the "Volunteer" tab above or contact Susan Baldwin, CASA Advocate Manager, at (541) 993-9506.

Meet Our Children

Read about a few of the children we serve, and see how you can help us ensure that more children's stories have happier endings.

"To give a child a CASA is to give them a voice. To give them a voice is to give them hope, and to give them hope is to give them the world. I believe that with all my heart.”

Pamela, former CASA youth, now an OSU graduate

More than 130 children in Hood River, Wasco, and Sherman Counties are victims of parental abuse and neglect and are living in foster care.

Columbia Gorge CASA recruits, trains, and supports volunteers who advocate for these children one-on-one, helping to find safe and permanent homes for them and addressing their educational, healthcare, and other urgent needs. The trained volunteer, called a "CASA” (Court Appointed Special Advocate), is a lifeline for the child at this painful time in his life - a bearer of hope.

We have an urgent need for more volunteer CASAs so that we can serve all children in foster care. Currently only half of these kids in our community have a CASA assigned to them. With more volunteers, and with more funds to train and support them, this can be different. Be the voice of a child!