Introducing our New Playhouse Raffle

Casa's for CASA
...Because every child needs a place to call home

This summer Columbia Gorge CASA will introduce a new fundraiser called "Casa's for CASA." Each year local builders will build different types of creative outdoor houses such as children's play houses, tree houses, chicken coops, garden sheds, dog houses and they will be raffled off as an annual fundraiser for CASA.  We chose the theme of houses because CASA's primary focus is to ensure that all children in foster care find a loving and permanent home as quickly as possible. 

We begin this summer with a custom built 5x10 playhouse complete with an indoor climbing wall and front porch!  Ticket sales begin in July.  Stay tuned for more information.



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.
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"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!