Towaliga CASA serves children in care in Butts, Lamar, and Monroe Counties. CASA volunteers create ripples of change. Better outcomes for children mean stronger families and healthier communities. Children in foster care thrive when their CASA volunteer advocates for them. Advocacy builds better futures for everyone.
A Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) is a trained community volunteer who is appointed by a judge to advocate for an abused or neglected child in juvenile court deprivation proceedings. The CASA advocates for each child to be placed in a safe, permanent home as quickly as possible. The CASA also makes independent recommendations to the court for services that focus on meeting the needs of each child. The main qualification is a sincere concern for children. The volunteer must be a mature adult with good verbal and written communication skills. A CASA volunteer must be able to attend all court hearings. The volunteer must be able to commit to the program for at least one year or, preferably until permanency is achieved. Essential qualities include the ability to be objective and non-judgmental. Every volunteer must complete a 40-hour comprehensive training program.
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Towaliga CASA
Training volunteers to advocate for the best interests of abused and neglected children
About Towaliga CASA
Towaliga CASA is a 501c3 non-profit that recruits, screens, trains, and supervises volunteers to serve as the Guardian Ad Litem for children (foster children) in Juvenile Court Dependency cases in the Towaliga Judicial Circuit.
We are looking for men and women who are concerned about children in our communities whose families are not providing the care and protection that the children need. You must be willing to be an advocate for the best interests of a child until that child returns home or achieves permanency through guardianship or adoption. We ask for at least a one-year commitment or longer if the child remains in foster care.
“Volunteers don’t get paid, not because they’re worthless, but because they’re priceless.”
– Sherry Anderson
Get Involved
To be a CASA volunteer a person must be at least 21 years old, pass a child abuse screening and a criminal background check, have good verbal & written communication skills, and have access to a computer. There are eight training sessions and two Court observations, totaling approximately 30 hours, required before a volunteer is sworn in by the Juvenile Court Judge.
Contact our office via email to Kelly Jungberg (kjungberg@tacourts.com) or Fawn Greer (fgreer@tacourts.com). Or you can call us at 478-731-7557 or 770-601-4669. We will be glad to send you information about our program and if you want we will send you paperwork to apply and begin the approval process.
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Contact Us
Phone
770-358-5629
Address
101 Commerce Place, Suite 3
Barnesville, GA 3020