Volunteer Voices

I would get up, clean house, cook breakfast, and it’d be all messed up in about an hour. And I would encourage anyone who wants to do something with a lasting effect to be a CASA.

We can, not care about these children and just focus on ours, or we can focus on them and help the whole gamut. Because this is what will happen, if the children who don’t have love and don’t have nurturing grow up and continue to just feel anger and bitterness towards life because nobody has ever showed them that they care…our children who are loved, are going to interact with them someday and then something is going to happen.

We have lawyers and case workers, but someone who’s not, it’s not a job. It’s not something where they have to get up and do every day. It’s totally voluntary and they want to get to know that child.

CASA is very much like the Peace Corps. It’s the toughest job you will ever love

This child has been through four different case workers and seven different placements and I’ve been with him throughout every move.

After sitting with 20 doctors and a board at the hospital, they said that I was the only one that they trusted and knew had the best interest of this child.

When I go into the courtroom and go before the judge, my job is to be the voice for the children.

When you value something, you make the time.

People have asked me before, “How can you do this?” And my response to them is, “How can I not do it?”