Contact Us:

Administrative Office
347 Main Street
Placerville, CA 95667
530.622.9882 (f) 530.621.3608

Western Slope Case Management
495 Main Street
Placerville, CA 95667
530.621.6760 (f) 530.642.5521

South Lake Tahoe Case Management
1354 Johnson Boulevard
South Lake Tahoe, CA 96150
530.573.3072 (f) 530.541.5932

Take a Stand; Make a Difference; Change a Life...Forever

A passionate and powerful voice - CASA El Dorado's trained and court-appointed volunteers advocate on behalf of abused children and at-risk youth. Together with our community's involvement and generous support, we will positively impact the lives of our children.

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When children are abused or severely neglected, they must rely on adults to help them obtain justice and services. Who deserves an advocate more than an abused or neglected child? That is the intent of the social service and Family Court systems, but all too often these systems are fraught with escalating caseloads and reduced resources.

Children presently average more than three years in the limbo of foster care, with their futures unresolved and uncertain. Family Court judges, with as little as ten minutes to determine a child's fate, are facing increasingly complex cases, limited support services, and disjointed, insufficient or outdated information on which to make sound decisions.

The heart of our program is the Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA), a specially trained and supervised community volunteer, appointed by a Family Court judge. CASAs make a difference in the lives of abused and neglected children by investigating and monitoring cases involving children in foster care.

CASAs take only one or two cases at a time, allowing ample time to gather thorough information. They build relationships with their "CASA" kids, spending time with them, gathering facts about their life so they can report back to the judge who can then make a much better decision as to what is best for the child.

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• 2009 Newsletter

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