Court appointed special advocates
Our foster children come from Bergen County towns including: Hackensack, Fort Lee, Garfield, Lodi, and beyond. We offer Court Appointed Special Advocate volunteer opportunities for qualified, responsible, adults. Bergen County CASA is a non-profit organization that supports and promotes court appointed volunteer advocacy for children in the foster system.
If you are considering joining Bergen County CASA, there are several ways to become a Court Appointed Special Advocate, or CASA, and support our mission of foster child advocacy. Email: info@BergenCasa.org to learn more or click the button below to get started on becoming a CASA.
Bergen County CASA recruits, screens and trains volunteers to be Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA). CASA’s are appointed to the case of a Bergen County foster child. They gather all the information they can about the child’s situation by regularly speaking to their appointed child’s:
- doctors
- teachers
- therapists
- foster parents and biological parents
- case workers etc.
CASAs visit their appointed children regularly so that they learn they are someone their foster child can rely upon and trust at a time when everything is changing. Court Appointed Special Advocates are a constant, reliable adult at a time in a foster child’s life when everything and everyone is changing.
There are many ways to support our programs. You may make a one-time or recurring monetary donation, work with your employer to establish a matching grant program, or become a corporate sponsor. The funds help us fulfill our mission to help Bergen County’s foster children.