“As Chairman of the National Commission on Children, I have observed judges in juvenile courts with a mere 10 to 15 minutes to decide whether a child should remain in a distressed family or placed in foster care. With growing caseloads, it’s increasingly difficult for the courts and social workers to make the system work for families and children. This is why CASA volunteers are so essential. They provide valuable information and insight about individual children. CASA deserves our deep admiration and support.”

---- U.S. Senator John D. Rockefeller, IV
Chairman, The National Commission on Children

“We have got to take America back to the point where it puts her children first; in the family, in the workplace, in everything we do. CASA volunteers, of all people in America, are doing that. And we now have to take this mighty network and carry it further into every community throughout America.”

---- Janet Reno,
Former United States Attorney General
U.S. Department of Justice,
Washington, DC

“We cannot underestimate the role of CASA programs in our communities. The growing recognition of the role of CASA as an integral part of the constituency for children, not only in the Courts, but in the community which allocates resources and services, should be celebrated. Both the voices of children and the voices of the volunteers, staff and program directors of CASA in their own right have led to CASA becoming a key player in the network of champions overcoming internal resistance to system change in the courts, the agencies and in the community.”

---- Judge Richard FitzGerald,
Jefferson Family Court, Louisville, KY
Chair, Permanency Planning
Project for Children, 1993 – 1994
National Council of Juvenile & Family Court Judges