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Season 15 Nonprofit Partners
Research shows that children in foster care with CASA advocates have better outcomes. They spend less time in foster care, and are less likely to be bounced from home to home. They are 50% less likely to reenter the child welfare system. In addition, they do better in school including being 20% more likely to pass all their courses, and 25% less likely to have poor conduct in school. Nationally, less than half of foster youth graduate from high school or earn a GED, but 100% of CASA youth in Contra Costa County graduate or earn a GED. Less than 10% of foster youth attend college, but 62% of CASA youth attend college or other post-secondary education. Due to the exceptional outcomes for CASA youth, in 2016 the CASA Board of Directors undertook an ambitious five year plan to increase the number of abused and neglected children served by the organization to 400 a year. This will allow the organization to serve almost 40% of the children in foster care in Contra Costa County by 2021. Help CASA youth: www.cccocasa.org http://www.mindfullifeproject.org/ Village Community Resource Center http://www.vcrcbrentwoodca.org https://deltaveteransgroup.org Ujima Family Recovery Services Tandem, Partners in Early Learning |
