Voices For Children CASA 2011 Annual Report

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Expenses and Revenue

CASA Volunteers

In 2011 Voices For Children CASA had a pool of 127 Court Appointed Special Advocate volunteers. The total number of CASA volunteers assigned to a child abuse and neglect case during 2011 was 81.

Children We Served

• CASAs were assigned to 84 child abuse and neglect cases
• 38 cases were opened in 2011 involving 60 children
• 139 children were provided CASA services
• 31 cases involving 46 children were closed
• The average abuse and neglect case lasted 13 months

Gender

73 female and 66 males

Age

Birth through five: 44
Six through twelve: 43
Thirteen through seventeen: 39
Eighteen and and over: 13

Ethnicity

Caucasian:78
Latino: 48
African American: 6
Asian: 0
Native American: 5
Multi: 2

Location

Boulder: 19 cases involving 29 children
Longmont: 44 cases involving 74 children
Louisville: 3 cases involving 6 children
Lafayette: 16 cases involving 280 children
County: 2 cases involving 2 children

Outcomes :

Returned to family: 18
Adoption: 4
Legal gardianship: 14
Aged out of system: 3
Other: 7
Children in out-of-home placement: 60%