Texas CASA, Inc.

Every Child Has a Chance - It's You!

aka Texas CASA   |   Austin, TX   |  www.texascasa.org

Mission

The mission of Texas CASA is to support local CASA volunteer advocacy programs and to advocate for effective public policy for children in the child protection system.

Ruling year info

1999

CEO

Ms. Vicki Spriggs

Main address

1501 West Anderson Lane Suite B-2

Austin, TX 78757 USA

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EIN

75-2252358

NTEE code info

Management & Technical Assistance (P02)

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Our programs

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Texas CASA Programs

Texas CASA provides training, funding, and technical assistance to existing and prospective programs and assists in the start-up of new CASA programs each year. Texas CASA provides public and governmental awareness about community issues concerning abused and neglected children. The goal of Texas CASA is to provide an advocate for every abused and neglected child in Texas and to find each child a safe, permanent, loving home in a timely manner. Texas CASA also implements an annual training conference for over 400 child advocates, CASA staff, board members, volunteers, attorneys, judges and other interested persons.

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Where we work

Goals & Strategy

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Our Vision: Texas CASA envisions a safe and positive future for all Texas children.

When a child enters the child welfare system because his or her home is no longer safe due to abuse or neglect, a judge may appoint a committed volunteer to advocate for the best interest of the child in court and other settings. That volunteer is called a Court Appointed Special Advocate, or CASA.

At a local level, the 72 CASA programs in Texas, covering 214 counties, do the hands-on work of recruiting, training and supervising volunteers to speak up in court and represent the best interests of children. As the statewide organization, Texas CASA provides financial support and services to help ensure the state's CASA programs operate effectively and can seek out the best possible volunteers who will work tirelessly and diligently to help children find their forever home.

Texas CASA offers leadership and support to local CASA programs in a variety of ways:
Operational Support. Local CASA programs must be strong, effectively governed, and responsive to change in order to provide the necessary training, supervision and support to volunteers who carry out this critical work.

Quality Assurance. Texas CASA reviews all local CASA programs to improve operations and ensure that state and national standards are followed, including volunteer recruitment.

Training. We provide regional, statewide and online training on core and advanced advocacy skills, volunteer pre-service, Executive Director leadership, media relations, cross cultural understanding and identity, board member development, collaboration, and more.

Public Policy Advocacy. CASA volunteers are committed to improving the lives of abused and neglected children before governmental bodies, agencies, and other policy making entities. Our policy goals for the next legislative session include to:
• Provide financial stability to the local programs by securing public funding
• Strengthen oversight of psychotropic medications given to foster children
• Ensure home placement decisions are more deliberate

CASA volunteers are recruited and trained by 72 local programs in Texas, then appointed to a case (which can involve one or more children in a family) by the court to represent the best interests of the child. Besides the parent, the volunteer is one of only few adults with the legal right to take a truly holistic approach to the child's well-being via access to medical and academic records, coupled with the requirement of CASA to have regular discussions with each adult in that child's life, such as including social workers, doctors, teachers, parents, relatives, etc. A CASA volunteer is the touchstone in a sea of changing caseworkers, homes, treatment centers, and schools.

The CASA network in Texas proudly has more than 9,100 committed volunteers advocating for 27,950 children. We are a little more than half way to our goal of a CASA volunteer for every child who needs one. But there are still more than 20,000 children in the Texas child welfare system without a CASA volunteer to advocate for their best interests.

Financials

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Texas CASA, Inc.

Board of directors
as of 06/13/2019
SOURCE: Self-reported by organization
Board chair

Honorable Greg Wilhelm

Attorney at Law, Former Judge

Term: 2016 - 2018

Susie Moseley

Former Local CASA Executive Director

Greg Wilhelm

Gregory E. Wilhelm, P.C.

Jenny Haynes

Retired Communications Executive

Renee Day

Baylor Healthcare System

David Setzer

North Central Texas Council of Governments

Debora Alsup

Thompson & Knight, LLP

Christopher Buck

Buck Law Firm, PLLC

Kevin Corbett

Ernst & Young

Jacque Flag

Jacque's Toys and Books

Jay W. Fox

Baylor Scott & White Health

Hedy Helsell

Ivan Jaime

Union Pacific Railroad Company

Melissa Jones

John Knight

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Jim McReynolds

Chapparel Energy, Inc.

Holly Munin

Superior HealthPlan

Gene Needham

Edna Perez-Vega

Blue Cross Blue Shield

Frederick Williams

David Winn

Grant Thornton

Stephanie Cash

Hill Country CASA

Sonya Galvan

Child Advocates, Inc.

Kathleen LaValle

Dallas CASA

Patty Pisklak

CASA of West Texas

Natalie Thornton

CASA of the Pines

Laura Wolf

CASA of Travis County

Board leadership practices

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  • Board orientation and education
    Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes
  • Ethics and transparency
    Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes
  • Board composition
    Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes