It is the goal of Fulton County CASA's to find a safe and permanent home for children who have been abused and neglected as expeditiously as possible. Our hope is to reunite the child with their biological family, therefore the focus is to identify any needs of the family, any gaps in services, and ensure that the family has an opportunity to have their children returned home. In the Fulton County CASA service area, during state fiscal year 2016, Fulton County CASA provided volunteer advocates for approximately 1/3 of the abused and neglected children age 18 and under referred to foster care. To achieve the goal of providing a volunteer advocate for every child, we have to triple our volunteer base. With our loyal supporters, community and partners, Fulton County CASA is committed to achieving this goal over the next 5 years.

Increase number of children served and permanency outcomes by ....
I. Increased fund raising and diversify funding streams
II. Increase organizational capacity and infrastructure
III. Increased volunteer recruitment and retention
IV.Increased staff recruitment and retention
V. Build Community, Court and DFACS relationships

Fulton County CASA is governed by a diverse, volunteer group of leaders who are committed to CASA's mission. The paid CASA staff are educated professionals; the Executive Director, two Managers, and a team of Advocacy Coordinators. The Advocacy Coordinators provide volunteer advocates with on-going professional support, consultation and supervision. The duties of the Coordinators include but are not limited to providing background and contact information on cases, recommending alternatives in complicated cases, reviewing written court reports, and documenting the activities and progress of the cases. The Program Manager supervises the Advocacy Coordinators, documents service deliveries for monthly and quarterly statistical reports and supports the Executive Director as needed. The Volunteer Engagement Manager recruits community members as potential volunteer advocates, oversees the 40-hour training workshops as well as facilitating the additional in-service training that is required of volunteers. Fulton County CASA is affiliated with both the National CASA Association and Georgia CASA.

Fulton County CASA will primarily focus on key performance indicators​ as the main measures of impact and of achieving overarching goals and strategy. This would include: 90% or more of children served by CASA leaving protective care for safe, permanent homes; increase in number or percentage of children served; increase in volunteers sworn in by the courts; increase in total number of active volunteers; volunteer retention greater than or equal to 75%; and Advocacy Coordinators on staff to proportionately support volunteers; increased funding to support program and organizational capacity building.

Foster children with CASA volunteers are 4 times as likely to graduate from high school. Children who have CASA volunteers are far less likely to be re-abused. CASA intervention stops the cycle of abuse that’s often passed on from generation to generation. In court, lawyers know the law and have dozens of kids’ files. Social workers know the DFCS policies and have dozens of kid’s files. But a CASA volunteer has just one file, and what they know is that one child. Last year In Fulton County 1050 abused and neglected children were removed from their homes. Fulton County CASA served 387 of those children. This means that we were only able to help less t than 40% of the children in need of advocacy. CASA volunteers are typically assigned to the most serious cases of abuse and maltreatment. Last year 211 CASA volunteers contributed 51,128 advocacy hours on behalf of those 387 child victims. Their efforts saved the county $1,226,880.00.