CASA El Dorado
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Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Advocacy for dependent children and youth
After rigorous screening, Advocates attend 30 hours of training in line with the National CASA standards along with 2 sessions of court observation. After successful completion, Advocates are carefully matched with a child to ensure the best interest of the child is recognized in court and in life. Currently CASA El Dorado is serving over 75% of the children in the El Dorado County Child Welfare System.
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Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Number of new advocates recruited
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Children and youth, Family relationships
Related Program
Advocacy for dependent children and youth
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
In 2021, we intend to recruit and train 50 new Child Advocates.
Number of children served
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
Advocacy for dependent children and youth
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
Our overall vision is to "see the day when every child in El Dorado County is placed in a safe and permanent home". This means that our program will be able to serve every child appointed to us by the court. Currently while we serve double the median average for CASA programs in our state, this would mean that we would need to be able to serve another 100 +/- on an annual basis that go "un-served" today, even though they have been appointed to us by the court. We lack the financial resources and sufficient CASA volunteer advocates to serve them all.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Typically, through the course of the year, approximately 190 children in the El Dorado County foster care system go unserved because there are not enough trained volunteers available. At this time, the Juvenile Court system has a wait list of 41 children who have not had a Court Appointed Special Advocate assigned to them. To address this, CASA El Dorado will recruit and train 50 new volunteer advocates and serve all abused and neglected children, through its creative and innovated recruitment and training programs.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
We have some 150 active CASA volunteers at any point in time, serving 300 children per year. Our annual income is in the $500-580,000 per year range. We also have nine Peer Coordinators who help out with administrative duties.
We also have a core group of volunteers called "Friends of CASA" who volunteer in ways other than becoming a CASA advocate. they help on fundraising events, 3rd party events, community engagement opportunities and other administrative duties.
Current we have a staff of eight who represent 8.5 Full Time Equivalent (FTE) staff. There is an executive director, program director, fiscal manager, fundraising manager, and a grant writer. On the program side we have four program managers who directly serve and support the volunteer CASA advocates who work with the children.
We have a volunteer board of directors that has 15 members who have expertise and connections in: education, business, law, law enforcement, financial planning, child welfare, public relations and technology. They are tasked with responsibility for governance, as well as helping us achieve the vision of serving every child through direct efforts in donor cultivation and stewardship.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
Today we are proudly able to assign an advocate to a new child within 30 days! We still have youth on our waiting list and we strive to get to a place where advocates are waiting for children rather than children waiting for an advocate. This requires continual recruiting, training and supporting our Child Advocates and future advocates.
Additionally, we know that there are more children and families in our community who still need an advocate. We are working launching a Family Coaching model to pair alongside a traditional CASA who will work with the parents when they are in the process of reunification. We are using a strength-based model to help families identify where they are meeting the needs of their child and helping develop a network of support in the areas they are not. Next the coaches will work in areas of financial security, self-care, job/educational, healthy life-style, and, parenting skills as a mentor and a coach.
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The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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CASA El Dorado
Board of directorsas of 02/08/2024
Steven Schwarzbach
Maria Bass
Umpqua Bank
Reid Briggs
Educator, Retired
Alexis Dascoulias-Foley
Freind of CASA
Judith Davidson
Merrill Lynch
Claudia Kane
Beacon Wealth Strategies
Colleen Ranalli
Retired
Steven Schwarzbach
Western Ecological Research Center, Retired
Stacie Walls
Toys for Tots
Jamie Harrison
Wells Fargo
Shelbi Bennett
Educator
Martin Fine
Attorney
Holly Greenough
Educator
John Sanders
Business Owner
Valerie Hanson
Child & Family Advocate
Francie Heim
School Business Solutions LLC
Lori London
Attorney at Law
Rhonda Dobson
Business Owner
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