Nebraska CASA Association

Community Services Fund of Nebraska

Member Agency

 

nebraska CASA Association

 

25-Word statement

  Supports the development, growth, and continuation of local CASA programs which recruit and train volunteers who speak in court for the best interests of abused and neglected children.

 

 

Campaign code numbers:

State of Nebraska: 708R

University of Nebraska-Lincoln: 6310

Lincoln Area Campaign: 6310

(Including City of Lincoln, LES, LPS, Lancaster County, SCC and private companies)

 

How we use your contributions:

• $4 a week ($208/year) provides a scholarship for a CASA volunteer to attend the National CASA Conference.
• $20 provides a scholarship for a CASA volunteer to attend a statewide CASA training event.
• $25 provides a comprehensive training manual for a new CASA volunteer.
• $52 provides board manuals for a newly forming local CASA board of directors. 

A Story from our agency:

  Nancy's was an international adoption. She was brought to the US when she was 9 years old and adopted by a Nebraska family. By the time Nancy was 12, her adoptive parents had divorced, and her adoptive father literally disappered. Her adoptive mother became increasingly abusive. Nancy was eventually removed from her adoptive home and placed in foster care. She was living with a foster famiy as she neared her 19th birthday, the time when she would "age out" of the foster care system and be let completely to her own devices. Nancy's CASA volunteer throughly researched all the options available to Nancy as she aged out of the system. In the process, she learned that Nancy's Social Security status was incorrect and that Nancy would be deported to her country to origin upon reaching age 19. Nancy's abusive adoptive mother refused to release original documents from the time Nancy was adopted. Nancy's CASA volunteer worked diligently to find alternate documents that would allow her to stay in the country that had become her home. In the nick of time, necessary duplicates of paperwork were produced, and Nancy was able to remain in the United States. She is grateful to her CASA volunteer for allowing her to stay in the country where her sister also lives and for helping her to get the assistance she needs to make it quite literally on her own as a young adult.