My Nonprofit Reviews

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I've been a CASA for one set of siblings that entered care as teenagers. The older ones have been released from foster care, but I've been with the youngest girl for over three years now. Earlier this year when she was moved to her 4th home, she told her new foster parents that I was the only person that had not changed since she was taken into foster care.
A teen girl may not have a lot to say to an older person, but she knows I'm a volunteer and I don't have to talk to her and visit her for my job. I've never told her a lie or sugar-coated a truth. I mostly just keep in touch and support her through what happens in her life. I don't lecture her, but I also tell her when she's contributed to some of her own difficulties (as we all do at times).
I feel I've made a small positive contribution to her life, and I could not do that without the training and council from the AACO CASA office.