Casa for the Highland Lakes Area

the organization recruits, trains, and supervises community volunteers to function as court-appointed special advocates to provide services to child abuse victims who have been removed from their homes because of abuse and/or neglect. the organization assigns casework supervisors to supervise the volunteer child advocates; assist the volunteers in meetings with the children or anyone associated with the case; assist in examination of court files, medical, school, and psychological reports; track progress of the cases; maintain detailed statistical case data concerning the victim's age, sex, ethnic group, county of origin, total number of children served, and number of children's cases that are closed. the organization serves blanco, burnet, lampasas, san saba, and llano counties with a total population of approximately 83,500. the number of volunteer hours recorded during the year ended august 31, 2023 by the organization approximated 5,560.