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Volunteer Training in September 2025
Our next CASA Training is scheduled for September 2025. Volunteers participate in 30+ hours of pre-service training to prepare them to build relationships with a child who has come from hard places, to investigate and monitor the case and to learn how to effectively advocate for the needs and best interest of that child. Please […]
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What exactly does a CASA volunteer do, you ask? Spending approximately 10 hours a month in their role as a Court Appointed Special Advocate, volunteers:
~Represent a foster child`s best interest throughout the court process
~Serve as the eyes and ears of the judge
~Conduct interviews with everyone involved in the child`s life - parents, teachers, caregivers, medical and therapeutic professionals, and many others
~Attend court hearings, case related meetings, and educational meetings
~Complete written court reports for every hearing
~Maintain contact with the child at least monthly and others involved regularly
~Maintain case records
~Attend ongoing trainings
Who is a CASA volunteer?
~Over 21 years of age
~Able to maintain confidentiality
~Objective
~Willing to attend 30+ hours pre-service training
~Able to maintain cooperative relationships with many personalities
Our CASA volunteers give of their hearts, time, and talents to ensure that every child in need of best interest advocacy throughout the child welfare and court process has someone dedicated just to them.
If you`re interested in serving on our team, please complete the application at: https://mt-gallatin.evintosolutions.com/VolunteerApplication
What exactly does a CASA volunteer do, you ask? Spending approximately 10 hours a month in their role as a Court Appointed Special Advocate, volunteers:
~Represent a foster child`s best interest throughout the court process
~Serve as the eyes and ears of the judge
~Conduct interviews with everyone involved in the child`s life - parents, teachers, caregivers, medical and therapeutic professionals, and many others
~Attend court hearings, case related meetings, and educational meetings
~Complete written court reports for every hearing
~Maintain contact with the child at least monthly and others involved regularly
~Maintain case records
~Attend ongoing trainings
Who is a CASA volunteer?
~Over 21 years of age
~Able to maintain confidentiality
~Objective
~Willing to attend 30+ hours pre-service training
~Able to maintain cooperative relationships with many personalities
Our CASA volunteers give of their hearts, time, and talents to ensure that every child in need of best interest advocacy throughout the child welfare and court process has someone dedicated just to them.
If you`re interested in serving on our team, please complete the application at: https://mt-gallatin.evintosolutions.com/VolunteerApplication
🧩 Autism Awareness & Child Welfare 💙
Every child deserves to be seen, heard, and supported. During #AutismAwarenessMonth, let`s shine a light on the unique needs of children on the spectrum — especially when it comes to their safety, care, and well-being.
Children with autism may experience the world differently — and that includes how they communicate distress or express needs. In child welfare, this means we must listen more closely, advocate more fiercely, and act more compassionately.
Let’s break down stigma. Let’s build understanding. And let’s ensure every child — neurodivergent or not — has a safe, nurturing environment to grow and thrive.
#AutismAcceptance #ChildWelfare #Neurodiversity #EveryChildMatters #ProtectAndEmpower #ChangeAChildsStory
🧩 Autism Awareness & Child Welfare 💙
Every child deserves to be seen, heard, and supported. During #AutismAwarenessMonth, let`s shine a light on the unique needs of children on the spectrum — especially when it comes to their safety, care, and well-being.
Children with autism may experience the world differently — and that includes how they communicate distress or express needs. In child welfare, this means we must listen more closely, advocate more fiercely, and act more compassionately.
Let’s break down stigma. Let’s build understanding. And let’s ensure every child — neurodivergent or not — has a safe, nurturing environment to grow and thrive.
#AutismAcceptance #ChildWelfare #Neurodiversity #EveryChildMatters #ProtectAndEmpower #ChangeAChildsStory
Are you ready to GIVE BIG? In just one week our community will come together to GIVE BIG to deserving non-profit organizations. Come visit CASA at our donor booth on Friday, May 2nd from 10AM - 5PM at Maven`s Market! #GiveBigGV
Are you ready to GIVE BIG? In just one week our community will come together to GIVE BIG to deserving non-profit organizations. Come visit CASA at our donor booth on Friday, May 2nd from 10AM - 5PM at Maven`s Market! #GiveBigGV
🌍 Happy Earth Day! 🌱
Today, we celebrate the planet we all call home—but let’s not forget who we`re protecting it for. 💚
Every child deserves a healthy, safe, and sustainable future. From clean air to safe water, green spaces to stable communities—caring for the Earth is caring for our children.
Let’s raise our voices for both environmental protection and child welfare. Together, we can build a world where every child can grow, thrive, and dream—on a planet that can sustain them.
#EarthDay2025 #ForTheChildren #ProtectOurPlanet #ChildWelfare #ChangeAChildsStory #FutureGenerations
🌍 Happy Earth Day! 🌱
Today, we celebrate the planet we all call home—but let’s not forget who we`re protecting it for. 💚
Every child deserves a healthy, safe, and sustainable future. From clean air to safe water, green spaces to stable communities—caring for the Earth is caring for our children.
Let’s raise our voices for both environmental protection and child welfare. Together, we can build a world where every child can grow, thrive, and dream—on a planet that can sustain them.
#EarthDay2025 #ForTheChildren #ProtectOurPlanet #ChildWelfare #ChangeAChildsStory #FutureGenerations
It`s #AlcoholAwarenessMonth—a time to learn the risks of alcohol misuse & its impact on individuals & communities. Whether it’s recognizing signs of drinking too much, preventing underage drinking or knowing where to seek support, resources are available: samhsa.gov/alcohol
It`s #AlcoholAwarenessMonth—a time to learn the risks of alcohol misuse & its impact on individuals & communities. Whether it’s recognizing signs of drinking too much, preventing underage drinking or knowing where to seek support, resources are available: samhsa.gov/alcohol
Endless possibilities! 258 non-profits, coming together to raise crucial funds to support our missions. Each one has a role in helping our community continue to be the great place to live we all know and love. Many of these organizations are our partners in serving vulnerable children and families. Please consider supporting Bienvenidos, Family Outreach, Family Promise, Greater Gallatin United Way, Hopa Mountain, HRDC, ReadMontana, Reach, Inc., The Rock Youth Center, and Thrive. These as well as many others are causes worthy of your support! #GiveBigGV #ChangeAChildsStory #casagal
Endless possibilities! 258 non-profits, coming together to raise crucial funds to support our missions. Each one has a role in helping our community continue to be the great place to live we all know and love. Many of these organizations are our partners in serving vulnerable children and families. Please consider supporting Bienvenidos, Family Outreach, Family Promise, Greater Gallatin United Way, Hopa Mountain, HRDC, ReadMontana, Reach, Inc., The Rock Youth Center, and Thrive. These as well as many others are causes worthy of your support! #GiveBigGV #ChangeAChildsStory #casagal
In 2024, 40 highly trained Court Appointed Special Advocates served 63 children, donating nearly 1400 hours of time to ensure that these vulnerable children are seen, heard, and given a voice in the court system making decisions regarding their safety and their future. We are eternally grateful for our 50+ volunteers who give of their time and their hearts to #ChangeAChildsStory
In 2024, 40 highly trained Court Appointed Special Advocates served 63 children, donating nearly 1400 hours of time to ensure that these vulnerable children are seen, heard, and given a voice in the court system making decisions regarding their safety and their future. We are eternally grateful for our 50+ volunteers who give of their time and their hearts to #ChangeAChildsStory
#GiveBigGV is only 14 days away!! Give Big is CASA/GAL of Gallatin County`s largest fundraiser of the year! Your donations help us to continue to provide best interest advocacy for abused and neglected children in the foster care system, allow us to provide enrichment opportunities for the children, and allow us to provide support to the foster and kinship families caring for these same children. Come out and GIVE BIG on May 1st and 2nd!
#GiveBigGV is only 14 days away!! Give Big is CASA/GAL of Gallatin County`s largest fundraiser of the year! Your donations help us to continue to provide best interest advocacy for abused and neglected children in the foster care system, allow us to provide enrichment opportunities for the children, and allow us to provide support to the foster and kinship families caring for these same children. Come out and GIVE BIG on May 1st and 2nd!
We are truly stronger together! Our program inherited Adelaide`s Closet, a storage unit filled with clothing and other necessities for foster children nearly a year ago. Due to the abundance of donations, the ability to maintain the unit in an orderly fashion by just one person was nearly impossible. With the help of Greater Gallatin United Way staff, Enterprise Car Rental`s Minority Leadership Summit volunteers, our amazing CASA volunteer Cindy Dykstra, several other CASA volunteers, and Home Depot and a great team of volunteers they provided, the unit is now organized and easily accessible to meet the needs of foster families and the children in their care. All of the items are freshly laundered, organized by gender and size, and safely stored in tubs. A huge thank you to all for the incredible work that went into this project. We are excited to be able to provide this valuable service to children in need. *Thank you to Home Depot for the generous grant that supplied the shelving units and tubs!
We are truly stronger together! Our program inherited Adelaide`s Closet, a storage unit filled with clothing and other necessities for foster children nearly a year ago. Due to the abundance of donations, the ability to maintain the unit in an orderly fashion by just one person was nearly impossible. With the help of Greater Gallatin United Way staff, Enterprise Car Rental`s Minority Leadership Summit volunteers, our amazing CASA volunteer Cindy Dykstra, several other CASA volunteers, and Home Depot and a great team of volunteers they provided, the unit is now organized and easily accessible to meet the needs of foster families and the children in their care. All of the items are freshly laundered, organized by gender and size, and safely stored in tubs. A huge thank you to all for the incredible work that went into this project. We are excited to be able to provide this valuable service to children in need. *Thank you to Home Depot for the generous grant that supplied the shelving units and tubs!
We highly recommend this very real book on who the children are that are in foster care and the challenges they face both as young children and later as they face aging out of the system into independence.
"Who are the children of foster care? What, as a country, do we owe them? Cris Beam, a foster mother herself, spent five years immersed in the world of foster care, looking into these questions and tracing firsthand stories. The result is To the End of June, an unforgettable portrait that takes us deep inside the lives of foster children at the critical points in their search for a stable, loving family. The book mirrors the life cycle of a foster child and so begins with the removal of babies and kids from birth families. There`s a teenage birth mother in Texas who signs away her parental rights on a napkin only to later reconsider, crushing the hopes of her baby`s adoptive parents. Beam then paints an unprecedented portrait of the intricacies of growing up in the system, the back-and-forth with agencies, the shuffling between pre-adoptive homes and group homes, the emotionally charged tug of prospective adoptive parents and the fundamental pull of birth parents. And then what happens as these system-reared kids become adults? Beam closely follows a group of teenagers in New York who are grappling with what aging out will mean for them and meets a woman who has parented eleven kids from the system, almost all over the age of eighteen, and all still in desperate need of a sense of home and belonging. Focusing intensely on a few foster families who are deeply invested in the system`s success, To the End of June is essential for humanizing and challenging a broken system, while at the same time it is a tribute to resiliency and offers hope for real change"
#fostercare #changeachildsstory #CASAGAL
We highly recommend this very real book on who the children are that are in foster care and the challenges they face both as young children and later as they face aging out of the system into independence.
"Who are the children of foster care? What, as a country, do we owe them? Cris Beam, a foster mother herself, spent five years immersed in the world of foster care, looking into these questions and tracing firsthand stories. The result is To the End of June, an unforgettable portrait that takes us deep inside the lives of foster children at the critical points in their search for a stable, loving family. The book mirrors the life cycle of a foster child and so begins with the removal of babies and kids from birth families. There`s a teenage birth mother in Texas who signs away her parental rights on a napkin only to later reconsider, crushing the hopes of her baby`s adoptive parents. Beam then paints an unprecedented portrait of the intricacies of growing up in the system, the back-and-forth with agencies, the shuffling between pre-adoptive homes and group homes, the emotionally charged tug of prospective adoptive parents and the fundamental pull of birth parents. And then what happens as these system-reared kids become adults? Beam closely follows a group of teenagers in New York who are grappling with what aging out will mean for them and meets a woman who has parented eleven kids from the system, almost all over the age of eighteen, and all still in desperate need of a sense of home and belonging. Focusing intensely on a few foster families who are deeply invested in the system`s success, To the End of June is essential for humanizing and challenging a broken system, while at the same time it is a tribute to resiliency and offers hope for real change"
#fostercare #changeachildsstory #CASAGAL
April is Child Abuse Prevention Awareness Month also known as Strengthening Families Month. Today, the Gallatin County Commissioners proclaimed this for Gallatin County and a team of folks from CASA, Child Protective Services, and the Sheriff`s Office planted pinwheels around the Courthouse to further the awareness of the community about the need to strengthen families and reduce the trauma resulting from childhood abuse and neglect. Blue pinwheels are a national symbol of child abuse and neglect prevention and symbolize the hope, health, and happiness every child deserves. Our village is amazing and we truly appreciate the hard work of the child protection workers, law enforcement, and other service organizations who daily work to prevent the breakdown of families and work to strengthen those who have experienced separation.
April is Child Abuse Prevention Awareness Month also known as Strengthening Families Month. Today, the Gallatin County Commissioners proclaimed this for Gallatin County and a team of folks from CASA, Child Protective Services, and the Sheriff`s Office planted pinwheels around the Courthouse to further the awareness of the community about the need to strengthen families and reduce the trauma resulting from childhood abuse and neglect. Blue pinwheels are a national symbol of child abuse and neglect prevention and symbolize the hope, health, and happiness every child deserves. Our village is amazing and we truly appreciate the hard work of the child protection workers, law enforcement, and other service organizations who daily work to prevent the breakdown of families and work to strengthen those who have experienced separation.