San Diego's foster youth desperately need help, and with your commitment, we know that we can reach them.

 Of the 6,000 children in San Diego foster care each year, it is estimated that approximately half of these children have no one-no parent, no relatives, no family friends-to look out for the child's best interests.  They are alone in a complicated system that can rob much of the joy out of childhood.

Voices for Children's Vision

Although Voices for Children has expanded over the years and greatly increased the number of foster children served with CASAs, many more children are waiting.  In response to the crisis, Voices for Children's Board of Directors met in September 2010 and committed to these Serve Every Child goals for the next five years:

• Provide CASAs to 3,200 foster children by 2015, tripling the number of children served with CASAs; 
• Continue to assess, review, and triage Court files to provide basic advocacy to every foster child in the system (5,000-6,000 annually);  
• Increase the number of trained volunteer advocates to 1,400 advocates (almost three times the current group of CASAs);
• Increase the effectiveness of the CASA Program by developing programs to serve infants and toddlers, and teens preparing to exit the system;
• Explore more efficient modes of monitoring children not assigned to CASAs, and pilot an "early assignment" program that would provide a CASA to a child the moment he or she entered the foster system; and
• Be a leader in the community in terms of advocating for improvements in the foster care system and raising awareness of the plight of foster children in San Diego County.