29th Judicial District CASA

06/09/2026

During the school year, Virginia's schools provide children with much more than just an education. 🏫

For many youth in foster care, school is a dependable daily source of:
• Meals and nutrition 🍎
• Structure and predictable routines 📝
• Social connection and friendships 👋
• Emotional support and stability ❤️

When summer arrives, those vital supports can disappear overnight. Without them, children are often left facing food insecurity, deep isolation, and a heavy toll on their mental health.

06/08/2026

Thanks Buchanan County Chamber of Commerce for a great family fun day and evening!! Super cool drone show! 🇺🇸🦅 Videos in comments. The kids seemed to enjoy our frisbees for playing and they doubled as a fan!! ☀️

05/14/2026

Congrats to Sandy Stiltner on winning the Starbucks raffle challenge! We are thankful for Sandy’s years of support and helping us share our mission!

05/08/2026

Congratulations Sandy Stiltner! You won the Starbucks gift card!! Thanks for participating in our challenge and for always being a supporter of CASA!!

04/28/2026

04/28/2026

Becoming a Court Appointed Special Advocate is a series of journeys. Today marks the end of a thorough, case study based pre-service advocate training curriculum, designed specifically for the Virginia CASA Network, to prepare volunteer advocates for their role in family courts. These eleven volunteers, also students of Appalachian School of Law, received their oath from the Honorable Laura Faye O'Quinn in Buchanan County Juvenile & Domestic Relations Court. They will soon be assigned to cases in Buchanan and Russell Counties providing a voice for children in need of a safe, stable and loving home. Their training readies them to monitor the orders of the court, recommend services for children and families and provide progress reports to the judge on the safest placement to meet the child's best interests. They will continue to advocate for the child until permanency is achieved.

Congratulations! Welcome to team Lane Clark, Naidaly Gonzalez Miranda, Brittany Rowe, Kaiyana Simmons, Sarah Peery, Kobe Arhinful, Allie Minor, John Phipps, Kota Graziano, Kathleen Powalie and Khalil Craddock!

04/27/2026

The final days of the challenge are here!! Help us close out Child Abuse Prevention Month with a sea of blue!! 💙

04/26/2026

During this year’s Volunteer Appreciation Week we held our annual dinner to celebrate our CASA volunteer advocates and the work they’ve done over the past year to provide a voice for children.

This poem shared at our dinner embodies a CASA volunteer!

To be a volunteer, it takes…
Generosity, a willingness to give your time to others
Understanding, because their lives might be very different from your own
Empathy, an ability to put yourself in someone else’s shoes and feel what they must feel
Compassion, to truly care about making someone else’s life better
Patience, because the process doesn’t always go as smoothly as it might
Dedication, to stick with the project and see it through
You’ve shown these qualities and so much more, so thank you for all that you do! ! ❤️💙

Special thanks to Vansant Baptist Church for hosting the 2026 Volunteer Appreciation Dinner!