09/03/2026
One of the hidden heartbreaks of foster care is how hard it can become for kids to experience “normal” childhood experiences.
Because how can you join a baseball team when you’re only in a foster home for three weeks? How do you stay on the debate team when you suddenly had to move 5 hours away? How do you go to homecoming when you don’t know anyone at your new school?
Foster care is hard enough. CASA volunteers make it a little easier by filling in gaps and solving problems.
At the end of her junior year of high school, “P” had been looking forward to a trip with her school’s orchestra. Her removal from home and placement in foster care could have made that trip impossible. But P’s CASA team knew they could solve this problem, and they worked with the school to pay for the trip so P could go.
Foster care shouldn’t keep kids from getting to be kids. CASAs help make sure it doesn’t. Learn more at www.nwacasa.org.