Welcome CASA supporters and volunteers!

Our Story

CASA of Laramie County is a non-profit organization that trains community volunteers to advocate for the best interests of abused and neglected children in the juvenile court system. CASA began in Laramie County in August 2002 and has been serving children since July of 2003. Since CASA began in Laramie County, almost one-fourth of the abused and neglected children who have been through the court process are being served by a CASA volunteer. Currently, more than three-fourths of the children are being served.

Our Mission

CASA of Laramie County’s mission is to to provide a volunteer court-appointed special advocate for abused and neglected children in Laramie County.

Our Vision

CASA of Laramie County’s vision is to ensure that every eligible child in Laramie County who has been abused or neglected has a CASA advocate.

Our Values

1.      Excellence: We are committed to excellence in everything that we do to support the community we serve, in order to provide the best advocacy for abused and neglected children. We evaluate our work and accept feedback so that we may grow and improve the work we do and the relationships we build. We strive to increase our individual and collective professional knowledge and skills and apply them to our work while utilizing best practices each day. We are committed to delivering excellent service to the children and families we work with, our community, professionals, donors, and other stakeholders by being efficient and effective in our approach to generate solutions, acting with integrity, providing quality service, and by being reliable and responsible.

2.      Growth and Learning: We welcome opportunities, challenges, and changes that help us to improve the work we do in the CASA network. We adapt our thinking and behaviors to meet the opportunities, challenges, and changes head on with respect, integrity, and collaboration. We respect and celebrate diversity in all of its forms. We strive to be inclusive and welcoming by respecting self and others, fostering a trusting, open, and inclusive environment, and by being culturally educated and aware. We are committed to being responsive, respectful, honest, fair, and humane.

3.      Communication: We value open, direct, honest, and respectful communication with others and address problems immediately. We collaborate with each other, the national board, state and local programs and other stakeholders to effectively and creatively carry out our mission. We believe in maintaining an environment of teamwork, growth, consideration of other viewpoints, and communication up, down, and across the organization.

4.      Sustainability: We are faithful to our mission, vision, and values and endeavor to achieve long term financial sustainability. We are committed to careful and responsible stewardship of all financial and human resources we have been entrusted to use to advance the mission of the organization. We value sustainable progress as much as immediate achievements. We are committed to building a better, stronger, and more durable organization through exercising a high level of transparency around the financial resources we have been entrusted to manage.