About Mesa County CASA

Court Appointed Special Advocates. CASA

Concerned that decisions about abused and neglected children’s lives were being made without sufficient information, a Seattle judge conceived the idea in 1977 to use trained community volunteers to speak in the best interest of these children in court. This Seattle program was so successful that soon judges across the country began utilizing volunteer citizen advocates.  The National CASA Association was organized in 1982 to support and train an increasing number of program staff around the nation.  More than 907 CASA programs in 50 states with more than 52,760  volunteers.  CASA of Mesa County is the first program in Western Colorado.  

In Colorado, nine programs serve abused and neglected children in various large and small communities. In Mesa County, CASA-MC served more than 100 children in its first year of operation (1998). We continue to increase the number of children served each month, and actively recruit and train CASA volunteers year-round.