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Our Mission

Mahoning County CASA/GAL (Court Appointed Special Advocate/Guardian Ad Litem) is a non profit organization that recruits, screens, trains, and monitors CASA/GAL volunteers who advocate for the best interests of abused and neglected children in the court system. The program is supported through donations both monetary and in-kind. It costs approximately $600 to support the work done by a Mahoning County CASA/GAL volunteer for six months.

Statistics*

Every year, nearly 3 million children are abused and neglected in the United States.
Ohio had nearly 50,000 substantiated reports of abuse and neglect in 2003.

Over the past 3 years...

Over 68 Ohio children died as a result of abuse and neglect
There were over 500 cases of abuse, neglect and dependency filed in the Mahoning County Court system
Over 133 abused and neglected children in Mahoning County were assigned a CASA/GAL volunteer to make sure they were not "lost in the system" and that their voice was heard.

How you can help

Request a Speaker

A representative from the Mahoning County CASA/GAL Program would be pleased to come to your association, group, or business to discuss the role played by the CASA/GAL volunteer in the court system and the positive impact volunteers make on the lives of abused and neglected children.

Please contact Mahoning County CASA to request a speaker and learn how you too can "speak up for a child ".

The Mahoning County CASA/GAL Program needs your help to make sure that each and every abused and neglected child is given the advantage of a trained CASA/GAL volunteer so that their voice is heard.

The power of volunteers to change the lives of children!

*Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration on Children, Youth and Families. Child Maltreatment 2003. (Washington, DC, Government Printing Office, 2005).

Composite Report form for the Entire State, Ohio Court of Common Pleas - Juvenile Division.