Meet Our Volunteers

Volunteer Spotlight

Each month SFCASA highlights one volunteer to honor their achievements and give our volunteers a chance to become more familiar with one another.

Meet More Volunteers

These volunteers, would like to share with us their experiences as CASA volunteers and what it means to be the voice for disadvantaged youth.

Libby Colman, CASA for 10 years
“CASA has been one of the most intense and meaningful experiences of my life because of its unique combination of effectiveness on so many levels: personal connection with families, individual advocacy within the system, and larger issues of social justice. I really believe that the involvement of volunteer advocates has had a significant impact on the laws and practices affecting foster children and youth today.”

Faith Jansen, CASA for 9 years
“My CASA child had a reading and computing level of 1st/2nd grade at age seventeen, obesity, and teeth so weak she needed to be fitted with full dentures by age eighteen. My chief contribution was to get the most services possible from the education and medical bureaucracies.”

Susan Forstadt, CASA for 20 years
“Whatever time you have to devote to a child, it’s more than that child has ever had. You don’t need any special skills. It’s all about caring and common sense.”

Marg Tobias, CASA for 12 years
“Volunteering over the years has been immensely rewarding as I have seen first-hand the critical role that CASA volunteers and CASA itself plays—CASA volunteers offer that constant positive presence that youth in foster care don’t always have but really need in their lives, and CASA tirelessly pushes to improve the services available to foster youth.”

Liz Vogel, CASA for 9 years
“To be the sole constant in a child’s life is a privilege as well as a responsibility; every child deserves someone to be in his/her corner unconditionally. I know I have made a difference by simply being there.”

Spencer, CASA for 3 ½ years
“The soon a child is on the right track the better. The great thing about being a CASA is the impact I’ve had on a child’s life—the fulfillment and satisfaction of knowing that I’m helping.”