Welcome to Day 4 of #FosteringKnowledge, a week-long collaboration between Voices for Children, Children's Advocacy Institute, San Diego Center for Children, Riverside STAY, and Walden Family Services to help our community better understand foster care. When a child enters foster care, a team of caring adults comes into their life. This includes foster parents or group home staff, social workers, lawyers, judges, and more. With so many people working to support them, why does a child also need a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA)? A primary reason is caseloads. Our dependency system is overburdened: 💗 Social workers typically manage upwards of 25 entire families at any given time. 💼 Lawyers may represent 100 children. ⚖️ Judges may oversee 500 or more cases. With this amount of work, it’s impossible to know the nuances of each child’s situation. However, CASA volunteers are assigned to a single child or sibling set to ensure their unique needs are being met. Although a C...