How long has Lookout Mountain CASA been in operation?
During the summer of 2005, community leadership sought to bring a CASA program back to this area. Ione Sells, Executive Director of the Children’s Advocacy Center in Fort Oglethorpe, welcomed the request to host the CASA Program. A CASA Program Director was hired in November 2005 and the name, Lookout Mountain CASA was coined. L.M. CASA took off in this area because the Northwest Georgia community believed in the program. The first class of eight CASAs graduated and began taking cases in April 2006. The second group of CASAs graduated in November 2006. L.M. CASA Volunteers have advocated for 51 foster children since April 2006. Our goal is to have a CASA Volunteer assigned to EVERY child in foster care by Spring 2008.
