Casa for Kids Inc.

“Draft of 990 is emailed to trustee members for their review and approval via reply email.”

“Compensation for executive director is reviewed yearly by the executive committee. The compensation and incentive package is compared to comperable positions on a local, state, and national level.”

“Governing documents are available upon request. Allow at least two days for reply. Cost of copy may apply.”

“Costs for the office build leasehold improvements were paid to united way, the owner of the building.”

“Volunteer advocates perform the essential function of working with abused and neglected children. Volunteers also serve and help coordinate during the periodic events. 14 active volunteer board members.”

“Casa for kids, inc. Provides guardian ad litem (gal) services to every child in flathead county's foster care system. In 2018 we served 304 children. This is a 31% increase in service to children since 2014, and is a direct result of the escalation of numbers of children entering the foster care system over the last four years. This trend places continuous pressure on our program and has stretched our current resources. In 2018 we recruited and trained 23 new casa gal advocates to serve children in flathead county, under the jurisdiction of the 11th judicial district court for a total of 104 casa gal advocates in flathead. Early in the year we contracted with a new casa data management company and migrated all of our case data to the new program. This has resulted in a more accurate and efficient data collection process and also increases the security of the data. Finally the most significant change to our program is that we expanded services into lincoln county, effective november 1, 2018, with the goal of providing casa gal advocates to children under the jurisdiction of the nineteenth judicial district court. We did this at the request of the montana supreme court improvement program administrator and the 19th judicial district court judge. The expansion involved renting office space in lincoln county and hiring a program director to run the satellite office. In 2018 we were also able to recruit 13 potential lincoln county advocates for a training class that would start in january 2019.”