“CASA really has been an important part of our lives, and we feel like we wouldn’t have our kids if it weren’t for them. Words cannot express. It’s just like family. How can you express family? Just love.”

“Of all the things that I’ve ever done, it will be the thing that I am most proud of and that I still care most about. And I am proud of the people who have carried on what we envisioned. To take it beyond even what we could conceive.”

“Thousands of children have come through here, have been effected by the agency, and have been helped. But more than that, their families have as well.”

“Children’s Advocacy Network is really a shining example of public/private partnership. “

“You have to be really brave to be the first person to say I’m going to tackle child abuse in the community.”

“It really is everyone pulling together that has allowed the Children’s Advocacy Network to grow and serve so many children throughout our region.”

“It’s just a God sent blessing for Rapides Parish to have the advocacy center here. I don’t know what we would do without it.”

“Children’s concerns have always been my concern. It’s so rewarding to see something that you were at the beginning…it just feels really special to have been a part of such a wonderful organization.”

“It’s unfortunate that services of this nature are needed in our community, but it touches my heart to know that this center is there to serve the needs of children, and it is always done in the most child-friendly way.”

“When a family is in trouble, it’s the agency to go to.”

“It’s amazing today to see how that agency has grown over the past 25 years. It’s still a foundation in Rapides Parish and Alexandria, and still serving children across Louisiana.”

“Being a part of the Children’s Advocacy Network has been, other than church and my family, the most important thing I’ve done…”

“I wouldn’t be the person I am today, I wouldn’t be able to do the work that I do every single day without the passion that’s in the Children’s Advocacy Network.”

“CASA volunteers are just more intimately involved with what’s going on…and able to give a voice to this child that will hopefully let them live a productive, happy, successful life and have hope for the future…It really has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my life.”

“Everything starts with what we can do ourselves. Our own level of personal responsibility. I can. You can. We all can eliminate child abuse and neglect in our communities.”