Attachment 4.pdf

0y. July 1 - December 31, 2022 Six-Month Reporting Welcome to the National CASA/GAL Association for Children Six-Month Reporting Survey. Please complete the survey below; some questions have additional information that can be seen by hovering over the question text. If you have any questions, please contact us at survey@nationalcasagal.org.

Please provide the requested information below for the reporting period July 1 - December 31, 2022.

1. Please enter and/or verify your program information below:

National CASA Member ID 10,931

Program Name Cass Elias McCarter South Carolina Guardian ad Litem program

Program City Columbia

Program State South Carolina

2. Did your organization have an active grant from National CASA/GAL at any time between July 1 and December 31, 2022?

Yes

No

4. Are you completing this survey to report activities of your state office or your state?

Yes

No

5. Are you completing the survey on behalf of multiple local programs OR does your state organization provide direct services to children?

Yes

No

6. For how many local programs are you reporting?

7. Please provide the information requested below for the reporting period of July 1 - December 31, 2022. Please do not include children served by staff as a part of their job. If the children are served by staff volunteering their time, please include them.

Number of new children that have experienced abuse or neglect served by volunteer advocates during reporting period

Total number of children that have experienced abuse or neglect served by volunteer advocates during reporting period

8. Please provide the information requested below for the reporting period of July 1 - December 31, 2022. Please do not include children served by staff as a part of their job. If the children are served by staff volunteering their time, please include them.

Number of Existing (served prior to July 1, 2022 and carrying over into this reporting period) children that have experienced abuse or neglect served by volunteer advocates during reporting period aged 0-10

Number of New children that have experienced abuse or neglect served by volunteer advocates during reporting period aged 0-10

Number of Existing (served prior to July 1, 2022 and carrying over into this reporting period) youth that have experienced abuse or neglect served by volunteer advocates during reporting period aged 11-17

Number of New children that have experienced abuse or neglect served by volunteer advocates during reporting period aged 11-17

Number of Existing (served prior to July 1, 2022 and carrying over into this reporting period) youth that have experienced abuse or neglect served by volunteer advocates during reporting period aged 18-24

Number of New children that have experienced abuse or neglect served by volunteer advocates during reporting period aged 18-24

9. Please provide the total number of children served by volunteer advocates in out-of-home placements during the reporting period. Please do not include children served by staff as a part of their job. If the children are served by staff volunteering their time, please include them.

Submit date: Jan 30, 2023 Participant: 10931

10. Please provide the following information for the reporting period of July 1 - December 31, 2022.

Number of children served by volunteer advocates who entered a group home for the first time.

Number of children served by volunteer advocates who were placed in kinship care for the first time.

Total 2,737

11. Please provide the total number of children served by volunteer advocates who left foster care (or any out-of-home placement) during the reporting period of July 1 - December 31, 2022.

12. Please provide the following information for the reporting period of July 1 - December 31, 2022.

Number of children served by volunteer advocates who left foster care/out of home placement during the reporting period due to reunification

Number of children served by volunteer advocates who left foster care/out of home placement during the reporting period due to adoption

Number of children served by volunteer advocates who left foster care/out of home placement during the reporting period due to legal guardianship

Number of children served by volunteer advocates who left foster care/out of home placement during the reporting period due to emancipation

Total 1,369

13.

Please provide the information requested below for the six months prior to this reporting period (January-June 2022). (This is the information from the last six-month report)

Number of children served by volunteer advocates who ended services (case closed) in the six months prior to the reporting period

14. Please provide the number of children served by volunteer advocates whose cases were closed in the last six-month reporting period (January 1

- June 30, 2022) and reopened in this six-month period (July 1 - December 31, 2022).

15. Please provide the following information for the reporting period of July 1 - December 31, 2022.

Number of children served by volunteer advocates who left foster care/out of home placement during the previous reporting period who reentered a group home during this reporting period.

Number of children served by volunteer advocates who left foster care/out of home placement during the previous reporting period who reentered kinship care during this reporting period.

Total 0

16. Please provide the number of children served by volunteer advocates in each race/ethnicity category in the current reporting period of July 1 - December 31, 2022.

African American/Black 1704

Asian or Pacific Islander 14

Caucasian/Non-Latino 3042

Native American or Alaska Native 10

Hispanic/Latino 248

More than one race 338

Do not know 5

Total children served by volunteer advocates 5,361

17. Please provide the information requested below for July 1 - December 31, 2022.

Number of new volunteer advocates available to serve during the reporting period (Clarification: This is new volunteers who have been sworn in during the reporting period and are assigned to a case or available to serve children)

Total number of active volunteers during the reporting period (Clarification: This is all new and returning volunteers who are assigned to or awaiting a case, or could take a case at any time because they are up-to-date on their background checks and training hours. Please include the new volunteers listed in the first half of this question, even if they have not yet been assigned a case)

18. Please provide the number of volunteer advocates in each race/ethnicity category in the current reporting period of July 1 - December 31, 2022.

African American/Black 243

Asian or Pacific Islander 5

Caucasian 1045

Native American or Alaska Native 2

Hispanic 27

More than one race 26

Do not know

Total volunteer advocates 1,348

19. The following nine questions are part of a "pilot" project to determine what programs currently track certain services and outcomes for children served by volunteer advocates. These data sets have been added at the request of the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.

Please note: Only respond to the sections below if the services provided are by CASA/GAL volunteer advocates. Services provided by staff should not be reported.

If your program tracks any of the following outcomes, please answer "Yes", specify which outcomes are tracked, and report accordingly. If your program tracks none of these outcomes, please answer "No" and complete the final portion of the survey. The outcomes are:

child's improved self-esteem; child's improved relationship with parent/caregiver relationships; child participation in positive leisure/recreational activities; child's improved social competencies; child's increased engagement with school; child's improved mental health; child's improvement regarding substance misuse (legal and/or illegal); child's improved academic capabilities, and child met school attendance expectations.

Yes

No

38. Please enter the e-mail address where you would like to receive a notification that you have completed your survey and it has been saved:

[Please add survey@nationalcasagal.org to your safe sender list as these emails are often marked as spam. Instructions for: Outlook 2013, Gmail, Others] lela.allen@childadvocate.sc.gov https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc179183.aspx#BKMK_CreateJunkFilterLists https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/gmail/mVnwwvrcISE http://www.acrm.org/publications/how-to-add-acrm-to-your-safe-senders-list/

€ €Please note: Only respond to the sections below if the services provided are by CASA/GAL volunteer advocates. Services provided by staff should not be reported.

€ €If your program tracks any of the following outcomes, please answer "Yes", specify which outcomes are tracked, and report accordingly. If your program tracks none of these outcomes, please answer "No" and complete the final portion of the survey. The outcomes are:

child's improved self-esteem;€ child's improved relationship with parent/caregiver relationships;€ child participation in positive leisure/recreational activities;€ child's improved social competencies;€ child's increased engagement with school;€ child's improved mental health;€ child's improvement regarding substance misuse (legal and/or illegal);€ child's improved academic capabilities, and child met school attendance expectations.

38. Please enter the e-mail address where you would like to receive a notification that you have completed your survey and it has been saved:

[Please add survey@nationalcasagal.org to your safe sender list as these emails are often marked as spam. Instructions for: Outlook 2013,€Gmail, Others]