Put on your favorite running or walking shoes and Speak Up For Kids during this annual Texas CASA 5K Series.

Speak Up For Kids CASA 5K events across the state raise funds and friends for CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocate™) volunteers who speak up for abused and neglected children.  The Speak Up For Kids CASA 5K Series is proudly presented by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas and is supported by Texas CASA.

Proceeds from each 5K event benefit your local CASA program in their efforts to recruit and train CASA volunteers to give a “voice” to abused and neglected children in court and the foster care system.

Last year in Texas, more than 4,700 trained CASA volunteers strived to find safe, loving and permanent homes for 20,233 abused and neglected children. These CASA volunteers gain a firm understanding of a child’s case and serve as the “eyes and ears” to a judge. Our vision is that every abused child in Texas has a CASA volunteer to speak up for them.

Your participation makes a difference! So, walk, run, or jog in one of these events in a community near you -- and give a voice to Texas children.

“These kids need someone to fight for them -for what they need- for what is best for them so that they’ll have a future that is better than their past.”

Marilyn Dietrich, CASA volunteer

“I can think of few greater things than to help a child in need.  That child is our future.  You can make the difference of a lifetime- in a child’s life and your own.”

Gregg Dawson, CASA volunteer