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​Meet the CASA Works, Inc. Staff!

Wanda Strayhorn
Executive Director

​wanda@casaworks.org

​Christy Sanson, Coffee County Supervisor

christy@casaworks.org

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Dana Farris
Franklin County
Supervisor
         dana@casaworks.org

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Teresa Barber
Bedford County
Supervisor


​teresa@casaworks.org

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Our Funding
As a non-profit organization, CASA Works relies heavily on grants and donations.
 We are fortunate enough to partner with these generous grantors:

• Baptist Healing Trust
• The Tennessee Commission on Children and Youth
• United Way of Bedford County
• United Way of Coffee and Moore Counties
• United Way of Franklin County
• Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee

 

What is CASA?

• CASA stands for Court Appointed Special Advocates.  
• Volunteers are recruited, trained and supervised to be Court Appointed Special Advocates for abused children in Juvenile Court. 
•  National CASA’s mission for a CASA Volunteer is to have direct and sufficient contact with a child to carry out an independent and valid investigation of the child’s circumstances, including the child’s needs and wishes, so as to be able to make sound, thorough and objective recommendations in the child’s best interest.   
• To fulfill this mission, CASA Volunteers spend hours talking to the child, family members, foster family, teachers, therapists, social workers, and all the parties in the case.  
• This work is very intense, and the CASA staff is committed to giving the CASA Volunteer the emotional support necessary to continue this important work.  

Board of Directors

Hank Jordan, Chairman
Ashley Lynch, Vice Chairman
Tammy Mentzer-Brown, Treasurer
Amber Clark, Secretary
Cynthia Bobo
June Taylor
​Morgan Barnett