Child Advocates of Silicon Valley

Organization Description

Child Advocates of Silicon Valley is an independent nonprofit 501(c) 3 organization created in 1986. We serve children aged birth to 21 years old who are placed in the Santa Clara County Dependency Court System for having experienced trauma in the form of abuse, neglect and/or abandonment. We are responsible for operating the Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) program in Santa Clara County according to the national guidelines, which entails recruiting, training and supporting CASA Volunteers. We are an affiliate of the National CASA Association.

Program Information

Child Advocates works to ensure every foster child in Silicon Valley, who has been abused, neglected and/or abandoned, has the nurturing support and resources needed to thrive. We do this by recruiting, training and supporting adult community members to become Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) for children and youth ages 0-21. Volunteers will be working with both the Programs Department and Learning Department in supporting CASA Volunteers with their advocacy. Most of the Programs Department support will focus on helping the Ages 0-5 and Ages 6-12 Specialty programs.

Possible Activities:
-Support in planning in-person and virtual activities and events
-Administrative work (data entry and database clean up)
-Processing reports
-Gathering resources and/or creating resource lists
-Organizing our CASA store and supporting CASAs and their youth during their store visits
-Mailing items to volunteers

Health & Safety

SUPERVISION: If the student is working in the office, they will always be supervised. If the student is working remotely, the student will be working independently for the majority of the time, but will have frequent check-in meetings with their supervisor. Additional information: Photography/Videography of children is not allowed. Students might be working with confidential information and must agree to our confidentiality policies. Students must shred and/or permanently delete Child Advocates documents after their work with us is complete.
Additional requirements and/or considerations
  • Background Check (e.g. fingerprinting/livescan, driving record)
  • Computer Literacy
  • Health Check/Screening (e.g. temperature screening, COVID-19 test)
  • Must be 18 or older
  • SUPERVISION: Students will be supervised less than 50% of the time.
Address 
509 Valley Way
Milpitas, CA 95035
United States
General Phone 
(408) 416-0400
Website:
https://childadvocatessv.org/
Student Contact 
Name
Daisy Manapsal
Job Title
Director of Learning and Evaluation
Phone
(408) 573-5614
Email
daisy@childadvocatessv.org
Program(s) 
Internship
Service Learning
Organization type 
Human, Social, or Employment Services (Nonprofit)
Focus Population(s)
Children/Youth
Focus Area(s)
Advocacy and Human Rights, Education
Hours of operation 

Monday - Friday 9am-5pm

Maximum students 
2