Company Profile
CASA- Community Action Service & Advocacy
Company Overview
CASA (Community Action Service & Advocacy) for Safe and Healthy Neighborhoods
Every community can provide its residents with the opportunity to be safe and healthy! COMMUNITY ACTION, SERVICE, and ADVOCACY (CASA) provides individuals with the information and tools they need to help create safe and healthy neighborhoods.
We are a 35-year old nonprofit servicing the east region of San Diego County (with some additional work in the city of San Diego). Our work is heavily focused on public policy to improve community conditions to create safe and health neighborhoods. We empower local residents as social change agents to influence development and policy decisions at the local level.
We also have a youth leadership development component to our work and have developed a civic engagement program that we are currently implementing in various settings for youth participants. Settings include; school for youth experiencing homelessness, court and community day school (for youth who have experienced the juvenile justice system), and other youth settings. We are also very interested in providing this program for an adult audience.
East San Diego County is home to very large refugee/asylee populations (mostly Middle Eastern and Horn of Africa countries). CASA is also the home of the East Region Homeless Task Force, where our efforts focus heavily on development of housing options to meet a spectrum of needs (emergency, bridge housing, transitional and affordable).
Our Philosophy
Recognizing the social factors that contribute to substance abuse are often grounded in poverty, social and emotional isolation, challenges to access education, health, transportation and employment CASA has embraced a core philosophy of "place matters."
Our work focuses on engaging community members as social change agents to improve community conditions and create environments where families thrive.
Our public health & safety initiatives are designed using the Strategic Prevention Framework, this includes: comprehensive community-based assessment; increasing resident capacity for community problem-solving; developing a realistic plan with objectives that are achievable, timely and measurable; implementing that plan with integrity to achieve long-term solutions that are grounded in research; and evaluating what we are doing. We ask are we doing what we planned to do, is it making a difference, do we have the capacity to modify our course of action when it's necessary and are we ensuring that residents are engaged through every step of the process?
If you are interested in contributing to this work, please review the job descriptions on this site and apply!
Company History
We are a 35-year old nonprofit servicing the east region of San Diego County (with some additional work in the city of San Diego). Our work if heavily focused on public policy to improve community conditions to create safe and health neighborhoods. We empower local residents as social change agents to influence development and policy decisions at the local level.
Founded by community elected and volunteer leaders to support substance abuse prevention, we have grown and broadened our mission over time to include homelessness, community coalition development, youth leadership development and public health policy.