Francha Davis is the Executive Director of the Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) Progmam of Montgomery County. She has been with CASA for 24 years and Director since 2003. In the US, every day 1,900 children become victims of abuse or neglect, and 4 of them die. CASA Montgomery is a network of 951 cummunitybased programs that recruit, train and support citizen-volunteers to advocate for the best interest of abused and neglected children. Empowered directly by the courts, volunteer advocates offer judges the critical information they need to ensure that each child’s rights and needs are being attended to while in foster care. The objective is to get children out of foster care and into permanent homes.