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JULY 19 - AUGUST 8, 2018 / THE ROGUE VALLEY MESSENGER / 5 PUBLIC PROFILE Dan Mata Lead Case Supervisor for CASA of Jackson County INTERVIEW BY CAITLIN FOWLKES Rogue Val- DM: The best part of this job is truly working ley Messen- with all of our CASA Volunteers, the amount of ger: What hard work and dedication that these folks put do you do into our children is overwhelmingly beautiful. with the or- We have a volunteer who has dedicated himself ganization? to this organization since it was first brought to Dan Mata: light in Jackson County 28 years ago. We have Previously I volunteers who will drive countless hours to go was a CASA visit their court appointed child; not because V o l u n t e e r they have to, but because they want to. These for a year volunteers do not give up on these children, and and I was ap- they take pride in their casework. pointed as an RVM: How many children have you helped advocate to so far? speak about DM: As a volunteer I was assigned to 3 cases the best in- that advocated for 7 children. Now as a Case Su- terest of our pervisor I manage a caseload of 43 CASAs that children in- are assigned to 84 children. Overall as a team we PHOTO COURTESY OF DAN MATA volved with are currently actively serving 474 children and DHS/CW. waiting to serve 400 more. Currently I am the Lead Case Supervisor for RVM: What’s the worst case you’ve seen that CASA of Jackson County, to which includes many ended positively? duties. Those duties include, but are not limited DM: We had a family that got involved with to supervising volunteers and ensuring that they DHS/CW because of allegations of substance are appropriately advocating for our children, abuse and neglect that lead to the death of a supporting and assisting the Deputy Director child. The family was very anti-government, did with program development and on-going train- not believe in our education system; therefore, ing. did not allow their children to attend school. The RVM: How did you find yourself in this posi- children were on a very low IQ level, isolated and tion? What led you here? secluded… because of the parent’s behaviors. We DM: Since I was kid I knew I would always end had two volunteers who were strangers to each up in a career where I would be working with other that agreed to take on this large family and kids in/around our “systems.” I was born and see if they could help in any positive way. Case raised in Houston, Texas. I resided in an area closure came quick for this family when these where I was exposed to a lot of crime, drugs, CASAs got involved, the children attend school gangs and violence. That included my very own regularly and the family will have forever con- household, my biological father was very abu- tact with these two loving, caring, amazing vol- sive mentally and physically, and both my par- unteers. ents were heroin addicts. My mom mostly be- RVM: What’s the most heart-warming or cause of the domestic abuse. I knew as a child bone-chilling experience you’ve had while these things were wrong so I wanted to grow up working with CASA? different than that. Nearly 38 years shortened; I DM: We had a CASA who literally saved a graduated high school, served in Marine Corps child’s life. And this child expressed her grati- Pure. Potent. Versatile. Infantry for 8 years, and got my college degree tude on how much she appreciated this CASA. in Criminal Justice. Once I completed my de- This CASA had been the one and only consistent gree I sought volunteerism/employment where person in her life, and she wanted him to come Made with sungrown cannabis I could show these children there is a way out of and tell her life story before he passed away.