Skagit County Child Advocate Program

Volunteer Guardians ad Litem are community volunteers with extraordinary hearts who are appointed by judges to advocate in court for abused and/or neglected children. VGALs spend an average of ten hours a month working on a case, though typically they spend more time at the beginning of a case than they do towards the end. Cases generally last at least a year, and we ask that each volunteer commits to remaining a volunteer as long as their case is open.  Children face a constant rotation of judges, social workers, and foster homes, but all the while their VGAL remains a stable and constant adult in their lives while they are in foster care.