Our Impact

Our Impact

Making Permanence Possible.

We are filled with deep gratitude for our donors, whose unwavering support empowers C.A.S.E. to fulfill its mission and change lives every day.

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Happy adoptive family smiling during adoption counseling and receiving adoption support
9K+
Children and families have received adoption-competent mental health services since 1998.
25K+
Parents and professionals have registered for the Strengthening Your Family (SYF) Webinar Series since 2021.
80K+
Professionals have received C.A.S.E.'s specialized, adoption-competent training.
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Our Story

In 1998, more than 17 years into the Dugan family’s adoption journey, Kathleen Dugan cofounded the Center for Adoption Support and Education (C.A.S.E.) with Debbie Riley, LCMFT, C.A.S.E. CEO, so that all children and families connected to adoption, foster, and kinship care could access the mental health services they needed to thrive.

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Our Impact

Since 1998, C.A.S.E.’s hard work, dedication, and perseverance have made a lasting impact in the adoptive, foster, and kinship care community, training more than 80,000 mental health and child welfare professionals across 43 states and territories.

From our Baltimore-Washington metro area offices, we’ve served more than 9,000 clients and their families, ensuring permanence and creating brighter futures for the children and families we serve.

How Donors Drive Our Mission Forward

Each year, our Donor Impact Report shares the incredible ways our donors’ generosity changes lives. From inspiring success stories to measurable results, these reports highlight how your unwavering support fuels C.A.S.E.’s mission to strengthen families and transform futures.

Thanks to our supporters, 2024 was a transformative year at C.A.S.E. We served more families than ever and extended our national programmatic focus on education through our National Training Institute’s School-Based Mental Health Professionals Training (NTI-Ed) and The C.A.S.E. Academy for mental health professionals, while growing our national footprint as a leader in the mental health and adoption, foster and kinship care space.

See Impact of our 2024 work

2023 was a significant year for C.A.S.E. With your support, we celebrated 25 years of service to the adoptive, foster and kinship care communities.

See Impact of our 2023 work
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Families Thrive. 

Our work at C.A.S.E. is only possible through your generous support. You can help adoptive, foster, and kinship families get the support they need to heal and thrive.

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What People Are Saying About Us

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Adoptive Family
“The support C.A.S.E. has provided to me, my husband, and our two adopted children has been phenomenal. ”
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Adoptive Parent C.A.S.E. Client
“My son really enjoys his sessions and likes to talk about what his thinking and feeling with his therapist. he likes when the issues he is d”
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Teen Identity Support Group Attendee
“Everyone [in the group] was very welcoming and I didn’t feel…alone, I met others who were adopted…which made it easier for me to talk openly”
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Strengthening Your Family Webinar Participant
“The presenter was fantastic. She was extremely knowledgeable and engaging. She clearly had a passion for working with adoptive families/ad”
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Adoptive Family NPAC Client
“NPAC post-adoption support coaches suggested that my child may have sensory needs. We then sought help from an occupational therapist that h”
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Training Participant
“The presentation was very helpful. As a resource social worker, I felt that this training was essential for this time...”
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Adoptive Parent C.A.S.E. Client
“The expertise of the therapists, the non-judgmental approach to helping parents, the compassion and understanding they show towards our fami”
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Adoptive Family NPAC Client
“NPAC post-adoption support coaches helped connect me to resources for specific disabilities for my child.”
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Adoptive Parent C.A.S.E. Client
“Great knowledge of the specific relationships, emotions, and phases of adoption through foster care; all of the resources for adoptive paren”
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Training Participant
“I knew I could be confident that the presenter was knowledgeable about this information and did not steer away from deeper topics regarding ”
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Adoptive Family NPAC Client
“NPAC post-adoption support coaches provided language I could use in a student study meeting to acquire a 504 for my child.”
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Training Participant
“It was very informative and focuses directly on the skills needed to work with children and families going through the adoption process.”