"Sacramento Child Advocates, Inc. acts as the advocate, the voice, for children..."

Prior to 1992, children who were taken from their homes because of allegations of child abuse, neglect and abandonment had no platform for direct legal representation, and there was no one to make recommendations to the court on the child's behalf. Before the vision and implementation of the concept "child advocacy," Sacramento's county counsel and social workers made recommendations to the court based on home evaluations and parent interviews.

It was in August of 1991 that Judge Roger Warren, a trial court judge with over 20 years on the bench, developed a not for profit organization for child advocacy. This organization was founded to address the long-standing concern that children who have been removed from their homes need direct legal representation. Sacramento Child Advocates acts as the advocate, the voice, for abused and neglected children who have been placed in the foster care system. Affirming the need for direct legal representation, the Superior Court of Sacramento established a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with SCA in 1992 to be the designated court-appointed legal agency for every child who enters the dependency system in Sacramento County.

For more information about SCA please call 916-364-5686.