Welcome to Our New Advocate Coordinator: Rachel Ingalls

CASA of Luzerne County is pleased to introduce our new Advocate Coordinator, Rachel Ingalls.

Rachel is now the third Advocate Coordinator on staff and will be working with the team to recruit, train and support our volunteer advocates in their commitment to providing a voice to the children in the dependency court system in Luzerne County.

Rachel has a degree in counseling from Clarks Summit University. She comes from a background of legal advocacy with the Women’s Resource Center and has extensive experience working with children.

She is familiar with the dependency court system and is looking forward to guiding our volunteers in their advocacy journey.

Rachel enjoys spending her leisure time outdoors, hiking and ice skating.

Rachel stated that she is passionate about justice for those who need a voice. That passion has led her to CASA of Luzerne County.

CASA of Luzerne County is growing and evolving with the community and its need to support its most vulnerable citizens, the children.

Advocate Spotlight: Logan Yeakel

Meet Logan Yeakel, the January Advocate Spotlight for 2022. Logan began his journey as an advocate for CASA of Luzerne County in May of 2021, however this was not his first volunteer experience. He had previously volunteered with Big Brothers Big Sisters in San Diego, CA.

Logan relocated back to Pennsylvania and is currently in his senior year of college but was inspired to look up CASA of Luzerne County after hearing about it the organization and its mission while in California.

He decided to take the step to become an advocate because he has an understanding that there are people in his community who need help and only a limited number of people make themselves available as volunteers. He wanted to do his part for his “tribe” so-to speak.

Logan advocated for a sibling group and his most memorable experience on the case was seeing the joy on their faces when they were reunified with their parents. The most positive outcome was the return of trust in adults from the children.

Logan would like anyone considering becoming a CASA advocate to just do it! It is worth it to bear witness to a positive impact on your local community. He also wishes more people realize how many children in the Luzerne County foster system could really benefit from a CASA and how few volunteers there actually are.

The most important aspect of advocating for Logan is making sure the children in his community have a voice.

We are grateful to Logan for his commitment to her advocacy. If you’d like to make a difference in the life of a child in the way Logan has, we invite you to join us for an info session to learn more about advocacy and what it means to be a CASA.

Logan is from Allentown, PA. He is the parent of a son and a daughter and a German Shepard.