Child Welfare Advocacy Sign-Up Form

Make a Difference in the Lives of Children and Families

Every child deserves a safe, loving home and the opportunity to thrive. Child welfare advocacy plays a critical role in reforming foster care systems, supporting family reunification, and ensuring that children's voices are heard throughout the legal process.

Whether you're passionate about becoming a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) volunteer, want to support legislative reform, or simply wish to stay informed about child welfare issues in your community, this Child Welfare Advocacy Sign-Up Form makes it easy to get involved and make a meaningful impact.

Why Child Welfare Advocacy Matters

The child welfare system touches thousands of families every year, yet many children still face uncertainty, instability, and challenges that could be addressed through systemic reform and community support. Advocates work to:

• Ensure children's best interests are represented in court proceedings and placement decisions
• Support foster care reform that prioritizes safety, stability, and permanency for children
• Promote family reunification when safe and appropriate, keeping families together
• Recruit and train CASA volunteers who serve as independent voices for children in care
• Influence policy changes that improve outcomes for vulnerable children and families
• Raise awareness about the needs of foster children, kinship caregivers, and biological families working toward reunification

Advocacy organizations, nonprofits, social service agencies, and grassroots movements rely on engaged supporters to drive change, and that starts with an effective sign-up process.

How This Template Supports Your Child Welfare Advocacy Mission

This Paperform template is specifically designed for child welfare advocacy organizations looking to recruit supporters, volunteers, and advocates who care deeply about foster care reform and family support. Here's what makes it effective:

Capture Meaningful Supporter Information

The form collects essential contact details along with demographic information that helps you understand your supporter base and tailor communications. You'll learn about supporters' professional backgrounds, lived experience with the child welfare system, and preferred ways to get involved—from CASA volunteering to legislative advocacy to fundraising support.

Identify CASA Volunteer Candidates

One of the most powerful ways individuals can advocate for children is by becoming a Court Appointed Special Advocate. The form includes dedicated questions about CASA volunteer interest, availability for training, and willingness to commit to a child's case long-term. This helps your organization identify strong candidates for your CASA program and follow up appropriately with training information.

Understand Advocacy Priorities

Supporters can indicate which foster care reform priorities matter most to them—whether that's improving placement stability, supporting kinship care, expanding mental health services, advocating for educational stability, or promoting family reunification. This information allows you to segment your audience and send targeted action alerts, petitions, and updates that align with their specific interests.

Flexible Engagement Options

Not everyone can commit to becoming a CASA volunteer, but there are many ways to support child welfare advocacy. The form captures various levels of interest and availability, from attending occasional events to participating in legislative advocacy days to sharing stories on social media. This inclusive approach welcomes supporters at every level of engagement.

Professional, Compassionate Design

Child welfare advocacy requires sensitivity and trust. With Paperform's design flexibility, you can customize fonts, colors, and imagery to reflect your organization's brand while maintaining a professional, compassionate tone. Add your logo, use warm colors, and include images or videos that illustrate your mission without compromising the dignity of the children and families you serve.

Seamless Integration with Your CRM and Communication Tools

Once someone signs up, you need to follow up quickly and appropriately. This form integrates seamlessly with popular CRM platforms like Salesforce, HubSpot, and Bloomerang (ideal for nonprofits), as well as email marketing tools like Mailchimp and Constant Contact. You can also use Stepper (stepper.io) to build automated workflows that:

• Send personalized welcome emails based on the supporter's interests
• Route CASA volunteer inquiries to your volunteer coordinator
• Add supporters to specific email lists for legislative alerts or fundraising campaigns
• Schedule follow-up tasks for your staff to call high-interest volunteers
• Update your donor database with new supporter records

Track and Report on Advocacy Growth

Understanding who's joining your movement and why is essential for demonstrating impact to funders, board members, and community partners. Paperform's built-in analytics and AI Insights feature help you identify trends in supporter demographics, popular advocacy priorities, and geographic distribution. Export your data to Google Sheets or Airtable for deeper analysis, or generate visual reports to share with stakeholders.

Who This Template Is Perfect For

This child welfare advocacy sign-up form is ideal for:

• Child welfare advocacy organizations recruiting supporters for foster care reform campaigns
• CASA programs looking to streamline volunteer recruitment and initial screening
• Nonprofit organizations focused on family reunification, kinship care, or child protection
• Foster care agencies building community partnerships and awareness
• Child advocacy centers engaging parents, community members, and professionals
• Social workers and case managers connecting families to support resources and advocacy opportunities
• Legislative advocacy groups mobilizing supporters around child welfare policy issues
• Faith-based organizations supporting vulnerable children and families
• Community foundations funding child welfare initiatives and seeking engaged donors

Customize to Match Your Mission

While this template is ready to use out of the box, Paperform's intuitive editor makes it simple to adapt the form to your specific programs and priorities. You can:

• Add or remove advocacy priority options to reflect your organization's current campaigns
• Include screening questions specific to CASA volunteer requirements in your jurisdiction
• Embed video testimonials from current CASA volunteers or families who've been reunified
• Add donation fields to give supporters the option to contribute financially at sign-up
• Create conditional logic that shows different follow-up questions based on interest areas
• Translate the form into multiple languages to reach diverse communities
• Connect eSignature capabilities via Papersign (papersign.com) for CASA volunteer application agreements

Built for the Child Welfare Sector

Child welfare organizations need tools that are secure, compliant, and trustworthy. Paperform is SOC 2 Type II compliant and offers data residency controls, giving you confidence that sensitive supporter information is protected. While Paperform is not HIPAA compliant, it provides robust security features appropriate for advocacy sign-ups and volunteer recruitment.

With over 500,000 teams worldwide trusting Paperform for mission-critical forms, you're in good company when you choose this platform to grow your child welfare advocacy movement.

Get Started Today

Ready to build your community of child welfare advocates? This template gives you everything you need to start recruiting supporters, identifying CASA volunteer candidates, and organizing around foster care reform priorities that matter. Customize the form to match your brand, embed it on your website or share it on social media, and watch your advocacy community grow.

Together, we can create a child welfare system that truly puts children and families first. Start collecting sign-ups today with Paperform.