Family Advocates started as The La Porte County CASA Program, Inc. in 1990 providing Court Appointed Special Advocate volunteers for abused and neglected children who were adjudicated Children in Need of Services through the court.

 

It expanded in 1999 to include Harmony House to help facilitate supervised visitations for families. Harmony House was created to provide a home where families could cook and eat together in a kitchen, play games or other activities in several different rooms in a house or play outside. 

 

In 2013 the first volunteers were trained as Court Youth Advocates providing one-on-one mentoring and advocacy intervention to impact teens involved in probation, alternative education programming or as a community-based support to those who are school, or court referred.