Backpacks for Bookworms is a third party event hosted by Parent Petroleum, a Mission Partner of CASA Kane County. This event benefits the children  served by CASA, who have been placed in the foster care system due to abuse and/or neglect. Children in foster care frequently enter a new school year with a different perspective than other children and do not have new backpacks and school supplies.

When they are moved between families and foster homes these children could have to change schools multiple times a year. Not returning to school with new items as the rest of their peers can make them feel shameful, confused, and embarrassed – yet another reminder of how little they have.