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| Concerned about making decisions about abused and neglected children's lives without sufficient information, a Seattle judge conceived the idea of using trained community bolunteers to speak for the best interests of these children in court. So successful was this Seattle program, that soon judges from all over the country began utilizing citizen advocates. In 1990, the United States Congress encouraged ezpansion of this program with the passage of the Victims of Child Abuse Act. Today over 950 CASA programs are in operation, with 52,000 men and women serving as CASA volunteers. Counseling Inc. CASA began .... |
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