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State Legislature Helps Children In Foster Care: CASA's Lori Cope

KETR | By John Mark Dempsey
Published June 5, 2017 at 6:00 AM CDT
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Lori Cope, the director of CASA, the Court-Appointed Special Advocates of Hunt County, says the action of the state legislaturein approving an additional $500 million for Child Protective Serviceswill be very helpful to CPS and the children in foster care.  Lori says its part of a plan for more "community-based" care of foster children, in which an effort is made to keep them close to home.

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John Mark Dempsey is the host of the public interest program The Blacklands Café from KETR News. Dempsey is also the play-by-play announcer for Commerce Tigers Football on 88.9 FM and on ketr.org.
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