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Local CASA seeks larger county match as child abuse caseloads surge
Summary
Evansville/Vanderburgh CASA reported a sharp rise in children involved in abuse-and-neglect cases, requested a county appropriation to qualify for state matching funds and warned that funding shortfalls would reduce the number of children served.
The executive director of the local Court Appointed Special Advocates program (CASA) told the council the program is seeing a surge in children involved in abuse-and-neglect cases and needs a larger county appropriation to capture available state matching funds.
Sarah Rice, executive director of the Vanderburgh County CASA program, said the program's state matching funds are statutorily tied to the number of adjudicated children and that the county must appropriate its required share to receive dollars from the state.
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