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Harnett County proclaims August 2025 as Child Support Awareness Month
Summary
The Board of Commissioners read and adopted a proclamation recognizing August 2025 as Child Support Awareness Month and cited county child support services’ caseload and collections figures.
The Harnett County Board of Commissioners presented and adopted a proclamation recognizing August 2025 as Child Support Awareness Month.
At the Aug. 4 meeting, a county representative read a proclamation noting the role of parental financial and emotional support in children's well‑being and citing the work of Harnett County Child Support Services. The proclamation states the office serves more than 20,000 children and families and reported collection of $9,700,000 in child support last year, figures provided during the reading.
The proclamation text noted that timely child‑support collections can reduce the need for public assistance for necessities such as food, clothing, shelter and medical care, and called for increased public awareness through education and outreach. The proclamation ends with language declaring the county board’s official recognition of Child Support Awareness Month for August 2025.
The transcript records the proclamation being presented and the language of adoption; no formal roll‑call vote or dissent on the proclamation was recorded in the transcript.
