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Friends Asking Friends
Forgotten Children
EMERGENCY APPEAL
The recession is fracturing stress lines in American families. As the unemployment rate rises and the stock market drops, kids right here in Peoria County are getting a frightening education in the power of economic indicators. Parents are losing jobs. A report released this March shows that one of every 50 kids in the US is homeless each year, and that number will certainly rise as the recession sweeps more families out of their homes.
Grim articles have appeared in newspapers across the country—from Newsday in New York to the Sacramento Bee—citing increased child abuse reports. Nobody can say for sure that the recession is causing this spike, but the collective gut feeling among child welfare experts is that it is. Parents, stressed beyond their breaking points by forces out of their control, can make split-second decisions that put their children in jeopardy. When home is no longer safe, these kids will enter the foster care/child welfare system.
Once in the system, children need an advocate to ensure they’re ultimately reunited with their families or placed in another safe home. That’s exactly what CASA volunteers do. In Peoria County, 45 volunteers are already serving 77 kids through CASA of Peoria County and we’re expecting the need for our services to grow. But the same recession that is driving the kids into the system has imperiled our funding. We need your help.
A Powerful Voice in a Child's Life!
Please contact:
Pamela Perrilles
Executive Director
CASA of Peoria County
324 Main Street, Room 215
Peoria, IL 61602
Phone (309) 669-2939
Fax (309) 672-6957
email: pperrilles@peoriacounty.org
www.casapeoria.org
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