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Six professional NFL players support local CASA programs for My Cause My Cleats initiative

National Casa Gal

The cleats aim to promote and raise awareness for a charity that is important to the players. Read More. The post Six professional NFL players support local CASA programs for My Cause My Cleats initiative appeared first on National CASA/GAL Association for Children.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending December 13, 2023

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

● WBTV and The Assembly conclude their three-part series on the failure of family policing with a searing story about how the agency and the courts moved heaven and earth to keep a loving father away from his own son. And if you think this is a case in which a stranger foster parent is fighting the father – nope. On the contrary, the foster father was so supportive that when the family police tried to use housing as an excuse to keep father and son apart, the foster father bought a house so the

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Ain’t Nothing Going On But the Rent

Beyond Advocacy

The title of this post is taken from a song popularized by the late Gwen Guthrie that made it to the top of the R&B charts in 1986. In the song, Guthrie sings about the reality of paying the rent and that money talks. “No romance without finance,” she croons. “You’ve got to have a j-o-b if you want to be with me.” Such is the reality for too many low-income Americans whose lives are shaped by their ability to pay their rent.