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abuse is the #1 killer of preschool age children
3 children die from child abuse every day
More than 20% of children CASA serves are sexual abuse victims
More than 37% are 5 years old or
younger
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On any given day in
Collin County, there are nearly 2.05 children who have been removed
from their parents' care and placed in out-of-home care due to abuse
or neglect. Stripped of all that is familiar to them, often separated
from their siblings and without the comfort of their friends, they
spend too much of their childhood being shuffled from group home to
group home, foster placement to foster placement, having to adjust to
new schools and new faces with every move.
The system designed to care for them and adequately provide for their
future is overburdened with too many children. Social workers carry
between 30 and 50 cases and each juvenile court judge is responsible
for making life-changing decisions for over 700 children.
Additionally, more than 87% of the children referred to CASA have been
in the system for more than 6 months – and some much, much longer.
For those kids who “age-out” or emancipate from foster care at age 18,
the outlook is quite bleak. National statistics reveal that within 18
months, 50% have not graduated from high school and are unemployed, a
third end up in jail and a quarter become homeless.
Children who have been
abused are 38% more likely to commit violent crimes as adults and are
about 33% more likely to abuse their own kids.
To learn more about CASA
programs, please also visit
Texas CASA's website.
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