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KUAF Community Spotlight

Community Spotlight - CASA of Northwest Arkansas

Last month we highlighted CASA - Court Appointed Special Advocates - during the Community Spotlight. Here are some voices from that series.

Ryan Blue

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Adoptive mother Lisa Chavez describes what it's like to foster...and then adopt...a child.

Lisa and Jose Chavez

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Tammy Simon - a CASA volunteer and an adoptive mother - talks about her work with parents and drug addiction.

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Part 2

Tammy Simon

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Kathleen MaCleod - a CASA volunteer from Johnson - describes the process of a parental termination and its effects on a child.

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Allie Hennis of Ozark Guidance describes what they offer as far as services for foster children.

Allie Hennis

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Executive Director of CASA Crystal Vickmark closes out the series with what still needs to be done to help foster children in NWA.

Crystal Vickmark

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Pete Hartman is KUAF's operations manager.