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Fairfax County’s 16 newly-trained court-appointed special advocate (CASA) volunteers raise their hands to take the CASA oath during a swearing-in ceremony at the Jennings Judicial Center in Fairfax on Feb. 21. From left, Diane Brody, Rebecca Burke, Susan Chibnall, Susan Evans, Lynn Foster, Anne Havlovick, Lauren Janik, Sheila Kinderman, Patricia Larsen, Peggy McGannon, Denise Hall, Alicia Richie, Kitchy Sawets, Ann Sherwood, Joanne Shumpert and Nicki Watts.

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A Voice for Children

"Promise-keepers" advocate for Fairfax County’s abused, neglected children.

Each child who comes before Judge Thomas Mann’s Fairfax courtroom is loveable and vulnerable. There is the precocious three-year-old whose parents are drug-addicted. A seven-year-old boy whose mentally-ill mother left him home alone to care for his infant sibling.

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