In the hope that facts really do matter, some hard facts about CASA

In the hope that facts really do matter, some hard facts about CASA

When you swing an ax madly and chop down virtually everything, once in a while you’ll hit something that really should be cutA whole lot of research shows that the Court-Appointed Special Advocates program, the most sacred cow in child welfare, does harm. So do facts matter? Or does wallowing in a warm, fuzzy narrative about overwhelmingly white, middle-class amateurs saving overwhelmingly poor disproportionately nonwhite children matter more? L…