Rogers County is the winner of the 2024 CASA of Northeast Oklahoma Paper Doll Project “Battle of the Counties”. Along with the bragging rights Rogers County has the honor of hosting the traveling trophy until May 2025.
The Paper Doll Project is an awareness and fundraising project CASA of Northeast Oklahoma will hold each year in the six counties (Craig, Delaware, Mayes, Ottawa, Rogers and Washington) it provides services, during the month of April, which is National Child Abuse Prevention Month.
“We congratulate Rogers County on winning the 2024 CASA of Northeast Oklahoma Paper Doll Project ‘Battle of the Counties’! We thank them and everyone in the six counties who participated as a sponsor or who supported the event in some way. It takes many people to make this event possible,” said Emily Bowling, Interim Executive Director, CASA of Northeast Oklahoma. “Their support and partnership allow us to achieve our mission to speak for the best interests of abused and neglected children in district and tribal courts in northeast Oklahoma. To promote and support quality volunteer representation for children to provide each child with a safe, permanent, and nurturing home.”
The CASA movement is central to fulfilling society’s fundamental obligation by making sure a qualified, compassionate adult will fight for and protect a child’s right to be safe, to be treated with dignity and respect and learn and grow in the safe embrace of a loving family.
About CASA of Northeast Oklahoma: Incorporated in May 1995, CASA (then Tri-County CASA) was formed serving Rogers, Mayes, and Craig County. It is now a regional program serving six counties (Craig, Delaware, Mayes, Ottawa, Rogers, and Washington) in northeast Oklahoma, plus the Shawnee Tribal Court. CASA of Northeast Oklahoma envisions a world where every abused and neglected child has a CASA volunteer appointed to represent his or her best interests, a world where all children have a safe, permanent home and where children experience improved wellbeing.
For more information about CASA of Northeast Oklahoma and how you can make a difference in a child’s life, please go to www.casaneok.org or contact Mark Ogle at mark@casaneok.org or call 918-694-2510.
