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home and succeed in school. They’re Local Girl Scouts Send Cookies to
also half as likely to re-enter the foster Residents at Ronald McDonald House
care system.

While we all have a responsibility to help Katrina Benges and Ally Phebus of GS Troop 1121 from Greensboro and Hayden
children and youth who’ve experienced Mench from GS Troop 180 from Price, MD helped sell cookies for the residents
abuse and/or neglect, this month we say and family members of the Ronald McDonald House in Baltimore.
thank you to every foster family, child
welfare professional, judge and volunteer Kristen Chouinard, Katrina’s mom helped coordinate the task to sell the cookies
who dedicates their life to serving and and the girls sold cookies to extended family members and friends from New York,
protecting over 423,000 children and North Carolina, Maryland and Delaware to help support these residents and to help
youth in the foster care system. We are make their day a little brighter.
grateful for your dedication, selfl essness
Marie Freeman is a local Caroline County resident whose family has helped

and countless daily sacrifices to support
support and has volunteered for the Ronald McDonald House for over 20 years.
children who have experienced abuse or
She will deliver the cookies to the families on behalf of the GS Troops. Marie is
neglect. To learn more about National
currently raising funds for bags stuff ed with essentials for Mother’s Day for the
Foster Care Month and the foster care
Ronald McDonald House. If you are interested in helping, please contact her at
system, please visit www.childwelfare.
410-562-0283.
gov. To learn more about becoming
a CASA volunteer, please visit www.
carolinecasa.org or call Shelly at
410-479-8301. Together, we can “Change
a Child’s Story”!
The Governor’s Office of Crime Control
& Prevention funded this project under
sub-award number CJAC-2019-0004 and
VOCA-2018-0063. All points of view in this
document are those of the author and do
not necessarily represent the offi cial position
of any State or Federal Agency. Th is project
is supported by a grant from the Maryland
Judiciary’s Administrative Office of the Courts

number AOC-G20CA0225I. Pictured left to right: Katrina Benges Troop 1121 and Hayden Mench Troop 180

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