Observed arrival · 2026-11-06
CASA Nostra: Texas child welfare, mapped
Lisa Patten, a CASA volunteer, publishes child-welfare essays and a plain-language map of the laws, agencies, and people involved in Texas cases.
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- Texas child-welfare volunteers, caregivers, and curious readers
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- The one-page table lays out laws, agencies, and people in Texas cases, with explanations tied to federal and state sources.
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The site routes readers between essays on Substack, the Periodic Table, and a children’s coloring book. The table is described as a single-page reference to the laws, agencies, and people involved in Texas child-welfare cases, with federal and state sources behind its explanations. Patten says identifying details in her writing are changed or invented; the page does not specify how the table’s sources are displayed or organized.
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