For 20 years, Coweta CASA volunteers have been supporting local children through one of the most difficult experiences in their young lives — their time in foster care.

“The longer a child stays in care, the more trauma they experience,” said Jennifer Hungerford, an advocacy administrator with the nonprofit.

The local CASA has served about 150 children a year in Coweta, and since 2017 in Heard and Meriwether counties as well, said Amanda Camp-Fenlon, executive director. Camp-Fenlon is celebrating her 25 anniversary with the nonprofit, the longest serving director in the state, she said.

She loves that it is meaningful work, Camp-Fenlon said.

She said one CASA volunteer told her that a teen that he had worked with met with him as an adult to introduce him to his fiancé.

“It was the coo

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