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NEW PHILADELPHIA When the state s schools closed in mid-March of 2020 due to the pandemic, children were sent home for the end of the academic year.
An increase in child abuse followed, including an increase in sex offenses, according to local experts who oversee investigations and help for the victims.
The number of cases of all forms of child abuse reported to Tuscarawas County Job and Family Services spiked in 2020, and continues to be elevated this year, according to Heather Morris, intake supervisor for Children Services. Drugs is the main reason for it, she said. We have a lot of meth in the area. There s domestic violence, sexual abuse. Those are always our three top types of cases.
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Hero Award presented to Julie Hoagland
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The Coalition of Rural and Appalachian Schools recently presented its Hero Award to Julie Hoagland, the Tuscarawas Valley Local Schools secretary for transportation, buildings/grounds and food services for Tuscarawas Valley Local Schools.
Hoagland was presented the award locally by Superintendent Mark Murphy with a small group of employees in attendance following a brief virtual CORAS meeting with remarks by state Superintendent Paulo DeMaria, Ohio University Dean of education Renee Middleton and CORAS Executive Director Richard Murray.
The Coalition of Rural and Appalachian Schools, in partnership with the Ohio University College of Education, is an organization composed of 136 school districts, institutions of higher learning and other educational agencies in the 35-county region of Ohio designated as Appalachia.