Since January, the Walworth County Child Advocacy Center has seen double the number of drug-endangered children than in all of 2015, manager Paula Hocking said.
The reasons are more drugs in the community and more awareness of the effects drugs in the home can have on children, Hocking said.
“I think what credits us in Walworth County is we're not afraid to talk about it, and we're not afraid to let everybody know the concerns,” Hocking said. “I think that is part of the prevention. If you can't talk about it, you're never going to be able to prevent it.
"I think everybody is on high alert.”
A county-wide initiative to protect kids from the drug habits of adults in their lives is leading to more arrests for crimes against children and resulting in better care for those children, according to a group of Walworth County officials targeting the problem.
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