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1. 1. Mount Airy News

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   Published on: 8/7/2003   Last Visited: 8/7/2003

   DOBSON -- Ray Anderson, executive director of Surry County Children's Center, has been named Chairman of the Community Child Protection Team.
   
   Anderson has been a member of the team since February. Now he will spearhead this local group's efforts to raise awareness about abuse prevention in Surry County.
   
   "The majority of our task is to promote," Anderson said. What he wants to promote is positive, forward thinking ideas about children. "We want to move the county into the 21st century," as far as the best ideas and technology that will benefit children.
   
   Meeting once a month and composed of about 25 community members, education awareness will play an essential role for year 2001, he said.
   
   "We also act as a sounding board," he explained. As a ‘sounding board,' the organization provides another resource for caseworkers and concerned individuals when ‘the system' is failing a child. "We can offer advice, helping them to decide what's the best course of action to protect that child."
   
   With law enforcement personnel, school administrators, teachers and other professionals on the committee, Anderson said it's a group that is familiar with the legal and personal mazes of trying to do what's best for abused or neglected children. "These are people who know what goes on and how things work."
   
   Another aspect of the team's focus is to review child fatality cases whenever a child has died of unnatural causes. The committee will examine facts to assist the district attorney in making the decision of whether or not charges should be filed.
   
   "Twenty one children in North Carolina died last year at the hands of their caretakers," Anderson noted.

2. 2. Mount Airy News

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   Published on: 9/5/2003   Last Visited: 9/5/2003

   DOBSON -- Executive Director Ray Anderson of The Children's Center of Surry recognized Emergency Medical Services personnel and members of his own staff Monday night for their part in saving the life of a child in their care.
   
   During Monday night's meeting of the Surry County Board of Commissioners, Anderson took a moment to thank EMS staff for training Children's Center workers in first response, first aid, CPR and seizure management.
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   Because of that training, our staff were able to do what they did and they were able to help save that girl's life," said Anderson.
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   Because EMS staff members were not able to attend Mondayâs meeting, Anderson said they will be recognized at a later date.

3. 3. Mount Airy News

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   Published on: 8/17/2003   Last Visited: 8/17/2003

   Ray Anderson, director of the Children's Center of Surry, reported that 64 children were housed temporarily at their facilities. That number has increased greatly, considering there have been a total of 160 housed there in the four years it has been open.