{"id":490,"date":"2017-06-30T10:43:15","date_gmt":"2017-06-30T10:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madd.org\/tennessee\/?p=490"},"modified":"2022-05-31T09:13:22","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T09:13:22","slug":"madd-tn-welcomes-new-victim-services-specialist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madd.org\/tennessee\/madd-tn-welcomes-new-victim-services-specialist\/","title":{"rendered":"MADD TN Welcomes New Victim Services Specialist"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"490\" class=\"elementor elementor-490\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-6961f47d elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"6961f47d\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-74c6c6c7\" data-id=\"74c6c6c7\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-731dec66 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"731dec66\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>MADD Tennessee is happy to welcome Kara Lonsway as the new Tennessee State Victim Services Specialist!&nbsp; Kara has a Bachelors in Sociology\/Criminology from Ohio University and, for the past five years, has been working with families in crisis with Child Protection Services.&nbsp; She has extensive experience with court systems, building relationships with key partners to provide appropriate resources to her clients, and in understanding the consequences of drug and alcohol addiction for families.<\/p>\n<p>She moved to Tennessee from Cleveland, OH, just a few weeks ago.&nbsp; She enjoys working out, traveling, and anything outdoors!&nbsp; She is looking forward to meeting all of you and seeing our beautiful state!<\/p>\n<p>Please feel free to contact her at kara.longsway@madd.org or 615-360-8500 ext 4755 to introduce yourself and let her know your connection to MADD.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MADD Tennessee is happy to welcome Kara Lonsway as the new Tennessee State Victim Services Specialist!&nbsp; Kara has a Bachelors in Sociology\/Criminology from Ohio University and, for the past five&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/madd.org\/tennessee\/madd-tn-welcomes-new-victim-services-specialist\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MADD TN Welcomes New Victim Services Specialist<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,37],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-staff","tag-victims-services","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.7 - 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