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Group Gives Gifts to Mothers and Children in Crisis

BY BRAD VIVACQUA FAYETTEVILLE

PUBLISHED 7:43 AM ET NOV. 24, 2020

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A local non-profit group is trying to ensure kids from families with troubled backgrounds can have a good Christmas.

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Volunteers with the Mothers and Children in Crisis group are putting together winter gear and other essentials for kids who have had parents in the Onondaga County court system.

“There are thousands of people in Onondaga County who are struggling with substance abuse. Thousands. There’s more than 900 enrolled in methadone maintenance. Of that 900, there’s about 450 children. We have a problem,” said Mothers and Children in Crisis President Mary Jensen......