Jo Anne beat Felony charges after she fled with her grandchildren when CPS showed up at her door for the second time to unlawfully remove the children. She is currently reunified with her grandchildren because she motioned for implementation of the Family First Act so that her grandchildren would be placed with their paternal grandparents. Two of the children are living with her without receiving food or kinship benefits because of the way CPS criminalized her; one of the other grandparents is taking advantage of the children's funding. Jo Anne has been a Volunteer Court Advocate since 2019. She is the current Welfare Warriors Co-Secretary as well. Despite of all that happened she is still working to help implement the Family First Act on cases to keep families together.