A foster care winner for California
LA Times – January 27 2010
Assembly Bill 12 would let the state get federal money and help troubled children. It needs to pass.
The federal government offers funding to help states provide human services such as health and foster care, and that’s fine as far as it goes. But sometimes the money comes with the wrong strings. For example, the feds for too long paid states to pluck abused or neglected children from their homes and put them in foster care, even after California learned that it’s more cost effective and better for the kids to move them out of the program and into the homes of extended family members who, with a little financial help, can take care of them. Now the feds have caught up and provide funding, when appropriate, to steer kids out of the child welfare system while providing them the support they need to grow up and transition to college, jobs and adulthood.
The complete article can be viewed at:
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-foster27-2010jan27,0,2914768.story
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