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With the right investments by the Legislature in 2023, even more lasting improvements are within sight. ... Intensive services for youth in foster care are expensive. Texas needs to continue the ...
September 24, 2023 at 3:30 AM. 1 / 4. ... Texas’ foster care system has long been plagued by abuse and neglect allegations, and a lack of placements for vulnerable children. The state’s new ...
An average of 10.9% of reunified children in Texas during the 2023 fiscal year faced this concern. Some experts are unsure whether this percentage, or any data, can fully reflect the state of ...
In 2020, there were 407,493 children in foster care in the United States. [14] 45% were in non-relative foster homes, 34% were in relative foster homes, 6% in institutions, 4% in group homes, 4% on trial home visits (where the child returns home while under state supervision), 4% in pre-adoptive homes, 1% had run away, and 2% in supervised independent living. [14]
The Department of Family and Protective Services has increasingly relied on housing foster kids in hotels when it can’t find them a home. In the 2022 fiscal year, after record staff turnover ...
Under normal circumstances, the United States child welfare systems is considered by experts to be underfunded [1] and strains social workers with high case loads. [2] However, during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. experienced an unprecedented lockdown [3] and national unemployment reached a record high. [4]
A 2004 report by Texas Comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn was very critical of the Texas foster care system. [10] A follow-up statement with continued criticisms of the Texas foster care system was made in 2006 by the Comptroller and renewed a request to have the governor create a Family and Protective Services Crisis Management Team. [11]
At least 23 children have died in Texas’ long-term foster care system since summer 2019, according to a new report by court-appointed monitors for state agencies in charge of the system. Six of ...