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High-Need Foster Kids Now Have An Alternative To Staying In State Offices

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The Department of Human Services launched a new residential program to provide temporary housing and rehabilitation for high-need foster children. This initiative aims to end the practice of children sleeping in government offices or hotels. The program specifically targets the most difficult-to-place youth.

Foster children without placements are no longer sleeping in government offices or hotels thanks in part to a new residential program launched by the Department of Human Services last month to help temporarily house and rehabilitate the most difficult-to-place youth. The issue of kids sleeping in offices and hotels has plagued the department for years...

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