Foster care official says Kansas should be ‘laser focused’ on Wichita’s placement crisis
Kansas officials are urging a focus on Wichita to address a foster care placement crisis. Contractors in Sedgwick County have struggled to provide adequate housing for youth, often relying on offices or unlicensed facilities.
TOPEKA — Kansas’s top foster care official said the state should be “laser focused” on Wichita to improve a youth placement measure that has consistently fallen short of court-ordered standards. Foster care contractors in Sedgwick County, where Wichita is located, have continuously struggled to place children in housing instead of offices or unlicensed beds. Since […]
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