400,000 children are in the foster care system, and theres great improvements in terms of reducing the numbers of children in foster care, and increasing the number of children who find permanent and loving homes. We should acknowledge and be proud of the advances that have been made, particularly the focus on supporting youth as they age out of the system. The fact of the matter is majority of foster care parents are loving and supportive individuals who open their hearts and their homes. Foster care patients can be the better angels among us, and they deserve to be recognized for incredible difference they make in the world every day, but far too many children dont have that benefit. Even for those incredible chance is protecting young people in foster care from the threats of the outside world is a very big challenge. Statistics tell us that foster children are especially vulnerable to those who seek to exploit children. As congressman pallson has told us. The National Center for ex
That all of you are doing good work to address and i appreciate that. I was struck by your systematic approach to address to address sexual trafficking in the state of washington and i think we need to do more part analysis of the data and i know that you and your team of stakeholders in the state have been doing that and developed a per call. I would like to die of a little bit deeper into that with you with several brief questions if you will indulge me. You were able to learn as the understand about the best practices or generally accepted practices and other states. How is at all did that inform development of Washington States protocols and how did you define these best practices from other states . Well that might be easier. The process for developing a pravachol involved as i said over 200 people. What that meant is focused interviews come individual interviews with survivors as well as community focusing on the communities on the ground, but also a what we called small summits
Of all, theres a couple of committees that have jurisdiction. Its not just us. Ways and means and you got icea and the government reform committee. I dont know what is precisely going on in the senate, but were going to continue our oversight role as we showl. We have two subcommittees. One is the subsubcommittee. A lot of questions relating to the security of the individuals information that they put into the system as well knowing that they are changing a number of the lines to try make it work. So theres a lot of issues that are out there, and i dont know that we will do a hearing every week just on this. We have a lot of other issues as well whether they be energy, telecommunications, trade, etc. , so theres only so much time in the day. Did the contract ost have an affirmative responsibility to warn c. M. S. That more testing was needed . We heard one say, its not our job. Im not sure they offered the response, remember, they are under oath so they were a little careful in terms o
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