These bills are before lawmakers in 2021 to address foster care issues
Georgia s foster care system, one rife with complexity and circumstance, can be difficult to navigate for foster parents and biological relatives.
For the state’s many foster care workers and advocates, the complexity of foster care is one that requires a lot of untangling.
“Think of the foster care system as a complex web,” said Janet Walden, executive director of the Hall-Dawson Court Appointed Special Advocate program. “In this web, you need constant resources and support to ensure that everyone in the foster care system has access to a support system.”
Oregon DHS reports lowest number of children in foster care in 15 years
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About 6,100 are in foster care, down 11% from previous year
SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) Despite the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic and historic wildfires, the Oregon Department of Human Services Child Welfare Division said Wednesday it was able to reduce the use of foster care to a historic low, return all children placed at out-of-state residential treatment facilities to Oregon and reduce the use of temporary lodging.
On Jan. 1, there were 6,118 children in foster care, the lowest number of children in care in 15 years.
“We all know that infants, children, adolescents and young adults do best growing up in a family that can provide love, support, lifelong learning, shared values and important memories,” said Child Welfare Director Rebecca Jones Gaston. “That is why we are committed to doing everything we can to provide the necessary supports to help families safely stay together and decrease the u
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Education, public health among top line items in Arizona governor’s proposed fiscal 2022 budget
State budget analysts brought heartening news to citizens, businesses and schools in the governor’s proposed budget for fiscal 2022.
First and foremost, there will not be a budget deficit as predicted earlier this year when the pandemic caused a spike in unemployment and disruptions to commerce statewide.
Governor Doug Ducey also wants income tax cuts amounting to $600 million over the next three years, state budget analysts said during a press conference revealing the proposed budget on Friday.
In fact, Arizona is doing so well, revenues are projected to provide a healthy surplus. Arizona’s healthy economic standing means there will be $389 million to help students who have suffered pandemic-induced learning losses to catch up.
Iowa Chief Justice: Court system turned on its head but did not succumb to pandemic William Morris, Des Moines Register
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New procedures, new technology and a whole lot of employee effort and ingenuity have combined to keep Iowa s judicial system afloat in a year wracked by the coronavirus, Supreme Court Chief Justice Susan Christensen said Wednesday.
The global pandemic loomed large over the Condition of the Judiciary address, given annually by the chief justice to legislators and the general public. Christensen, who was elected chief justice by her colleagues in February, spent much of her first Condition of the Judiciary speech discussing the impact of COVID-19 and the ways courts have had to adapt since trials were abruptly halted in mid-March.