Warner urges administration to prioritize foster youth outcomes in COVID-19 recovery
Published Sunday, May. 23, 2021, 8:54 pm
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U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-VA) led a group of 12 colleagues in urging the Biden administration to work with states, tribes, and territories to prioritize young people in the foster care system, who have been particularly afflicted by the COVID-19 health and economic crisis.
In a letter to the Administration for Children and Families at U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the senators stressed the disparate outcomes faced by young people in foster care in the areas of educational attainment, employment rates, and earnings, and urged the administration to ensure that states take full advantage of existing flexibilities to mitigate th
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Gerard Duignan, 51, of Odessa, right, and Josie Rahn, 29, of Tampa look at a mural painted in one of the rooms of a renovated cottage on the Joshua House campus Friday, May 21, 2021 in Lutz. The 11-acre campus in Lutz was closed last year after owner Children s Home Society of Florida planned to sell the campus. But supporters and donors raised more than $3 million to buy and restore the home. [ CHRIS URSO | Times ]
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