Is W.Va.'s Foster Care System Failing Children? A Look Inside An Agency Wrestling With Long-Term Reforms
/ 18-year-old Geard Mitchell is one of the plaintiffs in a federal lawsuit against the state of W.Va. He and others say the state of West Virginia’s foster care system is broken. They’re urging the state to make changes to its foster care system, including providing more CPS workers, and reducing the amount of foster care kids who are placed in institutionalized settings. About 400,000 children across the U.S. are growing up inside the foster care system, overseen by government employees who are overworked, and agencies that are historically underfunded. When the opioid epidemic hit, fo...
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