KC Star: Here’s how Kansas lawmakers can improve schools, reform foster care and expand Medicaid

1/13/2018

"Foster care: The governor-elect has promised to pursue fundamental reforms in the state’s child welfare and foster care system. This overhaul is long overdue.

Some of the needed changes can be handled by the executive branch alone. If the Department for Children and Families needs additional resources, though, lawmakers should provide them.
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They should also restore recent cuts to aid for poor families. “Kansas must address the large gaps in the social safety net,” said a recent report by Strengthen Families Rebuild Hope, a child welfare coalition. 'It seems unlikely that these reductions are not contributing to the foster care crisis.'"

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