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Foster Care

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Last year, 870 children entered into state custody. There is a pressing need for more foster families to care for these children. What does being a foster family entail? And what happens to these children as they move through the system?
 
Guests:
Mary Mayhew, Commissioner of the Department of Health and Human Services
 
Jim Martin, Director of the Office of Child and Family Services (OCFS)
 
April Belyea, a foster parent from Caribou
Sarah Hatt, a foster parent from Washburn

   

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