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DCF to Announce Post-Foster Care Reforms

July 21, 2010 - The Florida Department of Children and Families is set to announce changes to the way it helps foster children when they turn 18 and leave the state system.

DCF officials have scheduled a news conference for today to unveil details about the proposed changes. The agency is overhauling the program after foster graduates showed poor performance in school and increases in homeless and jobless rates after aging out of the system.

The department and its private contractors have spent more than $100 million in the past three years preparing foster graduates to live on their own but critics say there has been little oversight of the program.


 

 

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