FL Legislature Paves Way for Earlier Adoptions out of Foster Care
An editorial in Florida today highlights the sad story of how many children have languished far too long in foster care with no realistic prospect of either adoption or reunification with their biological family.
And how a recently adopted statute is shortening their stay there and freeing them up for adoption sooner.
In Brevard County, a local organization has displaced the Department of Children and Families in coordinating care of children in the system.
The group has also launched an ambitious new website to help match up kids in foster care with prospective adoptive parents, taking advantage of compelling, professionally taken photograph of the kids.
Read more in this Florida Today editorial, Our view: More homes needed.
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