Michigan's broken foster care system
A court-appointed monitoring agency has issued a report charging that the Michigan Department of Human Services has failed to comply with reforms laid out in a 2008 legal settlement designed to improve conditions for children in the state’s foster care system, Robin Erb and David Ashenfelter of the Free Press reported last week.
The New York-based child advocacy group that filed the lawsuit, Children's Rights, has long claimed that Michigan has failed to meet the needs of children in the state’s foster care system. Details of the report laid out in the Free Press story show that the state has met only 54 of the 118 goals laid out in the settlement, providing fuel up the advocacy group’s claim.
Governor-elect Rick Snyder is promising to correct Michigan’s pathetic track record of caring for the roughly 15,000 children in the state’s foster care system. Here’s wishing him success.
The New York-based child advocacy group that filed the lawsuit, Children's Rights, has long claimed that Michigan has failed to meet the needs of children in the state’s foster care system. Details of the report laid out in the Free Press story show that the state has met only 54 of the 118 goals laid out in the settlement, providing fuel up the advocacy group’s claim.
Governor-elect Rick Snyder is promising to correct Michigan’s pathetic track record of caring for the roughly 15,000 children in the state’s foster care system. Here’s wishing him success.
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