Reunifying foster children with their families is the primary goal of foster care. If that’s not possible, permanency is sought — connecting children with foster families willing to take on a new member through adoption or legal guardianship.
Pa. House approves bills to boost interest in high-demand career and technical fields
A bi-partisan package of eight bills that aims to address business and industry workforce shortages and alleviate the mis-perception attached to career and technical education won House approval on Monday.
Opioids swamping child welfare system
In the past two years, Allegheny County Children Youth and Families has seen the number of calls to its ChildLine abuse and neglect hotline rise by around 20 percent, with a similar increase in the number of kids placed in the custody of someone other than their parents. The opioid epidemic is driving those numbers.
Opioid addiction driving foster placements
It’s no coincidence the rise in children ordered into foster care came amid the spike in the ongoing heroin and prescription opioid crisis in Pennsylvania and nationwide. The state House passed a package of legislative proposals in April looking to assist an estimated 82,000 grandparents who care for about 89,000 grandchildren.
Address needs of ‘grandfamilies’
Multigenerational effects from the opioid crisis have grabbed the attention of policymakers. In the state Legislature, the House has advanced legislation related to grandfamily and child guardianship issues and kinship caregiving, including two measures sponsored by Rep. Eddie Day Pashinski, of Wilkes-Barre.
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