Many of us wish the “system” did more for kids in care, but few realize that it’s in our power to serve foster children better by volunteering our time and support.
Foster care has been a system designed over decades to do one thing: take kids out of homes and place them in care. But more specialized community-based care is needed.
A year-long investigation by the South Florida Sun Sentinel exposed the complicity of Florida’s child welfare system in underage sex trafficking. Evidence found in government databases, state and federal lawsuits, interviews with victims and survivors and foster care records shows the state's foster system creates a pipeline of vulnerable girls to violent sex traffickers.