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The meeting will come to order. Robert frost once wrote home is the place when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Unquote. Unfortunately for far too many children in the foster care system that type of home is not available. Today, the Senate Finance committee will hear testimony annal alternatives that can reduce the reliance ons Foster Care Group homes. I have been pleased to work on this with Ranking Member wyden. I enjoy working with him on everything we work on. Keep it up. This is a bipartisan hearing and i appreciate senator wydens efforts and those of had staff to make it so. The basic premise of this hearing is simple. Whenever possible children should grow up in a home with their family. When problems arise, attempts should be made to keep the child safely at home. If they cannot be safely at home efforts should be placed to put them with relatives. Children and youth should only be in group homes for short periods of time and only when efforts to place them in a

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