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
He was failing in middle school and had repeated aggression toward his parents. With behavioral outbursts. Applying the homeworks model has offered peer parenting, additional extended family engaged and his School Counselor and behavioral therapist are working to support jim. This is one of more than the 1,000 families we have served through homeworks, that the waiver has allowed us not only to assist an individual family but to work with multiple families for longterm behavioral change that reduces ongoing involvement with government interventions. Evidencebased tools include structured decisionmaking, case worker training, consistent assessment and more staff time with families as well as community supports. Early results are positive. We respect the temporary nature of the waiver and the timelimited opportunity we have to learn from states practice. Utah is focused on shoring up what we have begun. Therefore, thank you, senator wyden, the family stability and kinship care act propos
To their licensing standards using the new model. Now, there have been no National Family foster home license and standards, so they vary dramatically from state to state and often pose unnecessary barriers. This results in appropriate. Elatives denied for example, jj and his little brother, who went to live with their grandparents. They struggled against the clock to make the required changes to their home so they could meet state requirements and be able to continue as a stable, unified family. Jjs grandparents had to file for bankruptcy because of the cost to make their home comply with standards. It was a home filled with love, but not enough bedrooms. Prevention. Child in foster care with a relative, there are about 23 outside the system being raised by the relatives without a close parents present. Under current Child Welfare financing laws, these families receive little or no preventative or Supportive Services to keep them together or out of foster care. Traumainformed supports
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The boy involved in that terrible crime. This is the wooded area near a springfield Industrial Park where gang members allegedly interrogated, tortured, then killed alexandra reyes. This search warrant reveals one of the juvenile boys here who had already been convicted of another crime was wearing a courtordered gps ankle bracelet at the time. We wondered how someone being monitored could commit a crime. Not all juveniles with ankle bracelets are on house arrest. Court officials are barred from speaking about specific terms of supervision. The teenagers presence at the Industrial Park did not trigger an alarm. I have no indication that we have any dysfunction in the gps system. There was no formal violations filed with the court in the supervision of this case. Reporter Court Officials say the data brought valuable information. It helped place suspects at the crime scene. So did cell phone videos first discovered by detectives and shared with Fairfax County. The gruesome clips show in