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Poverty Makes Foster Children Linger in State Custody

By Jacqueline Rabe Thomas

www.ctmirror.org

Homelessness is preventing the state’s child welfare agency from reuniting 500 children with their families.

Department of Children and Families Commissioner Joette Katz addresses the legislature’s budget-writing committee today. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Ctmirror.org photo

“Essentially, they are still not with their families for any reason other than poverty,” Department of Children and Families Commissioner Joette Katz told the legislature’s budget-writing committee today.

Of those children who “could go home if there was a home to go to,” many are living with strangers in foster homes, group homes or shelters.

State law forbids DCF from removing children from their homes because of poverty. But the agency has no alternative because there is limited affordable housing and subsized housing spots available in the state.

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