KansasWatchDog: Fox 4 KC: Report Slams Kansas Foster Care System

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Fox 4 KC: Report Slams Kansas Foster Care System

By Earl Glynn On March 29, 2010

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Fox 4 mentions the report released by the Kansas Joint Committee on Children’s Issues about the major problems and change needed in the foster care system in Kansas. 

Fox 4’s Tess Koppelman interviews a grandmother in Olathe, Kathy Winters, who has been blocked from adopting her grandchildren:

 

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Related:

• Memo from Mike Kiegerl about Final Report of Joint Committee on Children’s Issues to the 2010 Kansas Legislature, March 12, 2010.
• Report of the Joint Committee on Children’s Issues to the 2010 Kansas Legislature, Dec. 2009.
• Teens describe the foster care experience, Kansas Health Institute, March 9, 2010.
• Child Welfare Contracts, Don Jordan, SRS Secretary, Nov. 30, 2009.
• Report of the Joint Committee on Children’s Issues to the 2009 Kansas Legislature, June 2009.
• Report of the Joint Committee on Children’s Issues to the 2008 Kansas Legislature, Dec. 2007.
• Report of the Joint Committee on Children’s Issues to the 2007 Kansas Legislature, Dec. 2006.
• Minutes, Joint Committee on Children’s Issues, Dec. 21, 2006.
• Minutes, Joint Committee on Children’s Issues, Nov. 28, 2001.

• Warrant out for mom who testified at hearing about losing custody of children, Kansas Watchdog, Feb. 28, 2010.
• State Sen. Julia Lynn grills SRS Secretary about contracting irregularities: “It just smells bad”,Kansas Watchdog, Dec. 6, 2009.
• Legislators reflect on two days of heaings about children’s issue, Kansas Watchdog, Dec. 5, 2009.
• Compelling stories from parents and grandparents about problems with placement and removal of children, Kansas Watchdog, Dec. 4, 2009.
• Parents, grandparents ask why children removed from homes, Kansas Watchdog, Dec. 1, 2009.

• State Joint Committee on Children’s Issues Discusses Foster Care System, WIBW, Dec 2, 2009.

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Contact: Earl F Glynn, earl@kansaswatchdog.org, KansasWatchdog.org

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