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A bill further compensating a surviving child of an abusive adoptive home is starting to move in the Florida Senate.
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More children are coming into Florida's foster-care system after a sweeping child-welfare reform law went into effect 19 months ago, but officials say...
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A bill aimed at reducing instability for foster children has started to move forward in the Florida Senate and would require the child-welfare system to…
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Governor Rick Scott recently signed bills aimed at changing Florida’s guardianship laws. One relates to helping the exploited elderly and another aims...
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A new study shows that 13 percent of Florida's 18,000 foster youth are living in group homes instead of with a family.A national report by the Annie E.…
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Lawmakers are working on changes to a two-year-old law that extended foster care in Florida from ages 18 to 21 and sought to give kids more time to…
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State child welfare officials have recruited more than 600 news foster homes. The increase comes after lawmakers passed a measure in 2013 aimed at…
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It's been two years since Florida's Legislature passed a law extending foster care from age 18 to 21, for youth aging out of the system who want to stay.…
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The Florida Department of Children and Families has licensed nearly 1,500 new foster-care homes in the last year, trying to find families for the 10,000…
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Florida has been granted a long-term waiver on how it uses federal money for at-risk children. The five-year waiver from the U.S. Department of Health and…