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News Articles: Foster care

Life coach Ryan Mack and Anwar Hogan pose for a photo

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Georgia tax credit helps young people aging out of foster care live independently

The state estimates 700 young people age out of Georgia’s foster care system each year.

April 09, 2025
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By:
  • Ellen Eldridge
Alexandria Davis transferred to Virginia Commonwealth University after completing her associate's degree with help from Great Expectations. She says she's used to working her way through school. After transferring to VCU, she got a work study job with the Science Museum of Virginia in Richmond.

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  • Education

This Virginia program helps former foster youth get degrees, at any age

Great Expectations was designed to help people who grew up in foster care get their two-year degrees. And unlike many programs for former foster youth, there are no age limits.

January 19, 2025
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By:
  • Megan Pauly
The full view from the inside of the Bloom Closet Express truck.

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'More than a donation center': Georgia nonprofit creates boutique shopping for foster families

Bloom Our Youth's mobile truck travels to several locations across Georgia about three times a month to give foster families and children in group homes a personal shopping experience. GPB's Ambria Burton reports — with a slideshow of the clothing, backpacks, shoes and accessories that are often needed when a child moves into foster care.

June 10, 2024
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  • Ambria Burton
Tax paperwork

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  • News

Tax credit to help kids aging out of foster care raises nearly $10 million

A nonprofit formed to help administer a new state tax credit to support foster children aging out of the system raised nearly $10 million during its first year.

January 19, 2024
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  • Dave Williams
Commissioner Candice Broce

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Georgia's 'hoteling' of foster children was significantly reduced in 2023

Department of Human Services Commissioner Candice Broce gave legislators an update on a foster child placement process known as 'hoteling' during a budget hearing on Wednesday. 

January 17, 2024
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  • Sarah Kallis
Senator Jon Ossoff

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'An urgent issue': Hundreds of Georgia foster kids may have been sex trafficked, report says

A new report shows that hundreds of children have likely been sex trafficked while in Georgia’s foster care system.

 

November 07, 2023
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By:
  • Sarah Kallis
Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., arrives before a subcommittee hearing, Sept. 13, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. During a subcommittee hearing on Monday, Oct. 30, chaired by Ossoff in Atlanta, two Georgia juvenile court judges said the head of the state's child welfare agency asked judges in an August meeting to illegally jail foster children while officials looked for other places to house them.

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Judges say Georgia's child welfare leader asked them to illegally detain children in juvenile jails

Two Georgia juvenile court judges say the head of the state's child welfare agency asked judges to violate state law. They say Human Services Commissioner Candice Broce asked judges to keep some children inappropriately locked in juvenile detention centers.

October 31, 2023
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  • Associated Press
Ossoff and Dr. Alie Redd

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  • News

Nearly 1800 foster children in Georgia reported missing over past 4 years, new report says

An analysis from the National Center from Missing and Exploited Children found that a staggering number of children in Georgia’s foster care system were reported missing. 

October 27, 2023
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By:
  • Sarah Kallis
 Sen. Jon Ossoff chairs a hearing on alleged problems with Georgia’s DFCS.

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Georgia child welfare agency gets scathing performance reviews at Ossoff human rights hearing

The Georgia Division of Family and Children Services only met risk assessment and safety management obligations 16% of the time according to a previously undisclosed audit, said Sen. Jon Ossoff, as he chaired a meeting of the U.S. Senate Human Rights Subcommittee on Wednesday.

October 26, 2023
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By:
  • Ross Williams
Justin Kasieta, who is 22 now, was just 13 when his father died and he was thrust into a role looking after his four younger siblings. In college, he interned in the state legislature and the U.S. Congress.

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  • Investigations

These kids used to get the bill for their own foster care. Now that's changing

States routinely took the benefits checks of children in foster care who were orphans or disabled. After an NPR/Marshall Project investigation, there's reform.

September 12, 2023
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  • Joseph Shapiro
A new Georgia tax credit could help teens in foster care transition to college or independent living.

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New tax credit helps teens transition to independence after aging out of foster care

Each year, about 700 teens age out of the Georgia foster care system — and some become homeless, victims of human trafficking, or turn to crime.

August 08, 2023
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By:
  • Donna Lowry
More than half of U.S. states saw a decline in licensed foster homes from 2021 to 2022. In Nevada, the decline was nearly 18%. In South Carolina, it was a 61% decline, the largest of any state.

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  • Health

Kids housed in casino hotels? It's a workaround as U.S. sees decline in foster homes

A nationwide decline in foster home spots has led to dire situations around the country. In rural northeastern Nevada, officials resorted to housing children in casino hotels for short stints.

June 14, 2023
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By:
  • Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez
Georgia Human Services Commissioner Candice Broce, right, testifies in favor of a bill that would slow the flow of children into foster care on Feb. 16, 2023, at the Capitol in Atlanta. Broce has said that the insurer managing care for Georgia's foster children is denying too many requests for mental health care.

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  • News

Georgia Medicaid insurer denied psychotherapy for thousands

A newspaper finds that the insurance company that manages medical care for many Georgia children has denied or partially denied more than 6,500 requests for psychotherapy between 2019 and mid-2022.

April 11, 2023
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  • Associated Press
Georgia Human Services Commissioner Candice Broce, right, testifies in favor of a bill that would slow the flow of children into foster care on Thursday, Feb. 16, 2023, at the Capitol in Atlanta. Lawmakers say they plan to rewrite the bill after others raised concerns.

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Georgia child welfare agency wants fewer sent to foster care

Georgia lawmakers say they will rewrite a bill that would slow the flow of children into foster care. That's after concerns were raised by juvenile court judges and children's advocates.

February 16, 2023
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  • Associated Press
Lisa Rager knows well the hurdles to obtaining services for foster kids. She and her husband, Wes, have cared for more than 100 foster children and adopted 11 of them, many of whom are pictured. Rager says one child waited more than a year for an appointment to see a specialist doctor.

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  • News

Unmet needs: Critics cite failures in health care for vulnerable foster children

More states are moving to specialized managed-care contracts solely to handle medical and behavioral services for foster kids. But child advocates, foster parents, and even state officials say these and other care arrangements are shortchanging foster kids’ health needs.

January 25, 2023
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  • Andy Miller and
  • Rebecca Grapevine
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