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Family Keys pilot kept 53 children with families, county staff say, and saved roughly $256,000 in foster-care costs
Summary
Social services staff reported that Family Keys served 21 families (53 children) in 2023–24, with 62% successful discharge and estimated county savings of about $256,000 compared with foster-care costs over the same period.
Marathon County social services staff told the Health and Human Services Committee on July 8 that the Family Keys pilot strategy helped keep children with their families or reunify them and produced measurable cost savings.
Krista Johnson, who presented the program outcome review, said Family Keys served 21 families comprising 53 children in 2023–24. Of those families, 13 — 62 percent — met the program’s definition of successful discharge, meaning they had stable housing and maintained placement of children in the home. Johnson said 77 percent of those successful families later maintained their housing and…
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