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Child-welfare groups urge funding for behavioral health intervention teams to reduce foster-care moves
Summary
Children's Alliance of Kansas and Foster Adopt Connect told the Committee on Social Services Budget that initial state funding for behavioral health intervention teams would stabilize placements, support foster families and help retain the child-welfare workforce; advocates said Medicaid could sustain the teams after start-up funding.
Crystal Hedrick, chief executive officer of the Children's Alliance of Kansas, told the House Committee on Social Services Budget that the alliance supports the Department for Children and Families' budget and specifically urged funding for social safety net programs and statewide behavioral health intervention teams.
"The opportunity for the behavioral health intervention teams across the state is really an effective strategy for us to improve a lot of circumstances within the foster care system," Hedrick said, arguing teams would reduce placement moves that occur because of…
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