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Child Advocate, alliance push reimagining proposals: more prevention, peer legal teams and kinship support
Summary
The Office of the Child Advocate summarized complaint trends and urged more family time, placement oversight and standardized assessments. The Children’s Alliance presented a reimagining report that recommends stronger community-based prevention, improved legal representation models and expanded kinship pathways.
Topeka, Kan. — Two oversight and advocacy bodies told the Joint Committee on Child Welfare System Oversight on June 2 that Kansas should further expand prevention investments, increase oversight of congregate placements and pilot new models for legal representation and kinship licensing.
Office of Child Advocate: complaints and priorities Carrie Leonard of the Office of the Child Advocate summarized complaint trends for 2024 and the first quarter of 2025, saying the office continues to receive the largest number of contacts about agency conduct, delays in achieving permanency and concerns about…
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