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SJRC Texas urges local support as 12 Lavaca County children remain in foster care
Summary
Nicole Nguyen of SJRC Texas presented numbers on foster-care placements and services covering Lavaca County and the East Region, and urged community support for foster, kinship and prevention services.
Nicole Nguyen, regional director for SJRC Texas’s Belong community-based care network, told the Lavaca County Commissioners Court on Aug. 11 that 12 children from Lavaca County were in the state’s conservatorship as of Aug. 4 and described the agency’s services and gaps in local placement capacity.
Nguyen said SJRC Texas — a child-placing agency that took on community-based care for the South Central and Hill Country Region (Region 8B) and will include Bexar County beginning Sept. 1 — handles intake and placement after the state removes a child but does not perform CPS intake investigations. “Every child has gone through our legal case management,” Nguyen said, summarizing how the agency assigns permanency…
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