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Proposal to create Foster Care Multi‑Agency Office wins broad support, lawmakers press for implementation authority
Summary
Witnesses told the Assembly panel a multi-agency office could centralize coordination across education, health, probation and other systems to better serve foster youth, but members warned the office must have clear authority and sufficient funding to effect change.
Advocates, county representatives and state officials told Assembly members a proposed Foster Care Multi‑Agency Office could address long-standing coordination gaps that affect foster youth’s education, health and placement stability.
Simone Turek Lee of John Burton Advocates for Youth said the state’s county-based child-welfare system needs a centralized state office with authority to direct other agencies on matters that affect foster youth, such as ensuring schools deliver required comprehensive sexual-health education. "A foster care multi agency office would ideally…
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